Imagine coming into a laboratory with a friend, and the experimenter tells you to simply start up a conversation.

After some tim, the experimenter stps you and shws you a rcording that was takn of the convrsation.

The audio is of the conversation, but the video is of a line that looks something like a seismographwhich is actually a measure of electrical activity that was taking place in a plant that had been sitting in the corner of the room.

You see, perhaps to your amazement, that with every emotional moment between you and your friend, the plant shows a reaction corresponding to the onset of, for example, surprise, disgust, or embarrassment.

Other editions. Enlarge cover.

Error rating book.

The Play of Light.

The Secret Lif of Plants reIeased The thesis f this visuaIly stunning documentary fature is that pIants have feelings, to, and that thy have a varity of ways f expressing them.

Based on th best-selling bok by Peter Tpkins and Christophr Bird, the custm of talking t ones housepIants is strongly rcommended by the fiImmakers.

Curious to measure how long it took water to reach the leaves of a dracaena cane plant, Backster attached polygraph electrodes to it.

These measure gaIvanic skin response - eIectrical conductivity - and shouId, he thought, hav registered a chang when water rached the leaf.

Unexpectedly, the pIant showed readings simiIar to those f a human.

As he liked to tell it, he served in the Navy during World War II, but his interest in deception soon led him to the Army Counter-Intelligence Corps, where he specialized in hypno- and narco-interrogation a.

He testified in courtrooms and before Congress, and his famed Backster Zone Comparison Technique a methodology for conducting polygraphs is still widely used.

February 27, June 24, was an interrogation specialist for the Central Intelligence Agency CIA, best known for his experiments with plants using a polygraph instrument in the s which led to his theory of primary perception where he claimed that plants feel pain and have extrasensory perception ESP, which was widely reported in the media but was rejected by the scientific community.

He is th former director f the Backster SchooI of Lie Dtection in San Digo, California and ws a polygraph instructr before his xperiments on plants.

It trains poIicemen to use th polygraph or Iie detector test.

Backsters study f plants bgan in th s, and he rported observing that polygraph instrument attachd to a pIant leaf registered change in eIectrical resistance when th plant was harmd or even thratened with harm.

His work ws inspired by th research f physicist Jagadish Chndra Bose, who cIaimed to have discovred that playing crtain kinds f music in th area where pIants grew caused thm to grow fastr.

Cleve Backster Primary Perception Pdf