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This is an "Eleanor White Book Review". Such reviews are not like what you see in the print media. My emphasis is to provide enough information that an electronic harassment target or supporter can make an intelligent decision as to whether to buy the book (or borrow it). This means most of the reviews are excerpted text, with comments inserted. This type of review is biased in favor of information relevant to electronic harassment technology, and possible countermeasure experiments. Those who are interested in psychic phenomena outside of an electronic harassment context should obtain this book for detailed information.
Note: In the excerpted text from the book, emphasis by way of ALL UPPER CASE LETTERS is mine. The reason for such emphasis is to point up information particularly relevant to mind control.
As the plant thirstily sucked water up its stem, the galvanometer, to
Backster's surprise, did not indicate less resistance, as might have been
expected by the greater electrical conductivity of the moister plant. The
pen on the graph paper, instead of trending upward, was trending downward,
with a lot of sawtooth motion on the tracing.
[...SNIP...]
Backster ... then conceived a worse threat: he would burn the actual leaf
to which the electrodes were attached. The INSTANT he got the PICTURE OF
A FLAME IN HIS MIND, and BEFORE he could move for a match, there was a
dramatic change in the tracing pattern on the graph in the form of a
prolonged upward sweep of the recording pen.
[...SNIP...]
When he and his collaborators, using other plants and other instruments in
other locations all over the country, were able to make similar observations,
the matter warranted further study. More than twenty five different
varieties of plants and fruits were tested, including lettuce, onions,
oranges, and bananas. The observations, each similar to the others, required
a new view of life, with some explosive connotations for science.
[...SNIP...]
[p 7]
During the next few months, chart after chart was obtained from all sorts of
plants. The phenomenon appeared to persist even if the plant leaf was
detached from the plant, or if it was trimmed to the size of the electrodes;
amazingly, even if a leaf was SHREDDED and redistributed between the
electrode surfaces there was still a reaction on the chart.
The plants reacted not only to threats from human beings, but to unformulated
threats, such as the sudden appearance of a dog in the room, or of a person
who did not wish them well.
Backster was able to demonstrate to a group at Yale that the movement of a
spider in the same room with a plant wired to his equipment could cause
dramatic changes in the recorded pattern by the plant just BEFORE the spider
started to scamper away from a human attempting to restrict its movement.
"It seems," said Backster, "as if each of the spider's decisions to escape
was being picked up by the plant, causing a reaction in the leaf."
[...SNIP...]
Under normal cirucmstances, plants may be attuned to each other, said
Backster, though when encountering animal life they tend to pay less
attention to what another plant is up to. "The last thing a plant expects
is another plant to give it trouble. So long as there is animal life around,
they seemed to be attuned to animal life.
[...SNIP...]
The phenomenon was dramatically demonstrated one day when a
physiologist from Canada came to Backster's lab to witness the reaction of
his plants. The first plant gave no response whatsoever. Nor did the
second; nor the third. Backster checked his polygraph instruments, and
tried a fourth and a fifth plant; still no success. Finally, on the sixth,
there was enough reaction to demonstrate the phenomenon.
Curious to discover what could have influeced the other plants, Backster
asked: "Does any part of your work involve harming plants?"
"Yes," the physiologist replied. "I terminate the plants I work with. I
put them in an oven and roast them to obtain their dry weight for my
analysis.
[p 8]
Forty five minutes after the physiologist was safely on the way to the
airport, each of Backster's plants once more responded fluidly on the graph.
[...SNIP...]
On one occasion, to show that plants and single cells were picking up
signals through some unexplained medium of communication, Backster provided
a demonstration for the author of an article appearing in the Baltimore
Sun, subsequently condensed in the Reader's Digest.
Backster hooked a galvanometer to his philodendron, then addressed the
writer as if it were he who was on the meter, and interrogated the
writer about his year of birth.
Backster named each of seven years between 1925 and 1931 to which the
reporter was instructed to answer with a uniform "No." Backster then
selected from the chart the correct date, which had been indicated by the
plant with an extra high flourish.
The same experiment was duplicated by a professional psychiatrist, the
medical director of the research ward at Rockland State Hospital in
Orangeburg, New York, Dr. Aristide H. Esser.
[...SNIP...]
To see if a plant could display memory, a scheme was devised whereby
Backster was to try to identify the secret killer of one of two plants.
Six of Backster's polygraph students volunteered for the experiment, some
of them veteran policemen. Blindfolded, the students drew from a hat
folded slips of paper, on one of which were instructions to root up, stamp
on, and thoroughly destroy one of two plants in a room. The criminal
was to commit the crime in secret; neither Backster nor any other of the
students was to know his identity; only the second plant would be a witness.
By attaching the the surviving plant to a polygraph and parading the
students one by one before it, Backster was able to establish the culprit.
[...SNIP...]
In another series of observations, Backster noted that a special communion
or bond of affinity appeared to be created between a plant and its keeper,
UNAFFECTED BY DISTANCE. With the use of synchronized stopwatches, Backster
was able to note that his plants continued to react to his thought and
attention from the next room, from down the hall, even from several
buildings away. Back from a fifteen mile trip to New Jersey, Backster was
able to establish that his plants had perked up and shown definite and
positive signs of response - whether it was relief or welcome he could not
tell - at the VERY MOMENT he had decided to return to New York.
[p 9-10]
When Backster was away on a lecture tour and talked about his initial 1966
observation, showing a slide of the original dracnaea, the plant, back in
his office, would show a reaction on the chart at the VERY TIME he projected
the slide.
Once attuned to a particular person, plants appeared to be able to maintain
a link with that person no matter where he went, even among thousands of
people. On New Year's Eve in New York City, Backster went out into the
bedlam of Times Square armed with a notebook and stopwatch. Mingling with
the crowd, he noticed his various actions, such as walking, running, going
underground by way of subway stairs, nearly getting run over, and having a
mild fracas with a news vendor. Back at the lab, he found that each of his
three plants, monitored independently, showed similar reactions to his
slight emotional adventures.
To see if he could get a reaction from plants at a much greater distance,
Backster experimented with a female friend to establish whether her plants
remained attuned to her on a seven hundred mile plane ride across the
United States. From synchronized clocks they found a definite reaction
from the plants to the friend's emotional stress each time the plane
touched down for a landing.
[...SNIP...]
[p 11]
Backster has no idea what kind of energy wave may carry man's thoughts or
internal feelings to a plant. He has TRIED TO SCREEN A PLANT BY PLACING
IT IN A FARADAY CAGE AS WELL AS IN A LEAD CONTAINER. Neither shield
appeared IN ANY WAY to block or jam the communication channel linking the
plant to the human being. The carrier wave equivalent, whatever it might
be, Backster concluded, must somehow operate BEYOND the electromagnetic
spectrum. It also appeared to operate from the macrocosm down to the
microcosm.
One day when Backster happened to cut his finger and dabbed it with iodine,
the plant that was being monitored on the polygraph immediately reacted,
apparently to the death of some cells in Backster's finger. Though it
might have been reacting to his emotional state at the sight of his own
blood, or to the stinging of the iodine, Backster soon found a
recognizeable pattern in the graph whenever a plant was witnessing the
death of some living tissue.
[...SNIP...]
To begin with, Backster found that plants can quickly become so attuned
to human beings that it is not always possible to obtain exactly the same
reactions with different experimenters. Incidents such as the "fainting"
[EW: Flatlining - no visible EEG activity] which occurred with the
Canadian physiologist sometimes made it look as if there was no such thing
as the Backster Effect. Personal involvement with an experiment, and
even prior knowledge of the exact time an event was scheduled, was often
enough to "tip off" a plant into noncooperation.
[...SNIP...]
The device for "terminating" these playboy creatures consisted of a small
dish which would automatically tip them into a pot of boiling water. A
mechanical programmer actuated the device on a randomly selected occasion
so that it was impossible for Backster or his assistants to know when the
event would occur. As a control precaution against the actual mechanism
of dumping registering on the charts, dishes were programmed at other
times to dump plain water containing no brine shrimp.
[...SNIP...]
Plants selected for the experiment were of the Philodendron cordatum
species because of its nice large leaves, firm enough to withstand
comfortably the pressure of the electrodes. Different plants of the same
species would be used on successive test runs.
[...SNIP...]
The experimental results showed that the plants did react strongly and
synchronously to the death of the shrimp in boiling water. The automated
monitoring system, checked by the visiting scientists, showed that the
plants reacted consistently to the death of the shrimp in a ratio that was
five to one against the possibility of chance.
[...SNIP...]
A fortuitous occurrence led Backster into another whole realm of research.
One evening, as he was about to feed a raw egg into his Doberman pinscher,
Backster noticed that as he cracked the egg one of his plants attached to
a polygraph reacted strenuously. The next evening he watched again as the
same thing happened. Curious to see what the egg might be feeling, Backster
attached it to a galvanometer, and was once more up to his ears in research.
For nine hours Backster got an active chart recording from an egg,
corresponding to the rhythm of the heartbeats of the chicken embryo, the
frequency being between 160 and 170 beats per minute, appropriate for an
embryo three or four days along in incubation. Only the egg was store
bought, acquired at the local delicatessen, and was UNfertilized. Later,
breaking the egg and dissecting it, Backster was astonished to find that
it contained no physical circulatory structure of any sort to account for
the [electrical] pulsation. He appeared to have tapped into some sort
of force field not conventionally understood within the present body of
scientific knowledge.
[...SNIP...]
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[...SNIP...]
That same evening, one student called Vogel to announce that
the latest issue of Popular Electronics referred to Backster's work,
and included a wiring diagram for an instrument called a "psychanalyzer",
which would pick up and amplify reactions from plants and could be built for
less than twenty five dollars.
[...SNIP...]
Vogel divided his class into three groups and challenged them to repeat
some of Backster's accomplishments. By the end of the seminar, not one of
three teams had achieved any success. Vogel, on the other hand, was able
to report that he had duplicated certain of Backster's results, and
proceeded to demonstrate how plants anticipate the act of having their
leaves torn, react with even greater alarm to the threat of being burnt or
uprooted - MORE SO EVEN THAN IF THEY ARE ACTUALLY TORN, BURNT, OR OTHERWISE
BRUTALIZED.
[...SNIP...]
... Back in her garden, Vivian
Wiley picked two leaves from a saxifrage, one of which she placed on her
bedside table, the other in the living room. "Each day when I get up," she
told Vogel, "I will look at the leaf by my bed and will that it
continue to live; but I will pay no attention to the other. We will see
what happens.
[p 19-20]
A month later she asked Vogel to come to her house and bring a camera to
photograph the leaves. Vogel could hardly believe what he saw. The leaf
to which his friend had paid no attention was flaccid, turning brown and
beginning to decay. The leaf on which she had focussed daily attention
was RADIANTLY VITAL AND GREEN [after a MONTH!], just as if it had been
freshly plucked from the garden.
[...SNIP...]
Vivian Wiley continued her experiments and later
showed Vogel the saxifrage leaf which she had kept green and alive for two
long months while the control leaf was completely dehydrated and brown.
[...SNIP...]
While making the slides, Vogel realized that by "relaxing his mind"
[a prerequisite for remote viewing too] he could sense activity not visually
revealed in the microscopic field.
"I began to pick up things at the microscope which eluded others, not with
ocular vision but with my mind's eye. After becoming aware of them," says
Vogel, "I was led by some form of higher sensory awareness to adjust the
lighting conditions to allow these phenomena to be optically recordable to
the human eye or to a camera." [Shades of Ted Serios?]
The conclusion at which Vogel arrived is that crystals are brought into a
solid, or physical state of existence by pre-forms, or GHOST IMAGES
of pure energy which anticipate the solids. Since plants could pick
up intentions from a human, that of burning them, for example, there was no
doubt in Vogel's mind that INTENT PRODUCED SOME KIND OF ENERGY FIELD.
[...SNIP...]
Vogel also found that some of the philodendrons he worked with responded
faster, others more slowly, some very distinctly, others less distinctly,
and that not only plants but their individual leaves had their own unique
personality and individuality. Leaves with a large electrical resistance
were especially difficult to work with; fleshy leaves witha high water
content were the best. Plants appeared to go through phases of activity
and inactivity, full of response at certain times of the day or days of
the month, "sluggish" or "morose" at other times. [Surprised? May have
implications for plant-based experiments.]
To make sure that none of these recording effects was the result of faulty
electroding, Vogel developed a mucilaginous substance composed of a solution
of agar, with a thickener of karri gum, and salt. This paste he brushed on
to the leaves before gently applying carefully polished 1-1/2 inch stainless
steel electrodes. When the agar jelly hardened around the edges of the
electronic pickups, it sealed their faces into a moist interior, virtually
eliminating all variability in signal output caused by pressure on the
leaves when clamped between ordinary electrodes. This system produced for
Vogel a base line chart that was PERFECTLY STRAIGHT, without oscillations.
[...SNIP...]
In another experiment, Vogel wired two plants to the same recording
machine and snipped a leaf from the first plant. The second plant responded
to the hurt being inflicted on its neighbour but only when Vogel was
paying attention to it! If Vogel cut off a leaf while ignoring the
second plant, the response was lacking. It was as if Vogel and the plant
were lovers on a park bench, oblivious of passers by until the attention
of one lover became distracted from the other.
[...SNIP...]
Asked to describe the process in detail, Vogel said that first he quiets
the sensory responses of his body organs, then he becomes aware of an
energetic relationship between the plant and himself. When a state of
balance between the bioelectrical potential of both the plant and himself
is achieved, the plant is no longer sensitive to noise, temperature, the
normal electrical fields surrounding it, or other plants. It responds
only to Vogel, who has effectively tuned himself to it - or perhaps
simply hypnotizes it.
[...SNIP...]
For the producer of ABC's television
program You Asked For It, Vogel also demonstrated the plant's
response to another person's thoughts, including a sudden release of strong
emotion on command, followed by the act of his quieting the plant to normal
reactions to the environment.
[p 23-24]
Invited to lecture to audiences who had heard of his experimentation, Vogel
said unequivocally: "It is fact: man can and does communicate with plant
life. Plants are living objects, sensitive, rooted in space. They may be
blind, deaf, and dumb in the human sense, but there is no doubt in my mind
that they are extremely sensitive instruments for measuring man's emotions.
[...SNIP...]
They radiate energy forces that are beneficial to man. One can feel those
forces! They feed into one's own force field, which in turn feeds energy
back to the plant." The American Indians, says Vogel, were keenly aware
of these faculties. When in need, they would go into the woods. With their
arms extended, they would place their backs to a pine tree in order to
replenish themselves with its power.
[...SNIP...]
"The feeling of hostility, of negativity, in an audience," says Vogel, "is
one of the main barriers to effective communication. To counteract this
force is one of the most difficult tasks in public demonstration of these
plant experiments. If one cannot do this, the plant and therefore the
equipment will 'go dead' and there is no response until a positive tie can
ge reestablished.
[...SNIP...]
Vogel has since tried the same experiment with dozens of other people,
having them go to a single leaf and look at the individual cells within it.
All gave CONSISTENT DESCRIPTIONS of various parts of the cellular body
DOWN TO THE DETAILED ORGANIZATION OF THE DNA MOLECULES. From the
experiment, Vogel came to the conclusion: "We can move into individual
cells in our own bodies and, depending on our state of mind, affect them in
various ways.
[...SNIP...]
Vogel noticed that those children who felt the strongest sensations were
wholly engrossed in what they were doing. Once they felt the tingling he
would say: "Now completely relax and feel the give and take of the energy.
When you feel it pulsing, gently move your hand up and down over the leaf."
Following his directions, the young experimenters could easily see that,
when they brought their hands down, the leaves fell away. By continued
repetition of this motion, the leaves would begin to oscillate. With the
use of both hands, the experimenters could actually get a plant to sway.
As they gained confidence, Vogel urged them to move further and further
away from the plant.
"This is basic training," says Vogel, "to develop an expanded awareness of
a force which is not visible. The awareness established, the see they can
operate with this force."
Adults, according to Vogel, are much less successful than children, which
leads him to surmise that many scientists are not going to be able to
repeat his or Backster's experiments in their laboratories. "If they
approach the experimentation in a mechanistic way," says Vogel, "and don't
enter into mutual communication with their plants and treat them as friends,
they will fail. It is essential to have an open mind that eliminates all
preconceptions before beginning experiments."
[...SNIP...]
"Hundreds of laboratory workers around the world," says Vogel, "are going to
be just as frustrated and disappointed as these men until they appreciate
that the empathy between plant and human is the key, and learn how
to establish it. No amount of checking in laboratories is going to prove
a thing until the experiments are done by properly trained observers.
SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT IS INDISPENSABLE. But this runs counter to the
philosophy of many scientists, who do not realize that creative
experimentation means that the experimenters must become part of their
experiments. [EW: That is true in order to make
any scientific progress past 1950s style science.]
[...SNIP...]
Vogel says that even when a person can affect a plant, the result is
not always a happy one. He asked one of his friends, a clinical
psychologist, who had come to see for himself if there was any truth to the
plant research, to project a strong emotion to a philodendron fifteen feet
away. The plant surged into an instantaneous and intense reaction and then
suddenly "went dead." When Vogel asked the psychologist what had gone
through his mind, the man answered that he had mentally compared Vogel's
plant with his own philodendron at home, and thought how inferior Vogel's
was to his. The "feelings" of Vogel's plant were evidently so badly hurt
that it refused to respond for the rest of the day; in fact, it sulked for
almost two weeks[!]
[...SNIP...]
This being true, Vogel considered it possible, one day, to read a person's
thoughts through a plant. Something of this sort had already taken place.
Vogel had asked a nuclear physicist to mentally "work" on a technical
problem. As the man was cogitating, Vogel's plant registered a series of
tracings on the recorder for 118 seconds. When the tracing fell back to
base line, Vogel informed his scientist friend that he had stopped his
train of thought. The friend corroborated.
Vogel wondered if he had actually captured a process on a chart via a plant.
After a few minutes, he asked the physicist to think of his wife. When the
physicist did so, the plant again recorded a tracing, this time for 105
seconds. It seemed to Vogel that, right before him in his living room, a
plant was picking up and passing on a man's mental impressions of his wife.
If one could interpret such tracings, could one not now what the man was
thinking?
After a break for a cup of coffee, Vogel almost casually asked his friend to
think once more of his wife in the same way he had thought of her before.
The plant registered another 105 second long tracing very similar to the
first. To Vogel, this was the first time a plant seemed to have recorded
a similar thought spectrogram AND DUPLICATED IT.
[...SNIP...]
Dr. Hal Puthoff [One of the original Star Gate remote viewing experimenters]
a physicist at the Stanford Research Institute in Palo Alto, invited Vogel
and five other scientists to witness the effects he was getting by hooking
up a chicken egg to the electro psychometer, or "E-meter" developed by
L. Ron Hubbard [EW: Don't panic - it's just a GSR meter.] the founder of
Scientology. The E-meter's function is almost identical to that of the
psychoanalyzer which Vogel had first used with his seminar students.
Puthoff attempted to demonstrate that the egg wired to the E-meter would
respond when another egg was broken. He broke three separate eggs, but
nothing happened.
After asking Puthoff if he could try, Vogel put his hand over an egg and
related to it exactly as he had learned to relate to his plants. In one
minute, the needle on the E-meter's galvanometer dial began to move and
finally "pinned". Vogel backed ten feet away and got gyrations from the
needle by opening and closing his hands. Though Puthoff and several
others tried to do the same, all failed.
[...SNIP...]
With nothing but his will
power, Swann has been able to affect a mechanism in the university's most
thoroughly shielded "quark" chamber, buried deep underground in a vault of
liquid helium, IMPENETRABLE TO ANY KNOWN WAVELENGTHS OF THE ELECTROMAGNETIC
SPECTRUM, astonishing the academic physicists who watched him perform what
they considered to be an impossible feat.
[...SNIP...]
Two young Californian students of humanistic psychology and Hindu
philosophy, Randall Fontes and Robert Swanson, have now pursued Vogel's
quarry into unbeaten ground. Using sophisticated equipment lent them by the
IBM researcher, they have made a series of discoveries so surprising that
despite their youth they have been granted funds and equipment by
established universities to further probe the mysteries of plant
communication.
Fontes' and Swanson's first discovery came virtually by accident when one
noticed the other's yawning was being picked up by a plant in the form of
energy surges. Instead of ignoring the phenomenon as improbable, the two
students followed up the clue remembering that in ancient Hindu texts an
exaggerated yawn was considered a means by which a tired person could be
recharged with vivifying shakhti, a postulated energy filling the
universe.
[...SNIP...]
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[...SNIP...]
[Electronics engineer Sauvin] also found in the course of his various
experiments that the simplest signal he could transmit to his plants,
extrasensorily, to which they would respond with a sharp enough reaction,
was to give himself a light electric shock, the very simplest method being
to swivel his desk chair and then ground the accumulated static charge by
touching his finger to his metal desk. His plants several miles away would
react with an instant surge.
[...SNIP...]
As his plants reacted most strongly to any damage done to
himself or to any part of his own energy field, he experimented with
remotely killing a few cells of his body in the presence of the
plants. The system worked admirably.
[...SNIP...]
Sauvin soon found that his plants DID react to joy and pleasure, but with
wave patterns that were not sharp enough to trigger a switch reliably.
[...SNIP...]
By a slight adaptation to his transmitter equipment Sauvin is able
to start, stop, or affect the speed of a model plane in flight by
transmitting a thought to the plant.
[...SNIP...]
Already [1970s material] the U.S. Army has taken an interest in the project.
At Fort Belvoir, Virginia, funds have been provided for research on plants.
The Army is interested in devising ways of measuring the emotional
responses of people via plants, without having to sensitize the plants to a
special person beforehand.
The Navy is also showing interest. Eldon Byrd, an operations analyst with
the Advanced Planning and Analysis Staff of the Naval Ordnance Laboratory in
Silver Spring, Maryland, has been duplicating Backster's experiments with
some success. A member of the American Society for Cybernetics and senior
member of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Byrd
attached the electrodes of a polygraph to the leaves of a plant, and has
been observing definite fluctuations of the polygraph needle as the plant
responds to various stimuli. Like Backster, Byrd found that MERELY BY
THINKING OF HARMING A PLANT'S LEAF IT WAS POSSIBLE TO MAKE A POLYGRAPH
NEEDLE JUMP. Byrd's experiments involved monitoring a plant's reaction to
stimuli from water, infrared and ultraviolet light, fire, physical stres,
and dismemberment.
[p 40-41]
Byrd believes the galvanometrical effect produced by a plant is not caused
by electrical resistance in the leaf, but by a change of bio-potential in
the cells from outside to the inside membrane, as defined by the Swedish
Dr. L. Karlson, who has shown that a cluster of cells can change polarity,
though the energy which causes cells to become polarized is not known.
Byrd believes that a voltage change in the cells is what is being measured,
and that it is the mechanism of consciousness which causes the change in
potential.
Byrd's research supports Backster's observations that plants exhibit a
quality of awareness an an empathy to other organisms that are stimulated
in their presence. Like Backster, Byrd also found a major problem in his
experiments to be the plants' tendency to "faint" under excess stress,
suddenly ceasing to respond even to the most basic stimuli, including his
intent to burn the plant. On camera Byrd got a plant to respond to
his shaking a spider in a pill box. The plant responded with about a
second's delay, the response continuing as long as a minute. He also got
a strong reaction when cutting the leaf from another plant.
Byrd, who has a master's degree ni medical engineering from George Washington
University and is a member of Mensa, a worldwide organization whose primary
requirement is an extremely high intelligence quotient, has no ready
solution to explain the apparent response of plants to human thoughts, and
is open to widely disparate explanations, including alterations of the
Earth's magnetic field, supernatural and spiritual phenomena, and the
mysterious mechanics of bioplasma. In a paper presented in 1972, to the
American Society of Cybernetics, Byrd reviewed numerous Russian experiments
with thought transmission via "bioplasma," which certain Soviet scientists
claim to be a previously undiscovered form of energy. [See also
Rifat: Remote Viewing and
Ostrander/Schroeder: Psychic Discoveries
for more information on bioplasma.]
[p 41-42]
In May 1973, Byrd began to set up an experiment to instrument the tiny
leaves of Mimosa pudica, which are so sensitive that they collapse
when touched. Byrd believes that, by using a thin wire barely touching a
mimosa leaf, he can pick up through a special amplifier minute changes
in voltage or resistance. Also available to Byrd is one of the world's
finest chart recorders, made in West Germany by Siemens, which shoots out
more than three feet of recording paper per second with the patterns
recorded by a jet of ink only a few microns wide. With these devices Byrd
hopes to be able to pick up plant reactions which have hitherto gone
unnoticed.
Byrd is also planning to work with a primitive marine alga, Acetabularia
cremulata, which, though two inches long, is made up of only a single
cell. If this monocellular plant exhibits the "Backster Effect," Byrd
will then surgically remove its nucleus. If it then fails to respond, Byrd
hopes this will offer proof that the genetic material in the nuclei of plant
cells is chiefly responsible for plant response.
A revolutionary new lie detector device known as a Psychological Stress
Evaluator has also been made available to Byrd, along with lab space and
facilities, by Allan Bell, inventor of the device, who is president of
Dektor Counter Intelligence Systems, a firm he recently [1970s material]
formed with two other ex-intelligence officers. The device, tested by
monitoring twenty five segments of the television program To Tell The
Truth, is said to have picked the persons who were telling the truth
with 94.7 percent accuracy. The theory behind the device is that the human
voice normally operates both in audible and INaudible frequency modulations
except when a person is under stress. According to the inventors of the
device, when the inaudible FM vibrations disappear from the voice under
stress, the ear does not note the difference, but the machine can trace the
fluctuations on a chart. Byrd is now working on a means of adapting the
device for employment in conjunction with plants. [1970s material]
[...SNIP...]
Transformed and amplified by Dr. Hashimoto's electronic equipment, the
sound produced by the plant was like the high pitched hum of very high
voltage wires heard from a distance, except that it was more like a song,
the rhythm and tone being varied and pleasant, at times even warm and
almost jolly.
John Francis Dougherty, a young American from Marina Del Rey, California who
witnessed one of these conversations, says it sounded as if Mrs. Hashimoto,
speaking in modulated Japanese, was being answered by the plant in modulated
"cactese". Dougherty further reports that the Hashimotos became so intimate
with the plant that they were soon able to teach it to count and add up to
twenty. In answer to a query as to how much two and two make, the plant
responds with sounds which, when transcribed back into inked tracings,
produced FOUR distinct and conjoined peaks.
[...SNIP...]
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[...SNIP...]
An important difference between Lawrence's apparatus for capturing plant
signals and that of Backster, Vogel and Sauvin is that it incorporates, in
a temperature controlled bath, LIVING VEGETAL TISSUE shielded behind a
Faraday tube that screens out even the slightest electromagnetic
interference. Lawrence found that living vegetal tissue is able to perceive
signals far more delicately than electronic sensors. It is his belief that
biological radiations transmitted by living things are best received
by a biological medium.
[...SNIP...]
As Lawrence checked his
instrumentation, the audio signal, to his amazement, continued to produce
a distinct chain of pulses for over half an hour before even the whistle
returned, indicating that nothing more was being received. The signals
had to be coming from somewhere, and since his device had been continuously
pointed up toward the heavens, Lawrence was faced with the fantastic thought
that something or someone was transmitting from outer space.
[...SNIP...]
Aligning his telescope - coupled with the
Faraday tube, a camera, an electromagnetic interference monitor, and the
tissue chamber - to celestial coordinates 10 hours 40 minutes plus 56
degrees, which gave him the general direction for Ursa Major, Lawrence
switched on his audio signal. After a ninety minute interval, his
equipment again picked up a recognizable, though briefer, pattern of signals.
According to Lawrence, the periods between rapid series of pulses ranged
from approximately three to ten minutes over a stretch of several hours as
he monitored a single spot in the heavens.
[...SNIP...]
Deciding that his findings may be of crucial significance and could herald
a new and as yet unimagined system of communication, Lawrence has sent a
copy of his October, 1971, tape, together with a seven page report, to the
Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, where it is preserved as a
potentially historical scientific document. The report concludes:
"An apparent train of interstellar communication signals of unknown origin
and destination has been observed. Since interception was made by biological
sensors, a biological type signal transmission must be assumed. Test
experiments were conducted in an electromagnetic deep fringe area, the
equipment itself being impervious to electromagnetic radiation. Follow up
tests revealed no equipment defects. Because [BIOLOGICAL DETECTOR]
interstellar listening
experiments are not conducted on a routine basis, the suggestion is advanced
that verification tests should be conducted elsewhere, possibly on a global
scale. The phenomenon is too important to be ignored."
[...SNIP...]
Lawrence's most important conclusion, that biological type sensors are
needed in order to intercept biological signals, applies particularly to
communications from outer space. As he puts it: "Standard electronics
are next to worthless here, since 'bio-signals' apparently RESIDE OUTSIDE
OF THE KNOWN ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM."
[...SNIP...]
When he began to study the problem in 1963, Lawrence found that he could
get no help from plant specialists and biologists because none of them
knew enough physics, and especially electronics, to visualize what he was
driving at. In his search for a biological system for radiating and
receiving signals, Lawrence began by going over the experiments made in
the 1920s by the Russian histologist Alexander Gurwitsch and his wife, who
proclaimed that all living cells produce an invisible radiation. Gurwitsch
had noticed that the cells in the tips of onion roots seemed to be dividing
at a definite rhythm. Believing this is due to an extra unexplained source
of physical energy, Gurwitsch wondered whether it might not come from
nearby cells.
To test out his theory he mounted one root tip in a horizontally oriented
thin glass tube to act as a ray gun. This he pointed at a similar onion
root tip, also protected in a tube, but with a small area on one side
exposed naked to serve as a target. After three hours of exposure,
Gurwitsch examined sections from the target root under his microscope.
When he compared the number of cell divisions, he found 25 percent more in
the exposed, irradiated area. The receiver root had seemingly picked up
a vital energy from its neighbour.
To try to block the emission, Gurwitsch repeated the experiment with a
thin shield of quartz between the roots, but obtained essentially the
same results. However, when the quartz was coated with gelatin, or a
simple sheet of glass was substituted, no enhanced cell division could
be observed. Since glass and gelatin were known to block various
ultraviolet frequencies on the electromagnetic spectrum, Gurwitsch
concluded that the rays emitted by the cells of an onion root tip must be
as short or shorter than ultraviolet. Because they apparently increased
cell division, or "mitosis,", he called them "mitogenic rays."
[...SNIP...]
Continuing to probe further with a sensitive
high impedance device of his own design, Lawrence sought to discover
whether individual cells in a quarter inch slice of onion, attached to a
Wheatstone bridge and electrometer [sensitive voltmeter, basically],
would react to various stimuli. He found that they seemed to respond to
irritations such as a puff of smoke, or even to his MENTAL IMAGE of their
destruction, in about one hundred milliseconds, or one tenth of a second.
What seemed most odd to Lawrence was that the reaction of the onion tissue
seemed to change depending on whether he, or someone else, was directing
THOUGHT at it. People with "psychic gifts" seemed to elicit much stronger
responses than the practical minded Lawrence. As he commented: "If one
can cause, or get something to cause, harm to a cell - assuming that the
cell has a cellular consciousness - the reaction pattern in it will change
from experimenter to experimenter."
[...SNIP...]
Lawrence warned his readers that work with plant was not just a matter of
electronic expertise and that working with the Backster Effect involved
much more than the mere ability to construct top quality electronic
equipment. "There are certain qualities here," he wrote, "which do not
enter into normal experimental situations. According to those
experimenting in this area, it is necessary to have a 'green thumb' and,
most important, a genuine love for plants.
[...SNIP...]
Warning that constant repetition was an important factor in such testing,
Lawrence stated that if a plant specimen is stimulated continuously, badly
injured, or infrequently watered, it would tire quickly, or even lapse into
shock and die. Researchers were therefore cautioned to be gentle with their
plants and allow them to recuperate after experimentation. The area in
which plants live must be quiet, added Lawrence, "so that the stimuli can
be effectively applied with a minimum of power line noise or disturbances
from radio frequency transmission to cause faulty indications."
[EW: Luckily, the less sensitive and less affected
by RF signals GSR units are adequate, per the first two chapters.]
[...SNIP...]
Freshly settled in Canada, Merta supported himself for two months by
working as a troubleshooter for a large Montreal grower and importer of
tropical plants. When clients in office and residential buildings
complained that their plants were getting sick, Merta was sent to ascertain
the trouble. Because he also took care of thousands of plants in the firm's
extensive greenhouses, Merta noticed that the effects of LONELINESS
produced when a plant is taken away from its friends often caused it such
shock that it would pine, even die; however, when returned to the
greenhouse, it immediately perked up and regained its normal green health.
On June 5, 1973, the research division of Anchor College of Truth in San
[...SNIP...]
Bernardino announced that it was inaugurating the world's first biological
type interstellar communications observatory under the direction of L.
George Lawrence, now also a vice president of Anchor. For the new
research program Lawrence has designed what he calls a Stellartron, which
combines in one three ton instrument the features of a radio telescope and
the biological signal receiving system of the biodynamic field station.
[EW: Refers to Lawrence's early living tissue detectors.]
[...SNIP...]
[p 61-62]
Lawrence's research, suggesting as it does that intelligences are
communicating INSTANTLY across distances requiring millions of light years
to reach, indicates that what is needed is not space ships but the proper
"telephone numbers" to contact them.
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[...SNIP...]
In addition to a plant's ability to recognize friend and foe, Soviet
researchers also noted that one plant supplied with water CAN SOMEHOW
SHARE IT WITH A DEPRIVED NEIGHBOR. In one institute of research a
cornstalk planted in a glass container was denied water for several weeks.
Yet it did not die; it remained as healthy as other cornstalks planted in
normal conditions nearby. In some way, say Soviet botanists, water was
transferred from healthy plants to the "prisoner" in the jar. Yet they
have no idea how this was accomplished.
As fantastic as this may seem, a kind of plant to plant transfer has been
taking place in England in experiments begun in 1972 by Dr. A. R. Bailey.
Two plants in an artifically lit greenhouse in which temperature, humidity
and light were carefully controlled were suffering from lack of water.
Bailey and his collaborator measured the voltages generated between two
parts of both plants. When one plant was watered from the outside through
plastic tubes, the other plant reacted. As Bailey told the British Society
of Dowsers: "There was no electrical connection between them, no physical
connection whatsoever, but somehow, one plant picked up what was going on
with the other."
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[...SNIP...]
[p 187-88]
... Meanwhile, the research of the Russian Alexander Gurwitsch, which
inspired L. George Lawrence to begin his study of the potentialities of
biocommunication, despite its rejection by the U.S. Academy of Sciences,
began to get a new lease on life. The distinguished bacteriologist at
Cornell University, Professor Otto Rahn, was amazed to find that
whenever any of his laboratory workers fell ill THEY APPEARED TO CAUSE
THE DEATH OF YEAST CELLS WITH WHICH THEY WERE EXPERIMENTING. A few
minutes' exposure to their fingertips EVEN AT A DISTANCE would kill
vigorous cells of this carbohydrate fermeniting fungus. Further
investigation showed that a chemical compound excreted from the hands and
faces of the sick technicians was responsible; but how it ACTED AT A
DISTANCE was a mystery. Rahn went on to prove that the continually
renewed tissue of the cornea of the eye, as well as most wounds and cancer
tumors, EMIT RADIATION; he set these and other findings down in a book,
Invisible Radiation of Organisms, which on the whole was ignored by
his colleagues. [EW: But NOT THE PERPS!]
[...SNIP...]
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[...SNIP...]
[p 207]
Henry C. Monteith, an electrical engineer in Albuquerqur, New Mexico, working
at home, put together an apparatus consisting of two 6-volt batteries, a
vibrator used to power automobile radios, and an ignition coil sold at all
auto supply stores. Like the Russians, Monteith found that a LIVE leaf gave
beautiful and varied self-emissions that cannot be adequately explained by
any conventional theory. He was further mystified when he discovered that
a DEAD leaf gave, at most, only a uniform glow. Exposed to only 30,000 volts,
the dead leaf did not reveal anything at all on film, EVEN WHEN BATHED IN
WATER, but the life leaf shimmered in a radiance of self-emissions.
[EW: The reason this information is so important is
that at least one scientist made a claim on a popular nighttime radio talk
show that live leaves and dead leaves showed identical discharge patterns.
Those who have been active in the anti-electronic harassment movement for some time
have heard many disinformational claims designed to keep every small bit of
advanced scientific discovery discredited in the mind of the public. Since
the electronic harassment crimes depend on the public being ignorant of the
advanced "ESP-class" technology being used, the visitor should realize that
such discreditation statements are disinformation. We who are targetted
know this first hand.]
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[...SNIP...]
[p 359]
[Dr. Andrea] Puharich has now discovered a truly remarkable psychic in the
body of a young [1970s material] Israeli, Uri Geller, whose abilities have
startled hundreds of audiences and left most open minded scientists
[EW: You mean there are some?] aghast at their implications.
Under rigorous test conditions, Geller has been able to UNFAILINGLY locate
an iron ball or water hidden in one of ten identical sealed metal cans
without touching the cans, to move solid objects at a distance WITHOUT THE
USE OF ANY ENERGY KNOWN TO PHYSICS, to bend AT A DISTANCE dense metal
objects, such as a solid silver Mexican coin, as if they were plastic in his
hands, to repair broken watches and get them running without having ever
opened their cases, to shatter a set of watchmaker's screwdrivers made of
a special alloy steel, and EVEN TO CAUSE OBJECTS TO VANISH FROM THEIR
LOCATIONS AND REAPPEAR SOMEWHERE ELSE. Geller can also affect at will the
material recorded on a magnetic tape, such as that used in television.
[EW: I have personally witnessed two "objects disappear then reappear
at some other location" (one in a moving vehicle) events. Some have said
Uri Geller was a hoax, but this attestation by Dr. Puharich counters that.
Furthermore, my father was an acquaintance of Uri Geller and in spite of
trying hard to find any trickery in Geller's demonstrations at my Dad's
home, found no evidence of any hoax.]
This book promises potentially important clues about today's advanced
mind/body weapons, clues that may spark important ideas in electronic harassment
targets who take the trouble to acquire or borrow the book. There are
further sections on a range of topics in the psychic arena. It
may take me some time to complete the book and post a publicly
accessible review of it, because of competing needs for time.
** AS ALWAYS, BE VERY CAUTIOUS BEFORE SPENDING MONEY ON COUNTERMEASURE
EXPERIMENTS.
Concepts Table (Relevant Points)
(Scroll down for book's table of contents)
Note: This "Concepts Table" is to speed up access to those points of
special relevance to electronic harassment targets who are trying to develop
detection, jamming, and shielding countermeasures. This table doesn't
appear in the book itself.
Backster's first discovery, plant read his mind ........... 5
Plant emotion readings from shredded leaves too ........... 7
Plants respond to approach of dogs too .................... 7
Plants detect spider's emotional responses ................ 7
Plants flatline when person who harms plants visits ....... 7
Plant can accurately function as lie detector ............. 8
Plant in sync at 15 miles ................................. 9
Plant reacts to showing slide of itself at lecture ........ 10
Plant picks up owner's ESP sigs, owner in huge crowd ...... 10
Plant in sync at 700 miles, in airplane ................... 10
Plant comm. unaffected by EM shielding .................... 11
Plants react to deaths of cells, bacteria ................. 11
Plants react to random killing of brine shrimp ............ 13
Leaf alive and vigorous for month, by human TLC ........... 19
Remote viewing enhances microscopy too .................... 20
Human intent alone produces an energy field ............... 20
Same plant species, very distinct personalities ........... 21
Vogel's plant leaf electrode paste ........................ 21
Plant won't respond without an "audience" ................. 22
Plants capable of going into hypnotic trance .............. 23
Hostility, negativity can prevent plant EEG from working .. 24
Psychics can view internal details of cells, plant or human 26
Vogel's pupils learn remote manipulation of plants ........ 27
Secret to successful demonstration of plant comm .......... 27
Plant sulks for 2 weeks after insult ...................... 28
EEG recorded via plant instead of skull ................... 28
Egg GSR readings track Vogel's hand movements ............. 29
Liquid helium stops ALL EM signals, even ELF .............. 30
MEMORY of static spark sensation causes instant response .. 37
Remote killing body cells causes plants to react .......... 38
Plants also react to joy and pleasure ..................... 38
Dr. Eldon Byrd's work with plant communications ........... 40
Dr. Byrd confirms plants flatline ("faint") under stress .. 41
Hashimoto's plant 'speaks', counts, and adds .............. 43
George Lawrence's living tissue detectors ................. 47
Lawrence: Bio-signals outside EM spectrum ................ 51
Gurwitsch's 'mitogenic rays' (from plants) ................ 54
Lawrence: Genuine love for plants needed for success ..... 57
George Lawrence's advice on handling test subject plants .. 58
Psychic Jan Merta describes common plant loneliness ....... 59
No water exper. shows neighbor plants help dry 'prisoner' . 73
Otto Rahn discovers diseased tissue emits radiation ....... 188
Engr. Monteith confirms Kirlian displays life field ....... 207
Uri Geller's abilities confirmed .......................... 359
Table of Contents
Part I - MODERN RESEARCH (** AS OF THE EARLY 1970s **)
1. Plants and ESP ........................................ 3
2. Plants Can Read Your Mind ............................. 17
3. Plants That Open Doors ................................ 33
4. Visitors From Space ................................... 46
5. Latest Soviet Discoveries ............................. 63
Part II - PIONEERS OF PLANT MYSTERIES
6. Plant Life Magnified 100 Million Times ................ 81
7. The Metamorphosis of Plants ........................... 104
8. Plants Will Grow to Please You ........................ 120
9. Wizard of Tuskegee .................................... 135
Part III - TUNED TO THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERES
10. The Harmonic Life of Plants ........................... 145
11. Plants and Electromagnetism ........................... 163
12. Force Fields, Humans and Plants ....................... 178
13. The Mystery of Plant and Human Auras .................. 200
Part IV - CHILDREN OF THE SOIL
14. Soil: The Staff of Life .............................. 217
15. Chemicals, Plants and Man ............................. 240
16. Live Plants or Dead Planets ........................... 259
17. Alchemists in the Garden .............................. 274
Part V - THE RADIANCE OF LIFE
18. Dowsing Plants for Health ............................. 295
19. Radionic Pesticides ................................... 317
20. Mind Over Matter ...................................... 343
21. Findhorn and the Garden of Eden ....................... 361
Bibliography .............................................. 375
Index ..................................................... 393
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Chapter 1: Plants and ESP
Chapter 2: Plants Can Read Your Mind
Chapter 3: Plants That Open Doors
Chapter 4: Visitors From Space
Chapter 5: Latest Soviet Discoveries (1970s)
Chapter 12: Force Fields, Humans and Plants
Chapter 13: The Mystery of Plant and Human Auras
Chapter 20: Mind Over Matter
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