California Institute for Human Science: Newsletter: Volume VI Number 4 SUMMER 1999

CIHS Newsletter
Volume VI Number 4 SUMMER 1999

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

Hiroshi Motoyama Ph.D., Litt.D.
President and Founder
California Institute for Human Science

SELF- AWARENESS OF BEING A GLOBAL PERSON

For the last eight years, I have lived half the year in Japan and the other half in the U.S.A.. As a result, I have begun to feel that I am both an American and a Japanese; but at the same time, I am neither. Instead, I have begun to feel that I am a global person.

The first couple of year I lived in California, a land dictated by its weather and climate, working together with Americans and giving classes to students, I felt as if I was living in a foreign country, because it was unfamiliar to me. As soon as I returned to Japan, I would feel relieved that I had come back to my own home country - to my place in life in which I am Japanese, Embraced comfortably by Japanese weather and climate.

However, after four or five years, the American way of life, her weather and climate and her people's minds and hearts started gradually entering into my interior. I became assimilated into them. When I returned to America, a sense of relief would well up in me that I had returned to my home -to my own land- as I approached my house in Carlsbad, near San Diego. Nevertheless, I would still feel when I returned to Japan.

In April of 1999, When I was on board, JAL jet en route to Japan, I was listening to enca songs. When I listened to them thorough earphones, I felt that these songs were something "dampening," "melancholic" and heterogeneous; and I felt that they were incompatible with me. I found myself puzzled with my own response, and I wondered why I felt this way.

The U.S.A. is a new country with a history of a little over two hundred years since its independence. She is established as a country of multiethnicity, where many ethnic groups entered as immigrants. Among Americans, it is rare to find an individual whose blood is not mixed with four or five different ethnic groups. There are offspring whose blood is , in extreme cases mixed with seven or eight ethnic groups. It would be difficult to find a pure Britain, a pure Italian, a pure Indian, or a pure Japanese. Americans are multi-ethnic peoples, who have mixed blood. They are fundamentally like a sandwich. In spite of the acceleration of mixing, there still remains a sense of strong discrimination and mutual distrust among the different ethnic groups. For this reason, people do not trust each other. The mechanism the society is entirely based on contract.

In a society mobilized only by following distrust and contract, while upholding a capitalist system that strongly seeks individualism and capital gain, interpersonal relationships are extremely dry. They are not "wet." I recall that the president of a Japanese firm headquarters in the U.S.A. said that," Once I became used to the American way of life, I didn't want to return to Japanese life where the snare of obligations binds the society. It is depressing. If one fails to constantly show concern for others, he/she will be ostracized. It's all 'wet'."

I felt something heterogeneous as I detected elements that are "wet" and "melancholic" in the enka song; and I thought to myself, "Have I become accustomed to "dry " interpersonal relationships just like the above mentioned president?" I wondered if I had been Americanized. I couldn't bring myself to believe it. Everyday when I go to school, I drive over the hills, through the flat land and around the lagoon. While driving the car to school I enjoy listening to American country music, feeling that the music and the scenery match well. In spite of this, I still feel something heterogeneous. I am made to realized I am not American.

At the university, people of different ethnic origins are working: British, French, Italian, German, American Indian, Afro-American, Indian, Japanese and Chinese. The student body is also international.

I hold the view the humanity is a whole consisting of body, mind and soul. The tones of skin colors, such as black, white and yellow, are simply differences caused by the color of the epidermis in response to the sun light., depending on the weather climatic regions where these peoples have lived over several tens of thousand of years, i.e., whether the melanin has been increased or not. However, the essential being of humans is the soul, karana consciousness in Yoga, alaya consciousness in Buddhism, and the soul with eternal life in Christianity. It enables individuality and sociality to be compatible with each other. With wisdom, love and creativity, it enables people to sympathize with each other, helping and supporting each other with mutual trust. People can coexist with harmony. Based on this belief, I have associate my self with the professors, staff and students of the university. Now, the ambiance at CIHS is such that the professors and staff are performing their jobs in mutual trust and with enthusiasm, with a view to making the university grow. They place emphasis on the educational ideal in which the view of humans is predicted on wholeness of body, mind, and soul. In order to actualized a global humanity.

I, myself, am both an American and a Japanese; and yet, I am neither. I am a global person. No, I am beginning to increasingly sharpen my self-awareness that I am no other that a Human.

Overview of Dr. Motoyama's Course: Theory & Application of Meridian Research

In this course, Dr. Motoyama started by explaining his discoveries about the nature of the meridians based on years of research in Japan. First, Dr. Motoyama explained the difference between a nerve reaction (Galvanic Skin Response or GSR ) and a meridian reaction. To explain this difference, Dr. Motoyama went to present the electrical properties of connective tissue in which the meridians are located, showing that a meridian response is different than an electrical response of the nerves. Next, Dr. Motoyama explained the functioning of the AMI and how to interpret the three parameters BP( Before Polarization), AP( After Polarization) and IQ (Integral Electrical Charge). Then, the class shifted to the laboratory where Dr. Motoyama showed how the AMI systems available at CIHS. Dr. Motoyama had the students practice doing AMI assessments on each other. The possibility to do continuous measurements on one acupoints was also presented. The students were then given a test to determine whether they could perform consecutive AMI measurements accurately.

Next, Dr. Motoyama explained in detail the path followed by each meridian according to traditional Chinese medicine adding from the time to time information based on his own research. He also explained the important acupoints such as the alarm points, the associated points, the source points and the well points. He showed on subjects how to recognize deficiency or excess in a meridian by looking at the region of the skin where the meridian is and by using the alarm and the associated points. Dr. Motoyama also made clear the mechanism of relation between the meridian system and nervous system and how they contribute to control the functions of each organ.

In the last part of the course, Dr. Motoyama showed pathological cases such as a person a missing lung and how the AMI reading s can pick up the health condition for each case. Dr. Motoyama also showed how he came to a very effective way of treating people using very few acupoints after tow years of intense research with the AMI. This course was videotaped.

For half an hour at the end of each course, Ms.Yuki Yamada demonstrated many exercises developed by Dr. Motoyama to help flow of the energy in the meridians. A video of these exercises was done by the CIHS Alumni Society.

Gaetan Chevalier, Ph.D.
Co- Director, Human Science,
Life Physics Laboratory Director

UPDATE ON RESEARCH AT CIHS

In this newsletter, I would like to report on new research collaboration with CIHS. There have been recently a number of new project that are exciting and that the reader could benefit from knowing about.

The first collaboration would like to talk about is with Dr. Jaime A. Pineda and his group at the cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory (CNL) of UCSD. This project will use the AMI and EEG equipment to test a new concept Dr. Pineda and his group came up with, which they call "imaginoception. "According to their definition, imaginoception is a critical component of cognition, which includes a combination of imagination and receptivity. Imaginoception interacts with other neural, endocrine and immune system of the body. The project is to examine the effects of hypnotic suggestion on EEG and on the functioning of the organs and their corresponding acupuncture meridians using the AMI. This project will have started at the time you received this information.

Another project in the planning to study the benefits of Dahn-Hak on the functioning of children using the AMI and other physiological equipment. Dahn-Hak started as an ancient Korean system of training and education ot develop both mind and body, Dahn tradition, after being lost for tow thousand years, has been recently rediscovered by Grand Master Lee ( Mr. Seung Hun Lee) and the first center was opened in Korea in 1985. Collaborators include Professor Geoffrey K. Leigh of University of Nevada, Reno and The Sedona Dahn Retreat Center. we plan fro this project to start a dissertation by one CIHS Students (Jean Metzker).

More projects are in the planning and will be reported to you as they come in.

Note: A paper submitted to Psychological Reports by Dr. Livesay and I has been accepted for publication in tire June 1999 issue. The title of the paper is "Pilot Study on the Relationship between Personality Traits and Skin Conductivity of "specific Surface Points as Measured by Motoyama's Apparatus." In this paper we investigated whether there is a correlation between the variable of the Eysenck Personality Inventory (assessing the dimensions of extraversion and neuroticism) and the 28 raw AP (After Polarization) values as measured by the AMi (Apparatus for Meridian Indication, called Motoyama's apparatus in the paper) on 33 subject. Corrections show significant relationship between neurotics and extraversion raw scores on tow of the 28 AP values.

Gaetan Chevalier, Ph.D.
Co- Director, Human Science,
Life Physics Laboratory Director

CIHS STUDENT REPORT

Crossing the Barrier of Cross-Cultural Wisdom

It's the winter of 1999, and the start of the advanced meridan research course taught by Dr. Hiroshi Motoyama. Finally, after one year at CIHS, a chance to take a course from the founder himself.

During the first lecture, Dr. Motoyama spoke softly and used few words. In his best English, he was explaing the foundation of his work. At first I thought I was having a problem understanding his English, but soon I realized it was not just language -I was having difficulty understanding the material.

Dr. Motoyama's work was deeply embedded in science and spirituality, philosophy and medicine, physiology and physics, engineering and electricity, magnetism and polarity, resistance and capacitance, current and potential, central nervous system and organs, meridan system and Chi, cellular communications and acupuncture, visceral cutaneous regions and much, much more.

I left the first lecture in awe; as if I was in a trance - a trance induced by his wisdom and genius. I remember saying to myself, "this man is a genius." Learning had a new flavor. Dr. Motoyama managed to embody his work and unify both scientific research and the experiential component of life. He wasn't reciting some theory about time and space, instead he was telling me about my body, my self, my essence.

I went home determined to study to be better prepared for his next lecture. Where do I start? Physics? Electricity? Physiology? The list was too long, so I decided not to study but just to come to the next class prepared to better observe him, in hope of discovering his secret.

During the next class I observed attentively and discovered a childlike man- open ,curious, loving and humorous, Even watching him unwrapping a tootsie roll was an experience to remember.
And soon enough I found myself in a trance. It was as if he spoke directly to my deep self, my intuitive self, explaining the mind, body and spirit interaction within and without. I was fascinated.

After the next class I decided that maybe the way to better understand Dr. Motoyama was to speak to him. But were do I start? What do I say? Surely he was too busy to take time for me. I was very nervous about approaching him- lost for words and confused about style. So I decided to call my friend Fukudasan. "Fukuda, how do I approach Dr. Motoyama. What do I say?" She laughed and said, " Try 'Hello' John."
"O.K., and what do I say after 'hello'?". " Just be open". And so began my dialogue with Dr. Motoyama.

Konnichiwa Sensei ! I would like to get to know you and do not know where to start. It took me some time to build the courage to say those words, but when I did it was the key that opened the opportunity to amazing experience. Most are deeply private, but I have one story to share. One day we were walking down the cliffs of Del Mar along the ocean when out of nowhere an attach hawk came floating up and hung directly above the head of Dr. Motoyama This big beautiful bird, with his wings wide open, ready to hunt, just floating a few feet above the head of Dr. Motoyama. Dr. Motoyama just calmly pointed his camera and recorded the video, just like a child. It looked like they were carrying a dialogues natural. It was an amazing moment that lasted for a long time. The stuff legends are made of.

Special thanks to Yukisan for beautiful yoga, to Mrs. Shiratorisan for her smile, to Dr. Chevalier for his deep respect and translation of Dr. Motoyama, to Dr Brophy for creating space, and especially to Mrs. Motoyama for welcoming me. Thanks to all.

Arigatou Sensei and Mrs.!!! My time with you this year changed my life. I now understand on a deep level what it means to have another illuminate my life. My time with you I will always cherish and will serve as wisdom and intuition to guide my journey.

John Ayoub
CIHS Student

First Alumni Music Fest

The weather could have been better, but nobody knew it was cold outside as soon as the Clear , Blues Machine warmed up the CIHS Lecture Hall with electric sounds of Delta and Chicago style blues.

Saturday, March 6, marked a first for CIHS, when students, alumni, faculty and friends gathered for the premiere Alumni Association Music and Food Festival.

It had been planned as an outdoor event to celebrate the completion of Myo-Sei Alternative Medical Center on the campus, but cold, dark clouds force the festivities inside. With the help of bright balloons and colorful tablecloths, the amazing Mireya Fuertes transformed the usually serene Institute into rooms filled with party atmosphere.

The food for sale was definitely eclectic , as well as international, ranging from sushi and Indian potato ball to Cokes and chocolate chip cookies. And, as an added attraction, Mrs. Motoyama created here beautiful calligraphy. For a small donation to the Alumni Association, participants could have their names written in Japanese characters.

When the musicians took a break, those who hadn't seen the inside yet got the grand tour of the new building. But that day, the music was definitely the center of attention.

All afternoon, dance music filled the air, luring listener to their feet. Even the folks manning the food tables were tapping their toes as they made changes. And inside the Lecture Hall, everybody was on their feet, dancing in pairs or in big, circular free-for -alls, cheering , clapping and twirling.

The spirit was catching. Even Mrs. Motoyama , who had been having leg trouble and was walking with a cane a few days earlier, was out on the dance floor moving to the music and grinning from ear to ear.

The energy was so high that no one wanted to stop. The band played on until darkness began to fall, caught up in the excitement of a group that truly know how to party. Finally everyone headed off into the night, with their tired feet, smiling faces and maybe just one more cookie for the road.

I can't possible list all the people who devoted may hours to making food, helping set up , manning tables and cleaning up when it was ll over but thank you all. You know who you are.

And the rest of you: now you know what you missed.

Tiffany Porter
CIHS Alumna

Does ESP Exist?

Surveys show that a significant majority of Americans believes in ESP and related phenomena. Many scientist, however, hold the view that the case for ESP is not proven. May we conclude from this that the belief in the existence of ESP is more like the belief in God rather that the belief in the reality of gravity? Contrary to the prevailing view in the main stream science, the consensus among the scientists who are actually involved in ESP research is that there is compelling evidence in support of the existence of ESP and PK. ESP is the ability to obtain information shield from the sense, and PK is the ability to influence events by the direct action of mind over matter.

The Evidence

The evidence for ESP is of two kinds. First is the body of reported cases of ESP experiences. Consider, for example the case noted by the renowned German philosopher Immanueul Kant. Emanuel Swedenborg, a versatile scholar, visiting a friend in Stockholm, had a sudden "vision" of the raging fire at that very moment in the city of Gothenburg about 300 miles away. Swedenborg described it to about fifteen people gathered at his friend's house in great detail and how the fire was extinguished "third door" from his house. A messenger arrived much later from Gothenburg and, as Kant notes, in the letters he brought "the conflagration was described as Swedenborg had stated it." There was apparently no way Swedenborg could have know about the fire in any normal way. Edmund Gurney and colleagues published in 1886 many similar cases in their book Phantasms of the Livings. Since then there have been several other surveys of spontaneous ESP experiences, the prominent among them being a collection of several thousand cases by L.E. Rhine which is now deposited in Duke University archives.

The second kind of evince comes from laboratory experiments. Even though the credit for conduction the first major experimental investigation of ESP and turned psychical research, an amateur endeavor, into parapsychology a professional and scientific study of anomalous psychological phenomena. As McVaugh and Mauskopf note, Rhine gave the field " a shard language, methods and problems." Rhine's experimental procedures were simple and easy to repeat. He asked his subjects to guess the randomized order of the cards in a deck of twenty-five consisting five each of five symbols: a circle, cross, wavy lines, square, and star. The Pearce--Pratt experiment by Rhine was a methodological culmination of the early attempts to test for ESP. This series of experiment which had special precautions to exclude all types of error, such as tow -expeimeter controls, independent record keeping, and several hundred yards of distance between the subject and the target cards, gave highly significant results providing evidence in support of the ESP hypothesis.

The Conclusive Experiment

Since the publication of Rhine's monograph Extrasensory Perception in 1943, there have been numerous experiment al reports that provided evidence of ESP and PK. There were also various kinds of criticism against the evidential value or Rhine's results, but that would convincingly argue against the genuineness of the results without a presumption of fraud on the part f the investigators, an unlikely possibility. In the light of the investigators, an unlikely possibly. In the light of the fact that Rhine's results were not replicated by some other investigators, there were calls for a conclusive experiment, a completely "foolproof" study that would control for all conceivable error, including experimenter fraud. I find the demand for an error-proof experiment an impossible goal, a tempting mirage because in retrospect one can always speculation a possible artifact, then a good case can be made for more that one such experiment in parapsychology.

The REG experiment of Helmut Schmidt, a physicist at Boeing Scientific Laboratories at time of conducting these experiments, may be cited as an example of well-controlled research that can be accorded the status of a conclusive experiment Schmidt experiments were carried out with specially built machines that controlled against all know artifacts were carried out with specially built machines that controlled against all know artifacts such as recording errors, sensory, leakage, subject cheating and improper statistical analysis of the data. The Schmidt mach, as it has come to be know, randomly selected the target and automatically record both the target selections and subject's response. The subject's task was to select which of the four lamps in the panel would light up an to press the corresponding button to indicate the selection. Random lighting of the lamps was achieved by a sophisticated random even generator (REG) with a radioactive source, strontium 90. After extensive testing i control trial, it was determined that the output of the REG did not deviate significantly fro chance. The results of each highly significant results suggesting ESP on the part of the subjects tested.

K. Ramakrishana Rao, Ph.D.
Distinguished CIHS Adjunct Faculty
(To be continued in the Fall 1999 newsletter)

DON'T FORGET CIHS' SUMMER COMMENCEMENT

The Institute proudly announce it's fifth graduation ceremony schedule at CIHS on Sunday, August, 29, 1999, 10.00am - 12.00pm. The commencement address will be given by distinguished CIHS adjunct faculty K. Ramakrishana Rao, Ph.D. This is a very important event for the CIHS community. We look forward to seeing you here.