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.
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