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 ==== Introduction ====
- <html><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/5603591016/" title="Picture 5 by _foam, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5150/5603591016_dd7d797391_s.jpg" width="50" height="50" alt="Picture 5"></a></html>---At the beginning of the twentieth century Viennese biologist
+ <html><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/5603591016/" title="Picture 5 by _foam, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5150/5603591016_dd7d797391_s.jpg" width="50" height="50" alt="Picture 5"></a></html>---At the beginning of the twentieth century Viennese biologist Raoul Francé(1874-1943)put forth the idea, shocking to contemporary natural philosophers, that plants move their bodies as freely, easily, and gracefully as the most skilled animal or human, and
-Raoul Francé put forth the idea, shocking to contemporary natural philosophers, that plants move their bodies as freely, easily, and gracefully as the most skilled animal or human, and
 that the only reason we don't appreciate the fact is that plants do so at
 a much slower pace than humans.
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 ---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
-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
 with nectar in return for the ants' protection against other insects and
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 long before the advent of man to his stewardship. In that sense, **//plants
 are the oldest alchemists.//**
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 ==== Dowsing Plants for Health ====
-Applying his technique for measuring wavelengths directly to human
+---Simoneton found that the **normal healthy person gives off a wavelengt
-beings, Simoneton found that the normal healthy person gives off a
+radiance of about 6,500**. Bovis and Simoneton's thesis: human beings should eat fruit,
-radiance of about 6,500and a host of other noxious weeds.
+vegetables, nuts, and fresh fish that give off radiations higher than their
-Simoneton believes the day wi11 soon come when vaccines are made
+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, becom-
+Ing 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, vitalizing
+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. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagadish_Chandra_Bose]]pg 312
+---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, the water can actually be
+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.