Word: kamiya
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Suddenly, all things seemed possible. Joe Kamiya, a pioneer of biofeedback training, thought "people will soon control phobias and anxieties." Psychopharmacologist Barbara Brown (New Mind, New Body) predicted a drastic drop in the use of medication and the number of hospitals within a decade. Among other heady predictions: biofeedback would eliminate the need for psychotherapy, provide a foolproof birth control method (by teaching males to lower their scrotal temperatures), produce superathletes, prove the reality of ESP and enable mankind to solve problems during sleep by "programming dreams...
...link between alpha and meditative states seems real enough. According to Psychologist Joe Kamiya of San Francisco's Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute, an early pioneer in the field, Zen masters produce more alpha when they are meditating than when they are not, and they are quick to learn how to switch it on and off. Artists, musicians and athletes are also prolific alpha producers; so are many introspective and intuitive persons, and so was Albert Einstein. Alpha researchers report that subjects enjoy what Psychologist Lester Fehmi of the State University of New York at Stony Brook calls the "subtle...
...speaker was the president of the world's fifth largest auto producer, Shotaro Kamiya, 71, of Japan's Toyota Motor Sales Co. Recently, on the slopes of the Tateshina Mountains, 140 miles west of Tokyo, he formally dedicated a Buddhist shrine at which prayers will be offered regularly for the souls of people killed in auto accidents...
...shrine, a blood-red structure, cost $444,000. Contributors included Kamiya, all Toyota dealers in Japan and the Esso Standard Oil Co. (of Japan), whose American president is a friend of Kamiya's. The centerpiece of the temple is a statue of Kwannon, the Buddhist goddess of mercy. At the dedication, Kamiya prayed that "the infinite compassion of Kwannon will protect the automobile from disasters...
...automakers listed 2,500,000 cars as potentially defective, Toyota has recalled 971,275 autos in Japan and 58,525 Corollas in the U.S. Last week the company called in 47,879 of its Mark II series in the U.S. to check the brake master-cylinder system. Kamiya stressed that the shrine is intended for victims of accidents in all kinds of cars. Last year the worldwide death toll was about 175,000, including...