Approved For Release 2000/08/11 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300420003-6 . . 5 . . 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 {mage in focus. Finally, the subject "reads" out what she "sees". The Third Demonstration 7 The demonstration occurred on February 6, ‘1981. “On an impromptu visit of ours to the home of my former student, Yang Long- -sheng EH. 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 Viet ) to proceed. We had, however, to pay the price of being the principal monitors of the performance. In the first test, 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 An Chinese house- holds). Except for herself, nobody else knew what my 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 (F ); Approved For Release 2000/08/11 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300420003-6
Approved For Release 2000/08/11 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300420003-6 -6- one of its many meanings ts "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 2" x V2" x 2". “Yu. Po put it in her hands behind her back and in about one-half minute announced correctly the blue- colored Chinese word Up): one of {ts many meanings 1s "separate". At this juncture, Dr. Lu Bao-wel (Wek » 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, Lu volunteered to make & 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 wred-colored Chinese word (P) 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 Yu Po a few questions. Yu Po acknowledged that her older sister (age 15) by the name Yu Yan FD) 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 5 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 Approved For Release 2000/08/11 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300420003-6
os | oh eS Pes a PES ‘of Approved For Release 2000/08/11 : ClA- RDP96- pr rremouenezecs 6 -7- samples in addition to samples in thin- -paper wrappings » ‘as in Heifei's case. - But, she first "caw" 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 Yan, nodded her assent). making flashes of dots or strokes somewhat dis- . orderly. Finally, the whole image of the colored writing appeared clearly. “DISCUSSION , vere zeta major .jor questions that can be asked of the type of EOI demonstrations represented 2 above. We will try to discuss them in the fol-- | lowing o order. a . . | 4) Is the EO! 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 the EOI phenomenon 4 is indeed real, we insist that only one ‘single r repeatable “honest-to- -goodness” Ci case is needed for the establishment of the objective reality, even if many 0% other EOI demonstrations | can be proved to be fraudulent. That one single case, however, must be proved to be r rigorously and | completely f free from any k 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, 1 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): _ Approved For Release 2000/08/11 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300420003-6
7+ Approved For Release 2000/08/11 : CIA-RDP96- 00792R000300420003- 6 - 8 - 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 (444): 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, 4f 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 Xx 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, " is defined by Webster's Third International Dictionary as "a person * A psychic" a psychic is apparently sensitive to nonphysical forces”. In this paper, a introduced only for the sake of argument. We do not believe such a person : we co ne Oe really exists. ne eee — Approved For Release 2000/08/11 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300420003-6
Approved For Release 2000/08/11 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300420003-6 -9- shortness of time (about one-half minute) would make the operation hardly practicable. — | 7 Having gone over all the imagined possibilities of fraud on a spe- cific EOI demonstration we witnessed, we found none of the suspicions well founded. I am left with no better alternative than to assume the - ; observed phenomena \ was indeed real. | . In a broad sense, I | have no reason at all to suppose any of the three | demonstrations we cye- -witnessed was in any way fre fraudulent. In the same vein, we heard that virtually hundreds of demonstrations or experiments on EO! 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 fradutent, “then one would have to assume that multitudes of Chinese people all freely joined ina widespread act of con- spiracy 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- -Optical Perception" effect, which in many ways | paralleled the present description of the E01 phenomenon (Ref. 2). 2) What is the explanation of the EOI phenomenon? Assuming that that | - EOI is a real phenomenon, | the first question is whether the phenomenon can be explained in terms. of known physical forces. “The answer has to be a negative “one. at the present sti stage of knowledge. Let us examine, however, what these known physical forces can do. There are only f four known physical | forces: the the strong force of nuclear, origins | _the fam’ familiar ¢ e lectromagnetic_ force, the weak force of the elementary. particle | origin (or of the nuclear radioactive decay), and th e gravitation | force which is ubiquitously present between any two masses. The only force that can be applied to human bodies is the electro- Approved For Release 2000/08/11 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300420003-6 |
em mR rater “ Approved For Release 2000/08/11 : CIA-RDP96- 00792R000300420003- 6 -10- magnetic force. The other three forces apparently have no particular’ relevance. Human bodies are known to radiate and absorb radiations 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 radiations are usually extremely weak and can be partially or wholly blocked by certain inter- vening materials. Hypothetically speaking (overlooking the extraordinarily small intensities at the moment) when such a radiation enters the human body at . | a crucial spot known to the Chinese as (G°4Z), 2 an “acupuncture point", and through the skin to ‘the nerve endings at the 1 location, electric impulses could be generated and travel through nerve fibers to the cerebrum of the brain. There the information content carried by the impulses could be processed by the human brain "computer" whose inmense function, intellect, and maneuverability exceed, except for the speed, those of the present man-made computers by large orders of magnitude. The net result for EOI from the cerebrum "computer" would then be an output that can perhaps be displayed as a "mental image", somewhat simi- Jar_to what appears on a television screen. -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. Approved For Release 2000/08/11 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300420003-6
4‘ tee Approved For Release 2000/08/11 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300420003-6 “Ne If we accept the EOI phenomenon as real and art rational explanation | by way ¢ of known physical forces” is wantings ‘the scientific world should explore -a new frontier of of knowledge in the - biophysical domain, ‘such as a modern inter- pretation of the Chinese traditional concept of ( of Ch’ i hit (=p)s translatable as “energy” r "vital energy” ye which in its vhythmic circulation around the human body may. allow ane enormous ‘amount 0 of power concentrated at at a 1 Spot (say, an acupuncture point) for a short period of time. References 1. "Parapsychology, Is it Real?" China Reconstructs, Vol. 30, p. 50, January 1981. 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. | Yu Po is concentrating to "see" the colored word in a sample ity. Picture 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 jw right answers. Picture Yu Po and her sister, Yu. Yan, agree on thetr EOL mental experiences. |= April 28, 1981. _ Approved For Release 2000/08/11 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300420003-6
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