There are conversations that inform you, and then there are conversations that restructure something inside you. Our session with Japanese shaman Isao Kato was the latter.

I’ve never heard someone speak about death, suicide, entities, and the invisible layers of our reality with such clarity, simplicity, and groundedness. These are topics people normally avoid, either out of fear or misunderstanding and yet the way Isao described everything made it feel surprisingly logical. Almost obvious. As if he wasn’t teaching something mystical, but simply pointing out a world that has always been there.

What stayed with me the most was Isao’s framing of death as “waking from a dream.” Not an ending, not a tragedy, not a punishment but a transition into a state that is actually more real than the physical world we cling to. The idea that some souls pass through cleanly while others loop due to unfinished business offered a compassionate, non-dramatic view of what we often fear the most.

His explanation of suicide was equally striking. Not moralized. Not romanticized. Just honest. Some souls leave early. Some struggle. Some drift. But regret, he reminded us, is not a soul-based emotion it belongs to the human experience. That alone lifted so much heaviness from a topic that carries so much silence.

The distinction between the upper, middle, and lower worlds was another moment of clarity. Understanding that the upper and lower worlds are benevolent realms while the middle world, our world, is the unpredictable one suddenly made the entire cosmology make sense. It framed the unseen not as something to fear, but as something to understand.

But perhaps the most grounding moment was when he spoke about entity attachments. Instead of making it spooky or sensational, he broke it down into something incredibly simple: frequency. Resonance. Mismatch. Hygiene.

No fear. No theatrics. Just clarity.

And it was his point about spiritual hygiene beginning with the physical body that tied it all together. Before we cleanse energies, patterns, or histories, we tend to the vessel. The human part. The grounded part. The place where spirit meets matter.

As I sat with all of this afterward, what surprised me most was how normal everything felt.

Not strange.

Not unbelievable.

Just… true.

It made me realize that the unseen world isn’t separate from us, it’s woven into our daily lives, our emotions, our experiences, our pain, and our healing. And conversations like this help bring those threads into the light.

There’s something powerful about hearing someone speak the truth of their experience with no need for performance or persuasion.

Just clarity.

Just presence.

Just truth.

I walked away feeling less afraid of death, more curious about life, and more aware of the invisible structures that shape what we call reality. And if this conversation did anything, it reminded me that understanding the unseen doesn’t pull us away from life, it actually roots us deeper into it.