It’s 80% attaching spirits
I think, after all those gods and stuff, the core of Mahikari is attaching spirits, or spirit disturbance. They account for nearly everything you experience in your life. Heaven forbid that there are regular, you know, sciencey or logical reasons for anything.
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Let’s start with what Mahikari says about attaching spirits in Primary Kenshu:
This phenomenon of a spirit attaching [to your body] is called the phenomena of attaching spirits. The person who is attached by a spirit will come to develop similar conditions as the spirit.
For instance, if a person is attached by a spirit who died of tuberculosis … the person will develop tuberculosis, and if a spirit died of asthma attaches to a person, within about a week or so the person will develop asthma. [pg 18]
From the various actual examples I have just given, no doubt you understand by now that whether it is sickness, crime or other unhappy phenomena, we can quite clearly state that 80% is caused by spirit disturbance.
No doubt you will experience this from now on. If there are a 100 people, even at a conservative estimate 80 will be receiving some sort of spirit disturbance.
In modern medicine, however, there is no spiritual research done. Without solving problems to do with attaching spiritis, such as people dying due to warnings from their ancestors, no matter how people look for happiness, it is impossible.
Here lies a basic mistake in today’s modern medicine. If mankind is really to look for happiness, it is first necessary to become awakened to spirituality and discover the way to solve spirit disturbance. So Sukuinushisama [the founder dude, Okada] often appealed to us that it is essential to awaken to the world of spirit, starting with those who have the attitude to do so, and strive to awaken all humankind to this. [pp 29–30]
So here’s how it goes down. Someone dies – happens to the best of us. Maybe they have a grudge against you (you know, from that time when you …). Maybe they have resentment against your grandfather (it’s OK, we all know he was a bit of a dick). Maybe they are in love with you (naaaaw). Maybe they’re lonely. Maybe they’re out for revenge. Maybe they’re a sneaky fox, raccoon or snake (like, the animals, for reals). Whatever, it typically comes down to your karma, or your family’s sins and impurities.
But – instead of toddling off to the astral world to do their training after death, as they should, they decide to hang around. And they do that by attaching to your spiritual body. Like a remora. Only with more spirit stuff, and less fish.
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And when a spirit attaches to you, you get whatever ailment or psychological problem they have. So if they died from heart disease, you’ll get heart disease too.
So Mahikari logic says that if you solve the spirit disturbance, you’ll be healed too. Heal and counsel the spirit so it’s no longer angry or out to get you, or in love with you, or whatevs, then it will release you and go back to the astral world, where it belongs. And all the problems it was causing for you will stop. Simples.
How do you solve spirit disturbance, you ask? Good question!
Well.
What do you know. It mainly involves doing a lot of divine service (unpaid labour!) for the group. ‘Saving others’. This raises your spiritual level, and improves the situation for the attaching spirit.
And sometimes you can have spirit investigations if things are really getting out of hand. This is when one of the doshis (priests) or kanbu (senior staff) gives you Light to the soul spirit (forehead) and talks directly to the attaching spirit during the session. So you have your eyes closed, and they are chatting away to the spirit. They ask it questions like what is it, where did it come from, does it have resentment or love or anger etc towards you, and which part of the body is it attached to.
Sometimes the spirit will make you move, like rocking back and forth, or shaking your head. And they can speak. People report they can suddenly speak another language like Japanese (a popular option) even though they don’t know Japanese! Because the attaching spirit is Japanese (again, a popular option), and is speaking in its own language. I call fucking bullshit. I experienced this, many times, and one time had a Japanese warrior ‘attached to me’. Yes, I spoke Japanese to my inquisitor (who it must be said was speaking English) and all I said was the basic Japanese words I already knew like ‘Yes’ and ‘No’.
At least they are trying to understand and counsel the spirit, to help it give up emotional and physical attachment to you. They aren’t about banishing it. So that’s nice.
In Primary Kenshu they go through a list of all the different types of diseases, and what causes them. Yes! It’s mostly attaching spirits! Surprise! And the rest is caused by toxins. They love toxins. Just a reminder, all medicine is toxins.
The following is typical advice about whatever ailment you care to name:
Women’s Problems:
As for Okiyome, give Okiyome thoroughly on the back and front of the uterus. Also, such things as anteflexion of the uterus, miscarriage, stillbirth, uterine cancer and so on are mostly caused by an attaching spirit with resentment concerning a man-woman relationship. Such resentment from a man-woman relationship may, for example, be if grandfather had had a mistress but left her to die in misery. If things like that happened such spirits become resentful and attach to people. There are many cases where it is due to something that happened with the ancestors about 3-5 generations or so ago. Or it may have something to do with the husband or the wife at the present time.
In such cases, it's necessary to reflect on one's life, and if there's anything that indicates such mistakes, it’s first necessary to apologise saying, 'I won't do anything like that anymore, please forgive me', and receive Okiyome. Otherwise it won't do any good.
Whether it's something to do with the ancestors or oneself, it's important actively to save people to erase such sins. As you save others, your own impurities will be erased and you'll be saved. – Primary Kenshu, pg 117
You might notice the big focus on saving others. Big focus. That means hunting for new members. Constantly. So, to solve the problems that the cult ascribes to attaching spirits, you need to do masses of divine service, and try to get others to join. Convenient (for them).
Also. Attaching spirits can also cause traffic accidents, and interfere with your divine service! No, it’s not your bad driving or your gut telling you you’re in a cult. It’s spirits. The subject for further blog posts. Stay tuned, and til then, be kind to your attaching spirits!