2019 Volume 37 Issue 1 Pages 41-
The International Society of Life Information Science (ISLIS) and its brother organization the International Research Institute (IRI ) will have a big progress from spring 2019. IRI will establish the "Human Potential Science Institute" and grow it to a large scale in future. The 23 and a half years of progress for the ISLIS and the Promotion of "Human Potential Science" since the Society's foundation in 1995 are reviewed here. ISLIS has sought and continues to seek the realization of the paradigm shift from material-oriented science and technology to a new paradigm including the consciousness, spirit and mind through research based on empirical and positive scientific methodologies, and consequently, to promote the development of health, social welfare, and education as well as social and personal peace of mind, and to contribute to the making of a peaceful world, at one with nature. Since the foundation of ISLIS, 47 Life Information Science Symposia have been held and issues of the Journal of International Society of Life Information Science (Journal of ISLIS), totaling more than 6,000 pages of research papers and reports, have been published regularly twice a year. ISLIS held the "Human Potential Science International Forum" in Chiba, Japan in 2002, the "International Conference on Mind Body Science" in Seoul, Korea in 2004 and the "7th Psi Meeting" in August 2011 co-sponsored by ISLIS and the Facludades Integradas Espirita (Curitiba, Brazil). ISLIS published the book Human Potential Science in 2004. Existence of many anomalous phenomena has been proved scientifically. However, principles of all the world's anomalous phenomena have not been clarified yet. More scientific studies about them are needed. The 47th Symposium is being held on 9-10, March, 2019 at Toho University, Omori, Japan. The 48th Symposium on 23-26, August, 9 in a camp format near Hideyo Noguchi's home town, Inawashiro, Yama-gun, Fukushima-ken, Japan is now being planned. ISLIS has a worldwide presence with 11 International Information Centers and about 190 members in 15 countries.
