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CIHS
Newsletter
Volume VI Number 3 Spring 1999
 MESSAGE
FROM THE PRESIDENT
Hiroshi
Motoyama Ph.D., Litt.D.
President and Founder
California Institute for Human Science
Psycho-Spiritual Growth & Conscience
When
I observe the current phase of the world, I notice that industries,
staking their own survival, never tire of developing new technology
and materials; whereas, individuals busy themselves with building
a private fortune in search of an affluent material life.
Under
the capitalistic economy, both industries and individuals
are in search of material affluence, each constantly putting
themselves in severe competition. Those who have been defeated
and can’t catch up with the competition become poor,
which promotes an increase of crime. Contemporary people do
not have the time nor room for reflecting on others because
of the competitive nature of seeking the materially affluent
life, wherein it would seem “conscience" of not
doing evil to others is forgotten. When I reflect on the causes
of this world situation, the mode of human life and the social
organization, it would seem that one cause lies in two ways
of living which humanity adapted since its birth.
Archeological
and anthropological examination of ancient sites informs us
that since several hundred thousand years ago, humans have
feared psychic spirits, communicated with [departed] souls
and encountered spirits and gods through magic, shamanism,
polytheism and monotheism. Following their teachings each
society has led a religious life by erecting rules and morality
for its ethnic group.
By contrast, in the ancient period when humans appeared for
the first time, people were drenched on rainy days and on
cold days they could freeze to death for the lack of sufficient
clothing. They became sick eating raw meats and plants they
gathered. Many ethnic peoples became extinct in the ancient
period.
Homo
sapiens, an ancestor of the present humanity, emerged between
one hundred thousand and seventy thousand years ago. They
dwelled in pit-hole shelters, wore clothes of animal fur,
made the stone wares to grind the food for easy intake, and
invented the spear and arrow to hunt animals. Their way of
living made considerable progress by learning how to build
fires, by developing the technology to create the wheel for
carrying things around, and when compared with the people
of the earlier period, their way of living became far more
convenient. This is the result of humanity’s concerned
and constant effort to make their physical existence safe,
rich and convenient.
As is
seen above, humanity has adapted two ways of living; it has
led a spiritual and social life by creating rules and morality
in communication with the spirits; and it has sought to improve
the material life for the sake of making physical existence
(the body) safe and rich.
Since
the first industrial revolution started in 1760, humanity
has developed a new industrial technology by appropriating
the powers of fire, coal, oil and atom, which is tens of thousands
of times greater than those obtained by the ancient people
of earlier times. By developing new materials one after another,
humanity has achieved, in a surprising and impressive degree,
developments in such areas as housing, food, clothing communication,
transportation and medicine.
Humanity is now being indulged in the pleasure of a materially
affluent life which it has never enjoyed since its birth.
On the other hand, the pollution of the global environment
has risen everywhere—in the atmosphere, in the ocean
water and in the soil—due to the increase of the emission
of CO2, and other toxic chemical waste. Consequently, humanity
is suffering from the increase of allergic reaction, cancer
and other diseases which it has not experienced before.
In this connection, various problems have been pointed out
one after another, such as how to prevent the production of
CO2, global warming and the population explosion—in forty
to fifty years the world population is expected to reach 10
billion—and the production of food and the harvesting
of sea food have reached a ceiling, all of which is brought
about by the materially affluent life. Scholars, politicians
and agencies of the United Nations are idling time away, unable
to find solutions to these problems. Without bringing this
situation to their self-awareness, the general public is continuing
to pursue in his/her daily life a materially affluent life.
What should we do?
We need
to question afresh what humanity is. Can the human be content
with him/herself from the bottom of their being simply by
obtaining the materially affluent life? The evidence is to
the contrary, as can be seen in the New Age Movement, an emergence
of new religions, and the Born Again Movement. The general
public has a sense that humanity cannot secure true happiness
simply through material objects. In a society where individualism
is advocated in the pursuit of material objects for the sake
of satisfying physical existence, there has occurred an increase
of crimes and antisocial behaviors among the youth. The society
is on the way to a decrease of safety where one can not even
walk alone at night.
Science
has immersed itself in making use of material objects and
their improvement, leaving behind the problem of mind. The
period in which science predominates is a dark age for the
mind and soul. Now is a transitional period moving from material
objects to the mind and to the soul. It is a time in which
to be awakened to the mind (the soul) that does not rely on
the physiological activity of the brain, and which transcends
in activity and being the physical dimension of space-time.
The soul
that is the true self supports itself as well as others in
virtue of its love, wisdom and creative power; and, it forms
the root of conscience which regulates the [empirical] self,
while promoting good for others without doing evil. What is
most lacking in the contemporary period is conscience. Awaking
to the soul and putting conscience to work, I think, is one
of the most important tasks for humanity in the 21st century.
CIHS
PHASE II BUILDING RIBBON CUTTING CEREMONY
Dr. Hiroshi
Motoyama, Founder and President of the California Institute
for Human Science, “cut the ribbon" at the front
entrance of the CIHS Phase II building on January 29, 1999.
He named this new building Myo-Sei Center. The Dedication
ceremony included addresses from Dr. Motoyama, Mr. James Fraser,
president of Taylor Ball (General Contractor), and Mr. Hiroo
Kurano, architect with Kurano Associates, Inc.
Each
of the distinguished presenters gave a heart felt thanks to
Tamamitsu Jinja for their support in creating this new uniquely
attractive expansion of the CIHS campus. Please note that
the Shrine entirely funded the construction project. The CIHS
community is indebted to Tamamitsu Jinja’s unwavering
support for the growth of the Institute.
The head
of the city building department was so impressed with the
facility that she noted it was the “most beautiful new
structure" that she had seen in a long time. The new
Phase II structure is a two story building at 10,400 sq. ft.
The combined total size of the Phase I and II facilities is
20, 400 sq. ft. Aesthetically, the new building is unique,
with two round primary figures. The Phase II building entrance
is a round tower with brick. The southern part of the building
is a large round glass curtain wall. The new facility contains
twenty-one (21) rooms for multipurpose use (e.g., classrooms,
research labs, offices). Until the student enrollment at CIHS
grows to occupy the new building, some of the rooms will be
available for medical, alternative health care, and other
professional use.
CIHS
began it’s operation as a degree granting institute in
September, 1992, at a temporary facility at 609 South Vulcan
Ave. in Encinitas. The permanent facility for CIHS on Garden
View Court in Encinitas was conceptualized and implemented
by Dr. Motoyama in August, 1994. At that time Dr. Motoyama
decided to have two buildings, the first structure (Phase
I) envisioned as a rectangular one story building and the
second facility (Phase II) was projected as a circular or
round two story building. The phase I building was completed
in January, 1996 and consists of 10,000 sq. ft.. The final
construction plans and decision to go forward with the phase
II building was enacted by Dr. Motoyama in March, 1997.
The structural
design for the new building was made by Mr. Hiroo Kurano (who
was also the chief architect on the Phase I building) based
on Dr. Motoyama’s idea of a round two story facility.
From an architectural standpoint, round figures are difficult
to design and construct on site. Overall, the Phase II project
was a challenging task that took time, manpower and considerable
expense. The construction of the Phase II building started
in March, 1998. The first step was the excavation project
in order to have the same surface level with the Phase I building.
Unfortunately, lots of “liquid sunshine" courtesy
of El Niño disrupted construction progress last year.
Both
Phase I and Phase II buildings are used by the Institute for
educational purposes in accordance with CIHSEprinciples,
and will therefore allow the Institute to mature into a premier
center for higher learning and research. We are all very thankful
to Dr. Motoyama, the Head Priest of Tamamitsu Jinja, Mr. Kazuhiro
Motoyama, the Vice Head Priest of the Shrine and all of the
members of the Tamamitsu Jinja who have so graciously contributed
to the existence and growth of CIHS. In particular, we are
especially thankful to Mr. Kazuhiro Motoyama for his fund-raising
efforts for CIHS. We hope that the Phase I and Phase II buildings
will be very effective to foster CIHS and to ultimately realize
the mission and principles of the Institute.
Masatsune
Sato, Hon. Ph.D.
Chief Financial Officer
MYO-SEI
ALTERNATIVE MEDICAL CENTER
Finally,
Myo-Sei Alternative Medical Center is completed! It has taken
almost one year.
As you know, CIHS is a graduate school; but, it is also a
research center. One of CIHS’s objectives is to integrate
western and eastern medicine in an alternative medicine form.
The AMI,
an apparatus to measure functions of a meridian and the internal
organ corresponding to the meridian, is one of the strongest
apparatuses with which we can integrate western and eastern
medical diagnoses and treatment from pathological, physiological
and subtle-body energy standpoints. Currently, medical schools
and hospitals all over the world—not only in Japan and
the USA—are using the AMI for their diagnoses and treatment.
I hope
Myo-Sei Center will become one of the alternative medical
centers of the world.
Hiroshi
Motoyama Ph.D., Litt.D.
President and Founder
California Institute for Human Science
UPDATE
ON RESEARCH AT CIHS
The current
phase of research activities in the laboratory has been mainly
devoted to preparing papers for publication. In the last issue
of the CIHS Newsletter, we spoke about a paper written by
Dr. Motoyama comparing the BP values of White, Hispanic, Asian
and Japanese people. BP stands for Before Polarization and
has been shown to be a parameter of the Apparatus for Meridian
Identification, or AMI for short, related to human bioenergy.
The title of this paper is “Bioenergy Differences Among
RacesEand will be submitted soon for publication. Coauthoring
this paper with Dr. Motoyama are CIHS student Marguerite Rake
and myself.
Another paper that has been submitted recently has for its
title “Psychological and Physiological Correlates of
Motoyama’s Apparatus.EThe authors are Dr. Livesay,
Dr. Brophy and myself. This paper evaluated correlations between
standard personality tests and stress-rating scales at rest.
It also investigated for correlations between the AMI and
conventional psychophysiological and psychometric measures.
Results showed some significant correlations.
A third
paper has been prepared for publication with the title “Utility
of Superluminal Phototherapy in Alleviating Migraine Headache:
Preliminary ReportE The authors are Dr. Ralph Lerner
and myself. This paper is based on a method of treating people
using a combination of light therapy and acupuncture developed
by Dr. Lerner (France). No needles are used. Instead lights
of different colors are applied to different acupuncture points.
The choice of the acupuncture points to be treated and of
the colored light to be applied to each acupuncture point
is determined by a method derived from the Traditional Chinese
Medicine way of feeling the pulse on the wrist. This preliminary
report has shown that this method of treating migraine headache
is very promising. In fact, one research subject has been
without a migraine headache for more than one year at the
time of the writing of this article.
A fourth
paper is in preparation but the title has not been determined
yet. It will be on biophoton research and the authors will
be CIHS student Mr. Eugene Wallace, Dr. Motoyama, Dr. Brophy
and myself. We will keep you posted about the publisher and
date of publication of these papers.
Gaétan
Chevalier, Ph.D.
Co-Director, Human Science
Life Physics Laboratory Director
POST-DOCTORAL
INTERNSHIP
I am
a recent graduate from the California Institute for Human
Science’s School of Psychology. My current post-doctoral
internship is at Telecare San Diego CHOlCES, a sixty-two bed,
inpatient psychiatric, rehabilitation center. The clients
we serve primarily receive a diagnosis of either Schizophrenia,
or Bipolar disorder. About eighty percent of them have a chemical
dependency in addition to their primary Axis I diagnosis.
All of them are on a conservatorship and are mandated by the
court to receive treatment. There are two units. One is considered
a “sub-acute" unit consisting of a length-of-stay
of ninety days. The other, a “long-term" unit, which
houses what is categorized as severely, chronically ill patients.
The goal is to “rehabilitate" the clients so that
they may live successfully in the community, usually in community
based living (e.g., Board and Care). I work on the “short-term"
unit, assisting rehabilitation as well as facilitating admissions
and discharges. Clinical responsibilities range from one-to-one
client sessions, group and family therapy, as well as periodic
psychological testing. Additionally, I facilitate a clinical
treatment team that creates behavioral treatment plans for
each client.
CIHS has effectively prepared me as a clinical psychologist
with such courses as Clinical Assessment of Intelligence,
Abnormal Psychology, and Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis.
The courses are taught in a manner that is interesting as
well as informative and skill building. Even such “dry,"
mandatory subjects were presented in a fresh, creative manner
such as Contemporary Models of Human Intelligence. CIHS offers
an up-to-date education of the current trends in psychology
that makes for an exciting learning experience, while maintaining
the appropriate prerequisites for licensure, allowing me to
bring innovative approaches to clinical practice.
Writing
a dissertation may have been a lengthy task, yet was very
rewarding in that it sharpened my skills as a therapist. With
the help of Dr. Livesay, I came up with a topic for research
that enabled me to increase my knowledge and effectiveness
at implementing therapeutic interventions. The administrator
of the internship site has noticed a value in the outcome
of my research and we are currently collaborating on how we
can make it a part of the staff training.
Registering
for Post-Doctoral Internship at CIHS has been a tremendous
convenience. There are three other doctoral students at my
sight gaining supervision hours for licensure. They relate
horror stories of calculating hours, registering with the
Board of Psychology, and keeping track of a subdivision of
weekly supervision topics. CIHS takes care of all the important
data for licensure approval—keeping me free to focus
on clinical practice.
In summary,
the California Institute for Human Science has impressively
prepared me for a post-doctoral internship, streamlining the
hassles of accumulating hours of supervision for licensure.
I think it is imperative for anyone whose goal it is to obtain
a license from the state of California to register through
CIHS.
Darren
Testani, Ph. D.
FROM THE
EDITOR
On June
28, 1998, an annual meeting of the International Association
for Religion and Parapsychology (IARP, Chairman, Dr. Hiroshi
Motoyama) was held under this year’s thematic banner,
“What is religion?" Over twelve hundred people gathered
from all over Japan, from the northern tip of Hokkaido to
the southern end of the Kyushu Island, and pushed the capacity
of the conference hall beyond its limit. This unexpected turnout
prompted us to find an additional holding area. One of the
reasons for this surge, it seemed, was that people of different
generations were earnestly in search of a breakthrough in
the midst of losing purpose and a standard for living in an
age where the sense of value is highly diversified.
Speakers
for the lectures and the panel discussions included, along
with Dr. Hiroshi Motoyama: Mr. Yukio Funai, a well-known business
consultant in Japan who has over five thousand firms as his
clients; Mr. Kazuo Inamori, the honorary chairman of Kyocera
Ltd.; Ms. Yoko Kirishima, a critic; Mr. Noritoshi Kageyama,
a priest of the Nichiren school of Buddhism; Dr. Susumu Oda,
a professor of social psychiatry at Kokusai Fukushi University
and an authority in this field; Mr. Sodo Yasunaga, a monk
of Rinzai Zen Buddhism; and Mr. Kazuhiro Motoyama, a priest
of the Tamamitsu shrine and the advisor to CIHS. Each speaker
gave an impressive talk from his/her own standpoint; but to
condense their talks in summary, it seemed that all the speakers
agreed that religion lies in an elevation of personality by
leading an ethical, moral life, while achieving a mystical
experience in connection with “Something Great."
Moreover, they seemed to have agreed that in order for an
idea or a thought to be realized, it must be in accord with
an evolutionary direction of the cosmos that is set by “Something
Great."
Does
“Something Great," then, actually exist? If so,
what is it? How can we discover the universals hidden deep
behind the multiplicity of ethnic and cultural forms appearing
in connection with this “Something Great" How can
we systematize the various phases of mystical experience that
obtain in connection with “Something Great" The
purpose of establishing CIHS is to deal with these issues
scientifically and from a viewpoint of various fields of scholarship.
I feel that we are at the very beginning point of these endeavors.
It is my sincere hope to proceed on this path through a cooperation
with everyone—those directly or indirectly related to
CIHS—while encouraging each other.
Kaoru
Motoyama, Hon. Ph.D.
Chief Editor
CIHS
COURSE SCHEDULE
Spring
Quarter, 1999 April 5-June 19, 1999 Registration - March 22-26,
1999
COURSE
# COURSE TITLE INSTRUCTOR UNITS START DATE DAY & TIME
* PSY 503 Biological Psychology Livesay 4 4/6/99 Tuesdays,
11:30-3:30 pm
* PSY 702 Contemporary Models of Human Intelligence Livesay
4 4/8/99 Thursdays, 5:15-9:15 pm
* PSY 703/HUS 775 Psychology of Shamanism Johnson 4 4/6/99
Tuesdays, 5:15-9:15 pm
* PSY 899A Dissertation I Livesay 4 TBA TBA
* PSY 889B Dissertation II Livesay 4 TBA TBA
PSY 900C Post Doctoral Internship in CLinical Psychology III
Livesay 1 TBA T
* HUS 575/PSY 760 Eastern and Western Perspectives on Health
and Disease Quini 4 4/7/99 Wednesdays, 5:15-9:15 pm
EHUS-LP 605 Basic Classical Physics Brophy 4 4/8/99
Thursdays, 4:00-8:00 pm
* HUS-LP 609 Cellular Biocommunication Theory and Research
Backster 4 4/18/99 Sunday (4/18), 1:00-5:00 pm
Mondays (4/19-6/14), 6:00-10 pm
§ HUS-LP 712 Biophoton Research Chevalier 4 4/7/99 Wednesdays,
1:00-5:00 pm
* HUS-899A Dissertation I Chevalier 4 TBA TBA
* HUS 899B Dissertation II Chevalier 4 TBA TBA
*=Core Curriculum Course ERequired for Life Physics
Specialization §=Lab Fee Required
CIHS
Classes
Recommended for Non-Student Audit
Psychology
of Shamanism
Dr. Willard Johnson.
Starting Tuesday, April 6, 1999, 5:15-9:15 pm
Eastern
and Western Perspectives on Health and Disease
Dr. Romeo Quini.
Starting Wednesday, April 7, 1999, 5:15-9:15 pm
Cellular
Biocommunication Theory and Research
Hon. Dr. Cleve Backster.
Starting Sunday, April 18, 1999, 1:00-5:00 pm
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