The Happy Science Group Public Relations Division's View on 'YouTube Videos Regarding Hiroshi's "Spiritual Messages"'

On the night of February 26, two videos related to "spiritual messages" featuring Hiroshi were uploaded to YouTube.

These videos contain falsehoods about the spiritual messages, which are the religious secrets of our organization, and include expressions that hurt the hearts of many believers. Moreover, as the content is extremely dangerous for viewers, we hereby clarify our group's view as follows.

Hiroshi speaks as if spiritual messages are possible by focusing one's consciousness, similar to an actor's role preparation, but this is both simplistic and extremely dangerous.

What is the Phenomenon of Spiritual Messages open_in_new is the phenomenon of speaking the words of spiritual beings from the 'other world,' but without sufficient religious training, one can become possessed by evil spirits or demons. Once possessed, they are difficult to shake off, and it becomes hard to distinguish whether the thoughts that come to mind are inspirations sent by the spirit or one's own. Therefore, it is necessary to have faith in the divine and Buddha open_in_new, and to continue spiritual training open_in_new under a master, suppressing one's ego and desires, deepening faith, and building social insight and religious knowledge to avoid being deceived by the whispers of evil spirits.

Hiroshi has exhibited numerous instances of eccentric behavior, false beliefs, and memory loss. This is likely a state of spiritual disturbance where he has been possessed and completely forgotten what the spirit said, a pattern often seen in dissociative disorders medically. He is entering a dangerous realm where he cannot control himself, and even if a spirit enters and does something, once the spirit leaves, he remembers nothing.

Hiroshi should be aware of his precarious state and immediately stop speaking falsehoods about spiritual messages, and should not lightly recommend the practice of spiritual messages.

Spiritual messages are not something that can be done easily; they require constant mental training to prevent one's ego, assumptions, and biases from interfering. For someone like Hiroshi, who is a psychic but lacks faith, does not study, has no social education, and is highly assumptive, those assumptions appear in the spiritual messages as if they were facts. Hiroshi himself does not even know who he has let in when he channels a spirit.

There is a considerable difference in levels among psychics, but the spiritual messages conducted by President Okawa are of the highest level, where he can make the spirit speak its true intentions and freely control spiritual phenomena. President Ryuho Okawa open_in_new is the world's greatest psychic and can summon any spirit. This is only possible for someone who has attained a high level of enlightenment. During the spiritual message phenomenon, President Okawa's consciousness is clear, and it differs from 'mediumship phenomena' where one loses consciousness and the spirit speaks unilaterally. Additionally, President Okawa serves as a judge (san-iwa) who interprets and judges the correctness and true meaning of what the spirit has said, and also serves as a master (guide) overseeing the entire spiritual message, capable of questioning the spirit himself. President Okawa has conducted over 900 public spiritual messages and published a 'Spiritual Message Series' of over 500 books. The spiritual message series by President Okawa holds high social credibility, with advertisements in major newspapers, and is itself 'proof of the existence of the spirit world.'

Hiroshi explains spiritual messages as if he gathers information in advance and pretends to speak as if he were the person himself, saying, 'Information gathering beforehand is crucial,' but this is completely incorrect.

President Okawa has conducted over 900 public spiritual messages, and no two are the same. Some include spiritual messages in ancient languages not used today or spirits of people for whom no historical records exist, and there are inspirations for songs from John Lennon and Elvis Presley. There are also guardian spirit messages where the guardian spirit of a living person is summoned to speak their true intentions. This is essentially accessing the person's subconscious, and the content can be considered what the person is thinking in their subconscious, i.e., their true intentions.

Additionally, there are 'Alien Readings' that call forth the consciousness of beings that existed as aliens billions of years ago, and 'UFO Readings' that contact aliens aboard visiting UFOs and speak their words. In regular spiritual messages, spirits such as Jesus Christ, Kant, Mao Zedong, Chiang Kai-shek, President Trump, and Chairman Kim Jong-un speak their true intentions for nearly two hours each.

The establishment of the world's major religions, such as Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, all involve divine revelations, or 'spiritual messages' from the higher spirit world. It is no exaggeration to say that without spiritual messages, there would be no religion. However, it is unprecedented in history for so many spiritual messages to be delivered from such a diverse range of spirits.

Furthermore, spiritual message recordings often occur suddenly, with President Okawa and the questioners having little preparation time.

It is customary for President Okawa to provide a preliminary explanation before a spiritual message, and for that purpose, it is necessary to confirm the achievements and historical position of the person. Also, since spiritual messages are conducted through President Okawa's language center, it is natural for him to have information about the life the spirit led stored in his memory to make it easier for the spirit to speak.

Hiroshi cites another reason for spiritual messages being an act, stating that even when foreign spirits are summoned, they speak Japanese. However, the fact that a person who originally spoke a foreign language speaks Japanese is simply because President Okawa, who understands their 'thoughts,' is converting it into Japanese. Additionally, there may be cases where the spirit had some connection to Japan in the past. Furthermore, for spirits that are difficult to convert into Japanese, spiritual messages may be conducted in English.

Incidentally, in the video, Hiroshi claims that during the recording of the guardian spirit spiritual message of Prime Minister Noda (at the time), the House of Representatives was dissolved, and President Okawa, who had spiritual messaged 'I have no intention of dissolving,' broke into a cold sweat. However, there is no such fact. The spiritual message was recorded publicly on November 14, 2012, the day Prime Minister Noda declared dissolution, but the recording ended hours before the dissolution statement, and it was publicly released at branches on November 20 and published as a book on November 30 open_in_new. It is well known that the dissolution statement was made during a parliamentary debate with then-LDP President Abe, provoked by Mr. Abe.

As such, the videos regarding Hiroshi's spiritual messages contain falsehoods and include extremely dangerous content for viewers. Hiroshi should immediately stop speaking falsehoods about spiritual messages and be aware of his precarious state.