UPI ARTICLE, FROM DATA BASE SEARCH. 'ESP-ACUPUNCTURE LINKED IN CHINESE RESEARCH'

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• Publication Date: December 9, 1981
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December 9, 1981, Wednesday, AM cycle
SECTION: Regional News
DISTRIBUTION: California
LENGTH: 586 words
HEADLINE: ESP-acupuncture linked in Chinese research
BYLINE: By TODD R. EASTHAM
DATELINE: SAN FRANCISCO
BODY:
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 government 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.
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 ignicance 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 four 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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