Various rehabilitation and fall prevention programs are carried out in facilities for the elderly. Among them, dance has attracted attention both as exercise therapy and art therapy. We have been discussing a dance program effective for elderly people who have difficulty dancing in standing position. This study focuses on dance programs in elder care facilities where instructors and participants improvise through creative movement activities, to clarify their characteristics from the perspective of the communication they generate.

Dance programs that include improvisational expression establish intersubjective communication between the instructor and participants in an equal relationship. We expect that preverbal physical involvement in such activities can activate the body and mind, reduce BPSD, and improve the quality of life. One-on-one physical communication facilitates intersubjective communication, and improvisational dance programs provide opportunities for the elderly to reactivate bodily sensations and feelings, and to improve their social skills.

In this work, I investigate a mechanism of synchronicity and view a novel aspect of that using a graphical method as a clue, with two diagrams illustrated by Hayao Kawai. To achieve this purpose, the psychic correspondence principle, which means a kind of parallelism between the physical world and the psychic world and is entirely unrelated to the correspondence principle in early quantum theory, is heuristically employed as a hypothesis. First, Kawai’s treatment in therapy is due to a synchronistic method that is represented well by his diagram; its validity or plausibility is verified by carefully examining the correspondence relation between his symbolical diagram and a useful experimental system in the physical world. Second, Kawai illustrated a useful diagram to summarize Ira Progoff’s features of synchronicity. It is shown that a novel face of synchronicity is isolated by assuming and analyzing a correspondence relation between this diagram and very useful Feynman diagrams in elementary particle physics, in which the two diagrams are integrated by Suda’s diagram including psychic mirrors (or mirror archetypes). Since the correspondence relation is not always an absolute principle, the validity of the obtained results is elucidated by examining the degree of coincidence with clinical cases beyond a reductive view to isolate an essence, i.e., it is not a quantitative understanding but rather a qualitative understanding. A main conclusion in the present study is that the “field” emerged from the “body” may generate a particle-like image (or meaning). As an interesting role of the body (like the duality of light), it is shown that spirit and matter continue contiguously with the body, which seems to function as an “interface” between them.

The essence of psychotherapy lies in natural healing, self-understanding, and self-discovery, not simply a therapist advising a patient. Jungian therapist J. Hillman says, understanding needs a mirror: the patient-therapist dialogue. This mirror function is thought to pertain universally to ordinary dialogue, and here case studies illustrate its locus. By classifying them according to Jungian psychology, we can illuminate our psychological structure as well as those of clients. In conclusion, it is suggested that several types of mirrors exist on different levels of unconsciousness, with a mirror archetype at the deepest level.

A questionnaire based on McClenon’s 1990 survey of paranormal experiences in Japan, the U.S., and China was conducted on university students (Japan and Slovakia) and adults (Japan) in the 2010s to examine the differences in the experience rates by country and by era. The rates of paranormal experiences of Japanese were relatively stable. Slovak university students reported 81.9% of presentiment (a type of ESP), more than 30 points higher than Japanese and U.S. students. The difference in power supply voltage (the level of electromagnetic noise in the urban environment) was considered to be a strong environmental factor that caused this difference. A reanalysis of data from the European Human Values Survey conducted in 1981-1984 suggested that latitude (a variable related to geomagnetism) and urban environmental electromagnetic noise level affect clairvoyant and telepathic experiences.

The physique of young people today shows the future of humankind. That is because future human beings will be born from people who are young today. Every year, scientific investigations of young people’s physiology are officially conducted, statistics on bodily measurements are published in the “Annual Report of School Health Statistics Research” of Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and such information enables us to predict future people’s bodies. Contemporary young people tend to have longer torsos and shorter legs than their parents’ generation, and their height seems to have peaked. Chinese medicine groups the parts of the human body as follows: The upper body belongs to yang, the lower body to yin, the back side to yang, and the front side to yin. Furthermore, it recognizes the leg’s yin-yang condition as the most changeable of all in the body. Empirical science groups body into shell and core, where hands and feet belong to the shell. When exposed to cold, hands and feet are the areas where blood circulation becomes particularly reduced. This thesis considers how modern civilization and culture affect young people’s bodies, using the Chinese medical concept “shen,” analyzes an NHK TV program on kidneys in modern science, and a thesis on kidneys by the Jikei University School of Medicine.