Shinji Takahashi (religious leader)
| Shinji Takahashi | |
|---|---|
| Religion | Buddhism, theisophy |
| School | graduated or retired from College of Science and Technology, Nihon University |
| Personal | |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Born | Haruo Takahashi (高橋春雄, Haruo Takahashi) September 21, 1927 Saku, Nagano, Japan |
| Died | June 25, 1976 (aged 48) |
| Senior posting | |
| Successor | Keiko Takahashi (高橋佳子, Takahashi Keiko) |
| Religious career | |
| Reincarnation | Jacob Israel, Enlil |
Shinji Takahashi (高橋 信次 Takahashi Shinji, September 21, 1927 - June 25, 1976) was a Japanese religious leader, corporate manager and hardware engineer. Takahashi founded the new religious corporation God Light Association (GLA). He was born in Saku city, Nagano prefecture, Japan. He founded Koden Industry Co., Ltd. and served as its first president.
Takahashi was born on September 21, 1927, in Saku, Nagano, Japan, into a farming family. He was the second eldest son among 10 children. At age 13, Takahashi entered the Army Cadet School after dropping out in his second year of a middle school that was run under the old system of education. He then completed his studies and graduated from the Army War College, after which he was assigned to be an aerial navigator. At the end of World War II in 1945, Takahashi returned to his hometown. On moving to Tokyo, he passed a high school equivalency exam and studied mainly in the College of Science and Technology at Nihon University. Although Takahashi was said to have studied at the University of Tokyo Graduate School for a while, he was not able to obtain a graduate degree since his dissertation, which was necessary for receiving a graduate degree, was considered below standard and was laughed at by the professors. During his studies, he started two unsuccessful companies before he opened his third company, Koden Industry Co., Ltd., a company that develops hardware for electronics. While managing this company, Takahashi possessed 460 patents. He also served as the president of Yaoki Building Management Co., Ltd.
When Takahashi was approximately 10 years old, he started experiencing a spiritual phenomenon now known as an "out-of-body experience" and came to refer to his astral body, as his "other self". As a child, he had doubts about this phenomenon and continued to pursue studies in electrical engineering and physics for the next 32 years. Takahashi did not have any interest in religion, and considered himself a non-expert in that field. Around 1968, he claimed to have begun receiving communication from spirits that identified themselves as "Fwan Sin Fwai Sinfo" and "One Two Three". Soon after, Takahashi claimed to have arrived at a spiritual state where he had thrown away attachment and achieved a peace of mind; afterwards, he said that these spirits were the guardian and guiding spirits, respectively, that would come up in the GLA doctrine.
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