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Approved For Release 2000108/14 n@1A- ROP 96-DO 7225240 300400002-9 "caught" by someone in the audience. In contrast, there is not a single case when it would happen to Mr. Zhang. People who know him personally consider him very honest and sincere; not capable of cheating. One may wonder whether Mr. Zhang is apt of hypnotizing large groups of people making them believe something that did not happen. But, besides the fact that such an ability would already be very remarkable in itself, it is hard to imagine somebody generating a 400 frames per second photographic evidence by the power of his will. % Link with qigong There is an interesting Link between individuals possessing unusual, inborn gifts - like Zhang Baosheng - and many ordinary | people practicing qigong on a daily basis. By monitoring electrical and chemical activity of the human body two distinct phases can be differentiated - that of sleep, and that of being awake. When the same relatively standard test, involving some 30 parameters (electrocardiogram, electroencephalogram, pulse phase, etc.), is applied to a qigong adept who is in a meditative state, the measurements do not coincide neither with those of "sleep", nor those of “awakeness". Clearly, a person advanced in his qigong exercises is able to put himself into a strange, yet well 16 Approved For Release 2000/08/11 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300400002-9