Heroes Not Zombies

Fushimi Inari shrine, on a hillside just outside Kyoto, is one of the most impressive places I’ve ever visited.

I have a lot of photos taken along the winding path which snakes up to the top of the hill. This is such a unique path. It works it way along under hundreds of these bright red Tori gates.

They are beautiful.

You can stand anywhere on this path and see these glorious structures stretching out before and behind you. I can’t really capture in words what that feels like. It’s an experience of being inside beauty, inside art, inside creative power.

And all of this exists because of spiritual feeling amongst the people who made it.

This really is the phenomenal beauty which can emerge when spirit and art combine.