The International Society of Life Information Science (ISLIS) has sought scientific proofs of existence of wonderful phenomena and resolution of their principles, since the foundation of ISLIS in 1995. 24 symposia have been held and 24 issues of the Journal of International Society of Life Information Science (Journal of ISLIS), totaling more than 5,000 pages, have been published periodically, in these 12 years. The existence of many wonderful phenomena has been proved scientifically in these years; however, the principles have not been resolved. Therefore, about 150 participants, including a few Japanese Diet Members gathered at Hase camp in Nagano and held discussions on these and other matters. A variety of phenomena such as spiritual healing, qi gong, ayurveda, near-death experience, and supernatural phenomena exist which cannot be explained by modem science. The world view of each field was explained to the participants, and then discussions were held about these topics. Moreover, direct interactions and experiences in each field were offered to participants, such as various demonstrations of qi gong, therapy, etc. As an option, participants could also deepen their understanding about hypnotic therapy.

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When a subject does non-contact healing, such as laying-on-of-hands, for sample pieces of cucumber "Shiro-ibo kyuuri", the intensity of biophotons from samples increases. To reconfirm the reliability of our measuring method for this phenomenon, we discussed the method from 3 view points: 1) validity of J value as an index of effects (J value is defined as the logarithm of the ratio of intensities of biophotons between experimental and control samples; 2) system biases; and 3) effects of heat or shadow (i.e. screening of light) of the hands. We re-analyzed previous data of laying-on-of-hands experiments and compared them with additional data. We concluded that the J value had sufficient validity as an index because its distribution was a normal distribution. Variation of intensities of biophotons of samples, differences of speed of drying or the rate of condensing of photons, drifts of temperature and background noise, effects of delayed luminescence, and difference of sensitivities of the measuring system were not considered to have any serious influence on the results. We found that in only the healing condition was the intensity of biophotons of experimental samples significantly larger than the intensity of controls (Wilcoxon signed-rank test, p=6.5×10^<-7>) and there was no significant difference in heat/shadow conditions. J value was 0.142 in the healing condition, but J values were nearly zero in the other conditions (ANOVA, p=0.03). We reconfirmed that healing effects are not the results of heat and shadow of the hands.

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The scientific methodology regards predictability and practicability as important. Although the theory construction should be based on pragmatic data and facts, it is actually oriented to the world image held hiddenly by scientific mainstream.

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Dean Radin, the author of 'Entangled Minds', discusses quantum mechanic and holistic worldviews to explain psychic experiences. This talk summarizes such worldviews in parapsychology and clarifies necessities for theory construction.

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Many phenomena, which are difficult to explain under the current ordinary science, are often related to human consciousness. Whether the origins of every consciousness exist in the brain or not, the closest organ related to the consciousness is undoubtedly the brain. So, the measurements of the brain must be useful to investigate such phenomena. Among many kinds of non-invasive brain measurements EEG is considered to be the best method for the consciousness study at this time as EEG measurement disturbs the consciousness state less than other methods. However, how can we select the essential information from the EEG data? Moreover, what is the consciousness? How shall we consider the consciousness related to the brain structure? The author will discuss these questions using EEG data measured previously and recent findings in brain science.

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It is said that there are many kinds of paranormal phenomena. However, several phenomena are given quite different names from various viewpoints. The reasons are due to historical/cultural backdrop and tastes of a person, not only complexity of the phenomena. The author deals with some examples and discusses their ideas and concepts.

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Acupuncture has been used as an important therapy for various diseases in the East Asian medicine from ancient time. Recently scientific evidence of acupuncture has been indicated gradually, and acupuncture has expanded in the Western countries in a short time. Acupuncture is expected to be applied for several nervous system disorders. This time I present the possibilities of acupuncture on enhancement of cell proliferation in the brain, that I have investigated in Jichi Medical University and have reported abroad, and improvement from consciousness disturbance and muscle spasticity of central nervous system disorders.

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In this talk, I describe quantum monadology from the three viewpoints: Systems, Consciousness and Brain. A system that a physicist deals with is cut out from the whole universe dependent on his arbitrary choice and itself can be divided more as it is. The brain as a neuro-network is such a dividable system, and consciousness cannot exist in it, because consciousness is a un-dividable unity. In order to understand consciousness we need the concept of monad as a proper system which is not defined by any division of the world. Quantum physics has a structure in which an arbitrary division of the world does not allowed, which has an affinity to the concept of a monad and leads us to quantum monadology. If the brain has consciousness, it must be a coherent quantum machine as well as a classical neuro-network machine.

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