If dreams are indeed the interface between the world of the living and a dimension of life beyond our own, it stands to reason that the earliest believers were the earliest dreamers.

If you insist that dreams are just pseudo-intellectual residue of our uninhibited minds, that is a choice I will not criticize, but be advised, where believers are not required to prove their beliefs, all who have invested their trust in science are required to prove theirs.

Speaking for all believers everywhere, this isn’t going to be a fair fight.  Science has just been bullying believers for two centuries with demands that the world’s religions must prove their theology.

My discovery offers believers and non-believers alike an opportunity to explore what our ancestors recorded in the archaic world.  If our ancestors were not recording hallucinations from narcotic induced states, what were they recording, and why?

Because the Nobility (not tribes) of the archaic were recording visual information, not verbal information, none of us will be in a position to argue what our ancestors recorded.  All arguments will revolve around what our ancestors believed.

Accredited Academia will not have to look far for the answers they are seeking.  The answers will be found in the cannon of the world’s major religions.  While it is true that the oral traditions of indigenous people have to been “productized” as books, so too were the cannon of the world’s major religions.  Indigenous beliefs have only recently been recorded.

The absence of a book on a shelf has never bothered me, but the absence of books defines the rational limits of accredited academia.  So addicted to the written word is modern academia that encountering an empty shelf in a university library is tantamount to sailing off the edge of the known world.

In case the implications of my discovery have not fully registered with you yet, allow me to lead you to the crisis point:  Every book in the humanities department is about to be rendered moot. Every book on history, on art history, on archeology, on anthropology, on human evolution are all wrong.  That means every PhD premised on each of those “theses” will be rendered moot.  The humanities department of every university and college in the world is about to sail off the edge of the world.

Don’t take my allusion to the Galilean Age as whimsy.  Galileo brought academia to its knees in the age he proved the earth was shaped like a sphere, not a flat plane.  My discovery just completes what Galileo started.  My discovery proves that the Nobility of the archaic believed the earth was shaped like a set of bowls, bowls which take the shape of fish, birds, creatures and, at times, humans.

We all have much to learn and, at the risk of being redundant, the Kojiki, The Koran, the Vedas and Puranas, the Angas, the Tripitaka, the Torah, the Christian Bible and the Guru Granth Sahib contain the narratives which will correspond almost perfectly with the Iconographic Record.

More correctly, I have found not one case where the Iconographic Record conflicts with any of the world’s major religious cannon.  That is not necessarily a good thing, for it presents challenges to all believers.

Every believer invests their imaginations in the religious cannon they trust.  I fondly recall the images I saw as a child painted on Sunday School walls and must now laugh.  The images we use to explain an archaic reality to children is clearly anachronistic.  Noah may have loaded all the animals onto the ark he built, but I assure you it was not a vessel featuring a modern displacement hull.

I’ll make my argument following Christmas Day of 2023.  Here I limit my advice to a warning to all believers everywhere. Forgive how you imagined the archaic world to be.  While the images we are all about to realize do not conflict in any way with the religious texts we have all studied, those texts were all without illustrations.

My discovery identifies the original illustrations that correspond to the texts.  Let go of the images you have used as proxies all your life and welcome the images the Nobility rendered in their age.

And precisely what will the Kojiki of the Shinto religion illustrate about the archaic which is relevant for us all today?  More than I was prepared to accept until I saw it for myself.  In Japan’s Age of Inception, a Sovereign Patriarch and Matriarch, Izanagi and Izanami respectively, realized their vision of a Realm, a promised land for their descendants we all know and love today as the nations of Korea and Japan.

Many scholars have insisted that the narrative of Izanagi and Izanami is to the Kojiki what Adam and Eve are to the Koran, Torah and Bible.  I am inclining toward a corollary to Noah and his wife. 

Regardless of where Peer Review comes down on the matter, what we will learn from the Kojiki is that nearly every major religious tradition has a Genesis and an Exodus, though these religious epochs are not similarly named, they exist in perfect parallels of each other.

I am obligated to state, for the record, I had never heard of the Kojiki of the Shinto Faith before I made my discovery.  I was absolutely stunned by the account of Creation in its narratives.  The description of how the Creator formed the universe is ominously consistent with that of modern physics textbooks.

Of course, I realize, physics text books change annually, so swift is the acquisition of knowledge in the physics department, but how did our ancestors in Japan come to discern physics on the level recorded in the Kojiki?

If we just read and trust what we read, the Shinto Faithful are clear that they received the answers they were seeking through prayerful rites, rites observed during both individual and community efforts at divination.  I’ll spare you my novice understanding of Shinto rites and just get to the point.

If religion is, as contemporary psychology insists, just the cognitive residue of the tension between experience and memory, nothing could be produced from that process which was not a derivative of either experience or memory.

Read the Creation narrative in the Kojiki for yourself.  There is no way humanly possible that human beings could pull that information out of the air, thousands of years ago, and have it make sense today.

In fact, the efficacy and thoroughness of particle physics in the moment of creation are so consistent in the Kojiki that many non-believers have come to conclude the Japanese people must be descended from aliens!

I can’t make this stuff up.

Allow me to first put the next racist trope in history’s bin before it enters wider circulation.  Anyone who finds that narrative remotely plausible is a casualty of racism in the 20^th century, for the allusion to an alien intelligence is just masking racist interpretations of Asian phenotypes. 

Just as racists in the last century fixated on the eyes of Asians as proof of a sub-species, so too will racists of the 21^st century focus on the eyes of Asians as proof of an alien species.  In too many depictions of “aliens” the distinguishing physical characteristics are a lithe body and dark, slanted eyes.

Once again, the imaginations of children are being primed for conclusions which my discovery will unravel in short order.  Perhaps I feign a grander purpose than my discovery justifies.  I don’t believe for a moment my discovery will resolve racism in the modern world.  I am just convinced my discovery will shatter thousands of lies all at the same time.

Don’t rejoice.  Racists, like the rest of us, have invested their imaginations in the lies which misguide them toward evil conclusions.  Take that away, all in one fell swoop, and racists the world over are going to experience sudden, cognitive vertigo, at least util they find a suitable replacement for what is about to be rendered obsolete.

Believers are advised not to ridicule non-believers who find themselves sailing off the edge of the world.  Welcome non-believers to an epiphanic moment in human history without ridicule and in all sincerity.

Non-believers are just suffering from “science friction”.

Challenge non-believers suffering from science friction to ask the question, if aliens didn’t supply this information, where did it come from?  Avoid answering the question at all cost.  Resentment will convert to intransigence and the horse will not willingly drink the water.

Supplying an answer to anyone not willing to hear it is futile.  Invite non-believers to read the Kojiki for themselves and come to their own conclusion.  Any non-believer who returns with an answer will have a difficult time accounting for how the Shinto faithful learned, in the beginning, the universe was formless and void, then a cascade of particle physics led to everything we recognize as tangible today.

Before non-believers recover from their Kojiki induced epiphany, lead them to read Ovid’s Metamorphosis.  Ovid’s Metamorphosis contains details on the formation of life bearing planets that the Kojiki lacks.  And what both the Kojiki and Metamorphosis lacks, the Koran, Torah and Christian Bible provide in Genesis.

In fact, if all we were to do is take the Creation Cycles of the world’s major religious cannon and bind them together into a common chapter, we’d be closer to a modern textbook than accredited academia was at the beginning of the 20^th century.

That, of course, would be a meta-study none of us are prepared to undertake.

The Kojiki, for the purposes of an introductory defense of religion, though, offers a critical resource for anyone exploring the history of human consciousness.  That, after all, is precisely what religion is, a process in which Mankind explores human consciousness and realizes the existence of a soul.  But not just a soul.  Religion is a process by which one realizes the existence of a Creator.

For me, the immediate relevance of the Kojiki of the Shinto religion is found in the animism from which all religious traditions originate.

I anticipate I just offended nearly every Christian I know.  Allow me to confess what Christians must: Even if there were no believer to give witness to the existence of the Creator, the very rocks would sing The Creator’s praises.

I should say “Their praises” since the proper pronoun of the Creator is the plural.  You will not be able to find a religious cannon in the world which does not recognize Unity In Duality in the godhead, even Islam, but nearly every believer on earth will argue ferociously on the subject.

I offer we are all battling over images in which we have invested ourselves.  It is best that we let those images go.  A suitable set of replacements are about to be revealed.  I can’t claim copyright on any of them, so they are free to use and discuss at your leisure.

The gulf of understanding between Arabic traditions and Shinto traditions is found in the concept of animism.  

In Muslim, Jewish and Christian imaginations “animism” converts to a mortal sin at the 1800 BC threshold, in the Abramic Age when Arabia’s Nobility led the Realm in abolishing human sacrifice.  In Abram’s Age too many had descended into iconographic induced delusions, came to believe they were descended from and divinely obligated to “graven images”, images few understood any longer.  those delusions led to human sacrifice, so Arabia’s Nobility chose to retire Iconographic Writing entirely.  

In Abram’s Arabia, a writing system in use by the clergy had gone wild in the imaginations of the Kindred In Common and the book was closed for good.  In the Abramic Age, not only were graven images of any living thing abandoned and prohibited, but all beliefs associated with graven images.  

As any scholar will gladly tell you today, vestiges of these ancient, syncretic delusions persist throughout Arabia, but only in superstitions and mystical traditions which exist on the periphery of reason.

It is precisely these syncretic traditions that neo-pagans are attempting to recast as Arabia’s “aboriginal” religious beliefs.  And, as is the case elsewhere in the world, neo-Pagans attempt to explain beliefs in “pagan Arabia” as understandable precipitates of narcotics use.  

According to neo-pagans, it was first the Jews, then the Christians and, finally, Muslims which have systematically oppressed the pagan religions of Arabia.  I can’t argue with half of that position, since the Abramic reforms are well documented, but beliefs today being presented as “aboriginal” to “pagan Arabia” are about to be revealed as dangerous delusions.  

This is not my personal opinion, but facts which are about to become evident for all to see on Christmas Day of 2023.

What has the Kojiki of Japan have to do with Arabia in the Abramic Age?

Everything.

Shintoism, you see, is a religious tradition which never fell into conflict.  I can’t explain how or why, but the Shinto Faithful were able to secure their traditional beliefs from the charlatans and frauds which brought animism down everywhere else in the world.

What, precisely, do I mean by animism then?

Precisely what the Kojiki means.  The Kojiki teaches and affirms that the Creator, and our ancestors living in the Celestial Realm, can and do use living creatures, even inanimate objects, as agents or avatars to communicate with individuals in the living world.

I confess my faith is not strong enough to accept animism completely, but as a Christian I cannot deny Christianity instructs the very same thing, just in proportions Christians find acceptable.  

As paraphrased earlier, it was Iesus of Nazareth himself who said even the rocks will sing in praise to the Father if and when required.  And I believe I am not mistaken that it was a donkey which talked a certain Roman soldier to his senses.

No Christian would deny either of these miracles of communication as Divine fact.  And everyone listening to this as a podcast over their favorite widget, whether they are a believer in a Creator or not, will not be in a position to deny the relevance and efficacy of animist beliefs, for the crystals in the transistors which make telecommunications possible render Shinto beliefs a fait accompli.

In case you missed the salient point, with the invention of the transistor radio, which rely on quartz crystals to receive and transmit radio waves, the rocks literally sing the Creator’s praises!  At least they do when you are tuned to a Gospel station.

But still, I just can’t bring myself to believe that a Saint in the Divine Realm would chose to reside among us as a mountain, as many of the Shinto Faithful believe.  Clearly I have a long way to go before I can relate to that on the level of Faith.  I confess that in the full knowledge, were I to chose to return and visit the living world, it would be at my favorite ski resort.

Clearly, my faith is fragile, for I can’t even accept I’d do precisely what the Shinto faithful predict when it is my time to lead a prayerful child to the Immortal Eternal Truth.   Gratefully, I will not have to cross that hurdle for years to come.  Maybe by then I’ll have the Faith to do what the Shinto know I am capable of doing from the afterlife.

I do not ever foresee myself seeking eternal wisdom in a stone, but I simply cannot deny the brilliance and intellect exhibited by God’s creatures.  As a child I spent more of my time in the woods than in a building, discounting sleep, and I have always watched creatures with a measure of awe and intrigue.

I also became aware from an early age creatures perceive the same when looking at us.  Watch long enough and personalities emerge in short order.  A truly Faithful individual will attempt to converse.

Just don’t do that if a psychologist is watching.

But consider the vignette I just painted.  Every child enters this world a non-believer and discovers the boundlessness of consciousness before they can explain it.  Watch an infant discover a butterfly for the first time and tell me that child, and perhaps that butterfly, are not in awe of each other, perhaps searching for the same answers.

My discovery will prove that the discovery of the Butterfly followed closely after The Dreaming in Australia.  What the Aboriginal kindreds of Australia and the Shinto Faithful of Japan are all about to teach us is that we should not allow the charlatans and frauds to drive us from efficacious practices.

I order Shintoism immediately after The Dreaming because animism is not possible until we can relate to consciousness, regardless of what we make of consciousness.  The Order of Precedence is tautological.

Enough for now.

Respectfully,

An Unknown Soldier