Parapsychology in China with Simon Duan

Simon Duan came from China to the UK to study in the ’80s. He received a PhD in Materials Science from Cambridge University and currently works for the UK government on technology commercialization between the UK and China. He has long-standing interests in paranormal research and is a past vice president of the Chinese Parapsychology Association.

Here he describes Chinese culture’s historical interest in the paranormal, contemporary developments, psychic education of children in China, personal experiences of high strangeness, and his own theoretical model to explain his many observations.

00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:44 Chinese history & the paranormal
00:09:16 Western influence in China
00:11:03 Acupuncture & Cultural Revolution
00:12:48 Changes after Mao’s death
00:16:49 Influence of Qian Xuesheng
00:21:37 Suppression of ch’i gung
00:30:18 Simon Duan’s personal experience
00:35:44 Superpsychic Sun Chulin
00:41:59 Psychic education of children
00:55:51 Failures to validate children
00:58:45 Social suppression of psi
01:01:45 Phenomena of high strangeness
01:08:58 Extraterrestrial speculations
01:11:42 Platonic computer theory
01:18:15 Conclusion

New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death.

(Recorded on December 1, 2022)

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