It should be of interest that the
three most powerful nations on earth, empires if you will, Russia,
China, and America, all have a history of interest in psychic research.
Clearly, the extended mental and physical powers associated with psychic power might
well have military implications. In this post, I want to say something about
China, based on China’s Super Psychics, by Paul Dong & Thomas E.
Raffill (1997).
The phenomena described in this
book are astonishing. The book begins with a foreword by Dr. Karen Kramer
explaining how her complete recovery from cancer was due to her practice of chi
gong, a Chinese spiritual practice, said to deploy a universal energy that
seems to operate like psychokinesis (PK), in plain language, mind over matter.
In chapter 1, Paul Dong takes us
back to Beijing in 1987 to the scene of an experiment with Zhang Baosheng, a
famous Chinese superpsychic. There were about thirty witnesses. Baosheng was
handed a sealed bottle, never opened, with forty-four medical pills inside; he
concentrates intensely on the bottle, after which the seal was broken. All forty-four pills were gone, and in their
place, a small piece of candy was found! The candy is cited as a feature of the
psychic’s “prankish personality.” It turns out that many superpsychics in China
do the pill-vanishing thing (dematerialization as well as apports, matter
passing through matter).
Zhang is said to have a bad
temper. If you photograph him and he
doesn’t like you, he can use his PK to disable your camera and ruin the photograph. This reminds me of accounts of UAP entities that
stop cars, elude fighter jets, toss aside bullets, turn off lights or any
technical system at will. The most dramatic fact that the U.S. government
doesn’t want us to know is that on various occasions alien entities have
temporarily disabled American nuclear weapons’ facilities and operations. This must
be extremely concerning to those in charge of our military defense systems.
But back to Baosheng. On one
occasion he was visiting with high-ranking government officials for a
demonstration of some EHF (exceptional human capacity.) The moody medium refused to do it, so the
head official ordered to have him locked up in a special room. Done. But when
the official went home, he opened the door and found Baosheng waiting for him. Surprise!
He could apport pills out of a sealed bottle; apparently, he could also apport
himself out of a locked room! After this impossible performance, he found
himself working for China’s Defense Ministry.
As for these accounts of apport and teleportation, there is Western data
from saints to poltergeists that confirm the weird reality of matter passing
through matter. What seems new here is
the degree of control the Chinese evidence seems to suggest that humans may
possess over these PK powers.
True to the title of this post,
given the evidence for things like psychokinesis, especially macro-PK, the idea
of psychic warfare takes us well beyond sci-fi entertainment. The English
physicist William Crookes was a paradigm-busting psychical researcher who
claimed the discovery of “a new force” in nature—new to the physical science of
the day. The new force is manifest when we
observe willed intentionality produce some physical effect, apart from any
physical cause. What if we learn to mobilize by direct mental operations the
“new force” to harm or deflect the mind and body of a designated enemy in war. Every
time we learn to enhance our physical power in new ways, we up the ante of our
destructive potential. As far as our moral evolution, so obviously stunted, PK
by itself will not palliate the mounting peril. What is lacking is development
of our mental powers, our telepathic and empathic powers. We need to tune into the psychic reality of
our opponents and they to ours before anything resembling rapprochement is
possible. A well-rounded evolution of the psyche is the best hope for the
survival of our species.
The EHF
here reviewed could be used for nefarious purposes. We learned, for example, that Baosheng could
psychically remove medicine pills from a sealed container and project them
elsewhere. The testy PK master threatened to project one of the pills into one
of the experimenter’s stomachs. A well- trained psychic spy could cause all
manner of disruptive hijinks for enemy targets. But then, reading the minds of
your foes, especially if you can do so precognitively, would also be a military
advantage. Information that can be conveyed without any machinery could do much
mischief. Crucial targets are closely monitored and
shielded by protective bodies, but psychic attack could elude physical barriers.
Although the Communist authorities have become alert to the
dangers of psychically manipulated politics, the wider public is drawn to the
healing virtues of Qigong. The attraction is widespread with three practices—breath,
movement, concentration. It appears that many learn they can do things we normally
assume are impossible. The idea that
millions of young Chinese people train in Qigong is worth noting, especially since
American kids basic reading skills are in decline.
Children in America are raised via what I prefer to call a passive
screen culture. Contrast this with the native American vision quest. There what you did was release yourself to
some obscure portion of the wilderness, with minimal clothing and no food or
drink. And there you remain in a fasting
solitude, intentional and meditative until you experience a dream or vision
that speaks to you in ways that convince and deep move you. To see how this works,
I would recommend that you read Lame Dear, Seeker of Visions, by John
Fire Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes. It is a life of a Sioux Medicine Man. He tells his native story, free from the ethos
of his genocidal invaders.
Zhang Baosheng caused objects, including his own body, to apport
from locked rooms. I can’t help fantasizing about Zhang devising an apport-inducing
method for all the brutally, unjustly imprisoned people on the planet. This, of
course, would be only the beginning of a worldwide psychospiritual revolution. We must be honest and confront the strangeness
of this reported claim of Chinese super-psychics. Surely, a hefty weapon in the possible coming
psychic wars. I hope that instead of
wars, all the nations come together in a quest for promoting the creative evolution
of our destructively inclined species.
China and her children of supernormal phenomena provide data
that enable us to imagine ways of accelerating human evolution. Many of these powers can be unnerving but the
emphasis of chi gong is on health and well-being. Chapter Six is about
an extraordinary chi healer, Nan Xin, notable as a “fragrance master,” emitting
impressive fragrances whenever engaged in his healing activities. The book is
full of reports of paranormal healing.
But the Communist State has pulled in the reins on the
popular psychic practices. A danger is
sensed of a type of spiritual energy, which resides in us all and may with some
become an instrument of miraculous creativity and even perhaps revolutionary power.
In an interesting contrast, the United States intelligentsia is chary about confronting
the reality of psychic phenomena or miracles, as I know from my book on
levitation, which Oxford University Press refused to publish unless I abstained
from confirming the reality of levitation. The reason in this case was more an
anti-religious bias. But not all
publishers suffer from this intellectual small-mindedness. See my book, Smile
of the Universe: Miracles in an Age of Disbelief. Available via Anomalist
Books or Amazon.