the kindling ritual increases neural excitability. i am particularly interested in trying to use this to burn karmic bondages. these past 2 weeks ive been looking more into nichiren buddhism and johrei. partly because the associated cults are amusing, but also some of their ideas are interesting. soka gakkai in particular talks about a “human revolution” which involves attaining a 9th consciousness which clears past karma
>It is important at this point to notice that while Ikeda is focusing on the “human” in “human revolution,” he also refers to a deeper layer in the structure of human consciousness itself. This is a level of consciousness that ultimately linked to the “life force” itself (Ikeda, Before 100). It is important to recognize that this “Ninth Consciousness” also operates at a collective level as a transpersonal “lifeforce” (seimei) (Susumu 437). This concept of a subject that is linked to other subjects in a collective and inter-subjective manner strongly resembles Deleuze’s idea of subject, in the sense that when we go deep enough, we do not find individual subjects, but a collective that is called “a Life.”