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 HEADLINE: ESP-acupuncture linked in Chinese research
 BYLINE: By TODD R. EASTHAM
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 Three years ago it was condemned as a ''corrupt'' and useless science, but
 Chinese researchers are now studying psychic phenomenon -- ESP -- in the light
 of traditional Chinese medicine with surpising initial success.
 Results of only three years experimentation without goverment funding or
 recognition have been so impressive that American scientists have gone to the
 People's Republic of China to confer with them.
 Banned under the tenants of Cultural Revolution, recent conferences on
 psychic phenomenon and the electrical and biological correlatives of acupuncture
 and an ancient deep-breathing discipline called -Qigong- now draw hundreds of
 interested scholars.
 Papers on the subject are published regularly in Chinese journals.
 What has attracted the most attention in China is a body of research
 conducted with children, ages 7-12, gathered from thoroughout China who
 purportedly exhibit exceptional psychic ability.
 Reports of these studies inspired a study team led by San Francisco
 parapsychologist Stanley Krippner to visit China for two weeks last October.
 The Committee for the Study of Exceptional Human Functions also hopes to spur
 an exchange of information between American, European and Chinese researchers,
 Krippner said, although a lack of funding will make visits by Chinese scientists
 to this country difficult.
 The study team met with 10 of the allegedly gifted children, but they proved
 unable to demonstrate any statistically unusual psychic ability during the
 group's brief stay, Krippner told reporters at a news conference Wednesday.
 However, previous research findings were ''provocative,'' he said, and
 further research in more relaxed settings using more sophisticated American
 equipment could be very significant.
 More compelling were Chinese experiments into the physical side effects of
 ESP-related phenomenon.
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 Although the igni icance is not yet clear, physicists working in their spare
 time at the Institute of High Level Physics in Beijing have demonstrated that
 acupressure points show a lower skin resistance to electricity and higher
 conductivity to electricity during periods of increased psychic activity.
 Scientists have also shown that the acupressure point on the back of the neck
 gets hotter by about tour degress centigrade during the performance of
 controlled psychic experiments in clairvoyance and telepathy.
 But ''the change relates to the task itself rather than to the success of the
 task,'' Krippner noted. The temperature increases whether the subject's guess is
 right or wrong.
 The research is unique, Krippner said, and with primitive equipment, lack of
 government funding and relative inexperience in the field, the Chinese ''have
 accomplished a great deal.''
 Another area of study with far-reaching potential is related to the ancient
 discipline involving movement and deep breathing called Qigong.
 ''They claim that once peple start to study Qigong their psychic ability
 increases,'' he said, noting the researchers have demonstrated that Qigong
 increases heat and photon emissions from the body and intensifies the body's
 electrostatic field.
 The Chinese believe that practice of Qigong, first recorded in the ''Yellow
 Emperor's Classic on Internal Medicine'' written at about 400 B.C. ''spreads the
 vital energy, called Chi, through the body,'' said Krippner.
 They are conducting research into the popular belief in laboratory settings
 which have not yet produced a significant body of data but show much promise, he
 said.
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