Perfect Liberty Kyōdan

Domain XIV · Western esoteric, divinatory & new spiritual movements · Miki Tokuharu, Miki Tokuchika · 1924 · Osaka, Japan

What it is

PL is a Japanese new religion of Shinto origin, headquartered in Tondabayashi, Osaka Prefecture (the "Holy Land"). It is an organisation, not a therapy: this guide first describes PL as reference works and scholars describe its own teaching, then sets out the psychotherapist's work with clients who…

Format

• Institutions. PL Hospital, health-management centres, PL Gakuen schools (whose baseball team was widely known until it was discontinued in 2016), a golf course, and the 180-metre Peace Tower (1970) memorialising all war dead.
• No source gives a session count or format for this work; pace it by the client's needs.

Who practises it, and how they are trained or regulated

• Path of a member. Nakamaki describes a path from outreach to regular church attendance to training at the Holy Land; daily family devotions, morning worship at church, year-end oyashikiri petitions and a January–February "fortune training". McFarland describes four-day youth training periods that included manual work on the headquarters grounds (1957).

Questions to explore with your client

• What drew you to it, and what are you hoping it will change?
• Does it involve any substance, plant preparation, remedy or supplement? Has your doctor or prescriber been told, especially about any medication you take?
• Is it a group, retreat or community? How do they respond if someone wants to leave or raises a concern?
• How do you and the practitioner understand what is happening, in spiritual or cultural terms? Is that a source of comfort, worry, or both?
• Who runs it, and what training or registration do they hold?
• What actually happens in a session or meeting, and how often?
• What does it cost, and is there pressure to commit to more?
• How do you feel afterwards, in the hours and days that follow?
• Does it fit with, or clash with, the work we do here?

What practitioners of it watch for

• A client accepting harm as their own spiritual failing.
• Client asking you to tell them what their misfortune means.
• Hidden symptoms, cancelled appointments, or shame about seeing a doctor.
• Shame, secrecy from family, or fear that cutting back will bring misfortune.
• Pressure to "deprogramme" or force a relative out, which harms relationships.

When to involve someone else

• New or worsening physical symptoms, or advice to stop or change prescribed medication: involve the client's doctor or prescriber.
• Signs of coercion, isolation from family and friends, escalating costs or secrecy: discuss openly and consider safeguarding.
• A crisis or thoughts of suicide: follow your crisis protocol. In the US, call or text 988; in the UK and Ireland, Samaritans on 116 123.

Drawn automatically from the guide's own sections. Stay curious: neither endorse nor dismiss what the client values, and check anything that matters against the full guide and its sources. Not medical advice.