The God of 8 million things

Welcome gentle souls,

There is a beautiful understanding within the Japanese Shinto tradition that all things carry spirit or Kami within them. Also known as the god of 8 million things. 8 million was an arbitrary number as infinity wasn’t known at the time and 8 is a lucky number in Japan.

Yaoyorozu no Kami is the full expression. What a wonderful and tender way to view our world and the interconnectnedness that lives within us all. Divinity resides not just in temples or rituals but in our ordinary life as well. The changing weather, the paper we write upon, the objects we hold, the ideas we dream into being, god or spirit exists everywhere, even within us all.

Everything starts as something else, the raw materials for your phone started as the minerals in the earth. All transformed through human touch, imagination and intention.

This perspective finds spiritual meaning even within industrial processes, suggesting that engineering is simply the rearranging of the inherent potential waiting within the physical world. Nothing is truly separate, only transformed.

‘To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower. Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.’

Until next time,

Blessings,

Stephanie

infinite infinity…

 Stephanie