This was a fun one to study up on, lot's of potentially awesome & terrifying possibilities! Please to enjoy! (P.S. This episode is dedicated to my big sister. Without her, there would be no show...so get better! And don't let the Commies steal your organs!)

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Featuring excerpts from the Communist Chinese national anthem...please don't come and arrest me.

Closing theme: "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" by Earl Scruggs plus a bunch of other dudes on their respective banjos!

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[**SOURCES**]:

钱学森 [Qian Xuesen], “人体科学与现代科学技术的比较研究” (A Comparative Study of Somatic Science and Modern Science and Technology), 1980. Published in 自然杂志 (Nature Journal, Shanghai).* — Qian’s founding text for Somatic Science, arguing that psychic phenomena are manifestations of higher-level systemic information.

钱学森 [Qian Xuesen], “从宏观到微观的人体科学” (From Macro to Micro Somatic Science), 1986. — Introduces “information field” and the idea of consciousness as a measurable force.

钱学森与宋心之 [Qian Xuesen & Song Xinzhi], eds. 人体科学研究 (Somatic Science Research), Beijing: 1988–1992, serial publication.

David Palmer, Qigong Fever: Body, Science and Utopia in China (Columbia University Press, 2007).

Richard H. Wang, “China’s Somatic Science Revolution and Its Discontents,” East Asian Science, Technology and Society, Vol. 6 (2012)

Paul Dong and Thomas Raffill, China’s Super Psychics (Marlowe, 1997).

Sheila Ostrander & Lynn Schroeder, Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain (Harper & Row, 1970; updated 1997 ed.).

Robert Ford Campany, Strange Writing: Anomaly Accounts in Early Medieval China (SUNY Press, 1996).

Nick Cook, The Hunt for Zero Point (2001)

Martin Cannon, The Controllers: A New Hypothesis of Alien Abduction (self-published, 1990).

Includes early speculation that “psychotronic” mind-control work migrated from USSR and China to U.S. black projects.

Nigel Pennick, The Secret Lore of the East (1985).

Mentions Taoist alchemy and early “bio-energy” research

David A. Palmer, Qigong Fever (Columbia UP, 2007) – Appendix A lists 1980s “extraordinary phenomena” investigations.

Richard H. Wang, “China’s Somatic Science Revolution and Its Discontents,” EASTS 6 (2012).

Paul Dong & Thomas Raffill, China’s Super Psychics (Marlowe, 1997) – chapters 4–9 cover Zhang Baosheng and mass phenomena.

Flying Saucer Review vols. 32–40 (1986–1995) – English translations of CURO bulletins.

Somatic Science Research periodical (1988–1992).

Jilin University UFO Symposium Proceedings (1994).

China UFO Research Organization (中国UFO研究会) website archive (retrieved 2018 via Wayback Machine).

ALSO! Here's an awesome interview with Simon Duan!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyLgeQWzIUs&t=11s

*If you are dealing with mental health and/or substance abuse issues, harness your chi better! Or, dial 988 if things get really bad.

This is a big one. It makes me wistful for the 1980's when The Soviets controlled all of our minds (and if not our minds, our economic choices...Doritos, Miller Lite, & the like.)

SOURCES:

*https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00792R000500210001-9.pdf

*https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00792R000600350001-3.pdf

*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1qhye0cMWI&list=PLnORemBrCOZO9iXv-k_VjU3m3WHTZFCyL&index=184

*https://everydayconcerned.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Nikolai-Ivanovich-Anisimov-Psychotronic-Golgotha-From-the-Author-web.pdf

*https://www.rexresearch.com

*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9hwXoCrEUs&t=2196s

*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPV0BU9Vbk8&t=1115s

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Featuring excerpt from "Battle Hymn of The Republic" by The Russian Military Choir...which is weird.

Closing theme: "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" by Earl Scruggs plus a bunch of other dudes on their respective banjos!

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If you are struggling with addiction and/or mental health issues...be glad it's not happening in Soviet Russia. Also, if it gets really bad, please dial 988.

Did you know that early Communist Russia almost became a Buddhist theocracy? That's just a fraction of the craziness that sets the foundations for later "Soviet Psychotronic Super Science"! I just had to get into the story of "Red Shambhala" & this is it! Don't hate the Great Player, hate The Great Game! It's history comrades...Enjoy!

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Closing theme: "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" by Earl Scruggs plus a bunch of other dudes on their respective banjos!

SOURCES: "Red Shambhala" by Andrei A. Znamenski & "Modern Occultism in Late Imperial Russia" by Julia Mannherz

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If you are struggling with addiction and/or mental health issues...be glad it's not happening in Soviet Russia. Also, if it gets really bad, please dial 988.