
I attended a seminar, titled "Total Counseling School Seminar." He runs a school called Total Counseling School in Japan and focuses on helping out people in darkness to overcome the problem, accept/get accepted who he is and live his own life. He is also a pastor in a church in Japan. When I walked into the room, the seminar was in session already (I was late, since I had to drop my husband at the airport). As soon as I saw him, I whispered to myself, "He rather looks like a magician!" He was in a purplish blue suit with red stripes, with soft curly hair. If not a magician, he did look like one of those sales people talking a lot on those sales channels during the day time. He charges us $20 for this seminar, but if you take a real course in Japan, it is going to be six hundred to eight hundred dollars. His counseling style is based on the bible, but he rarely mentioned God or bible in the seminar. I would suggest they make this entry-level seminar free, whether he is using it to get a prospective customer in his business, or to spread the gospel, either way. Well, what bothered me the most was I am not quite sure whether he is doing it as a business person or as a servant to God. Anyway, I am not in the position to judge him, only God is, so that is none of my business, I guess. Oh, yes, towards the end of his talk, he talked about the time he was studying in the US a long time ago. He was in this trade to support himself. Know what? You guessed it right, a magician!