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DR. HIROSHI
MOTOYAMA
by Robert Dean Dunham
The Shrine
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 psychic who
is the head of the Institute of Para
and Religious Psychology, located
within the shrine's compound.
toyama has agreed to one of his
rare interviews.
President Only
"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.
As I enter, the four-story con-
crete building looks just a bit forbid-
ding. A moaning wind takes yes-
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-
terday's gift of cherry blossoms and
blows them into ashy mounds
around the front door. Regardless,
the bell must be rung. Dr. Mo- 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.
Many Worlds
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
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."
Exorcism
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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to a mental hospital.
She was
practically impoverished and des-
perate because she couldn't find a
buyer for some valuable land she
had inherited, and she needed the
money to pay her son's hospital
bills.
"As I talked to the woman, I
could sense a brooding, bloodied
soldier dressed in an old fashioned
uniform standing right behind her
shoulder. When I closed my eyes
I could still see the soldier but not
the woman."
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This used to be a
beautiful place.
I remember riding
through the bamboo
grove on horseback
about two hundred
years ago.
According to Dr. Motoyama,
he meditated and prayed during
the week following his encounter
with the woman. He had another
vision of an open field at the foot of
a mountain. In the middle of the
field he could see a tomb.
Subsequently, when describ-
ing the scene to the woman she
said she was sure it was the prop-
erty near Oayama Mountain which
she wanted to sell. The tomb was
that of a soldier killed in battle back
in the 16th century.
"I realized," said Dr. Motoyama,
"that the soldier was angry at the
impending disturbance of his tomb,
which represented his honorable
death in the Bushido tradition.
Consequently, he was harassing
the woman.
"During deep meditation I
asked the soldier to leave the
woman in peace. I explained that
modern Japan is not militaristic, as
it was when he was alive. We no
longer lived by the code of the
Samurai, and his honor was no
longer at stake."
Dr. Motoyama said that within
ten days the woman's son was well
enough to be released from the
hospital, and soon after that she
sold the property for a large sum.
Psychic Healing
In psychic healing, where he
claims amazing results, Dr. Mo-
toyama combines Chinese acu-
puncture with principles of yoga,
also using an electronic machine
which he invented. Needles are
placed on the chakra points of the
body, which he believes to be the
centers of the extrasensory sys-
tem.
"We all posess this extrasen-
sory system beyond our mind and
body," he explains. "It can accept
psychic energy from outside itself
and convert it to physiological
energy.
"When this outside energy from
God, or the Universe, or even
someone's special psychic powers
is transmitted, there is a bodily
change. I am proving this through
encephalograms, cardiograms and
other medical tests which we are
recording daily for study.
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"My patented machine, manu-
factured by San-Ei DenkiKK, meas-
ures each chakra point and indi-
cates, to an almost infinitesimal
degree, the optimum spot for the
acupuncture needle. It also helps
me do detailed diagnosis and prog-
nosis."
Sayonara
Suddenly Dr. Motoyama re-
members that patients are waiting.
One has an ulcer, another is totally
deaf. "I pray that I can cure them
both in time," he remarks.
Bowing a sayonara, he stops
to mention that his shrine fulfilled a
prophecy. It is built on a former
bamboo grove near the Kanda
Gawa river, which flows from east
to west. On a clear day you can see
Mt. Fuji.
to west. When the head of our
believers found this property just
after the end of World War II, it was
another miracle. The Kanda Gawa
is probably the only river in all of the
Kanto Plains area that does not
flow from north to south."
Dr. Motoyama looks mournfully
out the window at the urban sprawl
beyond the shrine compound. "This
used to be a beautiful place. I re-
member riding through the bam-
boo grove on horseback about two
hundred years ago."
As one leaves the shrine to ride
the jam-packed train back to Tokyo
proper, it is impossible not to feel
one has visited a special place and
met a very special person.
About the author: Robert Dean
Dunham was a foreign correspon-
dent in Japan from 1957 to 1974,
and covered masny psychic sto-
"Long ago in a vision, God told
me one day I would have such a ries during his tenure there. He
shrine on a river flowing from east currently freelances in the U.S.
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