Happy Science’s Channelled Universe and Films

Record summary

Kōfuku-no-Kagaku, commonly translated as Happy Science, is a Japanese new religious movement founded by Ryuho Okawa. Its books, lectures, films, and websites present purported communications from Buddhas, extraterrestrials, historical figures, and other spiritual entities, often within a large cosmological system. The movement offers an identifiable corpus for comparing channeling, mass media, political activism, and commercial religious production. Researchers should separate bibliographic evidence that the works exist from the truth of their revelations, and should account for changing translations, editions, and institutional claims after Okawa’s death.