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August 19, 1982, Thursday, AM cycle
SECTION: International
LENGTH: 321 words
HEADLINE: Chinese study mind over matter
DATELINE: CAMBRIDGE, England
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Chinese researchers are studying psychics capable of such mind-over-matter
feats as fogging photo film and generating pulses on electrical devices, an
American scientist said Thursday.
Some of the experiments were described in a paper prepared for delivery
Friday to the convention of the Parapsychological Association by Dr. H.E.
Puthoff of the Radio Physics Laboratory in Menlo Park, California, who said he
and other western observers had been shown data, including motion picture film,
backing up the claim.
Puthoff, whose delegation went to China after a Sichuan newspaper reported
that a 12-year-old boy could ''read'' printed Chinese ideographs with his ears,
said the Chinese were very interested in ''exceptional human functioning'' -
mentioned in ancient Chinese texts.
Puthoff's talk introduced a number of papers by invited Chinese researchers
who said they were studying psychics who could fog photographic film and
stimulate pulses on electrical devices -- with mental force.
one of the papers, submitted by Zhao Yun-Je of the Chinese Academy of
Sciences, said the ability of humans to ''see'' without their eyes indicates
''that in the natural world there exists an unknown radiation which is
reciprocally connected with the life process.
''Compared with generally known physical radiation, this radiation has a more
complex distribution in space and time,'' the paper said.
He Chongying, editor-in-chief of Nature Journal of Shanghai, said researchers
at Peking University had trained children in psychic behavior.
''In some Chinese hospitals the clairvoyance function is being applied to
help in diagnosis,'' the paper said. ''Experiments with blind children also
obtained results to some degree. Blind children have been induced to possess a
clairvoyance function.
''Experiments in 'seeing, things under layers of soil and detecting hidden
things were also quite satisfying,'' it said.
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