After catching up with work at home, I left in mid-September to meet Ed in Japan.
          Japan’s island of of Honshu contains two of the most densely populated areas in the world: the Kanto area , which includes Yokohama and the present capital Tokyo; and the Kansai area, with Kobe, Osaka, the ancient capital Nara, and the old Kyoto (the capital from the eighth century to the Meiji Restoration in the middle of the nineteenth century). It was the latter region into which my plane entered, from the Pacific into Osaka Bay, and thence to Kansai Airport.
          When my plane neared the coast of Japan, I was struck by the negativity of the qi in the skies: worse than I had ever seen before. It was not just slightly negative, which seems to be the common condition before formation of a sheng canopy , but negative to the point of causing pain to the non-material sky entities .

          Ed put up with me in Kyoto for a full month, while we worked to gift the southern half of the island of Honshu. Ed lived in an old-style wooden Japanese house, built in the early part of the 20th century, with tatamis, an indoor privy, spiders, a loft, and shoji doors. It was part way up a hill, and required a bit of effort to reach, so anyone living there was likely to be in reasonable physical condition. Ed’s CB was further on up the hill, and when he took me up to see it, he surprised me by holding up a stick to push spider webs out of the way. "What a sissy!" I thought. But I was using the same technique myself within a day’s time. The spiders were large, ugly, and numerous along the wood-paths.

          To the north of the Kansai lies mountains, then the Wakasa Bay region with its many nuclear plants, and then the Sea of Japan. Because large metropolitan areas seem to be a magnet for sha qi , and because nuclear reactors create sha qi , this whole area from south to north seemed to be a desirable place for creation of a new sheng canopy , if possible.

          There are many Shinto shrines in the region, and forests of cedar and pine in the mountains which come down to, and intermingle with, the cities. Vortices tend to surface in the high places, and so Ed and I were to be much among these things during the first two weeks.
          Most of the shrines housed respectable sheng beings, some holy. One of these was just by the second vortex Ed and I opened. This one was special, just as was the church Cesco and I had visited a month and a half earlier in Germany. In that case, as this, the latent vortex touched the surface at only a single critical point .

          We commenced work in the Region west and north of Kyoto, and thence to mountains further north and to the west of Lake Biwa, Japan’s largest lake. One experience which will stay with me for as long as my memory remains intact, occurred on one of these mountains. Eddie, a Japanese friend of his, and I, took a gondola car to the top of this mountain, only to find that the latent vortex sought, was not there, but on a neighboring peak. So we climbed down the one, and up the other, the last part of the trip bushwhacking with no trail. By the time we had found and opened the vortex, and retraced our steps, the gondola was shut down for the day, and so we had to walk all the way to the bottom of the large mountain. It took about an hour and a half, the last half hour in near darkness. Finally the trail opened up onto an old road and we could relax our concentration on the ground somewhat. Above was a full moon: huge and orange, with its reflection on Lake Biwa down below, long, rippling, and beautiful. The Japanese friend said that this was unusual, and in olden times would have required composition of a heiku. While they were looking for their cameras, I turned around toward the top of the mountain we had been descending, to check out the qi of the new vortex behind. Simultaneously, a tall sheng being appeared at the top of the mountain, apparently looking down upon them, with presence commanding great respect.
          It turned out that that vortex was not the usual kind that swirls qi directly up, but of that sort that sends a river of qi off in some direction. Here it flowed south, over Kyoto and Osaka towards the Pacific. The next morning, there was in the sky the beginnings of a sheng canopy , in the shape of a narrow triangle, one of whose sides was bounded by this river of sheng qi .

          Next, Ed and I journeyed north to the Wakasa Bay region, opening enough vortices along the coast to surround most of the nuclear plants. The last one was a mountain on a peninsula, and we began the climb just before dark. The trail petered out about three quarters of the way up, and the slope increased to about 45 degrees. Earlier in the day, Ed had found at one vortex site a snake skin about 7 feet long. I thought on the snake as I crawled on all fours up this slope, piercing big spider webs with my head. Ed waited below at the end of the trail with his friend, building a small temporary fire to discourage the mosquitoes which had come out for dinner. It was utterly dark by the time I reached the latent vortex. Fortunately I sense these things by feel, and so was able to open it. I was thankful however for Ed’s fire, for direction, as I made my way back down the slope.

          Next day the sky was a little less negative and the sky entities less in pain, but it wasn’t until the region to the east of the Kansai, including Nara, had been gifted, that the canopy really opened up and the painful sha qi in the sky disappeared. The last few days of this process involved opening vortices on both sides of Osaka Bay, including an island off the coast across from Kobe, which we reached by ferry.
          The final sortie was to Mount Kokko north of Kobe and west of Osaka, where the latent vortex turned out to be on a golf course. Fortunately the vortex was out in the rough, where I could dig the in TBs (I also picked up a couple golf ball souvenirs).

          The next day I noted that sheng qi was just entering the tips of the trees, penetrating about an inch. The timing for this to happen was very similar to that which I had observed in Heidelberg a month and a half previous.

          On the day after that, the morning was wonderful, for there were real sylphs out, all over the sky above Kyoto, and to the east: wispy clouds with sheng beings in such number as I had not seen since that day on the Palouse fourteen months before, the day previous to the formation of the sheng canopy I had ever witnessed.

          Why had the skies above Japan been so negative? I had thought long these past few weeks about what might be the reason for these bad skies. One possibility which occurred to me, was the heavy industrialization, combined with the concentration of population. But there were similar conditions in the Rhine/Ruhr region in Germany, and the sky there, though clearly negative, had been not nearly so bad as that above the Kansai. It turned out that I had to go to Hiroshima to learn the answer.

          A clever Japanese inventor named Tetsuzi has been working with orgonite. He had posted about his agricultural experiments with it on Greg’s forum and elsewhere. He invited Ed and myself to come visit, and so this week we travelled to Hiroshima where Tetsuzi-san lived. When we arrived in the city, I was surprised that the qi in the heavens was even worse than it had been in the Kansai.
          Tetsuzi-san met us the morning after our arrival in the city. It is the custom when visitors come to Hiroshima, for their hosts to take them to the the Peace Park downtown. The major part of the Peace Park, is a permanent exhibition of the history and effects of the first atom bomb dropped upon a human population. And it was thither that we were taken. It is difficult to comprehend how anyone who visits this place could be quite the same afterwards.
          At the beginning of August of 1945, the Japanese were fighting a losing war against most of the rest of the world. Their allies Italy and Germany had surrendered in Europe, and eventual defeat was all but inevitable. To insure that the Soviet Union not be part of an invasion force into Japan, and thus that it be excluded from post war occupation, the US decided to shock Japan into capitulation by dropping an atomic bomb. Supposedly Hiroshima was chosen out of a group of possible targets by the fact that there were no American prisoners of war interned there.
          There were however Korean and Chinese enforced laborers present, and a number of these, along with Japanese Junior High School children, were out working in the city at 8AM on August, 6 busy demolishing buildings, so that fire lanes would be open in the event of fires being started by possible American bombing. At 8 o’clock also, the city’s elementary schools had begun classes for the day. At 8:15 the US bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb over the city, which exploded about 650 yards above the main hospital in downtown Hiroshima. A pressure of several hundred thousand atmospheres was created, and about 550 yards from the hypocenter, it struck surfaces with a force of 19 tons per square meter. Most buildings were crushed and and people thrown through the air. The temperature at the center was about 2,000,000 degrees Fahrenheit at the instant of detonation, creating a fireball which reached a diameter of about 300 yards. The temperature at the surface was about 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit, and the people subjected, turned to ash nearly instantaneously. Those people not killed by the concussion or heat within about 4000 feet from the hypocenter, were subjected to such extreme radiation that most died within a few days. By the end of 1945, the death toll had reached to about 140,000 out of a city which had had a population of about 350,000. And many more died later of after-effects, such as various cancers and leukemia.
          Most all of this was explained at the exhibition hall, along with much other detail, models, and photographs. But what was not explained, because it is not generally known, is the damage that was done to the etheric realms and their resident entities up in the heavens above. But I had observed, before entering the exhibition, that the entities in the sky were in considerable pain. And so I noted with care and curiosity the photographs taken of the sky before the explosion, during the explosion, and afterwards. The pain was not present in the "before" photos. In fact the sky felt much the same as it does now in most places where there is no sheng canopy overhead. And just after the explosion, when the mushroom cloud was expanding, there was still no visible pain in the sky above the clouds. But in the photographs taken after the fireball had consumed itself, and the destruction was complete, the sky was horribly negative, much like it appeared when we entered the city, 60 years and two months later.
          So it seemed that the bad skies over the Kansai, and the worse skies over Hiroshima, may have been effects of the atomic bomb explosion over Hiroshima, and that later over Nagasaki.
          In the afternoon Ed and I visited Hiroshima Castle. This castle was a national monument which had been destroyed by the blast, but it was later rebuilt by the Government in the early ’50s. While we were on the grounds heading for the entrance, several sylphs appeared, their bodies in pain, but their heads in sheng qi , as is usual. It seemed like a greeting. Ed later sent me a good photo of one of the sylphs:

          From the top floor of the castle was visible most of the city and its suburbs. In particular there were visible two latent vortices, on opposite sides of the city. Later that day, at dusk, Tetsuzi-san drove us to one, and on the morrow, to the other. Thanks to Tetsuzi-san’s knowledge of the city, and his kindness, Eddie and I were able to initiate the process of returning sheng qi to the city’s skies. On the way back to the Kansai, we stopped every so often to open a latent vortex with the intention of extending the sheng canopy begun earlier, back to Hiroshima.

          Ed and I visited a friend Larry in the Nagoya region after our return, and the sheng canopy had now extended over that area. Larry was an excellent host, permitting me to stay at his home overnight, driving me to a critical vortex site northwest of the town of Toyota, and setting me on the train to Nagasaki. I wanted to visit this town, because the second atomic bomb, exploded for destructive purposes, had been dropped there, and to see if our attempt to extend the sheng canopy to Hiroshima had been successful. Nagasaki is actually in the southwestern island of Kyushu, but one passes through Hiroshima on the way from Kyoto.
          Since the sky over Hiroshima had been the worst I had ever seen, I naturally wondered if that over Nagasaki would be as bad. I was rather surprised to find that it was not. The sky was negative, more so that one would expect to see in the US or central and western Europe, but not nearly so negative as that which I saw in Osaka when first I arrived, and much less that it had been over Hiroshima. The Nagasaki bomb, dropped three days after the Hiroshima bomb, was somewhat different: it was based on plutonium instead of uranium. Also there were fewer immediate casualties: about 70,000 I believe. This is not meant to understate the gravity of the destruction of Nagasaki. The photos in the museum near the Peace Park there are horrible.
          I found a latent vortex in the city, and since I was on foot this time, that was all I could handle. It’s was on a small mountain, not all that far removed from the hypocenter of the explosion. Some hours later, after visiting the museum and boarding the return train, I observed that though the state of the lower sky had not changed much, the upper heavens had already begun to turn positive.
          On the way to Nagasaki, and on the way back, the train passed through Hiroshima. I was able to observe that the sheng canopy had reached Hiroshima from the Kansai, and so had been extended nearly 70 miles west.

          On my last full day in Japan, Ed and his friend took me up a beautiful trail, to the top of a mountain some distance west of Lake Biwa. The weather was beautiful and the sky blue, with any new chemtrails dispersing rapidly.
          As we emerged out of the woods onto the summit, we saw directly overhead, extending several miles in each direction, a company of sylphs. It seemed almost like a farewell gathering:

          The extent of the sheng canopy in Japan, as nearly as I could tell when I left, is outlined on the following map in red:

          Here is a part of Ed’s take on our time together:
          Most of the information that i’m posting now was lost on the ethericwarriors site, so i’d like to get it back in the public record.
          Before Laozu arrived in Japan, I had only met him for a grand total of 10 minutes at Don Croft’s place in Idaho. During that brief conversation, I invited him to Japan, and thankfully, he took me up on the invitation. In preparation for gifting the vortices of Japan, he shipped off 2 boxes of TB’s well in advance of his arrival. Neither box arrived by the time he did. Fortunately I had enough TB’s around to get started, and it seemed as if there was an endless supply to draw from, and I kept finding just enough before each new gifting day. When those ran out, we made more (and 2 TCB’s as well). Laozu would spot a vortex (or rather, feel it) on top of a hill or mountain and we would be off trying to get as close as possible by car, and then on foot, usually scrambling through dense brush, but sometimes following a well-marked path to a Jinja shrine or Buddhist temple where the vortex would be conveniently located right on the temple grounds. When we came across a shrine or temple, Laozu sometimes would feel the resident Spirit of that place. He startled me and my friends on several occasions when he would break into beautiful song in respectful communication with this local Spirit. The language of the song was unknown to me; it seemed to contain elements of both Chinese and Japanese phonemes, but Don posted that it might be an Andromedan language. On Laozu’s last full day in Japan, my Japanese friend and I showed him a series of beautiful waterfalls where I have hiked, camped, and gifted many times before. I had been meaning to take him there since he first arrived, but circumstances seemed to prevent it until the last day. As luck would have it, he felt the presence of a vortex at the top, and we were off on the hardest scramble so far through dense brush. We were rewarded with a parade of Sylphs at the top and the photos are already part of this thread. On the way down, we stopped at a waterfall where I have camped and gifted before. Laozu felt the presence of an Undine, so I asked him to ask this water Spirit if my TB gifts were appreciated. I saw Laozu almost get bowled over with the reply, a forceful, joyful ’’Yes"! That for me was a wonderful confirmation.
          During his stay in Japan, we spent nearly every day gifting vortices in both remote areas and downtown urban areas. I’d like to express gratitude to my Japanese friends (who prefer to remain nameless) and to Larry in Nagoya for their wonderful generosity in helping Laozu. The skies above Western Japan are no longer in pain.

          On the trip home from Japan, my plane flew into San Francisco, and so I was able see the state of the skies there as of mid-October 2005. The skies there and then were covered by sheng qi .

          Later, on October 23 I crossed the State of Washington to Seattle on I-90 and so had opportunity of observing exactly where the second river of qi passes south to north. It crosses I-90 a short way west of Ellensburg on the way to Cle Elum.