Toward Ecosophy

This is why I am asking (and I see that you’ve side stepped the question, which is your right, of course). I once met someone who came from a lineage of Onmyodo practicioners and it was his first experience of magical practice— and though he is still involved in esoteric activities of a different sort, it was clear he wouldn’t touch Onmyodo again with a ten foot barge pole. The state of the art seems to have been corrupted, with practitioners who engage in a lot of cursing (hence his distaste for it). Although I don’t know in any detail. Later that day, I idly said to my wife “once my Japanese improves sufficiently, wouldn’t it be interesting to study Onmyodo”— and exactly at that moment, as I spoke that sentence, was the one and only time that a fly just up and flew into my mouth in the sixteen years I’ve been in Japan, and I coughed and coughed to get it out. That was a message if I’ve ever seen one. It’s clear that regardless of the accuracy of any speculations about Onmyodo’s current state, the barriers to entry extend well beyond the material. This is why I was asking; I’m interested in how and why you would know these kinds of details at all.