Plants Can Read Your Mind!
The
extraordinary discovery of plant/human
consciousness
interaction
Copyright
James F. Coyle 2013
In 1966 something happened that shook the scientific world to its very
foundations... and it was discovered, not in a famous laboratory, but in a
small room in an office building in New York.
In 1966 a very strange event
occurred. Cleve Backster, America's top polygraph (lie detector) expert was
working late in his New York office. His secretary had installed a Dragon pot-plant
to brighten the office.
Backster
noticed that the plant needed water, and on impulse attached the leads of a lie
detector to one of the leaves. The lie detector measures skin resistance and
Backster knew that it would indicate when water reached the actual leaf. He
poured water over the root system and waited to see how long before this
moisture reached the leaves.
Nothing happened. In fact after a
while the instrument appeared to indicate less moisture in the leaf. The
pen-tracing equipment attached to the lie detector was trending downwards with
a fair amount of "saw tooth" motion.
Backster
was puzzled as this was exactly the same response expected from a human being
experiencing an emotional stimulus of short duration. He wondered if the plant
could be displaying emotion.
Backster
knew from long experience that the best way to make a polygraph needle
"jump" was to threaten the subject’s well-being so he dunked the
plant leaf in his hot coffee. There was no reaction. He thought about this for
a couple of minutes then conceived a worse threat. (He used to work for the
CIA). He would light a match and burn the leaf. The instant he conceived this
thought something dramatic happened - something that has had far reaching
scientific implications all over the world...
...THE POLYGRAPH REACTED VIOLENTLY!
The pen-traced graph moved off its
centreline into a pronounced upward curve.
Backster was staggered. He was some
distance from the plant and he wondered if it could possibly have been reading
his thoughts.
As later events will prove... IT
WAS!
This was the start of an incredible
reaction from the scientific community. And the interesting fact is that
thousands of people have been able to duplicate this experiment. All you need
is a "Wheatstone Bridge" circuit and a sensitive multimeter which any
competent electronics enthusiast can easily assemble. With this simple
equipment you can carry out your own experiments.
Backster initially wondered if his equipment
was faulty but thorough tests over the following weeks eliminated this as a
coincidental effect.
Backster
discovered a further vital fact. When he only "pretended" to burn the
leaf there was no reaction. In other words the emotion and intent had to be
genuine.
Backster
advised associates around the country as to what he had discovered and they
were able to replicate his results which proved that it was not a "one
off" effect between Backster and his plant and quelled the sceptics who
claimed he had faulty equipment.
That was the start of an amazing
series of experiments on different types of plants, fruits and vegetables such
as bananas, oranges and onions.
Backster named this strange new
effect - Primary Perception.
At this point Backster realized he
was on to something with enormous potential so he converted his offices into a
full scale scientific laboratory.
Over the following months all sorts
of plant matter was tested. In one instance a plant leaf was totally shredded
but when reattached to the electrodes it still exhibited the same response.
It was discovered accidently that
the plants also reacted to unexpected stimuli such as the sudden appearance of
a dog in the room or a person who did not like plants.
It was also found that the plants
reacted to the attempts of a spider attempting to escape from the close
proximity of humans which it perceived as a threat. The plant reacted JUST BEFORE the spider made any movement - that is,
it picked up the spider’s intentions.
Backster
concluded that while plants may be in "tune" with each other they are
more in tune with animal life which is mobile and may present a threat.
Another interesting observation was
that when a plant was seriously threatened it tended to "pass out"
from "emotional" overload. The plant appears to go into a "deep
faint" for a while and then recovers. Backster discovered this while he
was demonstrating his effect to a group of visiting scientists. The plants
simply would not respond on this occasion and it was discovered that one of the
scientists in the group roasted plants in an oven to get their dry weight for
experiments.
Forty five minutes after this
person left the building the plants came back to normal. This
"fainting" effect has been replicated on many occasions.
A sceptical reporter was invited by
Backster to assist in an experiment to see if a philodendron could "read
his mind". The idea was to find the reporters year of birth by naming each
of the 7 years between 1925 and 1931. The reporter was instructed to answer
"no" to each question. Each year was read out and the plant responded
strongly (via the polygraph) when the reporter answered no to the correct date.
The resultant article created so much impact that it eventually appeared in the
Readers Digest. Further tests indicated that plants could reliably indicate
when a person was telling a lie, however this is fraught with legal dangers as
the plant could easily be sabotaged by the subject mentally picturing the plant
being burnt.
In another experiment a group of
Backster's students drew a folded slip of paper out of a hat. The instructions
on one of the slips told its bearer to totally destroy one of two plants placed
in the laboratory. This was to be done in secret at some point during the day,
without anyone else knowing. The surviving plant was attached to the polygraph
and the students were paraded past it. When the culprit approached the plant
reacted strongly, positively identifying the "murderer". The
conclusion was that the plant could remember and identify the person who
destroyed a sister plant.
Backster
also noted that a bond appeared to develop between a plant and its owner. He
used a synchronized stopwatch while he was making a trip out of town to New
Jersey. The moment he made a conscious decision to return to his lab he
triggered the stopwatch. When he returned he noted from the polygraph recording
equipment that the plant had given a response at that critical instant he had
pressed the stopwatch.
After years of testing Backster
concluded that if a person genuinely liked a plant it would respond to him or
her which might explain why some people have "green fingers" and
others don't. It appeared that a communication "bond" developed which
was totally unaffected by distance and there is now considerable evidence that
this communication is not limited to the speed of light (as radio waves are)
but is instantaneous.
Obviously segments of the
scientific community are wondering if this could be used for deep-space
communication where a radio signal takes years to reach us, even travelling at
the speed of light. Even the signals from our deep space probes out beyond Mars
can take hours to reach us and we haven't really started serious space probes
yet! In a speech Backster made to the American Congress he indicated that it
might be possible to modulate (overlay information) on signals between plant
and human life.
His further experiments indicated
that once a plant is "linked" to a particular person it seems to be
able to maintain that link, no matter where that person is or how big a crowd
of other people they are in.
Tests were carried out with the
plant in a Faraday cage and a lead container. Both block out radio waves. The
communication still went thru unchecked. Backster concluded that this primary
perception was outside the usual electromagnetic spectrum.
On one occasion Backster
cut his finger and as he applied iodine to the wound the polygraph attached to
his plant reacted. It also reacted when somebody poured boiling water down the
sink. After months of tests it was concluded that the plants were sensitive to
the destruction of living cells and the bacteria in the sink plug-hole. This
lead to lengthy experiments on single cells and simple cell structures
including scrapings from a human mouth. When these scrapings were centrifuged
and attached via fine gold electrodes to a polygraph it was found that they
reacted to the emotions of their human donor - even when he was miles away!
That is, human cells react in the same way that plants do!
This was quite an astounding
finding because it explained for the first time how a person’s emotions and
thoughts might affect the individual body cells - and hence the functions and
health of that body! In fact there is some doubt as to whether our body cells
are individually controlled from the brain by electro-chemical impulses - it is
considered a possibility that the cells receive "operating
instructions" via this "primary perception" in a manner not yet
understood. Which might explain why people who "know" that they don't
catch colds... don't! And people who "know" that they are always
sick... are!
In a well thought out scientific
experiment, designed to quell the sceptics, Backster and his staff designed an
automated device that dumped live, healthy Brine Shrimp into boiling water. At
the instant the shrimp died in this boiling water, the three monitored plants
reacted. The Brine were dumped automatically at random intervals so there was
no human interference with the process. Light and temperature conditions were
strictly controlled and a fourth polygraph (with a fixed value resistor in
place of a plant leaf) was used as a control, to indicate possible fluctuations
in power supplies or electromagnetic fields.
Backster's 1968 report in the
International Journal of Parapsychology drew more than 7000 queries from
scientists around the world, wanting more information. Most of the news media
ignored Backster's work until the February 1969 edition of National Wildlife
featured a story about this strange new effect.
This attracted worldwide attention
and everywhere housewives started talking to their plants!
Another event led Backster onto a
different path. One evening he was about to feed a raw egg to his dog. He
cracked the egg in preparation and as he did this noticed that one of his
plant/polygraph mechanisms reacted quite violently. He decided to attach a
store-bought raw egg to his equipment and his chart recorder indicated that it
was pulsing with the same rhythms as a chicken embryo, with a frequency between
160 and 170 beats per minute. However the egg was unfertilized and when it was
broken open there was absolutely no sign of a circulatory system. Backster
appeared to have discovered the same force which has been noticed in Kirlian
Photography.
After some years of experimenting
Backster's work indicated that when connected to polygraph equipment plants
register pleasure, fear and relief. They respond to the threatening intentions
of other life forms that they are attuned to. This is where the term PRIMARY
PERCEPTION evolved in relation to the apparent interconnectedness between
organic and other living matter.
Furthermore it has now been firmly
established that human cells respond in the same manner to various emotions
displayed by their "host' body, even when these cells are miles from their
"host". Human brain neurons (made up of cells) share a common
consciousness with other human brain neurons via this "primary
perception" which would explain why mind-to-mind contact in the form of
Subjective Communication works so well. Rupert Sheldrake calls this a
morphogenic field.
There appears to be a common
life-force here which has yet to be identified and explained. We have
discovered it, but we don't know what it is or how to use it....yet! It is like
the discovery of electricity and magnetic fields. We were able to manipulate
and use them in the 19th century but didn't even come close to understanding
them until well into the 20th century. And 18th century people knew about them
in the form of static electricity and lodestones. (Natural magnetic rock). So
it has taken around 200 years to get magnetism and electricity up and running
properly.
It is likely to take a lot less
time than this to commercially utilise primary perception because of the
scientific protocols and equipment available. The speed of progress will be
restricted only by the same human restrictions evident in the 18th and 19th
century ..... "closed minds". It has been suggested that primary
perception is a universal communication handshake in the same manner that gravity
is a universal force field handshake.
The main problem with this primary
perception business is that it only appears to work if the intent is genuine.
It seems to be linked to survival and doesn't respond to play acting. Genuine
sceptics also have a lot of trouble getting a response. In fact this applies to
virtually all mind-power forces - if you believe in it .... it works!
The big problem with the
investigation of primary perception is that it seems to work only when genuine
emotional intent is involved or when there is a question of survival in living
organisms. Scientists are having a hard time with it because results are not
uniform and sometimes not even capable of being replicated. All other forces
known to science can be reliably measured in any laboratory anywhere, which has
the right equipment. Not so with the Backster Effect. So
mainstream science understandably finds it hard to deal with.
If a scientist sets up a Backster
style experiment in his laboratory and gets it running perfectly
.... and then demonstrates it to a group of his
fellow scientists only to find it doesn't work, he ends up with a certain
amount of egg on his face.
This non-replicability is a serious
problem for the scientific community. Science works on protocols - which can
best be described as regulated pre-formatted procedures. When you approach a
plant with this procedural protocol firmly fixed in your mind the plant
perceives no serious emotional intent or genuine threat so it does not respond.
And if the same test is applied repeatedly to the same plant its response
quickly drops off. These are only some of the problems that will have to be
overcome before plant life can be used for, say, interstellar communication.
There is one exception to this
response-dropping factor .... and that is the death of human cells. The plants
seem to respond consistently to the death of healthy human cells. At one point
during Backster’s experiments he was noticing that the polygraph would give
irregular emotional responses which didn't seem to tie in with any of the tests
being done. It took some time to discover what it was. There was a men's urinal
next door to the lab. Every time it was flushed, the plant reacted. It was
finally concluded that the disinfectant in the cistern was destroying cells in
the body's excretions. But the strangest thing was that when the person using
the urinal was aware of this effect there was no reaction from the plant!
There have been a multitude of
tests by different researchers in an attempt to ascertain the effects of love
and hate on plant systems and almost without exception they report that
feelings of love toward a plant enhance its growth and wellbeing, something
that every "green thumb" already knows!
Experiments of this kind with
plants started long before Backster made his amazing polygraph discovery but
did not make any substantial public impact until America's top lie detector
expert announced his findings.
Meanwhile research goes quietly on
and it will be most interesting to see just where it ends up!
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