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a sensation on the move or
a current going up from the hand(s)
to the head
(or the brain).
An image begins
to form in the "mind’s eye".
It appears
first as
a
small
colored blur and then gradually expands or enlarges
into
a.
larger and
a much clearer colored image in focus.
Finally* the subject
"reads" out what she
"sees".
The Third Demonstration
,
The demonstration occurred on February 6,
1981.
On an Impromptu
visit of ours
to
the home of my former student, Yang Long-sheng
who
is
now a Senior Scientist at the Institute of Electronics, we bumped
into
a gathering of Yang's family of six
(three generations) and two young
sisters from the neighborhood.
Yang suggested
that,
since the two sisters
were known to be good
subjects of EOI,
it would be a nice occasion for us
to witness at least the performance of the younger sister who recently won
the first prize
in
a demonstration at the Institute of Physics.
We were,
of course, delighted with this opportunity and Immediately welcomed the
ten-year old student named Yu Po
i'fefj))
to proceed.
We had,
however,
to
pay the price of being the principal monitors of the performance.
In the first test i my wife went to a writing desk at the far end
of the room, wrote something on
a single sheet of paper which was then wrapped
and came back with
a sample in
a hollow wax ball
roughly 3/4"
in diameter
(the
ball
consisting of two hollow hemispheres which could be closed,
usually used as
a container for medicine pills, available
in Chinese house-
holds).
Except for herself, nobody else knew what
n\y wife actually put
into the ball.
The ball was placed into the hand of Yu Po, Who quickly
held the ball
by both hands behind her back (Picture 2).
In about one-half
minute, Yu Po called out that she
"saw"
the red-colored Chinese word {£. );
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one of Us many meanings
Is "Lord"
In the religious sense.
My wife quickly
affirmed that the answer was correct.
In the second test, my wife repeated her secret mission and came
.
back with
a Plastic box of roughly 1/2" x 1/2” x 2".
put It In her
hands behind her back and
In about one-half minute announced correctly
the blue-colored Chinese word (#");
one of
Its many meanings
Is “separate".
At this juncture , Or. U Bao-wcl (£(£$>, who
Is my former student
and
is now the Director of the Institute of Electronics, joined our company
and was about to take us to his house for dinner.
Seeing what was going on.
Uu volunteered
to make a sample known only to himself, and came back with
his own wax ball.
Yu Po handled Lu's sample In the same manner and announced
in
the usual
time that the word Inside the ball was the red-colored Chinese
word df ) meaning "central", which was the correct answer.
This amounted
to a third test which was equally successful
(Picture 3. with Yu Po trium-
phantly holding the sample taken out from the container after the test).
At the end of these tests,
I requested the host to allow me to ask
Vu Po
a few questions.
Yu Po acknowledged that her older sister
(age 15)
by the name Yu Yan lA'M) could do pretty much the same thing.
She then
proceeded
to describe her Impressions about this kind of EOI with frequent
nodding
of agreement by Yu Yan (Picture 4).
Yu Po's description of her sensation contained details which were
in
some ways quite different from those of the Hefei
subjects, but the princi-
pal conclusions appeared to be In gross agreement.
She did not feel any
warmth or tingling feeling
In her hands when she received the sample.
(It
might be noted that Yu Po had thick containers enclosing the paper-wrapped
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samples
In addition to samples
In thln-paper wrappings, as
In Helfel's case.
But, she first "saw”
12 different colored spots, only one of which bright-
ened up while the others were vanishing.
The colored bright spots appeared'
to be flashes
swept from the right side of her head to the left (her sister
Yu Van.
nodded her assent), making flashes of dots or strokes somewhat dis-
orderly.
Finally,
the whole Image of the colored writing appeared clearly.
DISCUSSION
Thprp are
some major questi ons that can be asked of the type of E01
demonstrations j^r«ented _above.
We w111_try_to discuss them In the fol-
lowing order
1)
Is the EOI
phenomenon real
In nature?
It would be a real
phenome
non
in a given act or demonstration If no fraud Is
Involved In the whole
process.
To prove that theJOl phenomenon Is Indeed rea^. wejnsist that
.
only one single repeatable "honest-to-goodness” case Is needed for. the
establishment of the objective reality, even If masher EOI demonstrations
can be proved
to be fraudulent.
That one single case, however, must be proved
to be rigorously and completely free from any kind of fraud(s)
This kind
Of proof
is admittedly very hard to come by but must be achieved beyond any
reasonable trace of doubt.
To Illustrate the point.
I would like to take up the case of the Third
Demonstration where my wife did two EOI experiments with the subject Yu Po,
involving
a colored Chinese word written Inside
a paper pad which was
Itself
contained
In a wax ball
and the other Involving a similar situation with
a plas-
tic box.
A fraud may have been committed as a result of certain special
acts
among three persons:
Yu
Po. my wife, and a third person. X.
Case
(1):
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Yu
Po may be
a
"psychic"* who could read my wife’s mind or the sample
directly,
or she may be
a magician who could play tricks with the sample.
However,
Yu
Po
Is only
a ten-year old student,
not known by the Yang family,
who are close neighbors,
to be either a psychic or magician.
The host,
Yang, being my former student and having had
a close relationship with
me for many decades, would not knowingly subject me
to seeing an act of
deception without telling me
the truth.
Case
(11):
An act of collusion
between Yu
Po and my wife was obviously out of the question.
Case
(111):
The person X could
be
a
psychic,
a magician,
or an ordinary person.
First,
if
X were
a psychic,
that person might be able
to read my wife's mind and
then transfer the Information content to Yu Po by some act.
But Yu Po showed
not
the slightest indication that she was being influenced by anybody, certainly
not within one-half minute’s
time, when she gave
the right answer.
Secondly,
if X were
a magician,
the person needed
to play tricks with my wife
s privately
prepared sample and
then from a distant point transfer the real
sample to Yu Po
and/or play another trick
to reveal
the information
to
her.
There was
no evi-
dence that these complicated magician’s acts were performed,
and
the required
time for It was rather too short.
Thirdly,
If X were an ordinary person,
such a
person was not at any time or place close enough to my wife
(to the best of her
knowledge)
to spy on her
Information and
then somehow signal
the information to
Yu
Po.
There was
no indication that a person
(or persons)
performed
such
a
delicate
spy and delivery job for either one of the two experiments.
Again,
*A ’’psychic"
is defined by Webster's Third International
Dictionary as
"a person
apparently sensitive to nonphysical
forces".
In this paper,
a psychic
is
Introduced only for the sake of argument.
We do not believe such a person__
really exists.
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shortness of time (about one-half minute) would make the operation hardly
practicable.
Having gone over all
the Imagined possibilities of fraud on
a
speT
cific
EOI
demonstration we witnessed, we found none of the suspicions
well
founded.
I
am left with no better al ternat^t^Jo assume the
observed phenomena was
Indeed real
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In a hr™'
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_ J_ha_ve no reason at all
to suppose any of the three
H.^n .traHnns we eye-witnessed was
In any waj^fraudulent.
In the same vein,
we heard that virtually hundreds of demonstrations or experiments on EOI
involving young children have been conducted all
over China during
the past
two years and.
In general,
the results were about the same as ours.
If most.
If not all, of these acts are fradulent. then one would have to assume that
multitudes of Chinese people all
freely Joined
In
a widespread act of con-
splracy and deception.
Such an assumption would be utterly unthinkable.
During this writing
It came to my attention that the Russians had some
what earlier reported the “Dermo-Optlcal
Perception" effect, which In many ways
paralleled the present description of the EOI
phenomenon
(Ref.
2).
2)
What
Is the explanation of the EOI
phenomenon?
AM^s_that_
EOI Isa real
phenomenon,
the first question Is whether the phenomenon can be
explained
in
terms
o f
known physical
forces.
The answer has to_be
?. negative
one at the present stage of knowledge.
Let us examine, however, what these
known physical
forces can do.
There are only
four known physical
forces:
the
St rong force of nuclear origin, the
famjll ar_el ectromajne 1 1 c force .the
force of
the elementary particle origin
(or of the nuclear radioactive
decay),
-"I
the gravitat ion force which
Is ubiquitously present between any
two masses.
The only force
that can be applied to human bodies
Is
the elect^
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mag netic
force.
Th e other three force s appa rently have no particular relevance.
Human bodies are known
to radiate and absorb
ra d iations
at microwave and
Infrared frequencies
but they also absorb x-tay, y-ray and even cosmic rays.
Similarly, words written
In color can emit and absorb radiation from very low
frequencies through microwave and millimeter waves,
infrared,
and visible (per-
haps
even including ultraviolet to x-rays and beyond).
But,
such rad iations are
usual ly extremely wea k and can be partially or wholly blocked by certain inter-
vening materials.
Hypothetically speaking
(overlooking the extraordinarily
small
i ntensities at
the moment) when such
a
radiati on enter s
the human body at
a crucial
spot known
to the Chinese
as
an "acupuncture
point", and
through
the skin
to
the nerve endings
a t the location,
electric
impu lses coul d
b e genera ted and
travel
through nerve fibers
to
the cerebrum of
the brain.
There
the
information content carried by the
Impul ses could be processed by the human
brain
"computer" whose
irrroense fu nction,
intellect ,
and maneuverability exceed ,
except
for the speed,
those of the present man-made computers by large orders
of magnitude .
The
n et result for EO I
from the cerebrum "computer" would then
be an output that can perhaps be
d isplayed as
a
"mental
image",
somewhat simi-
lar to what appears
on
a
television
s creen .
The above description based upon
the presumed action of an electro-
magnetic force gives
a very simplistic and totally Inadequate mechanism, both
qualitatively and quantitatively, of how an EOI
phenomenon might work
in a
human
body.
This
inadequacy may be
in part due to our lack of understanding of the
implied super high sensitivity toward EOI by children
(particularly the girls)
around
the age of ten and
some mysterious
power of interaction, realizable
In
a human system, with an extraordinarily weak signal.
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If we accept the EOI
phenomenon as
realI
and[ajrati onal
explanation
by way of known physica l
forces
Is wanting,
the scientific world should explore
a new frontier of
knowledge
in the biophysical
domain, such as
a modern
inter-
pretation of t he Chinese traditional
concept of ChM (^ ). translatable as
" energy”
or
"vital
energy”, which
In
its rhythmic circulation around the
human body may allow an enormous amount pf. power concwtratri at a spotjsay
,
an acupuncture
poi nt)
for
a short period of time.
References
1.
"Parapsychology,
Is
It Real?" China Reconstructs, Vol.
30,
p.
50,
January 1981.
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2.
Henry Gris and William Dick,
"The New Soviet Psychic Discoveries," Warner
Books,
1978,
p.
367.
Pictures
Picture 1
Zhu
Ji
is concentrating on getting the word
in the paper-wrapped
sample.
Picture 2
Yu Po
Is concentrating to "see” the colored word In
a
sample
concealed
in a wax ball
held by her hands behind her back.
Picture
Yu Po
Is triumphantly showing the sample for which she got the
right answers.
Picture 4
Yu Po and her sister, Yu Yan, agree on their EOI mental
experiences.
April
28,
1981
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