The term “power spot” has become a household word, and the tour of power spots still seems to be as popular as ever. TV programs and magazines have featured shrines, Buddhist temples, sacred mountains, and sacred sites. There are even bus tours.
I have an acquaintance who likes visiting power spots, and there are probably many more people in the world who like it than I can imagine.
I do not mean to make fun of those who like to visit such power spots, but I myself hardly believe in such benefits.
However, if a friend says to me, “If you touch this stone, it will bring you good luck,” I don’t try to reason with her or stubbornly refuse to do so. I touch it anyway. It’s not something I would go out of my way to insist on at the cost of losing a friendship.
On the contrary, I make a few wishes. I have an evil mind that maybe this is an existence beyond human knowledge and there really might be a blessing in it.
That is a different dimension from believing or not believing. Power spots will not say that they do not share their power with you because you do not believe in their existence.
Sometimes, you will see people prostrating themselves near a stone that is said to be beneficial, as if they were looking at a living god, and praying earnestly.
Of course, some of these people may be suffering from really serious illnesses or are unhappy because they are at the mercy of an unreasonable fate. But most of the rest of us probably just believe what we read on TV or in magazines and hope to just get the benefit of the doubt.
Some say that there are tours that take a whole day to visit power spots all over the place. When I hear this kind of story, I feel a little uncomfortable.
For these people, the more power spots they visit, the more benefits they will receive, and while they pay thanks and respect to the gods and spirits, in the end they are mostly hoping for worldly benefits such as “to pass an exam,” “for luck (money or work),” or “to find a girlfriend. In most cases, people want to make their worldly benefits come true.
I wonder why people don’t think anything of it when they visit various power spots in a short period of time on a tour and make the same wish each time.
Without considering what salvation is in the first place, what is there to be saved? To be honest, I am a little bit put off by the idea that people just go to these power spots and seek only worldly benefits. It is a strange analogy, but I feel that it is just like going to a department store to bargain for the clothes you like.
Even if that is the case, I wonder if they would be happy to be saved by an external factor such as a power spot. There is the quality of the wish, but are you happy to have your small wish come true or to receive money from it? Are they happy to have a lover? It seems a little bit sad.
If I were to go to a power spot to thank for a wish that came true, would I be able to tell exactly which power spot was benefiting me? If I were to go to the power spot where my wish was granted, I would probably be greeted with a miffed look on my face. A power spot has its own roots and history, and that’s what makes it a power spot. As much as there are positives, there must also be negatives.
What I think is that while we are sad that we have no money, how do we earn such money, how much money do we need in the first place, what kind of money is there, and what should we do or throw away in order to get it? I believe that being able to decide all of these things for oneself is the true joy of living.
Visiting power spots, for example, is like giving up the true joy of life. The more earnestly you wish for a power spot, the more you are asking for help from others, and the more you are handing over the steering wheel of your life to someone else.
Perhaps, when new challenges come, such people will turn to power spots and other such places again.
This is a bit off topic, but I think that power spots are ultimately about whether or not God exists. I myself do not believe that God exists or does not exist.
I really don’t know, but to be a little more precise, I would say that I think there might be a God.
As for the existence of God, I will leave that to philosophical reasoning. I am not a philosopher, Kant.
Anything beyond that is fantasy, or just myth.
I don’t really expect a power spot in front of me to release me from all my problems and sufferings. Even in the unlikely event that an all-powerful God appears in front of me and offers to make it easier for me, I am going to refuse (I am lying. I wouldn’t know if I was very mentally weak).
I believe that such people who are seriously touring power spots are basically kind and nice people. I think they are people who are mentally ill and want to recover somehow, or people who have been hurt and want to get back on their feet.
I don’t deny that at the end of the day, they visit a power spot to hang on to something, but I still feel that it would be a waste of something to give up the handling of their life to something else.
If, in reality, you are in debt and can’t get your head around it, consider bankruptcy. If you’re depressed because of power harassment, take the plunge and quit. I think the first step is to consider practical means without relegating real problems to the supernatural.
Of course it is easy to put it into words, and I understand that you are hanging on to it because you can’t do it, but the problems that occur in reality can only be solved in reality.
And only when you solve those problems with your own hands, I believe that you can get a new you and live a new life. Furthermore, I believe that by sharing the invaluable experience you gained from this with others, you can surely become a kind of power spot that can influence and guide someone else.
Rather than exhausting yourself searching the outside world for a mysterious power spot like in the fairy tale of the blue bird, in other words, if you become a power spot yourself, there is no need to spend precious money and time visiting power spots.
Besides, I believe that originally, everyone is a power spot as long as they are alive.
I am not saying that I am a good person, but I always draw a fortune when I go to a shrine.
See you soon.
