Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-0%U?y000400390001 PARAPSYCHOLOGY IN JAPAN Tntroduction In 1992, div Yupanese Society for Parapsychology celebrated its 25th anniverswy with a three- day conference in Tokyo. This society was founded by Professor Snji OtRrii, an academic p3ychologi~t at the Japanesc Defonse Academy. it has been the mainstay of responsible parapsychology in Japan, and has Ws liacllcutual roots both in traditional Inpannie approaches and in the Amorican cxperimental appiwwli of J.B Rbine. The latter influence is largely due to the time spent by Otani in Mine's lab in die mird 1960's, and more recently by Dr Shigeki liagio, all academic psychologist from Kagosbima Keizai University, in the southern part of Japan. The Society has a small membership, with relatively few empirical contributions, averaging about seven reseurch-related roports each year. Separate sections below will cover this year's ISP convention, as well as reqearch recently initiatcZ at Sony. Before con.Mdering TP.Cent research and researchers, some general comments on the social context of parapsychology in Japan may he helpful, All are, a mix of subjective impressions from the author's visit. Japan is a very polite, socially structured society, Criticism is indirect, infcn-cd and orten rather gradual. Confrontation or debate at conferences or in the media has bocn, quite r&re altbough that is changing. Researchers acknowledge that they obtain more, diroct and detailed criticibin when they present their work internationally. This is unfn. rtunate. for parapsychology, where critical reedlmuk is newessary to avoid the many pitfalls of design, methodology, analysis and interpretatiun th4t can so easily arise, especially with novice researchers. Somc Japanese roseamh projects appear to suffer from lack of critical feedback. Tr has often been said that when people do not like an idca they will ignore it raEhcr than confront it. There has been very littIc public criticism of pai-apsychology by skeptical groups or academies, therefore, which probably is not a good thing. It inemb that dic topic has been and can hp safely ignored by the academiclintellectual community. This is mflected in ft deuLli of bona fide acedernicians currently involved and in &ie relutive lack ofstudcnt inyolvcincia. 44 difficult if not impnssible to interest university senior staff and administrators. Thcre is insufficient precedent and universitieq are very conservative, and reluctant to take on new ideas. '"Me. nail that stands out gets harnmered down" is a well-known proverb, frequently cited In convmation. The lack of academic invNvement and other public discussion means thatscrious publiu assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of parapsychological research is greatly reduced. TIiis in turn further marginaliscs the subject for potential serious researchers. An additional consequence is that the media themselves have no real guidelines for distinguishing bctween competellL and tiloppy research, in their own country and eliewhere. Many programs are made which describe rescarch activities in Ciiiiia, Russia. North America and Europe, which are very popular but have littlc quality control, Idpwirso psychics are prew,nted primarily through televised demonstrations which arc often poorly contrulled, This situation is amenable to some change, however, as Japanese media are eager to avoid mistakes or being regarded after the fart as foolish. But when they seek advice, they have littlc idea Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0400390001-1 02/06 'Y3 14'30 Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0400390001-1 t1jen.)3cives of Lilt dugyto of experENe of those They consult, This is not unique to Japanese media, of course. A recent example of meAlia conflict oycr psychic claims is mcnflone4 in tho aum;hud article by James McClenon, Japanese society as a whole is very open to parapsychology and to intelligent re."arch in such areas. Survey figurus show that only 10% of Japancit clahu iuUgious belief, yet 80% claim to practice Buddhism and 80% claim to practice Shinto. Most Japanese actively practice both, and trequently engage in riLuals of Yiuiom sorts which imply direct interaction between their own mental activities and the surrounding environment, including interaction with spirits. Supplicatory prayea is umiunun. even by tbose who would claim that it's only a placebo, or that they are engaging in a souiul uut to show their peor3 how dediratcd they are lowiads various goals. The idea of usln2 modern tools to explore. ~,ncient claim is acceptable to most, because Japanese society emphasiscs the integration Of thC Old With LlIC LIOV in so Triany ways. Current Imerem. in exploring psychic powers seems uurrently to focus on China and Russia/Siberia. generally hcld by auadca~cs to be tht two ximin arzientsources of Dpanesc spiritual tradition. Siberia is less frequently acknowledged by the public as a wholc, but evidenco of Sibcdan shamanism a5 well as Liduubiricbc shamanism (via Okinawa) can be. seen in the forms of Shinto. practices in less developed regions (occasionally refemd to as Mountain Shinto Of "LlwUlItailt religion". Licluded wt. various mediumisTic and bealing practices, as well as ideas of the concentration of mental energy later Incorporatcd in the mountain-based Ninja Li-aining utntre% and In the Chincst tradition of QL Aq A msult of various factors including the above, serious psychical rcsc=h in Japan tends to be practised by a handful of academics, by a few inembers of the medical community, and by individuals or small groups within industry, The most impressive exatuple vf dir, latter are the resewch fiLcilities at theSnny Research Center in Yokohama. ParapNychology Research at Sony Professor.&-.iji Otani and the author visited the Sony Research Centcr in Augult, 1992, wlicre thero arr, two laboratories involved in parapsychological research. Out hosts were three electrical engineers; Dr Toshiro Terauchi, Sonior Manager of the ESPER Laboratory; Dr Yoichh-o Sako, Represenmrive of the ESPER Laboratory; and Dr Mitsuru Takashima, Assistant Manager of thz Pulsograph Ldboratory. Although all three spoke English, Dr Terauchi wxved as our primary translator. We were given a brief history and introduction W the roscarch of tho two labs. Seven yoms oadiur, Mr Ibuka, Honorary Chairman of Sony Corporation, established a lab with DrTakashima., to explore the mind-body aspccts of oriental nwdiviuc. After three years the Pulzograph Lab was formed, to examine Eastern approaches through the tools of Western medicine. This has involved working with Chincso Qiguug pTactitionem, primarily Mr Nagoya who has joined thern- They study interactions between heaters and non-clinical volunteers, focussing on the physiology of both hcalej- and ulient, Measures are. taken while the lioulor bm-orneqrelaxed and while, the heater gives and receives energy, These measurm so fu have been taken on people in the same ivuw; no rernmr, influence studies as yet, 'I'hey intend 2 Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0400390001-1 U2110b Wd Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0400390001-1 to look at differences in hcalors, both Japanese and Chincsoc, as well as differonc,03 in healing environments, Although they employ a variety of measurcs including EEG, body tcnaperaturr, and standard plethysmography, their muin inrovation so far is the dovolopment of the pulsegraph, an instrumcnt for measuring pressure in the arteries at three, adjacent locations, primarily in the left and right wrists. The device places pressure on the artery at three adjacent shes, varying the amount of pressure from hard to merely "floating". This gives a total of 12 readouts, six from each hand , and enables assessment of vasomotor activity, heart rate, heart beat amplitude, blond flow, visrosily, vessel elasticity iind heart valve movement. Professor Otani and I both went through this procedure and our polygraph recordq were examined afterwards by Mr Nagoya. He examined the rawwave forms themselves &,; well as the variouq digitised readings provided, focussing on various patterns. He then gave a descAption both of dic cardlovasvuhu- health of the individual, plus a character reading based on an assessment of what the body-mind intcraction was likely to be, e.g. I'm d nice pcr3on because my Wdy !Ml't giving my viscera a hard tinic. This procedure seetned to reprr,&cnt their main accomplishintia so far, and they fc1t that thcy had dcvised a scientifically solid procedure for ineasuring procesHes suggested by Eastern techniq 'ue. The author has since Icarncd that Chincsoc practitioners routinely put three fingers on each pulse for several minutes, first one. then the other, and that this constitutes a major medical obsuvation for them. The Pulsograph Lab, then, had been primarily a lab for development of psychophysiologicil measurements so far, Find Their research was only gradually turning toward procedures that would enable measurement of remote int'hience within a medical context. On the other hand, the ESPER. Lab, less than a year old at the time, was to be dedicated to more directly pai-apylAiulugical procodures. its origins had apparently come from a major reassessmentof Sonyprioritics for the 2lsL contui) by thr. R wulD Curporatc Planning0roup. rn debating between "outer space" and Intier space" they had sclcvtod inner space as less expensive and as less likely to bc, donc better in Western society. A Hun-= Science Wofkliip, Group had identiftod four arcas of intcrrst: brain sciences, social scizn", highly creative individuals (Wists and producers of impressive works), and spwial mental abilities, including psi and Qigong practice. They had decided to emphasise China, as country of origin, and through Mr Ibuka and the Chinese government, Sony representatives were allowcd to mcot Qigong practitioners. '11ey were impromd and reported to the Chairman of Sony, W Momita, who get tip the FSPER lab in response.. One of tlie first projects was to follow up on some demonstration-, filtned in rhini by TV9 of children who can apparently read bidden characters. A Joint project was being designed with media people quch th i t pnrt of the incentive for participants would be to appear on TV. Their testq were not well described. and sounded SUIBOW11ILL informal, so we could noi assess how likely the results are to be due to some sort ot trickery by the children, Characters froiu buu", m wtil as those written on paper were used, They estimate that at present they had worked with over 100 ubildren, with one in ten doing well, and some showing stable abilities. lit uunver,%atiun, they seemed reluctani to consider the pos5ibility that some or all of their successful pamcipants might just be A111W uicksttn, but seemed open to the idea of saf6guarding against ext=al criticism. Given the geucrul attitudes toward actual public criticism, it is hard to say how seriously they took thi's posslibilky, III general, they seemed more interested in presenting their work rather than diacussing it. Their stated general goals for the ESPER Laboratory am to conduct research with childrcn and adults, Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0400390001-1 62.,06 '93 14:33 Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0400390001-1 to Wrify the existence of such special skills, developing theory, systems and applications. In general thr, Pulsegraph Lab research seems more advanced and on a solid basis; the ESPER research seems In i Ls c&rly stages and wu Qould not get a good feel for how well it was currently being cuuduvwd. All davo rebcuruhcrs,,Ax-rnvd Intelligent and InieresEed In doing good science. We only saw the Pulsegaph Ldb, and its facilitics .5ccuied quite adequate for the job. We were told that in all dicre were ton individuals eniployod in the two labs mnnbinW. Sony does seem to have a commitmcnt to rescarch in this area with support at the, highest admillibLrativc levels. THE JAPANESE SOCIETY FOR PARAPSYCI40LOGY ANNUAL CONFERENCR The annual meeting of the JPS normally hists for two days but was extended for a third day go that its one-day summer tutorial ge%sion could hr cornhined, Attendance. was approximately 25 people, all male save for a student, a spouse and one of the demonstratots. Some artendees were rosuarcbers in coMorations such as NEC. Fujitsu. Hitachi and IBM, who were able to do sonic swall amount of rcbcamh but only in their spare, Elme. generally something involving RNG's and computei:s, ALLached arc cards from some of the attendees. plus the three Sony researchers who did not auund. A few of the presenters seem well worth further interaction, and condensod vorsions of their papers are enclosed, Professor Scji Otani (address in PA Directory) is the leading figure in the Society. Now reth-ed from the Defense Academy, he no longer conducts research but remains active in W-fiting, edifling and administration. He. has many contacts with academia, industry (including Sony) and the major media, mpecially television. Attached is a paper by him Summariging the Society's research activities over the yem. Dr Ma8ayuki Hiralfuji is a young cognitive psychologist with the National Agrimilture Reseuch Center, in the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishelles. He presented two papmb, wic iti.;onnoutionist model of ESP, the ochr.~ an attempted derivation of a precognition model. His current job resti-icts him to model cumtruction with no empirical testing, although hc would in principlc be quitc happy to do buth. He stems very articulate and has some working knowledge of parapsychology. Mr Hirleyuki Kokubo iq a young computer speciEdist with Sanseido, a publishing company. he gave a paper u si n g 9i gnal detection theory in a novel application, but also finds that be is ConStrained to model construction rather than empirical testing. Professor 5bigeki Hagio. a psychologist at Kagoshima- Kei 7ai I Iniversity, is now the most active oxpcrimentalist and follows the classical Rhirican %trategies of psd tps6ng. Enclosed are bAcr desuriptions of several recent studies. involving the local student populations- He hag spent thne in ific S t4teb as well as in Britain, occasionally attends PA conferences, and is a PA associate member, He is fairly Wowlcdgcablc about modern parapsychological methods. His university is in the southorn part of Japan. WJ VV-1 Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0400390001-1 Vz"Vo Wd lq!.Jq Approved For Release 2000/08/15: CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0400390001-1 DrsToshioki lmaj7uml and Osamu Imada are yt3utig libychiatri5ts in Kachi Ilospital, whox paper on beliefs about the nature of spontancuuts vwicb ib ciis;loscd. They socrned intelligent and with kriowledge of researuh design and parapsychology. Dr Akiro Onda is a rcu'red sp=Labst in Buddhbi philosophy, who is a PA rnernbcr and has been active in thr, Sucirty frum 0io begliming. Othcrs prtsented on the programme as well, but were less involved in research-related topics. SUMMARY The researchers named aboveseern responsible and good starting places for exploring serious Japaneseparapsychningy. There is much popular in(erest in Japan and many groups who blond claims of special mental pnwer and spiritual praccicc. Some of thesc have dublumi ruputaduns, within the parapsychological community as well as the public. Most younger Japwxse call use Engli.qh adequately. Older Japanese can read it but often have crouble, with NpUkCIL English. Japan is a country with considerable potential fur parapsychology, but they nood inorc informatilon about Western technique-, fol'USSCSSOXAL III turn their culturc has many pructivus which should be cxplured invre, sysLeniacically and may contributo substantially to out understanding. SGII ~l liNne199P I June. Approved For Release 2000/08/15: CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0400390001-1 (42"106 Wd 14: ab Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0400390001-1 uenerai Review of Fizoa= in J5PP Wj 30ji oblaw Acadornk; rcocarch ill P&MIP3yChO108Y in JUPRA swrted after World Wait 11, beginning with the introdurrion of the. works of ParapsychoLoby Laboratory. Duke University dircuted Uy DrJ.B,RLLinc. A thesis written 1)y Ohtani was pubfished in tht Journal nf Pirapsychology in 1955. Rasemb in Japan has been strongly influenced ~y k6c Laburawsy *inw than. In 190, Pampsychology Studying rjruup" was established, and they preunted their roman-1 in the Japan= Society tot Psychology and the Japanese 5W01y for Applied PsychWogy. In 1967, tho dmt oonvention of the Group was hold, followW by the e6tablishment of " the Japanese s6dety for parqrWychningy" . 'Mis offered reseucAers the Opportunities to exchangt: WCOMILIVU WILl W VACWlkt L110if 30ph"CAW fUCAK& AMULUY, Mote than 180 rewmrches have brmi prewnted at the Annual Convedtion. As for those an 1F.5p, we have the one on the relationship WILA sumv pbyuhwooral twts(ohmni, Nowum, TWwaWina), the ones on the r*Ja6onship with physlologicid variables(Ohkini, Osadn, Musume , Nagasidma, Sugistula. Kusunoki, Saito, FWMU)P the ones on thc rclationship with cavironmontal. condition(Ohtani, Matsuda, Kurihm, Ywmguchi, Ito), the ones on the refationsNp with itnagery(Hay=). A3 for thoac on PK, we have the ones using aw materWaMkibabi), tbe ones an effects to Uving arpniqm(Ohtani, Haruki), the ones on Metal bandmi; with 20W subjecW0hiaid, Kasahara, Kouri, Ru). We have " international, research on remote viewing(Ohrani, Minakami, Tkan). Also, we have many researches on spontaneous ames(Ontm, Kurihara, Watanabe, Kouri, Hagio, W3"). As for tbeoredcaL research, we flave the one oo prewgrtitflun ajammed with the time Issue(KanarAwa).Some of us have t1i*d to establiab models on the proem of ESP(Kokubo, Hiraluji. Sakurai). Dosidca, we have the one *j2 the relatiowhip between the su%wture of cad and the smres(kr~da). the ones on the credibility of ESP Uwpts(Kuroda, Haj0d), trio one with Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0400390001-1 "41 IP0 Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0400390001-1 some nuWpuladon of MP Lwgw(llagiu), am ona..-. on tho AnslyDis of the duu(MI--YR=) At the gone time wk- have some =WuUes rcL&ttd to the Conmrning r-14S. the sunvya on NDE(Bwker), the one On the MistionshIP betwagn acsfivitY MCI EMOndR), the nne on Kidimn phatographG(Fujita). We have two long-IwOng reseutches: the one. is ibout the theory an precoodan (KAuauwa), &ad the other i3 about 0 occudnig uouod older mental patlent4Nagawdmei). We bRve, remved no dirret and d6CWVS arkkUM. I think it necemixy for M ui nuhlkh embr romr-%chrot in n-.anv wava aad- miDowd in conauuedve crIddsm. imiDrove them Vz"VO MO 111:01 Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0400390001-1 Connecdonist Model of ESP Mwayuki Hitatuff I the Amount of Information Tia-uniurA with ESp in an ESP O'T30TiTn,&flt using targets whose hit rate is la, the =uunt of IntorMtion tranamitwd in a wid is Wown in the formala in Ule ngn page. At least 1AM? *=3 of trials am acedmi w pt I bit of information(shmm in Fig. 1). Tbft mm= we can got a signirmnt result with a LuSe number of triah awG if Lbr; WC fate in OWN bo tho d-.1 lavul. 7be amount of intormation tmosmitted i0 a triw in a 'UW is qwte small, 2x seen fmm the fm that mwt Mp e4perim=ts with N*Meaut randta have a largo aumbcr of trials. That is, the cApacity nf FSP is qtdte umall. Base nn I he idea that this is bemuse Wpab of J!SP owwo jjj a l~vCl Weak= tL" UUh=, I establM my model of b3F. 2 UP gLnd the Proom of Cognition As w4n in the Law- of Waver, normal ammm, ;uch as sight, auditory muse, ac= of Umcb, Produca mladvdy Simpla Mponm Wag stimulL On the other hand, M Produces rather complemd responses which mom deeply rckud w the nbj=' proc m at copition, as wou in shmp-and-Vat and pr= affect. Tf ESP ir. closely rebted to the proem, we need a model i-dudi it to uodmtwd r:SP. r cozabinva Un model of bognitiou and a mWd Lin which infonnation ir. camoted frow wesk F-SP signal below the noise level, and eotabUshed an - EV modet($Wn m Fw,2). 3 Natral Network Neural =twork is a oxxic' which consim of combined models of nM ve nells whose [auctions are simplified. Beausa ot the diftrea= =mg the simWicafhon or the combinatinn, wvwal iftdi of neural networks bave been propo"d. Mw =xt basic; fiumx!*= rrJawd to W691106, &Uch as irewswdon, memory, assod on, larning, can he arprftsed with combination of the network- Juqw& Lrum the &a that BF model resembles the actual brain Autcticia so much, the mrxial in which information is coded or deocclod by cumWaing neural zietworks can be Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0400390001-1 Approved For Release 2000/08/16-M-FZnM-00792ROOU4OU390001-1 applied to brailas if tim U-41"numion with 'agask wCokcr tb" x1ohn it Peaaft. 4 WP Sipal Dctactive Thcory We bayo rio ktrA Whieb Ofpd SCUMS rAP $iWW W Wt don't knoW w1utt camcs 9SP signalL But timy must be "namitted into miral, Impulm. If we put it that we haviv a omtka orM wWah scows them. I prc*umo that LSP signal ig n~cxo eJmVicW 4wgo in Cam W-nyl beinp tmrjftt waccou with OlsdUamagnadc waytz. as prcuumd that M is a Jdad of ck%.u*nwg=tb; wave and nam a0& are an%-wm? It is true that that are soma paft in our brains and oalk which am wevajmHy dwgmj, and am* Pam carralwy rudiato elaotromaretle waves. It aLmnt MaVAr tmt the sumant of the rudiatod Quargy is smaL 11w point is that the wava have c=pHLvftd phoc diftrances. Bemma the phasm chmp iimowae and Vaww4a in u oomplicued =am, they disuibe each othor so that we amlt &tag thow. Ilerefom, a sbplc bkdQ9W MO&I ='t 5t:Wd. Tn the QxHPxdo2W model of ESP, T rewd tho a$ch Owd CAUY-d"Od put as tba soums and the racciver od clavuemagwde wrm. That i3. each pm Im its own &COCUCY and Phase duWtidemdly. Mlib reraxables CL huge dumhe r of ttanw&slaa maebinft fmm=kwkg without confusion, but in tM mWel tho bumnitted intormatica !s always boaKwmeous and can be coal:mlad figand*nfly. ThouratimUy, it is possibie to trmcnit ickmation even in a rAw systm. only if the inbwafm Lot wded in a propa way wNch fita the faawe of the quaL Thus, 'FSP uslawt information, even if the slow 4 quitc WOA, Om We have Proper Qo&g method. 'Ile pmm is expreaW by the Form" (1) to .1 CmUng iA Neursl Netvioric Whm an aguat have a w4et in ba mind, dw uuacamad neurou Jig wivote& By . , other nmuonx cummrood with Wbat is rebted to am uugrt m &Wvatsd COV-"Numt1y. Thus the brm ausb1lisims tho pattow to sand the infanuda& 7Ws prooea biwas Lbr, infoxmthm timewise mW sp=wfie. Mw percipxM follow dw am Procan to ft opposed dirowum6 71= mom &Vodift be dm" Ids nourd 46tworkA, the ]an floise nW == aommo infommian be cam ju. 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Igh =11 jadirAted n~ Yalu* elf jin**.bi]jty aab~ 6 ) e- 4 iMuFff-AtiOn -wI UN luCt, fIMU Lit =IWO. MA BAft dftg Ut f*UTaBWd fOr I pmde of froZEnM in tha Approved For Release 2000/08/15 CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0400390001- .1 App~pved For Release 2000/08/15: CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0400390001 -1 life', the top figLwap were 24 caseq. 23-3 Y., followed by 21 cases,. 20.4 %, of 'hunch and impression, . The third f IgUre was 0Geeing OPAritian Or PsYchic phenowena related to the dq&d or dY'ng P&rson#' having 14 c4se5. '13.6 %, &n.EXR2r_*e-0tftl ESP StUqZ. in the X-N Aasociative Process: To demonar.rate the psi aijact in hVHdn 4880ciative process, I gir6t salected 100 stimulus 'noun words, In fOLw PcYchologiy classes, 209 *Ukdents in all, I read sach-of them While the students wrote dOwM & ncian word 0,540r-iated wit their record h it in their minde Ln zh=0tG- Thua. I completed tablca of response words to e*Ch atiMJUS word. Frcm each table I O=racted four rmoponea words low and al=at oven in the association valu, to each Oth,w. MY OKWigOntal plan for p4;i ig tO uue r-hese words in an ESP-asSOCiation too% situstign. An &9p FxWimw* In A Mountain-TOP shiqeki KgLgamhiawr1wj,-mJ- Un1varalty JAPAN ABSTRACT Two different sets of CW emwiment in- mountain-top situation w4sre accomplinhod by tho a0G0,ai&tft *tUdcnt =mx1bers Of KPC(Kagoshiz=-Xeizai UraveraltY F&r&V6YchO.10gY Ciab) and Hagio- The sti-biects used a deck of Unftr car" and Percept-ron, -a portAJ?le-tyVe macnine sold for testing &5P. &&Ch 01 two ewpari-nts was accompn4ed by a laboratar2-rcam M testing as a control. In. Experiwent 1, in the Zener Card series five subjects cowleted. 20 rans yielding t1w d~,iatian +16 in the Mountain-top condition an the arm hand, and -7 in,the Contzol condItIon an the other hand, the differemm being maminal for statiattical significance. (Owl.79, P-.08) In Uperiment 2, in the Ferceptran series nine subjects c=apletad 36 runs giving a scora with 36 of extra chance, significant at . 01 laval', its difference frcm the Control series being significant Our results were oupport;Lve to the hypothemin that mountaiin-tops otten provided with a proper condition for the manifestation of psi- Approved For Release 2000/08115: CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0400390001-1 OrApproved For Release 2000/08/15: CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0400390001-1 My xia5earchen an Psi; Stability of ESP Sccres;A Behavior ESP Target; Survey-Interview Approach to Spontaneous Psi;Pzi in the Associative Process KAGOSHIMA-XEXZAI UNIVERSITY 5MIGEKI HAGIO StabilitZ of 3SP Scorea: 77 sta4anta among otherm comple-ted four r2cr~.es of card 'ESP %eat conducted week by week in a eml.Lega psychology Glawa, 1979. Each aerie* test consisted of A runs. Their overall acorea were positive In a aiqnificant level (F-.Ub). Out of six correldtive wtLfficients among the tour series one was-positively signif !cant (P=. 01) and another was rmqatively so(P-.05), while the other foiar coeffie-Aants had pQasitive yet ==11 values. Tho data also was considered from another point of view- "'atability of the score in each subject" The number of thoaa who had a score above MCE (20) in every series were 6, that ;La much wjLt: th an the theoretical value 3.1, but insigntficant(CR=1.0). An Experiment wLth Behav3.or ESP Targets: In an attempt to use human behavior* as" an ESP target instead of the card figures, I Gelected four huizan oict ions., standing, wriming, lying and walking. An experimental ancistant played one randomly-selacted behavior f"or 60 neconds for each trial in one room that the subJect guessed in another room. Each of the four enerimantal subjects Complatad 120 trials and he alou haa Lim Z=ntgL-f.;aca arias, 150 trials. One subject obtained a significant positive.' : core(P--.05) in the behavior series though the overall results Ot the behavior series was not differ ant from that of the card Gerica A Survey-Interview Approach to Spontan6oaa Psi Experiencoo: out of 763 atudeonta of the 19198 and 1;89 college psycholaqy Clazaea who answered questionnaire Ltemw on th01,W 5P0t4n00U6 PS~ expariences, 83 students were interviewed to talk about their experiences in detail, they tOld 103 sraries of their own ORPOriancon in all. 'Correspondence between a dream and real Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0400396001-1 Approved For Release 20001081`15: CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0400390001-1 ALL-09-0099 MODILS AND SJUNAL DETECTIVITY TM1Y 10111M, Hidayuki Austist ZY. 1912 I published the intensity ProUbility theory as the basic research for the the study of the statistic experiment at 19th annual co4yeation, of the Japanese Society for ParapsychologY, 1986, Some iAterecting studin have Men dono slaca the theory Is$ presented. In the theory, I made a now afl-or-none model, often c4llad Kokubo's model. Meb vat a 2-paranoter modisl. I sade it for the explanation of observable four SVSAt# 1011OViAg that; hit by psi, also by~:Pal" hit by chance, slog by Clace. M.y mudel*s parlietarvin are i and a. Paiatiocter-i is a probability that p4l ts 40LIvated in a trial. Parametat-a Is a probability of miss cm conditiva ast psi Is activated. We ou a&Duac a subject guesses at randus It his psi is not activated., 2-psrazeter-madol Is very useful for analYziny stAtistio data. But I expand -ed'ay reselareh field befOre IORL MUM I c6uld find that ve coUld explaln those four evont3 by use of another theory. ZT(the. Signal Detectivity Theory). SO= important results go for (1) A ROLE OF ALL-01-NONS MODUS Old all-or-none models, I-Waseter mudel4. oan show us bettar condl- ticAs for the detection of poi in statist,le experiments. (2) 0ST11UTION OF C$P DATA In UP tests. VAIDes of L which means 4ubject's psi talent. aaarly oqual 0,01 on the condition, that the pelor Dro0abitily to from 1/2 to L/52. (This result is rediscoverexi.) Release 2000108115: CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0400390001-1 Approved For Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0400390001-1 ISMIATION OF PK DATA Eggs, L (1082) dallraW the central i. jai t theorem for the value Of i in a pX lost with dics, 'Ad dORflrxdd two important "Sumptic" presantud by I noarl~ equaled 0.01 of same as tA ESP tests. tgkuba(i98T).TheA 11091 fOuRd that pro, above reGuLts, Magi has thought tb1t -it is possible to realIze tho pX cosunicaLiOll. I WOO with him. (t) ADVANCED MOTHOD Wo can byalq&te values of j &Rd, g With the Plural MadO Aleth'011 ronsider a _0d by 1okU6O(l%&7' jggg). Alld Mgyba vo he able to 04tin&to the Obs rvatI01161 Theories. GencrallY, we esA obtain %ore infolmation from oxperiments by using 2-pIrsuet,er models than i-parazukar models. OF 2SP DATA experiment and on tho SOT, sakursi.8,4267) WIMly"d P"rOc-pratt's evaluated & value of d' 2S 0~46.. And he successed to draw a ROC Wye of it (lgga). But. his obtained result SIBO 491ft bO fIt Lhg 200 curve introduced from All-or-nooe so4els In parapsychologr. I can not salaet one, because the value of d' is ver: *mall. (6) PAPADOX OF COMPID90TIAL CALL In theoretiga $J* forj~he,.P%~. Jokabo(1129) thew the rolatiod between the eut1dential iall and the. stories: ratio or the U in the Yoo-110 Loot. The obtained results suggested that we ould not eXPect good experimental resulto it we anxlyzed only vari-hiWooftfirleatial calls. And t1tey wuggastcd that ve had better Plan to lot subJects feel oasy to say 'high confidence" frequently. (1) A STURGE Asswflal In nother -theoretical study, lokubrr(1961) oucceaqed to find a aulLation ~u oxplain that the value of i vac oonstint vith the GOT, But. a very struge &sstwption was essential for introducing the uQuatioa. In the assuiptluji. the mental scale has a unit like a quantum Of mental aners:- Approved For Release.2000/08115: CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0400390001-i P 96-007~2ROO0400390001 -1 App.roved For Release 2000/08/15: CIA-RDP PARAPSYCHOLOGY IN JAPAN By James mcofflan The japariew Society for Parapsy. Chology will celcbrate its 0th anniver. iary in ]"O.The wellity meets; month- ly at Tokyo 1,.~niversity and sponsors in ;111111.1:41 colwl"11111171 each December. Al. itkottg1i itimi;I-ty iticetings attract. lCaS than a clorcii members, lh6 grokil) iii;glit lou tmisidriud a bianch I)( (lie Parapsychological Association, since its 801413 l1lid oricittations am equivalent. Aleniberg conduct original rese2rdi and criticilly evaluate each other's ef- lnrm Koteri NmgAshlma has conducted 1)61 experinicim for 10 years, using pa- fients frum Itif. gerintrir p;ychiatry pj'aClICe Ab IMI(I'Lipants, He ineasuici pulse rates t[ld hrain ft4lictions wi(Ijin t1kc context of dw cAM gucming and dice predictingy experiment& Althougli his Varlual re!m1to Lend to be Ambiguous reXarding proof of psychic effects, tile wciety hopes on analysis of the entire 10-year fierl&% will generate clearcr con- ;;fusion&. U 1087, Yoaliiichi Ro pre- sented a paper, "Frocesses of Deforma- tion in Sl:wjvri -Banding Phenornana." Hiroyuki Sakurai described a method Fne npplyiq vigrial detection theory to psi research. fildeyuki Kokubo de- srrilvd "A N~ Psi Test." Hiroyuki ,3 jjj jjit:v:.ta,:d t; patijut "Applica- tion of Signal Detection Theory to Psi Acwarch." Soj; Otani spoke "On the ]-oleet oi Exiernal Stimulus to Eb? Scam" Koten Nag.-Wilma presented It paper "On EF(i and PK" and Tokik! Wndrk presersted "Compari%on of Phi Expcriegice 8urvuys Betwev, japart and V,nglantl." jainmew. thrarists are Par. fictilarly interosied ill observational dic- orica. For exaniple, Hicleyuki Kokubo dclivcrcd a I)ijljc:e at the 1988 conven. (ion entided "On an Experimental Mcthod to Evahlate Maervational Theories," During that ownt YeAl Mawyukt Ifirafuji presented & papce "F811 Modol by Ncural Xct," and Nagasdj;ma pomnted "On die Psi Ability of flic Psychopath." Professor stq; Otani, Of the Nk4tionid Defense Acadviny, is a guiding ijiflu- enre on the Novitly. Tn 1947, he pre- scitted the com-cillion Presidentlul Ad. July-August, Ifill drem crititled '97he Probl'tin Uf C4,; ill Parapsychology." Olani has observed various Chinazo chi gong moatcr3 who vislied Japan. Chi (ki in jripallese) is thought to be the uni'venal We oil ergry that permeaft (lie universe, (,hi- gwig jowsters (ki-kc., In j2pajicho) clitini to be adept a~ controlling this energy. Ki may havpt a dighily differ- CHI, nicaning In Japanese than chi !it Chiflew. This variation is derivod from built cultural and translation differ- F-nces. In Japanese, ki has diverse meanfngs~ denki measis electrichy (don t-ftaft 111111nder) and tenki moaw: WC&II)CC (LORI Illuill1h 11MIYUJI). 31JAUC- times ki, by itself, means "ellergy." Scientifically, at is difficult to dc(hit exactly what U is, In Uhinese, chi is nomctimcs translated Into English au 1'g2s" even though it is diought to be LL form of aneW. Although chi-gang masters are part ol! (be medical eslab- lishnient in mme Chin"o IlosPitala, only a few such pmcddomrs cure their clients using this methodology in Japan. 11rolessor Otani has conducted vari- *us forms of Psychical n=arch which have riot bm published. A number of yearu ago, lie conductoti, a survey of japancst: war widow*s experiences. He polled 100 widows in sisiell prefecture ur japats, lindimd that many repov- ed apparitional experienro; rainriding with dicir husbancW deaths during World War 11. About one-third of the! 2,200 quormonnaircs wore rciumcd, At- though his analysis Is still incomplete, Own! is categorizing the lyp", cloth- ing, actions gild paticrils In the ImPrOs' sions, as well 22 times Of ;n11PrMI01l V61`- sus time of Incident. Although no case re-veals perleet correwponderico between aot;411 cvcnts and the widow's fmpres- sions, some c2m reveal a high degree of coincidence. In a few mes, the hus- hand, thought to 6o dedkd, returned sa[cly. Otani has noted a wide diversity in dic manner that the widrAwk inlrr~ pitt their experiences. 1knit regard dic. apparitionil event as ex1remely ;Ihnnr~ mal while athern -lamify ih6r txpen. ence ab ordinary. About 15 Years ago, Olani conducted an rs.V esird tis" paril'.;j)(Inla ill a submathic, Invaucing e);pcrjrnelIlqtI roiilts which have, nnt been pi.4flis1ed, '17111rce eolldition.~ writ! collipared. ;1 stihmetled sub, a %ilrfi-ited Rub and Fi land-hawd situation. 1f%: Nuild jit.tw difforcum betweerl fix [Inating iiii).ind illid t2rget, bill. tile oliblijergi;j generated significantly lower R. SCOreff. Otani' note,% that diem inity be offier variables, such 1% dislarmis and t;uie, wbich might havu juiuduced this differentia I effect, He draws nn conclu~ ql',.%n& fvom thii; 4ata, Tosio KAsahara lins Leen i1vt4vt translal;ng parapsychuluhical Wnrhi b from Engl ish into Japanese and gpiting Mited volumes publiabcd. Ile lievelilly completed the translation of Ilarairl.". siln't (1987) Modern Mirec-1,tj 1111ji Stcvenson's (1987) Children Who jjc~ ineather Pirmpinut Uvrp. His edited vnl-t' ilato Sui No Senjo.- Chushlnriqaku Zen- Ai (The Ballieliorld a/ Psi: Dirtwy ol Aft the Debatej in Farapiyehology) wu published by lle;bondia Limited h:: 1907. Kilbaharn is presently editing and trandating a cAlertion nf Prflcles fora book, emitlod Tuoutuditma (?'he Eiu- sivetteis Problent.) to be printed by Shunju.,;ha Publi3hem A few years ago, Dr. Kavaharn vis-, itcd Scoul, Korea, to 111VUSLigii1c 'i C'briblian psychic 4urgeon, Mrs. Kim,' Mrs. Kim $001110d to lild patients by ripping out their c4inceir" growths, will, litr bare hiincis~ X."diaru return- W, frum Korea. with a videotape sup- plied hy Mrs. Kim's nijanization (my Korean tranilator ictuisud w It as tht: 14,keing-Hearing-Fedirle Chiirrh"), as wall as t&pcs produced by himbulf dut- ing his own visit. Yrom the videotape supplied by her organiration, it ap. pearls that Mrs, Kim makes incisions into some of her putient'ii bodies, irk a manner that Would seemin®ry (nornial- ly) catic- harni r,,mrcrous growths live sometirrics Ntclalty (appAjulitly) turn Dr. MCClenoll is in the MpBr'lWnt Of- Social Sciences At ElLubeth City Aisir ITni. Verlity in North Carolina. 13 Approved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0400390001-1 Apipfoved For Release 2000/08/15 : CIA-RDP96-007?; 2ROO0400390001-1 I opt of patients' budics, Although thp inedical valur. of her interventioll,% could not be estalAshed by NaEahara's investigation, lier organization clairnii that her treatuttwu am Wi&i)ly effec- tive. The organization's videotaIx sliows cases Ill which pationts' prneress towpi-d uninplete recovery is docutuent- ed over timc. Kauharn't; private video- talie drici not show Mrs, Mill making incisjuns, which suggest; that slit, dock lint regularly engage Ill this pract1cff. Slic appeared to be "bolically creat- ing patients by applyling une,11 b2;d- ages. I w1ked about this case with it Knrean colleague at iny univeristy, Dr. Wou Jung Ju. Appxrnntly. Mcs. Kill, has gained a degree ut farric throu5h- out Korean and even x Koreall Church grolip in I)r. Ju's ritighborhood, in Norfulk, Virginia, hAs wen bar video- tape. Although Dr. JUL noted that :1 small Percelltago Of religious XOMKns helievB in her ability, he fccla that innai Norearls. are highly skeptical, DA. Ju knows of no focinal sciantilic invesdiga- Lion of her organization's claill1b. The society keeps abreast of research dtvclopmenta In other countries. Takd- aki 01a. a high schuol EngliA Instrur- tur, segularly parnphrases Western rc- ports for the monthly ineeting~. of the gmicty. lic is presently reading MargIns of ReaAly by jahn and Dunne (1987) wid will 6* revinwing this book at a mcefing this sunimer. Shigaki Hagio picsonted a pArwr, ".1tecent Resew-djes ol l1ampsychology In USA" at the I 9AR annual convention in Yowuya, Tukyo, Various other haviduah, besides dic snemberr. nF the Japanese SM-Icty for Paraphydiology, have conlitiocted Inychical rewmch in Japan. Prutinsor Aot-I has dumic a rcniote viewing ex- pcriment at Chubu. UniveWty, Hirmlil Njotoyama, fuunder of the Institute for Religious Psyr-hology, has conducted A longterm remaich program, seeking tn farrat out the relationship beEWCCIL yoga, meridians and chi encrgy. He uses complax equipment fin monitor clectrJ. Cal body functions and believes his data, a"yzed by computer, reflect personality cliarac4cristius, as well as potential mediml disorders. MOEGYallIA, a 5hinro priest, advocateu a religiolls orientalinn, a position which d- 14 feCtS hiS theoreliCal rortbujilljOllij and arouSCH MIFNICiOn an"ONIF scientifically nriented observers, Viuioua new rell- gions groups, which havit sprung tip since World War 11, alsu pycaent. momy claims regarding pararimmal felits. Some organizationa Advocate secular ideologicli, somewhat scientific. in ork entation, rathm duln YvIlgioui dn- trines. The lipariest: wedia play -a eignifi- cj%rit role in shaping thc public's im- premions uf the occult, A I'mmom japa~ nese actor, Tetuirn Tanba, had a near- death experlence; aftcrward,he tnnk part in produring a movie abour tht: "after-deat]0' world. His Line And popularity have increawd even mork: bipcv he dt:vutc;d time toward diwm. inating life-after-death information. Masuaki Klyota, thts japancoar, metal b,ndc,, has starred in a fictional movie, written a book utid appcarcd on vari- oua television programs. Aithough, in 19M, fie butmed to acknowledgr. on TV that hp used trickery, a degree of controvmilt surrouniL this incident and he denies "etinfessing" in the matiner portruyvd, Ift daiins his "disclo5ure" was produced through creative cdit- Ing. During the early WOW, Professor Otani conducted a series of oxpetri~ mwits with Masuaki Kiyota, atttlLLJ;t- Ing to ducuorient his pgythokiriptic abil. ity nn videotape. Otani vidtrutapvc! varjuu, events will(II suggfKit thIlt $OmO of Knyota's perlornuinces art: authen- tiu. One tape shows Xlynta directilig. his efforts towztre a sixciall)-jAgged spoon which has N-en clarnpcd into position. On various uu;asions, the spoon't; lulad sinwly, but markedly, twists, without being touched. Otani was pro-jent during dipm experiments and carefully inslxcted the 5puujib both Loufare and aft*r videatapit7g, Since the Rprinns' tags are clearly discernible in thno soegincrits, it would wern that the test qmw could not have bmai Lam- 1xied with or switched. Ofan; hom to produce a "perfect" segmvit. <4 vi;100- tape, aim in which lie d-ollstrates his precautions and prmediorcs, both 1;6- fore and affor the filming of the sub- MCI's effOvIs- Japan it prwntly experienciag a (11rill Of OCCUIL boom. Yortunt: telling, astroloEy and tarot cardii are Ago mt. tract;ng interest, especially among young gifls, Sollic people are also vaudying And ndvDcating Ciiinese num- erology and fortune telling techniquat, u4tig the ynr, month, day and tinic of onc*5 birili, Divitiations ba3W on the writing n( the characters in one's namu ninlie thesw calculaflow. even mrite 54- ennipicx, A small, but growhig, mrjit ur young people has hrwome ih~ trrested in stories about fkh;cs (taken from the Buropecin irchetyrop, rathrr thin Japanese folklore), Various popular magazines suppcirt belief in thp paranoring), One publiop- tion, MU, whow narne is derived frdm the PaciF;r version of the inst con- tinent of Atlantis, has a monthly colr_ culation of about 300,00D, y'WiligIll Zond and AZ also attract Lim attention of thnse interested in the paranormai, j,ejejision progranig, AltIough not oci- entifically orlprited. have presented ~n- formation regarding hauntings in Japan. Increasing concern with the ocault has stimulatd critiml activists to be- come more visible. Althou&rh this mcive- ment may Im an Indication that japa- neie skeptics imAc beginning to take Ar possibility of ESrs existence morr Seriously, I knuw al no avidence Aug~ gesting that the Japanese scientirlo. community htirbon. greater Interince to parascientific claimi than do West- ern m~ient6ta, LL may he that they;are nimp willing to investigate Physi4>gi- Cal phenomena asaxiciated with altered mental stafts, since sunic inves4igatom 1myt; coAducted ewperiments with in. dividuals clalming bpccial abilities. Otic telcmNion Frognam, part of the ,(-ties '$'Cience-Q," a weekly cducati6n- al ducumentary, presented P program that aUracted great JnEertml. A1110rig jalmijubc parapzy6oJog;stL Thp. pro. gram showed various feats pmfomwd by a kik-o mastcr from China, r)f. Yx Yone Chang, Under the 4u lvision of amdunic reseamhers, Z. Master caused paralyzed cifildian to Anova their limba, lie -Gho affFeted 1 ranciir.'N flame under unuintrolled condlitions (the invatigAtom felt that their con- tr013 were MliblACtory during ihig' fent.. ~%A#v Approved For Release 2000/08/15: CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0400390001-1 I Approved For Release 2000108115: CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0400390001-1 bUE naost Western parap*y- d1oloVists would disagreei with iliem), (!SC investigators claimed that the liloixl vultum; and heat In the maiter'S 11,4mth ijiuseased whVIS lie milelliptud Ill radiam energy, A professor front Tolita- 1,11 UlliVI".1-Sily LAM a afiedal devir-tik to 41JUIAMAIL: CA11MILICly low levela. of lihohii, C111i.)"i(kils ();g)lt) ; lie dic(ernlined that Ow. /LiAe) nwilcr could radiate Such cn- crgy Ili an unusual. and 1whaps anfflTl- inuailer. Although experallents srehing to detc-cl. special erniwions of 'talk, clectricity, supemonic. soundi; and knig frecluelicy wavm W= not 5u(xPs3- ftil, tllc otwitur wat. able to affect the (316,;sion of infrared light. An EEG ;xvialpils oi the masterlik; brain ii4cated ,a pattern uirnilar to that oi an epilep- ,it,. p-,ttielit, as well as changes in alpha patwrns, even though no unusual be- fi~,% ior %v;,Rw ippirent. After the &omop- sini0ons, div.,mWili argued reg2rding Oki, meaning of thrw. find;ngn. Otil: ,,pr(tllated LIM very minor cncirgy cinii,sions of tbe mnarr triggered bodi- ly ioponses in the patient, using till: patii,rit'% own energy. Anotlwr fidt this tlicorv mw Inadequate, since he be- I 11e%,,ILI t1w mastar could affect inani xN, 111aw obje f)i-. Tubiti Kalklikhara, a mcniber a( illiv 11.,ral-mychninglual Aanclakiinn, had Im! oppoluillity LU Illujillut 111a; t;110,0 of Dz, Vxil~ ireatrnprits; nn nnp of hi;; 1),Idujtt~. Tht; wo"Is'sla, W14o wal, 1,1111-AUIC tit gpi kip in thp morning citip. to a hprr tliwiy, z~,;vs;ju kidaley problern, was dearly benctitud by the kiho matter's thumpy. Arier tresitnictrat, Ji4 arow at a wniiial hour and becanic far more lie lift, Dr. Yu allegedly lia demonstrated the ability to affect his patients, auto. nomic nervow systeing, even wheri shielded from them. fie is quite will- Ing to participate in controlled experl- incrits investigating the pwibility that hr ciin do this at a distance, Western researchers who are Interested in this project should contact me io that I cat, put them in touch with japancit lit- ventleafniN. Ono. Dr. Shi- gCIjjj Jj. ScAbaki, bUggie6b~ tlkC following condl6ons: (1) subject(q) in the USA slic)uid ijkc young, 1-cguldics~ uf =x, liav. ing 2 high wria,itivity and having had ,c will, jjUj()l;CIjjc gA.jjIgj_ Inlicil expurit:,jr ;ng; (9,) the hihnirmary shritild ~r. shielded from dectruniagnt0sini (3) varjoui elements within the atatoiloolic llCfVQUs SyStelij shUtild W 4;Ulljpt:telAly mo*qwrad. Dr. Via wnuld concentrate sill tit lit. I'llmilatoly alld subject(s) in an attempt to cause psy- chological effects. A rplevistinn program whirb ;Lirpd in wouly 1909 illay allau idi'mi publikk; pel- epptinnK of ohe pararitwnriFil. A prnfps- i blUlliAl llidgkialL, Mdl';k, BdVu detkKne j,,,tinns of what lie referred to ax alid "it"Ickillubib." III; I*Y)t 4.x%nikit, transinarmarl krys, trande coins seem to pass thmuglo g1du itald pet-formed mentallur (imis. Alth4saigh fie bWtl:ki 111itt tit: wits "IRIL it I)by0IIU," 1IC did not explain the mean.; by which hA aCCU1I11i)lishVd hi& feaL., 4111.1 WAlly U6- setvey-4 intpirpreted his Tx-rf6rI1I2n(!e as a dcairinstration of paranorinal ability. Time familiar wi-di sloight-of4iatid tnli,& would have no difficuldei; in per- veiving nownuil means by which Marik 4'"Illd lwfnrin his fril.1%. l4r, j3nrlr;tys hinigelras a performer, rather than an individual who requests sdentific in- vestigatioti, and soetri; ciautious in inak- Ing outright decl2rAtiOnS ftgiirding "mugical" powers. The Members ot the japanese bo- clety [or N-rupsychol%y recognize ilia problems that niedla presentations crc- nip for w1pnitific;kIly oriented rinc.%tch. co" but ticilidin ilitulublutl Ill tile liubbi- bili(y that hurrians radiate specia I en+ ergicii will& Imi. 'Ilia prac- dirres of arupuncture, shiatsu and other tIk,:rapie3 based orkAsian ideologies are prevalent in Japan. They feel that socla cd Chinese kiho, a practice as t with. seemingly psychokinefic. performancest' ainny constilutc, a fruitful rcairn for this scientific Investigulon of psychic heal- ing. Although chinwe rescurchicys in- VeStigliting kiki) M281C11 tend to twcept lofte prools 61 "anorkialouki" fonit5p Japanese scientists demand for higher Irvaln of evidenrm. Tlip, main Iniitrow of JaPallew '"vey"Saltors Is lit$ who Aiko mwilerq h2ve special abili-ties. but file cxat:L nutuie Of tile ell"gift rA'01- clucing oLverved eff"o. Altilough SUM abilities may nryt be related to psi, diti inveraigation of them will conitribute to die undcrstanding of huntan physiol- ogy' 11111111,10GRAPHY 0061F)- Aiddern Afirachri, An InvestigaUve Repoli an Plychic Phs- 90#01*11ld Aijosiatird with Safilya Sdi Baba, New York-, Fawcett Coltinthiric. Jahn, R, C, and Dunne, R. J. (1907). Mar-, gini V1 Roddly.. rho Role 01 rolukrious, atoij in the Phy6col World, San Dlegoi Harcourt brace jovanovich, Stevenson, Ian (1987). Childr4al 111hia ffii~ arember PFtvioui Liakti, Chadoticivilic. VA- Univermity of V;rairkisi Pkrrxx~ PARAPSYCHOLOGY LIBRARY The Eileen J. Garreff Library of the Parapsychology Founcla+ioin, 228 Gasi 71if St., Now York, N.Y. 10021, is open to sfudnints and research,ars, Monday +6rouejh Friday, from 9:30 a.m, to 4:30 pm. and TuesJoy until 840 p.m. July-Augli5t, IV$* 15 Approved For Release 2000108115: CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0400390001-1