We are very pleased to announce the visit of a spirit-writing (fuji 扶乩 or 扶箕) community from Taiwan, hosted by CAS-E at the invitation of ISCSD president and CAS-E director Michael Lackner.
The practice of “writing with the phoenix brush” remains widespread in Taiwan and parts of China to this day. A religious temple community requests a message from a deity. The deity “descends into the brush” and empowers a medium to write characters either in a container filled with sand or ash, or directly on a tabletop. These characters form the deity’s message, which may serve the moral renewal of humanity or provide answers to individual questions from community members.
(Please click on the poster to see the full event information.)
For the first time, a Phoenix Community from Taiwan will perform this ritual publicly in Germany.
At two locations:
- July 4 at 7:00 PM at the Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Erlangen (Katholischer Kirchplatz 8)
- July 6 at 6:00 PM at the Katharinensaal in Nuremberg (Am Katharinenkloster 6)
Don’t miss the opportunity to take part in this extraordinary event.
Update
Both spirit-writing sessions drew an enthusiastic and welcoming audience and were a success both in terms of cultural exchange and personal experience, especially for those spectators who enjoyed a personal fortune-telling or a spiritual cleansing.
You can find a more detailed report here: “Writing with the Phoenix Brush” in the Nuremberg Metropolitan Region – Recap
