This is also a fascinating part of my journey!

For some reason, many of my patients like me and often gave me a gift or two. Many gave me books or tips on great stories. During my lessons in relationships and marriage, I found myself ousted again, but this time to a country cottage, not far from Hilo, and situated on 21 acres with a valley and waterfall. As you know, there is something peaceful that results from the negative ions that permeate the air where water crashes onto a rocky area or shoreline. This place was like that, quiet and peaceful. I took three items with me to study:

1.) Into the Light by Dr. William Campbell Douglass

A review at Amazon.com:” I was amazed at the level of detail. It's heavily documented, which is refreshing in an alternative medicine book. In fact, if what Dr. Douglass says is true (and I'm pretty confident it is), then the mainstream medical establishment has a lot of explaining to do about why they have rejected and ignored light-based therapies that have produced excellent, well-documented clinical or double-blind results over the course of a century.”

2.) The Secret Life of Plants by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird.

A review by A. Bannigan: “This book changed my life. I found it absolutely fascinating and was stunned when my PhD supervisor (I'm a plant biologist) told me that she had read it too. I was interested to know where the amazing information came from that they present and was dissapointed, but not particularly surprised, that all the "science" that they refer to is published in journals with names like "The Russian Journal of Parapsychology" and the like. Not a single one was in a journal that I could easily get access to, so, while it is wonderful food for thought and a great hommage to the importance and wonder of plants, the evidence they present should be taken with a grain of salt unless you can find other research backing it up. But enjoy. It really is mind-boggling!”

3.) A package of materials left at my office by “Mr. Kikuchi.”

This folder, left at my office by Kikuchi (unknown to me at the time), came with a note:

“Please contact Mr. Kikuchi after reviewing.”

From the reviews of the books above, you can see what was in store for me. Through all the years of medical school and neurosurgery training, not once was it mentioned that cells of our bodies emit light! Of course, it was never mentioned that plants (fruits and vegetables too) also emit light in the ultraviolet range and that plants are able to interact with humans on dimensions that I never before knew existed.

The package left by Mr. Kikuchi contained articles on “Nature Farming,” art and beauty and Johrei, the Medical Art of Japan. All three elements are, I found out, connected with “light” and light emission.

This is how my involvement with Johrei began.

The chapter, “A Man of Light” in Medicine, Miracles and Manifestations goes into depth about my meeting with Mr. Kikuchi and how this led to a “meeting” with Mr. Mokichi Okada (1882 – 1955).