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==== Introduction ==== | ==== Introduction ==== | ||
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- | Raoul Francé put forth the idea, shocking to contemporary natural philosophers, | + | |
that the only reason we don't appreciate the fact is that plants do so at | that the only reason we don't appreciate the fact is that plants do so at | ||
a much slower pace than humans. | a much slower pace than humans. | ||
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---Plants seem to know which ants will steal their nectar, closing when | ---Plants seem to know which ants will steal their nectar, closing when | ||
these ants are about, opening only when there is enough dew on their | these ants are about, opening only when there is enough dew on their | ||
- | stems to keep the ants from climbing. The more sophisticated acacia | + | stems to keep the ants from climbing. The Acacia |
actually enlists the protective services of certain ants which it rewards | actually enlists the protective services of certain ants which it rewards | ||
with nectar in return for the ants' protection against other insects and | with nectar in return for the ants' protection against other insects and | ||
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form of a prolonged upward sweep of the recording pen. Backster had | form of a prolonged upward sweep of the recording pen. Backster had | ||
not moved, either toward the plant or toward the recording machine. | not moved, either toward the plant or toward the recording machine. | ||
- | **Could the plant have been reading his mind**? | + | **Could the plant have been reading his mind**? |
// | // | ||
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* [[plant perception]] | * [[plant perception]] | ||
* [[groworld HPI ii]] | * [[groworld HPI ii]] | ||
+ | * [[plant_tricks]] | ||
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- | a variety of new products: the red color seen on television screens; | + | ---Marcel |
- | fluorescent crayons; tags for insecticides; | + | |
- | to determine, from their urine, the secret trackways of rodents in cellars, | + | |
- | sewers, and slums. | + | |
- | + | ||
- | ---Vogel found that some of the philodendrons he worked with | + | |
responded faster, others more slowly, some very distinctly, others less | responded faster, others more slowly, some very distinctly, others less | ||
distinctly, and that not only plants but their **individual leaves had their | distinctly, and that not only plants but their **individual leaves had their | ||
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faces into a moist interior, virtually eliminating all the variability in | faces into a moist interior, virtually eliminating all the variability in | ||
signal output caused by pressure on leaves when clamped between ordi- | signal output caused by pressure on leaves when clamped between ordi- | ||
- | nary electrodes. This system produced for Vogel a base line on the chart | + | nary electrodes. |
- | that Was perfectly straight, without oscillations. | + | |
- | ---"How about sex?" | + | ---1972 related notes: |
+ | " | ||
+ | " If that seems rather far out, an electronics engineer not too long ago was able to build sophisticated equipment to mentally trigger a device through a plant at considerable distance. In one experiment he set a philodendron on a laboratory bench 2 1/2 miles from his home, and sent a strong emotion | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---the pen recorder | ||
oscillating wildly on the chart. This led to speculation that talking of sex | oscillating wildly on the chart. This led to speculation that talking of sex | ||
could stir up in the atmosphere some sort of sexual energy such as the | could stir up in the atmosphere some sort of sexual energy such as the | ||
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are next to worthless here, since ' | are next to worthless here, since ' | ||
of the known electromagnetic spectrum." | of the known electromagnetic spectrum." | ||
- | |||
- | ---1920s the Russian histologist Alexander Gurwitsch and his | ||
- | wife, proclaimed that all living cells produce an invisible radiation. | ||
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supersensory perceptions verifiable? Of the 350,000 plant species known | supersensory perceptions verifiable? Of the 350,000 plant species known | ||
to science, which were the most promising from the electronic point of | to science, which were the most promising from the electronic point of | ||
- | view**? | + | view**? |
- | + | ||
- | "There are certain qualities here," he wrote, | + | |
"which do not enter into normal experimental situations. According to | "which do not enter into normal experimental situations. According to | ||
those experimenting in this area, it is necessary to have a 'green thumb' | those experimenting in this area, it is necessary to have a 'green thumb' | ||
- | and, most important, a genuine love for plants." | + | and, most important, a genuine love for plants." |
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of its ' | of its ' | ||
the equivalent of " | the equivalent of " | ||
- | wanted water.** " | + | wanted water.** " |
- | continued, "it did not guzzle the water indiscriminately but limited | + | |
itself to a two-minute drink each hour, thus regulating its water need | itself to a two-minute drink each hour, thus regulating its water need | ||
with the help of an artificial mechanism. | with the help of an artificial mechanism. | ||
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discovered the " | discovered the " | ||
mineralized ore was placed next to it. They reported that, after condi- | mineralized ore was placed next to it. They reported that, after condi- | ||
- | tioning, the same plant, anticipating the hurtful shock, would get "emo- | + | tioning, the same plant, anticipating the hurtful shock, would get "emotionally |
- | tionally | + | |
more, said the Kazakh scientists, the plant could distinguish between | more, said the Kazakh scientists, the plant could distinguish between | ||
- | mineralized ore and a similar piece of barren rock containing no miner- | + | mineralized ore and a similar piece of barren rock containing no minerals, a feat which might indicate that plants will one day be used in |
- | als, a feat which might indicate that plants will one day be used in | + | |
**geological prospecting.** | **geological prospecting.** | ||
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volumes in 1906 and 1907. Pg 94 | volumes in 1906 and 1907. Pg 94 | ||
- | Boses invention the crescograph | + | Boses invention the Crescograph |
- | far beyond the powers of the strongest microscope, but could automati- | + | far beyond the powers of the strongest microscope, but could automatically |
- | cally record the rate of growth of plants and their changes in a period | + | |
as short as a minute. | as short as a minute. | ||
Bose showed the remarkable fact that in countless plants, **growth proceeds in rhythmic pulses.** each pulse exhibiting' | Bose showed the remarkable fact that in countless plants, **growth proceeds in rhythmic pulses.** each pulse exhibiting' | ||
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the soil. Leaves turn to light because they are " | the soil. Leaves turn to light because they are " | ||
bending against the flow of a stream " | bending against the flow of a stream " | ||
- | is known as its " | + | is known as its " |
- | + | ||
- | // | + | |
related libarynth topic: // [[plant movement]] | related libarynth topic: // [[plant movement]] | ||
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--- engineers, unlike | --- engineers, unlike | ||
- | researchers in pure science, are less concerned with why or how some- | + | researchers in pure science, are less concerned with why or how something |
- | thing works than with whether it will work. This attitude can free them | + | |
from the shackles of theory, which in the history of science has often | from the shackles of theory, which in the history of science has often | ||
caused pedants to disregard the brilliant new findings of geniuses be- | caused pedants to disregard the brilliant new findings of geniuses be- | ||
- | cause there was no theoretical basis to support them. | + | cause there was no theoretical basis to support them. pg 178 |
---Dr. George Starr White, pubished // | ---Dr. George Starr White, pubished // | ||
plant growth if bright pieces were dangled from fruit trees.Where Hay attached metallic **Christmas tree | 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. | + | 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 | + | ---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 | 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 | cell that makes it possible for the photon to assert itself and become a | ||
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(moisture droplets) appearing on plant surfaces is not root pressure at all, | (moisture droplets) appearing on plant surfaces is not root pressure at all, | ||
but an abundance of electrons working with the rather excessive water | but an abundance of electrons working with the rather excessive water | ||
- | energy in the bed. | + | energy in the bed. pg 181 |
---Because, of all living things, they seemed the most enduring and the | ---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 | + | least moble, Burr charted the life fields of trees over nearly two decades. |
- | at his laboratory in Connecticut, | + | |
He found that recordings related not only to the lunar cycle and to | 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 | sunspots, whIch flare up at intervals with many years between them, but | ||
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his explanabon. His conclusions seemed to make less suspect the long- | his explanabon. His conclusions seemed to make less suspect the long- | ||
mocked practices of generations of gardeners who claimed that their | mocked practices of generations of gardeners who claimed that their | ||
- | crops should be planted according to the **phases of the moon**. | + | **crops** should be **planted according to the phases of the moon**.pg 197 |
- | ---The experimenters placed identical tissue cultures in two hermetically | + | ---To try to establish the cosmic origin |
- | sealed vessels separated by a wall of glass, then introduced a lethal virus | + | to dispense with his device to produce artificial rays |
- | in one of the chambers which killed the colony | + | and tap natural energy from space. In January, 1925, he picked |
- | second colony remained wholly unaffected. However, when they re- | + | a series |
- | placed | + | it with a circular copper spiral thirty centimeters in diameter, its two |
- | killing viruses | + | unjoined ends fixed in an ebonite support. After several weeks he found |
- | even though | + | that whereas all the control geraniums inoculated |
- | Other first and second colonies of cells, separated by the quartz glass, | + | 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 | ||
+ | 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 | both perished when only the first colony was murdered with chemical | ||
poisons or lethal radiation and the second left unexposed. What killed | poisons or lethal radiation and the second left unexposed. What killed | ||
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Since **ordinary glass does not permit ultraviolet rays to pass but quartz | 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 | 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 | + | mystery. They recalled that **Gurwitsch had theorized that onion cells |
- | could emit ultraviolet rays, and they resurrected his ideas from the limbo | + | could emit ultraviolet rays**, and they resurrected his ideas from the limbo |
- | to which they had been consigned in the 1930s. | + | to which they had been consigned in the 1930s. |
- | electronic eye amplified by a photomultiplier and registered by a self- | + | //normal//, the ultraviolet glow, invisible to the human eye but detectable |
- | 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 | as oscillations on the tape, remained stable. As soon as the affected | ||
colony began to battle against its infection, the radiation intensified. | colony began to battle against its infection, the radiation intensified. | ||
Reports on this work in Moscow newspapers disclosed that, however | Reports on this work in Moscow newspapers disclosed that, however | ||
- | fantastic it might seem, the ultraviolet radiation from the affiicted | + | fantastic it might seem, the **ultraviolet radiation from the afflicted |
- | carried | + | //carried |
- | somehow received by the second colony, just as words are transmitted | + | somehow received by the second colony**. |
- | and received in dots and dashes in the Morse code. | + | |
Since the second colony seemed in each case to die in exactly the same | 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 | 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 | 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 | them to be exposed to viruses, poisons, and lethal radiation. It appeared | ||
- | that the second colony upon receiving the alarm signal from th dying | + | that the second colony upon receiving the alarm signal from the dying |
first colony began to mobilize for resistance and its very " | first colony began to mobilize for resistance and its very " | ||
- | it had indeed been attacked. | + | it had indeed been attacked. |
+ | |||
+ | ------------------------ | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | ==== The Mystery of Plant and Human Auras ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | | ||
+ | into the Kirlians' | ||
+ | Biologlcal Essence of the Kirlian Effect//. Though Kirlian himself had | ||
+ | maintained that the strange energy in his pictures was caused by " | ||
+ | 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 | ||
+ | **" | ||
+ | " | ||
+ | [[http:// | ||
+ | |||
+ | --- Viktor Adamenko and other Soviet scientists had been able to determine that the **" | ||
+ | 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, | ||
+ | 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' | ||
+ | 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, | ||
+ | the material; thus, not a whole picture, but different pieces of informa- | ||
+ | tion are picked up." [[http:// | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---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' | ||
+ | |||
+ | -------------------- | ||
+ | ==== Chemicals, Plants and Man ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | ---**Pfeiffer** had developed in his | ||
+ | native Switzerland a " | ||
+ | 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" | ||
+ | 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, | ||
+ | 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. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---with **Pfeiffer' | ||
+ | beans and cucumbers, for instance | ||
+ | grow better if planted in coniunction with each other, | ||
+ | to fare badly together. //related to companionplanting:// | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---The New Alchemists say: "To Restore | ||
+ | the Lands, Protect the Seas, and Inform the Earth' | ||
+ | what the planet' | ||
+ | long before the advent of man to his stewardship. In that sense, **//plants | ||
+ | are the oldest alchemists.// | ||
+ | |||
+ | --------- | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== Alchemists in the Garden ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---Baranger: | ||
+ | to submIit to the evidence: //" | ||
+ | Everyday under our very gaze they are transmuting elements."// | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | ---Tillandsia, | ||
+ | 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**, | ||
+ | warmth and water are required. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---Though not applied as abusively as in America, even the more limited | ||
+ | European use of artificial fertilizers has led, says Kervran, to a mounting | ||
+ | lack of resistance in plants to pests. The increase of infestation is no | ||
+ | more than a consequence of **biological imbalance.** pg 286 | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---------------- | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== Dowsing Plants for Health ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---Simoneton found that the **normal healthy person gives off a wavelengt | ||
+ | radiance of about 6,500**. Bovis and Simoneton' | ||
+ | vegetables, nuts, and fresh fish that give off radiations higher than their | ||
+ | own normal 6,500, if they wish to energize themselves and feel healthy. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---Myrna I. Lewis, taken by | ||
+ | the Soviets on a visit to several sanitariums in the Black Sea city of Sochi | ||
+ | to find aging Soviet citizens, afRicted with a variety of ills, both physical | ||
+ | and mental, **being treated not with drugs but with vibrations from | ||
+ | flowers in greenhouses** where they were led to smell specific blooms so | ||
+ | many minutes a day. They were also being treated with music played | ||
+ | in their rooms and the sound of the sea recorded on tapes. pg 308 | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---During his months in Wales, Bach felt his senses quickening, becoming more developed. Through a finely developed sense of touch he was | ||
+ | able to feel the vibrations and power emitted by any plant he wished | ||
+ | to test. Like Paracelsus, if he held a petal or bloom in the palm of his | ||
+ | hand or placed it on his tongue he could feel in his body the effects of | ||
+ | the properties within that plant. Some had a strengthening, | ||
+ | effect on his mind and body; others would give him pain, vomiting, | ||
+ | fevers, rashes, and the like. His instinct told him that the best plants would be found blooming in the middl,e of the year, when the days are | ||
+ | longest and the sun at the height of its power and strength. pg 309-310 | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---Though many of the flowers did not contain the healing properties | ||
+ | he sought, Bach found the dew from each plant held a definite power | ||
+ | of some kind, and deduced that the sun's radiation was essential to the | ||
+ | process of extraction. As collecting sufficient dew from individual flowers | ||
+ | could be laborious he decided to pick a few blooms from a chosen plant | ||
+ | and place them in a glass bowl filled with water from a clear stream, | ||
+ | leaving them standing in the field in the sunlight for several hours. To | ||
+ | his delight he found that the water became impregnated with the | ||
+ | vibrations and power of the plant and was very potent. To potentlize his | ||
+ | water Bach would choose a summer day with no clouds to obscure the | ||
+ | sun's light and heat. Taking three small plain glass bowls filled with fresh | ||
+ | water, he set them in a field where the flowering plants were growing, | ||
+ | then selected the most perfect blossoms and placed them on the surface | ||
+ | of the water.** To lift the blooms from the water without touching the | ||
+ | fuid with his fingers he used two blades of grass.** The water was then | ||
+ | transferred by means of a small lipped phial to bottles. When half-full | ||
+ | the rest of the bottle was filled with brandy designed to preserve the | ||
+ | mixture. Before the next experiment Bach would destroy both bowls and | ||
+ | phials. pg 310-311 | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---blindfolded ruddy-cheeked Scotsman, Alick McInnes, can** put his hand over a ripe | ||
+ | bloom and tell from the wavelength of its radiation** just what plant it | ||
+ | is and what its medical properties may be. In India, where he spent | ||
+ | thirty years working for the British Raj, Mcinnes got his first introduction to the fact that plants not only give off radiations which are sensible | ||
+ | to humans, but are themselves sensitive to the radiations given off by | ||
+ | humans; this he discovered when he visited the Bose Institute near | ||
+ | Calcutta. pg 312 | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---By the entrance to the Institute stands a luxuriant Mimosa pudica. | ||
+ | Visitors are requested to pick a small frond from this compliant horticultural guinea pig and place it in one of Bose's complicated machines, | ||
+ | which provides a schematic pattern of the vibrations of the plant on a | ||
+ | sheet of paper. A visitor is then asked to place his wrist inside the | ||
+ | machine and watch as a duplicate of the pattern is produced, demonstrating that mimosa is so sensitive it can pick up and faultlessly reflect | ||
+ | individual human radiations. pg 312 [[http:// | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---Mcinnes: Each flower species has a time when its | ||
+ | radiations can best be transferred to water, usually, though not always, | ||
+ | when the Howers are at the peak of their maturity, which is also usually | ||
+ | near a full moon. | ||
+ | Potencies, as Mcinnes calls the **radiations which are transferred to | ||
+ | water** can be taken from the rose around midsummer, or June 21, and | ||
+ | from the dandelion around the Easter full moon. When conditions are | ||
+ | right, transfer of the radiations is instantaneous, | ||
+ | seen to change, "an awe~inspiring experience never to be forgotten," | ||
+ | |||
+ | ------ | ||
+ | ==== Radionic Pesticides ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | --- Louise Hieronymus suspected that the unknown energy emitted from metals | ||
+ | might be somehow linked to sunlight; since it could be transmitted over | ||
+ | wires, it might have an effect on the growth of plants. | ||
+ | To find out, Hieronymus placed **some aluminum-lined boxes in the | ||
+ | pitch-dark cellar of his Kansas City house**. Some boxes he grounded to | ||
+ | a water pipe and connected by separate copper wires to metal plates on | ||
+ | the outside of the house exposed to full sunlight. Other boxes were left | ||
+ | unconnected. In all of them Hieronymus planted seed grain. In the | ||
+ | connected boxes the seeds grew into sturdy green plants. The seeds in the unconnected boxes had no trace of green and were anemic and | ||
+ | drooping. | ||
+ | This brought Hieronymus to the revolutionary conclusion that what- | ||
+ | ever caused the development of chlorophyll in plants could not be | ||
+ | sunlight itself but something associated with it, which, unlike light, was | ||
+ | transmittable over wires. He had no idea at what frequency this energy | ||
+ | might be located on the electromagnetic spectrum, or even if it was | ||
+ | related to it. | ||
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