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7/10/2025, 2:53:21 PM
I visited Ise today. As expected, it had a quite strong presence, though to be honest, I felt It more in the outer shrine, Geku. Maybe it was that there were less people around, or that it was more in state of nature. There was almost a dream-like quality to being there.
Speaking of dreams, while I've been here, I've repeatedly had dreams where I'm either at a shrine or a temple. Frequently the shrines in my dreams have been made out of very light colored wood, and have had golden decorations with impossibly fine details. I visited the Sengukan museum where they document the process of periodicaly rebuilding the Ise shrines. They have a 1:1 scale replica of one of the shrine's ends. Freshly built, Ise Jingu is the exact same color as the shrines in my dreams, and it also has golden decorations. These decorations have extremely fine carvings of flowers and such. While they weren't quite exactly the same, the similarity was extremely uncanny. I don't really know quite what to make of it yet.
The presence of Ise was so...pure and light. It was the only place in Japan where someone has come to talk to me unprompted as I was lost admiring ne of the ancient trees in Naiku. I feel so complete, having been there and returned. I now have the Jingu Taima. It's an incredible priviledge. I can now pretty much transfer into entirely canonical form of Shinto praxis with this. Not sure what my ujigami jinja would be since I don't have a blood lineage connection to anywhere in Japan, but my gut tells me it's Suwa Taisha.
I now have the ofuda for the kami that, I don't know, manifested as (?), offered lineage for (?), inspired (?) Kanako-sama, Suwako-sama, Eirin-sama, Keiki-sama and Chimata-sama. I did not manage to find a conventional shintai for Matarajin, but I do have goshuin from several locations associated with the historical Matarajin, so maybe that will do for now.
Beyond those and the aforementioned Jingu Taima, I also have the ofuda of Tenjin, Sumiyoshi Sanjin and the kami of Minakamiyama shrine (desu I'm not sure what it is). I guess the mission expanded a bit from what it initially was. It's for the better, I think.
It's been really incredible. If you have the means to travel, and the openness to receive them and the sensitivity to perceive them, you can just come here and basically meet them in a way. The opposite was always possible, that this would be nothing but a dream and delusion and that I would not perceive them in any capacity. Before I came, despite how convinced I was, I could not entirely abandon the notion that I was just crazy and would come back disapointed. The fact that I felt it so strongly in places with no previous emotional investment is quite telling. Kegon falls were just a spellcard reference, but they really were the loudest.
I'm sure there are people even more fit for this, but now I know what to look for. I think something very interesting but beyond the scope of this thread is to see if I can feel something like them somewhere where I live and what can be done to feel it even stronger.
I really hope that everyone would get some kind of opportunity like this. Traveling to Japan is not possible for everyone, but maybe there is something like a kami or a buddha or whatever it would be called in your language or culture much closer than you think. Maybe there is a goddess waiting to be reincarnated in your backyard. The questions is how to develop reliable, effective means of finding them.
>>49690964
Not that I remember.
Speaking of dreams, while I've been here, I've repeatedly had dreams where I'm either at a shrine or a temple. Frequently the shrines in my dreams have been made out of very light colored wood, and have had golden decorations with impossibly fine details. I visited the Sengukan museum where they document the process of periodicaly rebuilding the Ise shrines. They have a 1:1 scale replica of one of the shrine's ends. Freshly built, Ise Jingu is the exact same color as the shrines in my dreams, and it also has golden decorations. These decorations have extremely fine carvings of flowers and such. While they weren't quite exactly the same, the similarity was extremely uncanny. I don't really know quite what to make of it yet.
The presence of Ise was so...pure and light. It was the only place in Japan where someone has come to talk to me unprompted as I was lost admiring ne of the ancient trees in Naiku. I feel so complete, having been there and returned. I now have the Jingu Taima. It's an incredible priviledge. I can now pretty much transfer into entirely canonical form of Shinto praxis with this. Not sure what my ujigami jinja would be since I don't have a blood lineage connection to anywhere in Japan, but my gut tells me it's Suwa Taisha.
I now have the ofuda for the kami that, I don't know, manifested as (?), offered lineage for (?), inspired (?) Kanako-sama, Suwako-sama, Eirin-sama, Keiki-sama and Chimata-sama. I did not manage to find a conventional shintai for Matarajin, but I do have goshuin from several locations associated with the historical Matarajin, so maybe that will do for now.
Beyond those and the aforementioned Jingu Taima, I also have the ofuda of Tenjin, Sumiyoshi Sanjin and the kami of Minakamiyama shrine (desu I'm not sure what it is). I guess the mission expanded a bit from what it initially was. It's for the better, I think.
It's been really incredible. If you have the means to travel, and the openness to receive them and the sensitivity to perceive them, you can just come here and basically meet them in a way. The opposite was always possible, that this would be nothing but a dream and delusion and that I would not perceive them in any capacity. Before I came, despite how convinced I was, I could not entirely abandon the notion that I was just crazy and would come back disapointed. The fact that I felt it so strongly in places with no previous emotional investment is quite telling. Kegon falls were just a spellcard reference, but they really were the loudest.
I'm sure there are people even more fit for this, but now I know what to look for. I think something very interesting but beyond the scope of this thread is to see if I can feel something like them somewhere where I live and what can be done to feel it even stronger.
I really hope that everyone would get some kind of opportunity like this. Traveling to Japan is not possible for everyone, but maybe there is something like a kami or a buddha or whatever it would be called in your language or culture much closer than you think. Maybe there is a goddess waiting to be reincarnated in your backyard. The questions is how to develop reliable, effective means of finding them.
>>49690964
Not that I remember.
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