Project Activity (First Year)

Results of the First Year of the 5-Year-Project of Science and Technology Agency of Japan

We have done many experiments including below themes in the first year.

  1. An Experiment on Remote Action against Man in Sense Shielding Condition
  2. An Experiment on Extrasensory Information Transfer with Electroencephalogram Measurement
  3. An Experiment on Unknown Subconscious Information Transfer with Auditory Brain Evoked Potential
  4. An Experiment on Extrasensory Information Transfer with Electroencephalogram Measurement (Part II)
  5. An Experiment on Remote Action against Man in Sensory-Shielding Condition (Part II)
    * A video segment "toh-ate" shows Remote Action in the actual experiment.
    [AVI file: 621k]
  6. Attempts to Develop an in vitro Experimental System for Detecting the Effect of Stimulant Emission using Cultured Human Cells

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Researches in the First Year

1. An Experiment on Remote Action against Man in Sense Shielding Condition 1)
The objective of the experiment is to verify whether a tohate performed by a master of qi-gong depends on his suggestion or not. When the master performed the tohate for his pupil, with the master and his pupil separately positioned in two rooms, each of which was located on a different floor of a sense-shielded building, the master's acting time and his pupil's response time were recorded. The time differences between the master's acting time and the pupil's response time were one sec and less, 6 times in 16 trials. This result implies that all tohates do not depend on the master's suggestion and unknown transmission of tohate acting, since the same event by chance as the result described above gives a probability of 0.0058; the value is of sufficient significance on approximate synchronous timing between both performances of some tohates.

2. An Experiment on Extrasensory Information Transfer with Electroencephalogram Measurement 2)
A sender and a percipient were separately located in two sense-shielded rooms and extrasensory transfer of information attempted during which the electroencephalogram of the percipient was measured. The sender sent information during the randomly selected first or second half of a two-minute period, while the percipient attempted to guess both the information sent, and the sending time zone. Over 20 trials, the percipient was unable to guess the correct sending time zones with any statistical significance, but did show a statistically significant difference in the alpha wave amplitude in the electroencephalogram between sending and non-sending time zones. This suggests the existence of the extrasensory information transfer in the subconscious.

3. An Experiment on Unknown Subconscious Information Transfer with Auditory Brain Evoked Potential 3)
In order to verify that a subject's brain is able to identify selected sounds, even if the subject can not identify the selected sounds significantly by the normal auditory sense, a series of trials were performed on the subject who tried to identify the sound selected previously at random by computer while listening to four sounds generated during trials. This paper will demonstrate that the subject's significant shift of latency was detected on his auditory brain evoked potential peak while he listened to the selected unknown targets, and will suggest the possibility of unknown information transfer in the subconsciousness.

4.An Experiment on Extrasensory Information Transfer with Electroencephalogram Measurement (Part II) 4)
A sender and a percipient were located separately in two sensory-shielded rooms, and extrasensory transfer of information was attempted while both were connected to electroencephalographs. The sender transmitted information without using the senses during a randomly selected half of a two-minute period. The percipient attempted to guess both the content and the time period. Over 20 trials, the percipient was not able to guess the correct sending time with any statistical significance. However, a statistically significant difference was observed in the alpha wave amplitude in her electroencephalogram between the sending and non-sending time zones. This suggests the existence of extrasensory information transfer in the subconscious. This extrasensory information transfer is not completed just after the reaction in the sender's brain, but is composed of two reactions. The first reaction occurs in the occipital to parietal region of the percipient and is followed by a reaction in the frontal region.

5. An Experiment on Remote Action against Man in Sensory-Shielding Condition (Part II) 5)
The indication that the phenomenon "tohate" performed by a qigong master is caused not only by his suggestion was reported in our first paper at the ISLIS Symposium, March 1996. The issue was re-examined in following three experiments. Experiments 1 and 2 were done under randomized and blind conditions.
Experiment 1: When a qigong master performed a remote tohate action, the master's (sender) qi-emitting motion time and his pupil's (receiver) response motion time (start of recoil) were recorded. The sender and receiver were separated in two rooms of a sensory-shielded building, with the receiver on the 1st floor and the sender on the 4th. Coincidence frequency within +/-5.5 sec was 16 (expected value is 7.88) of the 49 trials. It is statistically significant and the risk is 0.0008. This suggests that there is an unknown communication mechanism between the sender and receiver.
* A video segment of "toh-ate" [AVI file: 621k]. This movie filmed on May 16, 1996 shows scenes of the qigong master's (sender) qi-emitting motion (4th floor) and his pupil's (receiver) response motion (1st floor) in the actual experiment.
* "Toh-ate" looks like "waiqi", but it is not the same. "Toh-ate" is a term from Japanese traditional martial arts. "Toh-ate" is seen as a powerful signal by psi. However, we don't have complete theories explaining "toh-ate" or "waiqi". Therefore, the difference between "toh-ate" and "waiqi" may exist only in appearance.
Experiment 2: Electroencephalograms (EEGs) of the receiver were recorded. The qi-emission was performed at a random time selected during a one minute interval by the experimenter. In 57 trials, the receiver showed a statistically significant difference between the emitting and non-emitting times in the alpha wave mean amplitudes of the EEGs for the right frontal part of the brain. This suggests that extrasensory information transfer took place and that it is related to the right frontal part of the brain.
Experiment 3: The sender and receiver were located in one room or shielded from sensory contact in two rooms, and their EEGs were simultaneously measured while tohate was performed. Analysis of the changes in multiple parameters of the EEGs from before to after tohate showed that both were more relaxed during tohate than at rest, and that suggests both had images during tohate, in addition to other information. The topographic patterns of the beta waves of the EEGs for both sender and receiver resembled each other during tohate.

6. Attempts to Develop an in vitro Experimental System for Detecting the Effect of Stimulant Emission using Cultured Human Cells 6)
The ability of certain individuals to cure various diseases and injuries using the effect of stimulant emission (ESE) has been argued for a long time, and the mechanism of the putative ESE is not clear. Moreover, it is widely believed that the existence of ESE itself is doubtful. However, assuming that ESE has a positive therapeutic effect, we designed simple experimental systems that may be able to detect the putative ESE by a colony-formation assay using cultured human cells exposed to chemical compounds or ionizing radiations that have a lethal effect on cell growth. We report here the results of two pilot experiments using G418 as a lethal compound and X ray as ionizing radiation. Although an enhancement of colony formation by ESE was not detected in the G418 experiment, a slight increase in the number of colonies formed was observed in the X ray irradiation experiment, possibly caused by the putative ESE.

References
1) YAMAMOTO M., HIRASAWA M., KAWANO K., YASUDA N. and FURUKAWA A.: Journal of International Society of Life Information Science, 14, 97-101, 1996.
2) HIRASAWA M., YAMAMOTO M., KAWANO K. and FURUKAWA A.: Journal of International Society of Life Information Science, 14, 43-48, 1996.
3) HIRASAWA M., YAMAMOTO M.: Journal of International Society of Life Information Science, 14, 32-37, 1996.
4) HIRASAWA M., YAMAMOTO M., KAWANO K., FURUKAWA A. and YASUDA N.: Journal of International Society of Life Information Science, 14, 185-195, 1996
5) YAMAMOTO M., HIRASAWA M., KAWANO K., KOKUBO H., KOKADO T., HIRATA T., YASUDA N., FURUKAWA A. and FUKUDA N.: Journal of International Society of Life Information Science, 14, 228-248, 1996.
6) YAMAUCHI M., SAITO T., YAMAMOTO M. and HIRASAWA M.: Journal of International Society of Life Information Science, 14, 266-277, 1996.

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