The technique is borrowed from Indian guru Sai Baba, a healer whom Takahashi claims to have followed for 6,000 years through countless reincarnations.īorn at the outbreak of World War II, Takahashi is a chubby man with a willowy gray beard who lost vision in his right eye in an air-gun accident at 14. His 'treatment' is administered by touching palms on the patient's head and body. Entitled 'Father and Son's Bonds Are Connected at Once When the Son Nurses the Father,' the seriesa copy of which NEWSWEEK has obtainedrejects Japanese medicine, presents some of Takahashi's teachings and chronicles Takahashi's campaign to revive a man who, midway into volume 1, is clearly already dead. The gold nugget: a five-volume, 2,000-page account, authored by cult members under Takahashi's direction, of the guru's lengthy effort to help Kenji 'revitalize' his father. They netted material that could implicate the guru directly. Last week, they raided four Life Space facilities looking for the proof they need to prosecute group leaders for Kobayashi's death. Police in Japan don't buy the guru's explanation. 'I'm not as crazy as someone who would treat a dead man,' Takahashi told NEWSWEEK during a rambling, three-hour interview. There the Life Space guru, 61-year-old Koji Takahashi, began treating Kobayashi with gentle touches called 'shakty pats.' Police say the old man died soon thereafter, but the Life Space leader claims his patient was alive until the coroner performed the autopsy. Then, eight days after his accident, Kobayashi's 31-year-old son Kenji and two fellow cult members removed him from the Osaka facility against doctors' orders and took him to the Marroad. At the hospital, doctors identified a life-threatening cerebral hemorrhage. Last June the 66-year-old engraver slipped in the bathroom in his Osaka residence and was knocked unconscious. But key details of his death remain a mystery. The 'mummy' was quickly identified as Shinichi Kobayashi, a longtime Life Space follower. 'Don't touch,' one of them warned, 'he's still alive.' The stench of rancid flesh argued otherwise investigators who removed the withered body described it as 'mummified.' Coroners concluded that the elderly man had been dead for as long as four months before police raided the room. 11, they found a bathrobe-clad corpse lying on a bed in candlelightattended by two members of a cult called Life Space. When police were finally called in on Nov. They refused maid service, hid for months like recluses and ignored management's polite requests to vacate. The guests in room 1272 gave workers at Marroad International Hotel near Tokyo the creeps. By George Wehrfritz and Kay Itoi ('Newsweek International', December 6, 1999)

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