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Approved For Release 2000/08/11 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300420003-6 SOME DEMONSTRATIONS ON EXTRAOCULAR IMAGE IN CHINA C. K. Jen FOREWORD - Accompanied by my wife, I “under took a lecture tour on recent developments . in physics through three universities in the People’ 5 Republic of China from September 1980. through February 1981. Totally unrelated to my lectures or past ‘the populace on some children’ S ability of f having a 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 198) when we were there, both the in- terest and activity in extraocular image had already grown to large proportions on a nationwide scale (Ref.1). 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 in Hefei in central China and one jn Peking. The, First Demonstration This occurrence took place on November 24, 1980 in Hefei. After dinner, Yin Ke- “neng CET (Lecturer in the Department of Radio Engineering), his wife, and son came to see us at our hotel with Zhu Jin- -Kang ANGE) (A lecturer in the same department), his wife, and their nine-year old son, Zhu Ji (A). 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 EOI--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 Approved For Release 2000/08/11 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300420003-6 -
Approved For Release 2000/08/1 1-: F1A-RDP96-00792R000300420003-6 offer and wrote with a ball-point pen, out of everybody's sight, the Chinese word (A ) meaning "sun" ona piece of paper which was folded into a-small opaque pad enclo: ing 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, | ce and (K)s 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 class room at the University of Science and Technology. Knowing about my interest in EOI from Zhu Ji's demonstration, Mr. Jia Zhi-bin ($2 fRil) (Proctor of the Hefei Associated University) organized a group demonstration and invited four children from the local Liuan rena) Elementary School. The children were Wang Wei-hua (¢.Pe) (girl, age 11, 5th grade), Liang Shu-jing GR) (girl, age 10, 3rd grade), Xu Xiang (452299) (girl, age 9, 4th grade), and Duan Lian-yong vee) (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 smal] 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. Approved For Release 2000/08/11 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300420003-6
“Approved F For Release 2000/08/11. : CIA-RDP96- 00792R000300420003-6 -3- 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 (assoctated 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. dia 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 J then Tet 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 flang Wei-hua got the red- colored word (3 ) meaning "male" correctly for both the Chinese character and its color. Liang Shu-jing got correctly the red-colored word (j2]) 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, 0 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 Yet them have a try-out but limit the number of Approved For Release 2000/08/11 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300420003-6 bh