are gifted with what the Chinese have called “exceptional human functions” (EHF) and are viewed as national treasures. Moreover, the Chinese government now seeks out all children in the country who are psychically gifted and offers them special training under highly talented teachers.
According to Dong, EHF first came into the limelight in China in 1979 when a twelve-year-old Sichuan boy named Tang Yu was discovered to be able to see out-of-sight objects mentally and to read sealed writing by touching the container to his ear. This latter method became known throughout China as “reading with the ear.” Tang Yu was investigated and interviewed by the Sichuan Daily newspaper, and the resulting article produced high interest in EHF all over China.
However, excitement about Tang Yu and his EHF was quickly dampened by a counter article in the official government newspaper, People’s Daily. This critique claimed that reports of inner “reading with the ear” were clearly fraudulent, since such a practice went against all known scientific principles. After this article was published, other newspapers dared not repeat stories of Tang Yu’s abilities.
However, members of the staff of China’s highly respected magazine, Ziran Zazhi (Nature Magazine), considered the stories of Tang Yu’s EHF abilities to be possibly true. In order to prove this one way or the other, they set out to gather information about other EHF children from various Chinese provinces.
Among the children investigated and interviewed by Ziran Zazhi were two sisters from Beijing, Wang Qiang and Wang Bin. Three rigorous tests of the girls showed that they indeed had an amazingly accurate ability to “read”—via their noses, ears, and armpits—writing that had been sealed inside envelopes. The sisters told the reporters that as soon as the sealed containers came near or touched an ear, nose, or armpit, the child being tested could see the words on an inner mental screen. The image, they said, lasted for only a split second, so they had to concentrate hard to capture it before it disappeared, and the girls were clearly exhausted when they had completed all the tests. Ziran Zazhi, however, published a detailed article on the tests and their positive results, and soon magazines and newspapers in other provinces began to investigate and write about the amazing EHF children.
Letters from all over China began pouring into the offices of the National Science Council and the Chinese Academy of Sciences about other children who displayed high levels of EHF. Chinese scientists began to call the psychic sight displayed by such children “non-ocular vision.” Other children’s ability to remove, by mental power alone, small objects from within bottles, animals, or humans, became known as “overcoming spatial obstacles,” and the ability to cure diseases, promote plant growth, or change molecular structure was called “electric therapy” or “external chi.”
Since 1981 China has maintained special training programs for EHF children who have been noticed and recommended by their teachers, school principals, and local superintendents. During Dong’s visit to China, Zhang Zhenghuan, the head of China’s National Defense Science Commission (which leads the country’s military research), was directly in charge of the training of these children.
Dong reported that the ten-day training programs for young people age fifteen to twenty included two one-hour practice sessions per day—in the morning and again in the afternoon—balanced by rest time and recreation. Practice generally involved “reading,” through non-ocular vision, information sealed in an envelope. According to Dong’s research, the success rate for the teenagers in the training program was about 30-40%, as opposed to an approximate 3% success rate for the general populace. A few of the trainees also showed talent for (1) bending iron wires within a test tube, using mind power alone; and (2) removing pills from a sealed medicine bottle without opening the container.
According to Dong, many Chinese children younger than fifteen have exhibited naturally occurring, much higher success rates than the teenagers in one or more of the practice categories—probably, says Dong, because younger children have less cluttered minds, are more open to directions, and are better at concentrating. Chinese programs for training younger children have apparently been kept quiet, and information on them has been less available. However, one section of a documentary film called An Investigation of Life’s Extraordinary Phenomena, made during 1993 and 1994, shows chi gong master Liang Guangxiang selecting and training eleven elementary school students (four boys and seven girls) at Beijing’s Guanyuan Children’s Activity Center. Apparently Guangxiang has had a general success rate of 80%, and with one group of children the success rate was 100%. Dong was informed that girls have been shown to be more easily trained in EHF than boys.
Dong reported that although most of the EHF children in China tended to have their powers gradually dissipate after age twenty-five, a few of them who retained their abilities have been involved with Chinese military research as well as in aviation, technology, medicine, industries, and national sports competitions. Dong was told that the traditional Chinese virtues of modesty, sincerity, honesty, kindness, and consideration, which have been treasured by the Chinese people for many millennia, keep individuals and groups from using EHF powers unscrupulously.
According to Dong, the sisters, Wang Qiang and Wang Bin, have now become nationally known not only for their “non-ocular reading” of words but also for repairing torn cards and fixing broken china mentally, removing pills from bottles, psychic writing through mind power alone, prospecting for minerals in the earth, and healing diseases. Other noteworthy EHF children whom Dong met or heard about extensively while he was in China were second-grader Jiang Yan of Beijing, who could “read with the ear,” two female students from Xuancheng Junior High School—Hu Lian and He Xiaoqin—who could recognize color and read words through envelopes that touched their ears; and schoolgirls, Shao Hongyan and Sun Liping, from Kunming, who broke sticks, opened flower buds into full blossoms, and moved flowers from one vase to another, all using mind power alone. In addition, three girls—Xiao Shi, Xiao Lang, and XiaoXu—when tested by Chinese researchers, were able to (1) view and describe items (colored stones) in a chicken’s stomach, (2) remove psychokinetically from the chicken’s crop all the feed that was lodged there, and then (3) remove the colored stones themselves from the chicken’s stomach using only mind power. All of these tests were performed successfully.
Shen Kegong, a thirteen-year-old boy, who was called “supercomputer” in China when he first became famous in 1980, was known to do twenty-six-digit mathematical solutions in his head in twenty seconds. A girl from Shanghai, Xiao Xiong, was able to read words sealed inside a pencil case, and when the case was opened, the same words in her own handwriting (known as “psychic writing”) were penciled over the words that had been previously written on the paper and sealed in the pencil box by her father.
Schoolgirl Yao Zheng, whom Dong interviewed extensively, told about burning holes in her clothing whenever she concentrated pointedly during school tests. She was happy to demonstrate breaking spoons and moving them to other locations, opening flowers from buds, and moving vitamin pills from a bottle out onto the kitchen table. Her family showed Dong some actual examples of her burned clothing. However, Yao Zheng’s parents would not allow her to demonstrate her combustion powers because the fires had caused her to be expelled from the school she had previously attended, and the parents had eventually requested that this power of hers be “suppressed” by a knowledgeable professor from the Institute of Aerospace Medico-Engineering.
Apparently since 1986 the military and police in all of China’s major cities have employed top graduates of EHF training programs for remote viewing, foreseeing the future, seeing through objects and walls, opening locks, resetting watches and clocks, and other actions—“all the way to walking through walls!”—sometimes solving complicated cases within a single hour’s time. One such employee, Sun Xiaogang, a young woman who works for the police in Zhangzhou, has been doing remote viewing naturally since she was nine years old. She can also screw nuts and bolts mentally together while they are inside a sealed case, can ripen green cherries to a succulent red within minutes, and is able to restore broken or crushed leaves to their original
