| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000)
Fiscal Year 2000: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 1999: ¥800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000)
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| Research Abstract |
The purpose of this research is to examine the thoughts and meanings of 'healing (iyashi)' that has a close relation to both medical care and religious salvation, focusing attention on the views of human body and breathing, and elucidate the interrelation between science and religion, and if possible, expand the cognitive horizon where we can present a new worldview. As to the methods and contents of knowledge, there surely exists a gap between the history of religions and natural science, but we have attempted to make clear the differences in the views of nature and human as a preparatory work to integrate the research results of the two disciplinary fields. We ascertained the following three points through the consideration.
1. In some practices such as the work of healing and natural farming by the religious bodies and the new-age community, there is regard for the profound dimension of being, to which little attention has been given in the present system of scientific knowledge and technology.
2. It is neccesary to acknowledge the validity and limits of natural science that has not yet possessed any range to incorporate the profound dimension of being into its system.
3. One of the viewpoints, from which it is possible to integrate scientific knowledge and religious wisdom, may overlap with the viewpoint of questing for the properties of life that connects matter with spirit.
As a result of the above-mentioned research, we have suggested that a clue to investigate vital phenomena manifested in the structure of human body and breathing, consists in the study of 'vibration' proper to life. On the horizon which this investigation will cast light on, may be prepared a position where we can take a survey of all modes of being concerning the world and human beings.
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