Language and Spirit

: Thought Architecture Memo: Between Kotodama and Translation — The Role of English in Spiritual Transmission

❖ The Weight of Kotodama in Japanese Spirituality In Japan’s spiritual circles, there is a profound reverence for kotodama—the belief that the very sounds of the Japanese language carry sacred power. Its vowels, phonetics, and rhythmic structures are seen not merely as carriers of meaning but as vibrational echoes of the divine. This has fostered a tendency to resist using global languages ...