The first purpose of this paper is to reconsider the notion of body schema, which was proposed by H. Head at the beginning of the last century. This notion was epoch-making in the field of mind-body theory, because it showed human body could not be thought separated from the consciousness. We examine the classic works of M. Merleau-Ponty and P. Schilder on body schema to reconsider this point. The second is to introduce my new notion, 'Imaginal Body', as a revised one of body schema. Considering the relation between body schema and our everyday dreams, we will notice that the body schema has an unconscious and impersonal dimension. Body schema is not something fixed nor individual but flowing and collective. By this new notion, I want to show that our living body is not a material substance as is thought in the modern science, but it is something personal and impersonal, material and imaginal.

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The author has recently proposed the new philosophical paradigm and world view named "the dialectics of New Paradigm" by Kaseyama, and has made clear that it has given a philosophical foundation to the newly developed scintific-philosophical understanding of the near-death experience and the life-scientific research of dark matter. In this paper, from a viewpoint of Chishima's Philoso-Science which stated that the Philoso-Science unifying the views of philosophy and science should be a true learning, there is considered on the relationship between "the dialectics of New Paradigm" and the previous scientific theories, the various theories of new-science, especially Emoto's science-technology of HADO. In result, firstly it is found that "the dialectics of New Paradigm" is valid as a philosophical foundation not only of Bohr's and Heisenberg's quantum theory and Hawking's quantum-gravity theory but also of Inomata's triangle, Emoto's science-technology of HADO, Adadhi's undulation theory, Penrose's triangle and Handa's noos thory. Secondly, speaking on Emoto's science-technology of HADO, it is found that 1) all events of HADO are controlled by a view of YIN and YANG, 2) mind (=spirit) and body (=material) are interdependently relative, 3) these two points of 1) and 2) are closely linked with the dialectic axiom where all events are compossed of YIN and YANG and are relative and change, and with the dialecic monism of material-spirit where YIN and YANG are replaced respectively with spirit and material.

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