This is the emailing list of Tsubaki America Grand Shrine Sukeikai/ members group. Tsubaki Grand Shrine of America is the US branch of Tsubaki Okami Yashiro. www.Tsubakishrine.org

All Human beings are equal under the sun because our lives all have their origin in divine solar Ki. Further each human being receives the gift of having their lives sustained by the blessings of the sun.

This is quite simply the basic fact of our human existence. This is also the basic of Shinto- the way of progressing in harmony with divine nature.

The modern world we inhabit changes very quickly-- our society now relies on email, cell phones, web-based social networking and 24/7 internet access. The nature of our human minds and human spirituality however is relatively unchanged since ancient times.

Jinja Shinto originating in the spontaneous reverence for Nature of Japan's deep pre-history represents the basic of human spirituality and human experience. Something in the pristine nature of the Jinja Shinto experience can help reconnect us to our primal intuitive roots while the purifying straightening and invigorating action can help us to meet the challenges of the present fast-changing and sometimes confusing times.

Shinto ritual and practices have the ability to effect the KI. KI is primal causer…everything is started by KI. The Great Universe is started by KI. Your mood, decisions and actions are initiated by Ki. Of course negative Ki exists but we can purify ourselves to sense Ki and to receive positive Ki. This is the teaching of Sarutahiko Okami, Ancestor of all Earthly Kami, Kami of KI, positiveness, grounding and progress in harmony with divine Nature who along with his wife AmenoUzume no Mikoto form the principal kami of Tsubaki Okami Yashiro. We visit the Shinto Shrine and participate in Shinto Matsuri to receive the blessings of Okami