Is it Shugendo? No. Is it Tantrism? No. Is it Shintoism? No.
However, it is not exclusive of any of these belief systems. To reiterate, the essence of the Kuji-in form or path is to build a potent spiritual power and presence and to develop physical/mental self-control and mastery within the practitioner through exercises involving meditation, the use of mudras, mantras, mandalas and specific empowerment of symbols - and the linking of those concepts primarily to the Kuji Kiri grid and the use of the mudras or hand gestures.
It is the development of the highest and most potent and potentially dangerous of magical and occult skills - consciously willed acts of magick and spellcasting by hand gestures and the active kinetic projection of astral/psychic thoughtforms.
This, is the creation of a modern unique, esoteric spiritual form.
I hesitate in using the term "religion" however instead preferring to define it as an esoteric philosophy with a spiritual basis, and I personally believe that direct experience or gnosis is far better than dry transmission of explicative lengthy doctrines and outdated, outmoded, invalid dogmatic religious tenets.
The Kuji-in provides a firm biophysical and a corresponding psychic framework for building upon with its focus in exercises upon the chakras, meridians and neural power centers within the body.
That being said one must also acknowledge that man requires spiritual ritual or some measure of psychodrama and circumstance, and that this too must have some element within the path itself. Ritual is required to bring substance and visual stimulus to forms and esoteric conceptualizations.
In this regard I am drawing upon certain thoughts, tenets and aesthetic concepts from Shinto, Tibetan Buddhism, Japanese Zen Buddhism, Vedic influences as well as various neo-pagan elements and my own experiences, occult and esoteric influences and aesthetics. Ritual is important and it should mean something to the practitioner in a deeply subjective sense.
I hesitate in using the term "religion" however instead preferring to define it as an esoteric philosophy with a spiritual basis, and I personally believe that direct experience or gnosis is far better than dry transmission of explicative lengthy doctrines and outdated, outmoded, invalid dogmatic religious tenets.
The Kuji-in provides a firm biophysical and a corresponding psychic framework for building upon with its focus in exercises upon the chakras, meridians and neural power centers within the body.
That being said one must also acknowledge that man requires spiritual ritual or some measure of psychodrama and circumstance, and that this too must have some element within the path itself. Ritual is required to bring substance and visual stimulus to forms and esoteric conceptualizations.
In this regard I am drawing upon certain thoughts, tenets and aesthetic concepts from Shinto, Tibetan Buddhism, Japanese Zen Buddhism, Vedic influences as well as various neo-pagan elements and my own experiences, occult and esoteric influences and aesthetics. Ritual is important and it should mean something to the practitioner in a deeply subjective sense.
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