at the massage

just keep on walking…

I got on the walking machine again but I lengthened the time from 30 minutes to 35 minutes this time. I will try to extend the walk another five minutes everyday.

The dinner tonight was planned at a Chinese restaurant about 30 minutes away from where I’m staying. We had a dinner with Ian, the person that initially introduced me to this resort, his wife Christina, and their friend.

Christina is only 22. I thought Ian was about 30 initially but is 47.
They looked great together.

Fortunately or unfortunately, the Chinese food was pretty good. I couldn’t stop myself from emptying two small bottles of the local Singha beer. (it was within the limit that was permitted by my doctor though).
Let’s see how my blood sugar level is doing…. 308… 3 point higher thank yesterday. Tomorrow will be another no alcohol day, as I promised with my wife. Uh-oh….

I was looking forward to waking up this morning to see the view since we got in late yesterday and was too dark to see anything. However, unfortunately, the weather was not great as you can see from the photograph below.

a view from the lodge

Here are photographs of the lodge and the room. It is pretty comfortable.

Kamalaya lodges

Inside the room

There’s a steep hill to the restaurant so it is not very easy for an old man like me to walk around. However, I can call the cart whenever I want so there’s no problem!

the cart comes to pick me up

In the morning I had a full health checkup and a counseling. The doctor in charge of me is Dr. Carolina. She also is the wife of the director of the place, John. She is a student of Eastern medicine and has been to China and Japan a few times as well.

Dr. Carolina is an American from Mexico.

After receiving an introduction about the place, my retreat menu was set as below:
- diet restriction (and drinking) no alcohol day: Wednesdays and Sundays. Other days, up to two glasses of warm shoju.
- message of digestive system.
- homeopathy
- traditional hand massage (everyday)
- traditional foot massage (everyday)
- qi treatment
- exercise: walking for 30 minutes everyday

From four that afternoon, I had my one hour hands and feet massage by young female healers. I was in a paradise while they used oil and relaxed my hands and feet.
Then I moved on to do the walking exercise for 30 minutes as planned. The dinner after that was prepared by a French chef. The food was all planned individually according to my personal preference. Thanks to that great food, it was my very first day this year to not have any alcohol but I did not even crave it. This all helped to bring down my blood sugar level to 305, a whooping 83 point down, yay! I’ll keep it up tomorrow too!

I left Narita airport on ANA at 10:40 this morning and arrived at Bangkok at four (with two hours difference). With two hours of lay over there, we flew in to Samui Island. We finally arrived at the Kamalaya Resort at nine, 16 hours after we left our home in Japan.

Thailand is a lot closer than the US, distant wise but it took longer than I anticipated. I was a little tired by the time we arrived at our destination.

I have to explain to you about how I came to stay at this place for 26 days, until the 14th of January.
As many of you know, I went to visit His Holiness the Dalai Lama at Sun Valley in the US last September 11th. The person that invited me there was a Mr. Sokoloff, a mysterious economic analyst (?). (Please see the diary entry of September 11th for more).

I was able to meet some of the family members of Mr. Sokoloff there as well. There, I met Mr. Sokoloff’s previous wife’s cousin, Ian with his beautiful young wife who is mixed with Indonesian and Dutch. He is an artist that had just published an art book. He was interested in my water crystal photography. So we got along very well from the moment we met each other. (I thought he was about 30 years old but learned that he was 47 years old later. What a surprise!)

There, he told me about a resort that he is creating with his friend at Samui Island in Thailand. He was responsible for the marketing of that resort which focuses on alternative medicine retreat. It was to open in the mid November. He showed me an attractive pamphlet.

I have not heard of an island called Samui before but I became more interested when I heard that it was located east of Phuket, the island that was devastated by that Tsunami. This is because I was invited to a memorial ceremony at Phuket on December 26th for the anniversary of the Tsunami disaster.

On top of that, I was thinking of taking a rest at the end of the year and do some writing. I was thinking of taking the rest during January and February but with such a prefect conditions (the help of HH Dalai Lama’s encounter, a new healing center’s opening, within 30 minutes flight to Phuket to attend the memorial, need for rest to re-energize my body), there was no way to turn down this chance. I had made an appointment to stay there right there and then.

So, in order to take care of my diabetes, a new fight will start from tomorrow. The main goal for me is to lower my blood sugar level. My wife had just measured it for me with a frown, it was up to 388!
Yup, that’s why. Isn’t it good that you are here? You have to work hard from tomorrow! In the name of all the diabetic people!

It has been about two months since I wrote my last diary entry. I would like to send my sincere apology to those people that visited my site during this time. The reason why I have not been able to write for the last two months is because I created a way too busy schedule for myself. I just couldn’t keep up with everything.
And the next year is going to be busier. With this type of schedule it will be very difficult to keep up with this site.

Therefore, I decided to do a weekly report instead of a daily one. Of course, if there are any news that I want to share as soon as possible, it will come out right away. And I will try to share photographs more often since posting up photographs do not take much time.

I will be leaving for Samui in Thailand to rest and to write on the 20th. I will be going to Phuket on the 26th for a Tsunami memorial service and a special seminar. I hope that you will take a moment to put your hands together in prayer for the Tsunami affected people on this day. Let us all send love and thanks to the water all over the world. （www.gaiachildren.net)

I will be sending you the first weekly report on December 21st.

December 6th, 2005
Returning to Japan with my daughter and her son. He behaved very well on the plane.

December 2nd, 2005
At my daughter’s place in Amsterdam. My grandson looks in to the child version of Message from Water.

December 2nd, 2005
Many people came to the seminar. (at Amsterdam)

December 2nd, 2005
Mayana, who came to the Water for Life Festival last year in November came and sang for my seminar.

November 25th, 2005
With Makoto Yasumoto, an interpreter at Guadalajara in Mexico. The t-shirts that we are wearing are from the local forest protection NPO. It is a picture of a jaguar which is believed to be the guardian of the forest.

October 27th, 2005
We were told that the Charleston dance that we were looking forward to seeing was not performed anymore. The organizer of the seminar there danced a little for me.


October 27th, 2005
Charleston is a very historical town in the US.

October 25th 2005
NBC Philadelphia interview held at a hotel in Baltimore.
The interview is here:http://www.nbc10.com/news/5455548/detail.html

October 25th 2005
Baltimore seminar

October 20th 2005
At San Francisco

It took us two hours drive to Phoenix airport from Sedona then a five hour flight to Baltimore. This is when I realize that US is so big and tiring to travel. We left the hotel in Sedona at eight but by the time we reached Baltimore, it was already past seven thirty.

Susan was waiting for us at the airport. She took us to the hotel right away and we took a light dinner and went straight to bed afterwards.

The next day, we had an interview with NBC local. The interviewer was an adorable woman who usually reports on weather. The content of the interview was good that the one hour went by very fast.

Interview for NBC local at a hotel room in Baltimore

Actually, I have never seen any of the recorded interviews myself but I try to accept all the interview as much as I have the time. I think this has helped me in gaining popularity in this country. I am thankful to have staffs like Ayano or Kimiko that is familiar with my thoughts as interpreters at times like this because they have helped in making these types of interviews better.

There were about 300 people that came to the seminar that night. Actually, I was here last May but since the ticket at that time sold out, Susan asked me to come back after five months.

So many people came even though I was just here last May.
There were a lot more women there as usual.

There was another happy incident there. One of the first Hado Instructors, Susan came to visit all the way from Philadelphia. There are 24 Hado Instructors at this point and I was happy to see that three of them came to see me at Sedona. I am hoping that the Hado Instructors will spread throughout the US and may invite me to speak at their seminar soon. I am looking forward to that invitation.

With Susan, one of the Hado Instructor. She came all the way from Philadelphia.
The badge on our collar is the proof of our friendship.

Sedona in Arizona is famous for attracting spiritual people. It was this town that I learned the cloud erasing game 15 years ago. Because I wrote about this game in my book, the image of a strange man stuck on me ever since then.

I was there about a year and a half ago in April but it always does feel special.

The organizer of the seminar, Walker, was doing well as she was certainly coming closer to realizing her dream to set up a school.

The organizer, Walter. She looked happy with her partner.

There was a seminar scheduled on the 23rd as well so we stayed there for three days. We got there last night and this morning, we drove for about 300 km northeast to the Hopi Land.

After a three hour drive, we reached the community building located at the Hopi reservation. There were a lot of people there waiting for me. Probably thanks to Vernon, one of the elders there, many people knew about me and they all were happy to have me there.

A native shaman gave me a blessing before the seminar.
He said he visits Japan quite often.

Unfortunately, the community center did not have a projector so I spoke for about half an hour but everybody listened to me with a lot of interest. It must have been interesting to hear a Japanese man that drove all the way out to the middle of the desert to talk about water and the relationship between Japanese and the Native Americans in the ancient times.

I received a gift at the community center where my seminar was held.
It was handed to me from Ruben who is organizing a run to Mexico City next March.

The seminar that took place that night brought many women great perception. They shared a lot of interesting information and pictures with me.

” The wife of Mr. Neal Donald Walsh, the author of Conversation with God, came to see me as well.

These are my favorite supporters.
On my left is Ms. Koinuma, one of the first Hado instructors and lives in San Francisco.
On my right is my wife.

These are my favorite staff and interpreters. On my left is Ayano and on my right is Kimiko.

Marathon race was going on at the field in front of the community center.

Today was a seminar at San Francisco organized by the Learning Annex. This organization had organized my last New York seminar as well.

Before the seminar, we went to visit the Noetic Science Institute in Petaluma. It was my second time visiting this place. My first one was in May. This time I was there to have a video interview and to discuss a new experiment that we will be working on together.

After an hour of interview, we went to Dr. Dean’s laboratory. It is located in a small wooden building but the equipments there are something you cannot easily find anywhere.

The experiment room is a room surrounded by a thick metal wall and shielded away from all outside influences. Within the room, there is a machine that detects any small magnetic differences. Therefore, Dr. Dean is conducting an experiment to see if our consciousness can affect the space in a shielded room.

I asked Dr. Dean to measure the effect of the room when we pray to the water that is placed in the middle of the room from about 50km far.

That night, at around 9, we showed the picture of the shielded room and the bottle of water in it to the 350 people that gathered there as we all prayed “water we love you. Water we thank you. Water we respect you.”

The result should be presented from Dr. Dean once it goes through numerous test for confirmation but as you can see, the crystal of water that was placed in that room turned out to be very beautiful. But for a scientific data to come out from Dr. Dean, we need to run a similar experiment few more times. I guess we need to wait a little more.

Idaho is the place that I met His Holiness the Dalai Lama in September. I was also there in May so this is my third time. But I was in Sun Valley, a southern part of Idaho, for the last two times. This time, I am in Sandpoint, a northern part of Idaho, near the Canadian boarder. (Since IDAHO can be scrambled to spell I HADO, maybe the place has some special meaning to me).

The organizers were Darcy, who is running a local spa, and her mother. They were a great team. (The mother and the daughter worked together to make my seminar a success. Thank you.)

with the organizers, Darcy and her mother, Marilyn

deer pop up everywhere

our lodge was surrounded by a golf course

a beautiful lodge

As you can see from the photograph, we stayed at a beautiful resort surrounded by changing colors of the leaves and deer that pop up here and there. Our lodge was named Teddy Roosevelt (the 26th president of the US and a person that came to visit there very so often for meetings and inspections).

The seminar was held from seven at an old theater that became packed. What was most surprising was to find our friend, Ms. Sakai (nicknamed Noripy) from Goi Peace Foundation.

there were people on the second floor as well

There’s actually an interesting story as to how I ended up speaking at this town. It was all thanks to Ms. Sakai’s friend, Keiko. Keiko had moved from Japan to this town about five years ago. There, she brought Message from Water with her and shared it with her new friends in this town. This is how people started to learn about me and this is how I ended up in this town. So Ms. Sakai came all the way from Japan to visit her friend as well as to come see me.

At a dinner after the seminar.
Ms. Sakai in the middle and Keiko is on her right

To be honest, I was very surprised to be invited to a town of about 30,000 people and to have a full audience at the seminar but it made sense to know that such a wonderful thing was going on behind the scene. I admire Japanese women a lot. Wherever I go there almost always is a Japanese woman there.

Yesterday, I went back to Los Angeles to meet Ms. Ayano Furuya, my secretary and interpreter, and flew to Chicago. We saw beautiful Rocky mountains covered with snow from the plane.

The organizer of this Chicago seminar was Unity Church, which was similar to the church that put together my Kansas City seminar in May. The venue was really fine but no more than two hundred people were there (I suppose this was partly because of the delay in decision of the schedule), which made me a little discouraged. The previous seminar in Chicago was organized by a different person but still produced the same result. It seems that I and Chicago don’t go well together at the current moment.

This is the fine theater where the seminar was held.
Not always house full, it’s regretted.

However, both of the organizers were really good people, so maybe we were to blame. That is, I had a prejudice that Chicago was a town of Mafia, like Al Capone. But I found it a totally incorrect image during this visit. Chicago was a really beautiful, clean, safe and friendly town. I guess a lot of people will come to my next seminar in Chicago.

Fresno is a agricultural zone at the center of California State, which is known as Japanese immigrant settlement. I heard that when the Pacific War broke out between the United States and Japan, they went through a lot of hardship and many Japanese Americans were sent to concentration camps.

I visited Fresno with Mr. Ron Kato and my wife who came here this morning, thinking if I met the people who suffered such experience, I’d like to comfort them. I was a little self-indulgent.
The venue was an old movie theater whose capacity seemed to be over 500 people. We were surprised (sorry!) at the sight of the packed hall. But There were few elderly Japanese Americans I expected to see. To the contrary, several young Japanese people, supposedly foreign students of a university in Fresno, showed up.

This seminar was organized by an NPO of local women, and two persons served hard as sign language interpreters by turns.

In this seminar tour, sign language interpreters were needed at some other seminars. We must take into account sign language interpreters in Japan seminars to come. I wonder why the number of what you call hard of hearing persons doesn’t decrease in Japan, America or anywhere.

People of Fresno Listening Eagerly	Thank you for the standing ovation again.

It’s about two and a half hour drive from Los Angeles to Big Bear, which is a vacation spot surrounded by mountains. In winter, you can enjoy skiing here. To tell the truth, when I heard my seminar was planned here, I could not believe that thoroughly. Because I visited around here quite a while ago, and I assumed that it was just a vacation spot.

But a lot of people came to listen to my seminar eagerly.

In addition, I received a standing ovation as you can see in the photo below.

a standing ovation

The organizer Gina said that they are living in the natural environment so that they can feel real the nature going imbalance, and that is one of the reason why my books and the movie “What the Bleep?” received favorably here. She hopes that a laboratory of water crystals will be founded in a place like this. I think Big Bear is one of the possible sites for our new laboratory.

Second Left: Gina, the Organizer
First Right: Benny, a Native American and a Water Prayer

Gina’s son carried out an experiment for his science class that he spoke and showed words to some plants. The reports on the results were displayed finely.

Today I had a seminar at MOA Los Angeles, where Mr. Ron Kato works for. He is a really competent interpreter. MOA is a religious organization whose headquarter is in Atami, Shizuoka prefecture, Japan. MO stands for Mokichi Okada, the founder of Sekai-Kyusei-Kyo.

I was highly valued by the Kyusei-Kyo staff for some reason or other. I was invited to have a seminar on Hado at Atami headquarter three times before I published water crystal pictures, and I met Professor Higa of EM for the first time there.

I made friends with Mr. Kato two years ago, when he interpreted for me here. I was really impressed the way he interpreted. I had never known such perfect interpreter to unite with me before. Since then, I ask him to act as my interpreter for some special seminars. In the future seminars of this tour, he will interpret at Fresno and Orlando, Florida.

Needless to say, the audience that filled the venue was fascinated by Mr. Ron Kato’s translation and gave a standing ovation.

By the way, the organizer of today’s seminar is Bodhi Tree Bookstore that deals in spiritual books near the MOA. The hotel they prepared for me was very nice, which was “PRETTY WOMAN” filming locations on Wilshire Boulevard. But my wife is back in Japan… What a pity!

The deluxe suite room is messed up by a man without a lady. I can’t be Richard Gere.

Anaheim is about thirty kilos to the southwest of Los Angeles. Disneyland was born here fifty years ago. It is also known as the home of a major league baseball team Angeles. It took 6 hours to fly from New York to Los Angeles.

By the way, my wife went back to Japan today, and stays about a week there. She is president of Hado Education Inc. and has to meet a tax accountant for the account settlement, which was planned in advance. Well, I can relax from today. Just kidding.

After seeing her off at the airport, I went to Anaheim with my son and his wife. I will be taken care of by them. So I can rest easy.

The organizer of Anaheim seminar is Learning Light. It is rather smaller than the Learning Amex, and most of the members seemeed to be spiritual-oriented. So that may be why my talk on spirit was received favorably. About three hundred people who came to the venue really enjoyed my seminar.

From Left to Right:
Interpreter Mark Kimura, Ms. Miyazawa, Me, One of Our Guest, My Son

Learning Annex is probably the largest alternative education organization in North America. It has branch offices in major cities. The last seminar they organized for me, which was held in San Diego, brought together no less than 600 people. In this tour, they organized my seminars in New York today and San Francisco on 20th this month.

Today’s seminar was held in a classical church at the center of Manhattan, which was packed to capacity with 600 people and I got a tremendous ovation again. I was a little nervous, because I was talking about where we came from, why we are here, and where we go when we die. I was afraid the theme was a little too spiritual for the New York, but I shouldn’t have worried about it.

A theme like this was embraced in this city, so this tour can be given a subtitle “Spiritual Tour”.

at the venue

Yin-Yang Symbol in a Church
The churches of these days, or rather the churches where I can have a seminar,
support integrated approaches

There seemed to be more popularity for schools that teach Eastern medicine these days but this school was one of the oldest. A specific course may take six years to finish and one can also get to be certified acupuncturist as well.

The not too big seminar hall was packed with many students tonight. I think there were some that were standing at the back or sitting on the floor also. There actually were some Japanese students too.

With the head of the school and the director of the board	The seminar room reminded me of a Japanese room. There was the poster for thank you crystal too.

I went to visit one of the biggest publishing companies in the US, Simon & Schuster today because they will be distributing my book from this month.

Most of the CEOs and the 650 employees are women. It was like movie “Working Girl” as many men seemed to be in the assisting position for these women.

There was a room with portraits of bestseller authors on the wall.

I’m pointing to the space that will hopefully be saved for my portrait!

My own book corner at Kinokuniya New York near Simon & Schuster office. It made my day.

It was only two days that our two cats got to be with their favorite person, my wife. A mean male owner had taken away their favorite female owner again! When will she come back again? Meow!!

Sorry kitties, it will be a while till you see her again. Here is the rough schedule:

Oct. 2, Pitsburg seminar (East Coast)
Oct. 5, New York NYC Oriental Medicine School Seminar (East Coast)
Oct. 6, New York Learning Annex seminar (East Coast)
Oct. 8, Anaheim Learning Light seminar (West Coast)
Oct. 9, West Holleywood seminar (West Coast)
Oct. 10, Big Bear Seminar (West Coast mountain area)
Oct. 13, Fresno Seminar (West Coast agricultural area)
Oct. 15, Chicago Unity Church Seminar (Midwest)
Oct. 18, Idaho, Sandpoint seminar (Northwest)
Oct. 20, San Francisco Learning Annex Seminar (West Coast)
Oct. 22, Arizona, Sedona Seminar (Midwest)
Oct. 23, Sedona Workshop
Oct. 25, Baltimore Seminar (East Coast)
Oct. 27, Charleston Seminar (East Coast)
Oct. 28, Ashville Seminar (East Coast)
Oct. 30, Florida, Orlando Hayhouse convention (East Coast)
Nov. 1, Sacramento Seminar (West Coast)
Nov. 2, LA Joint seminar with Ajari
Nov. 3-6 The 2nd Hado Instructor School USA (LA, West Coast)
Nov. 8, return to Japan

So we will be gone for another 39 days. Kitties, take good care of the house. (But isn’t this schedule a little crazy? From west to east to west again to north west east and then back to west. Who made up this schedule?? What it was me!! Good Lord!)

“they’re leaving again, so sad… meow”