These wars were in direct opposition to the will of the kami, the manifest presence of the divine in the world. Today we face a world filled with confusion, disunity, and despair. More than one third of the world's population lives under an ideology that denies the existence of kami, of the divine. But even in the free world, an ever-increasing lack of faith is evident, especially among the young. It is so because mankind has concentrated all its effort on material development while the development of the spiritual dimension has been entirely neglected.
Contemporary man is, in a sense, crippled both mentally and spiritually.
In order to relieve this condition we must create a new unity of spiritual enlightenment and realize a renaissance of mankind. We can do it only by possessing the wisdom we can attain through philosophy, and to me, philosophy, the love of wisdom is following the will of the kami, the will of the divine. Here we see God crucified, leaving man alone and abandoned in the universe. The true value of man's life is undermined by a totally materialistic civilization. In the confusion of modern society we find a limited and twisted Man, divorced from and hostile to the universe, united only in the desperate pursuit of false values, empty pleasures, and fanatic, inhuman ideologies.