Excerpt from a January 2008 item in the UK's The Daily Mail newspaper: In 1995, the US Congress asked two independent scientists to assess whether the $20 million that the government had spent on psychic research had produced anything of value. And the conclusions proved to be somewhat unexpected. Professor Jessica Utts, a statistician from the University of California, discovered that remote viewers were correct 34 per cent of the time, a figure way beyond what chance guessing would allow. She says: "Using the standards applied to any other area of science, you have to conclude that certain psychic phenomena, such as remote viewing, have been well established. "The results are not due to chance or flaws in the experiments." Of course, this doesn't wash with sceptical scientists. Professor Richard Wiseman, a psychologist at the University of Hertfordshire, refuses to believe in remote viewing. He says: "I agree that by the standards of any other area ...
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Another small issue is that the official state doctrine is one of "scientific development", and that includes a strong emphasis upon eliminating "superstition". So there may be some resistance from official circles. But in practice, as long as you don't go around being aggressively anti-government or anti-Chinese, then you will almost certainly be OK. Some here might be interested in this blog post of mine, if Dean is OK with my sharing it here. It tells the story of my participation ina mindfulness workshop near Beijing with 130 Chinese people. I was the only foreigner there. http://www.resonantfutures.com/blog/marcus-anthony/awakening-to-the-spirit-of-china