Shifting from the Knowledge Charter to the Information Charter - Hafurimeku on April 28th

Lecturer: Kenji Nanasawa, Representative Director of General Incorporated Association Shirakawa Gakkan
Editor: Parole Editorial Section, Yasushi Ohno, supervisor

Q.
In this G-code seminar, the lectures were held by connecting Hafuriden, a structure in Kofu City used for Shinto rituals, and participants online. I was glad to have been able to convey our contents about the informatization that has been accelerating in recent years as well as the new coronavirus. The online lectures allowed the lecturers to see the participants’ facial expressions in real time, so I was able to realize that everyone understood what I was conveying. They seemed to be confirming what they already knew. I realized that the speed at which information is conveyed will be faster and faster in the future. It was a very meaningful time for me.

A.
This time, I again felt that there is definitely something to benefit from holding an event. It is important to first provide information because, by doing so, something we should know or see becomes accessible. This accelerates the evolution of human consciousness. We can also feel that something will definitely change.

The world is entering an era of tremendous change. We released the Knowledge Charter about 20 years ago. It has provided clear guidance in dealing with information from the point of view that the radical advancement of IT causes a change in the knowledge age. However, time passes very fast, and now it is urgent to establish new guidelines in order to enter a full-fledged information society that is on our doorstep.

Specifically, when a total transition from an analog society to a digital society takes place, we humans need the “Information Charter” to define how people should manage and disseminate information.

In this sense, the G-code seminar was able to achieve one major result. You said that in your lecture you had the impression that the participants already understood at an unconscious level the content you conveyed. This is one of the symbolic examples.

In short, instantaneous communication of information will take place quite naturally in the future. What it suggests is that the era of one-way learning, where information is provided by a teacher to students, is coming to an end, and an era in which communication is realized simultaneously by both the sender and the receiver. As a result, we enter the era of true two-way communication.

Therefore, the issue of the optimal way to transmit information needs to be examined in the future. Beyond that, joy and beauty are required to accompany our way of life, which is derived from learning based on better information transmission. We humans must support each other, to create a society in which everyone can feel the essence of the world, namely, Truth, Wisdom, Virtue, Joy, and Beauty.

When we pass the era of major change that is expected to take place after about 2023, it will be time for each individual to seriously think about how they live and to come up with their own answers. At that time, it will be very important not only to pursue convenience and efficiency in IT and devices, including the Galactic Motion Machine that we are currently developing, but also to reach a society with true beauty and pleasure.

In preparation, it is necessary to prepare the Information Charter for an overview of society as a whole, and to present it as a guideline.

The G-code seminar has just begun. It is important to steadily implement our plans, look at the future, and keep ourselves grounded through the learning of “integration”.

Japanese Version

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Kenji Nanasawa
Born in Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture in 1947. After graduating from Waseda University, he completed a Doctoral Program in the Graduate School of Letters at Taisho University. He developed an information processing system based on knowledge modeling of traditional medicine and philosophies and is a researcher of religious studies. He is involved in developing a next-generation system for digitizing language energies. Mr. Nanasawa re-established the Shirakawa Gakkan as a research institute for the study of the court rituals and ceremonies carried out by the Shirakawa family of Kyoto, a noble family that oversaw the Jingi, an office for religious rituals, for 800 years from the mid- Heian period to the end of the Tokugawa shogunate. He currently serves as the representative director of Shirakawa Gakkan and CEO of the Nanasawa Institute, among other positions.

He has written and served as the editorial supervisor for a number of books, among them Why Do Things Go Well with Japanese? Knowledge Modeling Inherent in Japanese Language and Culture (Naze nihonjin wa umakuikunoka? Nihongo to nihon bunka ni naizai sareta chishiki moshikika gijutsu) (Bungeisha). Also, he is the supervising editor of Three Works on the Study of Hebrew from a Shinto Perspective (Shinto kara mita heburai kenkyu sanbusho) (by Koji Ogasawara), and co-author with Koji Ogasawara of Princess Otohime of the Dragon Palace and Urashima Taro (Ryugu no Otohime to Urashima Taro).