Your plants read your thoughts

Rik Schnabel was kind enough to allow me to show
you an extract of his book – Life Beyond Limits:
Infinity Belief.

You can get a free sample at
http://www.infinitybelief.com

The journey begins with a man many of you may know – his name is Cleve Backster.

Cleve Backster, was a former interrogation specialist with the Central Intelligence Agency, in 1966 operated a training school in New York for police officers in the use of the polygraph equipment or lie detectors. Backster came upon a fascinating discovery when attempting to measure the rate at which water rose from the roots of a plant to its leaves. He attached the electrodes of a psychogalvanic reflex meter (PGR), a device for measuring electrical skin resistance in people, to the leaves of a Dracaena Massangeana plant and contrary to expectation, discovered that rather than measuring a moisture change, the PGR began tracing a reaction pattern typical of a human subject suffering a brief emotional stimulation. In Backster’s words: “I decided to try to apply some equivalent to the threat-to-wellbeing principle, a well-established method of triggering emotionality in humans. I first tried to arouse the plant by immersing a plant leaf in hot coffee, but there was no measurable response. After a 9 minute interim, I decided to obtain a match and burn the plant leaf. At the instant of this decision, at 13 minutes and 45 seconds of chart time, there was dramatic change in the PGR tracing pattern in the form of an abrupt and prolonged upward sweep of the recording pen. I had not moved, or touched the plant, so the time of the PGR pen activity suggested to me that the tracing might have been triggered by the mere thought of the harm I intended to inflict upon the plant.” If our thoughts develop specific frequencies, could it be possible that plants are able to interpret these frequencies? And if plants can, can we?

The suggestion here is that our thoughts expand beyond us and certainly alter matter; that is shift energy and in the example of the plants, the thoughts of harming the plant caused at least a psychogalvanic reflex response if not an emotional response. Experiments of the seemingly bizarre not only intrigue us, but also baffle us and it is my experience that the real value is to go beyond thought, or at least current paradigms in order to go beyond limitations. As a trainer and coach, I witness with regularity the resistance to concepts beyond the boundary conditions of our thinking. Are we too smart for our own good? Are we rejecting information because it is wrong or are concepts such as a watch manifesting on an island never explored by man beyond our limited understanding?

What would you be able to do, be, have if you could truly open your mind to a universe of all possibilities? Is the process then to turn off your intellect and then do we visit another paradox? Do we need to shut down our mind for it to be open?