Green Shinto would like to wish its readers all the best for the winter solstice as those of us in the northern hemisphere pass through the darkest days of the annual cycle with revelry and Yuletide fires to ward … Read the rest
Category: Animism (Page 11 of 19)
In 1955 the head of Yamakage Shinto, Yamakage Motohisa, met with a Shinto researcher called Jean Herbert. Together the pair visited something like 1000 shrines, and the research was eventually used in Herbert’s massive book on Shinto; at the fountain-head … Read the rest
An article in the UK’s Independent highlights the alarming war that has been waged by mankind on trees around the world. Currently forests covering the size of Greece disappear each year, but now a movement has been initiated by … Read the rest
Sadly, news has come of the demise of Dr Emoto, whose water crystal photography stunned many and raised awareness of the damage done by pollution and negativity. Here is a statement from Michiko Hayashi, his Personal Assistant.
“I am sad … Read the rest
The immensely moving poem below was written in 1932 and circulated anonymously. Only after it became popular in Britain following a reading of the poem for a fallen soldier in Northern Ireland was it discovered to have been written by … Read the rest
I’m grateful to John Hanagan for bringing my attention to this beautiful poem by the American poet, Mary Oliver (b.1935). It’s a reminder of the beauty of existence, and of where our priorities should lie in life.
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The great mythologist, Joseph Campbell, saw Shinto as a religion of awe, and there are those who propose that its rituals are open to an interpretation in which the kami are viewed as a figurative expression compatible with atheism. … Read the rest