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- | ==== ESP, or extrasensory perception ==== | + | ==== ESP, extrasensory perception ==== |
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**the nearest one almost embracing the speaker**. | **the nearest one almost embracing the speaker**. | ||
- | --Jazz caused her a real surprise. When her plants heard recordings as | ||
- | varied as Duke Ellington' | ||
- | 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 ==== | ==== Plants and Electromagnetism ==== | ||
- | < | + | < |
- | continually being **affected by wavelengths of the electromagnetic | + | continually being **affected by wavelengths of the electromagnetic |
- | trum**, from earth, moon, planets, cosmos and from a proliferation of | + | |
man-made devices; only it remains to be established exactly which are | man-made devices; only it remains to be established exactly which are | ||
beneficial and which are harmful. Pg 163 | beneficial and which are harmful. Pg 163 | ||
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others attained only four feet. Pg 168 | others attained only four feet. Pg 168 | ||
- | ---Bertholon, | + | ---Bertholon, |
- | dener stand on a slab of insulating material and sprinkle vegetables from | + | |
an electrified watering can. He reported that his salads grew to an | 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 | it through plants growing in a field. "This instrument is | ||
applicable to all kinds of vegetal production, everywhere, in all weather.” | 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 " | ||
- | 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 | --As it had been known that sharp points | ||
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importance to each form of vegetal life. Pg 174 | importance to each form of vegetal life. Pg 174 | ||
- | ---Lemstrom connected a series of flowers in metal pots to a static | + | ---Lemstrom connected a series of flowers in metal pots to a static |
- | 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." | pole set into the soil as a ground. Other pots he "left to nature." | ||
eight weeks, the electrified plants, showed gains in weight of nearly 50 | 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 | 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 | strawberries but found them to be much sweeter; his harvest from barley | ||
- | plants increased by one-third. He reported | + | plants increased by one-third. He reported |
- | Agriculture and Horticulture// | + | Agriculture and Horticulture**//. Pg 176 |
- | Later Sir Oliver Lodge allowed | + | --------------------------- |
- | movement | + | ==== Force Fields, Humans and Plants ==== |
- | trified | + | |
- | During | + | --- engineers, unlike |
- | of wheat by 40 percent | + | researchers in pure science, are less concerned with why or how some- |
- | bakers who used flour ground | + | 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 |
+ | cause there was no theoretical basis to support them. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---Dr. George Starr White, pubished // | ||
+ | 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 | ||
+ | (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 | ||
+ | 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 | ||
+ | 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 | ||
+ | even though the viruses could not possibly have penetrated the barrier. | ||
+ | Other first and second colonies | ||
+ | both perished when only the first colony was murdered with chemical | ||
+ | poisons or lethal radiation | ||
+ | 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 | ||
+ | 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 selfrecorder which traced a graph marking the energy levels on a moving | ||
+ | tape, they found that when life processes in the tissue cultures remained | ||
+ | //normal//, 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 | ||
+ | //carried information// | ||
+ | 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 | ||
+ | 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 " | ||
+ | it had indeed been attacked. | ||