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I just recently listened to a Youtube education series about the study
of plant communication. Just wonder if any of you have experienced a
similar thing. Info below:


PLANT COMMUNICATION

An expert in the polygraph and biocommunication, Cleve Backster
related details of his research into electrical responses in plant
life. His studies indicate that plants can sense human intent in a
kind of "primary perception" that he compared to ESP. For instance, in
experiments with bean sprouts --one group of sprouts was praised, the
second group ignored, and the third sent negative thoughts-- the
praised group grew much faster, he reported.

An experimenter can influence the results of a study. The studies
which showed plants preferred classical music might've been the result
of experimenter bias against rock music, he said. Backster's first
plant experiment took place in 1966, and he's now spent over 40 years
on this type of research, which he conducts out of a former DEA lab in
San Diego, in an under-funded fashion.

He also discussed his work with the polygraph, and noted that newer
polygraph equipment incorporates the use of a camera in its readouts.

Cleve Backster is the founder of the Backster Research Foundation and
currently teaches at the Backster School of Lie-Detection. He is also
on the teaching faculty at the California Institute for Human Science
and serves on the advisory board at the Institute of HeartMath.

Cleve is an international speaker on the subject of Biocommunication
and has been a professional observer of human psycho-physiological
tracings since 1948. Since 1966, Cleve has conducted extensive
research related to observed electrical responses in plant life and at
a cellular level in other living organisms. His research into what has
been called "The Backster Effect" has attracted world-wide attention.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EdNv...x=0&playnext=1
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I just recently listened to a Youtube education series about the study
of plant communication. Just wonder if any of you have experienced a
similar thing. Info below:


PLANT COMMUNICATION

An expert in the polygraph and biocommunication, Cleve Backster
related details of his research into electrical responses in plant
life. His studies indicate that plants can sense human intent in a
kind of "primary perception" that he compared to ESP. For instance, in
experiments with bean sprouts --one group of sprouts was praised, the
second group ignored, and the third sent negative thoughts-- the
praised group grew much faster, he reported.

An experimenter can influence the results of a study. The studies
which showed plants preferred classical music might've been the result
of experimenter bias against rock music, he said. Backster's first
plant experiment took place in 1966, and he's now spent over 40 years
on this type of research, which he conducts out of a former DEA lab in
San Diego, in an under-funded fashion.

He also discussed his work with the polygraph, and noted that newer
polygraph equipment incorporates the use of a camera in its readouts.

Cleve Backster is the founder of the Backster Research Foundation and
currently teaches at the Backster School of Lie-Detection. He is also
on the teaching faculty at the California Institute for Human Science
and serves on the advisory board at the Institute of HeartMath.

Cleve is an international speaker on the subject of Biocommunication
and has been a professional observer of human psycho-physiological
tracings since 1948. Since 1966, Cleve has conducted extensive
research related to observed electrical responses in plant life and at
a cellular level in other living organisms. His research into what has
been called "The Backster Effect" has attracted world-wide attention.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EdNv...x=0&playnext=1
no . l donot talk to my plant. l have heard some people say its good to do. some say it help the plants grow.
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ebrad wrote:

I just recently listened to a Youtube education series about the study
of plant communication. Just wonder if any of you have experienced a
similar thing. Info below:


PLANT COMMUNICATION

An expert in the polygraph and biocommunication, Cleve Backster
related details of his research into electrical responses in plant
life. His studies indicate that plants can sense human intent in a
kind of "primary perception" that he compared to ESP.


What a load of crap! Anyone that is dumb enough to believe "crazy
Cleve" should count their cards because they likely aren't playing with
a full deck. ;(
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ebrad wrote:

I just recently listened to a Youtube education series about the study
of plant communication. Just wonder if any of you have experienced a
similar thing. Info below:


PLANT COMMUNICATION

An expert in the polygraph and biocommunication, Cleve Backster
related details of his research into electrical responses in plant
life. His studies indicate that plants can sense human intent in a
kind of "primary perception" that he compared to ESP.


What a load of crap! Anyone that is dumb enough to believe "crazy
Cleve" should count their cards because they likely aren't playing with
a full deck. ;(


What! You doubt the Backster Effect! Here's my essay "Telepathic Plants':
http://www.paghat.com/telepathic.html

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Of course I talk to my plants!
I also talk the the cats, and the birds,
the toad, and an occasional paper wasp
too.
Emilie
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Of course I talk to my plants!
I also talk the the cats, and the birds,
the toad, and an occasional paper wasp
too.
Emilie
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Do any of them reply?

David


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On Mar 24, 11:17 pm, "David Hare-Scott" wrote:
"mleblanca" wrote in message

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Of course I talk to my plants!
I also talk the the cats, and the birds,
the toad, and an occasional paper wasp
too.
Emilie
NorCal


Do any of them reply?

David


The plants have such quiet little voices I can't hear them,
but they let me know when they are happy and like their
spot in the garden. :)
The cats (like your Hound dog) definitely tell me what they
want: a treat, a head rub, and chin scratch.
I'm not smart enough yet to understand bird language, but
they do talk a lot.
The wasp comments are not meant to be replied to and
are generally *CENSORED*

I enjoyed your post BTW
Emilie
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I just recently listened to a Youtube education series about the study
of plant communication. Just wonder if any of you have experienced a
similar thing. Info below:



Depends on what you mean by "similar".

I talk when I am working. Not a constant jabber but more an incisive remark
from time to time. Like when you are threading a new drive belt over the
pulleys of your ride-on mower, the third time you catch your index finger
under the belt and then it slips off the pulley again you yell at it to "stay
the %6& where I put you!" and generally it does.

Or the bottle-raised bubble-headed chestnut arab that has just nudged me again
(cause he wants to play) and nearly knocked me off my feet, well then I think
really evil thoughts and he backs right off. He is a telpathic horse you see,
his sensitive nature is repelled by the negative vibrations.

It's the same with Jed the red kelpie. He is a dog with the second sight. He
knows in advance when we are going out. As departure time draws nearer he
will get more and more agitated and he will spend more time near the door,
when you open the door he bolts out to the car and waits to be let in. I have
proved this by opening the door at other times, say to go to the shed or turn
off the irrigation and he doesn't get nearly so wound up, but sedately heads
out with me to check that I am doing it right. He can sense the presence of a
naked sausage from the other end of the house too. This must be a very exotic
psychic force as the house frame is steel and it would filter out
electromagnetic radiation.

So I wouldn't be amazed to learn that plants have psychic powers too and that
talking to them will make them happy.

This does bring up issues with diet. Vegetarians claim the moral high ground
over meat eaters. However carnivores rarely eat their diner alive but
herbivores do it all the time! Think of the bad karma that you get every time
you bite into a freshly pulled peach or slice a living cabbage! This is the
origin of saying grace before a meal (before the Christians coopted the ritual
as they did with so many other pagan ceremonies). You are apologising to the
carrots before you snuff out their tiny turn on the wheel of life.

Cleve Backster is apparently a man of extraordinary talent who is not afraid
to allow his conclusions to follow where ever the data leads. He reminds me
of Sigfreid the vet in _All Creatures Great and Small_ who proclaimed cogently
that "there is much good information to be discovered up a cow's arse".


David


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"David Hare-Scott" wrote:

Think of the bad karma that you get every time
you bite into a freshly pulled peach or slice a living cabbage!


You need to listen to Michael pollan.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/214

The peach wants you to spread its seeds and if you like the cabbage,
it's kind will continue to survive. We are the ones being played.
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