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Plants Can Read Your Thoughts!
By J. R. Church
On the morning of February 2, 1966, Cleve Backster’s life changed forever. He is one of America’s
experts on lie detectors and the developer of the “Backster Zone Comparison Test,” the standard
used by lie detection examiners worldwide. His machine could detect the slightest variation in
emotions by measuring skin tension, heart rate, etc. He set up a large classroom at his company
to train people on how to use the polygraph machines.
One day, he noticed the large dracena cane plant in the classroom and became curious as to
how long it would take for water to travel from the roots, up the tall stem and out to the end of the
large leaves. So he hooked up a polygraph machine to one of the leaves of the dracena cane
plant.
He said, “I thought if I put something that measures resistance at the end of a leaf--the galvanic
skin response section of the polygraph, and I had those sitting all over the place because we
were running a school--a drop in resistance should be recorded on the paper as the
contaminating moisture arrived between the electrodes.”
To his surprise, he noticed that the tracing began to show a pattern typical of something he
called, “primary perception” — the response you get when you subject a human to emotional
stimulation. The plant was actually responding to him! He said, “I noticed something on the chart
that resembled a human response on a polygraph. In other words, the contour of the pen tracing
was not what I would expect from water entering a leaf, but instead what I would expect from a
person taking a lie-detector test. Lie detectors work on the principle that when people perceive a
threat to their well-being, they physiologically respond in predictable ways. If you were conducting
a polygraph as part of a murder investigation, you might ask a suspect, ‘Was it you who fired the
shot that was fatal to so and so?’ If the true answer is yes, the suspect will fear getting caught
lying, and electrodes on their skin will pick up the response to that fear. So I began to think about
how I could threaten the well-being of the plant.”
At 13 minutes, 55 seconds on the polygraph chart time, he thought about putting a match to the
leaf and burn it. As the thought entered his mind, the needle on his polygraph began to swing
wildly. He had neither touched, nor moved, the plant. Backster concluded that the plant could read
his thoughts! The dracena cane read his mind and was frightened by the mere thought of setting
a match to it.
Since then, he has conducted hundreds of experiments. For example, he hooked up his
polygraph to a test tube containing white blood cells (leukocites) from a person’s mouth and
measured the response of the cells to the donor’s emotions. He set up a TV camera on the
polygraph and another camera on the donor, recording them on a split-screen, and had the donor
watch a war movie. His emotions were recorded on the polygraph hooked up to the white blood
cells in the other room. So he moved the donor across town … and still the white blood cells
reacted to the donor’s emotions. Then, he put the donor on an airplane and sent him 300 miles
away. Believe it or not, the white blood cells could still record the emotions of the donor!
Backster said that the connections have to be metaphysical and spiritual. He said, “Immediately I
understood something important was going on. There were no alternate explanations. There was
no one else in the building, nobody else in the lab suite, and I simply wasn’t doing anything that
would provide a mechanistic explanation. From that split-second my consciousness hasn’t been
the same. My whole thought process, my whole priority system, has been devoted to looking into
this.”
He said that he could not describe what he was seeing as “extrasensory” perception because
plants do not have most of the first five senses to begin with. The perception expressed by the
living cells had to be on a more basic or primary level — thus, the name, “primary perception.”
Backster said, “All this, of course, places us firmly in the territory of the metaphysical, the spiritual.
Think about prayer, or meditation. If you were to pray to God, and God was hanging out on the far
side of the galaxy, and your prayer traveled at the speed of light, your bones would long-since be
dust before God responded. But if God is everywhere, the prayer doesn't have to travel.”
Yes, here is a man who is famous for a detector against lying. The fact of the matter is, he has
been on a quest for truth all of his life. There would be no reason for him to fudge facts.
He has proven through hundreds of experiments, that our thoughts are open to someone on the
other side of this physical dimension.
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