Spiritual
Place Yourself in the Sea
Shinto is Japan’s foundational worldview, lacking original texts or commandments. It’s not a system of belief but a way of seeing. This shaped Japan’s approach to leadership, art, and manners. Leaders are caretakers, not owners. Divinity isn’t distant—it’s in mountains, trees, rivers, storms. Everything has a spirit.
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The thinker
Scholar of Japanese Religions
Dr. Fabio Rambelli is the International Shinto Foundation Chair in Shinto Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research focuses on Japanese religions and cultural history, particularly Shinto and Esoteric Buddhism.
Based on The Sea and the Sacred, summarised and reframed by Insights.
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