LeoBunny: Where Spirit Meets Science, Gently, from Japan

It started with a real "traveling umbrella" story. A loaner umbrella from a certain Tokyo hotel somehow made its way to an inn up in Aomori and went viral on social media — a heartwarming little news item. Think about it realistically, and it's a story of "someone borrowed it and left it behind." But Leo Bunny reads it from a higher-dimensional angle — "why did *this*...

episode_id: JA001-S001 title: A Child's Soul Comes from the Sea or the Mountains, and the Dogū Was a Vessel for Moving Out the Not-Good Soul? Audio: LeoBunny (Real Voice) — original Japanese audio with English subtitles Read this episode:https://leobunny.net/episodes/en/ja001-s001/index.html What if a baby is born with just a body — and the soul has to come from somewhere else? In ancient Japan, p...

When something of yours mysteriously vanishes — your keys, a favorite pen, that travel mug you always leave by the coffee machine — what's the very first thought that flashes through your mind? For most of us, it's a quiet, automatic suspicion: who took it? This episode begins with a viral story from Japan — a cheap plastic umbrella that somehow traveled hundreds of miles from a Tokyo hotel to a s...

Have you ever looked at someone you've known for years and, just for a moment, felt like you were looking at a complete stranger? In this first episode, we explore a perspective from Leo Bunny — a spiritual practitioner from Japan — that quietly upends the way we think about human identity. A person, she suggests, isn't a single fixed consciousness, but more like an internal board of direc...

Hello, and welcome. I'm LeoBunny — thank you so much for being here with me. I want to start this very first episode by simply saying hello, and telling you a little bit about what this show is, and how it's made. I'm a spiritual practitioner based in Japan, and I only speak Japanese. I've been sharing my work for a while now on my original Japanese-language podcast, exploring the places where met...