Telepathy in connection with telephone calls is the commonest kind of apparent telepathy in the modern world. It usually occurs between people who have strong bonds or emotional connections with each other, such as parents and children, husbands and wives, and good friends. In experimental tests in which subjects had to identify who, out of four callers, was calling, the average scores were very significantly above the 25% hit rate expected by chance. The callers were selected at random, and the subjects made their guesses before answering the call. These positive results were replicated independently at the universities of Amsterdam, Holland, and Freiburg, Germany. Similar telepathic phenomena seem occur in connection with emails and SMS messages. Experimental tests using all these methods gave significantly above-chance results. Versions of telephone and SMS tests designed to detect precognition, as opposed to telepathy, gave results at the chance level, suggesting that the positive results in the telepathy tests were indeed a result of telepathy rather than precognition. Automated telepathy tests using mobile telephones now enable anyone to participate in this research. These forms of telepathy have evolved in connection with modern communication technologies and probably occur because people's intention to call or send a message can be detected telepathically before the call has been made or the message sent.

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Scientific experiments generally need expensive equipment, but it is possible to obtain scientific knowledge if various creative tasks are carried out even if there is no expensive equipment. The present study is an investigation of non-professional (amateur) scientists into psychokinetic metal bending (PKMB), so-called spoon bending, which is a kind of macro PK phenomenon. We made direct observations, and also watched video records and made electron microscope observations of materials that had been bent previously. Also, we carried out new PKMB tests using Ni-Ti alloys (shape memory and super-elastic alloys). As a result, we found deformation by PKMB remained for materials made of super-elastic alloy. This suggested a possibility to develop a new material which can react to macro PK easily.

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[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to clarify effects of healing touch on a patient with Parkinson's Disease (PD). [Method] A 74-year-old female patient with PD was assessed before and after a one-hour weekly healing touch treatment for five months to determine changes in specific symptoms. [Results] The effects of healing touch were found in terms of palliation of muscle contracture, progress of psychological relaxation, and improvement of insomnia. [Discussion] The effects of healing touch for patients with PD can be identified in three ways, i.e., decrease of physical pain, reduction of psychological burden, and easing a difficult lifestyle.

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The purpose of this study was to examine the essays written by children who experienced the Great East Japan Earthquake in order to clarify the characteristics of these essays focusing on the difference between tsunami and nuclear disaster experiences. A total of 161 essays written by school-aged children were extracted for text mining analysis concentrating on their expressions of will and want for the present and future. While after the tsunami incident children mentioned the importance of conveying the crisis experience for future generations, the children experiencing the nuclear disaster expressed their want (desire) to lead a life free from restrictions such as playing outside and meeting with friends and family from whom they had been separated. Although the tsunami experience evoked children's will to remember the painful incident for the future, the children experiencing the nuclear contamination evoked their wants about their present and future life.

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The authors discussed relationships among healers' properties and effects in a healing test. They used cucumber pieces (Cucumis sativus 'white spine type') as a bio-sensor in the healing test and measured the bio-sensor responses using gas and fluorescence measurements (4 wavelengths). After using principal component analysis to remove the measurement disturbance due to the difference of healing ways, the authors found there was a negative correlation between gas J values and healers' ages. This suggested there was a relationship between healers' healing ability and their ages (one of the biological factors). However, it was considered that other measurement disturbance factors, not only the difference of healing ways, should be removed.

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In this study, about breathing quantity, breathing rhythm, and timing, subjects performed simple and easy exercises while using the long breathing exercise method, and we measured their breath with an expiration gas analyzer. We got basic data about their breathing, and used the information about the difference to describe a relationship to the skill level. The subjects were one instructor and 7 beginners. The long breathing exercise method is gymnastics performed with special breathing based on the Nishino breathing method. We found that breathing rate was lower at Pre rest than Post rest for the Expert, while it was higher in the beginner group. The expert had a longer time in the Post rest after the exercise than the beginner group. The amount of ventilation did not change in the Pre rest and Post rest for the Beginner group, but it increased for the Expert. We thought that ventilation efficiency was improved by practicing the long breathing method. In particular, the expert performs deep breathing slowly by controlling inspiration and expiration in Sokushin breathing, and we thought that the Expert had harmonized movement and breathing.

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Perception of comfort and discomfort is different from person to person, even in response to the same stimulus. Further, effects of load by the type of stimulation are different even in the same person. In this study, we made a comparison to the resting state (sitting with eyes closed) using fingertip pulse waves and or ECGs, when subjects were given 13 types of stimulus (eye mask, light pulse, white paper, red paper, English-language newspaper, cartoon, hard rock, classic, lavender, decimal subtraction, and one leg up, walk, running machine). Specifically, we used LF/HF and Wavelet analysis of time series data of the R-R interval; we attempted to extract the features of the stimulus and the personal characteristics.

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We investigated the ability of sweeteners to reduce stress using two psychophysiological indices: skin conductance level (SCL) and heart rate (HR). Ten undergraduate students participated in this study. After the exposure to stress by performing the Uchida-Kraepelin Performance Test for 5 min and a mental calculation for 3 min, the participants consumed various sweeteners containing starch paste only (control group), sugar (sugar group), erythritol (erythritol group), and saccharin (saccharin group) additives for 1 min. Then, they were asked to relax by sitting still in a chair with open eyes for 10 min followed by closed eyes for an additional 3 min. Based on the Russell and Lanius model of the affective quality, only sugar among the three sweeteners exhibited high stress-reducing activity. These results indicate that sweet tastes do not have stress-reducing activity; however, sugar may have the specific function to reduce the stress. The exact mechanism of sugar's stress-reducing activity is unclear; however, a possible explanation is that glucose derived from sugar stimulates the transportation of tryptophan into the brain, which is a raw material of serotonin with a stress-reducing activity. In addition, sugar stimulates the reward system in the brain, which secretes endorphins with stress-reducing activity.

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Eighteen and a half years of activities of the International Society of Life Information Science (ISLIS) and the promotion of "Human Potential Science" are reviewed since the Society's Foundation in 1995. 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, 36 Life Information Science Symposia have been held and issues of The Journal of ISLIS 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" was held in August 2011 co-sponsored by ISLIS and the Facludades Integradas 'Espirita' (Curitiba, Brazil). ISLIS published the book Human Potential Science in 2004. ISLIS has a worldwide presence with 11 International Information Centers and about 230 members in 15 countries. The 36th Symposium with the main theme "Challenge to Unknown Science" is being held on 15-16 March 2014 at Toho University, Ohmori, Tokyo, Japan. The 37th Symposium with the main theme "Science on Healing and Wonderful Phenomena" will be held on 23-26 August 2014 at Masutomi Hot Spring, Hokuto, Yamanashi, Japan in a camp format.

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Many neuroscientists adopt the definition of the mind as: "one of the functions of the brain". In place of this definition, the author proposes a new definition: "the mind is a phenomenon where one of the functions of the brain appears to the brain itself" This new definition is useful because it facilitates awareness of the "problem of perspectives". The methodological principle of natural science is objectivity (openness and repeatability of observation). The methodological principle of human science, including brainscience, is the consistency of perspective. A thought experiment about the mind-brain relation is carried out within the strictly first-person perspective, and a new idea about this relation is proposed.

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