PSYCHICS OF THE WORLD: DR. HIROSHI MOTOYAMA

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• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 27, 2000
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DR. HIROSHI
MOTOYAMA
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 Toni 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 psychic who
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.
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"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-
chic ability. Here in my laboratory
we are compiling data using so-
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 1962 to 1965 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."
Dr. Motoyama's psychic expe-
riences began early in his present
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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 "I 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
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