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-==== ESP, or extrasensory perception ====
+==== ESP, extrasensory perception ====
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 **the nearest one almost embracing the speaker**.
---Jazz caused her a real surprise. When her plants heard recordings as
-varied as Duke Ellington's "Soul Call" and two discs by Louis Arm-
-strong, 55 percent of the plants leaned fifteen to twenty degrees toward
-the speaker, and growth was more abundant than in the silent chamber. Pg 156
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 ==== Plants and Electromagnetism ====
-<html><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/5603081267/" title="Picture 14 by _foam, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4097/5603081267_92481df2e3_s.jpg" width="50" height="50" alt="Picture 14"></a></html>---Just as plants respond to the wavelengths of music, so also are they
+<html><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/5603665188/" title="Picture 13 by _foam, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5230/5603665188_f014029cea_s.jpg" width="50" height="50" alt="Picture 13"></a></html>---Just as plants respond to the wavelengths of music, so also are they
-continually being **affected by wavelengths of the electromagnetic spec-
+continually being **affected by wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum**, from earth, moon, planets, cosmos and from a proliferation of
-trum**, from earth, moon, planets, cosmos and from a proliferation of
 man-made devices; only it remains to be established exactly which are
 beneficial and which are harmful. Pg 163
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 others attained only four feet. Pg 168
----Bertholon, had a gar-
+---Bertholon, had a gardener stand on a slab of insulating material and sprinkle vegetables from
-dener stand on a slab of insulating material and sprinkle vegetables from
 an electrified watering can. He reported that his salads grew to an
-extraordinary size. He also invented what he called an **"electrovegetome-
+extraordinary size. He also invented what he called an **"electrovegetometer"** to collect atmospheric electricity by means ot an antenna, and pass
-ter"** to collect atmospheric electricity by means ot an antenna, and pass
 it through plants growing in a field. "This instrument is
 applicable to all kinds of vegetal production, everywhere, in all weather.”
----On a clear day in good weather the earth has a negative electrical
-charge while the atmosphere is positive, electrons stream skyward from
-the soil and plants. During storms the polarity is reversed, the earth
-becoming positive and the base of the cloud layer negative. Because
-there are at any time an estimated three to four thousand "electrical"
-storms raging over the surface of the globe, the charges lost by the earth
-in those areas favored by balmy weather are thus replaced, and a seesaw-
-ing balance of electrical gradients maintained. Pg 175
 --As it had been known that sharp points
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 importance to each form of vegetal life.  Pg 174
----Lemstrom connected a series of flowers in metal pots to a static genera-
+---Lemstrom connected a series of flowers in metal pots to a static generator by an overhead network of wires sixteen inches above them and a
-tor by an overhead network of wires sixteen inches above them and a
 pole set into the soil as a ground. Other pots he "left to nature." After
 eight weeks, the electrified plants, showed gains in weight of nearly 50
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 his apparatus into a garden he not only more than doubled the yield of
 strawberries but found them to be much sweeter; his harvest from barley
-plants increased by one-third. He reported  his success in 1902 in a book //Electro Cultur// The English translation of Lemstrom's book, entitled //Electricity in
+plants increased by one-third. He reported  his success in 1902 in a book //Electro Cultur// The English translation of Lemstrom's book, entitled //**Electricity in
-Agriculture and Horticulture//.  Pg 176
+Agriculture and Horticulture**//.  Pg 176
-Later Sir Oliver Lodge allowed the
+---------------------------
-movement of people, animals, and farm equipment through his elec-
+==== Force Fields, Humans and Plants ====
-trified fields, by suspending a grid on insulators attached to high poles.
-During one growing season Lodge was able to increase the per-acre yield
+--- engineers, unlike
-of wheat by 40 percent and was pleased that the
+researchers in pure science, are less concerned with why or how some-
-bakers who used flour ground from it claimed it produced bread of a far
+thing works than with whether it will work. This attitude can free them
-better quality than that made from the wheat they were normally fur-
+from the shackles of theory, which in the history of science has often
-nished. Pg 176
+caused pedants to disregard the brilliant new findings of geniuses be-
+cause there was no theoretical basis to support them.
+---Dr. George Starr White, pubished //Cosmoelectric Culture//, discovered that metals like iron and tin could facilitate
+plant growth if bright pieces were dangled from fruit trees.Where Hay attached metallic **Christmas tree
+balls to tomato plants**, they would bear their fruits earlier than normal.
+---electronic engineer James Lee Scribner believes that : it is the electron that is responsible before the photosynthesis can take
+place, for it is the electron that magnetizes the chlorophyll in the plant
+cell that makes it possible for the photon to assert itself and become a
+part of the plant in the form of solar energy. It is also this magnetism that
+draws the molecules of oxygen into the ever expanding chlorophyll cells
+of the plant, and so we must assume that moisture is in no way integrated into the plant through any absorption process whatsoever, for the integration of moisture is purely an electronic one. The so-called root pressure
+(moisture droplets) appearing on plant surfaces is not root pressure at all,
+but an abundance of electrons working with the rather excessive water
+energy in the bed.
+---Because, of all living things, they seemed the most enduring and the
+least moble, Burr charted the life fields of trees on the Yale campus and
+at his laboratory in Connecticut, over nearly two decades.
+He found that recordings related not only to the lunar cycle and to
+sunspots, whIch flare up at intervals with many years between them, but
+revealed cycles recurring every three and six months that were beyond
+his explanabon. His conclusions seemed to make less suspect the long-
+mocked practices of generations of gardeners who claimed that their
+**crops** should be **planted according to the phases of the moon**.
+---The experimenters placed identical tissue cultures in two hermetically
+sealed vessels separated by a wall of glass, then introduced a lethal virus
+in one of the chambers which killed the colony of cells inside it. The
+second colony remained wholly unaffected. However, when they replaced the glass divider with a sheet of quartz glass and again introduced
+killing viruses to one of the colonies, the Soviet scientists were astonished to see that the second colony also met the same fate as the first,
+even though the viruses could not possibly have penetrated the barrier.
+Other first and second colonies of cells, separated by the quartz glass,
+both perished when only the first colony was murdered with chemical
+poisons or lethal radiation and the second left unexposed. What killed
+the second colony in each case?
+Since **ordinary glass does not permit ultraviolet rays to pass but quartz
+glass does**, it seemed to the Soviet scientists that here was a key to the
+mystery. They recalled that Gurwitsch had theorized that onion cells
+could emit ultraviolet rays, and they resurrected his ideas from the limbo
+to which they had been consigned in the 1930s. Working with an
+electronic eye amplified by a photomultiplier and registered by a self-
+recorder which traced a graph marking the energy levels on a moving
+tape, they found that when life processes in the tissue cultures remained
+nonnal, the ultraviolet glow, invisible to the human eye but detectable
+as oscillations on the tape, remained stable. As soon as the affected
+colony began to battle against its infection, the radiation intensified.
+Reports on this work in Moscow newspapers disclosed that, however
+fantastic it might seem, the ultraviolet radiation from the affiicted cells
+carried in/onnation encoded in the fluctuation in intensity which was
+somehow received by the second colony, just as words are transmitted
+and received in dots and dashes in the Morse code.
+Since the second colony seemed in each case to die in exactly the same
+way as the first, the Soviets realized that it was as dangerous for healthy
+cells to be exposed to the transmitted signal of dying cells as it was for
+them to be exposed to viruses, poisons, and lethal radiation. It appeared
+that the second colony upon receiving the alarm signal from th dying
+first colony began to mobilize for resistance and its very "restructuring for war" against a nonexistent enemy proved as fatal as if it had
+it had indeed been attacked.