Incredible II: Visiting the Websites of the Gods

Si-Chen Lee and Mei-Ling Cheng

NTU Electrical Engineering Professor Si-Chen Lee, Mei-Ling Cheng. Authors While reductionist science leads humanity into the wondrous and magnificent world of atoms—

has it on the other hand departed from an even greater cosmic reality, growing ever more distant from the real world of holistic, complex phenomena? After discovering the “information field” through finger-reading experiments, the authors of this book went further to establish contact with the highly intelligent entities of the information field, exploring the mysteries of cosmic evolution, the advancement of human civilization, and physical phenomena.

About the Authors

Si-Chen Lee

Graduated from the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan University. Received a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in the United States. Specializes in semiconductor nanophotonic devices. Served as Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering at NTU and Dean of Academic Affairs at NTU. In 1988, through participation in qigong science research, he came into contact with the mystical aspects of traditional Chinese culture. In 1992, he began researching individuals with special abilities. He has collaborated with the Institute of Human Sciences at China University of Geosciences in Beijing on research in microbiology and cell biology engineering. In 1999, through a chance encounter with Buddhist scriptures, he discovered the existence of the information field, which transformed his understanding of life and led him to pursue the integration of body, mind, and spirit.

Mei-Ling Cheng

Graduated from the Department of Foreign Languages at National Taiwan University. Received a master’s degree in theatrical arts from a university in England. In 1977, she married Si-Chen Lee in the United States. Served as an English teacher at a secondary school and as a lecturer at Shih Hsin College.

Table of Contents

Preface 1: Expanding New Territory at the Frontiers of Science — Sun Wei-Xin

Preface 2: A Mustard Seed Holds [Mount Sumeru], It Lies Within the Mind — Chen Guo-Zhen

Preface 3: Demonstrating the Demeanor of a Scientific Researcher — Song Guang-Yu

Preface 4: A Lonely Journey of Discovery — Zhang Cao

Author’s Preface: The Learning of Life

Chapter 1: The World of Networks

Chapter 2: The Correct Web Address

Chapter 3: The Paradise of the Musician Buddha

Chapter 4: Conversations with Miss T’s Master

Chapter 5: The Origin of Illness

Chapter 6: The Third Eye

Chapter 7: The Master Seeks a Disciple

Chapter 8: Foreseeing the Future

Chapter 9: The Evolution of the Universe and Civilization

Chapter 10: Understanding the Torsion Field

Chapter 11: Roaming the Universe

Chapter 12: The Hidden World

Chapter 13: Thus Come, Thus Gone

Appendix: Reference Books

Preface 1

“Expanding New Territory at the Frontiers of Science” Sun Wei-Xin (National Central University, Graduate Institute of Astronomy)

From these examples we can discern two characteristics of science: the first characteristic is that the scientific knowledge we currently possess may not necessarily be the most accurate or the most comprehensive; the preciousness of science lies precisely in its capacity for “self-error-detection” and continuous improvement. As the saying goes, “the future looking upon the present is just like the present looking upon the past.” No one at any moment can claim that we have already grasped the ultimate “answer” of the universe; we are only continuously “asking better questions.” The second characteristic is even more important: science should be able to “tolerate dissenting views.” We may disagree with a person’s theory, but we absolutely cannot suppress their right to publish their own doctrine, because we do not know when or where science will once again open up new horizons!

Professor Si-Chen Lee of the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan University began studying qigong from a scientific perspective in his early years, and subsequently, through a fortuitous convergence of circumstances, embarked on an exploration of special abilities, which led to his discovery of the existence of the “spirit world” and the “information field.” The entire process of exploration and discovery up to the present has been breathtaking to behold. Professor Lee has compiled his recent discoveries into his second book, Messages from Angels. In this book, Professor Lee further uses highly gifted individuals as mediums to communicate with their “Masters” in the spirit world, in order to understand several fundamental questions that have long perplexed the human mind throughout history, such as the connection between “spirits” and “extraterrestrial intelligent beings,” the possibility of foreseeing the future, the root causes of human illness, and methods for roaming the universe. Because these topics are far removed from our everyday experience, much of the content in the book is astonishing, yet I faintly sense that the various traditions since ancient times—Confucian, Buddhist, Daoist, and Christian—seem to be gradually finding explanation within a unified framework. I deeply believe that, given time, the picture of the origins of each religion and their relationship to the physical world of the human body will become ever clearer.

Of course, throughout the process of Professor Lee’s research and publication of results, some domestic scholars have consistently maintained an attitude of strong skepticism or even resolute opposition. Even though scholars from many different scientific fields participated in Professor Lee’s “finger reading” experiments and personally observed the manifestation of extraordinary abilities, unable to find any obvious flaw, some among them still firmly refused to accept the fact that this phenomenon truly exists. This reminds me of nearly four hundred years ago, when Galileo demonstrated that two objects of different masses fall at the same speed, or when he pointed his homemade telescope at the night sky and told others that our Milky Way is in fact composed of countless stars—among those who witnessed these things in person, there were still people who stubbornly refused to believe, while at the same time accusing Galileo of “performing magic tricks”! This attitude of “blind unbelief” is just as harmful to the sustained development of frontier science as the attitude of “blind belief”!

We should understand that science is merely a logical framework, and it may not be the only framework used to examine things, and furthermore, the scope of this framework may still be in need of improvement! Therefore, things that cannot be fit into the current scientific framework for examination are not necessarily nonexistent or incorrect. The work that truly great scientists engage in is the continuous expansion of this framework, so that newly emerging science can be applied to the satisfactory explanation of more phenomena. Indeed, the mystery of nature lies precisely in the fact that it cannot be seen through at a glance, which is why we need to examine all possibilities objectively with an open mind. Today, when we look at the history of astronomy’s development and the many self-assured notions of the ancients, we cannot help but laugh dumbly, wondering how the people of the past could have been so naive and short-sighted? But I imagine that when people of the future look at what we today call “science,” they too will mostly laugh. The passage from Laozi’s Dao De Jing about “hearing the Dao,” quoted by Professor Lee at the end of the book, is truly worthy of our deep reflection!

Preface 2

A Mustard Seed Holds Mount Sumeru, All Resides in a Single Mind — Chen Guo-Zhen (Professor, Department of Physics, Soochow University)

The varieties of life are as vast as the sea, the spread of life pervades the cosmos, and the wondrous transformations of life defy imagination. Exhausting the meager knowledge of humanity and spending the prime years of an entire lifetime, one truly cannot know all its details. Only those who harbor humility in their hearts, free from greed and envy, and who also encounter fortuitous coincidences of cause and condition, can begin to discern its winding paths and catch a glimpse of its profound subtleties.

When I was nearing forty years of age, I was fortunate to receive guidance from an enlightened teacher, and only then did I realize that the three times—past, present, and future—are fundamentally undifferentiated, and the ten directions are entirely without distinction. With but a single clear thought of the mind, distant lands and foreign realms all become brilliantly visible, and scenes both familiar and unfamiliar appear fully before one’s eyes. Thinking back to how the ancients could sit in a tiny room yet see the four seas, dwell in the present age yet discourse on the distant past—for them a thousand miles was never truly far apart, and past and present were but a snap of the fingers. Now that I too can do this to some extent, how can words express my astonishment? Gathering what I observed in my initial trials and verifying it against the past, it was indeed confirmed, and much of what was yet to come also proved accurate. Suddenly encountering this realm, the scientific view of space and time seemed to lose its foundation in my heart—just like ice before the bright sun, no longer able to stand tall and proud.

Great doubt seized my heart, leaving me restless. Day and night I pondered without finding an answer, and so I searched in all directions to make sense of this extraordinary encounter. My scientific training helped me distinguish true from false, and also helped me, amid the strange and chaotic jumble, to analyze systematically and grasp the underlying reasons. After long effort, I gradually came to understand its universal properties, and there were several cases I could verify upon my own person. Having accumulated several years of comparative testing and collected evidence, I could only sigh from the bottom of my heart: “In this vast world, there is nothing that does not exist.” This awakened me to the insignificance of the human body—how can one rely on meager learning to make dogmatic judgments about right and wrong?

Although my heart calmly accepted the existence of extraordinary abilities, what I had realized was still extremely shallow. Moreover, the times had not favored me; I dared not court public attention, and only occasionally discussed these matters with two or three good friends. Five years later, I participated in the National Science Council’s biological energy field research project and met professors Cui Jiu, Si-Chen Lee, and others at the conference. In exploring the research domain, everyone was full of enthusiasm, their delight overflowing in word and expression. In a flash, seventeen years passed. Professor Lee repeatedly tested the authenticity of many extraordinary latent potentials using scientific methods, confirming that extraordinary abilities are natural instincts of life in the natural world—true and not illusory—and recognizing that they connect with science, that they are not entirely absurd and irrational phenomena. In other words, this research indicates that as human knowledge continues to develop, it will inevitably enter this domain—of this there is no doubt.

Investigating wondrous and bizarre phenomena, though highly eye-opening and enlightening, easily invites criticism that follows like a shadow. Throughout history, those who pursued this path invariably suffered worldly burdens—who could be exempt? The transformation of cultural paradigms is truly not something achievable overnight; pioneers must harbor no resentment, and must forever maintain the sincerity of a child, only then can they bear the heavy responsibility of revealing the hidden and subtle. For over a decade, undaunted by ridicule and criticism, delighting in expounding the profound without ever exhausting his sincerity—how many more like Professor Lee are there today?

New knowledge often sprouts from the trivial and bizarre. Those who went against mainstream thought and were cast out—the historical records of such past examples are too numerous to count. Yet Professor Lee’s persistent research has gradually dispersed and opened the mist obscuring life. Many wondrous and mysterious phenomena are in fact inseparable from what is manifested through the wondrous operation of “torsion fields” by a single mind. The generation of all phenomena originates from spiraling rotation. The ancients said: “Heaven that does not spin will be destroyed; earth that does not spin will fall; humans who do not spin will wither.” What the mind operates, it spins and responds—that is all.

Those of profound intelligence turn their minds inward and illuminate clearly, and can thereby observe all things systematically without obscuring their underlying order. The mind travels the ten directions while the feet never leave the house; the spirit communes with the ancients and the intention connects with their hidden thoughts. The boundary between heaven and humanity gradually becomes clear, and the frontier of new knowledge expands daily. Believing that the exalted way of heaven extends forever, one therefore shakes the current age and dares to proclaim—though today it may seem like a contravention of convention and absurd speech, wait a hundred years when things have changed and stars have shifted; who is to say this will not be the consensus of generations to come?

What, after all, is the meaning of life’s sojourn? Why do we possess only the perceptions of the five senses, yet cannot see the wondrous workings of spiritual powers? I pursued this question again and again, and it was not until I reached forty that I finally understood: this life is but one segment of learning in the journey of existence, coming to cultivate and study in order to elevate wisdom and spirituality. The days of “having a body” are exceedingly hasty; in an instant, robust vitality has already become a thing of the past. If one is too distracted and does not attend to proper pursuits, how can one make any progress in the relentless flow of time? A lifetime’s coming and going, and in a blink the song ends—I fear that when the day comes to return, nothing but emptiness will remain. Therefore I take the perceptions of the five senses as primary, lest I misdirect the course of learning and enter a wrong path.

Have you not seen those who happen to acquire paranormal abilities and immediately plunge into addiction, as though trapped in a cage? To activate such mechanisms only to limit oneself—how is that any different from not having them at all! After all, life is finite, but the mind is fundamentally boundless. Extraordinary talents and abilities may assist in the elevation of spirituality, but to let them obstruct the ascent of wisdom would be foolish.

Yet those who can fully fulfill their duties in their course of study and refuse to submit to injustice—if they open the wondrous portals that connect to the heavens, they can thereby attain measureless sage-like wisdom, and further use it to respond to Heaven’s will and transform the people, benefiting all living beings. For such virtuous and noble persons, a different standard naturally applies; they should not be confined by the limitations of the commonplace.

The cosmos is vast, and stars fill the sky. Everyone wishes to soar to the highest azure heavens and survey the boundless universe. How can this longstanding aspiration be fulfilled? According to Einstein, all things in the void travel at no more than the speed of light. If we follow this path, then to ride a spacecraft and roam freely through the great void, there will never come a time to journey far enough for a comprehensive view.

The accounts recorded in this book correspond quite closely with my own experiences. To wander through all ten directions—what need is there for this humble body to toil and travel? One need only raise a single thought within a quieted mind, and one can enter and exit both macrocosmic and microcosmic worlds, seeing various realms and understanding various states. When the mind is settled, emotions naturally settle; when the mind is clear, situations naturally become clear. Surveying the myriad phenomena mystically is like viewing a pearl in the palm of one’s hand—all of it is none other than the manifestation of a single thought from a purified mind. What need then is there for the fatigue of carriages and horses?

The catalyst of human culture originates from the emergence of inspiration, and the source of inspiration is truly the inevitable outcome of the boundless expansion of mind and intellect. If people of this world can cast aside greed, anger, and ignorance, and approach this book with an open and receptive mind, then what they gain will be far more than the amusement of wondrous and extraordinary tales for the heart and mind. It will surely prompt you to reflect inward and examine yourself, to devote yourself to self-encouragement, and no longer fritter away your years until the end.

Preface 3

Manifesting the Demeanor of a Scientific Researcher — Song Guang-yu (Director, Graduate Institute of Life Studies, Fo Guang College of Humanities and Social Sciences)

Although it may be said that in modern society nearly everyone is literate and can read books, in reality, not everyone can understand every book. Conversely, those who write books and establish theories do not write entirely for society as a whole or for the general public; some specialized works are written specifically for readers in particular disciplines, and those who are not in that field simply cannot understand them. Professor Si-Chen Lee’s new book is not written specifically for people in any one discipline, but rather is written for those who possess superior wisdom, discussing the most mysterious aspects of the cosmos and of life.

By way of analogy, ordinary people are like 8088-level computers running the DOS operating system; professors or PhDs might be 286-level computers running the WordPerfect operating system. The scientists with great inventions recorded in the book—such as America’s Edison; Mendeleev, the Russian chemist who invented the periodic table of chemical elements; and Barbara McClintock, who discovered the phenomenon of genetic transposition—might be 486-level or Pentium 2 computers, already possessing basic internet capability. This book is written for precisely this kind of high-level intelligent person, or for those who aspire to explore the ultimate depths of higher intelligence. Anyone who casually flips through a few pages and then scoffs, tossing the book aside—regardless of what impressive academic titles they may hold—merely demonstrates that they are nothing but a very low-grade computer, or perhaps not even a computer at all.

Professor Lee’s new book makes the following significant contributions:

First, Professor Lee has demonstrated the demeanor that a scientific researcher truly ought to possess. The attitude that scientific research truly ought to have is: when confronting phenomena that are not yet easy to understand, one should first calm the mind, slowly reflect and try various possible methods, and ultimately find appropriate means to unravel these phenomena and propose convincing explanations. Yet modern society is everywhere filled with “fake” scientific workers. When they encounter problems that are temporarily not easy to understand, they use the method of “matching”—searching within existing scientific knowledge for materials that can be compared. Whatever cannot be matched is dismissed as superstition or error, or even ignored completely, as if never seen. In truth, there is nothing in the world that can truly be “superstitiously believed in”; it is only that the degree to which things can be understood varies—some deep, some shallow, some difficult, some easy. On the contrary, there is the genuine phenomenon of “superstitious disbelief”—apart from the little bit of knowledge they already possess, they refuse to believe in anything else whatsoever. This is the common characteristic shared by the majority of those who style themselves as scientists.

Second, Professor Lee’s research has overturned the central ideas of “human-centeredness” and “humanity shall conquer nature” that have dominated the scientific world for three hundred years. Medieval Europe, under the domination of Christian theological thought, believed that “humans were created by God, and the Earth is the center of the universe.” The primary objective of the natural sciences was to negate this assertion, holding that human beings, the Earth, and even the universe were nothing but the products of random collisions of matter, from which consciousness emerged. Beyond Earth, there is no other life. Humans are the only organisms with intelligence in the universe. Through the two individuals with special abilities, Miss T and Sun Chu-lin, Professor Lee has demonstrated that in the universe there do indeed exist entities of higher intelligence—only they do not possess “physical” bodies. Matter is the object they manipulate. These higher intelligences are called “gods” by people; they dwell on other planets and can enter and leave Earth at any time. In this way, medieval Christian theology has regained some of its power. What is different is that there is not just one God, but many gods.

Professor Lee did not explain the essential nature of these “Gods” and “deities,” nor what their purpose in coming to Earth was, nor why they created such an Earth along with the living beings of its past, present, and future. If one wishes to know the answers, one may consult Earth: Pleiadian Keys to the Living Library, as relayed by the great American channeler Barbara Marciniak (Shimao Publishing, 2000). Through the mouth of Barbara Marciniak, a higher intelligent being from the Pleiades relates how the various star systems of the universe jointly established a “Living Library” on Earth — located on the outer rim of the galaxy — that would simultaneously serve as a laboratory, in order to preserve the blueprints of life. Every star system dispatched representatives to oversee the life experiments they wished to conduct. These representatives are what people call “deities” and “Gods.” Human beings and all animals, plants, and minerals were the necessary equipment required to fulfill this life experiment. The Moon was the control center they established, to prevent life’s evolution on Earth from running out of control. In the universe there are altogether four life laboratories like Earth, but the distances between them are so vast that it is utterly impossible to reach one from another. In this way, mutual interference would never occur.

Third, his series of studies touches upon questions that are very difficult for science to answer, such as “the origin of civilization,” “the origin of wisdom,” “what is intuition,” and “where does inspiration come from.” From the understanding gained through Professor Lee’s experiments over these past several years, if a person wishes to possess wisdom, they must establish contact with these higher intelligent beings. Whatever they are willing to teach, a person will know; whatever they do not teach, a person will not know. How can one establish such contact? One must enter the “qigong state.” What The Great Learning describes — “Knowing where to stop, one becomes settled; becoming settled, one becomes tranquil; becoming tranquil, one becomes at peace; becoming at peace, one can deliberate; deliberating, one can attain” — is precisely about how to establish contact with these higher intelligent beings. So it is not only with Confucianism; Buddhism, Daoism, the Society of Jesus founded by Loyola, the Sufi order of Islam, and others are all no different in this regard. Therefore, this kind of contact has become the wellspring and driving force of all higher civilizations. The Southern Song poet Lu You said, “Fine verses are naturally formed by Heaven; a skilled hand chances upon them” — which describes the situation when such contact is successfully established. The human body is merely an aggregate of matter and cannot produce any thoughts of its own; only by establishing contact with the higher civilizations of the universe can one acquire even a modicum of wisdom.

Fourth, it gives subjects such as religion, archaeology, culture, thought, history, philosophy, and art room for rethinking. Archaeology is no longer merely a simple description of the length, width, height, color, texture, and stratigraphic level of excavated artifacts; rather, it can infer what people were thinking at the time, how they established contact with the high information field of the cosmos, and what records were thereby left behind. History, too, is no longer merely a chronicle of the successes and failures of emperors, generals, and ministers; it is a continuous drama collectively scripted and directed by the higher intelligent beings within the high information field. A well-received hit production may have several sequels, or it may end after just the one installment, with no sequels at all. This concept perfectly explains why civilizations in countries such as China and Japan can rise and fall through many cycles, while the civilizations of ancient Egypt, ancient Persia, the Maya, and the Inca have long since perished.

Professor Lee has always excelled at lecturing. In a two- or three-hour lecture, climaxes come one after another with never a dull moment, rivaling any star speaker. However, when those star speakers finish, they leave no ripples in people’s minds, whereas Professor Lee’s lectures always give the audience many unexpected takeaways. His books are just as brilliant as his lectures — not only reliable and lively, but also delivering a powerful intellectual shock to both listeners and readers. I am a loyal listener and reader of Professor Lee’s, and it was through hearing his lectures that I came to deeply reflect upon and re-examine everything I had previously learned. The four points raised above are my personal insights, written here to share with everyone.

Preface 4: A Lonely Journey of Discovery — Zhang Cao (Dentist and Science Fiction Writer)

The initial finger-reading experiments had already proven that the “phenomenon” of supernatural abilities genuinely exists. Subsequently, using measurements such as electroencephalograms, infrared light, and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to capture data at the moment supernatural abilities manifest, it was further proven that this is indeed not an everyday observable phenomenon. Professor Lee sought to find a solution within the existing framework of physical theory, but for many years there was no satisfactory result — until in recent years it was discovered that Russian scientists had long ago already solved this problem. Due to the language barrier between scientists of different linguistic systems, a lack of exchange of scientific papers caused the delay in learning of this. Such problems occur constantly; one can find a pile of examples throughout the history of science.

In the 1999 experiments, a certain Professor Chen, a Buddhist practitioner, slipped the character “Buddha” (佛) into the stack of papers used for finger-reading, bringing the experiments to another turning point. It was discovered that the worlds described in certain religions might not be hallucinations or philosophical abstractions, but truly and genuinely real! The progress of the experiments was filled with surprises at every turn, but as all manner of the inexplicable recurred time and again, it was already not easy for ordinary members of the public to understand — like talking of ice to summer insects. It could easily degenerate into the content of programs that speculate on the mystical and discuss ghosts, or even become a venue for individuals with ulterior motives seeking to seize the opportunity to make a name for themselves. For this reason, Professor Lee was also striving hard to defend his dignity as a scientist.

I myself study Buddhism, so I am naturally happy to see science and religion in harmony. The Buddha said that a single drop of water contains eighty-four thousand living beings, and the Buddhist scriptures describe the conditions of various universes in multiple places, or analyze consciousness into eight consciousnesses in the “Consciousness-Only School” — in the past, others considered these superstition or philosophy, but today there are already various academic disciplines discussing them (namely microbiology, cosmology, and psychology). What the Buddhist scriptures often call “other worlds” and “living beings,” when converted into modern units of distance, are actually talking about life in other galaxies or in different dimensions of space. The worlds described in the Buddhist scriptures are often on a cosmic scale, and the higher-level forms of life discussed therein have been confirmed one by one through the experiments of these past four years.

The Buddha is surely the most authoritative figure in Buddhism, and yet he exhorted his disciples not to follow blindly, but to personally conduct experiments — the so-called faith, understanding, practice, and realization — only after “practice” can one verify that his words are true. The spirit of Buddhism is to actively put the Dharma into practice and verify it through practice; this experimental spirit is precisely the ancient scientific spirit. A friend of mine who studies Indian yoga also always tells me: “If you do not personally prove it with your own body, how can you prove it through empty argumentation?” In fact, what he said precisely articulates the difference between “studying Buddhism” and “Buddhist studies” — the former is empirical realization, the latter is academic research.

The spirit of modern science is the same: we should not be hasty in rejecting, but should be courageous in confronting problems. Facing such incredible phenomena, our great curiosity turned into a sense of mission, because the riddles of thousands of years have finally begun to reveal the first glimmer of dawn.

Author’s Preface: The Study of Life

Where do I come from? Where am I going? Is there life after death? What is the meaning of life? Birth, growth, studying, employment, marriage, having children, retirement, old age — is a person’s life only for creating the continuing life of the universe? Is the purpose of living only to improve the lives of all humanity? The older a person gets, the closer they approach the end of life, and these great questions of life gradually surface. Some people seek answers in religion; some seek guidance from spiritual masters to settle body and mind. The path that guided me in seeking answers was a rather unusual one. At age thirty-five, I was recruited by the National Science Council to study the Chinese traditional practice of “qigong,” and I also began practicing qigong. I quickly experienced the phenomenon of “qi gathering at the Dantian,” and through this discovered the secret of the qigong “resonant state.” At age forty, I developed an interest in human “extraordinary abilities” and threw myself headlong into this field, which was regarded as dealing with bizarre supernatural forces, and confirmed the existence of finger-reading and psychokinesis. At age forty-seven, during an experimental setting where physicists were testing the truth of finger-reading, I discovered the “information field” beyond four-dimensional spacetime, finding a higher-level truth of the universe. At age fifty-one, I confirmed the findings of the American collaborative research team that the magnetic field of the physical world interacts with the information field, providing a possible source for the “dark matter” that has puzzled the astrophysics community for many years. At age fifty-two, I began to realize that the physical essence of “qi” and the “information field” may be related to the torsion field produced by particle spin, which Russian scientists have studied for many years. In this exploratory process of more than a decade, I gradually realized that through practicing qigong to cultivate the “body,” one can develop extraordinary abilities controlled by the “mind,” producing a phenomenon of unity of mind and matter. Through consciousness transcending the limitations of the body and connecting to the “information field,” one attains the spiritual realization of the “spirit,” and thereby the scientific framework of the human “body, mind, and spirit” can be established.

It turns out that there are two sets of learning in life. One is the learning of “survival” — that is, the schooling and knowledge we acquire from childhood, from elementary school and middle school all the way until before employment, which can help us find work, earn money to make a living, support a family, and carry on the family line — the learning to survive. The other is “the study of life” — that is, the learning that seeks the meaning of life, the learning of personally realizing the true nature of the universe. It has different levels, just like studying: there are kindergarten, elementary school, middle school, high school, university, master’s, and all the way to doctoral levels. And beginning to practice qigong is like entering the kindergarten of life, initiating the journey of learning “the study of life.” If one’s practice proceeds smoothly, by approximately the high school stage, extraordinary human abilities will emerge. Continuing to practice further, by the university and master’s stages, consciousness will transcend the limitations of the body and connect to the “information field” and communicate with it, thereby progressively understanding the true nature of the universe and the meaning of life. At the doctoral stage, one can be free of all hindrances, roam through cosmic spacetime, and realize the true essence of life. It turns out that the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas are precisely the doctoral and master’s degree holders of Buddhism, and the Buddhist scriptures are doctoral theses or master’s theses. The immortals and perfected beings of Daoism are the doctoral or master’s degree holders of Daoism, and the thousands upon thousands of scriptures in the Daoist canon are the doctoral and master’s theses of Daoism. And Jesus is like the doctoral degree holder of Christianity, and the Bible is the doctoral thesis.

What is the meaning of life? Is there life after death? If the soul is immortal, what is the purpose of our life in this lifetime? Is it, as Buddhism teaches, that we come to learn? What lessons are we learning? Could it be that we are learning “the study of life” — learning to endure suffering, to understand suffering, and then to resolve suffering; learning love, from small love to great love; learning compassion, compassion toward all living beings throughout the world? Must we keep learning from the kindergarten of the study of life all the way to the doctoral level before stopping, before we can escape the cycle of rebirth and never return? My book has begun to touch upon these questions, and the answers from the divine spirits of the information field may perhaps provide partial answers.

Si-Chen Lee

Chapter 1: The World of Networks

The Dao as a thing is elusive and indistinct

Indistinct and elusive, yet within it there are images. Elusive and indistinct, yet within it there are things. Profound and obscure, yet within it there is essence. Its essence is extremely real, and within it there is truth. —— Laozi, Dao De Jing

In the “Canon of Shun” chapter of the Book of Documents, it is recorded that when Yao abdicated the throne to Shun, he “sacrificed to the Supreme Deity, offered a burnt offering to the Six Honored Ones, looked to the mountains and rivers, and made offerings to all the spirits.” This means reporting to the Supreme Deity and making sacrifices to the spirits of heaven, earth, the four directions, famous mountains, and great rivers. This belief that heaven, earth, mountains, and rivers all possess spirits is almost a common starting point for human civilizations worldwide. Therefore, in ancient times everywhere, there were shamans and sorcerers who served as mediums of communication between humans and gods. During the era of Zhuanxu in ancient China, because every household had a shaman who could directly communicate with heaven, it led to utter chaos. As a result, Zhuanxu appointed Chong and Li to “sever the connection between heaven and earth,” meaning he used political power to restrict the channels of communication between humans and heaven. From then on, “shamans” became the professional spokespersons for the gods. The worship of spirits and deities during the Yin-Shang dynasty was famous; they also believed that deceased former kings would unite with the Supreme Deity. By the Zhou dynasty, the concept of “Heaven” emerged, giving rise to the idea of “receiving the mandate from Heaven.” The ruler thus became the “Son of Heaven.” Passed down in an unbroken line from then on, emperors all claimed to “follow Heaven’s mandate and comply with its destiny.” In traditional Chinese culture, the concept of “Heaven” actually encompasses two different meanings: first, the physical sky; second, the metaphysical, abstract Heaven. The latter is the source of the Dao. The so-called Way of Heaven is the ultimate source of all things in the universe. Therefore it is also said: “The Dao gives birth to one, one gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, and three gives birth to all things.”

“Three gives birth to all things” marks the divide between two worlds: the world of emptiness and the world of substantial existence, or one could say the pre-celestial world and the post-celestial world, the formless realm and the realm of form. This cosmology of a dual world posits that, in addition to the world of substantial existence, there is also a world of emptiness. In Chinese Daoism, this is manifested as a world of emptiness filled with countless immortal mountains and fairy caves, where the Perfected and immortals reside, able to communicate with the human realm at any time to dispel disasters and resolve difficulties. Buddhism, introduced from India, also has Buddhist pure lands where Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Arhats each have their respective roles, hearing cries and saving those in distress. Christianity also has Heaven, a place where people return to the Lord’s embrace after death to enjoy eternal peace and happiness. Furthermore, God in Heaven gave the Ten Commandments to Moses, and Abraham also frequently conversed with God, receiving His guidance. From this it can be seen that regardless of north or south, east or west, all religions assert that beyond this world—which has form, image, substance, and quantity, and which can be observed and manipulated—there exists an ethereal world. Furthermore, they believe that the spiritual beings of the world of emptiness can communicate with humans. The gods of ancient Greece could not only communicate with humans, fall in love, marry, and have children, but they also possessed various emotions just like mortals. Because they were too much like humans, figures like Zeus and Apollo in Greek mythology are often treated as material for literature, causing people to forget that they were actually the objects of belief, worship, and prayer for the ancient Greeks. In fact, from the magnificent temples still standing all over Greece today, one can clearly see the devoutness of Greek faith.

1-1 Turning Back to Find Spiritual Reliance

In the Western world, since the end of the fifteenth century, due to the interactive and stimulating development of maritime exploration, astronomical science, and philosophical thought, old religious concepts were gradually eroded, triggering waves of religious reformation. Rationalists believed that human rational thought and scientific methods alone could lead humanity in the pursuit of truth, and that all other metaphysics, art, and mythology that could not be verified by sensory perception were superstitions. In 1882, Friedrich Nietzsche, through the mouth of a madman in his writing, articulated the profound fear of contemporary people after the loss of mythology. The character in the book searched everywhere for God: “Where is God?”

“We have killed him—you and I! We are all his murderers!” “Are we not straying as through an endless nothingness?” After scientific rationalism completely subverted religion, the sense of life’s meaninglessness had already left people bewildered, and exactly as Christian theology states: the definition of “hell” is a place “without God.” Coupled with the ravages of war and tragic massacres faced in the twentieth century, people finally realized the insufficiency of rationality and science, and even discovered that humanity, relying on its own scientific knowledge and technology, was fully capable of destroying the world without any need for divine or demonic power. Consequently, many people one after another turned back to seek spiritual reliance and solace.

For modern people who value human autonomy, traditional religions could no longer satisfy their needs. As a result, various new sects and spiritual practices emerged one after another. However, upon closer observation, one will find that many of their concepts and propositions actually align perfectly with those of some earlier religions. For example, the “New Age” movement that rose in the United States in the 1960s contained the essence of Gnosticism, an important belief system within Christianity in the second century. This sect believed that Jesus was a bearer of wisdom rather than a savior. They advocated achieving the Dao in the flesh and that divinity exists in everyone’s heart. Therefore, they placed great emphasis on individual spiritual cultivation, advocating the search for divinity within oneself and expecting to thereby obtain secret revelations about the universe and the soul (Isn’t this quite similar to the Buddhist system’s belief that everyone has Buddha-nature?). Although this sect was condemned as heresy by the church very early on, its influence has continued to exist faintly within the Christian system.

The mysticism represented by Saint Teresa of Avila and Saint John of the Cross in sixteenth-century Spain placed great emphasis on the techniques of spiritual cultivation. Furthermore, the Society of Jesus, founded by Ignatius of Loyola, further improved the meditative practices of mysticism, developing a highly efficient thirty-day retreat system. Every Jesuit novice must undergo the baptism of these “Spiritual Exercises” (Spiritual exercises).

In fact, this kind of statement about realizing divinity through spiritual cultivation exists universally within various religions. Mystics of Judaism use methods such as meditation and breath control to pursue a state of self-transcendence in hopes of attaining communion with the divine. Greek Orthodox mystics also believe that those with pure hearts and tranquil minds can achieve unity with the divine. The mystical sect of Islam—the Sufi order—also advocates attaining spiritual communion with the Prophet Muhammad through meditative practice, thereby approaching the divine realm. Eastern Buddhism and Taoism are even more widely known for their emphasis on cultivating the mind and nourishing the spirit. Although the teachings and cultivation techniques of each religion or sect differ, could the states they pursue be similar? Or even identical?

Mystics in ancient and medieval times were once highly respected and regarded as people of extraordinary wisdom, but after the rise of modern Western rationalism and empirical science, mystics came to be regarded as delusional or psychologically traumatized. Freud even viewed mystical experiences as a kind of neurosis. In the 1960s American “New Age” movement, the well-known book Seth Materials was written by an American woman named Jane Roberts through spiritual communication with a “person” calling himself “Seth.” “Seth” claimed to have no physical body and to be an entity composed of energy. Seth spoke about his own world, his own characteristics, the space he existed in, and also discussed human death and reincarnation, physical space, civilizations that once existed, the eternity of dreams, methods of travel between different dimensions, and so on. Modern psychiatric science holds that Ms. Roberts exhibited symptoms of auditory and visual hallucinations. However, Karen Armstrong, in the introduction to The Battle for God, proposes that modern society, due to a lack of mythology, had no choice but to develop the discipline of psychoanalysis to help human beings deal with their own psychological problems.

1-2 The Character “佛” (Buddha) Opens the Information Field

Ever since I began collaborating in 1997 with Professor Shen Jinchuan of the Institute of Human Body Science at China University of Geosciences and Ms. Sun Chulin (Ms. Sun Chulin is a person with exceptionally powerful extraordinary abilities; for detailed background about her and Professor Shen, please refer to the book Incredible published by Teacher Chang Culture), I have frequently heard Ms. Sun describe various scenes within her Celestial Eye, and how masters from the heavenly or spiritual realms would appear within her Celestial Eye to personally guide her during her meditation. These masters possessed great abilities and could teach persons with extraordinary abilities various techniques, such as passing tablets through walls and causing dead peanuts to return to life and sprout, and could also tell them about events of the past or things that would happen in the future. Were these “masters” seen within the Celestial Eye of the functional persons merely hallucinations? Or were they information connecting to the “high-intelligence information field” of another dimension? Many researchers believe that these “masters” seen in the brain are hallucinations, just like dreaming—when functional persons enter a functional state, the brain produces dream-like images. For example, in 1865, the chemist Kekulé, while dreaming, saw a snake biting its own tail to form a ring, and thereby deciphered the structure of the benzene molecule (six pairs of carbon and hydrogen atoms). What one thinks about by day, one dreams by night; the source of knowledge can also be internal hallucinations. Of course, whether such dreams are ordinary dreams is open to discussion. However, some relevant researchers, such as Professor Shen Jinchuan, firmly believe in the existence of another world, which he calls the “high-intelligence information field.” Functional persons, upon entering a functional state, can establish contact with the “high-intelligence information field” and extract information from it.

In Taiwan, I had not encountered a functional person with great spiritual power like Sun Chulin, and could only engage in research on reading characters with fingers. Aside from the fact that persons with extraordinary abilities can communicate with masters, we did not know of any other method to make other kinds of contact with the information field. Unexpectedly, on August 26, 1999, under the witness of more than a dozen physicists and psychologists, Professor Chen of the Department of Physics at National Taiwan University used a single character, “佛” (Buddha), to open a door, allowing us from then on to step into the world of the information field. For many years during finger-reading experiments, the functional person Ms. T had always been able to see the correct characters, but on that day, when she read the character “佛” for the first time, she did not see a character; instead, she saw a “bright person smiling at me.” With the subsequent “佛” characters, she again saw a bright screen, heard loud and joyous laughter, and even saw bright persons appearing in the laboratory. Later, when tests were conducted using special terms such as “Bodhisattva” and “Jesus,” the functional person’s Celestial Eye respectively produced phenomena such as bright persons and a bright cross. But as soon as ordinary words were substituted, the anomalous phenomena disappeared, and she again saw the correct characters. Were these anomalous phenomena hallucinations generated internally within the brain, or were they stimulated by incoming external information? Could it be that her subconscious mind, regarding these names as sacred, produced hallucinations?

Decisive evidence came from tests conducted half a year later on Tibetan and Hebrew sacred vocabularies, as well as Islamic sacred patterns. The experimenters and the functional individuals did not understand these writing systems at all, but when the functional individuals used their fingers to read slips of paper such as the Tibetan for “Padmasambhava,” “Mahakala” (the guardian deity of the White Sect of Esoteric Buddhism), the Hebrew for “I am that I am” (God), and the Islamic pattern representing “Allah,” extraordinary scenes all appeared in their Heavenly Eyes, and they saw various kinds of radiant lights. This proved that these visions were not hallucinations produced by subconscious recognition; rather, the sacred vocabularies themselves were like website addresses. Regardless of whether you recognize them or not, as long as you connect, you can link to the related websites. This is just like the current Internet: even if it is foreign text whose meaning you do not know, as long as the web address is correct, you can connect to the corresponding website. This confirmed that beyond the material world of our four-dimensional space-time, there exists an information field. It is like a massive network world containing all kinds of websites. This is what we call in our culture and religions the “World of the Void,” “Formless Realm,” “Metaphysical,” “Paranormal World,” or “Heaven and Hell.” And these sacred vocabularies are channels or web addresses, allowing the functional individuals’ Heavenly Eyes to connect to the radio stations or websites of the information field, enabling them to see the world of the information field.

1-3 The Level of Ability is Like the Old and New Versions of a Web Browser

This phenomenon was discovered in Miss T, whose finger-reading ability was the highest and most stable. If the information field truly existed, then other functional individuals should have had the same reaction. Therefore, we immediately conducted the same tests on little Miss Wang, who was also at the experimental site and was the first person I trained in finger-reading ability in 1996, as well as little boy Chen, a fourth grader who had just been trained in the ability in July 1999. Although little Miss Wang’s ability had regressed compared to her elementary school years, she could still read words. In the first test of the character “Buddha” (佛), she also saw a vision: “There was a temple, and at the entrance there was a person, flickering.” The next day, the character “Buddha” was tested again. What she saw was: “There was a person I couldn’t see very clearly, who told me to keep up the good work, speaking with a Taiwanese accent. I felt a very familiar feeling.” With the same character “Buddha”, she also saw a vision, but there was no bright light and no luminous person; it seemed to be a different world from what Miss T saw. When little boy Chen touched the character “Buddha” with his hand, what he saw was “a bald person holding prayer beads,” who was “wearing a black jacket, with the character ‘Buddha’ written on the white shirt inside.”

The following year I trained another group of children, among whom little Miss Xu had stronger abilities. I also let her try some special vocabularies. For “Buddha” and “Jesus”, she saw the correct characters just as she normally would, but the three characters “Medicine Buddha” (药师佛) caused her to see a different scene: “Behind the three characters ‘Medicine Buddha’ there was a strong light, as bright as the sun, shining so hard that my eyes couldn’t open.” As for “Maitreya Buddha” (弥勒佛), she didn’t see the characters, but only saw a statue of Maitreya Buddha. Later, I had the opportunity to invite Ms. Sun Chulin, a highly functional person from mainland China, to also try the experiment of touching sacred vocabularies with her fingers. As a result, the character “Buddha” caused her to see “myriads of golden rays,” while “Foshan” (Buddha Mountain) allowed her to see “a crystal-clear, translucent glazed mountain” in her Heavenly Eye. Although the same vocabularies could cause functional individuals to all see special scenes, the contents were vastly different. What was going on here?

If the information field is a network world, and sacred vocabularies are web addresses, then the level of the functional individuals’ abilities might be equivalent to the old and new versions of web browsers. Little Miss Xu’s ability was the lowest, perhaps like version 1 of IE (Internet Explorer), unable to browse most websites; little boy Chen might be version 2, able to see a few more websites; little Miss Wang might be version 4; Miss T might be version 10, able to see bright lights and luminous people; and Ms. Sun Chulin might be version 100, able to see higher and more magnificent scenes. Therefore, we might as well model the structure of the information field as the human world’s network world connected by computers. In that case, humans are the computers, the brain’s Heavenly Eye function is the web browser within the computer, the information field is the Internet, sacred vocabularies are web addresses, and the clusters of information created by various deities within the information field are the websites of the network world.

1-4 Finger-Reading is Easiest to Train in Children

Since ancient times, Daoist cultivation has had the so-called “mysterious pass and one aperture” (玄关一窍). We also often say “opening an aperture” (开窍) or “not understanding a single aperture” (一窍不通), and so on. If the Heavenly Eye is that “aperture” connecting the two worlds, then the simplest known method for opening the aperture today is practicing finger-reading. As long as the ability of finger-reading is developed, the Heavenly Eye is opened, and the most entry-level browser is obtained. In fact, many children are inherently equipped with excellent browsers, but they do not know how to use them. Below are some cases I have encountered in recent years:

On the last day of spring break in April 2002, a Sunday afternoon, I hurriedly carried my data to the Electrical Engineering Building to conduct the once-a-month children’s finger-reading training. The purpose of this activity was to bring together children who had already developed the ability once a month and spend three hours reviewing the reading exercises, so that their ability would not gradually disappear due to lack of practice at home. On holidays, the plaza in front of the department building often served as a venue for various groups’ activities, full of vitality and movement, but on this day it was unusually quiet. As I reached the entrance, I saw an acquaintance, Ms. L, strolling leisurely with her two children, looking at flowers. I greeted her and casually asked, “How old is your daughter?” “Nine years old.” “That’s just the right age. Would you like to come see our finger-reading experiment? You could even try it out. It’s in Conference Room 1422.”

Ten minutes after the experiment began, Ms. L brought her two children to the laboratory. The older sister, Xiao-Xuan, was lively and adorable, walking around watching the other children do the experiment. I asked her if she wanted to try. “No!” Twenty minutes later I asked again, and she readily agreed—clearly, having seen the other children’s abilities, she was somewhat tempted herself. The first test took nine minutes; she saw two numbers, 35 and 27, and chose 27, which appeared more often. The answer turned out to be 35. The second time took eight minutes; she already saw the number correctly—it was 48—but got the color wrong. The sample was blue, but she saw it as black. The third time took eight minutes; she got it completely right—a green 39. After three attempts she didn’t want to continue and went off to stroll around the campus with her mother and younger brother. Xiao-Xuan’s case was astonishing—the ability emerged in less than twenty minutes with absolutely no training required; it was innate. But it had never been discovered before because she had never tried this method of concentrating the mind on the fingers. Later, Ms. L let Xiao-Xuan practice for several consecutive evenings, and to our surprise she made astounding progress. Within a few days, remote viewing ability appeared—she could identify playing cards covered on a table without touching them. Ms. L had not had much prior exposure to the field of human potential. I advised her to slow the pace and gave her a reading list, hoping she would learn more about this field. Later she told me that she was originally Christian but had not attended church for a long time. For the sake of Xiao-Xuan’s potential, she decided to resume taking Xiao-Xuan to church.

Over the next two months, miracles continued to occur. Xiao-Xuan was very close to her mother; every day she had to call home from school to confirm that her mother was safe before she could feel at ease. One day her mother did not receive the call and found it strange. When she got home and asked about it, Xiao-Xuan said that during her prayer she asked, “Is Mommy okay right now?” Suddenly Jesus appeared in her mind and told her, “Mommy is fine, don’t worry.” He also let her see, through her celestial eye, what her mother was doing at work, so she didn’t make the call. From then on, whenever she missed her mother, she only needed to pray, and Jesus would appear to guide her. Ms. L discovered that this ability had a positive impact on Xiao-Xuan’s life and behavior. Knowing that Xiao-Xuan was always protected by Jesus made her increasingly reassured and filled with gratitude.

Starting in August 2002, with funding from the National Science Council, I spent half a year as a visiting professor at Stanford University. The climate in the San Francisco Bay Area had a hint of coolness in the morning and evening, turning warm at midday under the sunshine—fresh and dry, neither stuffy nor sweat-inducing. Even in summer one had to wear long-sleeved shirts. In winter, mornings and evenings were slightly cold, but there was no need for heavy fur coats. When I studied here over twenty years ago, I fell in love with this mild climate—it was like an earthly paradise.

Unexpectedly, in mid-December of that year, a small typhoon actually struck the Bay Area, with howling winds and pouring rain lasting the entire week. What was even more coincidental was that my lecture in Los Angeles was scheduled for the weekend right in the middle of it. It had been planned for two months, and the kind invitation was hard to decline, so I had no choice but to risk flying back and forth on typhoon days. Early Monday morning, the wind and rain subsided a little. As usual, I turned on my computer to process my email. One message caught my attention. The subject line read “Sharing,” signed by “a humble little elementary school teacher.” He wrote:

Dear Professor Lee,

I am an elementary school teacher. Eight years ago, by chance, I learned that you were engaged in research on human potential. So, I boldly asked the students in my class (fifth graders) to try “reading words with the ear” together. Sure enough, astonishing results occurred. Some students were truly able to read words with their ears.

Eight years later, I conducted the same experiment again (for about fifteen minutes). This time the class I was teaching was sixth graders. Similarly, some students (6 to 7 of them) were able to guess the text on the slips of paper stuffed into their ears. Yet these children had never received any training in human potential but still possessed the same ability. I personally found this quite fascinating. On an impulse, I decided to write you a letter to share this. I should not be taking up your precious time to read this letter. I sincerely beg your indulgence.

Wishing you peace,

A humble little elementary school teacher

As I read the letter, tears could not help welling up in my eyes. I had waited for this letter for many years—waiting for an elementary school teacher to write and say that she (he) had tried it in class and found that children really did have the ability of “reading with fingers” and “hearing with ears.” I did not know which one among tens of thousands of elementary school teachers he or she would be. Nor did I know whether such an elementary school teacher even existed. Twenty-five years ago, after the first “ear-reading” prodigy, Tang Yu, was discovered in Sichuan Province on the Chinese mainland, many elementary school teachers in Sichuan Province tried it out in their own classes, and as a result, within a single year, over a thousand children were found to possess similar abilities. Nine years ago, when CTS’s “Good Morning Today” reported on my first finger-reading experiment, I thought: Would elementary school teachers in Taiwan try their children? Would they let me know the results? Today, receiving this letter from this lovable and admirable teacher made me truly overjoyed. Although he humbly called himself a “lowly” elementary school teacher, in my heart he was a “great” elementary school teacher. This letter was a message from an angel. I finally found this elementary school teacher—it was Teacher Lai of Class 11, Sixth Grade, at Taipei Municipal Bailing Elementary School. In March 2003, the young and handsome Teacher Lai brought four of his sixth-grade students to my laboratory for testing. The results showed that two of the children already had a high level of finger-reading ability, one had some preliminary ability, and the other did not demonstrate it that day. To date, children displaying finger-reading abilities have been discovered one after another at elementary schools in Yilan and Changhua, confirming that human latent potential is a universally existing phenomenon.

1-5 Planting the Seeds of Finger-Reading in America

In California, I not only enjoyed the warm sunshine and mild climate, but also saw quite a few friends and students I had not met for over twenty years. Back then, after graduating from university, most of my classmates went abroad for further studies and went their separate ways, scattered across the United States, unlike today’s students, who do the exact opposite—most stay in Taiwan. One era then, another era now; this also bears witness to Taiwan’s growth and progress over the past twenty years, significantly narrowing the gap with the United States. Twenty years ago, after completing my studies, I returned to my home department to teach. In the first few years, most of the students I taught also went abroad, and many of them now have very successful careers and accomplishments in the United States. In the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, where I was a visiting professor, there was one former female student serving as a professor. Professor Meng’s research lab was in the same building as mine, and we would meet every week.

These friends and students knew I was doing “extraordinary abilities” research and were quite interested, so they arranged two public talks in the Bay Area to discuss qigong, finger-reading, psychokinesis, information fields, and divine spirits. The events were held at a Chinese restaurant—dinner first, then the talk. Each time, over a dozen tables were seated, with over a hundred people attending. Many friends and students who had not seen each other for years met again on these occasions. Professor Meng and classmate KC were apparently captivated by the “finger-reading” phenomenon and kept urging me to also hold a finger-reading training camp in the Bay Area. The children of these students were roughly between six and thirteen years old—the age most susceptible to developing abilities. But truthfully, my interest was not great, because these children’s family backgrounds were too homogeneous, and the proportion developing abilities would probably not be high. However, KC was relentless, sending a constant stream of emails, and had already prepared most of the logistics. We finally held it as scheduled during the Christmas holiday in a conference room on the third floor of the Stanford University Electrical Engineering building.

KC’s classmate Zhonghe was responsible for recruiting children, mobilizing classmates’ children and students from his wife’s music class—a total of twenty-one participants for the training camp. All of these children were born in the United States, and most had learned a little Chinese. Some children, like Kevin, had not learned any at all. At first, when he heard about finger-reading, he thought it was boring and did not want to participate. His mother tried every possible argument, and suddenly had an idea: she told Kevin this was Jedi Camp. Kevin was a Star War fan, and upon hearing it was training for Jedi knights, he immediately and gladly agreed, arriving at the training camp happily and full of hope.

My training follows a standard procedure. First, I spend half an hour introducing the phenomenon of “finger-reading” to the parents and children to strengthen their confidence. Then we meditate for ten minutes to help the children calm their minds, and they attempt mental imaging to determine their visualization ability. After that, the training begins. To my surprise, on the very first day, five children, including Kevin, developed the ability. Over four days, a total of fifteen children participated in the entire program, and nine of them demonstrated finger-reading ability—a proportion of sixty percent, far exceeding my highest record of thirty-five percent from training in Taiwan. It was truly incredible. Everyone marveled endlessly—so finger-reading was real after all. During the training, I had to communicate with the children mostly in English and constantly reminded them: “Use your mind.” I felt like Yoda, the master of the Jedi knights. In the movie, when Master Yoda wanted the Jedi knight to lift the sunken airplane out of the water, those were the very words he spoke.

Professor Meng decided to take over and continue the training and research on finger-reading. The seed inadvertently planted in America had already sprouted. Kevin was the one with the strongest ability among them. According to his mother, Kevin’s behavior and attention had changed significantly—he focused on math and rarely made careless mistakes, and he actively asked to meditate every day. A new Jedi knight had been born. After I returned to Taipei, I wrote a one-year column for the China Daily News, and I named this column the “Yoda Column.”

1-6 Finger-Reading Is Also an Artistic Skill

From the above cases, we can see that the ability of finger reading or ear listening actually exists widely among children, but if it is not developed and trained, the ability gradually disappears as they grow older. I hope more parents and elementary school teachers will pay attention and help us discover potential superhumans.

Some parents ask me, what is the use of learning finger reading? Finger reading is actually a kind of artistic skill, just like learning to play the piano, play the violin, paint, or write—it adds a skill that can enrich one’s life and yield knowledge and abilities beyond those of ordinary people. Most people assume that extraordinary abilities can be summoned at will, but this is not the case. The physical condition, mood, and level of proficiency of the gifted individual all affect the functioning of the ability. According to my ten years of research experience, even highly gifted individuals like Zhang Baosheng and Sun Chulin cannot complete high-difficulty experiments every time they appear. The same is true of finger reading ability, which fluctuates due to various conditions. Therefore, each time an experiment is conducted, a warm-up is necessary. If a child has practiced for a few days before coming to the laboratory, the warm-up time will be shorter. If the method of wrapping the sample is suddenly changed, a period of adaptation is needed, just as in playing table tennis when a racket is suddenly changed—one needs time to adapt before regaining the feel for hitting the ball. This also shows that finger reading is a skill of the brain, similar to other artistic and athletic abilities, requiring learning and training.

People often ask me how one should practice in order to make contact with the information field? Is there still a chance for adults? Based on our more than ten years of experience researching finger reading, we have found that if children possess the ability of mental visualization, they may be able to develop finger reading ability. What is the ability of mental visualization? It means imagining an object in the mind—for example, an apple—and then seeing the image of the apple in the mind, even though there is no apple in front of them at the time, and their eyes are usually closed. This image of an apple created out of nothing in the mind must feel exactly the same as actually seeing an apple with the eyes in order to count.

Of the approximately two hundred children under the age of thirteen that I have tested over the past eight years, more than 95% possess this visualization ability, yet after high school, this ability seems to gradually disappear. This is similar to the finding in 1980 by Zhejiang University that finger reading ability overwhelmingly appeared in children between the ages of seven and thirteen. Why do we infer that only children who possess visualization ability can possibly develop finger reading ability? The main reason is that children with finger reading ability will spontaneously report seeing numbers appear in their minds, or a screen appearing in their minds with characters appearing on the screen. What the screen reveals is an inner world, very similar to the world that appears through visualization. And in Western parapsychology, when practicing extrasensory perception ability, one is also practicing visualization ability.

1-7 The Visualization Ability of Artists Should Not Be Underestimated

Among adults, there are also a small number of people with visualization ability. The most interesting ones are artists—especially fine artists, almost all of whom have visualization ability—and architects seem to have this tendency as well. That is to say, people who are very sensitive to images and people who are very good at drawing all seem to possess this ability. For them, this ability is innate, so they always assume everyone is the same. Once they learn that others do not have such ability, they are utterly astonished. I often ask audiences at public lectures to test whether they have visualization ability. Interestingly, those who raise their hands to indicate they have the ability tend to be either fine artists or people who are very good at drawing. I think my own drawing is quite poor—no matter how I draw, it never looks quite right—probably because I lack visualization ability and cannot compose a scene in my mind and then render it on paper. As the saying goes, when one has a fully formed bamboo in one’s chest (mind), one can complete it in a single stroke!

In March 2004, the Whitney Biennial, a major event in American contemporary art, opened in New York. Among the 108 participants, the sole Asian artist, Mr. Li Mingwei, presented his “Psychic Project,” in which he invited six art professionals to participate. What was special was that all six women were psychics. Through the setting of fortune-telling booths at the exhibition site, he offered a conceptual satire of the modern emphasis on rationality and professional expertise. Mr. Li pointed out that most people grant art workers an extremely high professional image and rarely consider that they might possess a extrasensory side. Therefore, he specially planned this “Psychic Project.” All six participants were excited that another facet of their character could be presented. Mr. Li’s observations coincide perfectly with my nearly ten years of experience. I was truly delighted when I saw this report—it felt as if I had met a kindred spirit.

Some musicians also have this ability, either learning music in dreams—like the musical prodigy Mozart, who once said his works were transcriptions of music heard in his dreams—or the German Romantic composer Schumann, who was also inspired more than once by the music of Bach, the father of music, in his dreams. Or visual illusions may arise during music. I once met a Nanguan expert: as soon as the music began, scenes of landscapes and flowing water would appear in his mind, and as the music shifted, the scenes would change accordingly. Previously, when I read the story of Bo Ya and Zhong Ziqi in a book—which says that when Bo Ya played the qin while thinking of high mountains and flowing water, Zhong Ziqi could fully comprehend everything—I always thought it was merely a metaphorical expression. Now I know that they could truly wander through high mountains and flowing water in their celestial eye, and moreover, the two of them were likely wandering together! Such a kindred spirit is truly too hard to find. No wonder that once Zhong Ziqi passed away, Bo Ya felt that playing the qin had lost its savor.

In the early twentieth century, the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, living in Munich, explored in his book Concerning the Spiritual in Art the psychological effects of pure colors, drawing analogies between colors and the effects of musical instruments on the human psyche—bright red simulating a trumpet, for example—and attempted to create so-called color-music works, hoping thereby to achieve spiritual communication. The next time you view his paintings, you must listen with your heart, so as not to let down his painstaking efforts.

We often say that there is painting within poetry and poetry within painting; in Boya’s music there are landscapes, and in Kandinsky’s works there is music. It seems that the exchange and mutual use among the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind is not so incredible after all!

1-8 Alternative Scientists

Surprisingly, a small number of well-known scientists have also possessed this ability. Barbara McClintock was the 1983 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine and a cytogeneticist who studied corn. In 1951 she discovered the phenomenon of genetic “transposition”: during replication, corn genes could jump from one chromosome to another, producing recombination and playing a key role in genetic control. However, this idea was not accepted by the scientific community of the time, and it was not until more than twenty years later that it was taken seriously. What was most unique about her was her capacity for direct intuition. Her biography, A Feeling for the Organism, describes her experience looking at corn cells through a microscope: “When I was completely in the zone, I was no longer on the outside, but had gone inside, becoming part of that system. I was together with them, and then everything became enlarged. I could even see the details inside the chromosomes, everything was really there, active and alive. Even I was surprised, because I truly felt that I myself was also under the microscope, and they were all my friends.” This passage is so similar to Ms. Sun Chulin’s description of communicating with peanuts and causing them to reverse their aging and sprout (see Incredible). This shows that Ms. McClintock actually possessed visualization ability and could enter a state of unity of mind and matter, penetrating the true nature of things, which gave her insights far surpassing those of ordinary scientists. She was proud to be a “mystic,” and she always believed that, besides the methods of inquiry practiced by scientists, there were other reliable approaches. She made special efforts to study the training methods of Tibetan lamas, and these beliefs came from her lifetime of having experienced many things that science could not explain.

The physicist Freeman Dyson, in his autobiographical memoir Disturbing the Universe, mentions that in 1948 the brilliant physicist Richard Feynman attempted to use a simple diagrammatic method to explain the complex particle interactions in quantum mechanics. At first he was unsuccessful, because he could not communicate with the other masters—no one understood what he was talking about. Dyson listened carefully and observed closely to discover the reason: the reason ordinary physicists could not understand Dick (Feynman’s nickname) was that he never used equations. Dick only wrote down the answers from his mind, but never wrote equations, because he had a concrete image of how things happened, and that image allowed him to arrive at answers directly with minimal calculation. The thinking style of ordinary physicists was analytical, while his was visual. From this we can see that Feynman also possessed visualization ability, enabling him to directly explore microphysical processes, and this also made possible his colorful and eventful life.

At the turn of the last century, the great American inventor Nikola Tesla was the inventor of the alternating-current generator and motor. That electricity in the twentieth century became a source of lighting and power, thoroughly transforming lifestyles, was due to the AC generator and motor. In those days he worked under the great American inventor Edison, who insisted on using direct current for power generation, while Tesla insisted that alternating current was necessary to improve efficiency. Although he offended Edison, he ultimately won the final victory. In his autobiography, Tesla wrote that he was personally quite sensitive; sometimes he could hear sounds from miles away, which was extremely uncomfortable. When he designed machines, he would often first complete the design on the visual screen in his mind, then let the machine run. If it did not run smoothly, he would modify it on his mental screen until everything ran smoothly and reliably, and only then would he actually build the machine. Usually the machine came out perfectly and succeeded on the first try, never needing modification. Reading these descriptions is truly exciting and awe-inspiring. What is exciting is that Tesla also possessed visualization ability and could see worlds that ordinary people could not see. What is awe-inspiring is that the machines he visualized did not exist, yet the machines’ operation on the mental screen actually obeyed the laws of operation of the real physical world—so-called virtual reality—just like Sun Chulin’s mental drilling and consciousness micro-carving, truly incredible.

Do you still want to communicate with the information field and explore the true nature of the universe? Try out the ability of visualization: take a fruit, look at it carefully, then close your eyes and strive to imagine it.

Chapter 2 The Correct Web Address

From ancient times to the present, its name has never ceased; through it one observes the origins of all things.

Laozi, Dao De Jing

(Below are video web addresses related to the content of this chapter, with detailed procedures)

http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/ZybEcuPpHoc/

Once you have a web browser, you can prepare to go online. At that point, you need to know the correct web address in order to visit various websites. What would the web address of the information field look like?

Every time I pass by a large temple, I can see numerous believers burning incense and praying, devoutly kneeling and bowing. In the past, although I followed the local custom of burning incense and worshipping, I was not inwardly certain about the existence of the world of buddhas and bodhisattvas. However, after the finger-reading experiments revealed that the sacred vocabulary of religion produces extraordinary phenomena, providing preliminary confirmation of the existence of the information field — that is, the spiritual realm — I was deeply moved whenever I saw devout men and women kneeling in worship, murmuring prayers asking the bodhisattvas for blessings. Thousands upon thousands of people performing rituals handed down for over a thousand years, without a trace of doubt turning to higher wisdom for help — that kind of steadfast trust truly puts to shame those who pride themselves on being rational and free of superstition. Similarly, I have neighbors who are devout Christians. Whenever brothers and sisters from their church gather at their home, I can hear the voices of the congregation praying devoutly from the stairwell, making me feel that the entire building must be blessed as a result.

• 2.1 Requirements for Connecting to Websites in the Information Field

Can bodhisattvas hear the requests of devout believers? How can one correctly connect to their websites? We conducted a series of experiments with Miss T, who has the highest-level finger-reading ability, to clarify this question. I altered the character “佛” (Buddha) a bit, for example changing it to characters like “佛,” “弗,” “拂,”

“叶,” “郎,” and so on — in the last two characters, the left-side radical (the “person” radical) of the character 佛 had one stroke removed or one vertical stroke removed — and all the extraordinary phenomena in Miss T’s inner vision disappeared; she could correctly write out these characters. But as long as it is the character “佛,” she would see special phenomena such as bright light or a radiant person. In other words, the written characters must be completely correct in order to connect to the website of “佛” (Buddha). This is just like the human Internet: the web address must be written completely correctly, without the slightest error, in order to click and connect to the corresponding website. I also tried the phonetic symbols for the character 佛, “匸｝,” and surprisingly it worked — she also saw a field of bright light. The Mandarin dictionary’s phonetic notation is “匸已,” which corresponds to only one character, “佛.” It seems that as long as the sound is right, one can also connect to Buddha’s website. We then tried the Burmese word for Buddha, and it likewise produced an extraordinary phenomenon: in her inner vision she saw something on the screen.

Next, we tested with “Buddha,” which is a direct phonetic transliteration from Sanskrit. What response would it produce? The first time we tested it, I accidentally wrote “Buhhda,” and as a result Miss T read it as “Buhda” — there was no extraordinary phenomenon, and she also missed a letter “h.” The second time we tested, I wrote it correctly, and Miss T saw a field of bright light and connected to the “Buddha” website. This result also corroborates that as long as the sound is correct, one can connect to the corresponding website through finger reading. Miss T is a Japanese American who knows Japanese, so we also tried testing with the Japanese word for Buddha, “:让;匕-.” As a result, Miss T saw in her inner vision a bright, slender person who said to her in Japanese: “女;二匸” (What?), as if this bright person who understood Japanese had been disturbed by our finger-reading web-connection action, and asked: “What do you want?” This website evidently uses Japanese as its web address, and the webmaster may be a divine spirit who has achieved spiritual attainment in Japan.

The web address of sacred vocabulary must be written correctly, or the sound must be right, and moreover the functional person’s ability must be high — their brain’s web browser must be up to date — in order to connect to the websites of the divine beings and buddhas within the information field and communicate directly with them. We do not know whether ordinary people without such abilities, when praying or asking a bodhisattva for help, can also produce a web-connection action. But from the many cases in religious history, this appears possible — it remains to be verified by future experiments, though at the very least, the sound used to invoke a bodhisattva or divine being must not be incorrect.

• 2.2 Connecting to the Web Using Scripts Familiar to the Divine Spirits

Several major religions such as Catholicism, Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam have spread throughout the world, accepted for belief by peoples of various languages and scripts. But the prophets or bodhisattvas within each religion lived in eras very long ago, or never existed in the human world at all. The languages and scripts they used — for example, the Aramaic that Jesus used — may have been lost for a very long time. When we use modern scripts to connect to the web, or use different scripts to connect, can we still make a connection? Do the divine spirits understand these languages and scripts?

The websites of “Buddha” seemed to present fewer problems. We tried Chinese, Japanese, English, Burmese, and Sanskrit, and all could connect to Buddha’s website and produce visual phenomena. But later we also tried the names of several Vajrayana Buddhist sages, including “Padmasambhava” and “Great Master Padmasambhava,” who transmitted Vajrayana teachings to Tibet in the eighth century CE; the two-armed Black-Cloaked Mahakala, a guardian deity of the Kagyu school (White sect) of Vajrayana; and the Indian sage “Nagarjuna,” the human founder of Vajrayana. As a result, the gifted subject correctly wrote out these characters, but saw absolutely no visual phenomena. Why wouldn’t the Vajrayana sages let us connect to their websites? Did the websites have firewalls and require passwords? Later, an attentive friend reminded us that these Vajrayana sages were either Indian or Tibetan, and they did not understand Chinese. Those words awakened the dreamer, and I quickly sought help from an expert in Tibetan to find the Tibetan script for “Great Master Padmasambhava” and “Mahakala.” When we tried them, they indeed succeeded. When testing “Great Master Padmasambhava,” Miss T saw a small cluster of intense light flash twice in succession, with no visible text. When testing “Mahakala,” she saw a bright screen with colors different from usual. It did not matter at all that the gifted subject did not recognize Tibetan script — she could still connect to the relevant websites. However, if the last three letters of the Tibetan script for “Mahakala” were cut off, the gifted subject would transcribe the remaining text but saw no visual phenomena. Once a sacred vocabulary is damaged, it ceases to function as a web address.

It is evident that the Vajrayana sages do not have Chinese-language web addresses on their websites in the information field. This makes sense when you think about it: the Vajrayana sages never studied Chinese during their lifetimes, and few Han Chinese practiced Vajrayana, so these sages had no strong motivation to learn Chinese in the information field either. By extension, what effect would the simplified Chinese characters promoted in mainland China have on the connection process? We tested the term “Guanyin”: the traditional characters “觀音” always triggered visual phenomena, with a very bright screen and no visible text. But when changed to the simplified characters “观音,” the screen brightness was greatly weakened, and the text also appeared on the screen, seemingly indicating that its sacred significance had diminished. Over the course of two thousand years, Bodhisattva Guanyin has always communicated with the Chinese people using traditional characters. The sudden switch to simplified characters fifty years ago distorted the written forms, and while the channel for connecting to and communicating with the information website was not entirely severed, it was substantially weakened, as though pushing Bodhisattva Guanyin a thousand miles away. Perhaps it will take several hundred years of continuously communicating with Bodhisattva Guanyin’s realm using simplified characters before a stable channel can be established. For now, it is probably more effective to communicate with the buddhas and bodhisattvas we are familiar with using traditional characters.

I also once tried the two characters of Manjushri Bodhisattva, “Wenshu,” in four different arrangements: left-to-right and top-to-bottom “文殊,” and right-to-left and bottom-to-top “殊文.” As a result, only the left-to-right and top-to-bottom “文殊” produced visual phenomena, with bright light and bright characters, while the other two, being contrary to reading habits, produced none. This indicates that reading habits — that is, cultural factors — are embedded in the preliminary recognition process of the unity of mind and matter.

Because on many occasions when Miss T used her finger to read the sacred name “Jesus,” she saw a giant hollow cross radiating light from within; whereas the English word “Jesus” rarely produced visual phenomena — at most, the word “Jesus” would appear surrounded by a ring of light. This is a puzzling question. English is a relatively modern language. Two thousand years ago, Jesus had not studied English, nor should he have studied Chinese, so why would the Chinese “Jesus” produce extraordinary visual phenomena? Someone reminded me to pay attention to how Jesus’s name was pronounced two thousand years ago. Later, I finally found relevant materials: Jesus preached in Aramaic at the time, and the Aramaic pronunciation of his name was “Yesua,” which is very similar to the Chinese pronunciation of “Yesu.” We therefore hypothesized that both the correct written form and the correct sound can connect to the websites in the information field.

Chinese writing has undergone multiple changes throughout history. The oracle bone script of the Shang Dynasty is now understood by only a handful of experts; the general public can no longer read it at all. Did the early sacred figures only understand oracle bone script, so that their information websites only had oracle bone script addresses, causing them to gradually drift apart from later generations who only knew regular script Chinese, rendering communication impossible? The written languages of many ancient civilizations around the world have already been lost. So how many deities in this universe have lost contact? And do all the deities currently receiving incense offerings have websites available for visiting?

• 2.3 Websites Established by Folk Collective Consciousness

Temples are found everywhere in Taiwan, ranging from large-scale Buddhist monasteries and Daoist temples to small roadside shrines consecrated to all manner of deities, receiving the long-term worship of hundreds and thousands of devotees. Do they have websites in the information field? Can we connect to their website homepages by recognizing keywords through finger reading? Do their websites have passwords or firewalls? We decided to conduct some experiments to find out.

Although we were full of curiosity about the deities’ websites, and many enthusiastic friends provided the titles of various folk deities for us to test, we knew almost nothing about that world. To protect the gifted subjects from harm, we selected only some of the more widely venerated proper deities among the folk for experimentation.

Through Miss T’s finger reading experiments, the preliminary results we obtained were as follows: “Guan Gong”: first came a solemn feeling, then the characters appeared. “Jade Emperor”: a somewhat bright screen appeared. “Wenchang Dijun,” who oversees human records of rank and office: patterns that were partly dark and partly white appeared on the screen. “Mazu”: saw a somewhat bright figure.

“Ji Gong” saw a bright figure or a bright screen, with brightness only slightly lower than that of a buddha or bodhisattva. “Bodhidharma,” the First Patriarch of the Chan school: saw a somewhat bright screen, just like those seen from subordinates in the past.

“Lord Guan” was a great general of the state of Shu during the Three Kingdoms era. During a war with the state of Wu, he was captured by Lü Meng and died unyielding. Later emperors conferred upon him the title “Holy Emperor Lord Guan,” and temples were built for him to receive the people’s sacrifices and worship for over a thousand years. However, there is no historical record of Guan Yu having cultivated and achieved the Dao; therefore, we speculate that this website in the information field was probably not built by his own spiritual power, but rather seems to have been shaped over a long period by the collective consciousness of the Chinese nation. “Emperor Wenchang” was originally Lord Zitong, surnamed Zhang, named Yazi, who resided at Mount Qiqu. He served the Jin dynasty and died in battle; people established a temple for him, and in the late Tang dynasty he was repeatedly enfeoffed as Prince Yingxian.

Daoists say that Zitong presides over the affairs of the Wenchang Bureau and the registers of human officialdom, hence the Yuan dynasty conferred upon him the additional title of Emperor. This may have been a Daoist embellishment. However, historically, Emperor Wenchang has been deeply revered by scholars, and to this day he remains an object of spiritual hope and refuge for many students. Whenever examination season arrives, candidates and their parents flock to Emperor Wenchang’s temples to pray for success in their exams. It appears that the website of “Emperor Wenchang” was also shaped by people’s collective consciousness. From this we may infer that spiritually powerful beings such as Buddhas and Bodhisattvas not only have the ability to establish websites themselves, but combined with a thousand-plus years of large-scale worship from the human realm, a snowball effect may occur, forming super-large websites.

• 2.4 Laozi’s Website

After a period of repeated experiments, we found that Miss T was consistently unable to connect to the websites of Daoist immortals or perfected beings, which left us quite puzzled. Later, we consulted a genuine contemporary Daoist priest, and he believed it was very likely because we did not know the passwords to the websites. Ordinary Daoist priests are bound by the precepts of their lineage and the discipline of their masters; they conduct themselves in a very low-key and mysterious manner. For over a thousand years, they have often transmitted their teachings to a single heir or only to a few successors, not wanting to be known. Consider the case of Liezi, whose book is ranked alongside the Dao De Jing and the Zhuangzi as one of the three great representative texts of Daoism. Liezi himself not only possessed profound spiritual attainment—“his eyes were like his ears, his ears like his nose, his nose like his mouth, all no different; his mind concentrated and his form dissolved, bone and flesh all melted away, unaware of what his form leaned upon or where his feet tread, drifting east and west with the wind, like a leaf or a dry husk, not knowing whether the wind rode upon him or he rode upon the wind.” Such a figure, who could use his eyes as ears, his ears as nose, his nose as mouth, and drift gracefully riding the wind, could nonetheless “dwell in the fields of Zheng for forty years without being recognized, concealing his form among the common people so that even the ruler of the state did not know of him.” This shows the depth of their ability to contain and preserve their inner light, revealing no trace of themselves. We had not expected that their websites in the information field would also be so mysterious and low-key—without knowing the password, one is not allowed in. Unlike the websites of Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, or Jesus, who in the human realm universally deliver sentient beings and guide their followers, in the information field they also keep the gates of compassion wide open, and all those with affinity may enter.

After trying numerous deities of popular Daoism, it was natural to think of Laozi, who is revered as the progenitor of Daoism. In August 2000, during a finger-reading experiment, we tested the word “Laozi” with Miss T for the first time. At that time, she first saw a dark human figure in her heavenly eye, against a normal background; then the figure disappeared, and the two characters “Laozi” appeared. After that, the result was consistent every time: whenever she encountered the two characters “Laozi,” a dark human figure would first appear, followed by the two characters “Laozi.” Since she saw a vision, this indicates that Laozi has a website in the information field, and we can connect to his website in the information field through finger-reading.

That Laozi has a website in the information field is not surprising. This can be seen from the content of Chapter 25 of the Dao De Jing: “There is a thing formed of chaos, born before heaven and earth. So silent! So still! Standing alone and unchanging, revolving ceaselessly without fail, it can be called the mother of the world. I do not know its name; I reluctantly call it the Dao—” Laozi knew that before the appearance of heaven and earth, there existed a composite substance, extremely silent and unchanging, constantly in motion without ceasing, the source from which all things in the world arise. He did not know the name of this composite substance, so he called it the “Dao.” This “Dao” is very much like the “Creator” worshipped in Western religions—the mother of all things in the universe. I conjecture that Laozi must have discovered what we have discovered—the “information field”—a world beyond the four-dimensional spacetime understood by modern science.

From the state described in the Dao De Jing—“attain the ultimate of emptiness, maintain the steadfastness of stillness—” we can see that Laozi grasped the essence of spiritual cultivation. The “Zhongni” chapter of the Liezi records that when Laozi’s student Yuancangzi practiced cultivation, he reached the point of being able to see without eyes and hear without ears; even the tiniest object or the faintest sound could be perceived, and he could even engage in remote sensing and remote viewing. This was clearly the result of practicing qigong and developing the “six supernatural powers.” Therefore, if we say that Laozi cultivated to a profound level and was thereby able to connect to the information field as a natural result, it should not be surprising that he could create a website in the information field. However, the image he presented to Miss T’s heavenly eye was a dark human figure, unlike words such as “Buddha,” “Bodhisattva,” “Ji Gong,” or “Jesus,” which elicit bright light, a bright human figure, or a luminous cross. It seems that in terms of spiritual attainment, he is closer to the human level and does not belong to the realm of gods and Buddhas. If we compare a person’s level of cultivation to the stages from kindergarten and elementary school through master’s and doctoral degrees, I conjecture that Laozi’s level of cultivation may have reached the high school or university stage, which may still be some distance from the master’s and doctoral level of gods and Buddhas; therefore, only a dark human figure appeared rather than a bright one.

Professor Shen Jinchuan of the Institute of Somatic Science at China University of Geosciences in Beijing and the psychic Ms. Sun Chulin once collaborated on “mind-photography” experiments for a period of time. They placed rectangular Polaroid film into a camera. The camera had no lens, and the outward-facing exposure side was blocked by a steel plate. During the experiment, Ms. Sun pressed her palm against the steel plate and directly projected the image from the Third Eye in her mind onto the top Polaroid film in the camera. After completion, the film was pulled out, and after waiting one minute for development, the protective sleeve was torn open, and the image appeared on the film. Over five years, they have successfully produced hundreds of mind-photographed images, some of which are photographs of Laozi. According to Ms. Sun, when she called out “Laozi” in her mind, some images would fly into her Third Eye. They were not seen very clearly, but faintly visible was an old man with a beard and sparse hair, either standing or sitting, either practicing martial arts or meditating, in various postures. She selected a meditating posture and projected it onto the Polaroid film. Professor Shen gave me a set of these mind-photographed images; I saw only a patch of yellow light on the photograph, setting off the silhouette of an old man meditating. Could this be the “dark human figure” that Miss T saw through the characters “Laozi”? (See Figure 1)

Through her mind, Ms. Sun, and through finger-reading, Miss T, both connected to Laozi’s website in the information field using the keyword “Laozi” and saw the homepage. Although we have not developed psychic abilities, we can, through the mind-photography works of psychics, see the homepage of Laozi’s website in the information field. How fortunate we are.

Besides Laozi, we naturally also tested a few historical figures. Up to now, we have found that whether they were wise kings or tyrants, although they called themselves “Sons of Heaven” during their lifetimes, they seem to have left not the slightest trace in the information field.

On the contrary, Confucius, who for thousands of years has been known for “not speaking of strange phenomena, physical prowess, disorders, or spiritual beings,” and who is thought to focus only on the learning of statecraft and to say “while you do not know life, how can you know about death,” also has a website in the information field!

• 2.5 Confucius’s Website Figure 1

Laozi practiced cultivation himself, knew of the existence of the information field, and was also revered as the founder of Taoism; therefore, it is taken for granted that he built a website in the information field. But what about Confucius? In Section 21 of the “Yong Ye” chapter of the Analects, the Master said: “To attend to the duties owed to the people, and to respect spiritual beings while keeping them at a distance, can be called wisdom.” Section 20 of the “Shu Er” chapter states: “The Master did not speak of strange phenomena, physical prowess, disorders, or spiritual beings.”

Most people believe that Confucius did not believe in ghosts and gods. Therefore, during the finger-reading experiment in August 2000, when Miss T was tested with the word “Confucius” for the first time, we were greatly surprised that she actually saw a vision. She first saw a dark human figure in her Third Eye, then the figure disappeared, and then the two characters for “Confucius” appeared. The process was exactly the same as the experimental result for the two characters “Laozi.” Afterward, it was tested many more times, and the same result was obtained every time; as long as it was the two characters “Confucius,” a dark human figure would first appear, followed by the two characters “Confucius.” It turns out that Confucius also has a website in the information field, and his status in the information field seems to be the same as Laozi’s.

We also tested “Mencius” and “Zhuangzi,” but the results did not produce any visions; both words were written out directly. It seems that only the founder of a major school of thought has enough power to create a website in the information field, or perhaps only one website is needed for the same field? As for how Confucius’s website came about, could it be that Confucius also cultivated to a profound level and connected to the network? Or was it caused by what the psychologist Jung called the “collective unconscious,” where the Chinese nation’s collective belief and worship of Confucius molded a website in the information field?

However, we can take this opportunity to think about whether Confucius truly did not believe in ghosts and gods. Section 33 of the “Shu Er” chapter of the Analects mentions: “The Master was ill, and Zilu asked to pray. The Master said: ‘Is there such a thing?’ Zilu replied: ‘There is; the admonition says: Pray for you to the spiritual beings above and below.’ The Master said: ‘My praying has been for a long time.‘” The meaning is that once when Confucius was sick, Zilu wanted to pray for him. Confucius asked in return: “Did you really do it?” Zilu said: “I am praying to the ghosts and gods of all directions, above and below.” Confucius then said: “Then I have been praying for a long time.” Obviously, in Confucius’s era, when one was sick, one also had to put effort into the upper levels of the mind and the information field, and adjusting the adverse conditions could cure the illness. They seemed to believe in the existence of a metaphysical world. Confucius wrote in the Xi Ci Zhuan: “What is above form is called the Way; what is below form is called a vessel.” The human body, artifacts, animals, and plants belong to the vessel realm below form. Above the vessels, there is also a metaphysical world (the Way), and it is through the interaction of the Way and the vessel via Qi that life is generated. This is also the true meaning of what Wen Tianxiang stated in his Song of Righteous Qi: “Between heaven and earth there is righteous Qi, which endows various flowing forms.”

The new book A Spiritual Interpretation of the Analects by Professor Song Guangyu of Fo Guang University of Humanities and Social Sciences has many brilliant discourses on Confucius’s thought and teachings. For example, he says: The Analects all begin with the chapter “Xue Er,” but what is to be learned? Is it learning the only existing texts at the time, the Classic of Poetry and the Book of Documents? Or is it learning “the matters of the sages”? According to the traditional Confucian concept of “inner sage, outer king,” it should be learning the matters of the sages. The inner sage means that one’s mind must possess acute and ethereal perception like that of the ancient sage kings; the outer king means using this perceptive ability to perceive the operational principles of the outer universe, which is to govern the country with the “Way.” In modern scientific language, the Confucian method of learning is to first cultivate the mind and character, then communicate with the information field, and then bring in the wisdom of heaven and earth to govern the country.

So what is the story behind “respect the spirits and gods but keep them at a distance”? Professor Song’s book states: the arrangement of chapters and sections in the Analects has a logical relationship between what precedes and follows, and a single sentence sometimes echoes its context. “To work for the righteousness of the people, to respect the spirits and gods but keep them at a distance, this can be called wisdom.” This refers to doing what should be done well, respecting the spirits and gods but not completely relying on them, and maintaining space for personal thought; this is “wisdom” ---. As for “The Master did not speak of extraordinary strength, disorders, or spiritual beings,” it actually echoes the preceding text: “I am not one who was born with knowledge, but one who loves antiquity and diligently seeks knowledge.” Confucius spoke of his own characteristics: “I was not born knowing so many things; rather, it is in a state of mental stability and emptiness, through keen observation of various things and phenomena, that I come to know so much.” When engaging in such matters that appeal to a stable mind for long-term observation, one must be especially careful not to make reckless claims about “extraordinary strength, disorders, or spiritual beings.” It is only under the condition of echoing the preceding text that one must not recklessly speak of extraordinary strength, disorders, or spiritual beings; he was not denying the existence of spirits and gods.

Furthermore, there is another well-known sentence in the Analects: “Sacrifice as if they are present; sacrifice to the spirits as if the spirits are present.” It seems that Confucius not only did not deny it, but instead affirmed the existence of spirits and gods, merely requiring that people not completely depend on them. What Confucius taught was not only the kingly way of the human realm, but also the learning of the unity of Heaven and humanity. It seems perfectly reasonable, then, that he would have a website in the information field.

As for Mencius, he was an even more famous master of practicing and nourishing qi. Besides the familiar “I am skillful at nourishing my vast, flowing qi” and “Such is this qi: it is the greatest and the most unyielding; if nourished with uprightness and not harmed, it fills all between Heaven and Earth,” he also mentioned, “When the will is unified, it moves the qi; when the qi is unified, it moves the will.” In fact, this skill of nourishing qi has never been interrupted among Chinese intellectuals, and there was no shortage of qi-practicing experts among the Neo-Confucianists of the Song dynasty and even scholars of the Ming dynasty. Zhu Xi, the great Neo-Confucian master of the Song dynasty, was deeply fascinated by the book Cantongqi written by Wei Boyang of the Eastern Han dynasty, and even wrote a commentary on it under the pseudonym Zou Xin, a Daoist priest from Kongtong. It is only because of the invisible constraint of the phrase “The Master did not speak of extraordinary strength, disorders, or spiritual beings” for a long time that so-called orthodox figures in society have avoided talking about it for thousands of years. Therefore, we have no way of knowing whether any of the qi-practicing masters throughout history developed extraordinary abilities as a result.

• 2.6 The Password to the Gate of Heaven

Since the information field has an Internet architecture, besides the homepage, how can one enter its other web pages?

Because Miss T repeatedly saw a giant hollow cross with light radiating from inside when using her fingers to read the sacred word “Jesus”. Since the key to the gate of Heaven is generally considered to be the cross, we guessed that the reason Miss T saw a radiant cross in her heavenly eye might be that she had connected to the homepage of Heaven through the two characters “Jesus”. If this was the case, could we approach this heavenly gate or even enter inside it? Was there a chance to roam around Heaven? Would the Holy Spirit of Heaven allow us to enter? How should the URL be written to accurately enter the website? Usually, when using a computer to view sub-pages of a website, a slash is used to separate the URL. Could we use the same method to view other web pages of the information website? For example, could we write “Jesus” followed by a slash, and then add another sacred vocabulary word? If so, what character or word should be added? The hope in entering Heaven was to see God, so the sacred vocabulary word to add afterwards should be “God”, or using the English “I AM”.

So we tried experimenting with “Jesus/I AM”. When the screen first opened in Miss T’s mind, as expected, she saw a cross in the distance again, with light radiating from inside, and then the screen disappeared. By the time the screen opened a second time, she actually walked towards the gate, feeling as if the cross was moving closer to her. Success! The union of two sacred words was indeed effective. I asked her, “How big is the cross?” She drew a hollow cross on the paper, then made a dot below it to represent her own size (see Figure 2). It turned out the cross was a towering, majestic, and magnificent gate, filled with light inside.

But she was still blocked in front of the door and could not enter. Thinking it over and over, it might be that a password was needed to enter the door. What could the password be? I really had no idea. The personnel at the experiment site

Figure 2

chattered away for a while, and in a moment of desperation, thought of how Christians always say “Amen!” after finishing a prayer. Therefore, we asked Miss T to silently think “Amen!” in her mind the next time the screen appeared. As a result, as soon as she said “Amen,” the entire heavenly gate suddenly disappeared, and everything returned to blank. It seemed that “Amen” was a closing phrase, meaning goodbye to God after finishing a prayer. So we began asking around and consulting Christian friends about what phrase was most likely to be the password to the gate of Heaven.

Soon, someone suggested I use “Hallelujah”, which means praising the Lord. Therefore, in the next experiment, we used a slip of paper with “Jesus / I AM / Hallelujah” written on it. Unexpectedly, the result was the same; she was still blocked at the gate of the cross and could not enter. How could this be? At this moment, I don’t know why I thought of the story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Could it be a voice-activated gate, requiring one to loudly say “Open Sesame”? “You try saying ‘Hallelujah’.” Miss T said “Hallelujah” in her mind, and the cross immediately flew rapidly towards her face, after which she felt her whole body bathed in a sea of light. She had entered the gate.

But in just an instant, all of the scenes vanished without a trace, as if she had come back out through the rear door. “Hallelujah” only allowed her to experience a brief moment of sacred radiance, but she could not remain there for long, nor did she truly get to see the circumstances of the Heavenly Kingdom — perhaps because she was not a Christian? However, from this experiment we discovered: one must speak the password aloud and make a verbal request in order to connect to other webpages of the website; written text alone is not sufficient. Or, to put it another way, the website of the information field, in addition to connecting via written URLs or the union of URLs, can also accept direct verbal requests to the webmaster to view the site’s contents — this is a voice-control function that has not yet been fully developed in the human-world internet. After this wondrous experience, one can imagine that we would try again and again to knock on the gates of the Heavenly Kingdom, but to this day we have not yet had the opportunity to enter it again. The usual situation is that a shining person appears, and sometimes even asks her: “Who are you?” But with no intention of letting her enter. We guess that perhaps one must believe in Christianity and be baptized before being permitted to explore it for herself.

The results of this experiment also bring to mind what people often say about Guanyin Bodhisattva “hearing cries and rescuing the suffering.” In the Buddhist Śūraṅgama Sūtra, it is recorded that Śākyamuni instructed the great arhats and bodhisattvas to each describe the path by which they first cultivated the Way and attained perfect penetration, and the results were summarized into a total of twenty-five methods of cultivation for the human realm. Among them, Guanyin Bodhisattva’s “Perfect Illumination Samādhi of the Ear Gate” begins from turning inward to listen to the nature of hearing itself, attaining the merit of being able to save and deliver sentient beings through attending to sounds. This Dharma method of “perfect penetration through the ear faculty” was evaluated by Mañjuśrī Bodhisattva as the foremost — that is, the most suitable for sentient beings of this world to cultivate. Therefore, when sentient beings seek help from Guanyin Bodhisattva, they must remember to say it aloud so the Bodhisattva can hear!

Chapter 3: The Medicine Buddha’s Medicinal Garden

The traveler speaks of Yingzhou; the people of Yue tell of Mount Tianmu.

— Li Bai, “A Dream of Tianmu Mountain Left in Farewell”

Besides exploring Jesus and the Heavenly Kingdom of the Christian system, Ms. T of course also attempted to explore the Buddhist world, and achieved very good results. Since discovering in August 1999 that certain religious terms could connect to special scenes within the Heavenly Eye, we repeatedly tested using the titles of various buddhas and bodhisattvas, and recorded one by one what was seen in the Heavenly Eye during each experiment. Readers may recall that in the book Incredible, it was once mentioned that when Ms. T read the slip of paper for “Medicine Buddha” with her finger, in addition to bright light she also smelled the scent of medicine. This greatly encouraged us, and we felt that the Medicine Buddha should be amiable and approachable. Therefore we frequently used his name for experiments, hoping that greeting him several times might help establish a rapport. We do not know whether this tactic of persistent pursuit was effective? (Think about it — if one day in heaven is already a thousand years in the human realm, and we go knocking every one or two months, or even on consecutive days, wouldn’t he get annoyed? Might as well just let you in.) Or was it that Ms. T, having become familiar with the process, caught on to the trick? Or was it because on that day of the experiment, we had invited Mr. W, a Daoist priest of profound attainment, to provide support? In any case, on September 18, 2002, we finally made a breakthrough.

Rows of Bright Circles

That afternoon, Ms. T was doing finger-reading at Veterans General Hospital while being measured by Magnetoencephalography (MEG), to see whether quantum waves appeared in the brain when the Heavenly Eye opened. Unexpectedly, what she saw this time was not just a field of bright light, but also rows of round bright circles. According to her description, each horizontal row had five circles, and there were countless rows. When we opened the slip of paper, it turned out to be “Medicine Buddha.” This unusual scene stumped us. What did the rows of bright circles mean? Mr. W, who was present at the scene, merely reminded us mildly: actually, one could go deeper into the bright circles to take a look.

The next morning, when Ms. T used her finger to read a “Guanyin / Medicine Buddha” sample, she first saw a field of intense light — which should have been Guanyin’s website — and then immediately saw rows of bright circles appear, just like the Medicine Buddha’s website from the day before. The bright circles were five per row, neatly arranged, extending downward for dozens of rows. This time we were mentally prepared and knew we could go further into the bright circles to see what was going on.

I asked Ms. T to silently think: “May I go inside and take a look?”

Suddenly, on the screen of her Heavenly Eye, a tall shining person appeared (five to six times the size of an ordinary person), and asked: “Which one do you want to see?”

Ms. T answered: “The eighth one.”

The shining person pointed with a hand, and Ms. T entered the eighth bright circle. What she saw then was a botanical garden, where every plant had flowers and leaves, glittering with golden light. The flower at the top was a glowing sphere emitting golden light, extraordinarily beautiful and magnificent (see Figure 3). Then the screen disappeared, and Ms. T asked again: “Can I look at one more, the sixth one?”

The screen opened, and the shining person said: “The last one — you cannot look at any more.”

He pointed with his hand again, and Ms. T saw another botanical garden. In this garden grew climbing vine-type plants, hanging down in rows from the sky, soft and semi-transparent, gently swaying and undulating. The edges of the leaves had radiance, and at the tips was a small glowing circle, giving one a feeling of great comfort, as if possessing a healing effect for body and mind (see Figure 4). Then the screen disappeared. Ms. T hurriedly asked: “In the future, can I come directly to see these beautiful gardens without touching the slip of paper?”

The shining person replied: “You may, but I may not always be here.”

Figure 3

Miss T asked again: “Could you tell me the names of the sixth and eighth medicine gardens?”

His answer was: “Even if I told you, you wouldn’t know, so I won’t say.”

This bright figure was exceedingly tall and large, and the light he emitted was very strong. Miss T could only see his luminous body from the shoulders down and was unable to see his true face. We guessed that this deity was the Medicine Buddha. It turns out that within the information field they also go out to travel or take care of business, and do not necessarily remain inside the website.

Figure 4

Since the Medicine Buddha had promised Miss T that she could visit the medicine gardens when she had time, we of course had to try again. However, several subsequent attempts failed to gain entry as hoped. Although each time a bright figure appeared, he would always shake his head and not let her in. On March 28, 2003, we tried once more, and again a bright figure came out and shook his head at her, so Miss T asked him: “Next time?”

The bright figure then nodded to indicate consent. So two days later, on March 30, we could not wait to try again. This time Miss T first saw rows of bright circles, exactly the same as the previous successful entry into the medicine garden. We knew this time it would probably work. Miss T expressed her wish to see the first and third medicine gardens, and then she entered the first bright circle. Before her eyes appeared a large expanse of green plants. These lush green plants were arranged very neatly. Some of the stems and leaves curled to the left, some curled to the right, and sometimes there were two leaves with one curling left and the other curling right, somewhat resembling the form of a tree fern or new fern fronds (see Figure 5). Then the screen disappeared, and she was unable to enter the third medicine garden.

By August, Miss T had another special experience. As usual, she held the slip of paper on which “Medicine Buddha” was written, and before long small bright spots appeared. Then someone came over and reached out to pull her toward a bright spot. Miss T was just about to enter the bright circle when that person suddenly seemed to hear someone calling from behind, looked back for a moment, and hastily let go. Then Miss T’s celestial eye closed. After that, whenever we had the chance we kept trying, and gradually figured out a rule: you needed to “make an appointment.” Showing up abruptly and unannounced was not welcome, but whenever we made an appointment for the next visit to the medicine gardens, permission was almost always granted.

As for whether the large bright figure who first guided Miss T into the medicine garden was the Medicine Buddha himself? Or was it a gardener assistant he had invited? How large were the medicine gardens after all? We once consulted Miss T’s master on these questions. He told us that the Medicine Buddha’s medicine gardens were extremely vast and required many hands, and as for the tall bright figure who first came to guide her, it was quite possible that he was the Medicine Buddha. So we conceived a plan to visit each of the Medicine Buddha’s medicine gardens one by one, carefully record them, and study them thoroughly. We did not know how many medicine gardens there were in total. When could this plan be completed?

Figure 5

Not Only Medicine Gardens but Also Medicine Shops

At the end of January 2004, I went to Beijing with Editor-in-Chief Wu of Han Sheng Publishing to visit Professor Shen Jinchuan and Ms. Sun Chulin. We talked about my experiments of the past two years and the Medicine Buddha’s medicine gardens. To my surprise, Ms. Sun said that over the past two years she herself had also been in frequent contact with the Medicine Buddha, and they had a rather deep relationship—she had even brought back a lot of medicine from his pharmacy! This aroused my great interest, and I immediately asked her how the medicine gardens she saw were arranged. Ms. Sun said: “The medicine gardens are in rows—some with five in a row, some with six in a row, and also some with seven in a row; the further in you go, the more there are.” I was greatly excited when I heard this: “There really are rows of five? What Miss T saw was rows of five.” According to Ms. Sun’s description, the Medicine Buddha’s garden was extremely vast in scope, with people coming and going inside, many people gathering medicine. The medicine gatherers Ms. Sun saw were obviously people with abilities like herself, whose consciousness could roam the websites of the information field. Ms. Sun also eagerly asked the Medicine Buddha: “Can I gather the medicine myself?” The Medicine Buddha gave an excellent answer: “You don’t understand medicine, so how could you gather it? Whatever medicine you need to treat an illness, it would be faster for me to give it to you!” As for the pharmacy where medicines were compounded and prepared, it was as tall and large as a warehouse, filled with cabinets, each one full of medicine. The finished pills, some large and some small, gleamed with golden light, and some pills were actually alive—she could see with her celestial eye that there were things moving about inside, and they were said to multiply! Ms. Sun said she saw the Medicine Buddha sitting in front without lifting a hand, and the medicine somehow flew to her of its own accord. The Medicine Buddha also promised to give her a pill as big as a pumpkin in the future. I thought to myself: so the Medicine Buddha’s website had not only medicine gardens but also a medicine shop. In the future I would ask Miss T to go take a look as well.

On March 27, 2004, we conducted a finger-reading experiment with Miss T, preparing to make an appointment to enter the medicine garden. beforehand I told Miss T the details of the Medicine Buddha’s website as described by Ms. Sun, and reminded her to make various requests to the Medicine Buddha, such as visiting medicine gardens with more rows, the medicine shop, or going medicine gathering, and so on. The slip of paper I used read “Medicine Buddha, appointment to enter the medicine garden.” The bright figure who appeared in Miss T’s celestial eye told her very straightforwardly: “Tomorrow.” So the next day we duly used a slip reading “Medicine Buddha / Sunlight Bodhisattva” to bring Miss T into the Medicine Buddha’s website. The first request Miss T made was: “Can I see the medicine gardens with six in a row or seven in a row?”

The bright figure answered: “Of course you can!”

Then Miss T saw medicine gardens with dozens of luminous circles in a row, far more than the six or seven per row she had requested, but there was only one row. She asked again: “May I go in and gather medicinal herbs?”

The luminous being answered: “Not yet!”

Perhaps Miss T’s abilities were insufficient; she was still unable to gather herbs. After all, those were merely clusters of energy in the information field of empty space. Miss T asked again: “Is there a medicine shop I can look at?”

The luminous being answered: “Of course!”

At this point, Miss T, through her celestial eye, watched herself walking into a medicine shop together with two luminous beings, one in front and one behind. Sure enough, the room was filled with medicine cabinets of all sizes, gleaming with golden light. Miss T asked: “May I take some medicine?”

The luminous being answered: “You have no need for it now!”

Professor Chen from the Department of Physics was right nearby. He had been ill for a while and had not yet fully recovered. So Miss T was asked to convey: “Professor Chen is sick and needs medicine.”

“Try taking this one!”

At this moment, two of the five people present suddenly smelled the scent of medicine. A few seconds later, the scent dissipated. According to Miss T’s account, she reached out hard with her hand in her celestial eye and was almost about to touch that pill, but ultimately failed.

Miss T continued to make a request: “May I see the seventh medicine garden?”

After the luminous being granted permission, Miss T entered a botanical garden filled with rows of upright, pole-shaped plants. Each pole gleamed with golden light, arranged very neatly and beautifully (see Figure 6).

Miss T asked, “What is it used for? What is it called?”

The luminous being answered, “It is best for treating headaches.”

We compared the Medicine Buddha website described by Ms. Sun with what Miss T had seen and found that the two accounts did indeed corroborate each other. Hearing Ms. Sun casually recount her visits to the Medicine Buddha was rather like hearing someone discuss the Sutra of the Original Vows and Merits of the Medicine Master Lapis Lazuli Radiance Tathagata. That sutra includes a passage in which the Bodhisattva Deliverance tells Ānanda the ritual and construction of the life-prolonging banner and lamps: “Light forty-nine lamps…” Anyone who has read Romance of the Three Kingdoms should find this familiar. Indeed, Zhuge Liang’s star-averting rite at Wuzhang Plains was quite similar. Was this pure coincidence, or did the author Luo Guanzhong know the Sutra of the Original Vows of the Medicine Master Lapis Lazuli Radiance Tathagata well? Figure 6

And in Tibet, the Medicine Buddha is the mythological origin of Tibetan medicine and also its guardian. In the Four Medical Tantras of Tibet, the scene of the Pure Land where the Medicine Buddha sits expounding the Dharma is described as not only pure and beautiful, but also planted with various medicinal plants around the palace. We wonder whether the medicine gardens seen by Ms. Sun and Miss T were among them?

In fact, besides the most commonly praised Medicine Master Lapis Lazuli Radiance Tathagata, there are also Dharma Ocean Supreme Wisdom King Tathagata, Dharma Ocean Thunder Sound King Tathagata, Worry-Free Supreme King Tathagata, Golden Immaculate Light Tathagata, Light Sound Sovereign King Tathagata, Good Name Auspicious Achievement Tathagata, and others, collectively known as the Seven Medicine Buddhas. Sometimes Shakyamuni Buddha is also included, making eight Medicine Buddhas. They are all compassionate in heart, working together to relieve suffering and cure illness for all sentient beings. We wonder which one our friends were acquainted with? With so many Tathagatas cooperating to manage and oversee the celestial medicine gardens, one day they should be able to heal the bodies and minds of all sentient beings.

Chapter 4: Conversing with Miss T’s Master

Although finger-reading experiments had been conducted for many years, it was not until December 29, 2000 that we officially began directly conversing with a divine spirit through finger-reading. The counterpart was Miss T’s master. According to what Miss T saw through her celestial eye, the master was a luminous being dressed in white clothing, but the face was too bright to discern the features clearly. Because other divine spirits had come to interfere with the experiment the previous day, we wanted to know exactly which divine being it was who took such an interest in us. So we wrote the first question on a piece of paper.

May I ask, Master: “Who was it that came to cause disturbances yesterday?”

As a result, Miss T’s celestial eye opened only three times before she heard the master tell her the answer: “I cannot say casually.”

Normally, even to read a single character or a single word in a finger-reading experiment, the celestial eye needs to open three or more times to complete the task. This time, the sample had twelve characters plus two punctuation marks, yet the answer came after only three openings of the celestial eye, and no characters appeared on the celestial eye at all. This indicates that Miss T completely did not know the question written on the slip of paper, and therefore could not have answered it consciously or subconsciously. It seemed that Miss T was merely playing the role of a medium, like a mobile phone, transmitting the question to the master in the information field and then relaying the master’s answer back to us. According to Miss T’s explanation, during ordinary finger-reading experiments when recognizing characters, she has to concentrate her mind on her fingers, and the celestial eye must open many times before she finishes reading one character or word. But during the experiments conversing with the master, she was very relaxed, did not need to focus on her fingers, and simply waited for the celestial eye to open. Then she would see a white screen rapidly shrink, as if being sent far away, with no characters on the screen. Then the second time the celestial eye opened, she received the master’s reply. The entire experiment proceeded very quickly. Therefore we are confident that this reply came from a certain consciousness in the information field, not from Miss T herself. Therefore, any question written in bold is a question we posed to Miss T’s master using the finger-reading method. Miss T completely did not know the content of the questions; her replies were answers from a consciousness in the information field.

Since divine spirits from the information field could come to participate in finger-reading experiments at any time, how should we experimenters interact with them? Could the subject Miss T be disturbed and suffer adverse effects on her physical and mental well-being? This made us very worried. Should we burn incense before starting the experiment? Sprinkle holy water? Recite the Heart Sutra? Chant mantras? Pray to seek their understanding? So we posed a question to the master:

“May I ask whether finger-reading experiments disturb the heavenly realm, causing various divine spirits to come observe and participate? How should we be mindful?”

As a result, when the screen appeared for the first time—it was completely blank—the question was sent out at that moment to the information field for the master. When the screen appeared for the second time, Miss T heard the master’s answer, in a mixture of Chinese and English:

“Sometimes yes, but it depends on your heart.”

Hearing these words, we felt as reassured as if we had taken a calming pill. As long as we did not use this ability for improper thoughts, we would not need to worry about being harmed.

So how great are the abilities of the divine spirits in the information field? What is their level of understanding? Do they also have things they cannot do? What do they do when they encounter things they do not know how to do? They possess abilities that appear to us as divine powers; can they know whatever they wish to know? Or do they also need to learn? For example, there are more than two thousand different languages on Earth; do they really know all of them? Otherwise, how do they communicate with the people who believe in and worship them?

We also asked him through the finger-reading experiment:

“Master, do you have a name? How should we address you?” His answer was:

” Nothing special, doesn’t matter. ”

The Master felt that a name was of no importance and it did not matter how we addressed him, gently brushing aside our question. It seems that we are, after all, mortals, always wanting to distinguish one another’s identities. We even pressed further to ask what level of divine being the Master was? But he refused to answer.

Every religion in the world acknowledges the existence of another non-physical realm, such as heaven and hell, which is the world we must report to after death. Aside from this, the discourses of each religion differ greatly: Western Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are monotheistic religions, which, through the Son of God, Jesus, or the Prophet Muhammad, bring the souls of the deceased to where God or Allah resides. Buddhism and Taoism, on the other hand, require seeking within oneself: one must cultivate oneself to clarify the mind and see one’s true nature, break through the single orifice of the mystic gate (xuanguan), leap out of reincarnation, and become one with the Great Dao. Is there any relationship among the founders or prophets of the various religions? Regarding this, we asked Miss T’s Master in the information field a few questions.

First question:

“Which level described in Buddhism corresponds to the ‘God’ spoken of in Christianity? Are the highest-level worlds described by the two religions the same? Please enlighten us.”

When Miss T’s brain screen opened for the third time, the Master’s answer arrived, in English:

” I don’t like to compare.”

” Which level of divine spirit in Buddhism does Jesus in Christianity correspond to? Please enlighten us.”

When Miss T’s brain screen opened for the second time, the Master’s answer arrived, in English:

“I don’t like to say.”

” Please enlighten us: Is the ‘Dao’ described by Laozi and the ‘God’ described by Christianity referring to the same thing? Are they both the creators of the universe?”

When Miss T’s brain screen opened for the second time:

” Hmm…”

The Master let out a very hesitant hmm, seeming unable to decide for a moment. It seems that the Master is very cautious about questions regarding heavenly affairs and personages that might cause trouble in the human world, and of course, it is even more likely that this kind of differentiating mind of us mortals is unnecessary and even difficult to understand in his eyes.

Samantabhadra Bodhisattva Does Not Easily Reveal Himself

However, some questions about heavenly affairs that would not cause contradictions in the human world did get answered. For a long time, when Miss T read the two characters for “Puxian” (Samantabhadra), no vision ever appeared, unlike several other bodhisattvas such as “Guanyin” (Avalokiteshvara) and “Wenshu” (Manjushri), which would cause her to see bright lights, luminous figures, or magnificent scenes, but when reading the three characters “Puxian Wang” (Samantabhadra King), she saw a bright light, which was very strange. Some speculated that this was an error produced when the text was translated into Chinese in early years; some said that Puxian Wang Bodhisattva is a bodhisattva of Esoteric Buddhism, and not one of the Four Great Bodhisattvas of Exoteric Buddhism. I, on the other hand, was busy trying to find some clues from within the scriptures. Not long after, a student gave me a passage of scripture from Volume 40 of the Mahavaipulya Buddha Avatamsaka Sutra (Da Fang Guang Fo Hua Yan Jing). The general idea was that at the Avatamsaka Assembly, apart from Shakyamuni Buddha, all the bodhisattvas and heavenly beings could not see Samantabhadra Bodhisattva, so they asked the Buddha: “Where is Puxian?” Later, the Buddha asked Samantabhadra Bodhisattva to lower his energy level and manifest himself, and only then was everyone able to see him. Since all the bodhisattvas and heavenly beings could not see Samantabhadra Bodhisattva, it is not surprising that our finger-reading experiment could not connect to Samantabhadra Bodhisattva’s website. So I took this question to ask Miss T’s Master:

” Please enlighten us: When Miss T conducts the finger-reading experiment, recognizing ‘Puxian’ never produces a bright light. Is this because (1) Samantabhadra Bodhisattva’s spiritual power is profound, and generally he cannot be seen. (2) The term ‘Puxian Wang’ must be used to correctly represent ‘Puxian’ Bodhisattva. (3) Other reasons.”

At first, the Master kept refusing to speak, until Miss T repeatedly urged and pleaded with him to just make a choice, and then he said:

” Alright, it’s (1).”

It seems that what is described in the Avatamsaka Sutra is true; Samantabhadra Bodhisattva is not someone that ordinary people can see, and it seems he does not casually let people connect to his website.

Divine Spirits Also Need to Learn

Miss T’s Master often answers questions in English, sometimes mixed with Chinese, and occasionally in Japanese; these are all languages Miss T commonly uses. Miss T was born in the United States; her father is Japanese and her mother is Chinese, so she is considered a Japanese-American citizen. Both Japanese and Mandarin are considered her mother tongues. At the age of five, her mother brought her back to Taiwan to be raised by her maternal grandparents, and at age six she entered an elementary school in Taichung, returning to the United States at age ten in the fourth grade, where she has been since. Therefore, she has been educated in the United States for a longer period of time; her English is better than her Chinese, and her Chinese, which has a foundation of four years of elementary education, is in turn better than her Japanese, which has received no formal schooling at all. The Master also accommodates her habits when communicating with her, frequently using the English language she is most familiar with.

We could not help but be curious: exactly how many languages does the Master know? I noticed that once when we consulted him using ancient Semitic script, he appeared very hesitant, thinking for a long time without being able to answer. I guessed that he might not know ancient Semitic script, so I asked him:

“Master, how many languages can you speak? Did you learn them during your reincarnations on Earth or other planets? Or do you simply know them as long as you want to know?”

His reaction was to answer with a loud laugh:

“More than you know. I also have to learn!”

The languages he knows far exceed what we know, but he still has to learn them to know them, which perfectly matches the hypothesis we proposed earlier: the sages of Esoteric Buddhism have never learned Han language (Chinese), nor have they learned Han language within the information field, therefore their information websites do not have Han language web addresses, and we cannot connect to the Esoteric Buddhism websites using Han language names such as “Padmasambhava”. As more and more people in China practice Esoteric Buddhism, it may give them an incentive to learn Han language.

Why does Miss T’s master learn so many languages? Does he have any special mission or purpose? He also doesn’t seem much like the deities worshipped by current religions. Could it be that he learned them during his reincarnations on Earth or other planets? Or did he learn them in the information field? Or is he not a deity at all, but an alien with high technology who invented a language machine, and using the characteristic that the information field has no time or space, connected to Miss T on Earth, incarnated as her master, and is playing a game with us? So I asked another question:

“Master, are you an alien?”

His answer was a mix of Chinese and English:

“You could say half, half!”

Half and half? Is he currently in the information field, but used to wander between Earth and other planets? Could it be that when he had a physical life he once learned different languages and scripts, and when he returned to the information field he brought this knowledge back with him? Is life a process of continuous learning?

Chapter 5: The Origin of Disease

To know that one does not know is best; to not know and think one knows is a sickness. Only by treating sickness as sickness can one be without sickness.

Laozi’s Dao De Jing

Modern science originated four hundred and fifty years ago in the era of Descartes and Galileo, following the spirit of Reductionism: when a thing is too complex and too difficult to understand, we can cut it into small pieces and then try to understand it; if it is still too complex, we cut it again, so it is cut down layer by layer, eventually being cut into molecules, atoms, and quarks. Reductionism believes that as long as the most basic structure of matter is understood, the entire material world can be fully understood. This spirit of reductionism has created modern technological civilization and can be considered very successful, but when encountering holistic fields such as the human body, it has many blind spots that cannot be overcome, such as the substance of the human meridian system and the mechanism of acupuncture.

Modern Medicine Needs Spirituality to Compensate

From our research on reading with fingers, we found that the human body can be divided into three levels: “body, mind, and spirit”. The “body” is the collection of human tissues and organs; the “mind” is the human potential developed by the brain; the “spirit” is the information field connected through human potential. Currently, mainstream science mainly focuses on the exploration of the “body” part, and its main direction is molecular biology, attempting to see the big picture from the small and understand the human body from molecules, which is a standard reductionist approach. The understanding and exploration of holism has just begun, and higher levels of human potential are mostly considered to be frauds, while the information field is simply not believed.

Based on the spirit of reductionism, modern medicine mainly treats diseases of the “body”, walking at the level of molecular biology, striving to find the molecular mechanisms of diseases. In fact, the human body can have problems at all three levels of “body, mind, and spirit” and thus produce diseases, but modern medicine does not believe in the spiritual realm, and doctors often cannot find the causes of diseases caused by the “spirit”, and naturally cannot cure them.

We asked Miss T’s master:

“Please enlighten us: Why do people get sick? Is it caused by (1) a mechanical problem of the body, or (2) a problem of the spirit?”

The master replied:

“Both.”

I asked again which is more common? He replied:

“(2), (2) is more difficult.”

The causes of illness are mostly problems caused by the “spirit”, and they are not easy to treat. If this is true, it means that modern medicine has a huge loophole that needs to be filled by spirituality.

The Principle of Spiritual Healing Comes From Karmic Retribution

In 2001, I was introduced by a friend to a great spiritual healer who specializes in treating various illnesses caused by the spirit, including some cases considered terminal by modern medicine, which is shocking and awe-inspiring. The principle of healing is entirely based on the karmic retribution spoken of in Buddhism. Through negotiation, consultation, and the dedication of merits, a win-win or multi-win strategy is found to achieve the healing effect, completely without the need to take medicine. This spiritual healing method is fundamentally different from modern medical treatment. In terms of the “body”, especially in emergency situations, modern medicine has its advantages, but when encountering diseases of the “spirit”, modern medicine can only relieve the symptoms. However, because it does not know the true cause of the disease, it cannot cure it radically.

A case I observed is as follows: the client was a young man in his thirties who had suffered from severe asthma for nearly thirty years and had always relied on medication for control. His father was a doctor at Veterans General Hospital, but he could only control the symptoms and could not cure it radically. After the great spiritual healer determined that the cause of the asthma was due to spiritual interference, he received only three treatments, which cured a thirty-year chronic illness without taking any medicine. It has been more than two years now, and the disease has not recurred.

The great spiritual healer could not only cure illness but also predict the future. One month after the September 11 incident in the United States in 2001, he told me that the disaster of the coming year would be a plague. In our limited life experience, we could not appreciate how terrifying a plague could be. As a result, when SARS emerged at the beginning of 2003, the whole of Taiwan was thrown into nervous tension, which made us feel the power of plague and the awe-inspiring prescience of the great spiritual healer.

After nearly three years of observing spiritual healing, I gradually came to understand that this universe—including the physical space-time and the information field!—has operating laws that we cannot name, and thus we call them karma or karmic force. “Do no evil, practice all good,” “it is not that retribution does not come, only that the time has not yet arrived”—these ancient wisdoms were perhaps precious experiences obtained by the ancient sages and worthies after communicating with the information field. Over four hundred years of development of reductionist science, these ancient wisdoms have been regarded as superstition and bizarre supernatural nonsense, to be swept into the ashes of history. Yet now we discover that while reductionist science has led us into the fantastically magnificent world of atoms, has it not, on the other hand, also departed from the greater reality of the universe? This deserves our careful examination.

Chapter 6: The Third Eye

The reason spiritual healers are able to perceive the true cause of illness and carry out treatment—that is, to negotiate with the disease-causing spirit—is that the most fundamental condition is to “be able to see,” to see things that ordinary people cannot see, which is commonly known as “opening the heavenly eye” or “heavenly eye power.” However, according to my observations, the so-called heavenly eye has many different levels, and the worlds it sees are also vastly different. This is of course even more distinct from the visual hallucinations and auditory hallucinations of psychiatry; one must absolutely not confuse the two. This peculiar heavenly eye has in fact existed abundantly throughout human history, but it has rarely been taken seriously, because the world that most people “cannot see” is truly difficult to explain clearly and articulate precisely. However, while it cannot be made clear in the real world, in fiction it is vividly and captivatingly alive!

When I was a child reading Investiture of the Gods, the character I was most fascinated by and idolized was Yang Jian, the great general under Jiang Ziya. He was a Daoist priest, a disciple of Master Yuding of the Golden Dawn Cave on Jade Spring Mountain. Like Sun Wukong in Journey to the West, he mastered the supreme art of seventy-two transformations and always carried with him the Hound Xiaotian. What was especially formidable was that he had cultivated the “Nine-Turn Refined Origin Skill.” When assisting King Wu in his campaign against King Zhou, whenever he was bitten in half by the capable men and extraordinary warriors under King Zhou’s command, he would burrow into the opponent’s belly and act according to the situation to achieve miraculous feats. But what interested me most was that he had three eyes. Besides his normal pair of eyes, he had an additional third eye at the position of the forehead between the eyebrows. This eye was not normally opened easily, but once it was opened, it could emit white light from the gaze and observe the heavenly realm above. Investiture of the Gods reveres Daoism; the author was Xu Zhonglin of the Ming dynasty (one theory says it was the Daoist priest Lu Xixing), who was clearly a person who esteemed Daoism. How could he have imagined the concept of the “third eye”? Later I noticed that among the statues of the buddhas and bodhisattvas in Buddhist temples, some were also sculpted with three eyes, and the third eye was likewise at the position of the forehead between the eyebrows. This was very puzzling—why would there be an extra eye?

Color Recognition Research

After beginning research on the perplexing phenomenon of finger-reading in 1993, I once thought that this phenomenon occurred because tactile signals from the fingers, in the process of being transmitted into the brain, were accidentally sent to the occipital region of the brain that governs vision. At the time, I bought four or five neurophysiology textbooks and studied them carefully, hoping to find some clues from them. But after three or four years of struggle, I still could not understand how color signals could be transmitted through the tactile pathway. More importantly, I observed that high-level qigong practitioners in mainland China could “see” the characters written on paper without their hands ever touching it. This indicated that the generation, transmission, and reception of the signals did not go through the tactile sense but through some other pathway, and that the brain must have a region governing extraordinary vision that was doing this work of character recognition.

So we invited a psychologist to help design a brain cognition experiment. First, we had subjects read characters while wearing an eye mask, or in a dark room and other environments without light. We discovered that while they could still recognize the shapes of the characters, the error rate for colors began to rise. Especially in a completely lightless dark-room environment, the colors were almost entirely wrong. We found that the light seen through normal vision was originally used as the light source for extraordinary vision, illuminating the screen of the heavenly eye so that the colors of the text on the screen could be seen. Finger-reading, this kind of extraordinary vision, and normal vision are different visual pathways in the brain, but the two have a strong interactive effect.

Next, through finger-reading’s recognition of the seven colors of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet, we discovered that the brain’s extraordinary vision is completely identical to normal vision in recognizing the longer-wavelength colors of red, yellow, and green. However, for the shorter-wavelength colors of blue and violet, the brightness perceived by extraordinary vision was weaker than that perceived by normal vision; that is, extraordinary vision was less sensitive to blue and violet. But extraordinary vision, just like normal vision, also sees the seven colors of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet—electromagnetic waves in the wavelength range from four thousand to seven thousand angstroms—seeing neither more nor fewer. Finally, we designed finger-reading experiments in a red-light environment and obtained sufficient evidence showing that finger-reading, this kind of extraordinary vision, and normal vision are indeed different visual pathways. But what was strange was that although the pathways were different, extraordinary vision’s recognition of colors and its manner of character recognition were almost completely identical to normal vision, as if there were another eye in our brain. I then thought that this eye hidden within the brain was precisely the “third eye” that had puzzled me since childhood.

Where Is the Third Eye?

Where exactly is the third eye located in the brain? Is it in the brain behind the glabella? We decided to use functional magnetic resonance imaging (f MRI) to measure the blood volume changes in Miss T’s brain when she reads with her fingers, hoping to observe which area changes when the third eye opens. This experiment took four years and involved a total of six measurements. During the first and second experiments, because the signal measured when the third eye opened was too large—up to forty times larger than the signals measured in a typical cognitive experiment—all the experts participating in the experiment did not believe it was a real signal and considered it an experimental error. We also consulted Miss T’s Master on December 31, 2000:

“Is the position of the Heavenly Eye in the pineal gland of the brain?”

The Master’s answer was:

“Somewhere deeper.”

What could be a deeper place? We tried again and again, and found that under stricter conditions, the same signal still reappeared precisely and repeatedly, which finally convinced the f MRI experts that these signals were real. When Miss T’s third eye opened, the largest signal occurred in an area at the top of the spine, behind the thalamus, which intersects with the pineal gland but is not entirely the pineal gland. Viewed from the front of the face, it is indeed behind the glabella; if viewed from the top of the head downward, it is below the Baihui acupoint. This is exactly what Taoism calls the Niwan (Huan) Palace and the Upper Dantian. As stated in Volume 33 of the Yunji Qiqian: “Entering one inch backward from the middle of the eyebrows is the Mingtang, two inches is the Dongfang, and three inches is the Upper Dantian (Niwan Palace)---“. It is also the Ajna Chakra among the chakras described in the Highest Yoga Tantra of Tibetan Buddhism, located at the upper end of the central channel inside the triangular bone between the eyebrows, and it is believed that this chakra is closely related to the cultivation of the “Heavenly Eye.” It seems we have once again verified that ancient legends are not just legends. In January 2002, we once again sought verification from the Master:

“Is the Heavenly Eye in the pineal gland of the brain? Or is it a larger area that includes the pineal gland?”

“Second one is better and closer”, “Not exactly.”

In June 2003, we wrote up the experimental results as a paper and presented it at the world’s best f MRI international conference, becoming the first scientific report on the location of the “third eye” in the brain.

Dragons in the Spiritual Realm

Ordinary mortals without the heavenly eye cannot actively see the sights of the information field (or spiritual realm), yet the creatures or deities of the information field seem to be able to selectively appear in our space-time. In 2003, my Daoist priest friend Mr. W revealed: “Dragons” do exist, but they are animals of the information field, and ordinary people usually cannot see them. Upon hearing this, the only thought in my head was: Sun Chulin has seen one. It turns out that Ms. Sun had told us more than once that when she was young and sent down to the countryside, she saw dragons bringing rain in Zhongxiang County, Hubei Province, which is known in legends as the hometown of dragons. Moreover, it was not just her; dozens of people in the entire village saw it, and the farmers said: “Look carefully, this is a rare sight seen only once in a century!” If this is true, then the mysterious legends about “dragons” over thousands of years and their divinity suddenly become clear: they are animals of the information field, unrestricted by time and space, and might possess the ability to summon the wind and call the rain.

Dragons play an extremely important role in Chinese culture; the dragon symbolizes the Son of Heaven, and only the emperor could wear a dragon robe. Chinese people call themselves the descendants of the dragon. The dragon, which ranks fifth among the twelve Chinese zodiac signs, is the most popular zodiac animal. Every Year of the Dragon, there is a baby boom, and even educational institutions must hurry to prepare additional classes for these dragon sons and dragon daughters. However, this dragon is also the only animal among the twelve zodiac signs that everyone has never truly seen. Does the dragon really exist? What exactly is the origin of its legends?

It is generally believed that the legend of the dragon originated in the early Neolithic Age, more than 8,000 years ago. During this period, primitive ancestors already knew methods of animal husbandry, keeping hunted wild horses, wild cattle, wild boars, and so forth as sources of food; they also gradually transitioned into an agrarian social structure, selecting farmland to plant grains in pursuit of a harvest. They were already adept at making and using fire, had learned to build simple houses with wood, began to grind stone and bone tools, handcrafted pottery, and gradually settled down. At that time, ancestors felt awe towards the behaviors of certain animals, such as fish swimming ceaselessly, crocodilians having fierce sounds and forms, snakes being dark and terrifying, and lizards having bizarre shapes and colors, as well as towards the endlessly changing natural weather phenomena such as flashing lightning, rumbling thunder, pouring rain, rolling waves, and mudslides roaring down to swallow up villages, humans, and livestock, sweeping away all obstacles. They vaguely guessed that there must be an infinitely powerful “divine creature” that dominated, manipulated, and managed these animals and natural phenomena, just as a tribe must have a leader. This divine creature was the “dragon,” an amalgamation of these animals, possessing the body of a snake, the head of a crocodile, the scales of a fish, and the feet of a lizard, thus becoming an object of worship. This was also a form of “understanding” of the inconceivable forces of nature. For thousands of years, the divine nature of dragons could be roughly summarized as delighting in water, being fond of flying, connecting with heaven, being adept at transformation, possessing spiritual anomalies, serving as omens of disaster, and demonstrating might.

This is an explanation of mythology using modern knowledge, and it sounds perfectly reasonable. However, if the dragon is an animal that truly exists, these explanations collapse on their own.

So we asked Miss T’s Master about this question:

“Please enlighten us: 1. Did the animal ‘dragon’ ever appear on prehistoric Earth? (1) Yes, it appeared; (2) No, it did not appear. 2. Does the ‘dragon’ actually exist now? (1) It does not exist at all; (2) It exists somewhere on Earth; (3) It is an animal of the spiritual realm and still exists; (4) Other.”

The Master’s answer…

“(1),(3)”

The answer to the first question is (1), and the answer to the second question is (3), indicating that “dragons” appeared on prehistoric Earth and are now animals of the spirit world, and that they still exist. The answer given to us by Miss T’s teacher seems to match Mr. W’s account.

Since dragons are animals of the spirit world, invisible to the human eye, how did the dragon shape familiar to us come about? It is very likely that because the leaders of ancient tribes were generally shamans who could directly communicate with the information field, they saw the image of the dragon, depicted it, and passed it down from generation to generation. Furthermore, since the dragon is an animal of the information field without a physical body, why does the legendary dragon shape still exist? Judging from the teacher’s answer, it should once have appeared on Earth in physical bodily form, and therefore after returning to the information field, the spirit body still preserved the shape of its original physical body. What is special about the dragon’s status in the information field? We asked the teacher:

“What work do ‘dragons’ manage in the information field? (1) Cultivating themselves to develop toward higher levels (2) Managing and controlling the climate, wind, rain, thunder, and lightning on Earth (3) Serving the deities of the heavenly realm (4) Other.”

The answer given by the teacher was (1).

“Dragons” are diligently practicing spiritual cultivation in the information field. Seeing this answer, one cannot help but recall the scenes that frequently appear in Buddhist scriptures, where beings such as devas, dragons, bodhisattvas, humans, and asuras all gather together to listen to the Buddha expound the Dharma. Such “dragons” are not only not frightening, but are in fact endearing and worthy of respect.

As for the long-standing and deeply rooted intimate relationship between the Chinese people and dragons, that is the next step of our curiosity and exploration.

Chapter 7: The Teacher Finds the Disciple

The Way of Heaven: Contends not yet excels at prevailing, Speaks not yet responds of itself, Is not summoned yet comes of its own, Is unhurried yet excels at planning.

Laozi, Dao De Jing

The information field is filled with high-intelligence information, including deities and their websites. In conducting our finger-reading experiments, in order to verify whether the anomalous phenomena produced by certain special terms possess reproducibility and consistency, we had to frequently change various methods to click on their websites in order to find the correct web addresses of each website, and to repeatedly attempt to enter within the websites. Speaking of it, this is rather like the behavior of computer hackers. We do not know how the “people” in the information field regard such behavior. Would they become angry and resentful, and track down the troublemakers by coming to our experimental site, even intervening in the experiments and causing chaotic results? Or would they feel that “the young can be taught,” and therefore vigorously help to elevate our capabilities?

Deities Come to Make Mischief

December 28, 2000 — When Miss T was doing a finger-reading experiment, a very unusual phenomenon occurred. The first sample had the two characters “Ji Gong” written on it. “Ji Gong” is a sacred term; in five previous tests of the same kind, Miss T always saw bright light, a bright figure, or bright characters, but this time she saw “Qi Gong,” without any light or brightness at all. It was as though the three-dot water radical on the left side of the character “Ji” was first erased, turning it into “Qi,” before being sent into her brain for recognition. The result of recognizing the second term, “Falun Gong,” was even stranger: she recognized the two characters as “Lun Fa,” reversing their order, while failing to recognize the character “Gong.” Miss T often omitted part of a character while reading, but she had never before reversed the order of characters. The third slip, “Patriarch of Pure Water,” was seen as “Patriarch of Blue Water”; once again, the three-dot water radical on the left of “pure” had been erased. Occasional misreadings or omitted radicals were not unusual, but this succession of errors seemed strange. The fourth slip, “Daoism,” was seen as “Teachings of the Dao,” reversing the two characters again. The situation was becoming increasingly abnormal, and Miss T’s character-reading ability appeared to be malfunctioning. The fifth and sixth terms, “Lin Moniang” and “Guanyin,” were also read incorrectly, with both omissions and wrong characters. It seemed that Miss T’s finger-reading ability had developed a serious problem. As a final confirmation, I tested her with the single character “Buddha.”

We had tested “Buddha” and related terms more than fifty times, and without exception Miss T had seen anomalous phenomena such as bright light or a luminous person. This time, however, she saw no anomaly at all and instead saw the character’s component “person.” I therefore concluded that Miss T’s finger-reading ability had indeed developed a problem.

We stopped the experiment and asked Miss T to go upstairs immediately to meditate and consult the highly intelligent guiding spirit in the information field—commonly called her “Master”—about what had happened. Her Master answered only: “They came to make mischief.” In other words, certain spirits in the information field had intervened in the experimental process and deliberately disrupted the results.

This experience showed that if gods, spirits, or other beings from the information field participate in our experiments, their abilities far exceed ours and, because “the enemy is hidden while we are exposed,” interfering with or blocking a gifted person’s manifestation of mind–matter unity is effortless for them. Only after recognizing this did we realize that, when interpreting finger-reading results, whether spirits from the information field participated must be treated as a variable if our conclusions are to approach the facts.

This also explains why experiments involving extraordinary abilities are often difficult to reproduce completely. Beyond the difficulty of fully controlling the gifted person’s physical and mental condition, there is an immense, intelligent information field beyond our control that may intervene at any time and seriously affect the results.

How can we exclude such interference, control the external factors of the experiment as completely as possible, and reduce environmental variables to a minimum? Might prayer, scripture recitation, incense, holy water, or mantras help?

I have had the privilege of meeting a contemporary Daoist priest, Mr. W, now in his thirties, who went from mainland China to the United States for study, earned a master’s degree in biochemistry, and now uses Daoist arts to serve others. Although Mr. W is young, his skill is profound and his cultivation of ritual arts is refined; there are things he will and will not do, things he can and cannot speak of; his speech is modest and amiable, and his principles are clear. He possesses a complete cognitive system regarding the universe, and can approach different problems from different angles, presenting well-organized arguments and explanations. He once drew some talismans for children to use in experiments on finger-reading (recognizing characters with the fingers); as a result, the children with psychic abilities did not see the talismans but instead saw visions: some were bright lights, some were rotating black spheres or randomly pointing arrows, indicating that these talismans are also web addresses that can connect to certain special information websites, producing effects such as roaming through time and space, or averting disasters, resolving misfortunes, and curing illnesses.

When Miss T underwent magnetoencephalography (MEG) at Taipei Veterans General Hospital, spirits came to interfere during every experiment. Miss T could see this clearly in her Heavenly Eye: sometimes a black shadow would rush toward her, sometimes a hairy claw would try to press down her screen, and sometimes the messages she sent out would be intercepted and bounced back—there was no end to it, making it impossible for our experiments to proceed smoothly and causing us great headaches. So we consulted Mr. W: could he help set up a protective field during the experiments, like a golden bell shield, to protect the subject and prevent interference from external spirits? He said he could. Thus, when Miss T underwent magnetoencephalography, we invited Mr. W to the experiment site to provide protection. We saw him keep his eyes closed throughout the entire process, fully focused, murmuring incantations under his breath. The result was excellent: throughout the entire experiment, Miss T was not interfered with by external spirits at all, and everything was completed smoothly. Apparently, the golden bell shield he set up had done its job. I was not only grateful to and admiring of Mr. W, but also deeply felt the profound mystery of Daoist ritual arts. The Daoist learning that has endured for thousands of years is by no means empty; it is just that true masters who can truly carry on the legacy of the ancient sages are hard to find. I consider myself uniquely fortunate, always meeting capable people from various fields at the necessary moments, which has allowed the research on extraordinary phenomena to continue.

Miss T’s Second Master

On New Year’s Day 2004, we arranged with Miss T to conduct, in the morning at the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan University, experiments on how magnetic fields affect finger-reading, and to observe infrared images of the palm; in the afternoon, at the Department of Psychology at Chinese Culture University, we would observe changes in the pupils of the eyes during finger-reading. To prepare for this experiment, we spent four hours the afternoon before setting up the infrared equipment, hoping that the next day’s experiment could proceed quickly and effectively. At ten o’clock on New Year’s Day morning, we began testing the first sample, while simultaneously using an infrared camera to monitor Miss T’s finger movements and temperature inside the dark bag. Simple finger-reading was nothing more than simple for Miss T, and we all expected to be able to complete the experiment quickly.

Unexpectedly, the experiment did not go very smoothly. It took fourteen minutes, and she saw a not-very-certain green “21” or “71.” This was truly strange, as the correct answer was the green number “9381.” With such a simple digit recognition task, Miss T should not have made an error.

Next, the second sample test took even longer—twenty-one minutes—to see. The answer was the character “輝,” but the “光” on the left side of the “輝” she saw was upside down. Based on experience, this meant that a “spirit” had come to the scene and was interfering with our experiment. We asked Miss T to inquire of her master, and sure enough, it confirmed our guess. “Can we ask him to leave?” The master said, “It won’t be easy!” What should we do? It looked like our carefully designed experiment was about to be ruined. We tried various words such as talismans and Buddha, but none worked. Not only did he not leave, he also completely messed up the images appearing in Miss T’s Heavenly Eye, making them totally different from usual. We kept trying until noon, and had to end the experiment dejectedly. All our careful preparation went down the drain; we could only hope that going up Yangming Mountain in the afternoon would free us from the spirit’s harassment.

The experiment conducted at Chinese Culture University was intended to understand whether, when Miss T’s Heavenly Eye saw bright light upon testing sacred words, her pupils would constrict—that is, we wanted to know whether, when the Heavenly Eye perceives strong light, the autonomic nervous system controlling the pupils would act. Therefore, the subject had to wear a helmet to fix the position of the pupils, which was very uncomfortable. Right from the start of the experiment, we found that the spirit was still nearby, continuously interfering. After two attempts, we decided to give up and talk to the other party directly. So, through finger-reading, we asked:

“Great Spirit, from what level of heaven did you come? Is your purpose in coming to teach us about the multiple levels of the information field? What do you want to tell us?”

Miss T tried to send a thought to the Great Spirit, and unexpectedly, it worked. Before long, she saw a person in her Heavenly Eye, wearing clothing very much like the wide garments worn by ancient Japanese men, crossing his arms in big X’s, looking very unhappy, and ignoring all questions asked of him. So we asked him another question:

“Great Spirit, how did you know we were conducting an experiment today? (1) You saw it yourself and came; (2) A person on Earth notified you; (3) A deity of the spirit realm knew and notified you; (4) As soon as we began the experiment, it disturbed the heavenly realm and you became aware.”

We also asked Miss T to request him to answer our questions. This time he answered, using Japanese: “No.”

This was a Japanese spirit. Should we ask questions in Japanese? He said:

“No need, today won’t do.”

He spoke entirely in Japanese throughout. He apparently knew that Miss T understood Japanese, so communication was not a problem.

“Today is my day. You cannot do experiments today, so I made the car stall. Later, someone told me not to do that, so I stopped.”

Now we were completely bewildered. What day of yours is today? What does it have to do with us? Why won’t you let us do experiments? Was it really he who stalled my car engine, leaving me unable to start it for half an hour, so that I had to ask Miss T’s master to intercede? I asked Miss T to ask again: what day is today? Why won’t you let us do experiments?

“Today simply won’t do, because Maie (Miss T’s name) needs to practice.”

Miss T needs to practice, so we can’t do experiments? What does she need to practice?

“You will know in a little while.”

“Today is my day.”

How long is a little while? What exactly does she need to practice?

“Enough!”

The Great Spirit was growing impatient.

What exactly did he want Miss T to practice?

“The ability you desire most; but it is not that easy. Today is the best opportunity.”

The ability Miss T desired most was to understand the language of animals. When she was a child, she had been able to understand what monkeys and birds said for a period of three months, and then lost this ability. To this day she still could not forget it, hoping to recover the ability, and was in fact preparing to pursue a post-baccalaureate degree in veterinary medicine in the United States, expecting to use this ability to help animals. She chose to be a doctor for animals rather than for humans precisely because she sympathized with animals, which could not speak human language and were unable to let doctors understand their suffering. The Great Spirit said:

“When communicating with animals, your consciousness must pass through their bodies.”

The first step was to bring the image of the animal into the Celestial Eye.

“An hour before you go to sleep at night, you must bring all the animals you saw today into your Celestial Eye. I will leave a message on one of the animals, and you must try hard to find it.”

This was Miss T’s first assignment, and there would certainly be many more in the future. The appearance of this master initiated another course of cultivation for Miss T. The real-life version of Doctor Dolittle, the animal expert, was about to premiere, and we were all beyond ourselves with excitement and anticipation.

At this point I suddenly recalled that this Great Spirit was the “second master” of Miss T that Mr. W had spoken of five years ago — a Japanese warrior who, in a peculiar manner, chose New Year’s Day as the date to formally take on a disciple, intending to teach Miss T to comprehend the language of animals. A day we thought had been wasted turned out to be an important day on which we witnessed the Great Spirit taking a disciple. Back in 1999, when I first met the present-day Daoist Mr. W, I played a videotape of Miss Ding’s finger-reading experiment from 1993 to seek his guidance. After seeing Miss T in the videotape, Mr. W told me that Miss Ding had two masters in the information field — one dressed in white, and the other a Japanese warrior. What I knew at the time was that Miss T did indeed have one master who dressed in white, but there was no second master. Over all these years I rarely thought about this matter, until today when this master appeared in such a manner!

Why didn’t the White-Clad Master clearly tell us the truth? Why didn’t he tell us directly that the second master was coming to take on a disciple? And how could a master from the spirit world control my car, intruding from the information field into the physical world — how was that done? From then on, Miss T painstakingly practiced meditation every day. Two weeks later, she finally succeeded in bringing the animals she had seen that day into her Celestial Eye, and dimly saw the message that the second master had placed on one of the dogs. However, according to her, the master was quite dissatisfied with her performance, thinking she was not sufficiently diligent. It seemed that Miss T had encountered a strict teacher.

Speaking of communicating with animals, one cannot help but think of the ancient figure Gongye Chang, who could understand the language of birds. According to records in ancient miscellanies, once a little bird said to Gongye Chang: “Gongye Chang! Gongye Chang! There is a sheep on the southern mountain. You eat the meat, I eat the intestines.” As it turned out, Gongye Chang forgot this agreement and ate the entire sheep, leaving nothing for the bird, which became very angry. Later, the bird again told him there was a sheep on the southern mountain. Gongye Chang ran to look — there was no sheep, but a person who had been murdered. The authorities seized him as a suspect. This is a story most people have read or heard. Furthermore, the first entry of the “Gongye Chang” chapter of The Analects is written thus:

“The Master said of Gongye Chang that he was worthy of being given a wife. Though he was in bonds, it was not his fault. He gave him his daughter as wife.” The “Gongye Chang” chapter records Confucius’s appraisals of his various disciples, and the very first to be discussed is Gongye Chang. The gist is that although Gongye Chang was in prison, Confucius believed it was not his fault, and so he married his daughter to him. Did everyone catch that? Who was this Gongye Chang? He was Confucius’s son-in-law. Everyone knows that Confucius had three thousand disciples, of whom seventy-two were worthies, yet he married his daughter to Gongye Chang — and Gongye Chang was a person with the extraordinary ability to understand the language of birds. How thought-provoking!

Only Masters Seek Disciples

Returning to our subject, we want to continue the topic raised earlier about spirit-world masters seeking disciples. From 1996 to early 2000, a period of over three years, I collaborated with Professor Shen Jinchuan and Assistant Researcher Sun Chulin of the Institute of Human Body Science at China University of Geosciences in Beijing, conducting research on psychokinetic phenomena such as “resurrection and germination of dead peanuts,” “consciousness micro-carving,” and “the power of mental drilling,” and published some of the results in the journal Chinese Journal of Somatic Science. At the time, Ms. Sun told us that she had four masters in the information field who frequently came to teach her various extraordinary abilities while she was meditating. For example, the skill of shaking pills out from inside a sealed bottle — the first master one evening told her the trick, and she mastered it on her first attempt.

In early 2000, Ms. Sun’s fifth master appeared. That night, while she was meditating, she suddenly saw a bed floating over from afar through her Heavenly Eye. It slowly floated in front of her, and lying on his side on it was a Daoist priest, propping his head up with his hand and looking at her: “I will teach you to project your Yang spirit, do you want to learn?” She said, “Okay!” The Daoist priest then told her the mnemonic formulas and demonstrated it to her, so she learned it all at once. From then on, she had five masters. Later, this master introduced himself as the famous Sleeping Immortal Chen Tuan, a Daoist priest of the Northern Song dynasty.

This kind of process where a master seeks out an apprentice is quite dramatic, sounding like the plot of a fantasy or martial arts novel. And the second master of Miss T, whom we experienced, also appeared suddenly like this to teach her paranormal abilities. As for whether these people with great abilities can search around in the information field themselves, finding a master they like before taking them as a master to learn skills? Up to now, I have not heard of it. It seems that “masters seek apprentices, but apprentices cannot find masters.” I think the divine spirits in the information field look at us humans probably just like we look at ants; ordinarily, they do not have much interest, because the disparity in all aspects is truly too far. When do we notice the existence of ants? It is when an ant bites us, and only when it hurts a bit do you go look and see what is going on. At a glance, it turns out to be an ant, and then you look at where it came from, and whether it has any karmic connection with you.

When a person’s cultivated abilities become higher and higher, like a child’s word-reading ability getting better and better, and the version of their brain’s web browser getting newer and newer, then the probability of connecting to information websites increases accordingly. If they frequently go to click on websites, they might disturb the webmaster, who is the divine spirit of the information field, and so he might come to observe who is connecting to his website. Upon looking, he finds that this person has an affinity with him, and so he comes to take the person as an apprentice. Therefore, the higher the abilities of a person with paranormal abilities, the broader the network world they can contact, and the more masters they might have. The methods taught by each master are different, so the abilities of the person with paranormal abilities become increasingly diverse, and their power becomes stronger and stronger, forming a phenomenon of positive feedback.

For children who develop abilities through finger-reading training, if they practice continuously, some will gradually be able to see the spiritual realm, and some will also have masters come to find them. Therefore, children and parents who intend to continue training these abilities must first have complete psychological preparation, and fully understand the concepts of human body, mind, and spirit science as well as the information field, in order to calmly handle the various phenomena that follow.

Chapter 8 Foreseeing the Future

Without going out of the door, one knows the world. Without looking through the window, one sees the Way of Heaven. The further one goes, the less one knows. Therefore the sage knows without traveling. Laozi’s Dao De Jing

Since ancient times, there have been stories of all kinds foreseeing the future or remote viewing from afar, scattered throughout various miscellanies or historical books. In October 1997, the Fourth “China Conference on Somatic Science” was held in Beijing. Over a hundred scholars engaged in human paranormal abilities from mainland China, Japan, and Taiwan gathered at the Beijing Library for a three-day seminar to report on the latest research results regarding human paranormal abilities. October in Beijing was already bitingly cold, with temperatures near zero degrees Celsius, but the atmosphere inside the conference venue was high, extremely passionate, and everyone was looking forward to new results and new surprises. Everyone had a sense of mission to be at the forefront of science and lead humanity in exploring the inner cosmic mysteries of the body.

At the conference, a middle-aged man of medium build and kindly face brought a stack of articles to find me, hoping I could see if it was possible to publish them in Taiwan. He introduced himself as Chen Taoqiu, an electronic engineer from Shanghai. Upon hearing that he studied electronic engineering, I immediately felt a sense of affinity, because what I studied was electrical engineering, so we were in the same field. The articles belonged to the collection and organization of ancient Chinese documents, with many cases such as “remote perception,” “marvelous effects of the mind,” “early warning and foreknowledge,” and “extraordinary intelligence.” He gave it a very interesting name, called “Ancient Experimental Science in Somatic Science,” which aroused my interest, and I listened carefully to his paper presentation. It turned out that he adopted the argument of mainland aeronautical scholar Qian Xuesen: historical documents are records of human past social practice and can also be treated as laboratory notes. ----, through identification, discarding the rough and selecting the essence, eliminating the false and retaining the true, it is organized to form a discipline of ancient experiments, which can be called “Ancient Experimental Science.” One of the important tasks of Ancient Experimental Science is to use modern experimental methods to search for and verify the enlightenment that various ancient documents provide to contemporary science and technology. For example, in the “Treatise on Astronomy” of the Book of Han, there is a record of the earliest supernova explosion in human history in 185 AD; on the oracle bone script of the Yinxu ruins, there is a record of a solar eclipse in 2202 BC, from which evidence of the Earth’s rotation slowing down over three thousand years was discovered.

Cases of Human Potential in Ancient China

Due to various setbacks, Mr. Chen’s book could not be published in Taiwan, but Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press finally passed the review and published his book Selected Historical Cases of Human Potential in December 1998. He selected 318 entries from over a thousand cases in Chinese historical classics, local gazetteers, and historical notes, and divided them into three parts—upper, middle, and lower—in chronological order, adding citations, sources, annotations, and vernacular translations to compile this treasure book for understanding ancient human paranormal abilities. Let us first give two ancient examples to see how human potential played an important role in history:

Records of the Grand Historian (Shi Ji), “Basic Annals of Yin,” Volume 3, records the miraculous story of Yin Gaozong seeking Fu Yue, the chancellor who would bring about a revival. Cheng Tang overthrew the Xia dynasty and established the Shang dynasty. Over the next two hundred years, the capital was moved several times, and the nation’s fortunes experienced multiple rises and falls. After Pan Geng moved the capital to Yin, his nephew Wu Ding (1271–1213 BCE) ascended the throne (known to later generations as Yin Gaozong). He immediately began to consider how to make Yin prosper again but suffered from the inability to obtain excellent assistants. For three years, he entrusted the administration of the state to others, quietly observing the nation’s customs and the people’s sentiments. One night, Wu Ding dreamt of a sage named “Yue,” who was not one of the current civil or military officials. He then sent officials to search across the country, and eventually, they found “Yue.” At that time, he was a slave, building a road at Fu Xian (present-day Pinglu, Shanxi),

He was brought to the capital to see Wu Ding. Upon seeing him, Wu Ding said, “This is the man from my dream.” He then appointed him as chancellor, and the State of Yin achieved great order. Thus, the place of his discovery, Fu Xian, was bestowed upon him as his surname, and his grand title became Fu Yue. This act of seeing a person’s image in a dream belongs to the extrasensory perception of “remote viewing.” Surprisingly, Yin Gaozong relied on human potential to bring about the state’s revival.

Records of the Grand Historian (Shi Ji), “Biographies of Bian Que and Cang Gong,” Volume 105. The famous physician Bian Que (Qin Yueren) lived around the same time as Confucius. After taking the secret prescription medicine from Lord Chang Sang for thirty days, he was actually able to see people on the other side of a wall. From then on, when Bian Que treated patients, he could gain insight into the location of the disease within the patient’s five viscera. That is to say, Bian Que possessed the divine eye, one of the six supernatural powers in Buddhism, or the X-ray vision of extrasensory perception found in human special functions. It seems that to become a famous physician like Bian Que, the skill of “observation, auscultation, inquiry, and pulse-taking” during diagnosis is indispensable; among them, besides ordinary vision, “observation” might also require a bit of X-ray ability.

Mr. Chen Taoqiu graduated from Tsinghua University in Beijing in the 1960s. At that time, he became interested in foreign research on using brainwaves for human potential, so he decided to enter the field of bioelectronics. In the 1970s, while he was sent down to work in a remote mountain valley outside the Great Wall, he seized the opportunity presented by US President Nixon’s visit to the mainland, which brought the traditional Chinese medical system of acupuncture treatment and acupuncture anesthesia to the world. He applied for ministerial and provincial research funding, successfully developed a highly sensitive “dual-line electrophysiological oscilloscope,” and later returned to Shanghai to engage in the production of instruments.

He was deeply interested in historical records of brain remote sensing. After long-term collection and analysis, he believed that “various human potentials are neither contemporary miracles nor do they need to be imported from abroad, because a large number of conclusive records can be found in China’s vast ancient texts. Since they existed in history, they must inevitably exist in reality. Their authenticity can be confirmed and corroborated between ancient and modern times through social surveys and laboratory research. This is the ‘ancient experimentation in human science’.”

In my research and case investigations of qigong and special functions over the past fifteen years, I have indeed verified the widespread phenomenon of human potential in human society. Now, from the Selected Historical Cases of Human Potential, I will select three ancient cases to illustrate the phenomena of “telepathy,” “precognition,” and “spirit channeling.”

History of Song (Song Shi), Volume 443, records the case of the Northern Song’s Tang Bohu telepathically sensing his father’s critical illness. In 1088 CE, Tang Bohu’s father went traveling to Hunan, while he and his brothers stayed in Danshan to observe the mourning period for their mother. One night, Bohu kicked his younger brother Tang Geng awake and said: “I dreamt of receiving an urgent letter from Father. Upon opening it, I only saw the two words ‘come quickly.’ Could Father have had an accident?” He then decided to rush to Hunan to visit his father. Early the next morning, he went to hire a boat. It happened that the river water was swelling, and passenger boats stayed by the shore, not daring to move easily. Tang Bohu finally used a large sum of money to force the boatman to set off, and two and a half days later, he arrived in Hunan. Tang’s father was indeed seriously ill and was greatly surprised by Bohu’s sudden arrival. Bohu prepared a boat to take his father home, and a few days later, his father’s illness flared up and he died.

This phenomenon of sensing critical danger is endlessly recorded by officials. I myself have heard and read of many such cases from the mouths of relatives and friends and in newspaper and magazine reports. These events come without warning and cannot be repeated, so they are not acknowledged by modern scientists. But those who experience them firsthand can feel that bone-deep shock and no longer doubt their authenticity.

Old Book of Tang (Jiu Tang Shu), Volume 191, records that the famous Sui and Tang dynasty physician Sun Simiao possessed the ability of precognition. From his childhood, Sun Simiao was determined to study, and by his twenties, he was proficient in the theories of Zhuang Zhou, Laozi, and the Hundred Schools of Thought, and he also had considerable research into Buddhist classics. Emperor Wen of Sui, Emperor Taizong of Tang, and Emperor Gaozong of Tang repeatedly issued edicts wishing to appoint him as an official, but he declined and did not accept. He summarized the medical theories and clinical experiences before the Tang dynasty, widely collected prescriptions, medicines, and acupuncture techniques, and wrote the widely circulated Qianjin Fang (Thousand Golden Essential Prescriptions) in 30 volumes. He first listed women’s and children’s diseases, advocated the classification of viscera and bowel diseases, and established a new systematic approach for traditional Chinese medicine. Additionally, he first recorded the formula for gunpowder in Sun Zhenren Dan Jing (Alchemy Canon of Daoist Sun), thus earning him the title of “King of Medicine.”

He once predicted the future development of the three sons of Sun Chuyue, the Vice Director of the Eastern Secretariat, which was later confirmed. He also predicted the official position of the young Lu Qiqing, the Supervisor of the Crown Prince’s Household, fifty years later, and said that his own grandson would be his subordinate. At that time, Sun Simiao’s grandson had not yet been born. Later, all these things were confirmed one by one.

It seems that starting from Bian Que, famous physicians throughout China’s history seem to need some special functions to achieve a lasting reputation that has not fallen for thousands of years.

The Dream Pool Essays by Shen Kuo of the Northern Song dynasty records the oracles of Zigu that he personally witnessed. In his work Science and Civilisation in China, the British historian of science Dr. Joseph Needham called the Northern Song scientist Shen Kuo and his notebook Dream Pool Essays the landmark of the history of Chinese natural science. The notebook records a passage of his observations on the oracles of Zigu. Zigu was a toilet goddess who only appeared in the mid-Tang dynasty, making her roughly the youngest among all ancient Chinese deities. Since the Tang and Song dynasties, welcoming the goddess Zigu to deliver oracles during the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month became a folk custom. Based on what he saw and heard, Shen Kuo believed that summoning Zigu to deliver divine oracles could be done at any time, and the poems, calligraphy, paintings, medical prescriptions, and divination results that descended were quite remarkable—she could even play chess against master-level players.

The phenomena he observed, in fact, are still circulating among the common people today. For example, spirit mediums can allow deities to possess their bodies and converse with people to resolve human suffering and misfortune. The spirit writing (fuji) of I-Kuan Tao can achieve the same things, and even finger-reading experiments can communicate with spiritual beings to answer questions about life, the universe, and science. All of these corroborate what Mr. Chen Taoqiu said: since they existed in history, they must inevitably exist in reality as well.

The Prophecies of Nostradamus and Dannion Brinkley

These phenomena are not unique to China; the West also has many similar stories in circulation. The most famous prophet among them is the sixteenth-century Frenchman Nostradamus. On September 11, 2001, New York City in the United States suffered a terrorist attack—two hijacked passenger planes crashed into the World Trade Center towers, killing and injuring thousands of people, shocking the entire world. One week later, Nostradamus’s book Les Centuries Astrologiques began selling in massive quantities.

Nostradamus was born in 1503 and died in 1566. From a young age he was highly remarkable, learning and mastering everything—Latin, Greek, Hebrew, mathematics, astrology, and more. He later studied medicine at university and became a practicing physician. In sixteenth-century southern France, plagues—especially anthrax—were rampant, keeping people in constant terror day and night. He traveled everywhere to practice medicine and treat the sick, researched various therapies, and developed a profound interest in magic and the occult. He later returned to school and earned a doctoral degree in medicine, but because he had made too many enemies, many of his unique new insights could not be pursued in depth or published. He subsequently abandoned his teaching position and embarked on a wandering career as an itinerant physician, and society gradually began to circulate word that he possessed extraordinary prophetic abilities. In 1554 he finally settled in Marseille, and the following year he completed his first book of prophecies, with predictions spanning from the sixteenth century to the end of the world. Each book of prophecies consisted of one hundred free-verse poems or quatrains. He originally planned to write one thousand poems, compiled into ten books of prophecies, but for reasons unknown, he left the work unfinished after the seventh book.

The poems were written in an obscure and difficult style, incorporating French, Provençal dialect, Italian, Greek, and Latin, with events not appearing in chronological order, making them extremely difficult to decipher in advance—often they could only be confirmed after events had occurred. It is said that the book predicted Louis XVI’s flight to Varennes, Napoleon’s defeat, Hitler’s death, the Shah of Iran’s abdication, the secret agreement signed between Persia and Turkey in October 1729, and the identification of the month and date of a certain monarch’s assassination—all of which were subsequently confirmed. The book contains the following poem:

The sky burns at the place of forty-five degrees

Flames approach the great new city

Without delay, great flame scattered upon the earth

Leaping like a devil in every corner

To subject the Germanic people to unprecedented trials

Experts had previously judged that “the place of forty-five degrees” and “the great new city” referred to New York in the United States, that “the sky burns” referred to an attack from the sky, possibly missiles, possibly bombing—though of course no one imagined it would be an attack by suicide hijacked airliners. Therefore, after the September 11 incident, some people immediately declared that another prophecy from Les Centuries Astrologiques had been fulfilled, causing a sensation in the book market. It is said that Les Centuries Astrologiques is, apart from the Bible, the most widely circulated and best-selling book in the West.

Unfortunately, he only prophesied the future of the Western world; out of the one thousand poems, only a few are said to predict events occurring in Asian countries.

We once tested Miss T’s finger reading using the word “Nostradamus,” and both times anomalies occurred—after the celestial eye opened, it was suddenly shut off by an external force, and then writing appeared. This seems to suggest that Nostradamus has a website existing in the information field, but he simply does not allow Miss T to view the website’s contents. For the past 450 years, people have often asked: “Was Nostradamus truly a prophet? Or a fraud? All explanations are far-fetched.” Based on our current understanding of anomalous abilities, Nostradamus should have been a person possessing extraordinary functions who extracted information from the information field in some manner and recorded it. Since he could only describe the scenes seen through the celestial eye, the more distant the events from his era, the more obscure his descriptions became—because he himself probably did not know what the things he saw meant, right? Since we have been unable to connect to his website, we also once asked Miss T’s master:

“Why doesn’t Nostradamus allow Miss T to contact him through the celestial eye?”

The master’s answer was:

“Hahaha, ask him yourself!”

And to this day, we still have not been able to ask.

There are similar examples of foreseeing the future even in modern times. Although the methods of obtaining information differ somewhat, the circumstances of learning from the information field what we call the future are essentially the same. Dr. Raymond Moody is a psychiatrist and a renowned expert in the study of near-death experiences. In 1975, he published the book Life After Life, which established his position in this field. Among the twenty thousand near-death cases he studied, the most representative was the case of Dannion Brinkley. In 1975, Brinkley was twenty-five years old. One day, while making a phone call at home, he was struck by lightning and entered what is medically referred to as death. He later described how, after he “died,” his soul left his body, saw his own dead body, and then went to a place inhabited by benevolent and powerful spiritual beings. This spiritual being allowed him to thoroughly review his past life and evaluate his own successes and failures. Then he went to a beautiful city composed of crystal and light, where thirteen beings of light taught him various kinds of knowledge and let him view the future of humanity.

Brinkley later told Dr. Moody about the future he had seen at the time, but Dr. Moody did not believe these predictions of the future at all and thought he was talking nonsense. For several years, he would only nod perfunctorily and casually jot down what Brinkley said, thinking that his brain had been somewhat affected by the lightning strike. It was not until the things Brinkley described happened one by one that Dr. Moody described himself as feeling as though he had been struck by lightning. Over twenty years, ninety-five of the 117 events Brinkley predicted had come true, including the collapse of the Soviet Union, the 1990 Persian Gulf War, mass deaths caused by nuclear disasters, and so on. In 1995, Brinkley wrote about his near-death experience in the book Saved by the Light, which became a New York Times bestseller.

The Information Field Has No Time Limit

This involves a major question: in the world of the information field, there seems to be no limitation of time. The past, present, and future exist simultaneously, and therefore the spiritual beings of the information field can see the future of the physical universe. Some scientists believe that human free will and foreknowledge of the future are mutually contradictory. For example, if Person A learns that he will have a car accident at Location B tomorrow and decides not to go to Location B tomorrow, thereby avoiding the disaster, this proves that the foreseen future did not occur and that foreknowledge of the future was wrong.

In fact, from the perspective of quantum mechanics, human free will and foreknowledge of the future are not contradictory. Future events are merely a matter of probability; all things that could possibly happen may happen, only with different probabilities. Taking the example of Person A, there is a ninety percent probability of having a car accident if he goes to Location B tomorrow, and a ten percent probability for other outcomes. What the Master or a fortune-teller sees should be the most likely event to occur. If Person A does not know, then the car accident at Location B tomorrow may very well actually happen. But once Person A learns of it and changes his will, the ninety percent probability instantly drops to zero, and the various other possibilities begin to increase until their sum reaches one hundred percent. It appears that the future seen in the information field is a changeable future.

We also discussed the question of time in the information field and the perplexity of foreknowing the future with Miss T’s Master.

“Please enlighten us: Master, does time exist in your world?”

When Miss T’s brain opened its screen for the fourth time, the Master’s answer arrived, in English:

“There is no limit for me.”

The meaning is: “For me there is no limit.” It seems that in the information field where the Master resides, he is not constrained by time and can simultaneously see our past, present, and future. Although the Master says this, does time of the physical universe truly not exist in the information field? Is what the Master says really the truth of the universe? Although his level is higher than ours and he sees more deeply than we do, there may be even higher existences behind him, and what he has witnessed is only a partial truth. How can we verify whether the information field has a time limitation? The only way is to ask the Master to tell us things that will happen in the future and then verify them later.

Does the information field truly have no time limitation? From known cases and conversations with the Master, we can currently say that time is merely a variable within the four-dimensional space-time of the physical universe, representing the sequence in which different events occur. There is no time in the information field; all possibilities exist simultaneously. The future of ours that the spiritual beings see is the most likely future to occur under our existing consciousness.

We also consulted the Master on the question of the conflict between foreknowledge of the future and free will. His answer was in English, the gist of which was:

“A person has many different paths in life. One of them is already determined; the rest are decided by yourself.”

Does this mean that foreknowledge of the future can see that one major path already determined, but you can still change the other minor branch paths? Therefore, the future remains changeable, and free will does indeed become entangled with foreknowledge of the future. We asked another question.

“There are so many spiritual beings in the information field, and their powers are very great. Is it possible that the future you see could be changed by another spiritual being through mental power, leading to a prediction error?”

The Master’s answer was again in English, meaning:

“It is not we spiritual beings who change it, but you who can change it.”

This tells us that we hold our own fate in our own hands, and even spiritual beings cannot change it for you. We asked again:

“Can you see the winning numbers for next week’s or the week after’s lottery? If you told someone and let them win, what would be the consequences?”

The Master’s answer was still in English:

“It is only a game, a test.”

We did not fully understand his meaning, but in our finger-reading experiments we are prohibited from making such attempts.

Having accumulated many experimental results and logical reflections, we discovered that when the future the Master informs us about is a future the person involved can control and change, it often does not come to pass. This is because if the person does not know their future, they will have their own set of ideas and goals to strive toward. Once they know their future, they easily look back and forth, hesitate indecisively, and even constantly consider whether they truly want such a future. Or, because they believe in this future, when encountering negotiations or decisions about whether to yield or not, the result instead leads to—the things that should not happen do happen. Free will often interferes with and changes the future.

In order to accumulate cases for scientific testing, we must constantly ask about things that will happen in the future and record the Master’s answers, waiting for time to verify them. Let us first give an example. On the tenth day after the terrorist attacks on New York, USA, on September 11, 2001, that is, on September 21, we asked Miss T’s Master in a finger-reading experiment:

“Please give instruction: Will the United States attack Afghanistan? Will the result be that bin Laden is caught?”

The Master’s answer:

“Yes and No.”

Since this question has only four possible combinations of answers, and the atmosphere for war was very strong in the United States at the time, the chance of guessing correctly was also quite high. This answer has been correct so far, but we still cannot determine how long the effective period of precognition of the future extends.

The Master in the information field predicted the war in Afghanistan correctly, but the prediction regarding the second US-Iraq Gulf War that began on March 20, 2003 did not match the facts as we understand them. For half a year beforehand, we constantly asked the Master’s opinion: would the Gulf War actually break out or not? The Master’s answer was always: “No.” Even on the eve of the war, March 19, when it looked inevitable, the Master still said no. After the war started, we asked him with some reproach:

“You kept saying there would be no war, and now the war has started. How do you explain this?”

His answer was actually:

“I see things differently from you.”

We were completely confused and did not know what this meant.

Chapter 9: The Evolution of the Universe and Civilization

The Origins of the Universe and Humanity

On December 26, 2002, we asked Miss T’s Master a series of questions about the origin of the universe, the evolution of life, the evolution of divine spirits, and the spatiotemporal properties of the information field.

“Please give instruction: How did our universe come about? (1) Produced by the Big Bang, that is, quantum vacuum fluctuation, suddenly produced; (2) Created by God, that is, produced by the ‘Dao’; (3) Other means, please clarify.”

The first answer is what is now widely accepted in the physics community as the “Big Bang theory.” As a result, Miss T’s brain screen (Celestial Eye) opened only twice before she heard the Master tell her the answer:

“First, first; Second, later helped!”

According to the Master, our universe was produced by the Big Bang or quantum vacuum fluctuation, and then God helped it develop. It is clear that the material universe came into being after the development of divine spirits. Since our universe was produced by quantum vacuum fluctuation, could quantum vacuum fluctuation also produce other universes?

“Please give instruction: Besides the material universe in which our Earth exists, are there other material universes?”

“Yes, very far.”

Other universes do exist, just very far away. They are even very far away for the Masters in the information field, which indicates that what the Master calls “omnipresence” still has limitations—perhaps limited to our universe?

The third question:

“Please give instruction: How did the most primitive life form in the material universe come about? (1) Random evolution; (2) Created by God (the Dao); (3) Other, please clarify.”

“Majority, one!”

Mainly the first option, random evolution, but other options are not excluded.

“Please give instruction: What is the origin of humans on Earth? (1) Independently and slowly evolved from lower organisms on Earth; (2) Extraterrestrials came to Earth and seeded lower organisms, which then slowly evolved into humans; (3) Extraterrestrial humans migrated to Earth; (4) Other, please clarify.”

The first option is essentially Darwin’s theory of evolution. As a result, Miss T heard the Master laugh loudly but did not answer. Four days later we asked the same question again, and the Master’s answer was:

“Too hard to answer!”

Although the Master did not directly answer this question, it was tantamount to answering it. Let everyone interpret it for themselves!

“Please give instruction: How were divine spirits produced? (1) Created by God; (2) Self-evolved from the information field; (3) Derived from the material universe evolving into complex systems; (4) Other, please clarify.”

As a result, when Miss T’s brain screen (Celestial Eye) opened the second and third times, she heard the Master tell her the answer:

“hmm---two, two, comparatively closer.”

These are the answers given by the deity with whom we were conversing—that is, Miss T’s teacher—in response to questions about the material universe and the information field. His description of the real universe, including the material world of four-dimensional spacetime and the information field of the void, can serve as precious reference data helpful for our future research, though we must still maintain an open mind and remain ready at all times to accept other possibilities. However, in terms of logical reasoning, some parts of his answers are reasonable and highly plausible. For example, the idea that deities also evolve and can evolve forth from the information field is quite reasonable, since animals and plants, which possess physical bodies, all evolve; deities, which lack physical bodies, would naturally find evolution even easier.

Speaking of the evolution of organisms on Earth, although Darwin’s theory of evolution has been dominant, challenging voices have always existed. Regarding the origin of humanity, to this day it remains impossible to find conclusive evidentiary support for any hypothesis. Indeed, because of the development of modern archaeology and advances in archaeological techniques, many former hypotheses have been repeatedly overturned.

Recently, anthropologists have published research results confirming that the Neanderthals—cave-dwelling hunters who once controlled Europe for over a hundred thousand years—are unlikely to be the ancestors of modern humans. Scientists compared the skulls of Neanderthals, early modern humans, present-day humans, and other primates, and found that the differences between Neanderthals and humans are at least as great as, or even greater than, the differences between humans and other primates such as gorillas and chimpanzees. New York University anthropologist Havarti believes these results show that humans and Neanderthals are different species. And what we are curious about is: where did the Neanderthals go? Why did they vanish without a trace, leaving behind not even their genes?

Baffling Ancient Civilizations

The Christian Bible records that God created man, Adam, from clay, and then created woman, Eve, from his rib. Later, because the two secretly ate the forbidden fruit and committed original sin, they were expelled by God from the Garden of Eden and became the ancestors of earthly humanity. This is religion’s account of human origins. But why did God use a rib to create Eve? Perhaps we can find clues in Sumerian mythology.

In Babylonian texts, there is recorded a luminous pure land where the water god drew forth spring water, and the earth mother caused all kinds of sweet plants to grow upon the paradise. Although the water god was also the god of wisdom, he was very gluttonous and secretly ate all of these plants. The earth mother was furious and cursed the water god to die; as a result, the water god truly fell ill, and all the gods were helpless. Later, it was the clever fox that used a stratagem to get the earth mother to create eight deities of healing, which saved the water god’s life. Among these eight deities, there was a goddess whose name, “Ningi,” was a pun in the Sumerian language: “the woman from the rib” and “the woman who grants life.” Could this be the prototype of the biblical story? This also makes us think that the currently known origins of human civilization may not be the true origins, and that modern human civilization may not even be the first biological or human civilization on Earth.

The Indian epic Mahabharata contains some descriptions of wars between several tribes in the upper reaches of the Ganges over five thousand years ago. These were previously always considered exaggerated literary writing, but now they seem to resemble scenes of an atomic bomb explosion:

The valiant Atwatan launched the Agnia, which spewed fire, smokeless, but of infinite power. In an instant, the sky turned dark… a great gale arose, black clouds rolled, and sand and stones rained ceaselessly from the sky, giving off terrible heat. Animals fell dead, rivers boiled, fish and shrimp were scalded to death. Enemy soldiers were burned like charred tree trunks.

In France, attention was drawn by scientists because uranium ore imported from the Gabonese Republic in Africa had insufficient uranium content. On-site investigation revealed that the mining area contained an ancient nuclear reactor, estimated to have operated for as long as five hundred thousand years.

Do these puzzling ancient historical records and indications show that there once existed a highly developed civilization on Earth that was ultimately destroyed by nuclear war? We consulted Miss T’s teacher.

“Before modern scientific civilization, had there ever been a technological civilization similar to the present one on Earth? If so, how many times? Approximately how many years ago?”

The answers received were:

“Not exactly, but similar”

and an ambiguous:

“mmm…”

The mysterious patterns on the desert plains of Peru, recently damaged by highway construction and drawing the concern of the archaeological community, are another baffling relic. These patterns are enormous, distributed over twenty-seven miles of land, and only from high altitude can their full forms be discerned. Additionally, in Bolivia and Chile there are similar giant patterns, which are clearly aerial navigation guides, or perhaps even airstrips. Some people therefore believe that the ancient Incas already possessed the ability to fly. In Inca legends, there are indeed stories of flying over enemy forces during wartime to report on enemy positions, and Inca pottery and textiles frequently feature images of hot-air balloons or flying humans. But others believe that these aerial navigation guides are the work of visitors from outer space—that is, extraterrestrials—and that these sites were their spacecraft landing bases. We hope that the efforts of archaeologists can solve these mysteries for us before human development destroys the relics entirely.

Crystal Weapons Destroyed Ancient Civilizations

The ancient civilization of Atlantis, long legendary in the West, was an island or continent in the Atlantic Ocean west of Gibraltar that sank into the Atlantic as a result of divine punishment. The earliest records of Atlantis appear in two dialogues written 2,360 years ago by the great Greek philosopher Plato: Timaeus and Critias. These two books are dialogues among four individuals — Socrates, Hermocrates, Timaeus, and Critias. To respond to Socrates’ ideas about an ideal society, Timaeus and Critias (Plato’s great-grandfather) told “a story that is not fiction but fact” in order to please Socrates.

This story concerns the conflict between the Athenians and the Atlanteans that took place 9,000 years before Plato’s time, eleven thousand years ago. The Athenians of that era had long forgotten this ancient history. Critias heard it from his great-grandfather, who in turn heard it from an Athenian lawgiver named Solon, and Solon’s story was passed down from Egyptian priests. According to the account in Plato’s books, the Atlanteans were descendants of gods and humans, a superhuman race possessing extremely high intelligence and technology. They built spectacular palaces and temples, and their army was invincible, conquering all the surrounding lands. But in the end, because their human nature manifested, they became arrogant and greedy, so the gods decided to punish them, destroying them with violent earthquakes and sinking them beneath the sea in a single night. Is this legend true or not? It has always been a popular topic in the West, but due to the lack of archaeological evidence, it can currently only be regarded as a legend.

An American woman named Suzanne Ward wrote two books that also offer partial answers to this question. Her son Matthew died in a car accident in 1980 at the age of seventeen. Fourteen years later, her son’s soul suddenly established contact with her and began telling her about various aspects of the spiritual world. She recorded the vast amount of data from six years of conversations with Matthew and published two books: Matthew, Tell Me About Heaven and Revelations for a New Era. The format of the dialogues in these books is very similar to the way we communicate with masters in the information field through finger reading, except that they converse directly, while we converse indirectly.

In the second book, Suzanne and her son discussed the lost continent of Atlantis. Matthew claimed that starting from fifty thousand years ago, not only was there an advanced civilization called Atlantis in the Atlantic Ocean, but there was also another advanced civilization called Lemuria in the Pacific Ocean. Their technological civilization was extremely advanced; apart from certain weapons and computers that could not match modern ones, in many other respects it far surpassed modern technology. For example, they knew how to harness the energy of crystals, and their scientists designed and manufactured crystal weapons of tremendous power. However, through careless use, they accidentally detonated an entire continent — more powerful than many nuclear bombs exploding simultaneously — leading to the destruction of their entire civilization.

We posed a similar question to Miss T’s master:

“Please enlighten us: In human history, how many times has a high-tech civilization similar to today’s appeared on Earth? (1) Once (2) Twice (3) Three times (4) Four times (5) Five or more.”

“How did they perish? (1) Through environmental destruction; (2) Through mutual warfare; (3) Through discovering crystal energy; (4) Other.”

The master’s answer came back quickly.

“(3), (3).”

Since ancient times, the Chinese have loved to wear crystals and jade, believing that they emit qi and can ward off demons and evil. The qigong masters and gifted individuals we know have also told us that crystals possess qi and emit energy. What exactly is this energy that is said to protect the human body and yet once destroyed a civilization?

Chapter 10: Understanding Torsion Fields

Looking at it, it cannot be seen — this is called the invisible. Listening to it, it cannot be heard — this is called the inaudible. Grasping at it, it cannot be caught — this is called the intangible. These three cannot be further interrogated, And so they merge into one.

Laozi, Tao Te Ching

At the end of January 2004, I accompanied Editor-in-Chief Wu of Han Sheng Publishing to Beijing to visit Professor Shen Jinchuan and Ms. Sun Chulin. I had not seen Professor Shen for three years and fondly recalled the many fascinating experiences from our collaboration on extraordinary human abilities five or six years earlier. I was also eager to exchange progress on our research work from recent years. Ms. Sun Chulin had also made great progress in her research on psychokinesis — refinements in thoughtography, the development of the ability to materialize medicine from thin air, experiments attempting to bring cooked shrimp back to life, and so on — all still dazzling and hard to believe.

I gave Professor Shen a collection of papers — the results I had published in recent years on my research into the “information field.” Professor Shen, in turn, gave me several papers: introductory articles written by Professor Jiang Xingliu of the Physics Department at Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, such as “Vortex Dynamics in Vacuum Engineering,” “Vacuum Zero-Point Energy,” and “Electrochemical Anomalies and Torsion Field Theory.” At first glance, they seemed to have nothing to do with my work on human potential. On the first day, I was busy with work during the day, and in the evening with nothing to do, I casually picked up these articles to skim through them. To my surprise, the more I read, the more startled I became, and the more I read, the more excited I grew.

He said that the torsion field is also called the spin field or axion field, and is a field produced by the distortion of spacetime structure caused by an object’s rotation. This field has been confirmed over the past thirty years by a large number of experiments conducted primarily within the Russian scientific community. It has the following properties: (1) Similar to the gravitational field, the torsion field cannot be shielded by any natural substance, it does not lose energy when propagating through natural matter, and its effect only changes the spin state of matter; (2) the propagation speed of the torsion field is at least 10⁹ times the speed of light; (3) the torsion field produces axial acceleration; (4) after the torsion field source is moved away, a spatial spin structure remains at that location, which means the torsion field has a residual effect.

Why did Professor Jiang become interested in torsion fields? This is because he is a nuclear physicist. After Professor Fleischmann and Pons of the University of Utah proposed in 1989 that cold fusion occurs during the electrolysis of heavy water, his attention was drawn to cold fusion and he began researching it. Although other physicists quickly presented counter-evidence proving that it was not a nuclear reaction, anomalous heat generation was indeed observed. Professor Jiang’s breakthrough came in 1998 during a sabbatical in Canada, when he traveled to the United States to attend an international conference and heard several presentations on Russian torsion field research from the 1970s to the 1990s, which inspired his understanding that electrical discharge at electrode tips generates vortex fields (torsion fields), and that anomalous physical phenomena occur within vortex fields. He specifically cited the anomalous energy generated inside tornadoes, which causes phenomena that defy common sense, such as wooden boards piercing through steel plates and straws inserting straight into tree trunks. He believed the source of this anomalous energy is “vacuum zero-point energy.”

The Crystal Qi Field Is the Torsion Field

Professor Chen of the Department of Physics at National Taiwan University spent two years studying the generation, amplification, modulation, and detection of crystal qi fields. According to his research findings, the crystal’s qi field appears capable of penetrating almost all substances, including metal, glass, ceramics, semiconductors, paper, and cloth, with only a few exceptions. This qi field appears to have a residual effect that continuously accumulates, making it difficult to detect with alternating current signals. This qi field may connect with the information field, and since the information field has no distinction between time and space, it is predicted that the transmission speed of such signals is extremely fast, far exceeding the speed of light. My own research has also found that after modulation through appropriate intermediary substances, the qi field forms a specially shaped three-dimensional structure in space.

Because I collaborated with Professor Chen on finger-reading experiments, I was very familiar with his research on crystal qi fields. Therefore, when I saw the characteristics of torsion fields, I was profoundly shocked—how could the two be so similar? My intuitive reaction was: the crystal’s qi field is the torsion field. But why do crystals produce torsion fields, while other substances do not easily produce them? Professor Shen happened to be an expert in materials science and mineralogy, and he was very familiar with crystal structure. He told me that crystals have trigonal and hexagonal systems, forming a helical chain structure. A silicon atom and four oxygen atoms form a tetrahedral unit cell; when the unit cell rotates once every three units along the axial direction, it is the trigonal crystal system, and once every six units, it is the hexagonal crystal system. The helical chains then combine side by side to form the crystal structure. The mystery was revealed: if each atom has its own torsion field, shaped like a vortex, then upon forming molecules and solids, they create larger molecular or solid torsion fields. If the solid structure is appropriate, such as the helical structure of crystal, is it possible to form a macroscopically coherent large-scale vortex torsion field that can be easily sensed by people who have achieved proficiency in qigong practice? If the torsion field characteristics described by Russian scientists are correct, then the mysterious veil over the qigong traditions and the legendary crystal qi fields that have been passed down for thousands of years is about to be lifted, and their physical reality will soon be revealed to the world.

After returning to Taiwan, I immediately began searching for information on torsion fields. Having taught modern physics for over ten years, I was very familiar with the spin of elementary particles such as electrons and protons—how could I not have known of the existence of torsion fields? Of course, general modern physics textbooks only briefly mention phenomena predicted by general relativity, such as mass causing the distortion of spacetime, gravitational redshift, and black holes, and rarely include any content on torsion fields produced by the distortion of spacetime structure caused by an object’s spin. This indicates that mainstream physics does not pay attention to torsion fields, and physics textbooks do not mention a single word about them; it has become a physical field that seemingly does not exist.

In fact, at the microscopic scale, based on the introduction of relativity into quantum mechanics by the British physicist Dirac in 1928, it was proved that all elementary particles possess spin angular momentum. For particles satisfying the Fermi–Dirac distribution function, such as protons, neutrons, electrons, neutrinos, and so on, spin has only two possibilities: up or down. The magnitude of its component along the axis of rotation is completely identical—the Planck constant h divided by 4×3.1416—which is a fixed value. The radius of a proton is approximately 10^{-13} cm, and its spin can, with some strain, be regarded as the proton rotating at high speed about its own axis. But the radius of an electron or neutrino is less than (10^{-16}) cm [the source scan omits the exponent; −16 is restored from physical context]; if its spin were regarded as the electron or neutrino rotating at high speed, then the rotational speed would far exceed the speed of light and violate the theory of relativity, so theoretically it is impossible. Therefore, the spin of a particle is a physical quantity whose details are unknown; it is just strange that although the masses of protons, electrons, and neutrinos differ greatly, why is their spin angular momentum (which is related to the distribution of mass, size, and speed of rotation) completely identical? Therefore, physicists treat it as a quantum effect, a result of the Dirac equation, and do not investigate it further.

Of course, the charge of the proton and the charge of the electron are also identical in magnitude, only opposite in sign. However, charge is an independent physical quantity, unrelated to mass, so it is understandable that masses differ while charges are the same. According to the account of Russian scientists, a particle’s fundamental properties are typically accompanied by physical fields. For example, a particle’s fundamental properties include mass, charge, and spin; mass is accompanied by a gravitational field, charge is accompanied by an electromagnetic field, and therefore spin should also be accompanied by a spin field—that is, the torsion field.

The Torsion Field Forgotten by Quantum Mechanics

In the past, when lecturing on the hydrogen atom or multi-electron atoms, I would always discuss the orbital angular momentum of electrons revolving around the nucleus and the spin angular momentum of the electrons themselves, as well as the energy levels formed by the interaction between the two. However, the emphasis was always placed on the magnitude of the magnetic field produced by the charged electrons revolving in orbits and spinning—for example, the Zeeman effect produced by interaction with an applied magnetic field—because this is a physical quantity that can be measured, and therefore one can verify whether theory and experiment are in agreement. In class, we would also discuss multi-electron atoms, such as the coupling phenomenon that occurs between the different electron spin angular momenta in an oxygen atom. Since there is no term for the mutual interaction of spin angular momenta in the quantum mechanics formulas, all

textbooks can only claim that they are coupled indirectly through changes in orbital angular momentum, by means of the antisymmetric wave functions required by quantum effects. I taught physics for over ten years, and surprisingly never once considered that it might be the result of torsion field interactions produced by spin.

In solid-state physics, the most crucial part of deriving the theory of ferromagnetic metals (such as iron, cobalt, nickel) is the assumption that there exists a spin–spin interaction term between neighboring atoms, causing all atomic spins to align in one direction and thereby form ferromagnetism. All solid-state physicists believe that this is a consequence of the exchange interaction produced by electron spin, yet theoretical calculations reveal that the result of the exchange interaction requires neighboring atomic spins to be opposite rather than the same. Therefore, the fact that ferromagnetic materials can exist remains a theoretical mystery, and no one has ever considered that this might be the result of torsion field interactions. I strongly feel that the torsion field—the part forgotten by twentieth-century quantum mechanics—may be the frontier of twenty-first-century science, and that everything from qi fields, paranormal abilities, to information fields may be more or less connected to it.

On April 21, 2004, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launched the “Gravity Probe B” satellite from Vandenberg Base in California. Its objective was to verify whether Einstein’s “General Theory of Relativity” and its predictions about the nature of spacetime are correct. When a celestial body such as the Sun or the Earth rotates, the surrounding four-dimensional spacetime is dragged to rotate along with the celestial body, producing a torsion field. The mission to be carried out by the “Gravity Probe B” satellite was to test the frame-dragging effect, which indicates that by the twenty-first century, the physics community has finally begun to take the verification of torsion fields seriously. When Einstein proposed the “General Theory of Relativity” in 1915, he did not consider the spin effect of objects. In the 1920s, Cartan first considered in the “General Theory of Relativity” the distortion of spacetime caused by the spin angular momentum of objects, thereby producing the torsion field. It is another force besides gravitation, electromagnetic force, weak interaction force, and strong interaction force—the fifth force. When the torsion field is stationary, its strength is exactly equal to the gravitational constant G multiplied by the Planck constant h, and is therefore (10^{[exponent illegible]}) times weaker than gravitation, the weakest of the four forces. For this reason it has not received attention.

Twentieth-Century Research on Torsion Fields

In the latter half of the twentieth century, the most active theoretical and experimental research on torsion fields was conducted by the Russians. In fact, as early as 1906, the Russian scientist Myshkin had already used a balance to discover a long-range interaction field caused by torsion. These experimental results were confirmed in the 1960s when they were replicated by Russian astrophysicist Professor Kozyrev and other teams. Professor Kozyrev had already proposed in the 1940s that time and rotation are closely related, and therefore the rotation of a star and its energy output are linked. He used rotating gyroscopes to confirm his argument: a rotating gyroscope, during specific oscillations, would experience a slight change in weight depending on the speed and direction of rotation. In the 1970s, Professor Veinik of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences repeated this experiment and obtained complete confirmation. In 1989, Hayasaka and Takeuchi of Tohoku University in Japan measured the free-fall time of rotating gyroscopes and found that the fall time was related to the speed and direction of rotation. Although some physicists later claimed that the weight of a rotating gyroscope did not change, it was pointed out that these gyroscopes whose weight did not change were stationary, and therefore the effect could not be observed. Only a moving torsion field can produce changes large enough to be observed externally.

From the mid-1950s to the late 1970s, Professor Kozyrev designed a new type of detector for astronomical telescopes and discovered that even when the telescope was shielded with metal, signals from stars could still be detected, indicating that some information in the electromagnetic fields emitted by stars cannot be blocked by metal. Since starlight takes a certain amount of time to reach Earth, he also discovered that if the astronomical telescope was pointed not at the star’s visible position but at its actual present position, the detector would measure a very strong signal, indicating that stars emit a kind of signal that is billions of times faster than the speed of light. This phenomenon was confirmed in the 1980s and 1990s by the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, and was explained using the torsion field generated by stellar rotation.

In the 1960s through the 1980s, many anomalous physical phenomena related to spin were of course also discovered. For example, the Russian Baryshevsky found that when neutrons pass through a spin-polarized (Note 1) target, precession (Note 2) occurs, and the field causing the precession is several thousand times larger than the magnetic field of the target nucleus. Krech at Argonne National Laboratory in the United States found that the scattering cross section of spin-polarized protons depends on the direction of spin. The French researcher Lhuillier found that the thermal conductivity phenomenon of helium-3 is related to the spin of the atomic nucleus. These phenomena are difficult to explain using existing quantum mechanical theory, but they can be placed within the framework of torsion fields for a unified explanation.

Beginning in the 1980s, Russian scientists began building torsion field emitters, using rotating objects or rotating magnets as emission sources. The Ukrainian Institute of Materials Research discovered that the field emitted by such emitters can alter the internal spin structure of any substance, similar to the changes that psychics can produce in matter, linking torsion fields to human potential for the first time. This research was supported at the time by the “Center for Non-Traditional Technologies” under the USSR State Committee for Science and Technology.

In 1993, Russian physicist Shipov proposed a set of vacuum equations to discuss various properties of the physical vacuum. It is claimed that all known fundamental physical equations, such as Einstein’s “General Relativity,” the “Yang–Mills equations,” and the “Heisenberg equation,” can be derived in their complete geometric forms from these ten vacuum equations. I am not personally familiar with Shipov’s equations, but his conclusions strike me as profoundly shocking, because these conclusions bear considerable similarity to what we well know about human potential or the information field. His equations show that, in addition to the traditional electromagnetic field and the gravitational field being long-range force fields, there exists a third long-range force field, namely the torsion field. Many terms in the strength of the torsion field do not contain the product of the gravitational constant G or Planck’s constant h, and therefore its strength is not weak.

Characteristics of Torsion Fields

Torsion fields possess highly unusual properties. First, the upper limit of the speed of a torsion field is no less than (10^9) times the speed of light; second, the propagation of torsion fields in four-dimensional spacetime is not constrained by the light cone (Note 3), meaning it can propagate not only to the future but also to the past; third, torsion fields can transmit information but not energy; fourth, torsion fields do not necessarily obey the superposition principle.

Since particle spin has two possibilities along the axis of rotation—up or down—torsion fields likewise have two types: left-handed and right-handed. If the number of electrons in a non-transition metal atom is even, the overall spin of its electrons is usually zero and will not produce a magnetic field. However, the torsion fields accompanying the spin of its electrons and nucleus combine to form the torsion field of the entire atom, which is not necessarily zero. Therefore, a torsion field does not necessarily accompany a magnetic field, but a magnetic field will definitely be accompanied by a torsion field. In general molecules, the torsion fields of different atoms combine to form the torsion field of the molecule. By the same principle, the combination of the torsion fields of all atoms in a solid will form the torsion field of the solid. In most cases, there is no fixed phase relationship between the torsion fields of neighboring atoms; the torsion fields of large numbers of atoms cancel one another out, and no macroscopic torsion field is produced. However, some materials can retain the effect, exhibiting a memory effect, much like the magnetization of water in homeopathy reported in the literature, or the legend of “information water.” Feng shui geomancers often say that the magnetic field of a certain place is very good and the feng shui is excellent. In the past, it was generally assumed that the magnetic field should not affect feng shui, but it has now been discovered that the effect is very likely caused by the macroscopic structure of the torsion field accompanying the magnetic field, which can influence feng shui and even affect the body and mind.

How do the Masters of the information field view torsion fields? I posed this question to both Miss T’s Master and Ms. Sun Chulin’s Master. On March 27, 2004, I consulted Miss T’s Master:

“Please enlighten me: regarding the reason crystals produce qi (1) it is the spin field (torsion field) generated by electron spin, collected through the helical structure of the crystal into a macroscopic, coherent giant torsion field; (2) it is caused by trace elements; (3) it is due to hydrogen in the crystal forming Si-H; (4) other.

Please enlighten.”

The Master answered: “(1).” He seemed to agree with my inference.

I also consulted Ms. Sun Chulin’s Master:

“When an object spins at high speed it generates a torsion field; its speed of propagation is (1) slower than the speed of light; (2) equal to the speed of light; (3) ten times faster than the speed of light c; (4) it can be far greater than c, at (10^{13}) times c.”

The Master answered: “(4).” He agreed that the speed of the torsion field can far exceed the speed of light by (10^{13}) times, similar to the prediction of the Shipov equation.

The Relationship Between Torsion Fields and the Information Field

What, then, is the relationship between torsion fields and the information field that transcends four-dimensional space-time? If the speed of the torsion field is no less than (10^8) times the speed of light, it can be used to explain the phenomenon of two-photon entanglement, which is very difficult to understand in quantum mechanics. It can also be used to understand the phenomenon whereby there seems to be no spatial distance within the information field—although (10^8) times the speed of light is still not fast enough, and traversing our galaxy, which is one hundred thousand light-years across, would still take over eight hours. If the torsion field can transmit not only to the future but also to the past, then it is understandable that the Masters in the information field can instantly see our past and also see our future. I speculate that the information field, relative to the real-number four-dimensional space-time, appears to exist in an imaginary-number space. Quartz (crystal), because its lattice molecules (SiO4) form a special helical structure resembling the vortex structure of a torsion field, may allow the small torsion fields of different molecular groups to coherently attract one another, forming a macroscopic vortex torsion field that is emitted outward—giving rise to the legend, spanning thousands of years, that crystals possess “qi.”

Furthermore, the torsion field of a solid can be altered in structure by an external torsion field, just as a ferromagnetic metal can have its magnetization direction changed by an external magnetic field. When the external torsion field is removed, the effect persists. In real-number space, every object or particle has an accompanying imaginary-number space that exists alongside it; the two are mutually perpendicular. In other words, the true reality of this universe is complex-valued. If the instruments and equipment of the ordinary real-number world lack an imaginary-number component or a properly designed magnetic field, they cannot measure the various phenomena within the information field. Only when particles or objects of the real-number world form “complex-valued” wave functions or quantum fields can the imaginary part of the field make contact with the information field in imaginary-number space; given the right conditions, a connection can be established.

Therefore, we speculate that in the microscopic quantum world—where elementary particles, complex wave functions, or quantum fields play a dominant role—the two worlds are interconnected. However, the objects we can observe with the naked eye have masses that are too large, and the thermal perturbation velocities of their constituent atoms are also very high; the resulting matter-wave wavelengths are too short, so they are disconnected from the imaginary-number world and exist only in the real-number world. Nevertheless, ensembles of certain objects or atoms can form macroscopic quantum phenomena. For example, the Cooper pairs of electrons inside a superconductor couple with one another to form a macroscopic superconducting quantum wave; helium-4 forms a superfluid below 2K; and atoms cooled into a Bose-Einstein condensate form a macroscopic wave-like state. All of these can be described by complex-valued quantum waves and all have the potential to connect to the world of the information field. If the instruments and equipment of the real-number world can utilize these macroscopic quantum fields, or if they are equipped with a properly designed magnetic field, it is also possible to detect information from the information field. By the same logic, it can be inferred that when the small torsion fields of atoms or molecules are coupled to form a macroscopic, coherent, giant vortex field, it becomes possible to connect to the information field.

About to Unveil the Mysteries of Qi and Extrasensory Perception

Professor Jiang told me that in the 1980s the Soviet Union had a Deputy Premier specifically in charge of torsion field research, which shows the importance it was accorded. Unfortunately, after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the experts in this field had scattered to the various republics. According to Russian literature, they not only understood the properties of torsion fields but could also build torsion field generators and detectors. They discovered that when a torsion field passes through an object containing internally long-chain molecules arranged in orderly alignment, such as high-density polyethylene, the torsion field would interact with the object; otherwise it would pass straight through. With appropriate design using materials similar to polyethylene, one could confine the torsion field within a certain region of space.

I used the same design but replaced the torsion field generator used by the Russians with a crystal, and as a result, the highly functional person indeed sensed that the qi emitted by the crystal was confined within a certain region of space. This strongly demonstrated that what Chinese tradition has called the qi field since ancient times is precisely the torsion field. My feeling is that the mysterious veil surrounding qi and extrasensory perception—including telepathy, clairvoyance, retrocognition, precognition, and psychokinesis—is about to be lifted.

In order to explain the phenomena of finger reading and psychokinesis, I once proposed a phenomenal theory of mind-matter unity, holding that the third eye in the brain, under a functional state, produces a physical phenomenon, forming a kind of macroscopic wave that penetrates beyond the body’s barriers to explore the surrounding world. This wave emanates from every part of the body, which is why phenomena such as “ear reading,” “finger reading,” “armpit reading,” and “sole reading” can occur—every part of the body is capable of reading characters. This macroscopic wave attempts to interact with the world surrounding the body, such as a folded strip of paper held in the hand; once the interaction succeeds and the paper is also induced to enter the same physical state, the phenomenon of “mind-matter unity” arises. At this point, the celestial eye in the functional person’s brain opens, and information about the characters or images on the external strip of paper flows into the brain and is presented on the celestial eye, allowing the functional person to see them clearly. Is the phenomenon of this macroscopic wave the torsion field? Is it caused by the small torsion fields of water molecules in the brain’s third eye suddenly forming a long-range coherent macroscopic torsion field? I believe the answer will soon be revealed.

Note 1: Spin polarization: All atoms on the target have their spins aligned in orderly fashion pointing in the same direction.

Note 2: Precession: The phenomenon in which a particle’s spin rotates about a certain axis.

Note 3: Light cone: In spatial and temporal coordinates, the structure formed when light propagates from the origin at the speed of light in all spatial directions.

Chapter 11 Roaming the Universe

May we forever join in passionless roaming, And promise to meet far across the Milky Way.

Li Bai, “Drinking Alone Under the Moon”

Since the speed of the torsion field is equal to or greater than 10⁹ times the speed of light, travel within the universe would no longer be a problem. Whether we visit extraterrestrial civilizations or they come to the solar system, it could be accomplished in an instant with great convenience. Examined in this light, humanity’s decades of attempts to search for extraterrestrial signals appear not to have grasped the correct approach.

11-1 The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Program

In the 1960s, the American Frank Drake was the first person to use modern technology to search for extraterrestrial intelligent beings. He used an eighty-five-foot-diameter antenna to detect radio waves from two sun-like stars, hoping to find meaningful signals. Starting in the 1970s, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) carried out a “Project Cyclops (Cyclops, a figure from Greek mythology)” to analyze and address the problems that would be encountered in searching for extraterrestrials. In 1993, NASA even briefly participated in a search of the sky, called the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI), but in 1994 the program was terminated by Congress. Meanwhile, American private organizations had long since been established to carry out related research work. For example, the “SETI Institute,” founded in 1984, had consistently collaborated with NASA; after Congress cut NASA’s funding, they took over the search effort, renting large astronomical telescopes around the world to detect stars similar to the Sun, hoping to find signals with characteristics of intelligent life. Another organization, the “SETI League,” was established in 1994 and created the more ambitious “Project Argus (Argus, a figure from Greek mythology),” planning to coordinate five thousand (currently over one hundred) small radio telescopes worldwide to conduct real-time all-sky searches, detecting microwave signals of possible intelligent origin from outer space.

The University of California, Berkeley, is also running a SETI program. They use the Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico to continuously scan the sky, searching for radio signals. They then divide the received signals into two hundred million portions and send them via the internet to millions of personal computers, utilizing these computers’ idle time to help compute and analyze the data. This method of processing signals has also given rise to a new research field, called “grid computing.”

After so many years of effort in searching, measuring, and analyzing nearly half of the sky, no positive results have been obtained. In fact, from the perspective of humanity’s limited history, detecting signals from extraterrestrial intelligent life is truly exceedingly difficult. In the 4.6-billion-year history of the Earth, humans have existed for six million years, but since civilization has had sufficient technological capability to attempt communication with extraterrestrials, only about forty years have passed. Moreover, humanity’s destruction of the environment and the proliferation of nuclear weapons pose enormous threats to the survival of civilization. No one can be certain how long such a civilization can endure, or whether the existence of high technology is merely a fleeting flash in the long river of history. If extraterrestrial civilizations face the same predicament, the chances that two fleeting civilizations, amid billions of years of evolution, would happen to exist simultaneously during the same few decades seem exceedingly remote.

But from another perspective, according to what is currently known, the universe was produced by the Big Bang approximately 13.7 billion years ago, and after about 300 million years of silence, various galaxies and Milky Ways began to form. Over such a vast span of time, there is no reason why various forms of life would not have developed among the hundreds of billions of galaxies, and it is hard to believe that Earth humans are the only so-called higher organisms in the universe. Therefore, the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations seems beyond doubt; it is just that under humanity’s current spatial, temporal, and technological conditions, making contact with extraterrestrial civilizations is fraught with difficulties. An even more important question is: do extraterrestrial civilizations also use the radio and microwave bands of the electromagnetic spectrum as their communication tools? If their communication tools differ from ours, then even if they constantly transmit signals, we would not be able to detect them, would we?

The search for extraterrestrial intelligent life is a great voyage of exploration launched by humanity in the twentieth century; it actually reflects humanity’s trepidation in the face of the boundless cosmos. In the era when the sky was round and the earth was square, when stars revolved around the Earth, and when the sun and moon shone for humanity, God watched over our world, and humans lived with such self-assured righteousness and contentment! Now that we have discovered the concrete meaning of worlds beyond our own, we suddenly feel an inexplicable fear, confirming the saying that eating the fruit of knowledge caused humanity to lose Eden. And so we desperately seek to answer one momentous question: “Are we alone in the universe?” We hope that through exploring life in the cosmos, we might recover the meaning and position of humanity’s own existence. But are our methods of exploration correct? Could it be like blind men feeling an elephant, wasting time in vain?

The Buddhist scriptures speak of three thousand great thousand worlds, with countless Buddhas each guarding their own pure land, and the distances between them are measured in numbers like the sands of the Ganges. And when the Buddhist scriptures discuss time, they often say “since beginningless time”; ancient India also had an exceedingly large unit of time called the “kalpa,” equivalent to 4.232 billion years. How did these concepts of super-large space and super-large time, utterly disproportionate to human life, arise? We cannot help but recall the Master’s words: “There is no limit for me.” Could it be that the Buddhas found the method of entering and exiting the information field, and that the world observed from the information field is precisely thus—boundless and borderless, without beginning and without end? It is just that the ancient language of the Buddhist scriptures lends their content an aura of mystery. If described in modern language, could this vast array of three thousand great thousand worlds be a map of the distribution of cosmic civilizations seen through the divine eye of the Buddhas? Of course, it contains not only material physical worlds like ours, but also many more worlds invisible to our naked eyes—that part we will discuss later. For now, let us first explore the extraterrestrial civilizations we have been searching for all along.

11-2 Roaming the Cosmos via the Information Field

If the world of the information field has no limitations of time and space, then the deities of the information field should be quite clear about whether extraterrestrial civilizations exist, on which planets, and how to contact them. On January 1, 2001, we used the method of finger-reading experiments to pose a question about extraterrestrial civilizations to Ms. T’s Master:

“Please enlighten us: when can Earth humanity make contact with extraterrestrial civilizations?”

When Ms. T’s mental screen opened for the first time, the entire question was sent as a package to her Master in the information field. When the screen opened for the second time, the Master’s answer arrived:

“Isn’t it already happening?”

I was stunned for a moment, struggling to sort out a coherent thread from existing knowledge: the Earth formed only 4.6 billion years ago, while the universe has a history of 13.7 billion years—three times as long as the Earth. Since the Earth has already evolved highly intelligent humans, it is of course possible that even higher organisms have evolved on other planets in the universe. Among them there would certainly also appear beings with powerful abilities like Shakyamuni and Jesus, who thereby discovered the information field. And they may very well have already discovered the physical essence of the information field, as well as methods to directly communicate with it, and even to enter and exit it. And any extraterrestrial civilization with the ability to enter and exit the information field could overcome the barriers of time and space to come to Earth at any time, not merely communicate.

Is this reasoning too crazy? But it can also be regarded as a major breakthrough in thought. In the past, we did not believe that beyond the four-dimensional space-time there existed an information field; therefore, when studying cosmology, we always measured electromagnetic waves of various wavelengths emitted from different parts of the universe to form an image of the cosmos.

Scientists conceptually always assume that extraterrestrial intelligent beings can only rely on electromagnetic waves to transmit signals, and therefore only think of using the detection of electromagnetic waves to search for extraterrestrial intelligence. As for exploring outer space, one can only launch small space probes to fly out of the solar system, but even to fly to Alpha Centauri, the star system closest to the Sun at about four light-years away, would probably take several hundred or even a thousand years, so for human beings to explore other star systems is extremely, extremely difficult given current technology. But once we know of the existence of the information field, everything changes. As long as we can communicate with the information field, we can of course come into contact with alien civilizations. Searching for extraterrestrial intelligence should perhaps proceed through the information field; this is the correct path and the only way to achieve a breakthrough. Using electromagnetic waves is highly likely to result in no contact.

And the information field also provides a method for roaming the universe: it turns out that to break through spatial barriers, one does not design an ever-larger rocket that can be filled with a lot of fuel, stock a lot of food, have various life-support facilities, and still have to fly very fast. From now on, should we not try to design a kind of machine that can activate a torsion field and transform matter into waves? In this way, one could enter the information field and then roam time and space. My heavens!

11-3 Aliens Will Appear Anytime and Anywhere

Having accepted the possibility of this kind of understanding, one cannot help but think that the Earth may not be a closed living system. Modern scientific theories regarding the evolution of life on Earth, including Darwin’s theory of evolution, all share a fundamental assumption: the Earth is closed, and the evolution of life on Earth is not affected by external forces. Such an assumption now seems highly questionable. A couple of years ago, scientists announced finding a rock from Mars in Antarctica that contained fossils of primitive life. Although still debated, it for the first time revealed the possibility of exchange between Earth’s life and other planets in the solar system. After an initial understanding of the function of the information field, one realizes that there is actually no need to limit this to the solar system; life on Earth may have long since had exchanges with advanced alien civilizations from this galaxy or other star systems, while we remain completely ignorant and unaware.

I began to wonder if Miss T’s Master is an alien? Perhaps he is just sitting in front of a “computer” typing on the “computer,” connecting to the Earth via the information field, finding Miss T, thinking she is worthy of teaching and taking her on as a disciple. And we Earthlings, knowing nothing about him, simply regard him as a divine spirit. Looking again at Miss T, surrounded by a group of foolish and low-level scientists intent on studying him, he therefore, in his free time, often amuses himself by playing with us in the identity of a divine spirit.

“Please enlighten: Master, are you currently in the information field (spirit world)? Or are you on another planet?” My intention was to ask whether the Master is actually a divine spirit of the information field, or whether he has a physical body and currently lives on a certain planet? When Miss T’s brain screen opened for the second time, the Master’s answer came.

“Any where.”

The Master is omnipresent. Does this mean that he is in the information field, without a physical body, and therefore not bound by time and space, allowing him to exist anywhere?

We did not forget the question humans most want to know: where is the closest civilization to Earth? Therefore, we asked such a question:

“Among current alien civilizations, the one closest to Earth is in which constellation? On a planet of which constellation? Please enlighten.” When Miss T’s brain screen opened for the second time, the Master’s answer came.

“Every where.”

Alien civilizations are omnipresent; they are everywhere! If this is true, it is great news, giving us more confidence in our future search for aliens. Since alien civilizations exist everywhere, when exactly do they come to Earth?

“Please enlighten: regarding aliens taking flying saucers to visit Earth, when was the most recent time? In which city did they appear?”

When Miss T’s brain screen opened for the second time, the Master’s answer came:

“Today, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, they come every day.”

When the screen opened for the third time, the Master answered:

“Not necessarily.”

This means aliens can arrive on Earth at any time, and they do not necessarily appear in any specific city. This conforms to the hypothesis I made earlier: when advanced alien civilizations understand the physics of the information field and master the technology to enter and exit the information field, they also break through spatial barriers and can travel the universe at any time without needing to spend too much time. Naturally, they can visit Earth at any time—today, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, every day. But why do they come? Since the Master indicated that aliens also appear on the Moon, we asked again:

“Please enlighten: what is the purpose of the aliens who come to the Moon? (1) To emigrate to the Moon to relieve the overcrowding problem on their own planet; (2) To monitor the evolution of life on Earth so as to prevent the evolution from getting out of control; (3) To use the Earth as their experimental site to try to cultivate different life forms; (4) Other, please explain.”

When Miss T’s brain screen opened for the second time, the Master said:

“(2), (3).”

This indicates that the aliens visit Earth and the Moon every day, with the purpose on the one hand of using Earth as an experiment for cultivating life, and on the other hand of monitoring the development of life on Earth. These answers are truly astonishing! If what the Master says is true, then Earth is evidently an open life system, and we have long since been in contact with extraterrestrial civilizations. There are many vividly detailed reports of UFO sightings around the world. Although most of them can be explained by modern science — such as hallucinations, light and shadow effects, balloons, weather phenomena, and so on — there are still approximately 5% of reports that cannot be explained. Why do these extraterrestrial visitors always flash by in an instant, unwilling to meet formally with the people of Earth? According to the Master’s explanation, “the time has not yet come.” Perhaps they are afraid of frightening us “lower” life forms!

11-4 Interventionary Evolution

In 1859, Darwin published the book On the Origin of Species, proposing the theory that “species are transmitted from generation to generation with slight differences,” which later generations called the “theory of evolution.” The phenomenon of evolution refers to the fact that organisms change slowly in order to better adapt to their environment, and the driving force of evolution is “natural selection.” At the time, the British philosopher Herbert Spencer used “survival of the fittest” to elucidate the meaning of “natural selection.” The theory of “natural selection” states that organisms change, and this change is random rather than purposeful or directional, and this change is inherited by offspring. Among the various offspring produced with variations, the individuals best suited to the environmental conditions of the time have a greater chance of surviving and reproducing. Therefore, variations beneficial to individuals will accumulate in populations through natural selection.

Ten years after the publication of On the Origin of Species, the academic community had already accepted that the process of evolution genuinely exists, but the theory of natural selection was not favored by the public. It was not until eighty years later, in the 1940s, that it achieved complete victory in the academic world. The most fundamental issue was that the variations produced by individuals are “random” and do not favor any particular direction — unlike the view held by the French naturalist Jean de Lamarck, who insisted that “animals can understand their own needs and will change in that direction, passing on the acquired traits to their offspring,” which is a purposeful, directionally specific change.

Take the example of the giraffe. Its neck is much longer than that of ordinary animals. According to Lamarck’s theory, this is because a long neck allows it to eat the leaves at the top of trees, giving it a survival advantage. The giraffe knows its own needs, and therefore it continually evolves in the direction of a longer neck. According to Darwin’s theory, the long neck of the giraffe is merely a random variation. Because it can eat the leaves at the top of trees, in a situation where there are many animals and all the leaves at the bottom of the trees have been eaten, it has a survival advantage and is therefore preserved through reproduction. This kind of evolution — purposeless, directionless, and not evolving continually toward higher things — was very difficult for the public of the time to accept.

From two notebooks written by Darwin in 1838 and 1839, one can see that the most important difference between Darwin’s theory of evolution and other evolutionary theories is its implicit and uncompromising philosophical materialism. He believed that matter is the foundation of all existence, and that mind, spirit, or God are dependent on matter and are merely byproducts — phenomena produced by the complex neural networks of the human brain. Therefore, in his theory of evolution, he spoke only of random, purposeless variation and natural selection, and did not allow for the intervention of God or intelligent beings. It was only after the appearance of human beings, as humans began raising animals such as poultry, livestock, birds, and fish, cultivating various plants and modifying breeds, that the foundations of evolutionary theory began to shake. Especially in the past ten years of gene transfer technology, which has produced a great many new species — pest-resistant vegetables, genetically engineered agricultural products, fluorescent fish, and so on — the modification of species is no longer random but rather purposeful, with the intervention of intelligent beings. This can be called “interventionary evolution.”

After we established contact with extraterrestrial civilization through finger reading, we came to understand that advanced extraterrestrial civilizations may have long since broken through the barriers of space and time, arrived on Earth, and been conducting biological experiments. Earth may not be a closed life system. Darwin’s theory of evolution rests on one assumption: that Earth is closed, that life is not affected by outer space, and therefore natural selection applies — the fittest survive, and evolution has no purpose and no direction. Now this appears to be evidently an incorrect assumption. I believe in “interventionary evolution” — that the intervention of extraterrestrial intelligent beings has led certain species to evolve in a purposeful and directional manner, just as humans are now developing genetic engineering. Combined with the random, purposeless evolution of other species, this may well be the true picture of species evolution on Earth.

11-5 Close Encounters of the Third Kind with Extraterrestrials

The 1977 masterpiece “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” directed by the great director Steven Spielberg, with its Chinese title being “Third Kind Encounter,” convinced countless audiences worldwide that we are not alone in the universe. A power company lineman named Richard Dreyfuss, while checking an outdoor electrical problem, unexpectedly found himself surrounded by strange lights from the sky. From then on, bizarre visions and five strange musical notes kept appearing in his mind. In order to unravel this incredible mystery, he became as if possessed, and eventually made his first face-to-face contact with aliens in person, embarking on a journey into outer space. Now that the Master has indicated that aliens come and go here every day, how could it not make one itch with curiosity to see them for oneself? We made the request several times, asking that Miss T, through the information field, have a close encounter of the third kind with a highly advanced alien civilization!

In June 2002, when we were conducting finger-reading experiments, we made a request to Miss T’s Master, hoping he could introduce an alien to us:

“Master, could you introduce an alien to get in touch with us? Would we need to use the information field as a medium?”

The Master first nodded, then said a sentence in English:

“Are you guys not satisfield?”

The implication was that I have already told you so many secrets of the universe, so why are you guys still not satisfied, and still giving me difficult problems and making trouble. We hurriedly reported to the Master that we were sincerely pursuing the truth of the universe and wanted to uncover its mysteries, and that the Master was magnanimous and boundless in spiritual power, so please help. As a result, the Master said:

“Next time.”

After about a month with no activity, we could not help but ask the Master once more. He had probably forgotten about this matter, so he replied:

“Don’t be anxious, I will take the initiative to introduce you.”

We pushed once more, and he became somewhat impatient:

“Ah, don’t be anxious!”

So for quite a while we did not dare to ask again. After half a year, seeing that the Master had still not taken the initiative to make an introduction, we asked for his help once more. This time he probably felt embarrassed, and asked:

“Any kind? No specific?”

Any alien civilization would do? Or did we want a specific one? I hurriedly replied that any would do, any would do. The Master promised that within one week he would find an alien civilization and take Miss T to observe.

After one week, the Master truly kept his promise and took Miss T to use her Heavenly Eye to observe, twice, a highly advanced civilization in the constellation Cygnus within our Milky Way. The highly intelligent beings looked similar to humans: two eyes, two nostrils, one mouth, two hands and two feet, but the palms had only three fingers, one of which was especially large, and on the forehead there was a protrusion like an antenna. Their skin color was very dark and shiny, as if they were wearing a layer of tight-fitting clothing, and also as if it were seamlessly integrated with the entire body. They moved extremely quickly and spoke at lightning speed, looking as though they were constantly talking to themselves, and also as if they were communicating with others. They also had a kind of machine: as long as commands were typed on a keyboard, something would come out, which they would grab and put into their mouths. According to the Master, this machine they invented could create any object; their technology was far superior to that of humans on Earth, and they had also visited Earth. Later, using the planet information software for our galaxy, “The Sky Astronomy Software,” we displayed on the computer screen a star map of all stars in our galaxy of magnitude 15 or brighter, and earnestly asked the Master to help point out the location of the planet where this advanced civilization resided: it was a planet orbiting a magnitude 7.6 star at declination 32 degrees and right ascension 20 hours 19 minutes in the constellation Cygnus. We very much look forward to astrophysicists intensifying their efforts to find it. Regarding the aliens Miss T observed, there is also a very interesting follow-up story: at the end of January 2004, when I was in Beijing, I mentioned this alien civilization in casual conversation. Ms. Sun immediately went to verify it in her Heavenly Eye, and then told me that those aliens should have two antennae on their heads. She also personally asked the alien: “You clearly have two antennae on your head, so why did Professor Lee and the others only see one?” As a result, the alien, in the blink of an eye, retracted one of the antennae. What? Such a thing happened? When I asked Miss T to do an experiment in March, I requested that Miss T’s Master help verify this. As a result, Miss T watched in her Heavenly Eye as the Master conversed with an alien, and indeed the alien had two antennae on its head, except that one of them kept extending and retracting, appearing and disappearing. The Master later told us that the retractable antenna was used for receiving information, and when not in use it was retracted.

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) program in the United States has been ongoing for ten years, with hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of participants, and as a result has not found any signals with characteristics of intelligent life. We achieved considerable results in just half a year, though because we relied on the Heavenly Eye of a functionally gifted person, there is a lack of direct evidence. However, I personally firmly believe that using the information field to make close encounters of the third kind may be the only feasible approach at present.

11-6 The Moon and Mars Both Have Highly Intelligent Life

Ever since we learned that advanced extraterrestrial civilizations had long since broken through the barriers of space-time and visited Earth, I began to suspect that other intelligent beings might exist on some planet in the solar system, or on one of its moons. Although the surface might not necessarily be suitable for survival, it was possible that they lived beneath the surface. So I successively consulted the Masters in the information field of the present-day Taoist Mr. W, Ms. T, and Ms. Sun Chulin, and received positive and consistent answers: beneath the surfaces of both the Moon and Mars, advanced intelligent beings lived somewhere.

In March 2004, we made a request to Ms. T’s Master.

“Please instruct: Master, you promised to take Ms. T to see the aliens on the Moon. Can we go see now? Or first go see the aliens’ base?”

The Master replied:

“Base first, but not today.”

So the next day we continued to entreat the Master:

“Please instruct: Master, please take Ms. T to see the aliens’ base on the Moon, and point out its location on a map of the Moon.”

At this point, through her celestial eye, Ms. T saw in the distance large blocks of buildings in a dark earth color, enormously huge. Then everything disappeared. I quickly opened for Ms. T a map of the side of the Moon facing the Earth, which had numerical labels for different regions. The Master replied: “80, not exactly.” 80 referred to the circular Plato crater in the northern part of the Moon. “In which direction — southeast, northwest — from 80?” “Northwest of 80.” I then made a dot to the northwest of the Plato crater on the map. “Is it beneath the surface?” The Master nodded.

In March 2003, we had asked Ms. T’s Master:

“Please instruct: Which other planets in the solar system have intelligent life? (1) Mercury; (2) Venus; (3) Mars; (4) Jupiter; (5) Saturn; (6) Uranus; (7) Neptune. Is their level of technology higher than ours?”

The Master replied:

“(3).”

There are advanced intelligent beings on Mars, similar to common speculation. Whether their technology is higher than ours, the Master did not answer. Asked again in March 2004:

“Please instruct: Regarding the intelligent beings on Mars, is their technology (1) already capable of building spacecraft and using the information field to travel through the universe; (2) similar to Earth’s; (3) behind Earth’s, not yet having electronic technology?”

The Master replied:

“(1).”

The Martians’ technology had broken through the barriers of space-time and could already enter the information field. Later, the Master also told us that the Martians also lived underground. I also consulted Ms. Sun Chulin’s Master about this question of the Martians’ level of technology, and the answer I received was similar:

“Mars once had intelligent beings. They had already mastered advanced spaceflight technology and were able to enter the information field to roam the universe.”

Ms. Sun was not certain whether these beings were visitors from elsewhere or native to Mars.

The two American probes exploring Mars, “Spirit” and “Opportunity,” were searching for signs of life on Mars. They had already found evidence of the existence of water, and water is the most important substance for the survival of living organisms, which indirectly corroborates that Mars has the conditions to nurture life. According to the Master’s statements, we believe there are even bigger surprises ahead. The question is, would these Martians, more advanced than us, be willing to appear and meet with us? Or would they feel that their homeland had been violated?

11-7 The Peanut in Coma Berenices

You may perhaps recall that in the book Incredible, it was recorded that on the evening of April 3, 1998, when I was in Beijing and asked Ms. Sun to conduct the peanut resurrection experiment, one peanut that I had signed was taken away by Ms. Sun’s Master. According to Ms. Sun’s understanding, this Master was an alien. In February 2004, I asked Ms. Sun to consult that Master:

“1. Is that peanut that was taken away still with the Master? Is it on the planet where the Master resides? In which constellation?”

“2. Has the Master done any research on that peanut? For example, planting it in soil to let the peanut continue to sprout and grow? Are there next-generation peanuts? If so, could you give me one?”

Ms. Sun’s answers to me were:

“1. That peanut is still with my Master. In which constellation, I am not clear for the moment; the Master did not say.”

“2. That sprouted peanut has already grown into a large patch. They don’t seem to need soil, as if growing in glass containers. The Master said that when the time is ripe, it may be possible to bring one over for you!”

At the end of May 2004, I again went to Beijing to visit Professor Shen and Ms. Sun, and once again asked Ms. Sun: in which star system within which constellation was the planet where the Master resided? This time, the experimental equipment I had prepared was more extensive. First, I showed her a standard star chart I had bought from the Taipei Observatory, showing the distribution of stars in the sky as seen from Earth at the center — all quite bright stars within our own Milky Way galaxy, marked with the various constellations, as well as the positions of some galaxies and galaxy clusters.

Ms. Sun had opened her celestial eye. Under the guidance of her extraterrestrial Master, she passed through Virgo and Leo, and finally arrived at a star in the constellation Coma Berenices, at approximately right ascension 12 hours 30 minutes and declination +28 degrees. Since the star chart was not very detailed, I used a computer to open the software “The Sky Astronomy Software,” used by astrophysics experts, which contains detailed data and sky positions for all stars in the Milky Way galaxy of magnitude 15 or brighter.¹ The software has a feature that allows the star chart to be continuously zoomed in, displaying the detailed distribution of more and more stars in the sky. I asked Ms. Sun to use her celestial eye to search for the planet where the extraterrestrial Master resides, and she found the stellar system numbered SAO 82313 in the constellation Coma Berenices. After returning to Taipei, I asked Professor Sun of National Central University to help me locate this star, which is approximately 170 light-years from Earth. (See Figure 7)

Do we have any way to verify whether this star truly has a high-tech civilization? For example, could we use a radio telescope to send them a greeting message? But the radio waves would not receive a reply for 350 years, and whether human civilization would even still exist by then is an open question. Therefore, communicating with them using existing technology is impractical; only by utilizing the property of the information field, which has no obstacles of time or space, is it possible to contact them in a timely manner.

From now on, when everyone looks up at the night sky and finds the constellation Coma Berenices, please take an extra glance, because the peanuts brought from Taiwan are growing there! The line from Li Bai’s poem, “Forming a companionship beyond emotion, we pledge to meet across the distant Milky Way,” captures my current mood beneath the starry sky, and I feel my anticipation to be at once real and concrete, yet dreamlike and illusory!

The Planet Where the Master Resides

Chapter 12 The Hidden World

Above, it is not bright; below, it is not dark. Continuously continuing, it cannot be named. It returns again to a state of no-thing.

This is called the shape of no shape, the image of no image. This is called the elusive and indistinct.

Laozi, Tao Te Ching

In astronomy there are two methods for detecting an object: one is to directly observe the object, and the other is to observe its effect on other objects that are more easily detected. We have long known that there is much matter in the night sky that cannot be directly observed. When astronomers use telescopes or radio telescopes to observe the sky, they can only see stars that emit light or radio waves; they cannot see planets like Earth, because Earth is too dim and emits too little energy. The combined mass of all the planets in the solar system is far less than one percent of the mass of the Sun, so when considering the problem of gravitational interactions within a galaxy, there is really no need to worry about those non-luminous materials.

Hidden Matter in Clusters

In the 1930s, when astronomers studied the motions of galaxies within clusters, they first discovered that clusters appeared to possess large amounts of unobservable matter. Fritz Zwicky and Sinclair Smith, while observing the neighboring clusters of Coma Berenices and Virgo, found that the motion of individual galaxies within the clusters was ten to one hundred times faster than expected. Since the only force acting between galaxies is universal gravitation, the greater the total mass of the cluster, the stronger its gravitational pull on an individual galaxy, and the faster the galaxy’s motion. However, the galaxy’s speed also cannot exceed the escape velocity; otherwise, it would escape from the cluster and would not remain in the cluster after more than ten billion years. Therefore, the speed of galaxies within a cluster can be estimated from the cluster’s total mass.

However, the observational results showed that the motion of individual galaxies was ten to one hundred times faster than expected. Speeds faster than expected indicate that the total mass of the cluster is greater than anticipated. This excess, unobservable matter is called dark matter, or one may adopt the translation of Professor Lü Ying-Zhong of Nanhua University and call it “hidden matter.”

However, this discovery had many other possible explanations. For example, those galaxies with excessively high speeds might have intruded from outside and were currently passing near the Coma cluster; or these galaxies might be located somewhere midway along the line connecting Earth and the Coma cluster, and were mistakenly classified as belonging to the Coma cluster; or perhaps they were leaving the cluster due to their excessive speeds, but the observation time from Earth had been too limited to distinguish this. Due to all of the above doubts, the possible existence of dark matter was not taken seriously by astronomers at the time.

By the 1970s, astronomers such as V. C. Rubin, Freedman, and P. James E. Peebles, when measuring the rotation curves of spiral galaxies, found even stronger evidence for the existence of hidden matter. There are many spiral galaxies in the sky, and the Milky Way, where our solar system resides, is one of them. Spiral galaxies, like eight-armed octopuses, have multiple spiral arms, each revolving around the center of the galaxy. We can first measure the speed of rotation and then calculate the centrifugal force based on universal gravitation. Since galaxies have a history of formation spanning several billion to over ten billion years, they are stable structures, so the centrifugal force must be equal to the centripetal force. The centripetal force is simply universal gravitation, provided by the mass contained within the sphere defined by the orbital radius of the spiral arm. Therefore, the rotation speed of the spiral arm can be calculated from the observed distribution of luminous stars. Conversely, one can also use the rotation speed measured along the galactic radius to weigh the distribution of mass within the galaxy.

For example, at the edge of a galaxy, the luminosity begins to decrease, indicating a reduction in the number of stars, which means a reduction in mass, and so the rotational speed should also decrease. But in fact, the measured rotational speed does not decrease; instead, it remains consistently high. This demonstrates that within galaxies, beyond the stars we can see, there is a great deal of matter we cannot see. This invisible matter is called hidden matter.

How much hidden matter is there? Cosmologists like to use a parameter—the Greek letter Ω—to represent the amount of mass in the universe. Ω is defined as follows: if the mass of the universe is large enough to form a closed universe, meaning that the currently expanding universe will eventually contract back and collapse due to having sufficient gravitational attraction, then Ω is greater than 1; if the mass of the universe is too small and the gravitational attraction is insufficient, the universe expands forever, forming an open universe, then Ω is less than 1; if the universe is between these two, with expansion and attraction achieving a perfect balance, then it is a “flat” universe, and Ω equals 1.

As currently known, the visible matter in the universe is not much; Ω is approximately 0.05. However, cosmologists estimate from theory that this universe is “flat,” that is, Ω equals 1. This means that 95% of the matter in the universe is invisible—it is hidden matter. In fact, based on the evidence discovered by astronomical measurements at that time, Ω does not seem to exceed 0.4. Even so, the amount accounted for by hidden matter still reaches Ω equal to 0.35, which is seven times the visible matter.

Four Possibilities for Hidden Matter

Over the past thirty years, cosmologists have had many conjectures about what hidden matter actually is. Generally speaking, there are four possibilities. The first possibility assumes that hidden matter consists of planets, which cannot be seen because they do not emit light. However, we typically assume that planets do not exist independently but rather form in orbit around stars; therefore, no matter how large a planet is, it amounts to only a few percent of a star’s mass, and the Ω it provides is at most 0.005, making it impossible to explain the fact that Ω is greater than 0.35. The second possibility assumes that hidden matter consists of relatively dim celestial bodies, such as Jupiter-sized stars that have not yet ignited, or already dead stars like brown dwarfs, white dwarfs, or even black holes. However, the total mass of these stars is also subject to limits.

From the perspective of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN), after the Big Bang explosion that gave birth to the universe, extremely high temperatures like a hot soup and all kinds of particles were produced. As the universe gradually cooled, ordinary matter particles such as protons, neutrons, and electrons began to form atoms—primarily hydrogen (H), the hydrogen isotope deuterium (D), helium-3 (³He), helium-4 (⁴He), and lithium (⁷Li) atoms. Hydrogen and helium-4 atoms are the most fundamental elements composing the present universe, and Big Bang Nucleosynthesis theory successfully predicts the ratios of these elements. The quantity of each element formed is closely related to the number of baryons in the universe; therefore, only when the mass of baryons Ω equals 0.1 can Big Bang Nucleosynthesis theory successfully explain the correct ratios of the various elements in the present universe. The baryonic mass Ω equal to 0.1 is larger than the visible matter Ω equal to 0.05, indicating that there are indeed quite a few planets and dead stars in the universe. These celestial bodies can be called dark matter, but they still cannot explain the hidden matter for which Ω is greater than 0.35.

The fourth possibility is that we do not truly understand the law of gravity. Perhaps the law of gravity at large scales like that of a galaxy is different from what we can directly measure at small scales. Although this possibility is very small, it cannot be entirely ruled out. In fact, in 1983, Israeli physicist Professor Mordehai Milgrom proposed a theory, Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND). He put forward a hypothesis: there exists in nature an acceleration constant a₀, just like the gravitational constant G and the Planck constant h, which is a physical invariant of the universe. When the acceleration of a body after being acted upon by a force is much greater than a₀, Newton’s second law of motion still holds, that is, force is proportional to acceleration. But when the acceleration is less than a₀, the force is proportional to the square of the acceleration.

Since a₀ is too small a value, current experiments have yet to confirm it, but it can be used to explain why the spiral arms of spiral galaxies rotate too fast, without the need for hidden matter. That is to say, if this theory is correct, then the evidence for the existence of hidden matter no longer holds. Since this theory is merely a phenomenological theory and lacks a foundation in deeper theory, it is not accepted by most physicists.

Anti-Gravity Hidden Energy

In 1998, two teams of astronomers announced a groundbreaking discovery: our universe is filled with a type of energy that can resist gravity, causing the universe to expand faster and faster, called “dark energy.” Current cosmology tells us that the universe emerged from a Big Bang explosion 13.7 billion years ago, and that over time, the gravitational attraction between nebulae would gradually slow the rate of expansion. However, when these two teams of astronomers studied changes in the light intensity of galactic supernovae very far from Earth, they found that these supernovae were dimmer than expected. That is, their distance from Earth was 10% to 15% greater than expected, indicating that the speed of the universe’s expansion had not slowed down but had instead accelerated. This anti-gravity phenomenon was actually proposed by Einstein in 1917 and was called the “cosmological constant,” though Einstein later retracted it and claimed it was the biggest mistake of his life.

In 2003, the American Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropic Probe (WMAP), using data obtained from the detection of cosmic microwave background radiation, combined with other data such as the information on over a million galaxies obtained from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), once again confirmed that the universe possesses a large amount of dark energy. The expansion of the universe has not slowed down; on the contrary, it has been accelerating. Physicists overlaid the WMAP and SDSS data, using cosmic microwave background radiation as a light source to illuminate galaxy clusters. When light passes through depressions in gravitational fields, the electromagnetic wave wavelength exhibits a blue shift phenomenon, indicating the existence of anti-gravity that pulls apart the structure of spacetime.

The current consensus among cosmologists is that the matter in the universe we can see and measure accounts for only 4% of the universe’s total energy, dark matter that possesses gravitational attraction accounts for 23%, and dark energy that resists gravitational attraction accounts for 73%. In other words, the universe as we currently understand it amounts to a mere 4%, and there remains a vast unknown world waiting for us to discover and explore.

Dark energy possesses some fundamental physical properties. For example, it does not emit light; it generates enormous negative pressure that drives the accelerated expansion of the universe; it appears to have no effect on galaxies and galaxy clusters, and therefore its distribution is very uniform on the scale of galaxies and galaxy clusters. Because its pressure is comparable to its energy density, it is more like energy than matter, and thus it is fundamentally different from dark matter.

It is generally believed that dark energy is what physics calls “vacuum energy,” or the “cosmological constant” postulated in Einstein’s general theory of relativity. It is uniformly distributed in space and does not vary, and therefore does not produce a direct gravitational interaction with ordinary matter. However, the actually measured dark energy density is far, far smaller than the theoretical value. If “vacuum energy” truly had an effect, its force would have long ago torn apart the chemical bonds of atoms and molecules, making it impossible for stars, galaxies, and life to form.

Therefore, another theory was proposed by cosmologists at Princeton, suggesting that dark energy is composed of something called “quintessence” or “fifth-element matter.” From the beginning of the universe’s birth, its energy density was small but not far from the density of matter. It was only after the universe expanded and galaxy cluster structures formed that the energy density of “quintessence” gradually exceeded the density of matter, and the repulsive force caused by its negative pressure then drove the universe to expand faster and faster. Cosmologists have also proposed a variety of other theories to explain the possible causes of dark energy, such as those produced by networks of cosmic topological defects, the spin of scalar fields, the breakdown of the Friedmann equation (note), and so on, but there is absolutely no consensus. It can be said that the origin of dark energy is currently the largest and most far-reaching problem in the physics community.

Information Field, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy

The information field we discovered through finger reading is another form of existence beyond four-dimensional spacetime; it is an invisible world containing all manner of deities and spirits. Deities and spirits possess consciousness and energy, and can interact with the material world. This interaction is accompanied by energy—which is mass—and produces gravitational force. Therefore, we speculate that the energy from the interaction between the information field and the material world constitutes at least part of dark matter.

On April 14, 2003, I received an email from KC in the San Francisco Bay Area, informing me that when children performed finger reading experiments while holding magnets in their hands, the characters they saw would be magnified. On April 20, I quickly tested the young Miss Xu whom I had trained, and indeed observed a similar phenomenon. Furthermore, I discovered that if the paper strip was placed at the south pole (S pole) of the magnet, the characters seen would become larger, but if placed at the north pole of the magnet, the size of the characters would be unaffected or would shrink slightly. On April 27, I tested Miss T, who had the highest ability, and also observed the same phenomenon. Later, in the MRI room, we placed the subject’s arm within a larger magnetic field and found that when the magnetic field was parallel to the arm, the character size was unaffected; when the magnetic field was perpendicular to the arm, the characters seen would become larger.

Clearly, the physical phenomena produced by finger reading can interact with magnetic fields, and are closely related to the direction of the magnetic field. Of course, the interaction with the magnetic field may also be an interaction with the torsion field accompanying the magnetic field; this still needs to be clarified by future experiments.

When recognizing sacred characters through finger reading, characters such as Buddha, Bodhisattva, and Jesus will connect to the corresponding websites of the information field, indicating that the physical reality of the information websites is similar to the mind-matter unity physical phenomenon produced by finger reading. Magnetic fields can affect the transmission and resolution process of finger reading signals, indicating that magnetic fields can interact with the information field. The energy of these interactions is hidden and is a form of energy that current science cannot measure.

As for the “quintessence” or “fairy-realm matter” of hidden energy, its distribution in the universe is very uniform and produces an effect that resists universal gravitation. We conjecture that the consciousness of divine spirits within the information field can exist across vast spaces, and consciousness can also manipulate matter, just as psychokinesis can move objects. It is very likely also an important component constituting hidden energy.

From the influence of magnetic fields on finger reading, we discovered that the mind-matter unity physical phenomenon produced by finger reading is subject to interference from magnetic fields, and this is related to the direction of the magnetic field. The example in which a great spirit from the information field was actually able to control an automobile confirms that the information field can invade the material world and can interact with the material world. We believe that these energy forms currently immeasurable by science—including information websites, divine spirits, and interaction energies—are part of the gravitationally hidden matter discovered in current cosmology.

As for the hidden energy that resists universal gravitation, current cosmologists attribute it to composition by “quintessence” or “fairy-realm matter.” We conjecture that it may be related to the consciousness of divine spirits within the information field. Consciousness can manipulate matter just as psychokinesis can move objects; it is very likely also an important component constituting hidden energy, but the actual mechanism is not clear. What is gratifying is that the rapid development of cosmological research on the largest structures of the universe has already intersected with the image of the universe we have arrived at through our approach beginning with human body science.

Note: The Friedmann equations are used to derive the relationship between mass density and pressure within the universe, and how it changes over time.

Chapter 13: Thus Come, Thus Go

Looking back on the path I have traveled, lush green hills stretch across the horizon.

—Li Bai, “Descending Zhongnan Mountain, Passing the Hermit Scholar Hu’s Mountain Dwelling, and Stopping for Wine”

Over more than ten years, from qigong to special human functions and on to the study of the information field, the development has flowed naturally, without deliberate arrangement. I have also doubted whether I might have entered a realm that could never be empirically verified. But as always, at every critical moment new clues emerged, guiding us forward step by step—truly, around every dark willow and bright blossom lay yet another village. Almost involuntarily, I found myself unable to stop.

The Ancient Texts Are True and Not False

The most wonderful thing is that every advance has given me a sudden, clear understanding of the obscure passages in certain ancient classics. For example, the recent exploration of hidden matter and hidden energy has given me a concrete realization of what is meant by “empty in nature, yet truly existent.” The shock and joy brought by this kind of mutual corroboration across time and space are precisely the greatest driving forces propelling me forward ceaselessly, and also the motivation that makes me want to share my research results with others.

Undeniably, this is an era that champions scientific rationality. The rationalist current of thought brought by the Enlightenment has dominated human development for over four hundred years. In every field of activity, people wish to cast aside the constraints of the past. Whether in the humanities, the arts, or the scientific community, everyone strives to create a realm without gods and without supernatural factors. Even the religious world attempts to transform the divine portions of its faith into principles consistent with rationalism.

However, by the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, this development had become a disordered, shifting spiritual world. People had to work hard to establish new cognitive models to explore the meaning of life. Even someone like Freud strove to uncover the deepest layers of the unconscious and attempted to reinterpret ancient Greek myths.

Of course, during the vigorous development of rationalism, there were also some reflections upon rationality itself. The German rationalist Kant once argued that humans cannot be certain whether the “order” they discern from nature is related to “external reality” or is merely a product of human thought itself. Could what are called “scientific laws” reveal human psychological states rather than the universe itself? When we receive information from the external material world through our senses, we reorganize these data according to our own internal structure in order to understand their meaning. Therefore, the so-called rational perspective that people hold can in fact never exclude the influence of their own psychological states.

Kant also discussed that all our ideas are in essence subjective, artificial interpretations. This kind of speculative logic reminds me of the words of the Diamond Sutra: “All appearances are illusory,” “The Tathagata says that all minds are not minds, and are therefore called minds. Why so? Subhuti, the past mind cannot be grasped, the present mind cannot be grasped, the future mind cannot be grasped.”

Many terms in the ancient classics that have been regarded as illusory have been proven one by one in the course of our research to be true and not false. Perhaps all ancient classics and religious language are what biblical scholars call a kind of “baby talk”—using the simplest language to express truths so complex they cannot be fully articulated. If we can open our hearts, honestly face all phenomena both knowable and unknowable, refrain from rushing to explain everything with existing knowledge, and refrain from negating things we cannot understand, then the wisdom of life will naturally and gradually unfold before our eyes. I hope everyone can share this supreme joy.

When the highest hear the Way, they diligently practice it. When the middle hear the Way, they half-believe and half-doubt it. When the lowest hear the Way, they laugh loudly. If they did not laugh, it would not suffice to be the Way.

—Laozi, Tao Te Ching

Appendix: Reference Books

• 1. Incredible — Scientists Explore the Mysterious Information Field, by Si-Chen Lee and Mei-Ling Cheng, Taipei, Zhang-Laoshi Culture, 2000.
• 2. How to Cultivate and Realize the Buddha Dharma, narrated by Nan Huai-Chin, Taipei, Lao Ku Culture Enterprise Co., 1995.
• 3. Dao De Jing, Commentary on the Thirteen Classics of the Most High, Taipei Ziyou Publishing, 1994.
• 4. Diamond Sutra
• 5. Battle for God, by Karen Armstrong, translated by Wang Guo-Zhang, Taipei, Jiu Jing Publishing, 2003.
• 6. In Search of the Medicine Buddha, by David Crow, translated by Yu Hui-Min, Taipei, Marco Polo Culture, 2003.
• 7. Mysteries of Lost Human Civilizations, edited by Che Er-Fu, Taipei, Hao Du Publishing Co., 2003.
• 8. Detailed Analysis of Three Hundred Tang Poems, Taipei, Chung Hwa Book Company, 1970.
• 9. Liezi Speaks, comic by Tsai Chih-Chung, Taipei, Crown Publishing, 1987.
• 10. Heart Interpretation of the Analects, by Song Guang-Yu, Taipei, self-published, 2002.
• 11. Beyond Time and Space, by Seth, translated by Hu Ying-Yin and Wang Yu-Sheng, Taipei, Fa-Er Publishing, 1991.
• 12. Death. Miracle. Prophecy, by Dannion Brinkley and Paul Perry, translated by Luo Ruo-Ping, Taipei, Fang Zhi Publishing, 1996.
• 13. A History of Heaven, by Jeffrey Burton Russell, translated by Zhang Rui-Lin, Taipei, Xin Xin Wen Culture Co., 2001.
• 14. Wondrous Voyage of Life — Exploring the World of Life After Death, by Suzanne Ward, translated by Wang Chang-Jun, Taipei, Ho Chi Publishing, 2003.
• 15. Revelations For A New Era, Suzanne Ward, Xlibris Corporation, USA, 2000.
• 16. A Feeling for the Organism, by Evelyn Fox Keller, translated by Kang Jia-Hui, Taipei, Commonwealth Publishing Co., 1995.
• 17. Comprehensive Treatise on Daoist Studies — Daoist Philosophy, Daoist Religion, and the Study of Immortality, by Hu Fu-Chen and Lü Xi-Chen, Beijing, Social Sciences Documentation Publishing House, 1999.

——End of full text—— Professor Si-Chen Lee’s personal webpage: http://sclee.ee.ntu.edu.tw/

The rationalist current of thought brought by the Enlightenment dominated human development for over four hundred years. In the process, there was no shortage of views regarding “rationality” itself. Some scholars have pointed out in their writings: Are the so-called “scientific laws” not perhaps merely patterns of humanity, rather than of the universe itself?

The author himself is a person of science; he neither dismisses science nor falls into superstition, but explores the truth of the universe with an open mind. Through finger-reading experiments, he proposes that information is another form of existence transcending time and space, connecting through channels to worlds that endure without end, within which there are websites of various time-spaces. These time-spaces possess structure and energy, and can interact with the matter of our space, thereby producing effects on the human mind and consciousness. From this he further turned his attention to the relationship between electromagnetic fields and information fields in physics.

A series of observations led the author to ground his work in the concept of “unity of heaven and humanity,” as well as in ancient classics. Are those things regarded as illusory in religion and mythology truly nonexistent? Did species evolve naturally, or through “interventionary evolution”? Maintaining an open attitude and accepting all possibilities, the answers drawn from exploration may be helpful for future research.

Professor Lee uses highly capable individuals as mediums to communicate with his “masters” in the spirit world, in order to understand several fundamental questions that have long perplexed the human mind from ancient times to the present. The content of the book startles the reader in many places, yet I vaguely sense that the various schools since ancient times — Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, Christianity, and Catholicism — seem to gradually become explicable within a unified framework.

Sun Wei-Xin (Associate Professor, Institute of Astronomy, National Central University)

The driving force of human culture originates from the emergence of inspiration; the source of inspiration is the inevitable boundless unfolding of the mind. If people of the world can set aside greed, anger, and delusion, and approach this book with an open and tranquil mind, then what they gain will surely be far more than the amusement of extraordinary tales. It will also prompt introspection and spontaneous awakening of the mind, so that one no longer lets the years slip by in vain.

Chen Kai-Jing (Professor, Department of Physics, Soochow University)

There is nothing under heaven that can truly be called “superstition”; it is only that the degree to which things can be understood varies in depth and ease. Professor Lee demonstrates the true model that a scientific researcher ought to possess. His book is not only reliable and engaging, but also gives readers a powerful intellectual impact.

Song Guang-Yu (Director, Institute of Life Studies, Fo Guang University of Humanities and Social Sciences)

The progress of science is everywhere full of surprises, but when various incredible phenomena recur repeatedly, they easily degenerate into talk of mysticism and ghosts. Even the Buddha exhorted his disciples not to follow blindly, but to personally practice and verify. The spirit of modern science is likewise; we should not be hasty in dismissing, but should be courageous in facing problems.

Zhang Xun (Dentist, science fiction writer)

Footnotes

1. The source prints “1515 magnitude.” An earlier passage in the same chapter describing the same software prints “magnitude 15 or brighter”; the duplicated “15” has therefore been emended. ↩