“Why were we born?—Q&A“
First edition printed on May 13, 2018
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Edited by UTA Book
Answers provided by Kayo Shiokawa
Translated by Kowa Makimura
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Introduction
One of the books I helped published last year was called
Why was I born? Questions asked by Children in Japan. A
small number of children, i.e. seven living in Hokkaido, Gifu,
and Osaka, wrote out their “Whys” waiting to be answeredand organized them into a letter for me.
Among the children’s questions were two commonly
asked “Whys.” One was “Why do we have wars when atschool we’re taught to ‘get along with one another?’ ”
Our company’s main website contains a number ofsimilar questions as follows:
We all know it’s wrong to fight with one another.
We all know that; yet, wars still occur around the world.
Why?
Before thinking about wars on a global scale, think
about your surroundings.
Look into your heart.
Are you not fighting at your workplace with your2

subordinates, co-workers, and boss?”
How about at home? If you’re a housewife, are you
not fighting with your husband, father-in-law, or motherin-law; if you’re a husband, are you not fighting with yourwife, her father, or mother.
You may look happy on the outside, but what about
inside your heart?
Can you confidently say that you’re living happily
in peace?
I learned that the cause of any war exists inside us; notoutside. Almost no one realizes that; we all search for thecause outside us with the misbelief that changing mattersoutside will make everything perfect. The saying “Thedarkest place is under the candlestick” best describes thestate of our heart and the same can be said for the current
state of society worldwide.
We can go to a hospital to have a doctor treat us, if
our problem is physical. However, problems and troubles
we have in our heart cannot be treated by anyone else but
ourselves. Each and every one of us think “I’m right; ifanyone is wrong, it must be someone else; not me.” That is
the state of our heart; whenever some problem occurs, no3one ever considers him/herself as the possible cause.
The motto of our company, UTA Book, is to help asmany people as possible learn that we must realize that allcauses to our problems lie in ourselves. Instead of trying
to change matters outside us, we must look into ourselves
and learn to accept ourselves when we find some parts ofus we may not like. Nothing changes without such ‘Turn ofOne’s Consciousness’; UTA Book will continue publishingits books, to help everyone realize this simple truth so thatthey can live in true happiness.
In this book, we will take the question “Why do wars
not disappear from the world” as a starter, to propose theimportance of looking into our own heart.
Another question the children asked was “Why were
we born?”, a big fundamental question ever troublesome
for human kind. An Osaka high-school principal faced
this question during the Pacific War and, after the war,
proposed the study of facing one’s own heart. First, allow
me to introduce you to Teacher Tomekichi Taike.

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As I just said, Teacher Taike used to be a school
principal at an Osaka prefectural high school; even after
his retirement, the honorific “Teacher” remained. Thoughcalled Teacher Taike, he is not seen as a special being or
treated as a religious founder.
During the war, Teacher Taike was receiving training
at the Imperial Japanese Army Academy and fate had it that
he was to join one of the Special Attack Units and die withhis subordinates. Teacher Taike came face-to-face with thequestions “what does death mean?” and “what is life?,” andafter the war, in 1948, he became a mathematics teacher.
According to his former students, Teacher Taike spent mostof his class time on lectures on the heart and on love; on hisclassroom wall, they say, were always the words “Follow
nature, cherish the truth, allow your innocent heart to be
moved as it wishes, and love yourself and everyone else.”
Just when everything was going perfectly, however,the following words came into Teacher Taike’s heart:“The words you speak sound like those of an angel;however, isn’t your heart completely dark?”5

That was when Teacher Taike realized that he knew
nothing about the truth.
Until then, he believed he was full of love; it therefore
struck him that he had nothing at all in his heart. Teacher
Taike struggled over such questions as “what is true love?”and “for what purpose was I born?” and eventually arrived
at the following conclusion:
Life was all about “reflecting on one’s thoughts toward
one’s mother.” Since Teacher Taike taught mathematics,
every time he asked his students a question, he gave thema clue. Therefore, Teacher Taike believed that there must be
someone giving me a clue to my fundamental questions,i.e. “what is true love?” and “for what purpose was I born?”
That was how Teacher Taike arrived at his conclusion that
his mother was that “someone.”
While he reflected on his thoughts toward his mother,he realized that his mother, whom he despised the most, hadbeen showing him what true love was. There was nothing
wrong in the material world; Teacher Taike had been unable
to see the truth because his heart was directed toward the6material world, i.e. the physical world. Teacher Taike realizedthat his heart had been directed toward the wrong way.
The only thing that mattered was the world ofconsciousness. We need to change the basis of our life fromthe physical world to the world of consciousness. Looking
outside our heart will not help because all answers to ourquestions can only be found inside. Ever since Teacher Taike
realized this, he has been giving lectures to many people
on how the truth can only be experienced by one’s heart
through reflecting on one’s thoughts toward one’s mother.
People from various backgrounds such as thefollowing came to listen to his lectures: 1) parents worried
about their child, 2) people concerned about their disease,3) others trying to find out their true existence, 4) physicaltherapists, 5) psychotherapists, 6) college teachers, 7) salary
workers, and 8) housewives. Every Sunday, such people
gathered at someone’s house offered voluntarily as avenue and listened to Teacher Taike’s lecture. That was the
beginning of this study.

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Teacher Taike realized what his true job was and,following what he felt in his heart, resigned as high school
principal, to pass on the truth that the only thing thatmatters is the world of consciousness and all answers one
needs can only be found in one’s heart. Now, let’s moveonto what it means to look into one’s heart.
In our everyday life, we use our five sensory organs, i.e.
eyes, ears, etc. to gather information on the outside world.
This study proposes to temporarily stop relying on one’s
senses, to focus on looking into one’s heart.
As long as one looks at the outside world, he/she is apt
to look for something to blame the cause on. For instance,
one may blame society, the education system, one’s husband,
wife, child, or mother-in-law, thinking, “Only if that person
would change.” However, looking outside for causes, trying
to change others, will not make any difference.
This is because outside problems and troubles
actually exist inside one’s heart. Realizing this with one’s
heart, instead of trying to change others or society, and8

awakening to the true reason one was born are the aimsof this study. To achieve these aims, this study proposes
the following three practices regarding 1) knowledge, 2)reflection, and 3) meditation.
First, regarding knowledge, trying to understandthis study based on your life long experience or common
knowledge will only confuse you. “Human beings are
not their physical bodies but consciousnesses,” “There is
no use in praying to God. Believe in the consciousness
inside yourself; that is your true self,” “Pain is love,”and “Natural disasters are love”; these examples should
describe how knowledge relating to this study completely
differs from common knowledge. To understand this study,
I recommend completely blanking out your mind, leaving
your knowledge and experience aside.
Next, regarding reflection, when we say “reflection” inthis study, we do not mean reflection in a general sense; wemean “looking into our heart.” Whether at work or at home,
our heart constantly moves between feelings. By “reflection,”
we mean looking into our heart for such changes. In addition9

to this type of reflection, i.e. looking into one’s heart foreveryday changes, there are two more fundamental types:
reflection on one’s thoughts toward one’s mother, andreflection on one’s reliance on outer powers.
Last, regarding meditation, there are three types of
meditation: 1) meditation on one’s thoughts toward one’s
mother, 2) meditation for harmonizing one’s heart with
Tomekichi Taike (your true self), and 3) meditation forrevealing one’s darkness. Whether one’s heart harmonizes
with the warmth of one’s mother or Tomekichi Taike is allthat matters. When it does, all that one feels is happinessand gratefulness. In other words, the more one strays
from one’s true self, the more pain one will suffer. In thethird type of meditation, i.e. “meditation for revealing
one’s darkness,” one sets his/her pain free with the aim ofrealizing how much darkness he/she has been carrying.
For “knowledge,” please refer to our following
publications:10

1. The Flow of Consciousness. Revised and enlarged
edition. May 10, 2010
2. Love, One within Oneself; Turn of Consciousness;
Version 3. June 20, 2015
3. The Flow of Consciousness; It All Comes Down to
Meditation. December 10, 2016

1. This study
Let’s move on to the main part of this bookIn this section organized in a Q&A fashion, Ms. Kayo
Shiokawa, the author of the books above, will offer somemessages from the world of consciousness as answers tosome questions that people studying or starting to study
may have.

Q. Why do seminars need to be held?
A. The world is full of information. However, of all suchinformation, how much leads you to the truth? I believe
there is none. That’s right, none. None at all. There is aconsiderable variety of information in this world. The
present can be described as an internet era. If we want toknow more about or search for something, the internet can
provide us with various information. We obtain and baseour everyday life on such information. Such informationmust be useful and convenient for life. However, all suchinformation is useless and meaningless when seen fromthe perspective of the true world. First, everyone needs
to understand that with their head. To help everyone
understand that by having them study the truth first with
their head, there needs to be a place where everyone cangather, secluded from everyday life for a while. In thisway, the need for reserving some time and place led to thecurrent seminars, which for instance are held over twonights and three days. One may ask, “Then, instead ofstaying over for a few nights, can’t we gather in some place,13

spend a certain amount of time on studying, and thenreturn home to everyday life?” Unfortunately, that would
not allow us to smoothly switch our head from everyday
life to seminar mode. The first step is to switch our head.
We need to seclude ourselves from everyday life at least for
two to three days, to switch our head and focus on the true
world so that we can sense various things with our eyes,
ears, and entire body. This need for time and space is thereason seminars are held.

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Q. Why were seminars held in Japan
this lifetime?
A. That is because the true world was born into a physicalbody in Japan. You may also want to know why the true
world chose a small island country, i.e. Japan, for itself to
be born in. As I clearly stated in past seminars, that is forthe need to let Amaterasu repose. Amaterasu is a dark
universe. Tomekichi Taike, the world of consciousness,
was born into a physical body in Japan so that everyone
can study and become able to lead their dark universe ofAmaterasu filling their heart toward warmth, peace, andlove. Since Tomekichi Taike’s world of consciousness is thetrue world, it originally did not need to be born into a thirddimensional physical body. On the other hand, with thebelief that the material world is the true world, we havebeen transmigrating (reincarnating and repeatedly having
lives) for an extremely long time. Since his aim was topass on the truth to us, i.e. believers of the material world,
Teacher Taike needed a physical body so that he could
appear in front of us. Thanks to Teacher Taike, we were15

able to learn from him with our eyes and ears. The worldof consciousness taught us many things through Teacher
Taike’s physical body. Tomekichi Taike prepared a favorable
environment for us to switch our head smoothly and focus
on the true world. Existing at the same level as us by beingborn into a physical body served a significant role.
The world of true consciousness chose Japan from all
the countries on this planet. On a second thought, it did not
only choose Japan but that was the flow of consciousness.
The flow of consciousness sends us a message about
dimensional migration. The message says, “Let’s migrate
beyond this dimension.” To do so, we must turn our worldof vibrations from the dark universe to mother universe.
Please start with Amaterasu. Amaterasu is one of the dark
universes. Taking Amaterasu down is extremely important.
That is why the true world was born into a physical bodyin this island country Japan, the country of Amaterasu, thecountry of God, and held seminars for more than 30 years.

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Q. I’ve heard that seminars used to beheld all around Japan. Why are they
only be held in certain parts of Japan
now? In addition, why is Shima now
an important place for this study?
A. Seminars used to be held all around Japan. They were
held not only in Japan but also in the United States. Now
seminars are only held in some areas of the Kansai region;
mainly in Osaka and also in Shiga, Mie, and Nara. There
are also small seminars held by communities in UTAHall Daiho and UTA Hall Shima. The former is in Osaka,
the latter in Mie; both are in the Kansai region. Is this acoincidence? Why are seminars, which used to be held all
around Japan, now only held in Kansai.
That is because the study progressed to an advanced
level. When the study initially began, though the purpose
was not to spread it, seminars were held all around Japan sothat people who wanted to know the truth, the reason they
were born, and the cause behind their suffering could study.
Over the years, seminars came to be held only in certain
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parts of the country and then only in the Kansai region.
The basic principle of this study is to welcome anyone
who comes, but not chase after those who leave. We do not
go around handing out invitations. The study is only forlearning the truth. There is no need for recruiting people to
make the study larger.
We followed the basic principle, and the study
progressed to an advanced level. It is now at a level where
only people serious about the study are studying. While thestudy is difficult, more and more people are beginning tofeel it with their heart, and the study is progressing forwardwith such people. That is why there no longer is a needto recruit new people. The foundation for the study has
formed. The study’s foundation for 250 years from now has
formed. That is why there is no need to hold seminars allaround Japan anymore.
As for why Shima is now an important place for thisstudy, that is because Tomekichi Taike, or Teacher Taike,long ago bought some land in Shima for some purpose,
which had been left untouched for long. Knowing that hehad such unused land in Shima, Teacher Taike had probably
wanted to use it for the study. Partly for the purpose of asset18

management with Teacher Taike becoming older, a plan
was put forward. In accordance Teacher Taike’s will, relating
preparations completed and his land in Shima came to be
used for the study as UTA Hall Shima. Near the hall stands
two buildings called Furusato En. My friends from the study
live there and, for four days a week, they spend some time
meditating and studying in the hall. Once a month, I also go
to Shima and spend some time studying there.
Shima is known for Ise Shima, and Ise Shima is
known for Ise Jingu shrine. I do not know whether that hadanything to do with the current state but Shima became
an important place for the study. The land where UTAHall Shima stands used to be Teacher Taike’s property. In
closing, let me tell you that the reason Teacher Taike boughtthat land in Shima had to do with the flow of consciousness.

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Q. What does everyone do at a seminar?
A. In principle, seminars are held over two nights andthree days. Most of the seminar participants have alreadybeen studying for 20 to 30 years, so they have enoughknowledge on the study. Therefore, now, seminars are held
for participants to feel the study with their heart and tounderstand it through practice. The aim is to have everyone
advance their learning further by having them check how
much their heart understands what they understood with
their head. In one seminar, participants gather in a hall to
meditate together for a total of five-and-a-half to six hours.
Though depending on the size of the hall, a group of about
20 to 30 people are called to the middle of the room andasked to feel the study with their heart through meditation.
Each group is given about three to four minutes. We callthis sort of meditation “meditation 1, 2, and 3” and practice
it together. In meditation 1, 2, and 3, I ask participants to firstturn their thoughts toward the very bottom of their heart.
After all groups go through their first turn of meditation 1, 2,
and 3, I next ask participants to turn their thoughts toward
20their inner-heart Amaterasu. In addition, I sometimes ask
participants to turn their thoughts toward some othersubjects. In this way, we spend most of our seminar time on
meditation 1, 2, and 3; however, we also spend some time
on familiarizing ourselves with the energy of joy while
singing (a self-written version of) Furusato.

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Q. Isn’t the study a type of religion?
How is it not a religion?
A. The study is not a religion. It is no religion in any way.
Religions have something or some person to worship.
Religious groups are structured pyramidically. At the
top is the founder or leader. Positioned at the top, thefounder/leader is superior to all others. This distinction
is clearly drawn so that all others look up to the founder/
leader. Under the pretext of one thing or another, religions
collect large amounts of money. Followers are required torecruit new members. These are a few examples typical ofreligions, which do not exist in this study. In this way, thebasic structure of this study completely differs from that ofreligions. In addition, the greatest difference between thisstudy and religions is the foundation on which they eachlie. What the foundation of this study is, and what it meansthat the foundation of this study differs from that of any
religion are things you need to learn with your heart.

22Q. How can you tell that what Tomechiki
Taike has been passing on is the truth?
How can you be sure of somethingthat cannot be proved scientifically?
A. First of all, science cannot prove everything. If you
think that science can prove everything, please knowthat you are wrong. There are things that science cannot
prove. There is a limit to the world that science is capableof proving; the world that lies just beyond that limit is thetrue world. It is impossible to prove anything about the true
world with science.
Now, as for the answer to the question “How can you
tell that what Tomechiki Taike has been passing on is thetruth?”, that is something that you can tell with your heart.
Please allow your heart to become sensitive; allow it to truly
become sensitive. If your heart points in the exact same
direction as the true world, i.e. Tomekichi Taike, your heart
will know that Teacher Taike has been passing on the truth.
Your heart will know that only what Tomekichi Taike has
been passing on was true, that the truth was what he was23

saying. Nothing can be surer, because this is something
you can tell with your own heart. Please first allow yourheart to become sensitive enough; if you do, you will be
convinced of what the truth is. Nothing is more important
than knowing the truth with your own heart. Please firstallow your heart to become truly sensitive.

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Q. Do we need to know about this study
in this lifetime?
A. Yes. But, each and every one of us has our own
plan. Whether one will come across this study or nothas been planned by oneself. Whether one will cometo know the true world of vibration during the next
250 years also depends on one’s plan. However, even if
one comes across this study, unless one feels the true
world of vibration, one will not come to know it.
Since all consciousnesses exist within the flow of
consciousness, all consciousnesses are given equal chancesat everything. How much of one’s chance one uses forturning his/her thoughts toward the truth completelydepends on him/herself. In the sense that one’s choice
is one’s responsibility, we are all given equal chances at
everything.
It is not a matter of whether one needs to know about
this study or not; rather, if one comes to know about thisstudy, he/she will feel truly thankful with his/her heart tohis/her mother. Those who came across this study and are25

practicing it, i.e. those who have repeatedly had experiencesthat can only be enjoyed by heart, are living extremely
happily. The hearts of all others, no matter how wealthy
they are in the material world, are poor inside. They
suffer inside, feeling an emptiness, because their world ofconsciousness has not come to know their true selves. All
consciousnesses have their own plan for coming to know
their world of consciousness. We all exist within the flowof consciousness. Please pursue your study in the right
direction so that you too can come to know the flow of
consciousness with your heart. Knowing about the study
only with your head does not do any good; you must cometo know the truth with your heart.

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toward one’s mother
Reflection on one’s thoughts toward one’s mother is themost basic of all practices of this study. One cannot eventake a step forward in this study unless he/she properlyreflects on his/her thoughts toward his/her mother.
In this section, Ms. Kayo Shiokawa will offer somemessages from the world of consciousness as answers tosome questions that may arise while reflecting on one’s
thoughts toward one’s mother.

Q. Why is it necessary to reflect on
my thoughts toward my mother?
A. That is because you were born from your mother. You
were not born from your father.

The most important

thing was passed on to us while we were in our mother’swomb. Reflecting on your thoughts toward your mother isessential for remembering that most important thing.

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Q. Why is my mother’s warmth soimportant?
A. Why do you think? Do you know many other selves ofyou living inside you? Do you know that those many otherselves of you are crying out of pain and loneliness? Can
you feel yourself suffering with pain and loneliness? With
your physical body, there must be times that you feel happy
and joy, but that is not how you feel inside. Please become
able to sense that with your heart. To become able to do so,
you will need true kindness. Your mother’s consciousness
passed on to you that you have true kindness and warmth
inside you. Your mother’s consciousness also passed on
to you that you disposed of her warmth. These are what
your mother passed on to you during the 10 months and 10
days while you were inside your womb. Your other selves
are speaking to you, “We desperately need our mothers’
warmth. Please save us. Help us. Do something! Pleaselisten to our thoughts! We’re suffering!” Please become able
to listen to what your heart says and turn your thoughts
toward it. When you become able to do so, you will know
30with your heart the absolute necessity of your mother’swarmth and that only your mother’s warmth can save youfrom the depths of pain. There is nothing more important
than one’s mother’s warmth. Your mother’s warmth willbring you back to your true self.

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Q. What is “one’s mother’s warmth?”
A. It is a world of peace that accepts you with kindness
unconditionally. You will feel with your heart you neednothing more but only your mother. Your mother’s warmth
welcomes everything about you. It accepts every aspect ofyou unconditionally. You will know that you can entrust
everything with your mother and feel happy with joy.

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Q. Why did we dispose of
our mothers’ warmth?
A. When our heart began to believe the physical, material
world to be the true world, it no longer needed our mothers’
warmth. It began to respond to things in the material
world, rather than to warmth. “We don’t need our mothers’
warmth,” we told ourselves and boasted our physicalaspects as we desired. We also created such outer sources ofpowers as deities. We were crazed with money. Even when
we were asked to remember our mothers’ warmth, we
immediately unsheathed our sword of refusal, saying, “Suchwarmth will not help me live.” However, when you keep
practicing looking into your heart and feeling your own
energy with your heart, the only feelings that come over
you are your heart’s poorness, ugliness, and foolishness of
disposing of your mother’s warmth. Why did we dispose of
our mothers’ warmth? A mother’s warmth is who we are.
How can we know what true joy and happiness are when
we disposed of ourselves? Of course, we can’t, but we havebeen pursuing happiness, love, and warmth. Please first33

realize for sure that you have disposed of your mother’swarmth. Why you disposed of your mother’s warmth; why
you forgot about having disposed of your mother’s warmth;
the more you realize you disposed of your mother’swarmth, the more you will understand with your heart
why you did so. You will feel your history of poorness ofchoosing money and deities of outer sources of powers overwarmth, and an outburst of contrition will come over you,making you want to sincerely apologize to yourself.

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Q. I’m meditating while turning mythoughts toward my mother but don’t
feel anything. What do I need to do
to become able to feel vibrations?
A. Maybe you’re missing the point “Keep meditating withno intention in mind.” Please realize that your thoughts are
driven by greed.
You say that you are turning your thoughts toward
Tomekichi Taike and your mother’s warmth, but you
are turning your thoughts toward a completely different
direction. Why are your thoughts directed toward acompletely different direction? That is because your heart
is full of deities of outer sources of powers. You need tolook into your heart groveling toward your deities of outersources of powers.

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Q. I cannot remember whatthoughts I had of my mother.
A. Yes, you can. Can you say you were completely
obedient toward your mother all your life up till this very
moment? Ever since childhood, have you been happily
responding “Yes, mother” every day without talking backat all? You do not need to remember so many things. There
must be at least one scene that moves you the most. All you
need is one scene with your mother, one that struck you,that pierced your heart. Can you remember what kind ofthoughts you had toward your mother then? What kindof words did you use against her? Please try writing or
typing the thoughts you had or words you used at that very
moment. All you need is one line, or even one word. There
must be thousands of feeling of bitterness and hatred insideyou. Such feelings may suddenly well up. There is no needto remember so many things. Just think of one scene andlook deeply into your heart.

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Q. I can’t stop using my head. What
can I do to quit using my head?
A. You have a habit of using your head too much. Even
with things to be understood with your heart, you try tounderstand them with your head. Please reflect on yourmother, i.e. look into your thoughts you had toward yourmother, turning your thoughts to when you were just born.
Allow yourself to become more unrestrained inside
so that you can feel the energy you emit instantaneously;
then, you will know that the world of consciousness is not aworld explainable by reason. Although it is not explainable
by reason, if one continues to experience his/her energy
burst out from within one’s body, one will no longer careabout understanding this study with one’s head. Pleaseenjoy this wonderful, surprising, and joyful experienceagain and again.

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3. Reflection on one’s thoughts
toward outer sources of powers
As is reflection on one’s thoughts toward one’s mother,reflection on one’s thoughts toward outer sources ofpowers is also one of the most basic practices of this study.
To reflect on outer sources of powers is not a matterof thinking “what I did was wrong.” What matters is thethoughts we had when we looked up to religious founders,enshrined deities, or put our hands together in prayer;
we must look into our thoughts. Even if one practices thisstudy of the heart, one will not improve in any way, unless
one changes his/her thoughts.
In this section, Ms. Kayo Shiokawa will offer somemessages from the world of consciousness as answers tosome questions that may arise while reflecting on one’s
thoughts toward outer sources of powers.

Q. What does it mean to believein outer sources of powers?
A. Generally, it means to belong to some religious groupand seriously learn its teachings or learn from its founderor leader. However, that is not all. Occasions to follow
beliefs in outer sources of powers are deeply spread acrossour everyday life. Praying to a Buddhist altar, visiting
someone’s grave, having your fortune told, worshipping
sunrises, praying to the stars or having anything else topray to are all examples of believing in outer sources ofpowers. Our everyday life is full of occasions for paying
homage to pray for a peaceful year, the health of one’s
family members, safety, and stability, and of events towish for abundant harvest.
There is a more serious form of belief, i.e. training.
Running around the mountains, standing underneatha waterfall, and fasting are forms of physical abuse
practiced under the pretext of training. There is nokindness in such forms of training. From training, I only
feel cold-hearted thoughts solely interested in expressing
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one’s dominant powers.
As described above, what beliefs in outer sourcesof powers have in common is that the thoughts of theirpractitioners are focused outward. Whether wishingfor something or praying to someone, one is ultimatelyinterested in becoming happy and is asking for happiness.
However, in doing so, he/she is turning his/her thoughts
outward by wishing or praying; that is what is wrong. Of
course, the direction that people turn their thoughts toward
when training is also completely wrong. People turn theirthoughts outward without knowing what lies in that
direction. Does God or Buddha really exist? Do you really
believe that in some place way beyond where humans exist
are God and/or Buddha?
Believing in outer sources of powers is foolish. Having
a deep religious devotion is not a good thing. It’s not
admirable; it’s wrong. Our belief in outer sources of powers
can lead us to destruction. Are you ready to pay the price?

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Q. I have not believed in any outersource of power in this lifetime.
How should I reflect on my thoughts
toward outer sources of powers?
A. In a narrow sense, you may have not followed a beliefin outer sources of powers in this lifetime. However, as I
said in my answer to the preceding question, occasions tofollow beliefs in outer sources of powers are deeply spread
across our everyday life. Have you never prayed to yourancestors in front of a Buddhist altar or visited someone’s
grave? Have you never paid homage to a shrine on New
Year’s Day? Have you never drawn an omikuji fortune
paper? Have you never gone to a fortune teller? Please lookback at your everyday life including things you may havedone without much intent and notice how everything stems
from the same root growing from the energy of believing
in outer sources of powers. You must have done so manythings. Please ask yourself why you have done them. Thatis reflecting on your thoughts turned toward believing inouter sources of powers in the broad sense. Please ask your41

heart why you prayed in front of a Buddhist altar, visited
someone’s grave, paid homage to a shrine on News Year’sDay. Answers will come to you. There must be so manyprayers for safety and stability, wishes for happiness, andmore inside you. Why are you so full of prayers and wishes
and where do they come from?

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Q. Does God not exist?
Why is it wrong to worship or
enshrine deities and pray to them?
A. God does not exist. However, please let me add that
God does not exist in the sense that all of us have for long
mistakenly believed in. That’s right, we mistakenly believedin God. We believed that God existed in a special world. I
am saying that there is no special world where God exists.
Then, what kind of world could be called the world of God?
The world of God comprises your true kindness, warmth,joy, and world of love, i.e. your true world. If we need tocall something God, I would say God is your true world.
However, if we use the word “God,” since this word has
been mistakenly used for long, it could become misleading.
Therefore, in this study, we try not to use the word “God”
as best as we can. Instead, we say love. Let’s express
ourselves as love, joy, and warmth.
The world of God referred to in general is a worldthat human beings created with pure greed. Its vibrations
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world of God does not exist anywhere. We had referred tosuch world as if it existed. We were foolish. That is why wesay God is great and easily commit murder. However, thatis understandable, since we did not know about the true
world of vibrations.
The more we worship, enshrine deities, and pray tothe dark world, i.e. the world that we created out of puregreed, the darker energy we emit. Please become able tounderstand this fact with your heart.

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Q. Why do we not need funerals,
graves, and Buddhist altars?
A. Funerals, the kinds where you request a Buddhist
priest, are unnecessary. However, we do need to takecare of our body when we die. We cannot just leave ourbody lying around after death. We must follow standard
procedures and take care of our body. Such procedures arenecessary. However, allothers are unnecessary; we do notneed any funeral, grave, altar, and dharma name at all.
We die but still exist. We simply lose our physical bodywhen we die. To be alive means to have a physical body.
However, we are not our physical body. We are invisible
consciousnesses, vibrations, and energies. Whether we arealive or dead, our vibrations and energies exist; however,the same cannot be said about our physical body. Our
physical body has a time limit; so, it will decay over timeand require treatment after death. The current treatment iscremation. All we need to do is cremate our body. There isno need for a grave or altar. What do people put in a grave.
Bones? But, bones are not us. The idea that we become bones
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after death is wrong. We exist even after death. We exist as
consciousnesses, vibrations, and energies. It is ridiculous tospend large amounts of money on graves and altars. The
same goes for dharma names. The world is full of so many
wrong ideas. People’s thoughts that their physical bodies are
their true selves, such thoughts lead them to the wrong ideasthat something bad will happen, if they mistreat such things
as graves and altars. Don’t you have such thoughts insideyou? Please reflect on those thoughts.

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Q. Life to death in Japan has deep
connections with such various Shinto
and Buddhism events as Hatsumode(first Shinto shrine visit following New
Year’s Day), shichi-go-san (celebrationof ages 3, 5, and 7), and weddings
and funerals. Wouldn’t life in Japan
become impossible, if believing in outersources of powers becomes a taboo?
A. Yes, life in Japan has deep connections with such eventsas Hatsumode. Now that you know such events are related
to believing in outer sources of powers, you seem to be
thinking that since it’s wrong to believe in outer sourcesof powers, participating in such events is also wrong;
however, that would make life in Japan difficult to live. You
seem to be confused whether you should stop participatingin such events since you began this study or play alongwith the general public though you know that is wrong.
Do you know with your heart that believing in outersources of powers is wrong? Do you feel that’s wrong? Aren’t
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you saying, “No,” to such events only because you know
this with your head? If you begin to feel with your heart the
sheerness of energies related to believing in outer sources ofpowers, you will naturally begin to want to quit participating
in all such events. Choosing to participate in such events
while practicing this study is double-dealing. It is not only
double-dealing; it is a state impossible to achieve. In otherwords, choosing to live in harmony with the general public’s
common sense is choosing to live your life in the same way
as you always have been. This study is life. This study is life
itself. The most important thing in this study is to make a
180 degree turn in your thoughts and beliefs held on to whiletransmigrating, i.e. a turn from believing in the physicalworld to believing in the world of consciousness. However,this turn is something that each and every one of us must
truly feel with our heart. It requires feeling your own energy,
your energy that you have been emitting while pursuingouter sources of powers. Unless you feel such energies withyour heart, you will continue to believe that you are yourphysical body, remain unhappy, and transmigrate once again
uncapable of freeing oneself from the muddy stream of one’s
own dark energy.
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4. Looking into your heart
Whether reflecting on one’s thoughts toward one’s
mother, belief in outer sources of powers, or everyday
life, one must look into his/her heart.
In this section, Ms. Kayo Shiokawa will offer somemessages from the world of consciousness as answers tosome questions that one may have regarding looking into
one’s heart.

Q. What is “your heart?”
Where does it exist?
A. Your heart does not exist in your head or inside yourchest. Your heart does not exist in some trivial place as yourphysical body.
The world of one’s heart pertaining to one’s physicalbody is a trivial world. The true world of one’s heart is infact an unlimited world. Such true world of your heart iswhat you are. You are nothing else but your heart.

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Q. What does it mean to look into
one’s heart? What does it mean
to, rather than focus one’s heartoutward, focus one’s heart inward?
A. To look into your heart is to check your thoughts, i.e.
what kinds of thoughts come from your heart, and to checkthe instantaneous intensity of your thoughts. Thoughts areenergies. If you look into your heart, you will feel the energy
you emit and come to know that you are an energy. In youreveryday life, you must come across all kinds of people; somany things must happen. Depending on whom you meet
and what happens, there must be times when your heart
moves between feelings. When it does, it is important tocheck the intensity of the energy you instantaneously emit.
You receive all kinds of information through your eyes
and ears every day. Looking into your heart means to feeland come to know what kind of thoughts come to you andwhat kind of energy you instantaneously emit the second
you receive such information.
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one’s heart every day, two other important aspects oflooking into one’s heart are reflecting on one’s thoughts
toward one’s mother and one’s belief in outer sources ofpowers. By reflecting on such aspects, one must seriously
look into the energy that one has accumulated.
Naturally, our heart tends to look outward. It is
our nature to incorporate information, analyze it, andmake decisions based on such information. Our eyes arealways looking outward. Our ears are listening for outside
information. We cannot relax unless we receive suchinformation through our eyes and ears. We just can’t relax.
Focusing one’s heart inward, looking deep down oneself, andlooking into one’s energy and thoughts, i.e. looking into one’s
heart, is something we learned for the first time this lifetime.
So, we are not yet used to doing so. Though our knowledge
tells us we must readjust our heart’s pointer from outward
to inward, since we are not yet used to doing so, our heart
points outward before we know it. I believe most of us do not
focus our heart inward but leave it focused outward. If thatis the case, one will never know the situation taking place
inside oneself. One can disguise one’s physical state as muchas one wants to. One can eloquently distort their true state.
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However, one knows that one cannot fool him/herself, or his/
her thoughts. One cannot lie to him/herself.
Smiling while crying inside; smiling while scowlinginside. Let’s free ourselves from our contradictory selves
as soon as possible. Let’s truly smile and turn our worldof thoughts positively so that the feeling of gratefulness
sparkles from inside.

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Q. What is meant by suffering thoughts?
I don’t understand what “suffering thoughts” mean.
A. Don’t you ever blame people, judge others, look down on
people, make fun of others or, on the other hand, ingratiate
yourself with people, hold grudge against others, become
upset, or complain about things? Haven’t you ever felt lonely,sad, or painful? All of these feelings are suffering thoughts.
You must have these kinds of suffering thoughts and yet
you don’t know that you’re having them. Why could that be?
Everyone has a lot of dark depressing thoughts. Why don’tsuch thoughts make us suffer? That is because we are too
deeply immersed in our everyday physical life. We ignore
such suffering thoughts as one of the many emotions thateveryone normally feels in life. However, having suffering
thoughts is not normal; its abnormal. All thoughts other thanjoy are dark. Please realize that. In addition, please knowthat you have always been expressing such dark thoughts.
As long as you base yourself on the physical world, youwill continue to express dark thoughts. What that means issomething you need to come to know with your heart.
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Q. Why don’t wars around the world cometo an end? Why do people fight?
A. As long as our hearts hold on to the dark world
known as God, wars around the world will not come toan end. Wars are fights between Gods. Both sides cannot
quit considering themselves as a great existence. Our
hearts have become deranged; we kill each other in thename of God and justice. Unless we truly realize with
our heart that we have always been deranged, we willfight until we kill each other. Our history is a history ofwar. We have fought, making one another pay for blood
with blood. We did not know what true justice and peace
was, because we forgot our true selves.

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Q. What does it mean to be honest?
What does it mean to be kind?
A. Being honest is not the same as being obedient. To
what should one be honest is also important. In short,being honest means being honest to one’s true world. It
may seem easy; however, it is difficult to be honest to one’s
true world. For one thing, you must be wondering what is
my true world, what kind of world is that, and where does
it exist? If you are living your entire day in the physicalworld, the only you that appears is your physical self. If
that is your case, you will have nothing to do with being
honest or kind.
Please gradually shift your lifestyle from a life with
only your physical self to one where you will come to know
the thoughts of all your other selves inside you. “Pleaselisten to the thoughts of all your other selves inside you,”that is the thought of your true self inside you. In addition,
your true self must be telling your physical self, “Please behonest to me.” It must also be telling you, “To be truly kindmeans to be able to accept the thoughts of all your other57

selves inside you.”
Please be honest to your true self telling you, “Yourtrue self is honest and kind,” and trust your kind thoughts
inside you.

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Q. What are vibrations?
A. It is impossible to explain what vibrations are. However,vibrations can be felt with one’s heart. Please allow yourheart to become sensitive and come to know the worldof vibrations. Come to know that even though vibrations
are invisible, they are always being emitted, and thentry turning your thoughts to yourself and all kinds ofphenomena. However, please try this on your own account.
First you must become able to know that your mother’swarmth exists inside you and, once you do, then try to feelthe vibrations of all kinds of things. Perceiving things not
as physical objects but as vibrations should be a good start.
You will naturally become interested in why two worlds
exist. i.e. one visible and the other invisible.
This should serve as a start for changing the world
where your heart lives from the visible world.

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Q. What does Tomekichi Taike and Albert
mean? Why must we use those names?
A. Tomekichi Taike and Albert refer to the true world ofvibrations. To pass on the truth about itself in this threedimensional world, the true world of vibrations needed aphysical body. Naturally, it will be given a name.
In this lifetime and in 250 years, a person with theabove name will point in a single direction; please focus
your heart’s pointer in the same direction.
The world of consciousness is helping us point in the
direction of the true world of vibrations. There is no special
meaning in the names.

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Q. Who am I? What is my true self?
A. Of course, your true self is love. Your other selves inside
you are waiting for you to awaken to your true self, i.e. love.
The path to awakening is extremely rough and challenging.
It is an extremely rough and challenging path, but not
an impossible one. Please become honest and sincere to
yourself and choose the path to awakening to your true
self, love.

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Q. What is love? What do you mean what
we used to know as love was wrong?
A. Love is our true selves. I earlier said that we are ourhearts; inside our hearts, we have nothing else but love.
In other words, we have nothing else inside us but love. I
believe that readers don’t know whether they understandwhat I’m saying or not. We need more time to truly
understand what love is. We are within the plan of theflow of consciousness, which is to awaken to our existence,or love, by undergoing significant phenomena of love,
i.e. natural disasters. What we know for sure is that theworld of love that we have known for long was fake. Thisis because we forgot and disposed of our true forms. We
forgot and disposed of our true form of love and searched
for love outside ourselves. That was the largest mistake that
we made.

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Q. Is it possible to study at home,instead of participating in seminars?
I’m busy with work and housework,
and it’s hard to find enough time forthis study; what can I do about that?
A. If you truly know with your heart that you are a
consciousness, vibrations, and an energy, you don’t need toparticipate in seminars and can study at home. If you areat that level, you should be able to meditate correctly andexpand your world of consciousness. If not, please knowthat there are limits to studying at home.
You say that you are busy with work and houseworkand can’t find enough time for this study but please try
your best to make some time for meditation. The mostimportant thing is to practice the basics of this study, which
are to look into your heart and to do so while working
and doing housework. However, please know that this is
not enough. Making time for meditation is essential. To
understand this study with your heart, you must meditate
and meditate correctly.
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Q. What is the difference between meditating
at a seminar and mediating at home?
You say it is possible to meditate by yourself;then, why should we go to seminars tomeditate and editate with our friends
from seminars in our community?
A. There is only one difference between meditating at
home and at a seminar, which is vibrations. For instance,
if you truly know the vibrations of Tomekichi Taike andof Albert, you do not have to find your time to come to aseminar. However, if you truly do know his vibrations, youwill want to come to seminars. That is what the world ofvibrations does to us.
Basically, to meditate is to meditate alone. Even if
you meditate at a seminar or with your seminar friends inyour community, that does not mean that you do not needto meditate at home. Please make it habit to meditate athome. Make yourself such a habit and then meditate withyour seminar friends in your community; that should help
everyone with their study.
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Q. How can you tell whether your heart ispointing in the right or wrong direction?
A. You can ask yourself. Ask your true self inside you. Ask
your true self and, whatever answer you receive, accept it
and continue with your study. It’s a natural thing to do; takeresponsibility for the answer you provide yourself with. In
addition, if your true self says that your heart is pointing in
the right direction but, for whatever reason, you can’t quite
trust your true self, please sincerely look into your thoughts
for why you doubt yourself.

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5. In your everyday life
In your everyday life, your heart moves between
feelings. If you allow yourself to be caught up with yourwork, housework, or child care and do not look into yourheart, you cannot say that you’re pursuing this study oflooking into one’s heart.
This is not to say that you don’t need to work, dohousework, or bring up your child. If you make it a habit
to look into your heart all the while it moves between
feelings during your work and everyday life, you arereflecting on your everyday life.
In this section, Ms. Kayo Shiokawa will offer somemessages from the world of consciousness as answers tosome questions that one may have regarding everyday life.

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Q. In my everyday life, I sometimes
feel joy and happiness, but they don’t
last forever. Why could that be?
A. That is because your joy and happiness are based on thephysical world. Please know that all joy and happiness wefeel in our everyday life are temporary. Just with a change
in circumstances, such joy and happiness will most likely
change to sadness and pain.
True happiness completely differs. Happinessthat rings the heart when one expands his/her world ofconsciousness never disappears. This is because suchhappiness is real. Such happiness comes from being able tofeel truly happy with one’s thoughts that he/she is living inthis world. No one can ever feel such happiness as long as
they base their life on the physical world.

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Q. Since you say that our heart is always
moving between feelings, if we look into
our heart all the time, will that not adversely
affect our everyday life or life at our workplace?
A. How can looking into your heart adversely affect yourevery life or life at your workplace; what kind of way oflooking into your heart do you have in mind? To look into
your heart does not mean to analyze your thoughts you
emit. It does not mean to evaluate your thoughts. We canlook into our heart the instant it moves between feelings
while doing anything. What is important is whether oneplans to simply leave his/her thoughts as they are after
looking into his/her heart, accumulate more dark thoughts
on top of the thoughts looked into, or turn their thoughts
around in the correct direction.

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Q. What kind of life should I live?
A. Live your life as you wish; then, you will know thateverything does not turn out as you expect. Meet all kindsof people and experience all kinds of things only to cause
yourself problems, stumble into trouble, give yourself aheadache, and struggle through life. However, live your life.
Live your life positively, seriously asking yourself why
you were born. If someday you begin to truly want to know
why you were born, please begin this study. In addition,
if you do choose to begin this study, please focus all yourattention on it. Please face this study with determination.

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Q. What does it mean to let yourself repose?
A. I believe you already know that you’re not the only self
in your physical body. Many other past selves live inside
you and you are yourself including those many other past
selves. If you become able to understand that with yourheart, you will come to know what you need to do withyour other past selves. That’s right, there is something youneed to pass on to your other past suffering selves. Pleasecome to know what true kindness is and fill your heartwith true warmth; then, please pass on to your other true
selves that they no longer need to suffer, that there was ahome for them to return to. Let them know that firmly but
also kindly, accepting yourself. The first step to allowing
yourself to repose is accepting yourself. Please lead yourself
from pain to joy.

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This is a fundamental question that we all musthave wondered about once. Some of us may have forgot
or could be trying to forget about it.
In this section, Ms. Kayo Shiokawa will offer somemessages from the world of consciousness as clues tothis fundamental question that can only be answered bylooking into one’s heart.

Q. Why were we born? In what state
were we before we were born?
A. We were born because we wanted to come to know ourtrue selves. We were born because we wanted to save ourselvesfrom the depths of pain. To be born, we asked our mother’s
consciousness to give us a physical body. We all forget this when
we actually come to have a physical body. Some people evensnarl that they didn’t want to be born, that they were born only
because their parents wanted them, or that children don’t havea choice over their parents. However, please know the truth
with your heart; please feel your thoughts desperate about being
given a physical body.
Before being born or entering your mother’s womb, all of
us were suffering in the depths and depths of pain. You shouldbe able to know this with your heart as well. If you become able
to feel how much you struggled to rise from the depths anddepths of pain, you should be able to clearly see how happy you
must be since you came to know this study. In other words, youwill not know the answer to your question unless you become
able to feel the truth with your heart.
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Q. Why am I alive? Why do I haveto live? Why can’t I die at will?
A. You will know the answers, if you keep reflecting on
your thoughts toward your mother. How desperately you
wanted a physical body. If you feel yourself screaming out,
“Please give me birth!”, your heart will let you know why
you have to live and why you can’t die at will. Your heart
will let you know how arrogant of you it is to wonder why
you have to live and why you can’t die at will.

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Q. What is life for? What are we living for?
A. You must be asking about the purpose of life. Although
we were given so many chances while transmigrating, wewere unable to live our true life. We have been suffering,
unable to answer our own simple question “what are weliving for?” While transmigrating, there were lives thatgave us joy, lives that we considered our best. However, I
say “No.” to such lives. Such lives only last for an instant.
In addition, we had other thoughts besides joy. Joy was
not the only feeling we had. We also felt the fear of death,an obsession with life, and many other dark depressing
thoughts. We seemed as if we were enjoying such lives toour full but also felt such contradictory feelings.
With no idea about the world after death, we suffered
the misery of death again and again. I wish we can cometo know what we must truly do while we’re alive and thendie, or leave our physical bodies behind, this time thinking,“I had a wonderful life. Death is also joy.”75

Q. What do you mean by a Copernican turn?
A . You must already know what the Copernican
Revolution means. We applied that paradigm shift to thisstudy and called it a Copernican turn.
The important thing in this study is how muchprogress one makes in his/her turn of consciousness, whichmeans to change one’s basis of life from the physical world
to the world of consciousness.
We have believed the physical world to be our truebasis of life and been forming our thoughts and making
our decisions based on such basis. The idea of a Copernican
turn is to take the world of consciousness and vibrations as
the true world, of which the physical world is only a shade,and see, think, and make decisions based on such basis.
The physical world does indeed provide us with a feelingof reality, one that convinces us that we exist. However, thephysical world is only a shade of the world of consciousness.
It is a world that seems to exist but does not. On the other
hand, the world of consciousness seems to not exist but does.
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one’s heart. Your heart must honestly be telling you the truth.
If it is suffering with pain, it must be telling you why it is.
What does this mean? It means that you in fact already know
everything. By “you,” of course I do not mean the fake you
who thinks your physical body is you.

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Q. What do you mean our bodycells give us love?
A. I mean that our body cells are themselves love. Not
many people know with their heart that we exist because
our body cells support us.
Fortunately, we have already practiced turning ourthoughts toward our body cells. You must already know whatkind of vibrations your body cells are sending you. Even bodycells sick and decaying keep sending us awakening messages
until their last moment. They do so because they’re love.
Because they are love, they only send us love. Please knowthat the present is a time of joy since we can look into our heart
together with our body cells. Although we have been wrong
for long, please feel the vibrations and kindness of your bodycells as much as you can.

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Q. Why do we die? Do we also die
when our body cells die?
A. Body cells belong to the finite world. Therefore, their
physical forms will eventually cease to exist. However,essentially, they are consciousnesses; they are love. Even
after their physical forms cease to exist, they will exist as
love. The same goes for our physical bodies supported
by cell bodies. Our bodies also belong to the finite world.
Therefore, our body’s physical functions will weaken andeventually stop working. Born with a physical body, we
will eventually have to leave our physical bodies behind.
That is what we call death. Death merely means to leave
one’s body behind. We are consciousnesses, vibrations,and energies, so even though we will die, we will notcease to exist. Therefore, we do not die when our cellbodies die.

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Q. Is there a next world? If there is,what kind of place is it?
A. There is a next world. However, it is neither a so-called
heaven nor hell. While there is nothing heavenly about it,it could be described as a complete hell. “He/she is now inheaven,” “He/she is now sleeping in peace,” and etc. are all
rubbish. Failing in the past to come to know our true selves,the state of ourselves will become clear when we die. When
we die, our thoughts that we are our physical bodies will
confine us. In other words, we will confine ourselves indarkness, loneliness, and coldness until we freeze. Could
we call such a state heaven? That is why there is nothing
more self-saving than realizing with your heart, while
you’re still alive, your mistake of believing your fake self tobe yourself and disposing of and forgetting your true self.
Unless you realize this with your heart, whether alive ordead, you are in hell. The difference between life and death
is whether you have a physical body or not.

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Q. What is “your true self?”
A. Your true self is joy. It is nothing other than joy. On
the other hand, your fake self carries in his/her heart
everything other than joy, i.e. a lot of dark depressing
thoughts. Since you believe that you are your fake self, you
don’t understand what is meant by “your true self.” To you,it sounds unreal as if it comes from a fairy tale from a far
away world. Your fake self feels more real and like yourself.
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Q. What is true kindness, warmth,and peace?
A. Please feel those feeling with your heart. Please become
able to feel them. Everything about this study can only
be understood with your heart. However, once you start
to understand it with your heart, you will know that theworld of consciousness exists in you and feel the true
happiness of expanding such world inside your heart.
Rather than holding grudge against people, hating others,looking down on people, envying others, getting upset, or
feeling anxious, fear, or worried every day, wouldn’t every
day be better if you believed in the kindness, warmth, andpeace inside yourself. If you think since all kinds of things
happen in life, it would be better if that was possible but
it’s impossible, please begin studying seriously. Everything
is about things that happen inside you; everything can,therefore, be changed.

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7. Dimensional migrationand natural disasters
I believe the preceding chapters were relatively easy tounderstand, with them being matters deeply related to ourdaily life, i.e. “reflection on one’s thoughts toward one’s
mother,” “reflection on one’s beliefs in outer sources ofpowers,” and “reflection on everyday life.” However, now,
we will be dealing with dimensional migration, a world as
unrelated from our daily life as things can be.
What relates us to dimensional migration are natural
disasters. The Earth will soon come to an end and wewill be entering a new stage of looking into our heart, i.e.
dimensional migration.
As long as one sees dimensions as aspects of thephysical world, entering the next stage will be as
impossible as grabbing a cloud.
Dimensional migration is only understandable with
one’s heart, not with one’s head.
In this section, Ms. Kayo Shiokawa will offer somemessages from the world of consciousness as clues to someof the questions we received.

Q. Why do natural disasters occur?
Is it true that natural disasters of an
unprecedented scale are about to occur?
A. We will never awaken unless natural disasters ofan unprecedented scale occur. Natural disasters of an
unprecedented scale are about to occur as a last resort, inorder to strike our heart, which has always been ignorant of
the truth and emitting greedy, filthy, and selfish thoughts.
Natural disasters are the only way to fundamentally change
our mode of thinking, beliefs, and values. Natural disastersof an unimageable scale, a truly unprecedented scale will
be required. With natural disasters mercilessly destroying
everything in the physical world, people will finally begin
to feel that they have been doing something wrong. In thepast, every time a natural disaster occurred, we hopedthat the same thing will not happen again and expressedthoughts of prayers. Sometimes, we believed we had madeGod upset and feared God. Other times, having asked forsalvation and given prayers in vain, we held grudge against
and cursed God and Buddha.
85However, all that was our mistake. Have you evereven seen God, needless to say, “God upset?” Do you knowwhat the energy of prayers are like? How selfish we are,holding grudge against and cursing God and Buddha all
the sudden our prayers are not answered! We must look
into our heart and face the result of expanding our ignorantselfish thoughts. We must directly face them and learn
how we always fought against our true selves, i.e. love, andrepent of our mistakes. Our true selves are love. We areabout to bring natural disasters to ourselves, to awaken
ourselves, because we are love.

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Q. Is Japan going to collapse?
A. Yes, it is. Japan is a materialization of Amaterasu’s
consciousness. Therefore, with the awakening ofAmaterasu, Japan will collapse, i.e. lose its physical form.
Amaterasu will sink Japan down the sea with joy.
Amaterasu will awaken to its love inside itself, migrate thisdimension, and evolve even further.

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Q. Does Amaterasu-ōmikami (the great
august deity who shines in heaven) haveanything to do with Japan collapsing?
A. Of course, she does. With the awakening of the dark
universe, Amaterasu, Amaterasu-ōmikami will also realize
the triviality of her great world. Realizing how trivial her
world was, she will abolish her thoughts of being a mighty
deity. Japan will collapse because the world of Amaterasuōmikami will collapse. Regions revering Amaterasuōmikami will begin to undergo destruction. There areregions revering Amaterasu-ōmikami all around Japan. This
example illustrates how, when one’s thoughts turn to thecorrect direction, phenomena mirrored in such thoughts
also change.

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Q. Does “Amaterasu” that appears inthis study have anything to do with
Amaterasu-ōmikami?
A. Yes, it does. Now, your next question must be “In whatway?” The answer to this question is not important forpursuing this study but, in brief, the world of Amaterasuōmikami is contained in the world of Amaterasu. In otherwords, changes in the world of Amaterasu will influence
the world of Amaterasu-ōmikami. In terms of their force
and size of energy, there is a large gap between the two.
We refer to Amaterasu as a dark universe. Of course,
there are other dark universes besides Amaterasu.
However, among all dark universes, at this point, we arefocusing on one, i.e. Amaterasu, and the reason for that has
already been explained.

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Q. What is dimensional migration?
A. As the words say, dimensional migration is to migratefrom one dimension to another. The dimension we exist in
now is called the third dimension. In this world, we havelength, width, and height; hence, its three dimensional. We
are energies that were given a physical body and have been
living on this planet Earth in a three-dimensional world forsome hundred million years.
We prepared for ourselves so many opportunities tobe born with physical functions needed to live on Earthand then die and transmigrate. Why did we need theseopportunities?
We are invisible consciousnesses, vibrations, andenergies that originally came to this physical world because
we needed such physical forms as eyes, ears, and all otherparts of our body to know about ourselves. Before we evencame to this three-dimensional world, we had the question“why do we need to continue to suffer?” However, so far, in
our transmigrated lives in this three-dimensional world, we
have not been able to reach a clear answer to that question90and been only suffering even more. That was because, eventhough we asked for a physical body so that we can learn
about ourselves, once we were given a body, we came tobelieve our body was ourselves and completely misdirected
ourselves. Tomekichi Taike was born into a physical bodyfrom the world of truth this lifetime with the following
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Q. What happens, if one fails todimensionally migrate?
A. One will become scraps floating around space; not justfloating around but doing so in the depths of pain for an
unimaginably long time. Of course, one will not be able tobe born into Earth with a physical body. That is because,by that time, Earth will no longer be livable. I do not knowwhether there will be other planets livable and whether
one will adapt him/herself to such planets. However, thatis very unlikely. I believe the expression “scraps floatingaround space” best describes one’s state in this case.

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Q. I heard that Japan serves an importantrole in the flow of consciousness. Why isthat? In addition, I heard that, after Japan
collapses, the United States of America
will serve an important role. Why is that?
A. The flow of consciousness is advancing towarddimensional migration. The flow of consciousness is quietly
working its way toward dimensional migration. Under theflag of the entire universe, preparations are being made fordimensional migration. Since the entire universe will bedimensionally migrating, we need to awaken all universes.
That is why Amaterasu, the chief dark universe, must
awaken. Speaking of Amaterasu, Japan is a materializationof Amaterasu’s consciousness. Therefore, the messageof the flow of consciousness needed to be disseminatedfrom Japan. The plan is to awaken the entire universe
starting with Japan, lay a firm foundation for dimensionalmigration, and then eventually begin the migration.
Finally, 250 years from now, the migration will
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multireligious country. That is the plan of the flow of
consciousness and I believe there are no other reasons than
the above.

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Q. We are told that besides our current
selves, our past selves and future self
also exist inside us; how can we tellwhether that is truly so?
A. Please look into your heart. Please reflect on yourthoughts that come to you from inside you. You may thinkthat such thoughts are of your current self, but are you sureof that? Who is “your current self?” As long as you believe
you are your physical body, “your current self” should most
likely mean you who you can see with your eyes. However,your true self is a consciousness, vibration, and energy thatexists from the past and continues into the future. “Yourthoughts” that you currently have are also those of yourpast selves and future self. Therefore, if you now look into
your heart and adjust your thoughts to the correct direction,
the thoughts of your past selves and future self will also
point in the correct direction.
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Q. Why is it necessary to form a link
between this lifetime and the next?
A. That is because this lifetime was when we learned
about the flow of consciousness for the first time. With
this lifetime serving as a turning point, the world ofconsciousness will start a reform. Therefore, it is not aquestion of “why it is necessary to form a link between thislifetime and the next”; rather, the important thing is foreveryone to pass on what they learned about this study thislifetime when they transmigrate to their next life. Unless
we carry on what we learned this lifetime to the next, we
will become scraps of space and float around in the depthsof pain for an overwhelmingly long time. What I am
saying is not without good grounds. Everyone can tell with
their heart. Please turn your thoughts toward the flow of
consciousness and listen to its messages.

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Q. Why is the flow of consciousness
planning the dimensional migration
to take place 250 years from now?
A. I do not know whether it is exactly 250 years from now.
In addition, I assume some may ask “250 years startingwhich day?” It may be 250 years from now, or it could be
300 years; please do not be too particular about that.
However, I do know that it is not that long away in
Earth time. We have been transmigrating on Earth for some
hundred million years. Compared to that, 250 to 300 years
is a short time. Please take those numbers, i.e. 250 to 300
years, to mean that the time for dimensional migration totake place is already right around the corner and we do nothave much time left.

97Q. How can natural disasters be energies of joy?
A. Natural disasters will affect us in various ways. They
will mercilessly take our life and assets. They will cast us
down from heaven to hell in an instant. I assume you don’t
understand why such natural disasters that cast us down
into sadness, despair, anxiety, and fear in an instant can beenergies of joy. Of course, you don’t. As long as you live inthe physical world, thinking that the physical world is all thatmatters, you will hate and want to avoid natural disasters.
However, we do not live in the physical world. It is
wrong to think that the physical world is all that matters.
As long as you take the physical world as the basisof your life, all such phenomena that destroy the physicalworld as natural disasters will seem negative. On the other
hand, if you see the physical world as a shade of the worldof thoughts and consciousness, i.e. the basis of your life, andfeel the energies of natural disasters, you will see that natural
disasters are not negative energies.
In short, whether one views natural disasters as
negative energies or positive energies depends on whichworld one takes as his/her basis of life.
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Q. I am trying to believe in this study but
such concepts as “dimensional migration”
and “250 years from now” sound too
impractical to me. The problem might bethat I can only think of years within
my lifetime; anyway, I do not feel very
convinced of those two concepts.
Is there some way for me to make better
sense of them?
A. Please reflect on your thoughts toward your mother.
Please feel with your heart your mother’s true consciousness
and vibrations, i.e. warmth. When you become able to feelwith your heart that your mother’s warmth existed inside
you, please move on to meditating while turning yourthoughts toward your universe. However, please note thatyou must first become able to feel your mother’s warmth.
Through meditating while turning your thoughts
toward your universe, you will begin to feel that you
have existed since way before coming to Earth. When you
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“dimensional migration” and “250 years from now” will nolonger seem impractical. The flow of consciousness exists
for sure. As I’ve already repeatedly said, however, this issomething that can only be felt with one’s heart. There isa world that we can feel with our heart, a world that can
only be felt and understood with our heart, the world ofconsciousness and vibrations.

100Now, let’s practice reflection
Did any of the preceding chapters interest you? If
you became interested in the world of consciousness andwould like to look into your heart, please begin withreflecting on your thoughts toward your mother, yourbelief in outer sources of powers, and everyday life.
Meditating by following your own idea of meditationis dangerous. Please be sure to begin with reflecting on
your thoughts toward your mother.

(1) Reflecting on your thoughts toward your mother• Open a notebook and reflect on your thoughts
toward your motherWrite whatever you can remember from birth till
today about your mother, the person closest to you, i.e. yourmother who gave you birth.
The point is not to write what your mother did but
what kind of thoughts you had about her. Write anythingthat comes to mind. There is no need to try to remember
anything special; start with everyday things.
We originally are consciousnesses. Infants floating insidetheir mother’s womb; such consciousnesses are our true selves.
Protected inside our mothers’ warmth, worried about nothing,simply trusting ourselves with our mother; we used to trust
everything with our mother. However, once we are born intoa physical body, the older we get, the filthier we become. Our
need to compete, our sense of jealousy, desire to control, andgreed for money and honor are all filth that we built out of our103belief that our physical bodies are ourselves.
The life we are living is not only that of this lifetime. We
are carrying inside us tens and thousands of our past selves.
Believing that our physical bodies are ourselves, in order tosatisfy our bodies, we pursued honor and power, floating
further and further away from our own plan we preparedfor ourselves to return to the world of consciousness.
We originated from the world of consciousness andwent through a process of filling our hearts with filth; thisis similar to the process of our birth followed by growth.
We were given life so that we can correct our mistakes
we’ve been repeatedly making in our past lives. Whether
you remember your past lives or not, if you look into yourheart, you will feel an extremely long history of mistakes
your heart made, drifting away from the correct direction.
Let’s look into our hearts together. Let’s trace ourthoughts we turned toward our mother, realize what
mistakes we’ve been making, and return to our true selves
inside our mothers’ wombs.
104• Please reflect on your thoughts toward your motherby looking into your heart for the following items:a. Things your mother did for youb. Things you did, which troubled your mother or madeher cry; times you made fun of your mother, blamed herfor something, or judged her for something
Begin remembering things/times in a. and b.in thefollowing order:(1) Before entering school,(2) 1st to 3rd year of elementary school,(3) 4th to 6th year of elementary school, and(4) Junior high school.
What were your thoughts toward how your motherlooked, what she said, and what she did; remember what
you felt in your heart.

105In a notebook, write what thoughts you have had
toward being given birth from your mother.
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(2) Reflecting on your thoughts toward yourbelief in outer sources of powers
The biggest mistake we made was believing that ourphysical body was us. Beliefs in outer sources of powers
also begin when one believes his/her physical body to be
him/herself. To satisfy our physical body or to relieve ourworries, we make up gods, put our hands together and pray
to them, and worship them. Whenever we’re doing so, ourheart is in the wrong place.
Please look into your heart about times when you
had put your hands together for prayer. Please look into
your heart about times when you resorted to religions forsalvation. The point in “Reflecting on your thoughts toward
your belief in outer sources of powers” is not that you
did something wrong by joining a religious group or byreading someone’s book; rather, it is to look into your heart
about the times when you did such things.
Why did you put your hands together for prayer, or107join such religious group? “Reflecting on your thoughts
toward your belief in outer sources of powers” is to look
into your heart for your motivation for doing such things.
Unless we reflect on our thoughts toward our belief inouter sources of powers, even if we try to direct our heartin the direction of our true selves, we end up directing ourheart in the direction of our made-up gods that satisfy ourphysical needs. That is because our hearts have only been
directed in such directions for long.
(As I’ve repeatedly said, the point is not to look outward
but to look inward, i.e. look into your heart for yourthoughts turned toward the religious group’s leader. Others
are there only to reflect your heart as mirrors, i.e. people tolearn from.)(Reference: Reflecting on your thoughts toward outersources of powers)

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a. Please remember which religious groups you joinedb. Why did you join a religious group?
1. Repose of ancestors
2. Fate improvement
3. Illness recovery
4. Business development
5. Supernatural power development
6. Career success
7. Road safety
8. Marriage/relationship harmony
9. Enlightenment
10. Academic success11. Knowledge on past life/guardian spirit109

(3) Reflection on your thoughts in everyday life
Please look into your heart for instantaneous moves
between feelings toward your husband/wife, mother-inlaw/daughter-in-law, coworker, and friend.

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