Since April 2009 we have been conducting research on non-contact effects associated with a pyramidal structure (PS). In our previous studies, a person entered and meditated inside the PS. Then, we detected the effects the person had on biosensors (cucumber fruit sections) placed at the PS apex. We have obtained the following results. (1) The non-contact effect on the biosensors was detected with high statistical accuracy (p = 3.1×10^-10; Welch's t-test, two-tails, the following p values are also the Welch's ttest values.). (2) The delayed anomalous non-contact effect associated with the PS was discovered (p = 3.5×10^-6). (3) After meditation, the conditions for detecting the non-contact effect were specified (p = 2.2×10^-4). In the present paper, our purpose was to clarify the existence of an unexplained long-distance effect for the biosensors placed at the PS apex several hours before a person entered the PS and to elucidate the effect characteristics. The following five points were clarified in the experiments. (1) Several hours before the person entered the PS and meditated, the unexplained long-distance effect on the biosensors was detected with high statistical accuracy (p = 1.1×10^-3). (2) The unexplained long-distance effect was detected only in the biosensors placed at the PS apex and was not detected in the biosensors placed at the calibration control point (p = 2.8×10^-5). (3) Several hours before the person meditated at another place not inside the PS, the unexplained long-distance effect on the biosensors was not detected (p = 4.1×10^-2). (4) The unexplained long-distance effect seemed to have a different nature from the non-contact effect seen after the person exited the PS. (5) The unexplained long-distance effect could clearly be detected both before awakening (the sleep state) and after awakening (the awake state), but in the middle, at the time the person was waking up, the unexplained long-distance effect showed the minimum value (p = 3.7×10^-3).In conclusion, we discovered the time change of the unexplained long-distance effect. That is, during the transition from the sleep state to the awake state, it showed a minimum value of zero at the time the person awakened and showed a downward convex quadratic function change.

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The author brought Norwegian Agruk cucumbers to Japan and did a pilot test on reactivity of Agruk for bio-PK using a gas measurement method. Two trials of 30-minute healing practice (bio-PK) were done for Norwegian and Japanese cucumbers, and those data were compared with data of the blank condition (valid data were obtained for four trials). As a result, both Norwegian and Japanese cucumbers showed similar J values (Norwegian, J = -0.230; Japanese, J = -0.200). The average J was -0.215 in healing condition while the average J was 0.045 in the blank condition, and there was a statistically significant difference between both conditions (p = 0.0034). Norwegian cucumbers were considered to have bio-PK reactivity the same as Japanese cucumbers. Moreover, an additional analysis suggested that bio-PK influenced the calibration point which was 12m far from the healing point, and wavelength of bio-PK field was estimated as about 20cm at the calibration point.

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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.

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Herbal medicine, low molecular weight fucoidan and a carbohydrate restricted diet were used in combination with the stellate ganglion block in an attempt to improve the blood flow of the hypothalamus which contains the central part of the autonomic nervous system, immune system and hormone endocrine system. In this report, focus is put on 5 patient cases which have shown satisfactory progress (a 61-year-old female, with a bronchial carcinoid; a 63-year-old female, with stage II breast cancer; a 28-year-old male, with stage III colonic cancer including pelvic metastasis; a 87-year-old female, with stage II lung cancer; and a 73-year-old female, with stage I colon cancer). The results for the integrated medical treatment are presented and discussed.

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Moderate stress for people is said to raise their efficiency in work and study, but allowable stress strength depends on individuals who have their own differences and it depends on the stress type. Stress has often been considered to be bad as pointed out in the etiology of stress many years ago. However, in a modern society people cannot escape from various stressors, so the big question is how to get along with these stressors and still lead a healthy life. In this study, the biological response to two kinds of odors was measured over time through fingertip pulse waves, and the changes of the odor appearance for each subject were examined by wavelet analysis on the R-R interval of these fingertip pulse waves.

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Germanium is looked at to be non-essential element, however still little is known about its significance for living organisms. The germanium element is not regulated and discussed in drinking-water standards and reports. Nonetheless, germanium seems to be a very promising microelement that could be used in prophylactics and therapy of such diseases as cancer, AIDS, autoimmune diseases, arthritis or senile osteoporosis. In East Asian countries germanium is appreciated and its significant role in health care is assigned. In Europe, medical interest in germanium, including use of germanium-rich mineral/curative water, is negligible. Germanium is a trace element in the Earth’s crust, with mean mass fraction concentration of 1.4 ppm. In natural waters this element occurs usually in concentrations of three–five orders of magnitude less than in the crust rocks. Highest germanium concentrations in groundwater are found in some of thermal and/or mineral waters, and reach up to 300 ppb, but even in these waters germanium rarely exceeds 50 ppb.

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Little is yet known about the significance of Germanium for living organisms. Germanium seems to be a very promising microelement that could be used in prophylactics and therapy of such diseases as cancer, autoimmune diseases, arthritis or senile osteoporosis. However, it was reported that prolonged consumption of inorganic germanium supplements has resulted in severe adverse effects including various organ dysfunctions and even death. Therefore, there is a strong need for further and more detailed research on the mechanism of germanium action. And the most important topics to find out are the safe and effective doses as well as the duration of the treatment.

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Science of water has progressed very much especially since the beginning of 21st century. We recognize that water is important, as the life on Earth cannot have any activity without water. Yet, the latest science of water is claiming that water is much, much more important than we have been thinking before. Based on the results of the researches in new science of water, water has the following two important roles. 1. Water memorizes and transmits INFORMATION. 2. Water stores and converts ENERGY. It can be considered that these two functions of water might have been chosen as the most fundamental properties to support life, when the life was first born in this universe. To go further, it might be that the life could be born, because water had these two functions. In this presentation, those two functions of water will be explained based on the results of latest scientific researches, some application in the area of informational medicine and pharmacology introduced, and finally, the importance of water discussed.

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We have been studying unexplained functions of the pyramidal structure (PS) since 2007. As our research method on the PS, a person has entered inside the PS and meditated. The concentration of gas released from the biosensors (cucumber fruit sections) was measured as a means to clarify the unexplained functions of the PS. The preparation, installation and gas measurement of the biosensors was carried out by the simultaneous calibration technique (SCAT). This method was developed at the International Research Institute (IRI) and many research results related to healers have been obtained using it. In experiments in which the PS and a meditating person were involved, the following two results were obtained. (1) An unexplained long-distance effect on the biosensors by human unconsciousness (Force Type I) was detected before the person entered inside the PS and meditated. It can be also said that a long-distance non-contact effect was detected that affects the biosensors from a point 6 km or more away without delay. (2) After the person entered inside the PS and meditated, the non-contact effect with delay, which lasted more than 10 days by some personal influence (Force Type II), was detected. It can be also said that a short-distance non-contact effect was detected, in which the distance between the person inside the PS and the biosensors was 0.5 m. From these results, for the PS and the person involved, it was suggested that there are two different Force Types emanating from the person. However, it seems that the two Force Types differed in conversion speed depending on the PS, but both were converted into energy that the biosensors could react to, and this energy was detected as the non-contact effect. There are no academic research studies on the pyramid power (effect) showing statistically highly significant experimental data except as made by our group.

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From research due over the last 50 years, faculty members of the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia have been collecting more than 2,600 cases of children claiming to have past-life memories and these data are being coded and entered into a database with more than 200 variables. This database enables researchers to apply various statistical analyses and some important findings were published based on them. This article reports an ongoing project that is creating a database with a similar concept about children reporting prenatal and perinatal memories. However, the data are not limited to those obtained from children with past-life memories, but include those from children with one or more of the four types of memories: (i) birth memory; (ii) in-the-womb memory; (iii) life-between-life memory; and (iv) past-life memory. The expansion of the target data reflects the view of researchers that analyses of these memories, all unexplainable in general physical terms, shed new light on children's psychology.

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The meditative movement is a collective term that leads specific body movements. Popular meditative movement practices include yoga, Taijiquan and health Qigong. In that these body works necessitate careful respiratory control, the author intended in this study to identify how regulatory respiration during health nourishing Qigong (Nei Yang Gong) exercise would influence the performance quality. For this purpose, the author chose Yi Jin Xing Qi Fa, one of the health nourishing Qigong. An exercise was performed twice by a practitioner (i.e., the author), both of which were videotaped. Between each exercise, Taiji Qigong Shiba Shi were performed. Taiji Qigong Shiba Shi are another health nourishing Qigong exercise that restricts the inhalation and exhalation durations that practitioners must observe. After the exercises, the author compared the two videotaped performances from the viewpoints of exercise duration, inhalation duration, body/spine rotation and aesthetic movement. Furthermore, verbal records of the practitioner and his instructor were used for the qualitative comparison. From video and verbal records analyses, it was found that, as a result of this Taiji Qigong Shiba Shi performed between two Yi Jin Xing Qi Fa exercises, (1) the duration of the second exercise was longer than the first exercise, (2) the aesthetic evaluation of the performances was scored higher for the second exercise than the first exercise, and (3) the Qi sense of the practitioner was stronger after regulatory respiration exercise. These findings suggest that the externally-regulated respiration improves the quality of meditative movements.

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Having a dream is a way to meet the deceased for survived family members. We make it clear what kind of dream the bereaved family sees, to resume communication with the deceased. Twenty-seven interview stories in the book She came to see me in my dream were analyzed by the text mining technique. The most frequently used words were nouns such as "togetherness", "earthquake disaster", "tsunami", "dream", and verbs such as "be", "get together", "think", "see", and "talk". The future of the dream was clarified by frequency analysis of dependency and reputation analysis. It will be discussed how surviving family members often have an orientation and sense of values that are together with those of the departed soul in the dream by experiencing the encountering of shadows and the soul of the dead.

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In the conventional society where the hierarchical structure consisting of large and small groups is comparatively clear, the influence of information exchange by many people on society can be analyzed mainly by the concepts of sociology and psychology. In that case, besides analyzing the conscious phenomena that can be perceived by individuals, concepts of collective consciousness beyond individuals and collective unconsciousness beyond specific groups are also utilized. However, as can be seen from the example of SNS (Social Networking System), in the modern cyberspace, exchanges beyond any framework of society can be easily and quickly performed. Therefore, there is a necessity to analyze a phenomenon in which various messages are diffused and various reactions occur as a problem of information science in a new way. In doing so, it is important to quantitatively grasp the time course and scale of reactions by an unspecified population against elemental outgoing. In particular, it is useful to be able to predict the degree of the final reaction from the initial short reaction. Therefore, in this paper, I analyzed the time series of reactions to my Twitter posts statistically by paying attention to multiple variables. For my 40 posts with a degree of reaction falling within a specific range, three variables indicating the total from 0 minutes to t minutes were examined: the number of times posts were read, Nt; the number of times the "Likes reaction" was chosen, Gt; and the number of times a post was retweeted, Rt. Here, t (in unit of minutes) is the time elapsed after posting. In addition, I used the variables Pt = Gt + Rt and four variables including the percentages for Nt of Gt, Rt, and Pt. For the values of the above eight variables, the correlation coefficients between the four steady state values (called the final values) were examined. As a result, the final values correlated well with the values of the variables by percentage in the case of t = 10 and 20, and correlated well with the non-percentage variables in the case of t = 30. From the above, it was found that the final values of the reactions can be predicted well by specific variables by percentage immediately after posting, and that the significance concerning the prediction of the variables itself changes after 30 minutes elapsed. In other words, the degree of the final reaction caused by Twitter posts in cyberspace can be predicted by trends up to 10 minutes immediately after posting. These results serve as the basic knowledge in analyzing what kind of influence the message sent by a large number of people generates in the cyber space as a whole. The findings of this paper on the phenomena of cyberspace also may be useful for understanding dynamic aspects and quantitative aspects with respect to collective consciousness and collective unconsciousness both defined as the virtual space beyond individuals.

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When the evolution of organisms that live in extreme environments is considered, some interesting characteristics can be found. For 4 billion years, life has evolved from unicellular to multicellular organisms, and a great variety of biological diversity and forms of ecosystems can be found. Moreover, some organisms living in extreme environments have adapted to their hard conditions and can live without any problems, and many kind of species live in their own special ecosystems. I will present the characteristics of such organisms used in various fields and utility in this conference.

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In the area of Lourdes (Pyrenees, France), the town world-wide known for Marian shrine and the Massabielle (MS) healing spring water, karst spring waters, drinking waters provided for pilgrims and river water were studied in details in multidisciplinary (geochemical, biological, tensiometric) survey. It was the first such a wide geochemical test of the MS water, and at the same time the first one, the results of which were published and are widely available. Since the disclosure of the MS spring in 1858, in an atmosphere of great interest and excitement, there were various hypotheses indicating the inferred factors or components responsible for actual or putative healing properties of the MS water. Among others, it was proposed similarity of the MS water to curative waters of this Pyrenees region, and presence of ozone or bacteriophages. Recently, germanium and hydrogen were also announced as possible healing agents. As a result of the research carried out, it was found that the MS spring water is enriched with numerous elements (Li, Na, Cs, Ba, S, F, Br, REE, B, Sb and Bi) comparing with other studied springs and with bedrocks geochemistry. Studies do not verify the claim that Lourdes waters are rich in germanium.

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Since ancient times, the Japanese have always had love for and a noble impression of deer; they worshiped deer as both messengers and beasts of the gods. However, today, approximately 600,000 deer are killed each year as being animals that are destructive to agricultural and forestry activities. Furthermore, almost all the dead deer are disposed of as garbage and are not used as natural resources. To establish a symbiotic relationship with deer, I think that it is necessary to search for value in eating venison and in using both deerskin and deer velvet. In this presentation, I report the present-day condition of relationships between people and deer, focusing on the value of using deer as a natural resource in New Zealand, Taiwan, Mongolia, and Scotland. I subsequently would like to discuss how to establish a symbiotic relationship between the Japanese and deer.

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The Qigong method that saved the author from dying, has the presence of an elaborate energy called "qi". The Qigong method is an art that can develop life activities and enrich life, medical science, philosophy and deep human science. After all, there are the vitalities given to individuals. It is the real self, while it is the non-self. It is the Great Self and it is called Divinity. How to access Divinity is called as "Neo-Reading". It uses Bi-Digital O-Ring Test that is beginning to be known in Japan. It has been diversified into a study separate from medical knowledge. Based on some examples, the author would like to consider accessing Divinity with Neo-Leading

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"GCS therapy ®" is different from conventional grief care methods. It is Yoshida's original therapy that a client by himself/herself can hear the voice of his/her deceased person and talk with the deceased under a therapist's hypnotic induction. The client can experience being in a world of light beyond the spacetime while feeling the energy of the deceased. And the client can easily know even the cause of death and get some feelings and thoughts of the deceased after death, like in the same sense as when the deceased was alive.

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