Occult Japan: Shinto, Shamanism and the Way of the Gods

The manifestations of which this book treats were witnessed by the writer in 1891 and 1893. Since then the miracles, he learns, have become one of the sights that visitors are taken to see, and on the 15th of April and of September the grounds of his friend, the high priest at Kanda, show many a tourist from the other side of the world amid the devout crowds about the sacred bed of coals. The illustrations are from photographs by the writer, taken at the time. Contents: Ontake; Shinto; Miracles; Incarnations; Pilgrimages and the Pilgrim Clubs; Gohei; Shrines of Ise; Noumena: Self; Selfhood; Possession; Will; Self as Ideas; Ideas a Mode of Motion; Ideas a Force; Individuality; Japanese Character; Dreams; Hypnotic and Possession Trances; Shinto Gods.… (more)