California Institute for Human Science: President's Message

Hiroshi Motoyama, Ph.D., Ph.D.
Founder and President of CIHS

Among the eight principles CIHS has established to guide its research, one aims at the integration of religion and science, and another is concerned with an integral view of human beings, to grasp humans according to the three dimensions of body, mind, and spirit. I would like to introduce here to those who are interested in studying and practicing these two integrations at CIHS, how the integral view of human beings is built on meditation and the mystical experience, and how the integration of religion and science is to be scientifically studied.

1) Subtle energy exists as a mediating point that integrates science and religion. About ten or so years ago, an academic association [for the study] of subtle energy was established in America, for which I served as one of the cooperating members during the incipient stage of its organization. There are two kinds of subtle energy: one that is physical in nature (i.e., ki-energy), and the other that is non-physical, spiritual in nature, which is not delimited by spatial and temporal determination.

Spiritual energy is a power capable of creating matter, which saints of various religions, be it Yoga, Daoism, Christianity, or Islamic Sufism, embody through their respective esoteric practices. They use it for healing people’s sicknesses, and it was also used when Christ divided a loaf of bread to share it with a few thousand people. Those who are awakened to such spiritual energy are capable of intuiting the essence of other souls and matter. This intuition is not merely knowledge, but possesses the power to change people’s mind and society. Cohabiting with people and nature, those who have awakened to this subtle energy are capable of creating harmony therein.

CIHS is conducting research on ki-energy employing a measuring device called AMI (an apparatus for measuring the function of meridians and their corresponding internal organs) which Motoyama invented. This device that measures ki-energy is currently used at many universities around the world.

Medical practice, based on the ki-energy that supports the life activity of living organisms, regards the living body not as formed matter, but as a comprehensive whole of vital energy or life-energy. This is differentiated from the medical practice/science which regards the living body as organic, comprised of a system of organs, and which further breaks it down into DNA consisting of various particles. The medicine of ki-energy is accepted by many people who are engaged in the practice of alternative medicines. This is because people are aware of the limitation of medicine based on mere matter, and because they experience on their own the effectiveness of subtle-energy (ki-energy) treatment. CIHS is conducting cutting edge research in this field and this study is incorporated into its curriculum.

Another subtle energy is spiritual energy. The Institute of Religion and Psychology in Tokyo has been conducting research on the existence of this energy, and this research is now also being continued by CIHS. I have already mentioned above that once the chakras (i.e., the wheel of light or aura) the spiritual energy centers of spirit-body are awakened through rigorous meditation practice, as is known since ancient times through the mystical experiences of Indian Yoga, Chinese Daoism and German mysticism, one can intuit the essence of nature and the minds of people such that one is capable of transforming and creating physical energy or matter to bring about a change in them. When a person whose chakras are awakened transmits spiritual energy to a specific chakra, ki-energy increases its volume in the meridians related to it. For example, if ki-energy is sent to the manipura-chakra, which transmits ki-energy to the digestive system (and which controls emotion and imagination), the meridians that are related to the manipura chakra, such as the stomach meridian, the spleen-pancreas meridian, and the liver-meridian, increase a volume of ki-energy. Consequently, the digestive system becomes activated.

Many experiments have been conducted in the study of spiritual energy, as mentioned above. This study can be schematized as follows: spiritual energy -> the chakras -> the meridians -> ki-energy, where “->” indicates a transmission of energy. And through these experiments the existence of spiritual energy has been scientifically verified. Based on the results of these experiments, new research is now being conducted to discover how to integrate the bio-energy of the physical dimension and the non-physical, spiritual energy. This is a research that aims at an integration of science and religion.

2) Spiritual Centered Education. This is designed to enable students to become aware through meditation practice and transcendent action that there exist in the human mind the unconscious, consciousness and super-consciousness. Meditation practice is the practical procedure of breaking through the confines of a small individuality so as to awaken to a higher dimension of the soul that lies behind it. Transcendent action is action in which one becomes the act itself by forgetting one’s self, and without expecting the fruit of action or profit, while holding in view that the action be beneficial to other people and society. It enables an individual to shatter the confines of a small individual existence, leading him/her to the world of a higher dimension of the soul such that he/she can help and save people, while becoming helpful to them. Those who can cohabit with nature and people are awakened to such a dimension of the soul and conscience, and can build a peaceful world for humankind, preventing the deterioration of society [as in the present situation] where people now are intoxicated in contemporary material civilization, forgetting about the human soul and conscience, and where there are people who commit murders and assert themselves at the expense of others.

CIHS provides instruction on a safe method (the practice of self-cultivation) and moral training that enables students to reach the spiritual world with certitude, without falling into spiritual emergency and into the virtual world where mere subjective illusion and hallucination prevail and which is detached from the true spiritual world and the real world. It is my wish to nurture people, based on scientific research, and moral and meditation training, who can cohabit with nature and people with an abundant sensibility and sensitivity and the kind of people who can have a deep insight into the nature of things with great power that can make a difference in the real world.

Books by Dr. Motoyama

Japanese Books by Dr. Motoyama

DAS MYSTISCH ERLEBNIS UND DAS "ABSOLUTE NICHTS", GOTT, GEIST UND NATUR

Principles to Integrate Various Religions in the World

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