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that's that's centered right over the

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kanto area the plane where tokyo is

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yokohama which is part of

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sort of the tokyo metropolitan area

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uh i don't know actually it's somewhere

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between 30 and 45 million people in this

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metropolitan area um i was saying

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earlier to someone i think it's the most

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densely populated city in the world but

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not the largest metropolitan area uh

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here's how i sort of organized my talk

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here today um

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just a little bit more on a

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self-introduction

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uh then to talk a little bit about japan

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and how it's been shaped by history and

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culture and religion and

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and a little bit about their thinking

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you'll find is that sort of uh dovetails

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uh why maybe edge science kind of

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activities and ideas and concepts maybe

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acceptance here than other places

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about the ssc japan organization which

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reading the book by bernard heisch on

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the god theory and that really just got

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me down the path to exploring sse and

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and here i am today and in 2018

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i decided to start up a local

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organization we'll talk about that

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as annalisa said i've been here over 20

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still an american citizen uh

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but a permanent resident which gives me

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all the rights that japanese people have

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except for i'm not able to vote

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wife and two children all three of them

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essentially made in japan

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my education was already mentioned

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and my employment was already mentioned

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so i spent most of my career in biotech

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large companies like millipore thermal

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small companies like repurcell which is

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perspective of process control and

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automation so they have a very small

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life science group that they're starting

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major factors influencing japan today

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and here's just some bullet points that

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i thought were interesting that i think

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for over 1400 years uh japan was kind of

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in isolation and they wanted it their

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way and and actively sought to keep it

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cultural and

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ethnical ethnic homogeneity

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existed for over 1400 years and the

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feudal society lasted until the

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mid-1800s when commodore perry came

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knocking on the

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door in shimoda and said hey

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hereditary monarchy in the world uh that

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place called nada nara is just south of

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kyoto and

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transition one of the the existing

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culture and society

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foreigners living in japan which is uh

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total population so still you know it's

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interest and curiosity and just being a

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foreigner and what are you doing here

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basically vegetarian for nearly 1300

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years and it was until the west sort of

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beef and meat and

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everything else so it was largely fish

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any country on earth with over one-third

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future with how to deal with this and

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japan's thinking and philosophy and

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religion with basically a fundamental

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belief that sort of all things possess a

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spirit and deserve acknowledgement and

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respect even that

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exerting evil influences

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nature and the spirits of nature

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buddhism which was imported from chinese

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culture and this buddhism is kind of

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like a philosophy for developing one's

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fairly private low pressure guilt-free

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philosophy for living and not really a

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traditional monotheistic world religions

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consider themselves as having a religion

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very rich history of sort of uh

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of folklore and um

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supernatural and uh

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the concept of shintoism i don't know if

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supernatural monsters or demons

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characters that are are are in japanese

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uh literature historically

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demon essentially so some of the youkai

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cross between a monkey and a turtle

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from an improperly discarded bones of a

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suicide or a murder victim and

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discards the body it instills a grudge

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in the bones and then that spirit

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this whole podcast is just about yokai

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there's just so many to choose from

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folklore and belief in spirits and

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most of this is my opinion i'm not a

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scholar in japanese uh philosophy or

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history or anything

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but i've been here for over 20 years and

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it is just due to the aging population

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is japanese people hold strongly to

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traditions and old superstitions and

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youkai is a good example

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silly things like

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for whistling at night you don't want to

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whistle at night because that calls the

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spirits into the house whistling during

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the day is okay but don't do it at night

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japanese people believe in spirits and

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belief in the connective niche of

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this is a book that i came across

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recently spirituality is a way i haven't

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because one of the authors is a guy

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named carl becker and i met him actually

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japanese spirituality

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as a way contrasts with western

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spirituality that tends to be based on

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cognitive approach with the background

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of mind-body dualism

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and didn't quite get that so i sent him

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an email and

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i think

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he kind of confirms what my uh what i

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said to you previously and he is an

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expert on sort of this kind of stuff

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uh philosophy and spirituality in japan

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and he wrote back japanese beliefs tend

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toward a monistic materialistic

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mind-body continuum allowing for

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invisible subtle matter and energy but

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not treating them as a distinct much

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less dualistically opposed essence

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our authors are not entirely consistent

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about this and i tend to view this less

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as in

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an

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others in

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in treating spirituality from the

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viewpoint of japan's rich history of

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parapsychological phenomena

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most of my co-authors center on work

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nature daily life breathing

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martial arts

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in which spirituality is more

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description of how gracefully or

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unconsciously something is performed

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rather than of what essence underlies

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that consciousness

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so

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i think he kind of confirmed with me

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that my experience and thinking on this

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topic is actually

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uh similar

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so anyways uh interesting book if's

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so i think that sort of sets the stage

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to say well okay um

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maybe edge science organizations and

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activities and

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and research in japan are

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a bit more open or accepted and

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practiced and so i tried to look into

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this a little bit more deeply

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now to be honest i may be familiar with

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one of these organizations but i found a

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whole bunch and i just wanted to outline

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them for you but i don't really know

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that much about them

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in fact of course

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in the last year you know i haven't been

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able to reach out too much to anybody or

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to to meet with any of these

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organizations other than one

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um

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and

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this organization i think is is the

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world most well-known and this one i do

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have an affiliation with i know dr

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yamamoto quite well

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and that's the international society of

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life information science uh italy

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um

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so they they publish a journal in

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symposiums uh twice yearly

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pre-covet i mean it's kind of been

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difficult now in the last year and a

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half or so

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their latest issue one delayed issues of

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the uh journal is shown there on the

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right

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and

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bill actually contributed a one-page

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article uh to this uh journal just to

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congratulate them on their 50th

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for

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their organization

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um

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it's very exciting at this point because

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they're in the process of building a new

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building under construction which is i

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think a four-story

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uh research building and office for this

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organization um that those pictures are

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from a year ago and i couldn't get any

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recent pictures uh that i think are you

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must already have the framework and

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stuff up and so

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they are really moving forward and

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investing some money that i'm not quite

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sure where it comes from but

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nevertheless uh this organization is

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um

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psy institute of japan and japan psychic

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science association these are

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organizations that i was able to find

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the one on the left there to psy

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institute uh

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has published uh annually since 1976

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and show an interest in all classical

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sci phenomena

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the one on the right there is a little

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bit more of a outreach program where

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they have workshops and courses offered

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uh whereas the one on the left is is is

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uh

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maybe more focused academically

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this psychic science association is

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officially formed in 2012 so it's more

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there's something called the subtle

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energy association of japan established

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in 1995 i wasn't aware of this until i

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started researching um for this

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presentation

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uh they study on the nature and

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consciousness and and the energy that

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connects to the universe and all life

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it's kind of a society of

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intellectualism and spiritualism and

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they don't seem to be publishing

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journals since 2016

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but they are still a existing

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organization

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there is a parapsychology association in

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publishes twice a year was established

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in 1968

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but

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again this organization uh the website

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seemed quite old and it didn't seem like

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it was updated but when talking with dr

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yamamoto he says that he still has some

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some affiliations and work with this

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organization so it still does exist

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although um

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i found something called a society for

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mind-body science

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since 1991

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formed to address anxiety moral decline

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combines approaches and ideas

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encompassing modern science with

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traditional practices like

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he and feng shui and zen

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and it's an exploration of spirituality

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and consciousness and they have a

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academic journal and a magazine

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similar to like the the ssc in that

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there's a transpersonal society

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which has uh similar sort of

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goals and ideas i believe

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and has outreach sort of workshops and

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seminars and webinars and also a

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um

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and now if we think about sort of

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medical let me close this

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light to start come through here the

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window in the morning

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um

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[Music]

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the

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alternative and complementary

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traditional medicine in japan um

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is

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china um

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and there's this japanese association

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for alternative complementary and

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traditional medicine and i found a

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japanese society for oriental medicine

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and that first one up top is kind of a

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public service where if you're looking

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for something you can go to that website

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and you can find doctors and clinics

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that support this

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the one on the bottom society is more of

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an academic society

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that has meetings and conferences that

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are investigating and studying uh kind

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of these kinds of alternative and

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complementary medicine so this is called

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kampo in japan

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and it's sort of

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traditional chinese style medicine that

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was introduced early in

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japan's history around the time that

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formed as a nation state in the seventh

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century

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but it has been adapted over time and

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modified to suit japanese culture

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interestingly there's over 148 compo

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formulations that are covered by the

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national health insurance here in japan

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so

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you can get treatment and

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in these alternative medicines and that

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does fall within japanese

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um

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police part of this kind of traditional

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medicine is of course reiki which i

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think is uniquely japanese um

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and

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uh it's a there's a non-profit holistic

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reiki organization that aims to

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contribute to society and health by

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spreading this through volunteer

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activities and healing

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and

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there's an international center for

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reiki training

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and then there's lots of private clinics

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around japan um

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i put that one name down there life

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forces because

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they're just one of many private clinics

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that practice reiki and acupuncture and

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many many types of alternative medicine

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but we did have a speaker in our japan

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sse event our 10th event that we had

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here in japan from the life forces

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institute and i'll just show you some

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pictures of that uh in a moment so

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sort of medical organizations and

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prevalent here

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okay

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let's shift a little bit and talk about

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our organization um

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that's my little adaptation of the logo

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that analisa has created i hope she's

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okay so

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the first thing is

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that

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the this organization

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um

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when i decided to start this

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i kind of reached out to all of my

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friends and colleagues that i thought

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might be interested

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and from that i came up with about 20

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people that said yeah that's kind of

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cool i mean i'd like to meet talk about

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that i'm interested in that

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um

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and then one of those persons in that

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organization basically says well have

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you ever heard of meetup and

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if you put this on meetup you'll find a

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lot of other people that are interested

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so this meetup organization is an

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international sort of

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social networking site and you can go in

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there and you create a

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special

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group and i called it the society for

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scientific exploration sse japan

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and you describe what that is and what

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you want to accomplish and look and

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how often you want to meet and just put

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a description there

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and anybody that is a member will go

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through various search terms when they

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sign up and say oh i'm in hundreds of

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search terms i'm interested in this this

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this this this and they just make check

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marks so anytime there's a new group

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that comes online if it hits one of your

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check marks you're given a notice

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so through this basically

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i have now currently 47 members through

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the meetup organization

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so in total there's maybe 68 members

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that have expressed an interest

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in the organization that are on my

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communication list on my email list

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mostly and i can contact them through

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when we have meetings of course we don't

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get

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68 people coming to our meetings

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in fast mostly we're getting somewhere

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between 10 to 15 to 20 that maybe show

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up for any meetings that that we have

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we hold our meetings at this national

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institute of informatics

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so i i may be the sole ssc

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organizer or

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the person really in charge of this but

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frederick here gets a lot of credit

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because he has volunteered use of their

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institute and gets us uh

579
00:23:00,470 --> 00:22:58,400
space uh for free and access most almost

580
00:23:01,909 --> 00:23:00,480
anytime we want it and it's right in

581
00:23:04,789 --> 00:23:01,919
central tokyo

582
00:23:05,669 --> 00:23:04,799
and uh in fact it's very close to the uh

583
00:23:09,190 --> 00:23:05,679
uh

584
00:23:10,149 --> 00:23:09,200
basically in the middle of the screen

585
00:23:11,909 --> 00:23:10,159
there

586
00:23:14,149 --> 00:23:11,919
so so frederick's been very helpful in

587
00:23:15,190 --> 00:23:14,159
getting this organized

588
00:23:17,990 --> 00:23:15,200
um

589
00:23:18,950 --> 00:23:18,000
so prior events we've held we held about

590
00:23:20,710 --> 00:23:18,960
10

591
00:23:22,710 --> 00:23:20,720
meetup events up until the beginning of

592
00:23:24,630 --> 00:23:22,720
about last year

593
00:23:25,990 --> 00:23:24,640
and these have ranged from

594
00:23:26,950 --> 00:23:26,000
from

595
00:23:30,390 --> 00:23:26,960
uh

596
00:23:32,870 --> 00:23:30,400
just us as as participants talking about

597
00:23:34,830 --> 00:23:32,880
various topics like anomalous personal

598
00:23:39,270 --> 00:23:34,840
experiences

599
00:23:41,029 --> 00:23:39,280
uh paranormal research uh

600
00:23:43,750 --> 00:23:41,039
ghostly phenomena

601
00:23:45,909 --> 00:23:43,760
mind body debate i basically announced a

602
00:23:47,669 --> 00:23:45,919
topic in advance so this is what we're

603
00:23:49,590 --> 00:23:47,679
gonna talk about i'll leave the

604
00:23:51,430 --> 00:23:49,600
discussion

605
00:23:52,950 --> 00:23:51,440
find something that's of interest to you

606
00:23:55,430 --> 00:23:52,960
that you know about this that you

607
00:23:57,590 --> 00:23:55,440
experience do a little research watch a

608
00:24:00,390 --> 00:23:57,600
youtube video and then let's just get

609
00:24:01,750 --> 00:24:00,400
together and and just discuss it

610
00:24:04,710 --> 00:24:01,760
uh from

611
00:24:08,230 --> 00:24:04,720
from sort of an ssc perspective of a

612
00:24:09,029 --> 00:24:08,240
scientific exploration uh perspective

613
00:24:11,269 --> 00:24:09,039
and

614
00:24:13,110 --> 00:24:11,279
so most of what we've done has been that

615
00:24:14,789 --> 00:24:13,120
kind of a social uh

616
00:24:17,110 --> 00:24:14,799
interaction

617
00:24:20,070 --> 00:24:17,120
there are scientists

618
00:24:21,190 --> 00:24:20,080
that participate in this organization

619
00:24:25,510 --> 00:24:21,200
um

620
00:24:26,789 --> 00:24:25,520
half of them are japanese half are

621
00:24:29,350 --> 00:24:26,799
foreigners

622
00:24:31,269 --> 00:24:29,360
we're mostly holding in english

623
00:24:34,870 --> 00:24:31,279
this is an english sort of group

624
00:24:36,549 --> 00:24:34,880
um a lot of bilingual people of course

625
00:24:40,470 --> 00:24:36,559
and so it's been very

626
00:24:41,510 --> 00:24:40,480
nice uh uh fruitful conversations

627
00:24:43,669 --> 00:24:41,520
um

628
00:24:46,390 --> 00:24:43,679
i've also had a few guests i mean we had

629
00:24:49,830 --> 00:24:46,400
some guests from like uh

630
00:24:51,350 --> 00:24:49,840
and emoto's work on the water crystals

631
00:24:52,950 --> 00:24:51,360
i had uh

632
00:24:55,110 --> 00:24:52,960
some complimentary and alternative

633
00:24:57,590 --> 00:24:55,120
medicine exploration with a couple of

634
00:25:00,230 --> 00:24:57,600
different guests and then some

635
00:25:01,990 --> 00:25:00,240
multiple sensorial media mulch media

636
00:25:04,390 --> 00:25:02,000
kind of kind of

637
00:25:06,149 --> 00:25:04,400
discussion so it's been a variety of

638
00:25:07,909 --> 00:25:06,159
different things

639
00:25:09,430 --> 00:25:07,919
we haven't done anything since colbit

640
00:25:12,789 --> 00:25:09,440
sort of hit though

641
00:25:14,789 --> 00:25:12,799
as an as a get together basically

642
00:25:17,430 --> 00:25:14,799
our last event was kind of the most fun

643
00:25:19,909 --> 00:25:17,440
i think we had these speakers which were

644
00:25:22,390 --> 00:25:19,919
chris earnshaw who's sort of got himself

645
00:25:23,669 --> 00:25:22,400
involved in biomagnetic therapy

646
00:25:25,350 --> 00:25:23,679
um

647
00:25:27,590 --> 00:25:25,360
and talked all about sort of that

648
00:25:30,230 --> 00:25:27,600
concept and his experiences with that

649
00:25:31,590 --> 00:25:30,240
and and i think he was really excited

650
00:25:33,260 --> 00:25:31,600
about the

651
00:25:36,870 --> 00:25:33,270
uh

652
00:25:42,470 --> 00:25:38,870
the treatment successful treatments he's

653
00:25:44,630 --> 00:25:42,480
had with uh

654
00:25:49,350 --> 00:25:44,640
uh

655
00:25:52,870 --> 00:25:49,360
muscular dystrophy or some other kind

656
00:25:54,470 --> 00:25:52,880
some kinds of muscular disabilities and

657
00:25:57,990 --> 00:25:54,480
he he was

658
00:26:00,149 --> 00:25:58,000
i'm sorry i'm blanking on exactly but uh

659
00:26:02,710 --> 00:26:00,159
he he was very excited about this and he

660
00:26:05,190 --> 00:26:02,720
was kind of shifting his career more

661
00:26:06,710 --> 00:26:05,200
over to practicing this more fully

662
00:26:09,430 --> 00:26:06,720
full-time

663
00:26:10,950 --> 00:26:09,440
life forces organization um

664
00:26:13,110 --> 00:26:10,960
they were there to talk about their

665
00:26:14,950 --> 00:26:13,120
alternative medicine and clinic that

666
00:26:17,269 --> 00:26:14,960
they have and usually with these

667
00:26:18,630 --> 00:26:17,279
meetings we get together we have we've

668
00:26:19,909 --> 00:26:18,640
maybe have some presentations some

669
00:26:21,590 --> 00:26:19,919
discussion and then we head down the

670
00:26:22,470 --> 00:26:21,600
street to this nepalese restaurant and

671
00:26:24,470 --> 00:26:22,480
have

672
00:26:25,909 --> 00:26:24,480
a little social hour with dinner and

673
00:26:27,750 --> 00:26:25,919
drinks

674
00:26:30,549 --> 00:26:27,760
occasionally we've had some

675
00:26:32,789 --> 00:26:30,559
just pure social meetings and i thought

676
00:26:35,110 --> 00:26:32,799
this was kind of a cool place uh that's

677
00:26:38,310 --> 00:26:35,120
on this next slide uh there's a place in

678
00:26:40,390 --> 00:26:38,320
tokyo called science bar incubator and

679
00:26:42,549 --> 00:26:40,400
this basically is a bar

680
00:26:47,029 --> 00:26:42,559
and they serve all your drinks and and

681
00:26:48,310 --> 00:26:47,039
food with forceps and petri plates and

682
00:26:50,950 --> 00:26:48,320
drinks and

683
00:26:52,789 --> 00:26:50,960
flasks and beakers and different ways of

684
00:26:54,549 --> 00:26:52,799
concoctions of mixing things and

685
00:26:58,070 --> 00:26:54,559
filtering things it's just it's

686
00:27:00,470 --> 00:26:58,080
hilarious and it's very entertaining uh

687
00:27:02,149 --> 00:27:00,480
i i very much enjoy uh visiting this

688
00:27:04,830 --> 00:27:02,159
place and this guy who's the

689
00:27:07,990 --> 00:27:04,840
owner and proprietor is a

690
00:27:12,149 --> 00:27:08,000
uh a professor at some local university

691
00:27:15,750 --> 00:27:13,830
um and then there's other interesting

692
00:27:17,590 --> 00:27:15,760
meetup groups that people that are in my

693
00:27:20,230 --> 00:27:17,600
group are also belong to other some

694
00:27:22,950 --> 00:27:20,240
other groups for instance this tokyo et

695
00:27:26,070 --> 00:27:22,960
contact group which is involved by in

696
00:27:27,990 --> 00:27:26,080
ce5 activities and we have an event

697
00:27:29,669 --> 00:27:28,000
actually next week that i'm planning on

698
00:27:32,389 --> 00:27:29,679
participating in

699
00:27:34,789 --> 00:27:32,399
there's a tokyo space event and this has

700
00:27:36,389 --> 00:27:34,799
actually got people involved and we have

701
00:27:37,909 --> 00:27:36,399
a lot of speakers coming professional

702
00:27:41,590 --> 00:27:37,919
speak for

703
00:27:43,190 --> 00:27:41,600
professionals to speak about uh

704
00:27:44,389 --> 00:27:43,200
astronomy and

705
00:27:47,350 --> 00:27:44,399
uh

706
00:27:49,110 --> 00:27:47,360
they come from nassar jacksaw other

707
00:27:50,630 --> 00:27:49,120
organizations

708
00:27:53,029 --> 00:27:50,640
that are very

709
00:27:55,269 --> 00:27:53,039
interesting mostly science very science

710
00:27:56,389 --> 00:27:55,279
or science oriented

711
00:27:59,510 --> 00:27:56,399
and then

712
00:28:01,510 --> 00:27:59,520
ones more around ai and tech industry

713
00:28:03,269 --> 00:28:01,520
and things like that so a lot of

714
00:28:05,110 --> 00:28:03,279
interesting meetup groups that some

715
00:28:07,269 --> 00:28:05,120
people in our organization are also part

716
00:28:08,389 --> 00:28:07,279
of

717
00:28:09,669 --> 00:28:08,399
um

718
00:28:10,789 --> 00:28:09,679
okay

719
00:28:12,789 --> 00:28:10,799
so

720
00:28:16,230 --> 00:28:12,799
um the other thing that in this last

721
00:28:17,830 --> 00:28:16,240
year uh i got involved with is is

722
00:28:20,470 --> 00:28:17,840
helping bill uh

723
00:28:22,549 --> 00:28:20,480
bankston with uh

724
00:28:23,750 --> 00:28:22,559
a research project that we started here

725
00:28:26,310 --> 00:28:23,760
in tokyo

726
00:28:27,269 --> 00:28:26,320
uh so when i met bill two years ago um

727
00:28:29,029 --> 00:28:27,279
back in

728
00:28:34,710 --> 00:28:29,039
um

729
00:28:35,990 --> 00:28:34,720
the ssc meeting in den colorado area uh

730
00:28:38,070 --> 00:28:36,000
he mentioned to me some of the

731
00:28:39,750 --> 00:28:38,080
difficulties he had with sort of doing

732
00:28:40,710 --> 00:28:39,760
some animal research in the states

733
00:28:47,750 --> 00:28:40,720
because

734
00:28:50,870 --> 00:28:47,760
guidelines around euthanasia and cruelty

735
00:28:54,070 --> 00:28:50,880
to animals and universities not being

736
00:28:55,990 --> 00:28:54,080
willing to risk any sort of uh bad

737
00:28:58,870 --> 00:28:56,000
publicity and

738
00:29:00,710 --> 00:28:58,880
and the kind of work that that

739
00:29:03,350 --> 00:29:00,720
may need to be done in these experiments

740
00:29:05,830 --> 00:29:03,360
may be a survival study which means you

741
00:29:08,310 --> 00:29:05,840
basically want the animals to

742
00:29:11,110 --> 00:29:08,320
live or die essentially in the long run

743
00:29:14,870 --> 00:29:11,120
and that kind of work isn't done

744
00:29:17,990 --> 00:29:14,880
very frequently anymore uh

745
00:29:19,750 --> 00:29:18,000
and so we were wondering about

746
00:29:22,549 --> 00:29:19,760
what it was like in japan

747
00:29:23,990 --> 00:29:22,559
now interestingly in japan

748
00:29:25,110 --> 00:29:24,000
they have the same

749
00:29:28,630 --> 00:29:25,120
animal

750
00:29:29,750 --> 00:29:28,640
uh research guidelines that they have in

751
00:29:30,789 --> 00:29:29,760
the states

752
00:29:32,389 --> 00:29:30,799
um

753
00:29:35,029 --> 00:29:32,399
but

754
00:29:37,990 --> 00:29:35,039
in japan there's not the

755
00:29:40,950 --> 00:29:38,000
concern about animal rights activists

756
00:29:42,630 --> 00:29:40,960
and bad publicity and things like that

757
00:29:43,909 --> 00:29:42,640
and i think and this sort of goes to

758
00:29:46,230 --> 00:29:43,919
sort of a japanese thinking and

759
00:29:50,149 --> 00:29:46,240
philosophy again where i kind of feel

760
00:29:52,630 --> 00:29:50,159
this sort of in japan there's

761
00:29:56,870 --> 00:29:52,640
right and wrong are extremes

762
00:29:59,350 --> 00:29:56,880
but most of its gray area in the middle

763
00:30:01,510 --> 00:29:59,360
which is different than

764
00:30:04,310 --> 00:30:01,520
rules and regulations rules and

765
00:30:07,510 --> 00:30:04,320
regulations are black and white that's

766
00:30:10,470 --> 00:30:07,520
the rule that's the law you obey it

767
00:30:11,350 --> 00:30:10,480
but right and wrong is very gray

768
00:30:12,950 --> 00:30:11,360
and

769
00:30:16,470 --> 00:30:12,960
that

770
00:30:19,669 --> 00:30:16,480
guidelines are really not rules they're

771
00:30:21,990 --> 00:30:19,679
guidelines and so in japan uh

772
00:30:24,310 --> 00:30:22,000
what we found out was yes those are the

773
00:30:26,149 --> 00:30:24,320
guidelines but if you have a good

774
00:30:28,549 --> 00:30:26,159
reason to want to

775
00:30:30,789 --> 00:30:28,559
stretch beyond those guidelines well if

776
00:30:32,549 --> 00:30:30,799
you can justify that okay then it's all

777
00:30:35,269 --> 00:30:32,559
right and so

778
00:30:37,029 --> 00:30:35,279
we contracted with the tokyo university

779
00:30:38,549 --> 00:30:37,039
of agriculture and technology which is

780
00:30:40,789 --> 00:30:38,559
the best

781
00:30:41,909 --> 00:30:40,799
we call it a veterinary institute in

782
00:30:43,669 --> 00:30:41,919
japan

783
00:30:46,710 --> 00:30:43,679
professors shown down here at the bottom

784
00:30:49,110 --> 00:30:46,720
uh dr matsuda and tanaka are the ones

785
00:30:51,029 --> 00:30:49,120
running this project and we're working

786
00:30:54,310 --> 00:30:51,039
with three different cancer cell lines

787
00:30:56,630 --> 00:30:54,320
three different strains of mice and uh

788
00:30:57,590 --> 00:30:56,640
working with the bengston healing method

789
00:31:05,590 --> 00:30:57,600
uh

790
00:31:08,389 --> 00:31:05,600
test that on the tumor formation in

791
00:31:11,110 --> 00:31:08,399
these mice um

792
00:31:13,590 --> 00:31:11,120
so this current that publication listed

793
00:31:17,269 --> 00:31:13,600
up there uh is a research that is being

794
00:31:18,789 --> 00:31:17,279
sort of expanded in this follow-up study

795
00:31:20,710 --> 00:31:18,799
employing this healing method using

796
00:31:22,470 --> 00:31:20,720
digitally recorded uh information and

797
00:31:24,950 --> 00:31:22,480
there's some pictures of the

798
00:31:25,909 --> 00:31:24,960
mice right there getting uh some audio

799
00:31:28,389 --> 00:31:25,919
treatment

800
00:31:30,549 --> 00:31:28,399
so this is currently underway in the

801
00:31:32,389 --> 00:31:30,559
first half of the experiment is being

802
00:31:35,430 --> 00:31:32,399
done right now and so we're

803
00:31:38,789 --> 00:31:35,440
uh weekly uh monitoring this and working

804
00:31:40,389 --> 00:31:38,799
with these this organization

805
00:31:43,350 --> 00:31:40,399
okay so we've got this

806
00:31:46,230 --> 00:31:43,360
activity uh research activity going on

807
00:31:49,190 --> 00:31:46,240
now in japan which is quite exciting

808
00:31:51,190 --> 00:31:49,200
now just looking ahead post pandemic

809
00:31:53,190 --> 00:31:51,200
what's the plans well

810
00:31:54,950 --> 00:31:53,200
i'm continuing to provide email updates

811
00:31:56,870 --> 00:31:54,960
to japan members we're getting news

812
00:31:59,029 --> 00:31:56,880
journal magazine releases and other

813
00:32:00,950 --> 00:31:59,039
information about the ssc to try to keep

814
00:32:02,549 --> 00:32:00,960
interest in the group live

815
00:32:04,630 --> 00:32:02,559
but the big question is when do we

816
00:32:06,549 --> 00:32:04,640
restart meetups

817
00:32:08,549 --> 00:32:06,559
we're in a lockdown right now there's

818
00:32:11,029 --> 00:32:08,559
about five thousand cases a day which is

819
00:32:14,710 --> 00:32:11,039
at a peak right now i've covered so it's

820
00:32:16,070 --> 00:32:14,720
kind of a issue right now um

821
00:32:18,389 --> 00:32:16,080
eventually i'm sure we'll get back

822
00:32:20,630 --> 00:32:18,399
together but right now at the moment

823
00:32:22,070 --> 00:32:20,640
that still doesn't look likely

824
00:32:23,750 --> 00:32:22,080
there's some interesting speakers that i

825
00:32:26,070 --> 00:32:23,760
think they've lined up in the future

826
00:32:28,710 --> 00:32:26,080
that one author i mentioned earlier carl

827
00:32:30,710 --> 00:32:28,720
carl becker who's sort of involved in

828
00:32:32,710 --> 00:32:30,720
medical ethics spiritual care for the

829
00:32:33,509 --> 00:32:32,720
dying near-death studies things like

830
00:32:35,110 --> 00:32:33,519
that

831
00:32:38,070 --> 00:32:35,120
he's been in japan

832
00:32:39,669 --> 00:32:38,080
more than 40 years he's an american

833
00:32:41,430 --> 00:32:39,679
petroleum who was

834
00:32:43,350 --> 00:32:41,440
wants to do we want to do more in

835
00:32:45,190 --> 00:32:43,360
complementary and alternative technology

836
00:32:47,110 --> 00:32:45,200
healing technologies

837
00:32:48,470 --> 00:32:47,120
mark caprosky who's the leader of the et

838
00:32:50,630 --> 00:32:48,480
contract group

839
00:32:52,470 --> 00:32:50,640
like to have him come and talk about ce5

840
00:32:55,669 --> 00:32:52,480
global activities and

841
00:32:58,070 --> 00:32:55,679
and the disclosure sort of thing that's

842
00:32:59,990 --> 00:32:58,080
got everybody excited about uh in the

843
00:33:01,990 --> 00:33:00,000
states uh what are they gonna release

844
00:33:03,909 --> 00:33:02,000
what's what's coming down the pipe

845
00:33:06,070 --> 00:33:03,919
in terms of information

846
00:33:08,789 --> 00:33:06,080
and uh and then there's this researcher

847
00:33:10,950 --> 00:33:08,799
at tokyo university who i found recently

848
00:33:13,990 --> 00:33:10,960
did some interesting work with magnetic

849
00:33:16,070 --> 00:33:14,000
field influence on cell biology uh and

850
00:33:18,070 --> 00:33:16,080
this is highly related to sort of 5g

851
00:33:20,389 --> 00:33:18,080
communications and

852
00:33:22,310 --> 00:33:20,399
what's really the story with 5g and what

853
00:33:23,110 --> 00:33:22,320
kind of an effect does that have

854
00:33:24,389 --> 00:33:23,120
so

855
00:33:25,990 --> 00:33:24,399
um

856
00:33:28,470 --> 00:33:26,000
uh that's something i want to do in the

857
00:33:31,669 --> 00:33:28,480
future as well i want to cultivate sort

858
00:33:32,789 --> 00:33:31,679
of an ssc global relationship with uh

859
00:33:37,110 --> 00:33:32,799
uh

860
00:33:40,230 --> 00:33:37,120
research institute

861
00:33:43,430 --> 00:33:40,240
in in chiba uh because they're really

862
00:33:45,430 --> 00:33:43,440
interested in in building some more uh

863
00:33:47,269 --> 00:33:45,440
closely with the ssc

864
00:33:49,190 --> 00:33:47,279
and then finally i have a new hobby

865
00:33:52,070 --> 00:33:49,200
astrophotography i've been out most of

866
00:33:53,909 --> 00:33:52,080
the night tonight last night uh so i may

867
00:33:56,070 --> 00:33:53,919
actually form a new meetup group in

868
00:33:57,590 --> 00:33:56,080
astrophotography so

869
00:34:00,389 --> 00:33:57,600
basically uh

870
00:34:02,549 --> 00:34:00,399
that's what i had to present uh

871
00:34:04,710 --> 00:34:02,559
that's what's going on here and i think

872
00:34:06,630 --> 00:34:04,720
that's how it sort of fits together

873
00:34:08,069 --> 00:34:06,640
and i hope this made some sense and was

874
00:34:09,510 --> 00:34:08,079
uh interest

875
00:34:12,710 --> 00:34:09,520
to you guys

876
00:34:15,270 --> 00:34:12,720
so i will start with a

877
00:34:17,990 --> 00:34:15,280
question let's see here um well this

878
00:34:20,710 --> 00:34:18,000
comes from the ssc president bill benson

879
00:34:22,470 --> 00:34:20,720
it says do japanese scientists view

880
00:34:29,190 --> 00:34:22,480
anomalies differently than their western

881
00:34:34,629 --> 00:34:31,909
well i think what i i've tried to

882
00:34:35,829 --> 00:34:34,639
communicate is i think they're more uh

883
00:34:37,109 --> 00:34:35,839
open to

884
00:34:38,149 --> 00:34:37,119
to

885
00:34:41,430 --> 00:34:38,159
uh

886
00:34:42,470 --> 00:34:41,440
the possibilities that they exist and

887
00:34:48,470 --> 00:34:42,480
the

888
00:34:50,470 --> 00:34:48,480
anomalous and that's okay uh i don't

889
00:34:51,510 --> 00:34:50,480
have to dismiss it as being

890
00:34:54,310 --> 00:34:51,520
uh

891
00:34:57,109 --> 00:34:54,320
outside of the box

892
00:34:59,430 --> 00:34:57,119
um but do they view it differently i

893
00:35:01,430 --> 00:34:59,440
actually don't know um

894
00:35:03,349 --> 00:35:01,440
i know bill that you've seen with me as

895
00:35:05,829 --> 00:35:03,359
we've talked with the uh

896
00:35:07,910 --> 00:35:05,839
professors at the university of tokyo

897
00:35:10,470 --> 00:35:07,920
that

898
00:35:13,109 --> 00:35:10,480
you know as we describe what we're doing

899
00:35:15,670 --> 00:35:13,119
and the tools we're using and what we

900
00:35:16,470 --> 00:35:15,680
expect to happen you know these

901
00:35:18,630 --> 00:35:16,480
very

902
00:35:20,630 --> 00:35:18,640
mainstream professional scientists you

903
00:35:22,390 --> 00:35:20,640
know though they snicker and

904
00:35:24,470 --> 00:35:22,400
they enjoy talking about it but they're

905
00:35:25,829 --> 00:35:24,480
really fascinated with trying it and

906
00:35:28,150 --> 00:35:25,839
just to see

907
00:35:29,589 --> 00:35:28,160
uh you know

908
00:35:31,670 --> 00:35:29,599
all right well

909
00:35:33,349 --> 00:35:31,680
we can deal with that um

910
00:35:35,430 --> 00:35:33,359
so i don't have an answer if they view

911
00:35:37,109 --> 00:35:35,440
it differently they uh but they're i

912
00:35:39,270 --> 00:35:37,119
think more accepting of it here are you

913
00:35:41,349 --> 00:35:39,280
aware this is from john alexander are

914
00:35:43,109 --> 00:35:41,359
you aware of the japanese presentations

915
00:35:46,870 --> 00:35:43,119
presented at our meeting in southern

916
00:35:49,430 --> 00:35:46,880
california believe it was 1995. they

917
00:35:51,990 --> 00:35:49,440
demonstrated applications of key that

918
00:35:53,510 --> 00:35:52,000
were truly dramatic no i mean

919
00:35:55,270 --> 00:35:53,520
honestly

920
00:35:56,390 --> 00:35:55,280
i really just sort of getting involved

921
00:35:58,230 --> 00:35:56,400
with sort of

922
00:35:59,030 --> 00:35:58,240
this kind of edge science stuff in the

923
00:36:01,030 --> 00:35:59,040
last

924
00:36:04,470 --> 00:36:01,040
four or five years so before that's just

925
00:36:06,950 --> 00:36:04,480
a complete black box to me yeah

926
00:36:09,510 --> 00:36:06,960
marilyn schlitz asks uh she's asking

927
00:36:11,750 --> 00:36:09,520
what about the i can't pronounce this

928
00:36:13,109 --> 00:36:11,760
peace foundation

929
00:36:14,710 --> 00:36:13,119
she said she's collaborated with him

930
00:36:17,990 --> 00:36:14,720
over the years

931
00:36:25,349 --> 00:36:20,470
piece

932
00:36:29,190 --> 00:36:27,589
no i'm not at all i've collabed with

933
00:36:31,589 --> 00:36:29,200
them over the years also will brand and

934
00:36:34,790 --> 00:36:31,599
i posed the first study of reiki healing

935
00:36:36,870 --> 00:36:34,800
many years ago um

936
00:36:39,670 --> 00:36:36,880
no unfortunately i'm not but i'll i'll

937
00:36:41,510 --> 00:36:39,680
put that on my list of uh organizations

938
00:36:44,710 --> 00:36:41,520
to just uh take a look at what they're

939
00:36:46,630 --> 00:36:44,720
up to i i don't i don't know them

940
00:36:49,270 --> 00:36:46,640
yeah something to check out perhaps i

941
00:36:50,710 --> 00:36:49,280
would say one thing though is that um

942
00:36:53,430 --> 00:36:50,720
you know what i

943
00:36:56,790 --> 00:36:53,440
basically what i i scanned the internet

944
00:36:57,750 --> 00:36:56,800
and talked with professor or dr yamamoto

945
00:37:05,349 --> 00:36:57,760
and

946
00:37:07,510 --> 00:37:05,359
i don't really have interaction with

947
00:37:09,510 --> 00:37:07,520
those organizations it's hard for me to

948
00:37:11,990 --> 00:37:09,520
interact with them unless i actually

949
00:37:13,910 --> 00:37:12,000
attend a meeting and

950
00:37:15,750 --> 00:37:13,920
and meet people face to face and

951
00:37:20,069 --> 00:37:15,760
obviously not a lot of that has occurred

952
00:37:24,950 --> 00:37:21,030
um

953
00:37:27,109 --> 00:37:24,960
daishin asks uh there have been a few

954
00:37:29,349 --> 00:37:27,119
side gifted people from china living in

955
00:37:33,829 --> 00:37:29,359
japan do you know if they are still

956
00:37:37,670 --> 00:37:34,950
so

957
00:37:39,829 --> 00:37:37,680
um

958
00:37:42,069 --> 00:37:39,839
uh

959
00:37:45,349 --> 00:37:42,079
they're certainly not at the italy

960
00:37:46,550 --> 00:37:45,359
institute itself i haven't met any

961
00:37:52,390 --> 00:37:46,560
um

962
00:37:53,829 --> 00:37:52,400
although that interestingly they are

963
00:37:56,470 --> 00:37:53,839
expanding that and he's actually

964
00:37:58,150 --> 00:37:56,480
recruiting and will be hiring uh

965
00:37:59,910 --> 00:37:58,160
an increased staff when that new

966
00:38:02,950 --> 00:37:59,920
building is built

967
00:38:06,870 --> 00:38:04,710
whether or not there's an affiliation

968
00:38:09,109 --> 00:38:06,880
with some chinese scientists here in

969
00:38:11,670 --> 00:38:09,119
japan that have

970
00:38:14,390 --> 00:38:11,680
uh affiliated with islay

971
00:38:16,310 --> 00:38:14,400
i'm not aware of that uh it could be but

972
00:38:18,550 --> 00:38:16,320
i'm sorry i don't have any information

973
00:38:21,430 --> 00:38:18,560
on that um i have not seen any

974
00:38:24,630 --> 00:38:21,440
publications in the sleep journal though

975
00:38:26,870 --> 00:38:24,640
with chinese scientists recently so that

976
00:38:29,510 --> 00:38:26,880
at least within the last two years or

977
00:38:34,950 --> 00:38:33,030
um along those lines uh glenn ryan asks

978
00:38:36,390 --> 00:38:34,960
are are any of the societies with

979
00:38:41,030 --> 00:38:36,400
journals attached

980
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:45,190
only isley as far as i know

981
00:38:49,190 --> 00:38:48,310
okay um

982
00:38:51,349 --> 00:38:49,200
well

983
00:38:53,109 --> 00:38:51,359
i've only um

984
00:38:54,870 --> 00:38:53,119
i know they're all published in japanese

985
00:38:56,310 --> 00:38:54,880
now if you submitted an article to them

986
00:38:58,550 --> 00:38:56,320
in english because you were interested

987
00:39:00,310 --> 00:38:58,560
in public singing in their journal

988
00:39:01,510 --> 00:39:00,320
i bet they would be quite receptive to

989
00:39:02,870 --> 00:39:01,520
it um

990
00:39:04,710 --> 00:39:02,880
but uh

991
00:39:06,630 --> 00:39:04,720
they don't routinely publish in english

992
00:39:08,550 --> 00:39:06,640
yeah

993
00:39:11,349 --> 00:39:08,560
all right uh oh let's see i answered

994
00:39:12,630 --> 00:39:11,359
that one um dane also asked can you post

995
00:39:14,950 --> 00:39:12,640
the information in the paper that you

996
00:39:17,430 --> 00:39:14,960
just mentioned mentioned the one on

997
00:39:20,550 --> 00:39:17,440
magnetic fields

998
00:39:22,950 --> 00:39:20,560
uh i have to dig that up um

999
00:39:24,950 --> 00:39:22,960
uh yeah i can find that uh i think i

1000
00:39:27,670 --> 00:39:24,960
have your contact information dodging so

1001
00:39:29,829 --> 00:39:27,680
i will i will send that to you

1002
00:39:34,630 --> 00:39:29,839
uh and deborah's asking could you expand

1003
00:39:38,150 --> 00:39:36,630
the easy questions today

1004
00:39:40,470 --> 00:39:38,160
yeah so they i mean

1005
00:39:42,950 --> 00:39:40,480
basically they're cell biologists

1006
00:39:45,030 --> 00:39:42,960
and uh

1007
00:39:48,470 --> 00:39:45,040
they were

1008
00:39:52,550 --> 00:39:50,710
this was an in vitro experiment where

1009
00:39:53,750 --> 00:39:52,560
they were growing

1010
00:39:56,150 --> 00:39:53,760
i think there was i think it was just

1011
00:40:00,230 --> 00:39:56,160
hela cells you know some basic mammalian

1012
00:40:02,230 --> 00:40:00,240
cell type uh and exposing them to

1013
00:40:03,670 --> 00:40:02,240
uh

1014
00:40:05,670 --> 00:40:03,680
various degrees of

1015
00:40:06,870 --> 00:40:05,680
of frequencies of electromagnetic

1016
00:40:09,030 --> 00:40:06,880
radiation

1017
00:40:11,910 --> 00:40:09,040
um

1018
00:40:15,270 --> 00:40:11,920
i'm trying to remember what kind of

1019
00:40:19,270 --> 00:40:16,790
uh

1020
00:40:21,430 --> 00:40:19,280
what kind of

1021
00:40:22,950 --> 00:40:21,440
measurement they were taking uh i'm

1022
00:40:25,190 --> 00:40:22,960
sorry i'm kind of blanking on it now

1023
00:40:27,190 --> 00:40:25,200
this was a year and a half ago when i

1024
00:40:29,910 --> 00:40:27,200
saw this and i didn't really follow up

1025
00:40:34,150 --> 00:40:31,190
but i can

1026
00:40:40,150 --> 00:40:37,109
i can send you the link to that i saw it

1027
00:40:41,910 --> 00:40:40,160
i saw it actually in some kind of um

1028
00:40:47,190 --> 00:40:41,920
uh

1029
00:40:49,190 --> 00:40:47,200
when i noticed it was the university of

1030
00:40:51,349 --> 00:40:49,200
tokyo and i've always wanted to contact

1031
00:40:53,990 --> 00:40:51,359
that person so my plans are i haven't

1032
00:40:56,309 --> 00:40:54,000
really contacted them yet uh to to

1033
00:40:58,630 --> 00:40:56,319
follow up and um

1034
00:41:00,390 --> 00:40:58,640
you know if you send me your email or

1035
00:41:02,390 --> 00:41:00,400
contact me somehow then i'd be happy to

1036
00:41:03,990 --> 00:41:02,400
sort of pass along

1037
00:41:06,710 --> 00:41:04,000
that paper reference

1038
00:41:08,150 --> 00:41:06,720
so that question was for from deborah so

1039
00:41:09,670 --> 00:41:08,160
deborah if you need to get in touch with

1040
00:41:10,950 --> 00:41:09,680
paul just send me an email you know

1041
00:41:12,710 --> 00:41:10,960
where to find me

1042
00:41:16,150 --> 00:41:12,720
and uh we have one final question at

1043
00:41:18,630 --> 00:41:16,160
least for a moment um sheila dugan asks

1044
00:41:20,390 --> 00:41:18,640
can anyone from anywhere join is there

1045
00:41:23,109 --> 00:41:20,400
an ssc japan

1046
00:41:25,510 --> 00:41:23,119
online group

1047
00:41:27,430 --> 00:41:25,520
um no we haven't really done that online

1048
00:41:28,550 --> 00:41:27,440
group um

1049
00:41:35,510 --> 00:41:28,560
i

1050
00:41:37,190 --> 00:41:35,520
and uh

1051
00:41:39,109 --> 00:41:37,200
i've kind of felt sort of the the

1052
00:41:41,430 --> 00:41:39,119
face-to-face interaction in the same

1053
00:41:42,790 --> 00:41:41,440
room was was good

1054
00:41:45,270 --> 00:41:42,800
was really

1055
00:41:47,670 --> 00:41:45,280
conducive to get people to really

1056
00:41:48,790 --> 00:41:47,680
participate

1057
00:41:50,550 --> 00:41:48,800
um

1058
00:41:52,750 --> 00:41:50,560
part of that i think is because it's

1059
00:41:54,710 --> 00:41:52,760
kind of cross-cultural and and

1060
00:41:56,150 --> 00:41:54,720
cross-language and

1061
00:41:58,550 --> 00:41:56,160
you know if you're in the same room with

1062
00:41:59,990 --> 00:41:58,560
someone whose english is the second not

1063
00:42:02,550 --> 00:42:00,000
their first language

1064
00:42:05,190 --> 00:42:02,560
it's much easier to sort of uh get them

1065
00:42:08,710 --> 00:42:05,200
to participate and to discuss and

1066
00:42:10,309 --> 00:42:08,720
uh but just to do it uh

1067
00:42:12,069 --> 00:42:10,319
online it

1068
00:42:13,349 --> 00:42:12,079
it just to me it doesn't seem to make

1069
00:42:15,670 --> 00:42:13,359
sense so

1070
00:42:16,950 --> 00:42:15,680
unfortunately we have not done that

1071
00:42:19,030 --> 00:42:16,960
well hopefully we'll get to see you

1072
00:42:20,790 --> 00:42:19,040
resume your activities very soon i hope

1073
00:42:22,390 --> 00:42:20,800
so yeah yeah

1074
00:42:24,710 --> 00:42:22,400
well that is it for our question so

1075
00:42:27,349 --> 00:42:24,720
thank you for joining us and giving us

1076
00:42:29,030 --> 00:42:27,359
the uh briefing on your group um very

1077
00:42:30,710 --> 00:42:29,040
exciting what you've been doing and i