Hidden Shrines of Ise 7 - Going to Haku-san

Coming home from Ise, I was hoping to relax on the days off from work. After three days of traveling, I was surprised to find myself not tired at all. I must have visited around fifty shrines including the small omiya. I only sent gratitude at the shrines. This might be the reason why I am feeling so fulfilled.

I put the ken-barai-fuda from all three shrines (Gegū, Naigū, Izawa-no-miya) on my altar, and just when I thought to take a deep breath, my family calls me all of the sudden to say that they want to go to Haku-san. After driving for over a thousand kilos, I was hesitant. But they insisted on going and I thought it might be a good idea to end my journey by going to Haku-san. So we did.

We first went to Heisen-ji Hakusan-jinjya (平泉寺白山神社). It was a while since I had visited this shrine. The fresh green seaweeds looked beautiful after surviving the long cold winter days. The day we visited this shrine, the local people were gathering to clean the shrine. Our visit ended clean and pure. Nothing odd happened and it went smoothly.

The next shrine we visited was Hakusan Chukyo-jinjya (白山中居神社). The road toward this shrine run on the side of a river and the other side was cliffs. It was very narrow. The car navigation system did not have this shrine on the map, so I had to use my instinct.

We found the shrine and parked the car. We looked up to see the giant trees on the sides of the sando path as we walked through. On top of the trees, I saw two tengus watching over. They were the kenzokus of this shrines. It has been a while to see tengus. Last time I saw them was at the Tamaoki-jinjya in Nara. Tengus are nature spirits. So as the traffic increases they seem to disappear. One should be cautious with shrines with tengus on the watch. If you do anything disrespectful, you might injure yourself. I told my family to watch their steps and to walk slowly.

In the middle of the path towards the shrine, there was a giant rock in the middle of the road. When I saw this rock, a vision immediately came to me. In the ancient time, a disrespectful man came into this sando path. The tengus saw this man and threw this giant rock. The man died ofcourse held under the rock. We walked around the rock trying to see if we could find the bones of the man.

The path is a steep downhill. The natural spring water is coming down the hill so the stone steps are wet and slippery. If you are not a good walker, it might be wise to take the car all the way to the torii gate. The path is not and easy welcoming path.

When we got to the main shrine climbing the steep stone steps, a gūji, a Shinto priest, was getting ready for an Oharai. His grandchild is holding his kimono walking around with him. When I saw the gūji’s face, I could see that he is a true priest. It is hard to explain by words, but I can feel the aura of a man of dignity who is serving for a righteous god.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Hidden Shrines of Ise - 6 - The spirit of mutual concessions

When I was around 20 years old, I used to make a round trip from Mt.Miwa in Nara, passing Takihara-no-miya Shrine to Ise Jingu and back to Nara. I made several trips within three years as I was told by my kenzoku.

The Japanese Gods tell me, there are two most important line reflected from the World of the Gods. And it has to do with the movement of the sun.

One of the line is between Awaji Island and Ise Jingu. This line was used by a god who was in charge of Japan for the last three thousand years. As the history shows, Nara is in between this line, and it once became the capital of Japan and this is where the Japanese culture began. On the orbital line of the sun rising from Ise towards Awaji, we could see the traces of the remains of the sun worship, such as an iwakura, shrines and other religious temples.

This line between Awaji and Ise was functioning as a spiritual power line until the end of Showa (~1989). However from Heisei (1989~), the power line has shifted to Ise ~ Haku-san.

Now the Ise ~ Haku-san line has become the Heavenly Power Line. The Awaji ~ Ise line still remains as the Earthly Power Line. Its actual power is still working from underground. The two lines have been taking turns from one civilization to the next.

Looking the other way around, when the Heavenly Power Line switches to the other line, it means that the whole concept of civilization changes.

It had been twenty years since I had last visited the Takihara-no-miya Shrine. It felt a lot different since the time of Showa. Many of the large old trees were gone. Maybe the typhoon knock them down. There used to be a lot of tree fairies. This shrine was also the resting place for Princesss Yamoto-hime-no-mikoto during her journey from Mt.Miwa to Ise.

The shrine reminded me of the super ancient times. Now time has come for this shrine to rest for another few thousand years.

During my trip in Ise, the most memorable thing is the spirit of mutual concessions. In this town, many streets where extremely narrow. Maybe because of this road condition, people naturally learned to be like that. Without the sense of mutual concession, I would not be able to make it to many of the shrines I visited.

This was a message for me about how the world will become. At the end of this chaos, most of the countries will start to have the spirit of mutual concessions and the Shift will occur safely.

I felt a sense of relief and returned home. I was hoping to rest for a while, but that was not the case.

To be continued…

Hidden Shrines of Ise - 5

After spending three days in Ise, I was driving back home on the high way. The signs around this area have a lot of “Uji” and “Yamada.” That caught my attention and started to wonder where this name Uji Yamada came from. I heard from the local people that the elders would say “I am going to Yamada” rather than “I am going to Ise.” In the folklore, they say what local elders have been passing on through talk story is the truth about the region.

There are many academic theories about how the name Ise derived. But what my vision tells me is that there was a conflict. The town around the Gekū area was called Yamada and the town around Naikū area was called Uji. In the super ancient times, a stone pillar was brought from Haku-san as a pillar for the god to reside. At this time, Naikū did not exist. I would say Naikū was established much later. There was only one stone pillar, so when people decided to build the Naikū, they made the pillar with wood. This wooden pillar became the Shin-no-mihashira (心御柱), the pillar of the heart, and it is was set under the ground of the sei-den, main shrine. This wooden pillar is also known as Imi-bashira (忌柱), Ame-no-mihashira (天ノ御柱) and Ame-no-mihakai-no-hashira (天ノ御量柱). During the sengū, the part where the priests set the wooden pillar under the ground of the main shrine is the most important ritual done in the middle of the night.

I believe that originally, a town only existed around the Gekū area. And it was called Yamada. At that time, I assume the Naikū did not exist and the area was still a deep forest. If the anthropologists dig around the Gekū, I am sure that old living remains will be discovered from more than 3000 years ago. I assume the origin of the name Yamada comes from “Yamatai-no-kuni (邪馬台国).”

In one of the ancient document, Gishiwajin-den (魏志倭人伝), it explains that the area from Mt.Miwa of Nara as the capital and all the way to Ise~Kumano area was called Yamatai-no-kuni. When princess Yamato-hime-no-mikoto came to the forest that is now the Naikū, carring Amaterasu-Ohomikami’s eight rank spirit, the whole area starts to develop as a town. I assume some kind of high ranked tribes called the Uji (氏) clan came from Nara to this area. And eventually, Uji (氏) became Uji (宇治).

I sense that the Yamada’s who where the older local people and the new high ranked families, the Uji’s did not get along. They both lived on one side of the Isuzu River and had conflicts. This is a reflection from the World of the Gods. The conflict between Kunitsu-kami and Amatsu-kami. The ancient people of Yamada and the people of Isobe who are the believers of the Izawa-no-miya were good neighbors to each other. Another two stone pillars from Haku-san are buried under the Izawa-no-miya. That makes sense, why they get along.

As the god spirit shows me the vision of the ancient times of these area in Ise, I was driving towards Takihara-no-miya (瀧原宮).

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Hidden Shrines of Ise 4

After leaving Izawa-no-miya, we went to a close by shrine, Saminaga-jinjya (佐美長神社). This was my first visit. It was a small shrine with no live-in priest but a clean and pure place. The wonderfully strange thing about the shrines in Ise is that no matter how small the shrines are they are all in a very sacred condition. The basic construction of the shrine is much like the main shrines of Ise. But the purity of the place could not be kept only by the form of its construction. I looked around to see the surrounding forest to find the answer to why the place feels so sacred. I looked down to the ground. The ground with small pebbles had no falling leaves. If no one had been here, the ground would be full of leaves in a day or two. This means that some one is coming here every day to clean the property. The time and effort spent to clean this place is priceless. A person who lives as god, who knows that he is god would do such thing. He cares. He cares for the nature and brings life to the trees and even to the small pebbles. Human beings are also part of the nature dynamics.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Hidden Shrines of Ise - 3

After visiting the Izawa Jinjya, we sent to Izawa-no-miya (伊雑宮). On the road towards Izawa-no-miya. I was experiencing a very heavy weight on my back. I understood it was Kunitsu-kami (国津神) and other gods who ended their lives. As I started to walk the sando path, one step at a time the heaviness seem to go away. When you come to the middle of the path, you will see a well in the forest. When I thought that Princess Yamato-hime-no-mikoto had also come here to purify herself before making a vow, I became emotional.

From Heian Period (794~), the local people had repeatedly claimed that Izawa-no-miya is in fact the main shrine to worship Amaterasu-Ohomikami. During the Edo Period (1603~), they claimed that the Naiku is a lower rank shrine and they were punished. Fifty village people were exiled and died leaving their sorrow behind.

The sai-jin (祭神), official god of Geku is Toyouke-Ookami (豊受大神). Toyouke-Ookami, Amaterasu-Ohomikami and Kunitoko-tachi-kami is actually one and the same. And the local Shintoist called Watarai Family claimed that these gods are the supreme gods. This family is local to the area where Izawa-no-miya reside. It shows that the local people were very passionate about the gods. 

Why were they so devoted to worship the gods? The answer comes from rice making culture. The area where Izawa-no-miya resides has always been a rice-making district from the ancient times. Therefore the local people were financially wealthy as well. When you are well off, you have more peace of mind and able to have the sense of gratitude towards the gods. Mysteriously, as long as they held the rituals and worshipped the gods, they never had problems in the rice production. Even when the other areas were not doing so good, they never had any kind of damage. This is because the goddess Amaterasu-Ohomikami who brought rice (kome) into this world reside at Izawa-no-miya. This shrine existed way before Naiku was establised over two thousand years. If the scientists could dig the area and research the remains, I am sure they will find that the shrine already existed around the Jōmon Period (12000~ 3000 years ago).

Izawa-no-miya’s official god crescent is a kagome (篭目紋). Its design is identical to the Star of David, the Jewish symbol, but the history of the usage is much older in Izawa-no-miya.

There are common factors in the Hebrew and Japanese culture. In the Jewish tradition, “mana” is a food that grows inside a pot, a soul food that was given by World of God. “Kome (rice)” also increases its amount when it is bowled in a pot. I sense that “mana” and “kome” has a similar sound vibration. The word “money” originally comes from the word “mana” of the Jewish tradition. In the West Japan, they believe that the financial market is based on the price of rice. I think that god's idea of “money” is “food.” If you try to save too much food, it will eventually rot. Before it rots, it should be shared with others.

The word “mana” also exists in Hawai'i. Its meaning is “the divinity from the highest source.” I sense that in the ancient times, the continent that existed on the Pacific Ocean of today use to be the place of origin for rice farming. When that continent sank, people escaped to places like Hawai’i and Ise. Carrying the common ancient knowledge they had no choice but to travel to find a new home around the Pacific Rim.


Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Hidden Shrines of Ise - 2

“Alright, where shall we go next?” Mr.H is thinking… “There is a very old shrine by the beach in Toba. The road is very narrow and hard to get there. Do you want to try?” Something told me that I should go there. So we went. We went into the very narrow trail in the middle of the town. There was no sign about a shrine. Not only was it extremely narrow but very bumpy, up hills and down hills. I was so glad that no car came from the other side. Finally we were able to pass through the foresty trail and came to a small beach. We parked the car and walked towards the torii gate.

The shrine was called Izawa-jinjya (伊射波神社). The sando path towards the shrine was very long steep and old. The stairs were worn away. When I had climbed up about a hundred meters, I turned around. The blue ocean was there with the torii in front. Suddenly, a vision came to me. The scene was in the super ancient time. A creature was climbing up the path that I am walking right now. The creature’s top half is a man and bottom half is a crocodile. Her stomach is big. I can tell she is pregnant. The path, sando (参道), can also be read as “the birth path” (産道). The creature gave birth at the top of the hill where the shrine was standing. My retainer told me that this is “Toyotama-hime.”

Turtles and other creatures come to the sand to lay their eggs. This custom has been the same since the ancient times. I think the orginal meaning of Ubusuna (産土) is “the soil of a mountain.” The direct translation of Ubusuna is “the sand of birth.” Maybe because the soil in the mountain could better preserve the eggs than the sand near the ocean, the creature went all the up to the top of the mountain.

Ubusuna means "the sand for the birth.” From the vision, this idea became clear in my head.

Once before, when I had visted Kinpirak-gu (金比羅宮) in Shikoku, I also envisioned half man half crocodile creature going up the path towards a shrine.

In the super ancient times, I believe that in a short period of time, there were creatures like half man half crocodile around the Pacific Rim. Around this time, the world wasn’t still completely materialistic. The earth was still experiencing a dimension where creatures were half spirit half material.

In the Japanese mythology, we see half man half animal type of creatures. It looks like a cartoon and unreal, but it is simply showing the truth of the old days. The modern science is totally ignoring this fact. They will never come to understand the truth about the beginning of human race if they cannot accept that we used to be half spirit or ghost at one point.


This shrine, Izawa-jinjya (伊射波神社) has the same name as Izawa-no-miya in The Grand Shrine of Ise. These two shrines are not so far apart. Izawa means to “bring things in peace to make oneness.” It also hides a deeper metaphor about the goddess Kukuri-hime who brought Izanagi and Izanami together. The hidden key goddess in the Japanese history.

Toba is a wonderful place, full of shrines with living gods in existence. To be continued…

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

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Hidden Shrines of Ise - 1

A local man of Ise, Mr. H and I planned to make a trip to visit secret sites. We met at the parking lot of Gekū. He says, “Well lets see… where shall we go.. hmmm… Lets go to a place most people wouldn't know.” There was an entrance behind the parking lot of Naikū. There was a small shrine close to the entrance. He said it is Uji Shrine. An Uji-gami, a regional god who protects the Naikū region, resides at this shrine. The shrine has another name “God of Feet.” Mr. H said that a famous marathon runner comes to this shrine before his race.

We went further deep inside the forest tracing the source of Isuzu River. When we were passing the shrine, I sensed a presence of a strong fox spirit. Unfortunately, today wishful prayer business is thriving and the real purpose of the shrine is hidden. But according to Mr.H, this shrine has been here even before the establishment of the Naikū and has been a sacred place for the local people of Ise. Some people say that this shrine could be the original Ise Shrine. At this point, my Kenzoku-shin, a retainer god, reacted. So I decided to pay a visit to this shrine on the way back. The road becomes very narrow from here. This whole area is a sacred land. Only the local people and the priests are allowed to enter. The road was very narrow but there were quite a few local people driving down the road. It took quite a skill to pass by. The land around the Isuzu River was once owned by the Ise Shrine, but after loosing the WWII it was controlled by the GHQ and later sold to the commoners.

The river became narrower as we went further up. What surprised me was the size of the rocks. In this narrow river, there were numerous rocks in the size of a house. I have never seen such a place. Giant rocks are called Iwakura (磐座) where god spirits reside. The rocks hold the memory of the electro-magnetic energy of the god spirits. The bigger the size the more it can hold the energy. I feel that one of the reason why Amaterasu-Ohomikami chose this place, Ise, as the central sacred land is because of its geological formation. I would assume that many giant rocks as big as a house exist under Naikū and Gekū. And those rocks could hold an immense amount of energy of the god spirits.



After observing the giant rocks, we returned to Uji Shrine. At the main shrine, the name of the worshipped god was stated on a board. However, there were other names of a historically famous people written on 30 poles next to the god’s name. That was a little bit awkward for me.

When I went to the front of the main shrine and looked up to the small mountain behind it, I felt the shinki (神気), a sense of the divine. I would assume that this small mountain is made out of one giant rock. I could see in the ancient times, people used to worship all of these giant rocks as Iwakura. The rumor about this shrine being the original Naikū may well be true.


We continued our journey to go to another hidden shrine. (to be continued)

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Be Aware of the Sunray

My friend decided to do a laser treatment on his face to take off a spot. When he was young, he used to love going to the beach and played a lot of golf. He was always tanned. He was a salesman, so his wife thought that it’s better to get rid of it. His problem was just a small spot, but a recent survey shows that people with skin cancer is increasing all over the world as the ozone layer decreases.

There are people who have UV ray allergy. If they go out in the sun, they will create poison inside their body that could be fatal. They have to be covered or stay indoor their entire time. Healthy people are able to detoxicate this poison in their liver. But from now own, when the sunray becomes stronger, how much will we able to detoxicate? We still need some amount of sun exposure. But do be careful that you do not stay out in the sun for too long between 10am and 4pm. At the Poles and places like Australia near the equator, people are already extremely cautious. I think even in Japan, we should start wearing sunglasses and sunblocks. I am much concerned about children.

When I was thinking about “skin problem, ” a vision came to me. It was about the “Inaba-no-Shiro-usagi” (因幡の白兎), the Japanese mythology about a white rabbit. It is said to be a story from Izumo, but my understanding is that it happened between Noto Penninsula and China (Inaba-no-kuni). One reason to be recorded in the mythology is as a metaphor to indicate the trading problems between China. Another reason is to predict the skin decease occurrence in the future. The prophecy tells that at a time when problems occur with the trading business between Japan and China, there will be many people suffering from skin deceases. The mythology tells that the way to treat the skin decease is rub the skin with sea salt and make the pus come out from the skin, then wash off with fresh water and apply the pollen of cattail. I am not sure if this would work or what it may imply…

In any case, please be aware that the sunray is getting stronger. We really cannot avoid the sun but it is better to protect your skin as much as you can.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

The True Intention of Nichiren - Part 3

Nichiren told his two disciples that he respects Buddha a great deal, but moreover he respects his motherland Japan. He confessed that he went to Ise Jingu(The Grand Shrine of Ise) before he began his journey to swear he would lead the nation to reconnect with Amaterasu-Ohomikami through the Hokkekyo.

He showed them the mandala he had written where Amaterasu-Ohomikami was placed in the center of the scroll. And said that he wanted to lead his followers to believe in worshipping Amaterasu-Ohomikami, the Goddess of Japan, and asked his two top disciples if they could support him on this idea.

The two disciples were shocked to hear this. For a very long time, regarded as heretics, they have sacrificed their time and effort believing that Hokkekyo was the ultimate teaching of Buddhism. They have propagated and gathered many followers and donations. They believed that it was done all through their effort and Nichiren did not know how much work they had sacrificed to reach this far. Even for the sake of the founder, they just could not allow the organization to fall down because of Nichiren’s (the founder), drastic act. So the two top disciples both agreed on something. They decided to put a small amount of poisonous herb in Nichiren’s food every day. Nichiren became weaker and weaker as the time went by.

Nichiren knew that his food was poisoned but he did not stop eating. He felt that it was his way of repentance towards many of his disciples who had been killed through the act of propagation. Until the end of his time, he thought more for his disciples and the nation than his own life.

Nichiren had written three mandalas with Amaterasu-Ohomikami in the center and a pronouncement for his belief in Amaterasu-Ohomikami. But after his death, the disciples had burned them all leaving no trace.

The two disciples continued to develop the Buddhist sect. However, later the two had some disagreements and decided to make two different paths. Even after the separation, they were constantly in fear about the fact that they killed the founder and erased the documents with his true intention. From this fear, they strictly prohibited their followers to visit a Shinto shrine.

The god spirit who had given me this information clearly mentioned the disciples’ names, but I had decided not to reveal it. But I can say that what they did at that time, still reflect on their descendents or followers of today.

Nichiren’s grand goal through the teachings of Hokkekyo was to lead the nation to reconnect with the Sun.

I sincerely wish that the successful religious sects of today who are the followers of Nichiren would have the chance to read this to know the truth of Nichiren’s intention and to follow it. To ackowledge the fact that Nichiren had visited Ise Jingu for a hundred days before he began his propagation and the fact that he had written the name of the sun goddess in the center of his hand made mandala.

This story is dedicated to Nichiren who lived his life with great passion towards his beloved motherland Japan.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

The True Intention of Nichiren - Part 2

Nichiren has been claiming the Shika Kakugen (四箇格言) criticizing other Buddhist sects that all other teachings were evil, leading to no-attainment. His passionate propagation reached the ears of Bakufu (government) who were believers of another Buddhist sect. Nichiren was arrested for his antigovernment activity. He received a beheading death sentence. At the execution ground of Tatsu-no-kuchi, when he was going to have his head cut off, it is said that two balls of light came to the ground trying to disturb the execution.

With my psychic vision, I can see that the executor attempted three times. The first two times, the executor heard a strange sound from the light balls that scared him off. He still attempted the third time but was paralyzed and couldn’t move his arms at all. The officers were troubled by this unusual incident and reported to the Bakuhu. When the message was delivered to the Bakufu, some of the officers witnessed the light balls at the government house as well. The Bakuhu announces to stop the execution.

When Nichiren from sitting on the execution ground, he was repeating “Namu-Kanzenon-Bosatsu, Amaterasu-Ohomikami.”As it has been documented in the Hokkekyo, those who are calling for the Kannon shall be protected by the power of Kannon and no sword can come against it, and with no doubt, Nichiren believed that he cannot be touched. Those thoughts of his had attracted the light balls that are spirits sent through the light of Amaterasu-Ohomikami.


Nichiren, although able to avoid death, was condemned to exile. During his time of exile, he had the time to look back on his own behavior. And when his time was over, he started writing a Hokkekyo mandala. Later in history, when a sect was established after his belief, the organization had made his madala as their principal image. Usually a statue of Buddha is placed on an altar, but in his sect, the mandala was placed. The divine body was replaced with letters. On the madala, the letters“Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō”(南無妙法蓮華経) was written in the center. Around those letters, names of bosatsus were placed. Curiously enough, just one name from a Shinto god was placed on this same mandala. It was Amaterasu-Ohomikami. This signifies the intention of Nichiren.

In his early stage of writing the mandala, Nichiren wrote Amaterasu-Ohimikami at the lower end of the scroll. As the time passes and his sect grew larger, he began writing Amaterasu-Ohomikami on the higher end of the scroll. But he never explained the reason to his disciples. When his sect had grown big enough, his final intention appears on the mandala. He wrote Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō in very small letters, in a shape of a lotus flower on the lower part of the scroll. And wrote Amaterasu-Ohomikami in large letters on the center of the scroll as if she was standing on the lotus flower. When two of his closest disciples saw this mandala, they were astonished. They followed Nichiren for many years as a Buddhist. They were also established in their position in the organization as leaders. After seeing this mandala, they made an unexpected move. To be continued…

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

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The True Intention of *Nichiren - Part 1

After studying the Buddhist literature diligently, Nichiren was convinced that Hokkekyo (法華経) sutra was the most powerful with highest intention that is truthful to the original intention of Buddha. He began visiting all the different Buddhist schools to denounce the true intention of Buddha. He did not stop only with Buddhist schools but to other occult sects. He visited different dojo(school) of exorcism or shamanism trying to convince them to become a believer of the Hokkekyo sutra.

Nichiren believed in the power of Hokkekyo sutra with all his mighty soul and went to schools after schools like a fireball running around. But for some reason, he never went to any of the Shinto sects to convince his belief. It was not because he didn’t believe in convincing them. Why did he neglect to propagate to the Shintoists? The secret lies here.

With my psychic vision, I understand that Nichiren was born to a fisherman who lived by the ocean and believed in worshipping the sun. This childhood experience sets a foundation deep inside of him that becomes the core of his understanding about spirituality. (read more -blog Oct.6-08)

At this time, Buddhism was widely popular through out Japan. Nichiren had a sense of discomfort about this. I sense that Nichiren’s soul was a derivative spirit of God Susanoo. ((a brother of Sun Goddess Amaterasu-Ohomikami in mythology. He is the yin side of the sun. Amaterasu is the yan side of the sun))

So he came up with an idea with a big ambition to become the most famous preacher in Buddhism in order to unite all the Buddhist schools and lead them to worship the Sun Goddess Amaterasu-Ohomikami.

The first thing Nichiren did was to go to Mt.Hiei(比叡山) in Kyoto. There he went through all the sutras and found out that the spirit of Amaterasu-Ohomikami was hidden inside The Eleven Headed Kannon or Quan Yin (十一面観世音菩薩) through Myōhō Renge Kyō (妙法蓮華経 = Hokkekyo) sutra. He shivered from astonishment when he found this out. He witnessed the big intention from the Gods in this sutra. He was ready to propagate the belief of Hokkekyo.

Before he started his propagation, he visited the Gegū of The Grand Shrine of Ise. He stayed at Tendaishu Jōmyōji Temple (天台宗常明寺) in Ise. He purified his body with the water from the well every morning and visited the shrine for 100 days asking for mercy to Sun Goddess Amaterasu-Ohomikami so he could complete his mission to unite the Buddhists to chant the Hokkekyo sutra. The historical fact that a man who is trying to open a new stream of Buddhism, visiting a Shinto shrine before his mission is most peculiar. And the journey will unfold to a surprising conclusion. …to be continued.


Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

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*Nichiren 日蓮 :A Buddhist monk of 13th century Japan. A controversial figure during his lifetime, he is the founder of Nichiren Buddhism, a major Japanese Buddhist stream encompassing several schools of often widely conflicting doctrine.(from Wikipedia)

Defend and maintain your own magnetic field

I saw a TV program about the latest brain science . The scientists came up with a new theory that our feelings might be structured by water. When the brain cells were examined, they discovered that the big part of the brain were structured by the cells that deliver water.

70~80% of human body is made with water. And the brain seems to be structured with water even more. It is an interesting theory to think that the movement of water in the brain = the changes in emotions. Symptoms such as a migraine could be caused by the lack of balance of water/fluid in the brain that leads to contraction in the blood vessel.

A god spirit will reside in water. I think, it wouldn’t be a mistake to say that water=god.

In my opinion, the spiritual energy can be accumulated in the water. And depending on what kind of feelings you carry, that emotional magnetic energy will run through your body through the fluid. It effects the process of the restoration of cells to be renewed.

The problem becomes more serious when we think of how the increasing sun radiation would influence our water in our body. Not only the radiation of the electromagnetic waves but the intensifying spiritual energy will run through our body.

The influence will be in two different ways:

1. If you have unnecessary amount of metal in your body such as aluminum or lead, those metal could have a negative reaction causing general malaise and unstable emotional conditions.

2. If you have other spirits or entities inside your body or holding another person’s spiritual energy, this condition could create negative reaction in your spirit body causing cancer or even death.

Even your physical condition is poor, as long as your body is constructed by 100% your own original spiritual energy, the spiritual magnetic energy from the sun can pass through you without giving your any negative reaction. In fact, it may cure your condition.

The way to restore your spirit body back to the original body is to act on the ancestral worship with gratitude, and being grateful for the small daily matters.

From now one, the sun radiation will increase more and more. In three years, we will experience
the electromagnetic energy from the sun that human kind has never experienced before. It will cause electronic dysfunction or disturbance, heart troubles, and many other things.

People are already starting to be effected. Mental disorders, depression, bipolar illness, anxiety attacks… If you are already experiencing these conditions, I cannot assure you that the ancestral kuyō can cure you. It will vary among individuals. If the kuyō is making your physical condition too uneasy, you might want to stop doing it and simply be grateful for the daily matters and get medical help.

Stay strong. Remember you always have the freedom of choice.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Spiritual pipeline

With my psychic vision, I could see that a spiritual pipeline or a cord starts from the two points in our body, the bottom of both sides of our shoulder blades. And it merges on top of our head. The line becomes one at the top of the head and extends up into the sky.

The spiritual cord that extends to other dimensions is a proof of the existence of our ancestors from past lives. This spiritual cord has lived from the beginning of human kind, constructing a pipeline that carries the genes of all of our ancestors. One of our ancestors may have been able to extend 10cm of this cord. Another may have done a greater job as a soul, enable to extend 1m.

The spiritual cord from the right and the left side of our body entwines on top of the head and grows toward other dimensions.

One who has cleared his/her ancestral pipeline, lived truthful to his/her innate god, and he/her soul matured to a full extent, he/she will grow wings on their back and a halo on top of their head. To be precise the halo is not just one ring but it is layers of many rings that look like a pipeline.

Depending on the person who can see the aura, it differs in the appearance. In the western world, those who have wings and a halo were considered to be angles or saints. In Buddhism, they express the light to be behind the body that extends over the head.

The cord that comes from the right side of one’s shoulder blade is the ancestral line of the family of one’s last name. The left side comes your Ubusuna-kami (= innate god). For women, when she marries and changes her last name, the spiritual cord will also shift. Her face, figure and character will change accordingly. When she is still attached to her maiden family and respects them more, she might not be able to resonate with the married family’s ancestral line which would often lead to a divorce.

If you have a daughter and truly wish for her happiness, you must let her concentrate on devoting her time in her duties with her new family. If you are divorced but still keeping your husband’s last name, you spiritual line is still the same. You must continue to keep respect and honor your husband’s ancestors.

When an evil spirit tries to possess you, they will try to cut off your right cord first. When the connection with your ancestral line is cut off, both physically and mentally, it is much easier to control.

In this World of Reality, the ancestral line is the strongest protection power source for an individual. When an evil spirit tries to possess an individual, it will first try to cut that cord of protection.

The so called famous “healers” who are making money from their special ability, their right cord has been destroyed. They have an invisible hole under their right shoulder blade. With this condition, they are no longer able to think of ancestral worship. They will even be in denial. From the hole, the evil spirit will come and go as it pleases. When this condition escalates, the evil spirit will start to eat up the left line as well. When the left line is completely cut off, one will die. The individual will come to an end of his/her physical life.

The right cord is connected to your right chest where your physical energy center (from a spiritual aspect) is placed. The left cord is connected to your left chest where the energy center of your soul is placed.

The ancestral worship with gratitude will clean your right line. The gratitude awareness for daily matters and to the gods will clean your left line. When both lines are cleared, one’s spiritual pipeline becomes big enabling to receive a lot of life force from the Root of the Universe. Life will become much easier and enjoyable.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live



*please go to Dictionary - Ise Hakusan Do for more details on Ubusuna-kami. Also article July-29,2008.

The Savior = Human Race

Before we come into this plane, we promise our innate god that we will make sure to do what we are suppose to do for the sake of the growth as a spirit.

The soul tells the innate god. “This time, I’m really going to do it!” “This time, I’m going to live through. I will promise to do my best!” “Please give me one more chance! I know I can do it this time.”

At this point, the soul is still in oneness with the innate god, who is a derivative of Amaterasu-Ohomikami, having the mutual understanding about what a human journey is about.

Your innate god observes the companion soul and asks the soul, “there are things that cannot be changed. Inevitable circumstances such as family conditions, the country’s conditions you will be born to, or the physical conditions that you will have to deal with. Will you accept all the conditions and still agree to reborn? Are you sure you want to do this?” Your soul agrees to, no matter what happens, he/she will do his/her best.


Half of the condition is fixed. But the other half solely depends on the soul’s effort. Does this scare you? Or does it make you excited?


On the other hand, it is a big gamble for the innate god. For the innate god to come into the World of Reality, it’s almost like experiencing a mini big bang. It has to go through a revolution of the spiritual electro-magnetic field. But the innate god must be in faith and follow the companion soul in order to reborn as a human being. The innate god has to go along with the soul’s wild adventure. The fate of the innate god now lies on the soul’s hand.

Once we enter this World of Reality, our memories before this life time fades away. We no longer have the communication skill to talk to our own innate god. Only slight senses are left. The senses that we feel in our heart. We forget that we carry a part of god inside our body. And hurt other people who carry another part of the same god, or hate oneself and worse kill oneself (= killing one’s innate god).

We now live in a place called Earth. As long as we live on this planet Earth, we are connected to the Earth God (Kunitokotachi-Okami). Half of the fate, the future, of the Earth depends on us. The fate is in our hands.

The Savior is us, human beings. The positive and negative energy of us human beings is gathered and reflected back to this planet Earth. Whether we kill our gods or not solely depends on us. The god is not our savior. We are the savior of the gods.


The Earth God tells me calmly that he will surrender to our decision.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Fundamental teachings of spirituality

If I had known about this way of ancestral kuyō with gratitude as a teenager, I would have been able to focus more on my study and enter a financially better college. (laugh) When we carry many lost souls of our own ancestrors, we are not able to focus very well. We are influenced by their negative energy and have more chances to be in trouble, be in doubt and lost.

Once we enter the real society as an adult, there are other factors that might be the cause of one’s unstable condition. The social circumstances could be one of the biggest influence in your condition. But when you are still a student, it is easier to determine what the cause is.

When I look into students who are doing well, I could see many of his/her ancestral guardian spirits who are in a stable condition and at peace. They are protecting him/her from unnecessary negative energy (influences) so he/she can focus on the study. He/she will have stronger intuitions then others to find the tricks in their exams. They will have more chances to meet the right teachers or references. In addition, the ancestral spirits are protecting them from getting into trouble.

Many people go to a shrine and pray for his/her success in the entrance exam. This is not a good idea. In fact, one will be bringing back other people’s unstable negative energy. I think it is very rude to toss smalls coins to god and ask for a wish. What would you think if someone did this to you? If someone threw you some coins and said, “why don't you do this for me?” wouldn’t you feel offended? I think a normal person would be angry or simply ignore it. You shouldn’t do anything that you wouldn’t like other people to do to you. This rule applies to the gods as well.

There are guardian spirits who are protecting the god of the shrine. These kenzokus will be angry at you for using their master for personal benefit. Gods will not interfere with personal affairs. So there is no point in asking for such wishes. If for some reason, your wish came true from the prayer, it means the shrine you had visited was not an official shrine or down graded because it has not been taken care properly. There are shrines where spirits reside pretending to be a god. These spirits will interfere with personal wishes, but they will always ask for something in return. Later in your life, you will loose something valuable in your life.

If you have any wishes in your life, simply continue to send gratitude to your ancestral spirits. The spiritual magnetic energy of the gratitude frequency will make your ancestral spirits be at peace. Once they are all stable in a good place, they will start to support you and guard you like good parents. You shouldn’t ask for any wishes to them. Just send gratitude and be patient until they come to you. If you ask wishes and when they cannot make it come true, they will emanate a sad or troubling energy. You will be affected by this negative energy. When they are at peace and stable, you will start to be in peace and stable. Then the whole family will start to be in a good place.


Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live.

Electro magnetic bomb from the sun

After the Lunar New Years day, (Feb. 3rd~), I am feeling that the magnetic waves coming from the sun is increasing. Even the days when the sun spot is not appearing, I can sense something like an air nozzle pin pointing to the pores of my skin. The image that I have on what is going on is the electro magnetic waves of the Sun pressing the air filter that is surrounding the Earth.

A pole of electro magnetic waves in a size of 100 km in diameter is pressing the air layer of the Earth. Actually it is more than just pressing. It's like a bomb. When this huge amount of electro magnetic waves reaches the Earth, the vibration will be so large, it could create the same phenomenon as an earthquake but in a larger scale. Eventually, it will become so big that it could make the glass windows break. These large quakes could very well cause natural disasters.

At this point, luckily, these poles of electro magnetic waves from the sun seems to be just passing through and have not hit our planet.

The air layer around the Earth is getting thinner. And if this pole hits where it is thinned out, the disaster will happen. If an airplane was passing by that area, it will fall down. If a ship was sailing in that area it will sink. From now on, the damage caused by the air vibration will be proportionate to the increase of the sun spot.

We human beings, each and one of us, are a device that is capable to emanate a huge amount of positive and powerful magnetic energy. If you depend on anything other than yourself, you cannot become the power source to help humanity and the Earth. Whatever attitude you have, it will escalate rapidly from now on.

When you become aware of your innate god and that a small universe exists inside of yourself, your aura becomes stronger and brighter. From now on, spiritually, we all have the potential to become the super power source. It is happening with the relation to the rising of the vibrational frequency of the Earth.

I have a dream. A dream that the Earth becomes full of Energy of Joy emanated from the human beings that becomes a thick barrier to bounce back the increasing fatal electro magnetic waves from the sun.

It is most important to realize that you are “led to live”. And have the sense of gratitude towards the
Source. Then you will start to realize that You Are The God of Your Own Universe.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

Clean your ancestral pipeline with Gratitude

Why is the ancestral kuyō (worship by sending gratitude; read articles in July-08) so important?

I asked the spirits when my mind was very clear and focused. They gave me a vision. It was a vision of the first step of a soul looking for a physical body. The soul is in another dimension. And its innate god guides the soul to this dimension, to the womb of a mother that the soul chooses to go to. The soul tries to harmonize with the vibrational energy of the mother’s body. In this process, the soul has to go through the ancestral pipeline of his/her mother. When this soul who is in an absolutely pure state goes through this ancestral pipeline, if the pipeline in not clear and have wounds (meaning that if any of the ancestors have left any strong negative traces and are still lost souls), the pure unborn soul will absorb all the traces before he/she becomes stable inside the mother womb. These ancestral traces will leave birthmarks or other physical features, influence the DNA and personal characters. The soul holds the absorbed ancestral traces and emanates the spiritual magnetic energy (aura) accordingly to what he/she holds.

The gratitude sending towards your ancestral spirits becomes so important to heal these wounds. Your pipeline will become clear and pure with the vibrational energy of gratitude. Not only does it influence the unborn child, but it can change the life of those who are already out on this plane.

At this day, we are still receiving the spiritual energy from the Root of the Universe through our ancestral pipeline. And it is influencing our physical body every moment of the day. If our ancestral pipeline is not clear with remaining traces of wounds, the energy that you are receiving will be in the same condition. Your family problems are a refection of these wounds. When you clear your ancestral pipeline with gratitude kuyō, your family problem will start to dissipate. Your physical body is renewed every several months. It is possible to change your condition.

More importantly, the essential reason for the act of ancestral worship is to become aware of your connection with the Root God, the source of the Universe. By acting on the gratitude kuyō, you will become aware that you are one with the Root. You can only reach to the Root, when your ancestral pipeline is cleared. Then you reach to the gods and finally to the ultimate Root.

No one else can do it for you. The famous healers or so called masters or any sort of spiritual priests/leaders cannot do it for you. Not only could they help you, but if you depend on anyone outside of you, you are polluting your own sacredness. It is an obstruction.

I find it unbelievable that there are people so called “sensei”(teacher) who teach about spirituality, gods and universe ignoring the ancestral spirits. These people who do not understand the truth of the spiritual process are manipulated by some ghosts who are trying to play god. Those who are not aware of the importance of the ancestral spirits are those with neglected ancestral pipeline.

As long as you live, your relationship with your ancestors are there whether you like it or not. Through your ancestral pipeline is the right and safe way in reaching enlightenment.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

The Magnetic Energy of the Hōden

Hōden < 宝殿 > can be literally translated as the "treasure shrine". It is the storage shrine where the sacred treasures or the offerings are stored. Usually the storage shrines are apart from the main shrine, honden < 本殿 >, either behind the main shrine or somewhere in a hidden unnoticeable place.

However, at The Grand Shrine of Ise, it is different. The two hōden are placed on both sides of the honden. At the Gegū, the outer shrine, when the visitors are facing the main shrine, the two treasure shrines are in the front, and you see the main shrine in the back center. It seems as if the two treasure shrines are holding the sacred energy, and the god is worshipped by the visitors through that channel. At the Naigū, the inner shrine, the honden is in the front center and the hōden are placed at the back on both sides.

Some scholars say that these positioning are symmetric images of the celestial map. The main shrine is the North Star. The two treasure shrines represent the pair, the Big Dipper (the seven stars in the northern sky) and the Milk Dipper (the six stars in the southern sky). The fact that the two treasure shrines are placed in the front at Naikū and in the back at Gegū, signifies the summer and the winter solstice. I totally agree with the scholars on this.

But I would like to add a little more about the spiritual energy of the hōden, the two treasure shrines. At the Gegū, where the treasure shrines are placed in the front, I always feel an enormously strong divine power from the front. However, when I visit the Naikū where the two treasure shrines are placed in the back, the divine power is felt more from the back. I always thought strange of this.


So I asked the spirits of this secret. The answers I received was about the magnetic energy, the divine power, that comes from the hōden. The hōden are full of artworks/offerings that were made by the masters who put their soul into the craftsmanship. The art pieces hold the sacred magnetic energy from the craftsman. When the craftsmen are asked to donate their work to The Grand Shrine of Ise, they start from finding the right material. For example, if it was a lacquer dish, he would start from finding the right wood, the right lacquer. We could not imagine how many people become involved in this process. I have heard that some craftsman would surround his workspace with a shimenawa, sacred rope, and only allow limited people to enter his workspace. The offerings that are made with such care and soul would have a very high vibrational magnetic energy.

The hōden, the treasure shrine, that stores many of these offerings is like a high voltage battery. But the batteries do need to be changed after a while. And it seems like every twenty years is the right cycle. Even if the batteries are high in its spiritual voltage, after twenty years it is weakened.


At The Grand Shrine of Ise, they hold a big event every twenty years called “Shikinen-Sengu” <式年遷宮>. They rebuild the whole structure of the shrines and the offerings or the treasures.

As an esoteric art, this every twenty year ritual seems to be a pragmatic one. The people in the ancient times knew that the twenty year cycle was the limit for the objects to hold a high spiritual voltage to protect the divine power for the sacred land.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live

The Origin of Sun Worship

At The Grand Shrine of Ise, they hold a big event every 20 years called “Shikinen-Sengu” 式年遷宮. They rebuild all the shrines from scratch. At The Grand Shrine of Ise, there is an open space next to all the shrines called “place of Sengu.” The open space is the exact same size space as the existing shrine. Every 20 years, they would rebuild the shrine on this open space.


All of the accessories and treasures called shinpō <神宝> are also renewed every 20 years. Why does it have to be 20 (futo in Japanese) ? There are many different theories, but simply know that it is done according to a divine will that has been kept from the ancient time.

The basic of Shinto is to worship the Sun. All the Shinji < 神事 >, events held at a Shinto shrine, reflects and signifies the movement of the sun or its character.

For example:

1. When the new shrine is rebuilt on the right side open space of the existing shrine, it means that the sun has been reborn and signifies a sunrise.

2. After 20 years, the shrine is taken down which signifies a sunset.

3. When the new shrine is rebuilt on the left side open space of the existing shrine, it means that the sun has reborn in another dimension.

4. After another 20 years, the sun rises again back in the same dimension.


This tells us that forty years cycle in our human cycle is equivalent to one day of the sun cycle = The World of the Gods.

It’s like the folk tale “Urashima-taro”, when a young man goes to The World of Gods < 神界 >, and returns in two days (= 80 years), he turns into an old man after returning to the World of Reality.

The space that holds the existing shrine represents the World of Reality, the physical body, the visible. And the open space of “Sengu” represents the World of Gods, the spiritual body, the invisible.

The man who created and started this curious event “Sengu” is Emperor Tenmu(673~86AC).

He is a very interesting character. He had created a war with his elder brother to fight for the Imperial Throne. He defeats his brother and become the Emperor. This karma has been going on in the Imperial Family even before him. Later Emperor Kammu had inherited this fate and kills his younger brother.



When I use my psychic vision to see the background of Emperor Tenmu, I sense the influence of Taoism that arrived from China. During his youth as a prince, he had left the Imperial Family and entered a monastery in Yoshino, Nara. He seemed to have gone to Ise, Kumano area as well to train in Shugendo* < 修験道 > and some Shinto rituals. I sense that through his training in Taoism and Shugendo*, he had come up with the idea of “Sengu.”

And even before the Sengu was establised, just 2000 years ago, Yamato-hime-no-mikoto(倭姫命), an Imperial Princess came up with the idea to built the Naikū of The Grand Shrine of Ise. She connected to the 8th rank* of Amaterasu-Ohomikami, the Sun Goddess, and was led by the ultimate 10th rank of Amaterasu-Ohomikami, the mother of all rank, to come to Ise and build the Naikū.

And before any shrine was built on the sacred ground of Ise, in the very ancient times, the local people of Ise visited this ground to worship the Stone Pillars. One pillar was brought from Haku-san as a stone that the Root God resides. It was placed where it is now the Gaikū. There was another stone pillar located at Izawa-no-miya of today which was said to represent the 10th rank of Amaterasu-Ohomikami. These stone pillars are now buried under these sacred grounds.

These traces are all led by the Kunitama <国魂>, the soul of a country, Amaterasu-Ohomikami (Sun Goddess) and Kunitokotachi-Ōkami (Earth God). The energy of these gods are guiding different families and people to the right place at the right time and governing Japan.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live



Ranks: According to the author, each god has ranks(derivatives) or different levels that can be sensed by humans. The higher the rank, the higher the vibrational energy.

Shugendo 修験道: Syncretic religious order which combined elements of ancient pre- Buddhist worship of mountains with the doctrine and ritual of Esoteric Buddhism.

Time for Female Leaders

Yamato-hime-no-mikoto(倭姫命) was an Imperial Princess who carried the Sun Goddess, Amaterasu-Ohomikami on her back all the way to Ise. Queen Himiko (卑弥呼) mastered incantation and ruled the country. Such examples show that in ancient Shinto, the supreme priests were always women.

Today, Ise Jingu (伊勢神宮) is the only shrine that is keeping this tradition. The other shrines have become a male oriented structure. The miko (巫女), the shrine maiden, are in a lower post and the priests are all men.

From now on, the World of Gods will start to interfere directly to our dimension. And so the Shinto priests who are behaving like a bureaucrat will start to naturally disappear.

Around the time of Setsubun (節分；see article Feb-6-09), both Mt.Asama and Mt. Aso in Kumamoto (熊本) erupted along with small earthquakes. This was a message from the World of Gods. It was the gong to notify that the gods are starting to make judgments on who shall live and who shall disappear.

There is also Mt.Asama (朝熊山) in Ise. It has the letter “熊” as well as in Kumamoto (熊本).
Kuma “熊” means bear. “熊” is a word that derives from China. The true meaning of this word is “sacred, god, the source of the divine.” Mt Asama in Ise is a sacred mountain where people held ceremonies to worship the Sun Goddess and Kukurihime-kami (ククリ姫神／see article 5-11-08) of Mt.Haku, in the ancient times.

Worshipping the Sun Goddess and Kukurihime-kami at Mt. Asama was the most important ceremony for the Haku-san tradition. However, it was lost by the time the Naikū of Ise Jingu was established (697AC). Today, there is only a Buddhist temple in that location.

From now on, the spiritual vibrational energy of Mt.Asama in Ise will resurrect. The line between Mt.Asama of Ise and Mt.Haku (Haku-san) is the spiritual line that is most important for Japan and Earth to live. This line is where Japan was born in the super ancient times. This line holds the key to our future.

Going back about women being the leader in ancient Shinto, this tradition still remains in Okinawa. They call it Ryukyu Shinto. (Okinawa once had its own Ryuku Kingdom. They had their own polytheistic beliefs and rituals worshipping the nature. They don’t have a name for their religion but today it is called Niraikanai or Ryukyu Shinto.)

The Okinawans believe in worshipping the Sun and East as a sacred direction. The Noro (priestess) always carries her own incense burner as a sacred object in her daily ritual. The smoke from the burning incense was believed to attract the god spirits, and it was an essential tool for the humans to become one with god. The incense burner is called “Konjin” amongst the Noros, and to them, it was identified as god.

During the time of the Ryukyu Kingdom, not only the Noros but all women carried their own incense burner. If you go to an old family of Okinawa, by counting the number of incense burners they have, you could tell how many generations they have lasted and their history.

Okinawa still holds the original beliefs of ancient Shinto. Worshipping the Sun, the sacred East, and the Konjin. This has a very deep meaning. “Konjin” is 金神, the Golden God, which is signifying Kunitokotachi- Ōkami (the God of Earth).

Asama (朝熊) and Konjin (金神) is one of the secret of ancient Shinto. The true original Shinto, is starting to rise once again through Ise-Hakusan-Do

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

Thank you for letting us live