SOME DEMONSTRATIONS ON EXTRAOCULAR IMAGE IN CHINA, C. K. JEN

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SOME DEMONSTRATIONS ON EXTRAOCULAR IMAGE IN CHINA
C. K. Jen
FOREWORD
Accompanied by my wife, I undertook a lecture tour on recent developments
in physics through three universities in the People's Republic of China from
September 1980 through February 1981. Totally unrelated to my lectures or past
experience, my attention was incidentally drawn to the upsurge of interest among
the populace on some children's ability of having 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 1981 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 in Peking.
The. First Demonstration
This occurrence took place on November 24, 1980 in Hefei: After dinner,
Yin Ke-neng y400 (Lecturer in the Department of Radio Engineering), his wife,
and son came to see us at our hotel with Zhu Jin-Kang (big) (A lecturer in
the same department), his wife, and their nine-year old son, Zhu Ji V410. 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 E0I--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
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offer and wrote with a ball-point pen, out of everybody's sight, the Chinese
word ( fl ) meaning "sun" on a piece of paper which was folded into a small
opaque pad enclming 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,
(T) and (dk), me,ining "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 (65Mi)(Proctor of the
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Hefei Associated University) organized a group demonstration and invited
four children from the local Livan (.5p Elementary School. The children
were Wang Wei-hua (fp,..p (girl, age 11, 5th grade), hang Shu-jing (4rN-49
(girl, age 10, 3rd grade), Xu Xiang (iM) (girl, age 9, 4th grade), and
Duan Lian-yong OW) (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 small 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.
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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 (associated 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. Jia announced to them that each of them should write on the
sample envelope the name and the EDI result (i.e., the word and its color
they "saw"). These unopened samples were handed over to me and I then let
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 Wang Wei-hua got the red-colored word (.;7) meaning "male" correctly
for both the Chinese character and its color. hang Shu-jing got correctly
the red-colored word (A]) pronounced as "Zhou" (best known as the Zhou or
Chou Dynasty in Chinese history). Similarly, Xu Xiang got the word (0)
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, on
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 let them have a try-out but limit the number of
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volunteers to five. Their names were Tan Qing-jiu (irc*/) (girl, 5th grade),
Liu Shu-ling (pk#)(girl, 5th grade), Liu Chun-yan (44A )(girl, age 10.
5th grade), Liu Jun ( 301 )(girl, age 5-1/2), Liu Zhong-jian UZIN)(age 12,
5th grade).
The results of the second round of EOI demonstration are the following.
Among the .original invited demonstrator, Wang Wei-hua got the red-colored
word (4" ) meaning "broad" correctly (she had the sample crumbled in her hand),
Liang Shu-jing got the word ('') (oftentimes meaning "public") correctly.
Xu Xiang got correctly the black-colored word ( ) meaning "moon". These
were their second round of successes. Among the new volunteers, Tang Qing-jiu
first had the right answer for the letter "F" and afterwards also for the letter
"6". Liu Shu-jing was right with the answer, the letter "M". Liu Chun-yan was
the first and only one to use her ear in recognizing the Chinese word (J )
meaning "strength". Liu Zhong-jian was right about the Chinese blue-colored word
). commonly used as a preposition. Finally, the 5-1/2 year-old girl, Liu Jun
(younger sister of Liu Chun-yan) was right about the Chinese word (Jt.) meaning
"up". One must say that the volunteers did as well as the veterans, because
there was not a single failure among all the participants. f4,
I was lucky to have Mr. Jia's permission for the referees to hold a
short private session with the invited demonstrators. I asked the girls in
what manner the extrasensory image came to them. The girls did not describe
their impressions in exactly the same language, but they did agree on certain
things which we'll temporarily regard as the common ground. Suppose the
subject receives a sample between her palms; she needs a good concentration
of mind. After a little while (a minute or so), she may feel a slight warmth
in the hands or a certain tingling sensation. There seems to be something like
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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 image in focus. Finally, the subject
"reads" out what she "sees".
The Third Demonstration
The demonstration occurred on February 6 1981. On an impromptu
visit of ours to the home of my former student, Yang Long-sheng
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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 EDI, 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 (4)0 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 in 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 balI 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 (i);
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one of its many meanings is "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 1/2' x1/2"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 (V`); one of its many meanings is "separate".
At this juncture, Dr. Lu Bao-wei (E41), 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 a 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 red-colored Chinese
word (re) 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 Van OT) 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 Van (Picture 4).
Yu Po's description of her sensation contained details 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
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samples in addition to samples in thin-paper wrappings, as in Heifei's case.
But, she first "saw" 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
There are some major Tlestions that can be asked of the type of EOI
demonstrations represented above. We will try to discuss them in the fol-
lowing order.
1) Is the EOI 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 is indeed real, we insist that
only one single repeatable "honest-to-goodness" case is needed for the
establishment of the objective reality, even if many other EOI demonstrations
can be_proved_to be fraudulent. That one single case, however, must be proved
to be rigorously and completely free from any 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, I would like to take up the case of the Third
Demonstration where my wife did two E01 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):
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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 (ii): An act of collusion
between Yu Po and my wife was obviously out of the question. Case (iii):
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,
if 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 X 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,
A "psychic" is defined by Webster's Third International Dictionary as "a person
apparently sensitive to nonphysical forces". In this paper, a psychic is
introduced only for the sake of argument. We do not believe such a person
really exists.
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shortness of time (about one-half minute) would make the operation hardly
practicable.
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 eye-witnessed was in any way fraudulent. In the same vein,
we heard that virtually hundreds of demonstrations or experiments on EOI
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 fradulent, then one would have to assume that
multitudes of Chinese people all freely joined in a 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 EOI phenomenon (Ref. 2).
2) What is the explanation of the EOI phenomenon? Assuming that
EOI is a real phenomenon', the first question is whether the phenomenon can be
explained ill tenms. of_(nown physical forces. The answer has to be a negative
one at the present stage of knowledge. Let us examine, however, what these
known physical forces can do. There are only four known physical forces:
the'stroni_force of nuclear originOhe familiar ele.c.InapeLtic force, the
weak force of the elementary particle origin (or of the nuclear radioactive
decay), and 'ql,Liravitation force whichis ubiquitously present between any
two masses. The Only force that can be applied to human bodies is the electro-
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_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 who 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 (54-'11), an "acupuncture point", and
through the skin to the nerve endings at the 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 immense function intellect and maneuverability exceed,
except for the speed those of the present man-maje computers by large orders
of magnitude. The net result for EOI from the cerebrum computerl would then
be an output that can_perjaks*b_Lslt_isplayed as a "mental image" somewhat simi-
lar 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.
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If we accept the E0I phenomenon as real and a rational explanation
by way of known physical forces is wanting, the scientific world should explore
a new frontier of knowledge in the biophysical domain, such as a modern inter-
pretation of the Chinese traditional concept of Ch'i (-I), translatable as
"energy" or "vital energy", which in its rhythmic circulation around the
human body may allow an enormous amount of power concentrated at a 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.
Picture 2 Yu Po is concentrating to "see" the colored word in a sample
concealed in a wax ball held by her hands behind her back.
Picture 3 Yu Po is triumphantly showing the sample for which she got the
right answers.
Picture 4 Yu Po and her sister, Yu Yan, agree on their EOI mental experiences.
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