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DR. HIROSHI
MOTOYAMA
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we are compiling data using so-
by Robert Dean Dunham
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Although
thirty minutes from
downtown, the Inokashira district
is
still pure Tokyo, minus the sky-
scrapers. The narrow streets are
crowded with people, cars, bicycles
and motorbikes. Noise and smog
fill the air of the "endless city".
In the midst of this confusion is
a
large
oasis,
Inokashira
Park,
which serves as a pastoral back-
drop for the Shinto Shrine of Tama
Mitsu (The Ball Of Light).
This shrine looks
like many
others,
but
is
different
in
that
through
its Torii Gate pass those
who have witnessed or benefited
from the psychic powers of
Dr.
Hiroshi Motoyama. He is the high
priest of the shrine, a yogi and the
internationally-known psychicwho
is the head of the Institute of Para
and Religious Psychology, located
within the shrine's compound.
As
I enter, the four-story con-
crete building looks just a bit forbid-
ding. A moaning wind takes yes-
terday's gift of cherry blossoms and
blows them
into
ashy mounds
around the front door. Regardless,
the
bell must be
rung.
Dr. Mo-
toyama has agreed to one of his
rare interviews.
©trully
'Take off your shoes and fol-
low me."
This
is said
in perfect
English by a good-looking young
American man wearing jeans and
a turtle neck sweater. He leads the
way upstairs to an overheated and
empty sitting room where a sign on
the biggest chair reads "President
Only".
My affable guide
is presently
living and studying yoga
at the
Institute. He says "Before coming
here
I was studying Zen in Kyoto.
There
I had some psychic experi-
ences
that eventually put me
in
touch with Dr. Motoyama."
Without my
realizing
it,
Dr.
Motoyama has come into the room
almost as
if he had materialized
when
I wasn’t looking. He eases
himself
into the "President Only"
chair as the student leaves the
room.
Without any formal introduc-
tion, Dr. Motoyama says "My life's
goal, the purpose of this institute, is
to prove the existence of the spiri-
tual world from a scientific stand-
phisticated electrical equipment to
show changes in the internal ograns
of the body induced through psy-
chic powers."
Dr. Motoyama graduated from
the prestigious Tokyo University of
Education, where he studied com-
parative
religion
and
medicine.
From 1 962 to 1 965 he did research
and lectured at Duke University"s
Laboratory of Parapsychology. The
author of several books on para-
psychology, he has also authored
many
articles,
including
"The
Mechanism Through Which
Psi
Ability Manifests Itself", which was
published by UNESCO in the mid-
seventies.
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Life for
Dr. Motoyama
is
di-
vided among several worlds. There
is the everyday world: husband,
father of five, priest, teacher. The
spiritual world: fasting and sleep-
lessness (up to 20 days), medita-
tion, communicating with
spirits,
exorcising, psychic healing (diabe-
tes, muscular dystrophy, deafness).
The old world:
"I remember living
with the Emperor Oji in a Yamato
castle during the 5th century when
the
tree
that
is now a
'kokuho'
(national treasure) was just a tiny
sapling."
And there
is the future
world: "By the end of this century, a
cataclysmic catastrophe will cause
the deaths of millions and a vast
change in the earth's climate."
life. "When
I was six years old, my
mother took me
to
bathe
in
a
mountain waterfall. Just as she put
me under the fall, the water parted
and
I remained dry.”
As green tea is served in hand-
some earthenware cups, he adds
almost casually
”1 saw my mother
walk on water twice.
She
is
a
mystic, and can see a golden aura
around me."
Here in my
laboratory,
we are compiling
data to show
changes in the
internal ograns of
the body induced
through psychic
powers.
Although the Shinto religion is
not based on belief in a supreme
being, Dr. Motoyama says that he
believes in God.
"Well,
I call him
God, but the name is not important.
I also believe in the existence of
evil
spirits.
In
fact,
I have con-
fronted and exorcised numerous
ones."
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One of his most recent exor-
cisms was for a woman plagued
with personal tragedy.
"She
ar-
rived
at the shrine one morning
during my meditation period ask-
ing for help.
Her only and once
normal son had developed schizo-
phrenia and she had confined him
Dr. Motoyama's psychic expe-
riences began early in his present
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