Congratulation to Green Shinto friend, Aike Rots, who has just completed his dissertation on Sacred Forests in Japan. His research took him to some of the most interesting shrines working along environmental principles, as documented in a previous posting… Read the rest
An article in Japan Today concerning protests against the horrendous slaughter of dolphins in Japan highlights how such issues can divide environmentalists and nationalists. Environmentalists are motivated by universalism and a concern for the earth as a whole. It … Read the rest
Who said the following?
1) ‘It is now apparent that the ecological pragmatism of the so-called pagan religions… was a great deal more realistic in terms of conservation ethics than the more intellectual monotheistic philosophies of the revealed religions.’
2) … Read the rest
Japan has acquired an ugly reputation for its duplicitous, cruel and government-subsidised whale hunting, together with the subsequent feeding of contaminated meat to schoolchildren and others. Australia has currently taken it to the world court about the ludicrous claim to … Read the rest
Alan Watts this week has been talking about the limitations of the brain in processing reality (a lecture entitled ‘Seeing through the net’). The brain works in ways that are reductionist, ‘digital’ and linear. Reality comes in waves, vibrations … Read the rest
Green Shinto friend, Aike Rots, was passing through Japan recently in relation with his forthcoming doctoral dissertation on ‘The Forests of the Gods: Shinto, Nature and the Rediscovery of Sacred Space’.
Aike has been investigating green initiatives being carried out … Read the rest
The United Nations advisory body, ICOMOS, has given its support to the campaign to preserve Tokyo’s last street view of sacred Mt Fuji, known as Nippori Fujiimizaka. This is connected to the forthcoming World Heritage status of Fuji, due to … Read the rest
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