If Plants Could Talk
I’ve always loved flowers, trees and plants. But I never thought of them as being ‘conscious’.
Well, I’ll admit I do talk to flowers before cutting them.
Last night I read something absolutely riveting. Yes, it was about plants. And no, it was not boring.
It concerned the story of how Steve Backster, America’s foremost lie-detector examiner in the 1960s, uncovered the secret life of plants.
One day, just for fun, Backster wanted to see if plants register any ‘emotion’ – by sending electrical signals on standard lie-detector equipment. The same way humans do in response to stress.
He knew the most effective way of triggering a strong reaction in humans was to threaten their life – so decided to threaten the plant’s life as well. His first experiment was to dunk the leaf of the plant into a hot cup of coffee. The plant didn’t respond.
Next he decided to burn the leaf of the plant. With electrodes attached, the plant registered the same increased-stress polygraph response as a human would if his hand had been burned. Here’s the kicker. This response happened -
Before he lit the match.
The moment Backster THOUGHT about burning the plant in his mind, even BEFORE he could even move to grab a match, the lie detector began registering a graph with saw tooth motion.
Needless to say, he was stumped.
Then he Pretended to burn the plant, knowing he really wasn’t going to do it, and the lie detector stayed motionless. So the plant could not only read thoughts, it could detect the difference between real and pretend thoughts.
Even more fascinating is, when Backster burned the leaf of a neighboring plant not connected with the equipment, the original plant, which was still hooked up, registered the ‘pain’ response again.
How could this be, I thought. And then again, why not. Why not consider that plants are conscious and connected to every living thing around them. A big why not, indeed.
When I read about this last night, I couldn’t sleep for a while. The info was just so powerful and I wanted time to think.
As I lay there quietly I came close to tears.
If plants are this perceptive, humans are too. FAR more sensitive than we give ourselves credit for.
Want to be as perceptive as a plant? Funny you ask, because just by relaxing and giving your mind and body a respite, you can be. By taking a couple of deep belly expanding breaths, you can be.
You will be, when you seamlessly glide into a relaxed state of total consciousness with every month’s Sounds of Gold CD.
Why not water the seeds of your mind with gentle, powerful music. There are truly extraordinary sounds in store for you as a member of the Sounds of Gold Inner Circle. With the first month on me, there’s no reason not to give it a whirl!
Warm Regards,
Tania Gabrielle French
P.S. By the way, Cleve Backster and other scientists around the world continued experimentation with plants and always reached the same conclusions. Except that they couldn’t explain them with current scientific knowledge. That’s changing now with quantum physics. Your own quantum, consciousness-expanding sound experience is just a click away.
Well, I’ll admit I do talk to flowers before cutting them.
Last night I read something absolutely riveting. Yes, it was about plants. And no, it was not boring.
It concerned the story of how Steve Backster, America’s foremost lie-detector examiner in the 1960s, uncovered the secret life of plants.
One day, just for fun, Backster wanted to see if plants register any ‘emotion’ – by sending electrical signals on standard lie-detector equipment. The same way humans do in response to stress.
He knew the most effective way of triggering a strong reaction in humans was to threaten their life – so decided to threaten the plant’s life as well. His first experiment was to dunk the leaf of the plant into a hot cup of coffee. The plant didn’t respond.
Next he decided to burn the leaf of the plant. With electrodes attached, the plant registered the same increased-stress polygraph response as a human would if his hand had been burned. Here’s the kicker. This response happened -
Before he lit the match.
The moment Backster THOUGHT about burning the plant in his mind, even BEFORE he could even move to grab a match, the lie detector began registering a graph with saw tooth motion.
Needless to say, he was stumped.
Then he Pretended to burn the plant, knowing he really wasn’t going to do it, and the lie detector stayed motionless. So the plant could not only read thoughts, it could detect the difference between real and pretend thoughts.
Even more fascinating is, when Backster burned the leaf of a neighboring plant not connected with the equipment, the original plant, which was still hooked up, registered the ‘pain’ response again.
How could this be, I thought. And then again, why not. Why not consider that plants are conscious and connected to every living thing around them. A big why not, indeed.
When I read about this last night, I couldn’t sleep for a while. The info was just so powerful and I wanted time to think.
As I lay there quietly I came close to tears.
If plants are this perceptive, humans are too. FAR more sensitive than we give ourselves credit for.
Want to be as perceptive as a plant? Funny you ask, because just by relaxing and giving your mind and body a respite, you can be. By taking a couple of deep belly expanding breaths, you can be.
You will be, when you seamlessly glide into a relaxed state of total consciousness with every month’s Sounds of Gold CD.
Why not water the seeds of your mind with gentle, powerful music. There are truly extraordinary sounds in store for you as a member of the Sounds of Gold Inner Circle. With the first month on me, there’s no reason not to give it a whirl!
Warm Regards,
Tania Gabrielle French
P.S. By the way, Cleve Backster and other scientists around the world continued experimentation with plants and always reached the same conclusions. Except that they couldn’t explain them with current scientific knowledge. That’s changing now with quantum physics. Your own quantum, consciousness-expanding sound experience is just a click away.
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