"Martin" wrote in message
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On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 13:39:45 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann"
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"Alan Gould" wrote in message
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In article ,
Sacha
writes
But was it in that book that the experiment I'm thinking of was
cited? Do
you recall?

Yes, [I still have the book] there are a lot of experiments
quoted
linking plants, their life, their feelings, their growth etc. to
electricity and magnetism. The one you refer to was actually a
test
to
see if plants had extra-sensory perception - between them and/or
to
other beings. I quote a part of the experiment:

'He [Clee Baxter, a lie detector expert]

That does not bode well for starters. Lie detectors have been
shown
in controlled experiments to be totally unreliable, except insofar
as
they intimidate the person being interviewed.

then conceived a worse threat:
he would burn the actual leaf to which the electrodes [of a lie
detector] were attached. The very instant he got the picture of
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.

That is anecdotal. Anecdotal evidence is not evidence obtained
fron
controlled experiments and therefore have exactly zero scientific
value.
Is he implying that the leaf had predictive powers?
And in any case, leaves don't have skins whose surface resistivity
behaves like that of humans.

Bakster had not moved, either towards
the plant or towards the recording machine. Could the plant have
been
reading his mind?' Later Bakster reluctantly concluded that it
had.

That little lot,.I am afraid, can only be described as vintage
crap.
It is on a par with the book I read which gave "evidence" that
Jesus
did not in fact die on the cross, but was rescued by his close
friends, and after he had recovered from the ordeal, escaped to
France
with Mary Magdalen,

as portrayed in Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper:-)

where they founded the Plantagenet family.

Not the Plantagenet family, but Merovingian family.

You are right. The Plantagenets are fescendants of the Merovingians,
if I remember correctly.

"There are at least a dozen families in Britain and Europe
today-with
numerous collateral branches who are of Merovingian lineage. These
include the houses of Hapsburg-Lorraine (present titular dukes of
Lorraine and kings of Jerusalem), Plantard, Luxembourg, Montpezat,
Montesquiou, and various others. According to the 'Prieure
documents,'
the Sinclair family in Britain is also allied to the bloodline as
are
various branches of the Stuarts. And the Devonshire family, among
others, would seem to have been privy to the secret. All of these
houses could presumably claim a pedigree from Jesus; and if one man,
at some point in the future, is to be put forward as a new
priest-king, we do not know who he is."


Have you been reading the Da Vinci Code or the Holy Blood and the
Holy
Grail?

The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail.
Please tell me who the authot of the Da Vinci Code is. I enjoy that
genre more than sci fi.

Franz