Silence of the Yams
By Bret Burquest
Many philosophers believe that
thoughts are deeds. If you project benevolent thoughts, you help create a
benevolent environment. Projecting hostility creates hostility, etc. As we sow,
so shall we reap.
When Backster
noticed the "trauma" being exhibited by the plant, he decided not to
burn the plant after all whereupon the plant became calm once again. Backster had not approached the plant with a match; he had
only decided, in his mind, to do so, at which time the plant became
"emotional." And when he had decided to call off the burning
experiment, again only in his mind, the plant returned to normal.
In subsequent experiments, Backster had trouble repeating the results because once a
plant had been led to believe something was going to happen and it didn't, the
plant would retain that knowledge and not become "emotional" the
second time. Thus, fresh plants were required for continued experimentation.
This led to the conclusion that plants have some sort of memory and
discrimination capability.
In other experiments, it became
clear that the plants would only react if the experimenter actually intended to
carry out the actions. If Backster was only bluffing
to do something harmful, the plant wouldn't respond. Thus he concluded that
plants could discern intent (through thought transference) and had a
"memory" of past events.
Backster
conducted further experiments over the last four decades and has become one of
the leading bio-communications experts in the world. For example, he discovered
that an egg would react when another egg was cracked. His work tends to confirm
the Gaia Hypothesis which states that the world is one huge, living organism
with self-regulating capability.
Dorothy Retallack
is another specialist in this field. She exposed a variety of plants to various
types of music. Plants that were exposed to hard rock (Led Leppelin
and Jimi Hendrix) began pointing away from the source
of the music, whereas plants exposed to soothing music began pointing toward
the source. Through further studies, she concluded that being gentle with
plants helps them flourish and being the opposite has the opposite effect.
"The Secret Life of
Plants," by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird, is a book detailing other
experiments done on plant life. Distance doesn't seem to matter when
communicating with plants. For example, a chemist became so attuned to his
house plants that they reacted excitedly when he made love to his girlfriend 80
miles away. A philodendron, activated by a thought impulse from a technician,
started a car two miles away.
On a more unscientific note, my
ex-wife, who is three-quarters Norwegian and one-quarter dingbat, used to talk
to vegetables. She could spend hours chatting with a pod of peas or an ear of
corn. She did most of the talking while the vegetables listened politely
without too much interruption.
One day she got some financial
advice from a zucchini. Two hours later she went out and bought some brand new
furniture. "It really didn't cost anything," she told me, "I put
it on the credit card."
I chopped up the zucchini and put
it in a salad.
One morning my ex-wife got into an
argument with a kumquat. It had something to do with her new hair style -- the
kumquat thought it made her look fat. She tried to get a second opinion from a
yam but it ignored her, so she decided to snarl at me instead. Apparently, yams
don't like to be confrontational.
I never did communicate very well
with the vegetables. They prefer to communicate with entities on their own
intellectual level, such as fungi, mildew, politicians and dingbats.
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Bret Burquest is an award-winning columnist and author of four
novels. Contact bret@centurytel.net
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