Day: November 3, 2023

Your Inner Palace 元辰宮 and the Akashic Records

On By benebellIn Magical in the Mundane, personal spirituality, Tao of Craft (book), Taoism, traditional witchcraft20 Comments

This blog post is an addendum and continuation after what I discuss in the video linked above.

The Akashic Records is very much a Western conception, right? The Theosophists of the 19th century formulated a mash-up of Eastern and Western esoteric traditions and from that mash-up came its most popular legacy– the Akashic Records.

Most of us get that the “Akashic” part was inspired by the akasha, a fifth element or essence found in various Asian traditions, associated with the sky, space, aether, and in Buddhism, even a state of mind. But what about the “Records” part?

But first, I’d like to start with the discussion on akasha and godhead.

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The Esoteric Buddhism of Japan Oracle Cards (Yuzui Kotaki and Miki Okuda)

On By benebellIn deck review, personal spirituality6 Comments

The Esoteric Buddhism of Japan Oracle Cards is so beautiful, so awe-inspiring that I treat it as I would a sutra — all the Buddhist etiquette applied to sacred texts I apply to how I handle this deck.

Acharya Yuzui Kotaki is a Shingon Buddhist teacher and a vice-chief priest of the Maginosan Ren-join Temple in Kanagawa, Japan. Miki Okuda is a painter, both in traditional and digital media who specializes in Buddhist religious art. The deck was first released in 2021, and I don’t know how it flew so under the radar in the tarot community.

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