“March 1982 Approved For Releasé 2000/08/11 (3) The position of the detector needles is very important. We found inserting the needles into the leaf’s main vein to be a good approach. (4) The detecting system must be well shielded elec- trically. If there is excessive electrical noise, the recording tests cannot be properly carried out. On the whole, the disturbance oscillation patterns above our recording apparatus did not surpass 100 millivolts. 5. Concluding Remarks This testing method is still imperfect, and there remain many insufficient aspects which must be improved by further study. We have only presented a new experimental procedure. During the experiments we were greatly assisted by Tang Xiaowei, Fang Deng, Zheng Zhipeng, Wang Guanyou and by the subject Yu of Cangxian, Hebei province, the Scientific Committee, by Liu Xiankui and the subject Liu of Jungjiang, Jilin province, by Cao Wei and the subject Cao of the Beijing Institute of High Energy Physics. This paper was read and improved by scientists Zhao Zhongyao, Xu ‘1 Jianming and Tang Xiaowei. English Translation by J. He Paasche Ziran Zazhi (Nature Magazine) Shanghai, China Ai GRRE TER Fig. 1. Diagram of the biodetector 1 - detector leaf; 2 - amplifier; 3 = recorder; 4 - set at zero Approved For Release 2000/08/11 : CIA-RBPS6 -007792R000300420002-7 PSI RESEARCH a ae OF wy” ik 0.5> sees "sheep", sees "oxen" 0 + rary PSA we ae DN ee SS ee ed 0 100 200 300 8} t (see) ORB JEX XUERE FRR, K= 500008 CHARA DR SE") . 2 (a) wt sees "exit" "Flash" \ i Ir "Flash" A 0 2 0 100 200 300 400 56} t (sec) a x 2 (c) Fig. 2. Oscillograms recorded during recognition of Chinese characters by exceptionally gifted persons. a - reading the characters "sheep" and "oxen" by a gifted person Yu; b - reading the characters "exit", "mountain"; ¢ ~ reading the character "middle" by a gifted person Cao; amplification factor K = 10, F CIA-RDP96-00792R000300420802-7
‘ . March 1981 PSL RESHAKUN March 1982 Approved FarsReleasex2000/08/11 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300420002-7 ASYMMETRY VERSUS CHAOS, OR “WHAT IS THE BIOFIELD?" "flash" sees V.E. Zhvirblis "flash" mae (Khimiya i zhizn’, Moscow, No. 12, 1980) HE I, To the question "What is the biofield?" most sober~ minded scientists will answer: "This is something that does not exist and cannot exist, as equally the phenomena, which the biofield is specially invented to explain, do not exist 40068, , and cannot exist.' t (sec) Actually, the biofield is used to explain a great many biological miracles: telepathy and telekinesis, dowsing and healing by laying on of the hands, mitogenetic rays, and so ani" atte sees : forth. It is difficult to believe in all these surprising sees river phenomena, not only because they are surprising in them- hand removed, selves, but because everything is mixed together here: talking genuine scientific observations with honest results of methodologically weak or wrongly interpreted experiments; direct and masked deception; and the pseudo-scientific writings of uninformed individuals. How can anyone find the nucleus of scientific truth in this confusion? The simplest way is not to search for anything and to Fig. 3. Oscillogr F . . declare all these messages a6 pure nonsense {1]. In hey 3. Oscillograms recor ed during recognition of scientific circles this position is distressingly popular — characters by the gifted person biu- = 10). -. , _!  _ distressingly because it encourages the spread of a- reading the characters "yy! and "Zhao"; b - reading the unqualified pseudo-reséarch and rumors of the mysterious, characters "high" and "yiver". miraculous essence of life. In this sense, even negative results obtained in the cause of serious study would be | useful and worth the expenditure of energy. At the same 0, 100 200 300 sia) K=10, itf#: RR 0 100-00 300 4002( 8) A 3) K=10, wR. Bll t (sec) RAR KUSH FAME time, who can claim that today we know absolutely everything about the essence of life? However, the position of those who have no doubts about | the existence of the piofield is not convincing either. Here, for example, is the viewpoint of corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, AG, Spirkin: “Some scientists believe that they [biofields] are a manifestation and systematic effect of known physical fields, but others hypothesize that they are special fields having nothing in common with the known ones: electrical, electromagnetic, magnetic, gravitational, sound, etc. The biofield has special properties not possessed by other physical fields - t (sec) | 1 i Fig. 4. Oscillograms of radiation emitted by specially trained persons (K = 10). 85 -RDP96-00792R000300420002-7 oe a RR SIE IEETENOATORES STREET ST Approved For Release 2000/08/11 : Cl