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October/2015

Memorial Service Announcement
Saturday, November 7, 2015, 2 pm - 4 pm

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Please Join Us to Celebrate the Memory of CIHS' Beloved Founder, President, Spiritual Master,
and Scientific Pioneer

Dr. Hiroshi Motoyama, 1925-2015
Saturday, November 7, 2015, 2 pm - 4 pm

At the California Institute for Human Science 
Please join us in coming together as a community to honor Dr. Motoyama's life and memory.
May the CIHS community have the courage
and fortitude to carry on his vision.

Please RSVP by Oct. 30:
[email protected]



Dear CIHS Community Members,
 
    This October Newsletter is not a regular newsletter like the ones we have sent in the last few decades. This is a special newsletter as we are honoring CIHS' Founder and President, Dr. Hiroshi Motoyama's life and work that has had such a significant impact on the world. Dr. Hiroshi Motoyama left his physical form to return to the Divine realm peacefully at his home in Tokyo on September 19, 2015, at the age of 89. Dr. Motoyama (1925-2015) lived a full life in service to humanity and god. CIHS is a large part of his legacy and current, future, and alumni students are encharged with carrying his message of a global society and higher consciousness in their work, through their studies, and their own raised consciousness.

In this newsletter, we include our tributes from CIHS administration, including Masatsune Sato, Dr. Hope Umansky, Dr. Thomas Brophy, Dr. Tim Laporte, Tamiko Voros, and myself, Hideki Baba. In addition, we add a list of names who sent CIHS a tribute to Dr. Motoyama to honor his most extraordinary life.

As a late student of Dr. Motoyama's, I am so fortunate to have learned from him. I first met Dr. Motoyama in the fall 1999 when I became a CIHS student. I was in his Karma & Reincarnation course at CIHS, which is now taught by Dr. Laporte. I was so fascinated by this course since my interest to come to CIHS was to study religious philosophy with him. What I learned from this course, however, was the fundamental roots of "religion," to which my understanding answered the question, "What is human a being?" This was a life-changing experience, and I decided to enroll in the Integral Health Program, formally known as Human Science, instead of Comparative Religion and Philosophy program.

Since 1999 when I first met Dr. Motoyama, there were so many things that I have learned from him, and it would be impossible to list or concretize everything here. To name a few, I became a member of Dr. Motoyama's shrine in Tokyo, Tamamitsu Shrine in 2002, which has formulated my "faith" in various ways and had great impact in my life. Then, in a same year of 2002, I became a personal assistant of Dr. Motoyama during his stay in California. Mostly, I did everything that he needed to do here such as coordinate business and personal trips, shopping, medical checks, walks at the beaches, arranging for his breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and more. In 2003, I received my Ph.D. in Human Science under the guidance of Dr. Motoyama, a huge achievement in my personal education. In the same year, soon after graduating, Dr. Motoyama offered me a job at CIHS, a starting place of fully participating in society. In 2008, I married after I received numerous advice and guidance from him. In 2009 and 2012, our two sons were born, and both have had the privilege of meeting Dr. Motoyama. It was so nice for us, and especially for our boys, to see Dr. Motoyama as a family and receive blessings from him while starting my family life.

Those list of events comprise just the surface of my core experiences, which includes education, job, marriage, and children. I was so fortunate that Dr. Motoyama was always here besides my family and me in order to receive various guidance physically and spiritually throughout those important life events. I cannot express how I grateful to him in words. He is always in me. Once Dr. Motoyama said to me, if you need my guidance, pray to God with single-mind as much as possible, and I will guide you, no matter where I am in day or night.

Again, there are so many things that I learned from him that I could not put them all in a message to you. What I can do for now is to be dedicated to spread his teachings through CIHS as well as to raise our children with love from his teaching through my family.

I will continue to study Dr. Motoyama through his books, and I am sure there are so many things that I will re-discover of his teachings, according to my age and the progress of my daily practice. If those who want to learn more about Dr. Motoyama's life and achievements, I think his book "Science and the Evolution of Religion" might be a good start. Of course, Dr. Motoyama's books, "Karma & Reincarnation," mentioned above, and "Theories of the Chakras," are the bestsellers among other many of his books, which are translated into more than 15 countries. You can find Dr. Motoyama's books from our online bookstore from the link here. To study his philosophy and honor his mission, one could apply to CIHS as a graduate student as our entire curriculum is underscored by his vision and philosophy.

Lastly, it is our honor to send this newsletter as a tribute to Dr. Motoyama, while we are deeply saddened by his passing. In addition, there is also a lesson given by Dr. Motoyama here to help empower students with the knowledge that with correct training they can be of service to humanity and honor his wishes through becoming educated at CIHS. We appreciate all of your support and tributes to Dr. Motoyama and we remain committed to keeping his vision alive through our extraordinary graduate (and undergraduate) programs at CIHS. If we were touched by him in this lifetime, we are encharged with carrying his message though our own personal and professional spiritual transformation to contribute to a more peaceful global society.

 
Sincerely,
 
 
Hideki Baba, Ph.D. 
 [email protected]
 
Tribute Message from Masatsune Sato
Chairman of Board of Directors
  
Today, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Dr. Motoyama for his achievement of establishing a new academic discipline.
 
Dr. Motoyama was born on December 15, 1925, and was called to God's realm on September 19, 2015.
 
Dr. Motoyama was seven years old when Kinue Motoyama, the founder of the Tamamitsu Shrine and also his adopted mother, heard the voice of God and received a revelation:
 
Have your son, Hiroshi, build an academic discipline that teaches the truth and principles of God, and which will lead the world to truth.
 
Since then, Dr. Motoyama practiced spiritual training and pursued self-cultivation as directed by God. Wanting to clearly and scientifically articulate his spiritual experiences, he continued his practices and accumulated mystical experiences. While he was engaged in these practices, he also deepened his philosophical thinking. Moreover, he conducted extensive research on the electrophysiological and biological underpinnings of paranormal phenomena. He also worked tirelessly on unifying Eastern and Western religions and medicine. Furthermore, he contributed greatly to the advancement of subtle energy research and offered theories concerning the stages and process of spiritual growth.
 
Finally, as a result of his extensive training and research, Dr. Motoyama concluded that the essence of the human being is spirit, and that the principle of spirit is love. He stated that if we help others with love, our spirit will naturally become awakened and grow, thus taking us to the world beyond human existence or spirits. He exhorted that this is God's way or God's teaching.
 
He thus urged people to become awakened to spirit, and taught them how to leap into the higher spiritual dimensions.

This is the history of how Dr. Motoyama came to establish an academic discipline based on our integrative and multidimensional (mind-body-spirit) existence. Today, his teaching is called "Motoyama Philosophy," or "Motoyama School," and it is becoming accepted in the academic world.
 
Dr. Motoyama was also the founder of the International Association for Religion and Parapsychology in Tokyo. It was established for the purpose of advancing research in this and related fields.
 
For many years, Dr. Motoyama sought out every possibility for building a graduate school. He hoped that such a school could be an avenue for dispensing his knowledge and teachings, and also that it could help to expand and escalate his research objectives. In spite of his efforts, it seemed to be an impossible dream under the existing restrictive traditional educational system in Japan. They were unable to understand the higher spiritual realms or the relevance of his research for other academic disciplines and the broader academic community.
 
However, his dream finally came true when the state of California recognized his vision as a new "frontier academic discipline," and granted us permission to open a graduate school. Thus, Dr. Motoyama opened the California Institute for Human Science in Encinitas, California in 1992. Since then, for more than twenty-three years, he served as the President and led the Institute and its people. Building a school which carries his vision was quite a miracle when you consider the restrictive academic world of the past.
 
We at CIHS, the Board and staff, must hold in high regard Dr. Motoyama's philosophy, and his intention to help human beings to progress to the higher spiritual realm, to holistic health, and to the realization of peaceful universal community. To carry out this mission, CIHS will continue to offer a fulfilling and progressive educational experience while pursuing research in accordance with the "Motoyama Philosophy."
 
I remain hopeful that Dr. Motoyama's great accomplishments in higher education, which is based upon spiritual evolution of human beings teaching of God and, will be helpful in encouraging and supporting humanity's peaceful society and spiritual growth to the higher realms.
 
I am sincerely and deeply grateful that Dr. Motoyama has fulfilled the Great Spirit's revelation from more than eighty years ago: "Have your son, Hiroshi, build an academic discipline that teaches the truth and principles of God, and which will lead the world to truth."
 
I pray for him, who is in the higher realm with the Great Spirit, for his ongoing guidance and powerful assistance to human beings around the world.
 

Masatsune Sato 
 
 


Tribute Message from Dr. Hope Umansky

Director of Psychology Programs
Dean of Academic Affairs & Administration

Just over five years ago, I had the honor of meeting Dr. and Mrs. Motoyama to discuss leading the California Institute for Human Science. As CIHS alum of 2002, I had been to various lectures and read some of Dr. Motoyama's books while he was working on campus, but I had never had a close interaction with him. To prepare for this meeting was like no other "American" interview. Dr. Motoyama was only mildly interested in my "credentials" here in the material world. Most important to him is that I first send a photo of not just myself, but my daughter, who was 6 at the time, so he could read our eyes. Then he wanted to meet me in his office, where I now meet every prospective student who comes through CIHS' doors, as I feel his guidance close there. In our "interview," he held my hand, looked into my eyes, and we had a heart-to-heart talk about his goals for CIHS and if I was as excited as he about the integration of science and spirituality. One year later, he requested a similar type meeting prior to graduation 2010 with my daughter and myself. At that point, Dr. Motoyama had nicknamed us "Seaweed and Algae." Dr. Motoyama asked if I would serve the community as Dean of Academic Affairs and Administration and my heart has never been so humbled and honored that I would be given the task of helping guide students through Dr. Motoyama's and CIHS' vision and education to contribute to a more peaceful society and global world. Since that time CIHS has grown, we are on the path to accreditation, and have cemented CIHS and Dr. Motoyama's vision as an iconoclast in private niche graduate schools. At CIHS, we are charged with carrying on the legacy of his guiding principles. I remain humbled and empowered knowing he will be leading my heart in guiding the school toward a permanent legacy in higher education. It has been a great honor to have been touched by his soul in this lifetime and to help students be touched by it as well. I will always be grateful to Dr. Motoyama, Mrs. Motoyama, and his family for the privilege and trust of leading CIHS and the honor of being able to serve his vision that the essence of being human is the soul.
 

Hope Umansky, Ph.D.



Tribute Message from Dr. Thomas Brophy
Integral Science Consultant

 
Remembrance and Tribute for Dr. Hiroshi Motoyama

Early in 1995, I read an interview of Dr. Hiroshi Motoyama in a spiritual magazine called Share International. That interview in part was about his work toward integrating the spiritual and scientific worldviews. I was very excited to read that the fundamental perspective he operated regarding that effort was much like the approach I was taking in a book I was working on at the time (later published as The Mechanism Demands a Mysticism: An Exploration of Spirit, Matter and Physics). I immediately wrote Dr. Motoyama a letter to that effect. He very kindly replied, suggesting I could visit him at his shrine and institute in Tokyo, to discuss the matter. Happily I had other personal business there from a previous two year stint as a special exchange research fellow at the University of Tokyo (department of Earth and Planetary Physics), and I eagerly visited Dr. Motoyama. I was escorted into the conference room by a very austere Dr. Sato, who also tape recorded the whole discussion (I wonder if that tape still exists). The meeting with Sensei was charming, wonderful and profound. Not long thereafter, he invited me back to a month long extended stay at the institute in Tokyo on a program he called the Motoyama-Bentov fellowship, named after his friend Itzhak Bentov, physicist and author of the book Stalking the Wild Pendulum: On the Mechanics of Consciousness. The most wonderful thing about that time was the numerous occasions of personal time with Dr. Motoyama, discussing our shared research interest - the search for the mechanism of interaction of mind and body, and how that relates to an emerging science-spirit integrative global worldview, as well as sharing time together with him and Mrs. Motoyama sharing meals, holiday driving to locations in Japan, ordinary events that would become extraordinary by his presence. Thereafter he asked me to consult on research activities at the young institute CIHS, and in 1997 he invited me there to be Administrative Dean, where I have been actively associated in various capacities since.
 
Sensei became like a spiritual father for me, as well as a friend. This time of his passing to the divine realm carries heightened sadness for me. My beloved biological father, James Brophy, was born on the same date as sensei, December 15, just two years later. And my father also passed away this year. Dr. Motoyama has influenced and continues to influence large numbers of good men and women around the world in a positive spiritual and scientific direction. Through this incarnation, a life of deep spiritual and esoteric practice, and service to humanity, he cultivated a rare capacity to work powerfully on both the inner and outer planes of existence. This is why I know that his being will continue to be a productive force for individual and collective human spiritual evolution. And this is why our sadness at his passing from the physical plane, can be tempered by a joy and appreciation for his good works.
 
It has been my honor and privilege to be involved in the implementation and direction of Dr. Motoyama's educational and research vision through the California Institute for Human Science. The founding of CIHS can be seen as one of his primary legacies, along with the Tamamitsu religious order and shrine, and the IARP organization, as well as other important works, with CIHS focusing on the educational and academic/scientific research missions of Dr. Motoyama's global vision for the advancement of human kind. Thus going forward it is our duty to help his uplifting vision for humanity continue to spread to the hearts and minds of men, as I know he is doing from god's realm. The principles for the advancement of which Dr. Motoyama founded CIHS, engraved on the plaque at the front of the institute, can be seen as forming a whole integral paradigm for understanding and evolving humankind's existence in Reality. As I have presented at CIHS conferences, and at international conferences on Integral Theory, that integral paradigm articulated independently by Dr. Motoyama can be seen as on a par with and coherent with the most forefront and advanced integrative paradigms available today. It is an honor and privilege, as well as tribute to Dr. Motoyama, for all of us associated in any way with CIHS to endeavor to advance and implement those principles.


Thomas Brophy, Ph.D.
 

 
 
Tribute Message from Dr. Timothy Laporte
Director of Comparative Religion
and Philosophy Program


 
I had the great fortune to study closely with Dr. Hiroshi Motoyama for six years, from 2005-2011, as a student at CIHS. During this time, I studied Dr. Motoyama's religious philosophy and scientific work in great detail, and Motoyama Sensei served as my academic advisor and spiritual teacher. After this period of in-depth study, I feel confident that Dr. Motoyama's teachings on mystical experience should be included with and studied alongside the other great mystics from the world's religious traditions (i.e., Meister Eckhart, St. Teresa of Avila, Shankara, Nagarjuna, Kukai, St. John of the Cross, etc.). Dr. Motoyama's contributions may be even more valuable, since he brings a 21st century perspective to the mystical process, one that is fully conversant with the implications of contemporary scientific perspectives. I am confident that awareness of his contributions will only grow in future years and decades.

But, ultimately, my relationship with Dr. Motoyama went well beyond academics. He became a spiritual teacher to me, and a source of valued wisdom and guidance in my life. When I reflect back on my memories of Dr. Motoyama, I think the ones I will cherish the most reflect the simple moments we shared together: the conversations shared over dinner, the animated intellectual discussions, the lectures that would routinely run well past their scheduled end, and his omnipresent laughter, positivity and optimism. I came to look forward to Dr. and Mrs. Motoyama's trips to the United States, and to spending time with them. Eventually, Dr. Motoyama became like a grandfather to me.
 
I am very grateful to have had the opportunity to travel to Japan (along with Dr. Baba and Dr. Brophy) to attend Dr. Motoyama's funeral service at the Tamamitsu Shrine in Tokyo. The service was touching. On one hand, the service offered a celebration of a life well lived and expressed our joy for a great soul that has returned to the higher spiritual realms. On the other hand, the service was also deeply personal. Many tears were shed, stories shared, and condolences offered. For while many of us have lost our teacher, we have also lost a great friend. This may be what will hurt the most. But I know it will hurt less when I think back to his smile and remember his laughter. I think Sensei would want us to keep this in mind.
 
With gratitude,
 
 
Timothy Laporte, Ph.D. 

Tribute Message from Ms. Tamiko Voros
Administrative Service Manager

 
Fifteen years ago, the first time I met Dr. Motoyama, he looked above my head instead of my face; sometimes he smiled while he was asking some questions. I thought his gesture was odd, but I felt his warmth. Later I learned that he was scanning me on a spiritual level.

When he visited CIHS, there was always Mrs. Motoyama by his side. I liked seeing Dr. and Mrs. Motoyama being together, side-by-side. They were lovebirds. I haven't seen any couple so deeply in love, in respect of each other, and so committed to create the better world like them. I often thought of Mrs. Motoyama as Nancy Reagan. Because the way Mrs. Motoyama looked at Dr. Motoyama was just like Mrs. Reagan looked at the President-filled with pride and love. Now, my heart is heavy because I know Mrs. Motoyama misses him very much-much more than anyone.

When the news of his passing reached me, I was heartbroken, felt a great void in my heart, and cried as if I just have lost my family member. Now that he's gone, I am surprised to realize how much Dr. Motoyama had taught and influenced me. The way I live, the way I evaluate life, the way I perceive the world, the way I think of others-what he had taught is tremendous. I want to tell him that I am very very grateful.

Some said "He planted a seed called CIHS. And now it is our turn to culture it." Though I feel the weight on my shoulders as a CIHS staff, I know that Dr. Motoyama will be with us and watch over us and guide our way.

Again, thank you Dr. Motoyama from the bottom of my heart.


Tamiko Voros 

 
List of Names who sent Tributes *

Paul and Suzee Grilley
Akira Kawano
Hiroo & Priscilla Kurano
Stanley Krippner, Ph.D.
Sara Power
K. Ramakrishna Rao, Ph.D.
Cristina Rojas
Warren & Mikako Smith, Ph.D.
William Tiller, Ph.D.
Arthur Thornhill, Ph.D.
Jackie Young
 
CIHS Faculty
Roger Cavnaugh, Ph.D.
Louise and Ga�tan Chevalier
Richard Gold, Ph.D.
Paul and Suzee Grilley
Richard Jelusich, Ph.D.
James Mattioda, Ph.D.
Sharon G. Mijares, Ph.D.
Ji Hyang Padma, Ph.D. 
L. Ramakrishna Rao, Ph.D.
Stanley Krippner, Ph.D.
 
CIHS Current Students
Catherine Cardinal (Ph.D. in Psychology)
Kenneth Lew (Ph.D. in Integral Health)
Chiara Marrapodi, (MA in Integral Health)
Reiko Muta (Ph.D. in Integral Health)
Viraja Prema (MA in Integral Health)
Arthur Sun (Ph.D. in Psy)
Angelica Wagner (Ph.D. in Integral Health)
Jan Warner, (Ph.D. in Psychology)
 
CIHS Alumuni
John Ayoub (Ph.D. in HUS in 2002)
Nancy De Andrade, PhD (Ph.D. in PSY in 2010)
Jacqueline Develle (BIS in 2014)
Daniel Harner (Ph.D. in PSY in 2015)
Peter Geissler, M.D., Ph.D., Esq
(Ph.D. in PSY in 2011)
MishaGoussev, Ph.D. (Ph.D. in HUS in 2006)
Jean Metzker, PhD (Ph.D. in PSY in 2000)
Marco Monti (MA in HUS in 2003)
Kazuhito Mori, Ph.D., MS4 (Ph.D. in HUS in 2003)
Elena Sandoval & Family (Ph.D. in PSY in 2011)
Eugene Wallace (Ph.D. in HUS in 2000)

CIHS Community
Cristina Smith 


*If you sent condolences via email, we greatly appreciate it. There is a large volume of emails still to process.