Tengu Who Become Gods: A Warning from the Great Tengu - 'Ancient History of Spiritual Investigation 1: Tengu Edition' - Also Explaining Commonalities with Indian Yogi Gods

This time, I will introduce the serial project "The Spiritual Seer: Buddhist Rites Edition" and "The Spiritual Seer: Shinto Rites Edition", in which "one of the leading spiritual seers of our time", Ms. Kyomi Nashioka, and the author, religious researcher Mr. Tatsuhiko Fuji, collaborate to uncover Japan's ancient history, titled ""Ancient History of Spiritual Investigation 1: Tengu Edition".

This book is a revised and expanded version of a serialized article in the spiritual magazine "Iwatobiraki", published in August 2024. Please keep in mind that since the content is nearly a year older than this book review, some parts may be outdated.

The term "spiritual investigation" in the title is a coined term meaning "to investigate spiritually," and it can be inferred that it is a method of investigation that borrows the power of so-called spiritual practitioners, such as clairvoyance and clairaudience, while also utilizing remote viewing and psychometry."Spiritual Investigation" is "to investigate spiritually"

About 20 years ago, there were many television programs featuring such spiritual investigations. Although they have decreased significantly now, one I saw recently was the Jackie Dennison investigation into the incidents involving Sakamoto Ryoma and Ishida Mitsunari, titled “Historical Mystery vs. Psychic: Honno-ji Incident & Ryoma Assassination Mystery Solving SP”. Since there is no evidentiary material, the facts remain a mystery, but it was an interesting spiritual investigation.

The current situation is that there are few such spiritual investigation projects, but about 20 years ago when I started writing my blog, they were popular, and among them, the most famous was the remote viewer Joseph McMoneagle氏. A project book titled “Joe McMoneagle's Psychic History: Discovering the Mysterious Yamatai Kingdom” was published 14 years ago, and I bought and read that as well.

I think you have probably guessed it, so I will state it at the beginning. The content of this book is for history, archaeology, and classic spiritual enthusiasts.

What Spiritual Lab values most is introducing books and ideas that serve as a catalyst for accepting the spiritual world as a matter of course and having values that allow one to create a richer life than ever before. This book is mostly for spiritual trivia enthusiasts and falls into the category of a side path.

Even if the mysteries of ancient history are revealed through spiritual investigation, it does not create changes in our individual lives. Also, even if it is a revelation from a great spiritual being like a god, I believe it is most important for us to think and choose for ourselves. This is how I feel when I examine it from a bird's-eye view.

Now, what is meant by investigating spiritually in this book? Here, it refers to a spirit communication method involving questions and dialogue between a medium and a saniwa (spiritual examiner). Since there are some who do not know what a saniwa is, I will explain it briefly: a saniwa is a person responsible for scrutinizing the truth, falsehood, correctness, or error of what the medium sees and hears.

The conclusions drawn are completely different depending on whether or not there is a saniwa role in the spirit communication. If there is only a medium, only a “subjective conclusion” like “I [the medium] saw it as A” is produced, but “if there is a saniwa, it becomes easier to reach an “objective conclusion” like “You [the medium] seem to see it as A, but in my [the saniwa's] investigation, there is a reason B for why it appears as A””. This is because even excellent mediums have narrow fields of vision, and there is a non-zero possibility of misinterpreting information obtained through spiritual investigation. Even if a medium has the ability to receive messages from various spirits [divine spirits, nature spirits, human spirits, etc.], the medium themselves cannot be certain of the identity of the spirit. This is because the medium can sometimes be deceived. Also, when a medium probes thoughts [residual thoughts] left in land or artifacts through psychometry or remote viewing, complex and intricate information may emerge, and it is necessary for the saniwa to organize such ambiguous information and confirm its correctness. By having a saniwa, one can deal with difficult matters that cannot be resolved by the medium's own knowledge alone.

Originally, it is essential to have a saniwa role when exploring spiritual matters, but



many YouTube channels and books that deal with spiritual, psychic, and ghost stories do not have a saniwa role. The truth of the matter may be that they do not need a saniwa because their purpose is to earn views and sales, but since there are not a few people who like such information media who believe without doubt the words of those introduced as being able to “see living spirits” or “perform exorcisms,” the lack of a saniwa role in information media can lead to serious problems. However, since the author of this book thoroughly explains and provides commentary while acting as the saniwa, even if someone who does not scrutinize it reads it, consideration has been given so that serious problems that could ruin that person's subsequent life are unlikely to occur, so I think it is content that can be recommended to anyone. As the subtitle “Tengu Edition” suggests, the first chapter explains that Tengu have existed as spiritual beings in Japan since ancient times, citing literature from past psychic researchers.



Asano Wasaburo, a pioneer in psychic research, obtained information about Tengu through spirit communication with famous human spirits, and the author has concisely summarized that Tengu information. According to it, Tengu can be broadly divided into two types:

“nature spirit Tengu who became Tengu from nature spirits” and “human spirit Tengu who became Tengu from human spirits”. It is also explained that there are differences in appearance between nature spirit Tengu and human spirit Tengu, and that nature spirit Tengu also have types and ranks, and their appearance differs depending on their rank. For details, please read the book, but the most unfortunate reality of the Tengu world is that

“human spirit Tengu are lower in rank than nature spirit Tengu”, “80% to 90% of Tengu are bad Tengu, and you should stop Tengu worship”, and it is also stated that “most bad Tengu are human spirit Tengu”, sounding an alarm. Although they originally became human spirit Tengu after death by strengthening their psychic power as practitioners of Shugendo or Shinsendo, their spiritual power is no match for nature spirit Tengu. In the Tengu world, human spirit Tengu were granted eternal life as lower-ranking Tengu, but since they only receive roles like subordinates to nature spirit Tengu, it seems that most of them are satisfied with being worshipped at shrines and temples. There are people who are obsessed with developing and strengthening psychic abilities and engage in power-oriented training, but if they can only become lower-ranking Tengu in the Tengu world even if they develop and strengthen them in that way, I think the right path of spiritual training is to walk the spiritual world where one can reincarnate as a human.

This is a bit of a digression, but



Tamae Sunazawa, the Fushimi Inari medium who is legendary as a “highly skilled medium”, in her book “A Life of Psychic Ability”, warns that because there are practitioner spirits who could not become gods [human spirit Inari] at the waterfall site on the mountain [Inari Mountain], amateurs should stop doing waterfall meditation without a spiritual guide because they will become possessed. The famous parapsychologist and psychic, Dr. Hiroshi Motoyama

, also says similar things. He says that psychic abilities become stronger after waterfall meditation because spirits possess you and make your psychic abilities stronger. There are also descriptions of spiritual sites where Mr. Nashioka said he wanted to leave because practitioner spirits were lingering at spiritual sites famous for Tengu

, which is helpful. Since I was able to learn about the spiritual world circumstances of such human spirits and Tengu, this book is for spiritual enthusiasts, but it is educational. I will quote the state of the practitioner spirits from the book below. By the way, I think it is fine that the parts that are hidden are stories that only those who purchased it can know. This is because if made public on the web, it would have a bad influence on the named shrines, temples, and spiritual sites.

Those who mistakenly believe that their status in the spirit world will rise if they strengthen their psychic abilities and become capable of out-of-body experiencesmay end up following the same pathetic path as these ascetic spirits and wandering aimlessly, so I think it is good to understand this as a warning against stepping into suchwrong paths of spiritual training. According to this book, immortals are just companions of the Tengu with a different appearance. It is said that spirits with a gentle spiritual energy nature appear as immortals. Expanding the discussion further, there is also a view that

UFOs are not spaceships but Tengu. Since spirits do not have a specific form, their appearance changes depending on the cultural sphere and historical background in which the psychic was born and raised. Speaking of spiritual beings remaining in world folklore, spiritual beings such as

immortalsin the Chinese sphere, yogis who became gods [Mahavatar Babaji, who taught Yogananda in 'Autobiography of a Yogi'] in the Indian sphere, and angels in the Judeo-Christian-Islamic traditions are also companions of the Tengu, just with different natures of spiritual energy. Such spiritual trivia has been explained in books by Hiroyuki Ehara for about 20 years. According to him, as an explanation limited to natural spirits, there are differences such as Dragon God spirits, Inari spirits, and Tengu spirits due to the differences in the nature of their spiritual energy. It is good to remember it that way. In his radio show 'Hiroyuki Ehara Oto-gatari

', Mr. Ehara describes crow Tengu as looking like 'Chocoball's Kyoro-chan'. Returning to the topic, although this book is titled 'Ancient History of Spiritual Investigation: Tengu Edition,' the main content places importance on 'listening to the voices of divine spirits watching over Japan and conveying warnings', which leads to 'Chapter 3: Messages from the Great Tengu'

. I feel that in Chapters 1 and 2, the author devotes space to explaining and introducing whether the Great Tengu is a spirit worthy of being called a divine spirit, attempting to convey messages from the spirits in a way that is easy for readers to accept. Although it is not directly related to the story that is currently a hot topic not only among spiritual and psychic enthusiasts but also among the general public, that something will happen this July [2025], I interpreted that what the divine spirits want to convey is that if a major natural disaster occurs, it will not be enough to just live as we have until now, and it is important for each individual to think for themselves, relying on their own intuition. Since I have valued 'living life to the fullest in the present' while relying on intuition and preserving Japanese culture and customs as much as possible for about 10 years, I agree with the messages from the Great Tengu spirits and divine spirits. By the way, I was one of the columnists who denied the Mayan calendar prophecy that humanity would perish in 2012. I do not



engage in spiritual business to earn money from YouTube views or traffic, so I have no need to incite fear. As a conclusion to this book review column, I would like to deny this year's prophecy

. The unexpected major disaster that is being talked about will likely not happen.