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--- secret_life_of_plants [2011-04-10 19:23] – [Plants and Electromagnetism] cocky
+++ secret_life_of_plants [2011-04-15 17:42] – [Live Plants or dead Planets] cocky
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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
 --------------------------
 ==== Plants and Electromagnetism ====
 <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 **"electrovegetometer"** to collect atmospheric electricity by means ot an antenna, and pass
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----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 something works than with whether it will work. This attitude can free them
-bakers who used flour ground from it claimed it produced bread of a far
+from the shackles of theory, which in the history of science has often
-better quality than that made from the wheat they were normally fur-
+caused pedants to disregard the brilliant new findings of geniuses be-
-nished. Pg 176
+cause there was no theoretical basis to support them. pg 178
+---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. pg 180
+---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. pg 181
+---Because, of all living things, they seemed the most enduring and the
+least moble, Burr charted the life fields of trees 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**.pg 197
+---To try to establish the cosmic origin of energy, Lakhovsky decided
+to dispense with his device to produce artificial rays
+and tap natural energy from space. In January, 1925, he picked one of
+a series of geraniums previously inoculated with cancer and surrounded
+it with a circular copper spiral thirty centimeters in diameter, its two
+unjoined ends fixed in an ebonite support. After several weeks he found
+that whereas all the control geraniums inoculated with cancer had died
+and dried up, the plant ringed with the copper spiral was not only
+radiantly healthy but had grown twice as high as uninoculated controls.
+These spectacular results led Lakhovsky into a complex theory as to how the geranium had been able to pick up from the vast field of waves
+in the external atmosphere the **exact frequencies which enabled its cells
+to oscillate normally and so powerfully that the cancer-afflicted cells
+were destroyed.** pg 185
+---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. 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 from the afflicted cells
+//carried information// encoded in the fluctuation in intensity which was
+somehow received by the second colony**.
+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 the 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. pg 189-199
+------------------------
+==== The Mystery of Plant and Human Auras ====
+ ---Inyushin had written up his research
+into the Kirlians' work in 1968 in a book-long scientific paper: //The
+Biologlcal Essence of the Kirlian Effect//. Though Kirlian himself had
+maintained that the strange energy in his pictures was caused by "changinng the nonelectrical properties of bodies into electrical properties which
+are transferred to film," Inyushin and his collaborators went several steps
+further. They declared that the **bioluminescence visible in Kirlian pictures** was caused not by the electrical state of the organism but by a
+**"biological plasma body"** which seemed to be only a new word for the
+"etheric" or "astral" body of the ancients. pg 203
+[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirlian_photography]] (Kirlian technique is used in the industry to scan vegetables if they are fresh or not.
+--- Viktor Adamenko and other Soviet scientists had been able to determine that the **"bioplasma"**
+not only undergoes a drastic shift when placed in a magnetic field but
+is concentrated at hundreds of points in the human body which seem
+to **correspond to the ancient Chinese system of acupuncture points.**pg 205
+---If there is a change in the
+universe and environment, say the parapsychologists, a resonance is
+produced in the vital energy of the human body which in turn affects
+the physical body. It is **through his bioplasmic body** that parapsycholo-
+gists believe **a man can be in direct contact with a living plant.** pg 206
+---The mystery of the link between human emotional or psycic states
+and emanations radiating from the fingertips is deepened by Moss,s
+finding that pictures done with Kirlian techniques of both her own and Kendall Johnson's
+fingers differ from day to day and hour to hour.
+Since the photos of leaves change with variations in parameters, Moss
+conjectures that "**at whatever frequency we take a picture, we are reso-
+nating, or vibrating at the same frequency,** with one particular aspect of
+the material; thus, not a whole picture, but different pieces of informa-
+tion are picked up." [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirlian_photography]] pg 208
+---Kirlian photos of faith healers reveal a smaller glow after healing, while
+those healed have greater emanations, indicating some sort of energy
+flow from the hands of the healer into the body of the patient, giving
+substance to **Galvani's and Mesmer's theory of "animal magnetism."**
+--------------------
+==== Chemicals, Plants and Man ====
+---**Pfeiffer** had developed in his
+native Switzerland a "**sensitivity crystallization method"** to test finer
+dynamic forces and qualities in plants, animals, and humans than had
+thus far been detectable in laboratories. Dr. Steiner asked Pfeiffer to find a reagent which would reveal"etheric formative forces" in living matter. After months of tests with Glauber's salt, or sodium sulfate, and many other chemicals,
+Pfeiffer discovered that if a solution of copper chloride to which extracts
+of living matter had been added was allowed to evaporate slowly over,
+fourteen to seventeen hours it would produce a **crystallization pattern
+determined not only by the nature but by the quality of the plant** from
+which the extract was taken. Pfeiffer developed an even simpler and less time
+consuming method to demonstrate how life veritably pulsates from
+living soils, plants, and foods, but not from inorganic minerals, chemicals, and synthetic vitamins, which are dead. Requiring none of the
+complex equipment of the standard chemical laboratory, it uses circular
+filter-paper discs fifteen centimeters in diameter, provided with a small
+hole in the center for insertion of a wick. The discs are laid in open petri
+dishes in which stand small crucibles containing a 0,05 silver-nitrate
+solution. This solution climbs up through the wick and spreads over the
+discs until it has expanded about four centimeters from the center.
+From the brilliant-colored concentric patterns Pfeiffer has been able to disclose new secrets of life.
+Pfeiffer laboratory has series of beautiful crystallizations, looking like exotic undersea corals. A strong,
+vigorous plant produces a beautiful, harmonious, and clearly formed
+crystal arrangement radiating through to the outer edge. The same
+crystallization made from a weak or sick plant results in an uneven
+picture showing thickening or incrustation.pg 244
+------------
+==== Live Plants or dead Planets ====
+---Pfeiffer came to realize that it is only our human egotistical point of
+view that labels a weed a weed, and that if they were viewed as a
+functioning part of nature, weeds would have much to teach. Pfeiffer
+proved that a whole group of weeds, including sorrels, docks, and
+horsetails, are sure indicators that the soil is becoming too acidic. Dande-
+lions, which lawn owners so feverishly dig up; actually heal the soil by
+transporting minerals, especially calcium, upward from deep layers, even
+from underneath hardpan. The dandelion is thus warning the lawn
+owner that something is wrong with the life of his soil. Pfeiffer came to the conclusion that,
+when soil lacks lime, silicon-loving plants such as daisies move onto it.
+When they die, they bring to the soil the missing calcium.  pg 264
+---with **Pfeiffer's chromatograms** established scientific proof that certain plants
+beans and cucumbers, for instance
+grow better if planted in coniunction with each other,  and other plants, such  pg 263as beans and fennel, seem
+to fare badly together. //related to companionplanting://[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Companion_planting]]
+---The New Alchemists say: "To Restore
+the Lands, Protect the Seas, and Inform the Earth's Stewards." This is
+what the planet's vegetal covering on terra firma has been doing since
+long before the advent of man to his stewardship. In that sense, **//plants
+are the oldest alchemists.//**
+---------
+==== Alchemists in the Garden ====
+---Tillandsia, or** Spanish moss
+can grow on copper wires** without any
+contact with the soil.
+---Kervran (1901-1983) medical scientist and engineer:
+powerful energies are at work in the germination process of seeds which
+synthesize enzymes, probably by transmuting matter within them. His
+experiments have also convinced him that **lunar forces are extremely
+important in germination**, though botanists have long asserted that only
+warmth and water are required.