Plants Read Minds

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Primary Perception:

 

It started with plants, then went on to anything that could be

electroded such as fruit, yogurt, meat, bacteria, then human cells.

 

"It was early in the morning and no other person was in the

laboratory. My thought and intent was: 'I¡¯m going to burn that

leaf!'

The very moment the imagery of burning that leaf entered my mind,

the polygraph recording pen moved rapidly to the top of the chart! I

then thought, ¡®Gee, it¡¯s as though this plant read my mind!¡¯

 

I must state that, on February 2, 1966, at 13 minutes, 55 seconds

into the chart recording, my whole consciousness changed."

 

Cleve Backster and his associate test the famous Dracaena plant in

1966.

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The Book

Primary Perception: Biocommunication with plants, living foods, and

human cells

By Cleve Backster

White Rose Millennium Press

P.O.Box 390901

Anza, California 92539

Fax: 909 763 7646

 

Released November 1, 2003

 

 

ISBN: 0966435435

Price $15.95

 

Cleve Backster is a polygraph expert who for 54 years has maintained

his status in the field of "Psychophysiology" [polygraph] and runs

the Backster School of Lie Detection in San Diego, California.

 

For 36 years he has followed his curiosity to make numerous

discoveries in "Biocommunication."

This is the only book about his work by Cleve Backster himself.

 

As Cleve says: "A scientist is supposed to be a keen observer with

an insatiable curiosity and a desire to explain ordinarily

unexplainable phenomena. I believe my research reflects this

principle."

 

Cleve Backster has maintained a working Biocommunication laboratory

for thirty-six years. His original methods are now being adapted for

use in other labs that are involved in observing primary perception

in plant cells, bacteria, or human cells. Some have observed the

responses of human DNA to thoughts and moods. Sounds like sci-fi?

Perhaps so. Yet even as you read these words, devices are being

designed that may allow you to personally run your own experiments,

and to see for yourself. We will keep you informed.

 

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"Cleve Backster's research has profound implications for humanity

and its future evolution. Wisdom traditions have claimed there is

only one ultimate reality that differentiates into all forms and

phenomena. This ultimate reality is the root and ground of Being,

the source that all that exists in the universe, a realm of

existence, where we are not only connected to each other but where

we are inseparably one. Cleve Backster's discoveries have created a

new scientific paradigm. The understanding of the paradigm is

crucial if we are to heal ourselves and our planet. I'm personally

grateful and indebted to Cleve for leading the way. Someday all of

humanity will acknowledge their gratitude to this great pioneer."

 

-- Deepak Chopra

Author, How to Know God

First Major Review:

PRIMARY PERCEPTION: Biocommunication with Plants, Living Foods and

Human Cells

By Cleve Backster

Published by White Rose Millennium Press

ISBN: 0-966435435

 

Reviewed by Paul Von Ward

 

"My plant read my mind!" On February 2nd, 1966 this realization

forever changed the life of the FBI and CIA's foremost polygraph

researcher, and reintroduced modern science to the sentient nature

of our universe. On that date the brilliant and disciplined mind of

Cleve Backster conceived an irrefutable paradigm-busting scientific

protocol. With straightforward electronics that a student or garage-

level scientist can replicate, he proved to humans that their

thoughts and emotions affect the behavior of their own and other

living cells.

 

For millennia traditional peoples have known that all life forms-

plants, animals and even single cells-are not only sentient and

intelligent, but that they communicate with one another. This fact

got lost a few centuries ago between the mechanistic focus of

industrial science and the modern human view of reality that

ascribed consciousness only to the human brain. A few 20th century

scientific pioneers, like Chandra Bose in India and the Kirlians in

the former Soviet Union, had earlier developed technology to

demonstrate energy fields and basic emotional responses in plants

and animals. Backster's experimental work took the next step and

documented a heretofore unrecognized cellular level of interspecies

biocommunication.

 

Many have described specific aspects of Backster's research over the

years. Most readers will remember the still-popular, best-selling

Secret Life of Plants by Chris Bird and Peter Tompkins first

published in 1973. It capitalized on his early work. Some will have

read Robert Stone's 1989 The Secret Life of Your Cells which focused

on his in vitro testing of human cells. Others may recall articles

about Backster's work in national magazines and newspapers,

television interviews and scientific proceedings during the late

1960's and 1970's.

 

This new book is the first extensive and progressive account of

Backster's work, which is more innovative and potentially useful to

humanity than that of most who receive Nobel prizes in life

sciences. By Cleve Backster himself, it includes well-designed

graphics and historically valuable photographs that portray a life-

time of ground breaking research. Backster explains to the reader

how plants perceive and react to human thoughts about them. He then

illustrates how electroded eggs react to other eggs being dropped

into boiling water. And how plants react to the eggs' reaction to

the experimenter's intentions. He shows how yogurt cells communicate

with one another and other species. Backster then describes the

collection of human cells (leukocytes and blood) and the

instrumentation that records their reactions to the thoughts and

emotions of their donor.

 

In an easy-to-follow style uncommon in today's scientific

literature, Backster takes the reader step-by-step through his

thinking about the design of the protocol, the selection of

scientific equipment, and the practical execution of the experiment.

He then explains the data and its implications. The reader in effect

becomes a collaborator in Backster's research.

 

Nothing is kept in a black box. Backster describes (and includes

photographs of) the experimental process. He gives enough detail

that the motivated reader can replicate the experiment or create his

own variation. He does not expect you to take his answers because he

is such an august authority. Cleve Backster wants you develop proof

of your own communications with and influence on other life forms.

He wants you to feel the excitement for yourself.

 

Over 35 years of meticulous research, Cleve Backster has

progressively undermined the notion of a universe comprised of

discrete units. He has done for biology and psychology what quantum

and standing wave concepts have done for physics. He has documented

the connectedness of all life forms and the interactivity of their

consciousness. In the light of his work, no rational scientist can

any longer deny that the living foods upon which we depend

anticipate our actions by perceiving our spontaneous intentions. No

medical researcher, sports trainer, or psychologist can ignore the

evidence that our thoughts influence the activity of our cells, and,

thus, the performance of our bodies. His research has given credence

to many theories of mind body reciprocity, as in "inner tennis", use

of psychic energy or prayer in distant healing, telepathy, dowsing

and other thought-matter interactions.

 

Unfortunately, after the above-mentioned, widespread early media

attention to Backster's discoveries, he received a cold shoulder

from the scientific establishment. To understand why, we must

discuss a limitation in conventional science's model of reality.

Most scientific disciplines from physics and chemistry to biology

started with the assumption that discrete and independently

functioning entities from subatomic particles and cells to separate

organisms comprised the universe. In this model, these separate

units (at whatever level) operate mechanistically on the basis of

visible and physically measurable interactions. This is known as the

Newtonian model. Thus, conventional research protocols used to test

Backster's hypothesis would by definition preclude any possible role

for the intervention of spontaneity and conscious intention. A

science not designed to deal with these self-evident aspects of

human experience does not have the capability to theorize about and

test such fundamental questions.

 

Backsters' work, therefore, does much more than document various

aspects of primary perception (his term for the most basic level of

interspecies and intercellular interaction). It demands an expansion

of the boundaries of scientific theory and the creation of research

protocols that can encompass the full range of human experience in

the universe. His new book is that fundamental to the future of

science, yet, it can be understood by the intellectually curious

layman. It deserves to be on the reading list of high school science

classes as well as the graduate schools of renowned universities.

 

(Paul Von Ward is the author of Our Solarian Legacy:

Multidimensional Humans in a Self Learning Universe. His forthcoming

book Gods, Genes, and Consciousness: Nonhuman Intervention in Human

History will be released by Hampton Roads Publishing in March 2004.)