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SOME DEMONSTRATIONS ON EXTRAOCULAR
IMAGE
IN CHINA
C.
K.
Jen
FOREWORD
Accompani ed by my wife,
I undertook
a lecture tour on recent developments
in physics through three universities
in the People's Republic of China from
Se ptember 1980 through February 1981
.
Total ly unrelated to my lectures or past
experience, my attention was
Incidentally drawn to the upsurge of interes t among
the populace on seme children's ability of having an extraocular
image.
This
kind of interest was apparently stimulated by the first report
in Sichuan Daily
on March
11,
1979 about
a twelve-year old boy being able to recognize a written
word by his
ear.
In late 1980 and early 1981
when we were there, both the
in-
terest and activity
in extraocular image had already grown
to large proportions
on
a nationwide scale
(Ref.l).
It was
in this general
atmosphere that our
friends and former colleagues
had urged us to be either spectators or referees
for
a
few informal
extraocular demonstrations.
I will
narrate our experiences
on extraocular
image;
two
i n Hefei Jn centra l
Ch ina
a nd one
in Peking.
The First Demonstration
This occurrence took place on November 24, 1980
in Hefei.
After dinner,
Yin Ke-neng
(Lecturer in
the Department of Radio Engineering),
his wife,
and son came
to see
us at our hotel with Zhu Jin-Kang
(A lecturer
in
the
same department),
his wife,
and
their nine-year old
son,
Zhu
J1
Mr *
Yin was one of the persons responsible for setting up my lectures at the Uni-
versity of Science and Technology of China.
Mr. Zhu told me and Yin that only
a short while earlier he felt that somehow his son had the faculty of Extraocular
Image
(henceforth abbreviated
as E0I--my own notation).
He thought that we may
find
it fun
to give his
son
a
try.
My wife was willing to take him up on the
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offer and wrote with
a ball-point pen, out of everybody's sight,
the Chinese
word
( 0
) meaning
"sun" on
a piece of paper which was folded Into
a
small
opaque
pad enclosing
the word.
The boy traced
the sample with his fingers
(Picture
1)
and
spoke out only part of the word at first and the complete word
correctly at
the
end.
My wife tried
two other Chinese words
In succession,
Pp
and (^), meaning
"level"
(as
in water level)
and "sky".
The boy was able
to name
the word correctly each time, although somewhat haltingly.
When asked
how he felt
in tracing
the word,
he described
that
there. was
a tingling
sensation
in his fingers when they were right on
the line.
Zhu Ji's performance surprised
us very much because this was our first
experience
in seeing
it done,
even though Mr.
Zhu apologized for his
son's
inexperience.
The Second Demonstration
The second demonstration took place on November 30,
1980 in a cTass
room at the University of Science and Technology.
Knowing about my interest
in EOI
from Zhu Ji's demonstration, Mr. Jia Zhl-bin
(Proctor of the
Hefei Associated University) organized
a group demonstration and
invited
four children from the
local
Liuan (^$0
Elementary School.
The children
were Wang Wei -hue (If*)
(girl, age 11.
5th grade). Liang Shu-jing (g:
(girl, age 10,
3rd grade),
Xu Xiang
(|££jj)
(girl, age 9, 4th grade),
and
Duan Lian-yong
(boy,
age 9,
3rd grade).
They were known to have
some faculty of EOI
to varying degrees.
Mr.
Jia
had his aides prepare over
one hundred samples,
each consisting of
a piece of paper,
on which either a
Chinese word or an English letter was written in color
(red,
blue, or black).
Each sample paper was folded many times
Into
a
small
pad, either sealed at
the folding edge with a touch of glue or completely sealed.
In any case,
the
writing inside each sample was not visible to
the eye.
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Mr.
Jia opened the meeting with the four children sitting
In chairs
directly facing
the front row and with an audience of some sixty University
students and many elementrary school
(associated with the University)
stu-
dents.
Mr.
Jia
asked. me
to be the chief referee with my wife and one other
friend
as assistant referees,
all
sitting
in the front row directly facing
the demonstrators.
We saw an usher carrying
a big plate of randomly placed
samples
to the demonstrators and let each of them take
a sample at will.
Each demonstrator
put
the picked sample between his or her palms.
In less
than
a minute or two
the three girls
Indicated that they already got their
answers,
Mr. Jia announced
to them that each of them should write on
the
sample envelope the name and -the EOI
result
(i.e.,
the word and
Its color
they
"saw"),
these unopened samples were handed over to me and
I then let
them be opened one-by-one
in front of us
(three referees)
and have the
contents
be compared between the inside and the outside.
I
then announced
that
frang Wei-hua got the red-colored word
(
) meaning
"male" correctly
for both the Chinese character and
its color.
Liang Shu-jlng got correctly
the red-colored word
(jWJ)
pronounced as
"Zhou"
(best known as
the Zhou or
Chou Dynasty
In Chinese history).
Similarly, Xu Xiang got the word
( ®)
meaning
"see" equally correctly.
But the boy. Duan Lian-yong, was not able
to get any answer,
and
the poor boy sobbed for his failure.
As we were to go on with more demonstrations by the four subjects,
on
different samples, there arose in the audience an uproar among the elementary
school
students.
We heard them calling out aloud why couldn't they join the
the demonstration; even though many of them would be trying out for the first
time.
Mr.
Jia and
I agreed to let them have
a
try-out but limit the number of
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