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Evidence of a Primary Perception In Plant Life
Abstract
Cleve's first paper on Primary Perception in 1968
... The power of thoughts may be dismissed as nonphysical but whether the words are spoken or merely thought, the concept does not change. This was demonstrated in the 1966 by Cleve Backster 15 , when he reportedly conducted experiments by attaching plants to lie detectors. Backster reported fluctuations on the lie detector not only when he threatened to burn the plant, but also when he simply thought about burning the plant, suggesting the plants, and most likely other animals, including humans, are able to pick up on the mental thoughts and intent of those around them and may have a physical or possibly even hormonal (and therefore emotional) response. ...
... As incredible as it sounds, and much to science's dismay, Backster's theses on plants' extrasensory perception and their astounding emotional capacities, shared by the author in the Winter 1968 issue of the International Journal of Parapsychology, were to quickly spread worldwide. 10 How was this possible? "Hippy times" helped. ...
... to carry out experiments in the context of Cleve Backster [6] and Peter Tompkins works with the 'Secret life of plants' [7]. ...
This paper briefly describes the device - the phytosensor - for measuring physiological and electrophysiological parameters of plants. This system is developed as a bio-physiological sensor in precise agriculture, as a tool in plant research and environmental biology, and for plant enthusiasts in smart home or entertainment applications. The phytosentor measures main physiological parameters such as the leaf transpiration rate, sap flow, tissue conductivity and frequency response, biopotentials (action potentials and variation potentials), and can conduct electrochemical impedance spectroscopy with organic tissues. Soil moisture and temperature, air quality (CO2, NO2, O3 and other sensors on I2C bus), and general environmental parameters (light, temperature, humidity, air pressure, electromagnetic and magnetic fields) are also recorded in real time. In addition to phytosensing, the device can also perform phytoactuation, i.e. execute electrical or light stimulation of plants, control irrigation and lighting modes, conduct fully autonomous experiments with complex feedback-based and adaptive scenarios in robotic or biohybrid systems. This article represents the revised and extended version of original paper and includes some descriptions and images from the FloraRobotica and BioHybrids projects.
... Additional algorithms for data analysis and actuation can be implemented with the provided script language. In amateur applications the system has a variety of potential usages, for example, in school or university courses on biology, for studying 'the electrical language of plants', or to carry out experiments in the context of Cleve Backster [6] and Peter Tompkins works with the 'Secret life of plants' [7]. ...
This paper briefly describes the device - the phytosensor - for measuring physiological and electrophysiological parameters of plants. This system is developed as a bio-physiological sensor in precise agriculture, as a tool in plant research and environmental biology, and for plant enthusiasts in smart home or entertainment applications. The phytosentor measures main physiological parameters such as the leaf transpiration rate, sap flow, tissue conductivity and frequency response, biopotentials (action potentials and variation potentials), and can conduct electrochemical impedance spectroscopy with organic tissues. Soil moisture and temperature, air quality (CO2, NO2, O3 and other sensors on I2C bus), and general environmental parameters (light, temperature, humidity, air pressure, electromagnetic and magnetic fields) are also recorded in real time. In addition to phytosensing, the device can also perform phytoactuation, i.e. execute electrical or light stimulation of plants, control irrigation and lighting modes, conduct fully autonomous experiments with complex feedback-based and adaptive scenarios in robotic or biohybrid systems. This article represents the revised and extended version of original paper and includes some descriptions and images from the FloraRobotica and BioHybrids projects.
... This consciousness in the gap is always accessible, which allows a person to constantly draw information. Backster's research on the subject is striking Backster [10]. He took DNA samples from subjects, put them in an isolated lab about 300 kilometers away, and urged them to change the minds of the subjects they belong to, and to think of bad events, to fear. ...
Higher consciousness in the human body is associated with the magnetic field. The
waves created by the magnetic field interact with the human body. The stronger the
magnetism formed in the body cavities, the stronger the consciousness bond. Therefore,
there is a strong connection between the consciousness bond and the magnetism
created by the body. In the waves created by the magnetic field formed in the spaces,
the fractals of thoughts increase or decrease at the same rate as the magnetism power.
For this reason, differences in consciousness between people are related to their
own magnetism. The magnetic field can be measured. In this direction, the magnetic
field of people can also be measured. The human body shows strong or weak magnet
properties. Because when the intense magnetic unit is accumulating and polarized,
the human body can become conscious with higher consciousness. The magnetic unit
must be evenly distributed in the human body. If a person is not integrated with the
magnetic fluctuation in the universe, that is, if the magnetic situation on the left of a
person is irregular and the magnetic situation on the right is regular, extraordinary
states and abnormal neuronal connections occur in the brain.
... In 1926, Bose used the isolated vascular bundles of a fern (Blechnum nudum) to show that excitation was transmitted as an electrical disturbance that appeared to be controlled by similar physiological events as in animal nerves [8]. In 1968, Backster by using polygraph or "lie detector" can measure electrical resistance, and water would alter the resistance of the leaf [9,10]. Various studies have been carried out on the plant signal and its intelligence. ...
In the area of biorobotics, intense research work is being done based on plant intelligence. Any living cell continuously receives information from the environment. In this paper, research is conducted on the plant named descoingsii x haworthioides (Pepe) obtaining the action potential signals and its responses to stimulations of different light modes. The plant electrical signal is the reaction of plant’s stimulation owing to various environmental conditions. Action potentials are responsible for signaling between plant cells and communication from the plants can be achieved through modulation of various parameters of the electrical signal in the plant tissue. The modulated signals are used for providing information to the microcontroller’s algorithm for working of the bio-machine. The changes of frequency of action potentials in plant are studied. Electromyography (EMG) electrodes and needle-type conductive electrodes along with electronic modules are used to collect and transform the information from the plant. Inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) is used to convert signal in frequency domain into voltage signal for real-time analysis. The changes in frequency of the plant action potentials to different light modes are used for the control of the bio-machine. This work has paved the way for an extensive research towards plant intelligence.
The Vedic rishis (philosophers) hold that everything (irrespective of being living or non-living) is a manifestation of Brahma. This wisdom finds a manifestation in the Upanishadic verses like: sarvam khalvidam brahm (“All this is Brahma”, Chhandogya Upanishad 3.14.1), aham brahmasmi (“I am Divine”, Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 1.4.10), tat tvam asi (“That Thou Art”, Chhandogya Upanishad 6.8.7) and ayam atma brahma (“This Self (Atman) is Brahman”, Mandukya Upanishad 1.2). Hence, there is no ‘other’ for a traditional Hindu – neither in the human world nor in the non-human world. The Hindu texts are full of examples where these philosophical ideas have been put into practice as a daily routine by the individuals. In the later period, several texts like Smritis and Puranas were created to enable a person evolve a code of conduct for all in which due respect was shown to other forms of life. Accordingly, a code of conduct for the individuals and the societies got evolved. This distinct life-style presents a sharp contrast to the way of life adopted by the practitioners of a non-Hindu way of life, like the ones adopted by the followers of Abrahamic religions. To understand the Hindu way of perceiving the surrounding environment, it is pertinent to dwell into the Hindu consciousness that informs the social, cultural and environmental responses in Bharat. The present article focuses only on the plant-world to indicate how a Hindu treats the so-called inanimate object like a plant/ tree respectfully by keeping a focus on the Vedantic ideas. A frequent reference is made to the philosophical texts, ritualistic texts and current social and individual practices to indicate the continuity of the Vedantic tradition and its manifestation in one’s daily routine.
Sharma, Susheel Kumar. "Plant-World in Hindu Consciousness", The International Journal of Bharatiya Knowledge System. ISSN(Online): 3048-7315, Vol. 1, August 2024, pp. 3-34.
The basic them of this book is the notion of\index{magnetic body} magnetic body which is one of the most radical new notions of TGD inspired theory of\index{consciousness} consciousness and\index{quantum biology} quantum biology.
\begin{enumerate}
\item The concept derives from the topological quantization of fields implying also the notion of\index{topological light ray} topological light ray (\blockquote{massless extremal}, ME) and quantization of electric flux. The notion means that, in contrast to Maxwell's ED, TGD allows allows to assign to a given material system also field identity. Magnetic body as the intentional agent controlling biological body thus comes the basic hypothesis of TGD inspired quantum theory of living systems.
\item TGD Universe is fractal containing fractal copies of standard model physics at various\index{space-time sheet} space-time sheets and labeled by the collection of\index{p-adic prime} p-adic primes assignable to elementary particles and by the level of dark matter hierarchy characterized partially by the rational value of Planck constant labeling the pages of the book like structure formed by singular\index{covering space} covering spaces of the embedding space glued together along a four-dimensional back. Particles at different pages are dark relative to each other since purely local interactions defined in terms of the vertices of a scattering diagram involve only particles at the same page if the the number of particles is larger than two. p-Adic length scale hypothesis and the assignment of dark matter with macroscopic quantum phases characterized by a hierarchy of Planck constants allows to quantify the notion of magnetic body. One can identify dark magnetic\index{flux quanta} flux quanta relevant to biology as 4-surfaces at pages of the book for which Planck constant is large.
\item The question about the precise form of the hierarchy of Planck constants remained open for a long time. The recent view is that all integer multiples of basic value are allowed. The first guess was but now it seems that is considerably smaller than .
There are also arguments suggesting that hierarchies involving integer multiples of some integer multiple of are realized and number theoretical vision could allow this kind of hierarchies. For instance, there are indications that Planck constants comings as - multiples of the standard Planck constant are in in a special role in biology (this might relate to proton electron mass ratio and to the fact that could appear as a fundamental constant in TGD Universe, as well as to the fact that the phases are number theoretically simple).
\item The notion of\index{personal magnetic body} personal magnetic body (actually onion-like fractal hierarchy of them) is essential for the TGD inspired model of living matter and predicts a hierarchy of generalized\index{EEG} EEGs associated with the magnetic bodies and responsible for the communications from biological body or its part to the corresponding magnetic body. There is no reason to assume that only personal magnetic bodies of living systems are relevant. Rather, the view about entire magnetosphere as a conscious system controlling the behavior of biosphere emerges naturally. In this book this vision is developed. \end{enumerate}
Most of the material of this book has been written much before the dark matter revolution and formulation of the \index{zero energy ontology} zero energy ontology and that I have only later added comments to the existing text. I hope that I can later add new material in which the implications of the dark matter hierarchy are discussed in more detail.
\subsection{The organization of the book "Magnetospheric Consciousness}
The book is divided to 3 parts.
\begin{enumerate}
\item In the first part of the book the first chapter is devoted to the idea about\index{magnetosphere} a magnetosphere as a conscious system perhaps defining in some respects a fractally scaled up version of the biological body and brain. At the first look this idea sounds completely crazy but in TGD Universe p-adic fractality and the fractality associated with\index{dark matter} dark matter hierarchy make it look rather natural. Furthermore, magnetic body and electric body would be TGD counterparts for the Maxwellian fields and the explanatory power of these notions justifies their introduction. Second chapter represents a vision about the relationship between EEG and magnetosphere.
\item The second part of the book contains two chapters about the notion of semitrance. Semitrance is based on quantum\index{entanglement} entanglement of the sub-self of self, say the subsystem of the brain, with a remote system. The idea that sub-systems of two unentangled systems can entangle and in this manner give rise to a sharing and fusion of\index{mental image} mental images (stereo vision would be the basic example) makes sense only in many-sheeted space. A rigorous justification for the sharing of mental images comes from the notion of\index{finite measurement resolution} finite measurement resolution - one of the fundamental notions of quantum TGD. The proposal is that\index{semitrance} semitrance could have been a basic control and communication tool of collective levels of consciousness during the period of human consciousness which Jaynes calls bicamerality. Schizophrenics could be seen as modern bicamerals.
The idea that human consciousness might have had totally different character for only a few millennia ago, finds additional support from the notions of super- and hyper\index{genome} genome implicated naturally by the dark matter hierarchy and the notion of magnetic body.
Super genome could be seen as a book having magnetic\index{flux sheet} flux sheets as pages. Text lines would be defined by genomes for sequences of nuclei. This would make possible coherent\index{gene expression} gene expression at the level of organs.
The text lines of\index{hyper genome} hyper genome would consist of super genomes of different organisms, not necessarily of the same species. Hyper genome would make possible coherent gene expression at the level of social group and society and give rise also to social rules. The identification of \index{meme} memes as hyper genes looks rather attractive. The evolution of the hyper genome could be seen as the basic driver of the explosive evolution of human civilizations during the last two millennia and would also distinguish us from our cousins.
\item The two chapters of the third part of the book entitled \blockquote{Crazy Stuff} are devoted to a model of\index{crop circle} crop circles: it is left to the reader to decide whether the chapters should be taken as miserable crack-pottery, mental gymnastics with tongue in cheek, or as a fruit of a new brave vision about us and the Universe. In the first chapter it is proposed that crop circles are due to intentional action of magnetospheric higher level self or a higher level self using magnetosphere as a tool to build them.
In the second chapter two special crop circles, Chilbolton and\index{Crabwood} Crabwood crop circles, are discussed in detail and the proposal that they provide information about the genomes of the life forms responsible for the crop circles. Some candidates for these life forms are discussed: the most science-fictive identification allowed by TGD would be ourselves in distant\index{geometric future} geometric future using time mirror mechanism to affect\index{geometric past} geometric past.
\end{enumerate}
The topics of \blockquote{{\it Genes and Memes: Part I}} relate to DNA and\index{genome} genome in several ways.
\begin{enumerate}
\item The oldest layers in the stratigraphy are the vision about DNA inspired by the notion of\index{many-sheeted space-time} many-sheeted space-time and the model of genetic code inspired by the notion of Combinatorial Hierarchy predicting also the existence of what I have called \index{meme} memetic code. The hierarchy would contain at least three levels including the predecessor of genetic code, genetic code, and what I have coined as memetic code. Surprisingly, the idea of memetic code made a comeback quite recently (2023) and might be realized at the level of DNA.
\item The chapter devoted to the notion of\index{many-sheeted DNA} many-sheeted DNA represents rather old contributions and the original model is not yet realistic.
\item The discoveries of Peter Gariaev about the interaction of ordinary and laser light with\index{genome} genome combined with the ideas about dark matter and water memory led to a concrete model for the interaction of\index{photon} photons with DNA. One prediction is that it is possible to \blockquote{see} dark matter by allowing ordinary matter interaction with DNA and Peter Gariaev might have already done this. In this process ordinary photons would transform to dark ones, scatter from dark matter, transform back to ordinary photons and arrive at camera. A second discovery - certainly one of the greatest surprises of my professional life - was an end product of an attempt to understand the mechanism behind\index{water memory} water memory for which rather strong support exists now. The idea was that dark nuclei which sizes zoomed up to atomic size scale could provide a representation of genes. The findings of the group of Luc Montagnier findings suggesting the remote replication of DNA are also discussed.
\end{enumerate}
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