Academic depth meets lived practice —
and means it.
Some people write about spirituality. Others live it. Mark does both — and refuses to separate the two.
As a teenager he sensed something he could not explain — a connection to something invisible, but completely real. He never let it go. It carried him into Japanese Studies, into a doctorate, to Kyoto — and finally into the temples, not as a tourist, but as a practitioner.
The Shikoku Pilgrimage with all 88 temples is not a tourist's accomplishment. It is an initiation into yourself — physical, spiritual, irreversible. Mark has walked it.
As Ninjutsu successor to Taguchi Sensei he carries a lineage that is not passed on through books, but from master to practitioner. His master-level calligraphy was trained under a Zen monk — not as a hobby, but as a spiritual discipline.
Shingon Reiki grew out of this depth — as a fusion of Buddhist initiation tradition and Reiki that exists in this form nowhere else. Not developed at a desk. Born of decades of lived practice.
Add to this his work with shamanic and animist traditions that find their counterpart in Japanese Shinto. And Kuji Kiri — inseparably linked with Reiki inside Shingon — opening the door for those who, behind what they once felt watching anime, are looking for the actual tradition.
Doctorate — Heidelberg University
PhD in Japanese Studies. Dissertation on Siddham script in healing rituals within Japanese Buddhism.
Three years in Kyoto
Research and practice inside the temples of the Tendai, Shingon, and Zen schools. Initiations in a direct lineage.
Shikoku Pilgrimage
All 88 temples. The complete experience of the path — as initiation, not as achievement.
Founding of Shingon Reiki
Buddhist initiations woven together with Reiki — born of practice, not of theory.
Scholarship and magic —
as if they were the same thing.
Eileen grew up convinced that what can be felt is real — even when it cannot be explained. Historical scholarship did not teach her the opposite. It gave her the tools to look deeper.
As a historian focused on religious history, she sees what others overlook: the connections between traditions, the patterns running through cultures and centuries, the actual thing behind what was passed down.
Eileen's path to Shingon Reiki was no accident. She brings the depth that arises when academic thinking and real spiritual practice come together — and when you are willing to take both seriously.
She works especially closely with highly sensitive people — people who perceive a lot, often too much, and who are looking for an anchor. Shingon Reiki gives them exactly that: strength, clarity, and the experience that what they sense is real and makes sense.
Together with Mark she is writing the new Shingon Reiki book — and her own book on meditation with a strong Shingon focus. Neither is being written at a desk. Both come from practice.
