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t Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300020002-1 LNAGS 92 responsible comrade at the former “Science and Technology Daily” especially invited a delegation the United States organization which opposed ESP, the “United States Committee for the Investigation of Strange Phenomenon" to come to Beijing and Xian to conduct counter ESP demonstration in an attempt to use “outside to deny the inside". They took advantage of the superstitious beliefs of some people in the “prestige” of foreign countries to deny the objective existence of ESP in China. It has been said that when this delegation’s leader was questioned by the audience, he was very embarrassed and did not reply. This is the actual situation of which Yu's article states that commissions “doubters" submitted reports. Yu also collected materials from China and foreign countries both recent and old which were in opposition to ESP in an attempt to deny the objective existence of ESP, all without success. I now have doubts about the Sincerity of his “ideas" in Hong Kong. If he is really sincere, scientific experiments on ESP are being conducted every day in many institutes of higher learning and research agencies in all the major cities of China. Why does he not take part in these but comes up with an “idesa" in China to do some testing? If this testing "idea" is really sincere and not just a sham, I would be willing to facilitate this formal testing. 4. The author of Yu's article believes that the “the propaganda of such “ESP” as ‘recognizing characters by ear” are direct opposition to the basic principles of materialism." This is a line fron page 258 of Yu's book in an article called “An Important Situation on the Philosophical Front Lines in China in 1981" (hereafter called philosophical article). The spirit of what he said is that the objective existence of ESP is in direct violation of the basic principles of materialism. In 1984 I wrote an article entitled "An Important Situation on the Scientific Front Lines in China in 1981" which was published in volume two issue two page 937 of “ESP Research". This article was written as a rebuttal to the “philosophical article" in Yu’s book. I will not repeat it here. Yu's also quoted many times in his books Engels” criticisms of “spiritualism”, saying today’s research in ESP was a variation of “spiritualism”, that it Was a pseudoscience in basic opposition to materialism, and that it was Severely criticized in Engel’s “"Dialeetics of Nature". This is actually the opposite of the truth, because the old “spiritualism” research into ESP was to illustrate the effects of the “spirits" and modern scientific research into ESP is to illustrate the effect of matter. Ancient and modern, "spiritualism" and science, “spirit" and matter are all completely different, not the same thing at all. To say China’s research into ESP is a “variation" of “spiritualism” is pure slander. Yu also said that taking a stand in approval and support of ESP research was to “stand on the side of Spiritualism" and was to take a stand “in opposition to" Engel’s “Dislectics of Nature". Although the basis for Yu’s argument was to “use the old to deny the present”, using reasoning to deny practice does not conform with scientific logic and is in violation to the principles of materials, under the weight of this label, many people who approve and support ESP do not dare to speak up and scientific experiments in ESP cannot obtain funding. No one writes articles on it in publications 5 Approved For Release 2000/08/10 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300020002-1