Belief — Aleph — Panfaith

Figures

who it looks to — gods, spirits, ancestors; some rooms are empty on principle All 1 →

A Asahara, after the execution. He was hanged on 6 July 2018. What his images and recordings are now used for inside Aleph is the single disputed fact about the group: Aleph says they were withdrawn, the Public Security Intelligence Agency says devotion to him is intact and cites that finding as grounds for continued observation. Domain Whatever authority the practice still rests onStanding The point on which Aleph and the Japanese state give directly opposed accounts Meet them — context →

Core Tenets

2 — a sample of the center, never the sum All 2 →

Held by most — broad, but not universal

The practice Asahara taught is still the path. This is the position of the main body of Aleph and the reason the 2000 reform did not hold. The meditation, the stages and the cosmology are the ones Aum taught; what Aleph says it has abandoned is the apocalyptic conclusion drawn from them. Go deeper — context →

Contested within — affirmed by some schools, refused by others

Aleph says the crimes were the acts of individuals. The state says the group is the same group. Aleph's public material treats 1994 and 1995 as the work of members who have since been tried and executed, and points to the compensation it pays. The Public Security Intelligence Agency treats Aleph as the same organisation under a different name, with the same object of devotion. A reader is entitled to both statements and to the fact that they conflict. Go deeper — context →

Cosmos & Afterlife

how reality is built, and what follows death

The nature of reality

Unchanged from Aum in its cosmology: ascending realms, karma, and a practice held to move a person through them.

After death

As Aum: rebirth through the realms, shaped by karma and by practice.