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The importance of this file is its revelation of how little humans know, in their most advanced studies, of the relevance and meaning of the plant life which surrounds them. Without plants, no other form of life would exist on the planet Earth. If survival is a consideration for humanity, plants were the first known lifeform on the Earth. Beginning their presence about 1900 million years ago, they have demonstrated the ability to survive drastically changing environments and to do so more successfully than the dinosaurs and many extinct examples of all other lifeforms.

If success is terms of happiness or contentment is a consideration for humanity, then plantlife affords an enviable example. Plants have been shown to be able to express all positive emotions and no negative (intense) emotions. When left alone by humans, they find a balance between themselves such that they do not seek to kill each other. Indeed, of all lifeforms, plants have been found to be the most spiritually positive. Apart from description, classification, simplistic perspectives on how to plant, grow and harvest - humans know virtually nothing about the lifeform responsible for their survival. It would be a positive coping skill to be able to understand and work with such a lifeform rather than to simply take it for granted.

384-322 B.C.
Aristotle of Stagira, a Greek, wrote down all of the popular knowledge of his era and established new divisions of learning including that of philosophy. His writings are marked by analytical thinking, experimentation, and speculation. In an animal or a plant, besides the bones, the flesh, the nerves, the brains, and the blood, in the former, and besides the pulpy matter, tissues, fibers, and juice in the latter, there must be a form, which Aristotle named the soul . This "form" is invisible yet powerful in presence and distinct from the matter of the being.

Aristotle's division of learning into separate sciences was functional to human bureaucracy. The simplest way to teach people is not to use the abstract. Indeed, in children the capability to understand the abstract is not yet developed neurologically. By splitting up knowledge, teachers were not required to know all knowledge in order to teach a small part.

As time continued, such distance from central and unifying concepts in knowledge took the "life" out of learning and relegated much of human learning to rote exercises of mechanistic concepts concerned with the manipulation of "dead" or static things. This made it increasingly difficult to perceive likenesses in other living beings and a context of harmony in the ecosystem.

This form of education encouraged the death of the human spirit by encouraging competition, struggle, material presence, differentiation, and authoritarianism. The truly knowledgeable teacher is humble in ignorance, gracious in awareness, and eternally in wonder of the possibilities of change and new experience. Humanity would be advanced in materialism and militarism and monopolistic power towards ever-widening influence of its destructiveness under such guidance.

The "soul" of which Aristotle wrote would be scientifically demonstrated by Semyon D. Kirlian and Valentina H. Kirlian , through their high-frequency field investigations and their photography by 1968. Had awareness of this had taken place much earlier in human history and been recognized for its importance, before the high states of denial present in human knowledge in the 1900s, the future of humanity, and its present, would have been dramatically different.

It is difficult to acknowledge the existence of other forms of intelligent, even super-intelligent, life, if such presents itself in the pre-learned conceptions of the human mind as threats to freedom, happiness, and survival. Humans would build an authoritarian dependency upon religious, political and military institutions which could not acknowledge the existence of anything superior to their control. To do so would destroy their declaration of authority and threaten the end of the subservience of individual humans to the accumulated power they gave to persons who represented mechanistic institutions whose only historically demonstrated goal is survival, whether beneficial or threatening to the survival of humanity.

1525 -
A German mystic, Jakob Boehme, said he could look at a plant and suddenly, by willing to do so, mingle with that plant, be part of that plant, feel its life "struggling towards the light." He said he was able to share the simple ambitions of the plant and "rejoice with a joyously growing leaf."
 

1600 -
Jan Baptista Helmont, a Flemish chemist plants a willow sapling in a clay pot containing 200 pounds of oven-dried soils and for five years waters the tree with nothing but rain or distilled water. No other nutrients are added. When Helmont removes the tree and weighs it he finds that it has gained 164 pounds whereas the weight of the soil remained about the same as at the beginning. Helmont wondered if the plant had been able to turn water into wood, bark, and roots.

Could plant beings be capable of living on nothing more than water and some universal energy available throughout the universe?

1670 -
During the decade, Baron de Beausoleil and his dowser wife Marine de Bertereau, working under the protection of Marechal d'Effiat, Louis XIV's superintendent of mines, discovered several hundred profitable mines in France. Such was the spiritual awareness of the time amongst the leadership of the nation, that they were both later arrested for practising sorcery, tortured and died - she in Vincennes, he in the Bastille. The persecution continued in France , mostly against doctors who would find themselves in the 1800's dragged before the courts for using dowsing designated cures on patients officially declared incurable. In some areas of the country, great respect would be advanced for the art because of its effectiveness and positiveness.
 

1694 -
Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, a German professor of medicine and director of the botanical gardens at Tubingen, becomes the first modern botanist to demonstrate that flowering plants have sex and that pollen is necessary for fertilization and seed formation. The idea that there could be a sexual difference in plants caused general astonishment, and Camerarius' theory was fiercely combated by the current establishment. It was considered the "wildest and most singular invention that ever evolved from a poet's mind."

Even so, that plants have female organs in the form of vulva, vagina, uterus and ovaries, serving precisely the same functions as they do in a woman, as well as distinct male organs in the form of penis, glans, and testes, designed to sprinkle the air with billions of spermatozoa, were facts quickly concealed behind the latinized terms given them during the 18th century.

In reality, each corn kernel on a cob in summer is a separate ovule; each strand on the pubic corn silk tufted around the cob is an individual vagina ready to suck up the pollen sperm brought to it on the wind, that it may wiggle the entire length of the stylized vagina to impregnate each kernel on the cob. Every single seed produced on a plant is the result of a separate independent impregnation. Each pollen grain impregnates but one womb, which contains but one seed. Had humanity been able to accept the similarities between plants and animals rather than emphasizing the differences, human history would have been dramatically more positive.
 

1781 -
Peruvian Inca doctors, in their benevolent character, relieved the malaria of the 
Countess of Cinchon , wife of the Spanish Viceroy to Peru, with an infusion of bark from a local tree which produced symptoms in her identical with those of malaria. Thereafter known as "cinchon bark", the remedy was sold by monks in Spain to the rich for its weight in gold and given to the poor for nothing.
 

1785 -
Christian Samuel Hahnemann: a physician of note who was a chemist, linguist, translator of medical works, and the author of a comprehensive apothecaries' lexicon. Following on the example of the use of "cinchon bark", that is, quinine, for the treatment of malaria, as discovered by the Spanish in Peru, Hahnemann tested and found many substances which the smallest amount in a tincture would cure various diseases. When he proposed this approach to the field of medicine, he was quickly ostracised and ridiculed by the establishment which disliked his animosity towards their practices of bleeding and cupping their patients as well as the likely loss of their profits from the sale of such small quantities of drugs as he was proposing.
 

1786 -
In September, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a German and privy councillor and director of mines for the Duchy of Saxe-Weimar, began a secret trip south through the Brenner Pass to Venice, Italy. For years, Goethe, a fine poet, had been distressed by the limitations involved in a merely analytical and intellectual approach to the plant world, typified by the cataloguing mind of the eighteenth century, and a theory of physics which submitted the world to blind laws of mechanics. His interest in plants grew intense yet he found the academia establishment dead for all its arbitrary divisions of the sciences and the petty contradictions of university scholars. Goethe had studied electricity, magnetism, galvanism, mesmerism, mysticism, alchemy, magic an medicine. Goethe strove to find the ultimate secret of nature.

In his travels, Goethe developed an acute interest in plants stemming from the variety he observed and its complexity. He frequently meditating on the life cycle of plants as a tranquillizing activity. He noticed that in the fan palm,  all lateral outgrowths of the plant were simply variations of a single structure: the leaf. With this new way of looking at plants, Goethe came to the conclusion that nature, by bringing forth one part through another, could achieve the most diversified forms through modification of a single organ. Plant forms were not predetermined, but were "happily mobile and flexible, enabling them to adapt to the many conditions throughout the world, which influence them, and to be formed and re-formed with them".

Goethe also recognized that the process of development and refinement of form in plants worked through a threefold cycle of expansion and contraction. The expansion of foliage was followed by a contraction into calyx and bracts; there followed a splendid expansion into petals of the corolla and a contraction into the meeting point of stamen and stigma; finally there came a swelling into fruit followed by a contraction into seed. This six-step cycle completed, the essential plant was ready to start all over again. A further step, noticed by but not specifically detailed by Goethe was a principle of renunciation.

Ernst Lehr, later described this principle thus:

"In the life of the plant (renunciation) shows itself most conspicuously where the green leaf is heightened into the flower. While progressing from leaf to flower the plant undergoes a decisive ebb in its vitality. Compared with the leaf, the flower is a dying organ. This dying, however, is of a kind we may aptly call a "dying into being". Life in its mere vegetative form is here seen withdrawing in order that a higher manifestation of the spirit may take place.

The same principle can be seen in the insect kingdom when the caterpillar's tremendous vitality passes over into the short-lived beauty of the butterfly. In the human being it is responsible for that metamorphosis or organic process which occurs on the path from the metabolic to the nervous system, and which we came to recognize as the precondition for the appearance of consciousness within the organism."

Later in life, Goethe introduced several other principles of plant life. He labelled the vertical tendency in plants, with its sustaining principle, male; the spiral tendency, which conceals itself during the development of the plant but predominates during blossoming and fruiting, female. He extended this to a belief that male and female opposites represented spiritual opposites in the universe: sides of a unity necessarily split apart for physical growth, yet reunited in new living creations. In a different principle of polarities, Goethe noted that the action of the root of the plant is directed earthward toward moisture and darkness, whereas the stem or trunk strives skyward in the opposite direction toward the light and the air. To explain it, Goethe suggested a force of "levity" opposing Newton's "gravity".

Goethe was to be initially spurned for his poetry; later greatly accepted. Because of the compartmentalized and authoritarian views of his time, his early scientific writings on plants were set aside because he was seen to be a poet. Eighteen years after his first publication on plants, he was hailed as a genius, in another country - Switzerland. He compared the earth and its hydrosphere, in which he included the humid atmosphere and its clouds, to a great living being perpetually inhaling and exhaling, an ecological principle. He is credited with the discovery of the volcanic origin of mountains and the establishment of the first widespread system of weather stations. Charles Darwin and Rudolf Steiner were to follow his ideas.
 

Goethe's acceptance of plants as lifeforms, capable of sex, growth, complexity, adaptation and change acting which a living universe set the foundation for possible cultural expansion into the more spiritual principles of harmony, and ecology overwhelmed by centuries of human preoccupation with competition and disassociation. He displayed great reverence for plants, unlike many of humanity before him, and much of it before the late 1990s.

Humans seem to frequently forego positive and real possibilities in slavish obedience to the authority and ignorance of the institutions they create as apparent servants to themselves. If a superior plant intelligence was to approach us with our harbouring such negative and unreal cultural concepts as generally held by "educated" humanity, what would our response to their presence likely be?

1815 -
In May, Henry Gross, an American dowser from Maine state, sitting at his kitchen table, pinpointed on a map of the British-governed island of Bermuda, on which there was no source of fresh water had been found, just those spots where he said drilling would produce it. To everyone's amazement, Gross was correct.

In the so-called modern world, dowsing would only be used whenever the status quo science could provide no answers in situations considered urgent. Repeatedly, dowsing would easily provide the answer sought, yet because humans could not intellectually understand or explain it, they suppressed what they could not control.

You cannot control a person's ability to dowse; you cannot uniformly teach people the skill of dowsing; to some degree the perfection of the art and its use for positive ends is relative to the spiritual advancement of the person involved. Greed, envy and fear would ensure that a skill that could impart so much benefit to humanity would be ridiculed, and often forgotten in favour of science which succeeded by pain, profit, pride, and political power.

1866 -
Ernst Haeckel solves the classification of lifeforms dilemma by introducing another kingdom to that of plants and animals:  the Protista . Bacteria, formerly classified as plants, do have rigid cell walls like plants, but some are motile and most use organic foods, as animals do. Algae have chlorophyll, as do plants, but some are motile. Yeasts have a rigid cell wall, but some share with animals the ability to make fats. Some protozoa and bacteria have chlorophyll. Are they plants or animals?

Haeckel proposed that protozoa, molds, yeasts, bacteria and the simplest algae be classified as Protista, a lifeform kingdom with characteristics which straddled those of plants and animals. The authoritarian version of rational interpretation only permits the simplicity, and inaccurate reality, of 2-sided values: yes/no, hot/cold, off/on, up/down, right/wrong, black/white, plant/vegetable. That was the status quo of the time and it would remain so until the end of the 1900s. Protozoa would be assigned to the animal kingdom and bacteria, molds, yeasts and algae would be considered plants. By the 1990s, viruses and rickettsiae (intermediate in size between viruses and bacteria) would also be classified as plant lifeforms.

This inability to accept the reality of a third real lifeform classification demonstrates the addictive acceptance of the authoritarian value system by humans who consider themselves to be scientists and social leaders and would contribute to an excessive waste of intellectual energy and material resources in attempting to examine and understand lifeforms which were viewed through the tainted lens of prejudice. Even within the 2-value system, if applied with integrity, each species of bacteria, molds, ... could have been classified according to whether its major characteristics allied it with other plantforms or other animals. Such an undertaking would have been complex and with the predisposition for intellectualization within human scientific fields, anarchy would have developed.

Indeed, the whole question of classification could have been set aside by simply acknowledging all lifeforms as lifeforms and classifying them from the point according to families and species. That would have been too humbling for humans to accept for the 2-valued plant-animal classification assumes that animals are categorically more complex, more intelligent, and more powerful than plantforms. Without that normative separation, humans would have to acknowledge that somewhere in the on the Earth, or in the universe, a plantform could exist which was superior to humans on the basis of intellect, power, and technology. That is going too far for the human ego.
 

1873 -
During the year, Albrecht von Herzeele published a book,  The Origin of Inorganic Substances which offered proof that, far from simply absorbing matter from the soil and the air, living plants are continuously creating matter. During his lifetime, Herzeele made hundreds of analyses indicating that, in seeds sprouting in distilled water, the original content of potash, phosphorus, magnesium, calcium, and sulfur quite inexplicably increased. Not only mineral ash but every one of the plants' components increased, such as the nitrogen which burned off during incineration of the seeds.

Von Herzeele also discovered that plants seemed to be able to transmute phosphorus into sulfur, calcium into phosphorus, magnesium into calcium, carbonic acid into magnesium, and nitrogen into potassium.
 

1897 -
W. Zaleski, remarking on the conclusions of his experiments notes that:

"Leaves can form proteins even in the darkness, and proteogenesis requires only the presence of high quantities of soluble carbohydrates."

When exposed to light the leaf rejects oxygen by chlorophylian action. The oxygen pressure is thus stronger in the leaf than in the air, and that is why the oxygen leaves. In the dark it is the opposite: the leaf absorbs oxygen; there is only respiration.
 

1900 -
During October, Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose, drew the question that if he could obtain recordable responses from metals and animals demonstrating changes, why would he not be able to detect and record changes in plant life? So began his experimentation with plants.

His father had seen the slavish and monotonous imitation indicative of the British educational system and had sent him instead to a simple village teacher. Bose saw the hippocracy of society by its rejection of a reformed criminal of gentle and kindly nature who was hired to transport him to school from age 4. Graduating with an impressive aptitude in physics from St. Xavier's College, his teacher advised him to go to England to read for the Civil Service exams. Bose's father, who had personally experienced the deadening nature of bureaucratic administration, advised his son to become a scholar instead. Bose graduated from Christ College, the London University, and was appointed professor of physics at Calcutta's Presidency College. The appointment was protested by members of the status quo who maintained the view that no Indian was competent to teach science. His salary was cut to half that of the English-born teachers where it stayed for 3 years.

Bose was brilliant as a teacher; his classroom was always full. He began work in 1894 to see if he could improve the instruments recently devised to transmit "Hertzian" radio waves and, ahead of Marconi, he succeeded in transmitting electrical waves and demonstrating it to many others. Marconi was the first to patent the process. Bose never supported the idea of patenting any of his discoveries holding that all people should benefit from new findings rather than such findings only being made available to those who could afford to purchase it and make a few persons rich. Bose now received some government financial support for his research and was awarded a doctorate of science by London University. Status-quo, jealous bureaucrats, back in India, were effective in tying up a government grant financed proposed research centre for Bose to continue his work. The poet Rabindranath Tagore, encouraged Bose.

By 1899, Bose had found that the metal antennae he used to receive radio waves by experienced a form of exhaustion or desensitization which left when the metal was given a period of rest. He began to compare the molecular reactions of such metals to that of animal tissues and found that the recorded wavelines produced by slightly warmed magnetic oxide of iron closely resembled those of muscles.

In 1900, Bose stressed the "fundamental unity among the apparent diversity of nature" at the International Congress of Physics stunning some with the suggestion that the boundary between inanimate and animate things might not be as wide as previously assumed. Later in the year, Bose found that he could demonstrate that plants also demonstrated changes in electrical potential in response to various "blows". Until now, the rest of the so-called scientific community had believed that plants had no nervous system and could not be responsive.

On May 10, 1901, Bose would quote a Hindu verse considered 3000 years old as indicative of the importance of his finding:

"They who see but one, in all the changing manifoldness of this universe, unto them belongs Eternal Truth - unto none else, unto none else!"

1916 -
Dr. Albert Abrams: the son of a successful San Francisco, California merchant, from whom he inherited a vast fortune, he travelled to Heidelberg, Germany, to study advanced medicine. He met a Professor de Sauer, who was working with plants at the time. Abrams noticed that onion roots appeared to emit some form of radiation for roots positioned at right angles to the stem of other plants profoundly affected the health of the planted group.

Returning to the U.S.A. to teach pathology at Stamford University, he was noted as a superb diagnostician for his ability to use taping of the patient's body and a translation of the resonating sounds produced as clues to defining the illness. Abrams noticed, one day, that when an X-ray apparatus was turned on in the room, the tone of the resonant sounds was dulled. Turning the patient, Abrams found that the strange dulling occurred only when the man faced east and west, yet when the patient was aligned north and south, the percussion note was continuously resonant. There seemed to be a relationship with the geomagnetic field. Further, cancer and other diseases seemed to be indicated by anomalies in the reactions.

Abrams discovered that cells responded the same when either cancer was present in the patient or the patient was exposed to X-rays. Nerve fibers contracted in response to the X-rays, if the patient was oriented in an east-west position; nerves were permanently contracted in the case of a patient having cancer. From further experiments, Abrams concluded that disease occurred because the molecular constituents of cells undergo a structural alteration, specifically a change in the number and arrangement of their electrons. Characteristics developed which only later would become visible at the microscope. Radiation from pathological specimens could be transmitted, like electricity, over a 6-foot wire.

Abrams built a device much like a rheostat (a continuously variable electrical resistor) which he called a "reflexophone". With this he was able to determine all the diseases present in the body under study. Different diseases could now be read from a dial: 55 for a syphilitic specimen, 58 for sarcomatous tissue, and so on. Abrams found he could diagnose the ills of the body by analysis of just one drop of blood from the patient. With further fine tuning, Abrams could detect to what stage the disease had advance. He further showed that antidotes to diseases produced the same resonant sound and apparently cancelled the disease vibration attending the disease.

In 1922, Abrams reported that for the first time he had effected over telephone wires the diagnosis of a patient miles away from his office, using nothing more than a drop of blood from the patient and analysis of its vibratory rates by his instruments. These claims aroused the opposition of the American Medical Association which published fear and pride-backed tirades against Abrams. The British Medical Association parroted the unscientific and unprofessional journalism encouraging its past president, Sir James Barr, who had been successfully using Abrams methods in his own practice, to chastise the journal.

Abrams died in 1924, yet the vilification against him continued for some time with  Scientific American denouncing him in 18 separate and consecutive issues. Few doctors had the strength of will and commitment to their field, to continue to acknowledge and use the principles which Abrams had developed, in opposition to the power of the media and large institutions, which by lack of political leadership, were allowed to hold back the treatment of disease in stone age practices compared to what could have been used. This is just one example of why chronic illnesses would continue to grow in frequency and debilitating influence for the rest of the century.
 

1917 -
During May, Andre Simoneton, a French engineer in the French Army during the first World War, lay facing death on a hospital train stretcher. He had undergone 5 operations and was now so severely tubercular that the medics were whispering nearby that there was no chance of his recovery. A forced diet of rich food had ruined his liver and given him unpleasant side effects. Simoneton discovered Bovis' system of selecting fresh and vital foods by means of pendulum testing and by using it managed to rid himself not only of the TB, in a short time, but to give himself robust health for the rest of his life. For an outline of his findings on foods see the file on "emanations".
 

1926 -
In August, Andre Bovis, a Frenchman, found that some waters, such as those at Lourdes, radiated energy as high as 156,000 angstroms. Eight years later, some of the same water, stored in bottles, still registered 78,999 angstroms. Considering that fresh olive oil can give a reading of 8,500 and that pasteurized products gave a reading of 0 and that these readings indicated the degree of vitality in the substance, one can surely see why some foods and water could be referred to as healing substances. The basic human wavelength of radiated energy was found to be 6,500. Anything above that reading added vitality to the human body; anything below, reduced the vitality.

Although the knowledge and the benefits of science and the education and health authorities investigating and extending these findings further could have reduced human strife and pain considerably, human institutions largely ignored the findings.

Many additional conclusions would be reached and finally published in the 1970's, yet never seriously adopted by any nation on Earth up to this publication in 1994. Humanity would remain slaves to the status quo which in its power of authority would continue to weaken the spirit of humanity and result in devastating environmental and political consequences.

1928 -
By this year, Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose, an Indian physicist, had completed much of his work on the responses of plants. He had faced many dramatic changes in his peers and the public regarding the acceptance of his findings. He rejected the suggestions that he should change his results, against his evidence, to affirm the authority of the status quo. Ridiculed by some, he was applauded by others. He designed equipment that vastly increased the sensitivity of detection of responses as well as the monitoring of such factors as growth. He began to publish his experiments in papers and books. He showed parallels of response between the skin if lizards, tortoises and frogs to those of grapes, tomatoes, and other fruits and vegetables. With his magnifier, he proved that plant tissues can become as fatigued as animal muscles by continuous stimulation. He discovered close parallels between the response to light in leaves and in the retinas of animal eyes. He demonstrated the characteristics of a nerve system in the mimosa plant and the existence of reflexes. He found that the death of a plant due to rise in temperature, while certain at an upper degree, would also occur at a lower level if the plant were fatigued or poisoned. At the point of death, the plant threw off a huge electrical force. Five hundred green peas, connected in series, could develop 500 volts at death.

Though it had been thought that plants liked unlimited quantities of carbon dioxide, Bose found that too much could suffocate them, but that they could be revived, just like animals, with oxygen. Like human beings, plants became intoxicated when given shots of whisky or gin, swayed like a drunkard, passed out, eventually revived, with definite signs of a hangover. Bose's experiments, against commonly held precepts, showed him that in plants their movement, the ascent of their sap, and their growth were due to energy absorbed from their surroundings, which they could hold latent and store for future use.

Whereas plants were considered to lack all power of conducting true excitation, Bose showed that they were in fact possessed of this power: they could conduct electrical stimulation and change it into motion; could store up and discharge energies. Bose held that the isolated vegetal nerve was indistinguishable from the animal nerve in response or capability. While praised for the interesting matter skilfully woven together in his works, they were downplayed for their incredulity. Heralded as proceeding smoothly and logically, reviewers chastised him for a lack of "attachment" to currently held beliefs and for not calling reference to the findings of others in the area - of which there were none. Bose opened his own Institute for Research on his 59th birthday, November 13, 1917. After the acceptance publicly of his work after a demonstration in 1920, Bose wrote:
 

"Criticism which transgresses the limit of fairness must inevitably hinder the progress of knowledge ... I regret to say that during a period of twenty years, these (research) difficulties have been greatly aggravated by misrepresentation and worse. The obstacles deliberately placed in my path I can now ignore and forget."

After 1928, Bose retired:

"Is there any possible relation between our own life and that of the plant world? The question is not one of speculation but of actual demonstration by some method that is unimpeachable. This means that we should abandon all our preconceptions, most of which are afterward found to be absolutely groundless and contrary to facts. The final appeal must be made to the plant itself and no evidence should be accepted unless it bears the plant's own signature."

Bose's findings and work would be largely forgotten and uninvestigated for decades by the inertia of human institutionalized science. The direction of humanity in the second half of the century may well have been dramatically reversed from technological progress, spiritual degradation and general global ecological and political decay, had these findings been intelligently accepted and pursued. The spiritual awareness, the acceptability of a potentially superior advanced plant-like spacebeing and the knowledge and willingness to communicate with such a being without fear, envy, greed, pride, and deception would have made possible peace, prosperity, environmental renewal, spiritual awareness.

1934 -
Beginning in the Spring, Andre Bovis, experimented with pyramids shapes built to the dimensions of the Great Pyramid of Cheops. He found that such forms would mysteriously dehydrate and mummify dead animals without decomposing them, especially if they were positioned at the relative height of the King's Chamber, that is, 1/3rd of the way from the base to the summit. Clearly, there were energies at work which humanity had no understanding of.
 

1937 -
By this year, Andre Bovis, a French experimenter, had formed a theory of how the art of dowsing revealed special energies about the Earth. The Earth had positive magnetic currents running north to south, negative magnetic currents running east to west. He noted that these currents would be picked up by all bodies on the surface of the Earth, and that any body placed in a north-south position would, more or less, be polarized, depending on its shape and consistency. In human bodies, these telluric currents, both positive and negative, enter though one leg and go though the opposite hand. At the same time, cosmic currents from beyond the Earth enter through the head and go out through the other hand and foot. The currents also go through the open eyes.

Bovis concluded that all bodies which contain water accumulate these currents and can radiate them slowly. As the currents go out and act and react against other magnetic forces in objects, they affect the pendulum held by a dowser. Thus the human body, as a variable condenser, acts as a detector, selector, and amplifier of short- and ultra-short waves.

Bovis used a pendulum detector together with a ruler to obtain an indication of the degree of vitality of different foods. The ruler was graduated in centimetres to indicate microns, which are thousandths of a millimetre, and angstroms, which are a hundred times smaller, covering a band between 0 and 10,000 angstroms. Simoneton analyzed foods with this scale. Bovis believed that the wavelengths broadcast by the object in question were picked up by the nerves in the human arm and then amplified by means of a pendulum swinging at the end of a string.

Jan Merta, of Montreal, Canada, would later show that a minute muscular movement of the wrist occurs a fraction of a second after a change in the electroencephalograph registered a change, thus indicating that the human brain processes the signal through to the registering device rather than that an unseen energy, either received directly from the environment or directed from the human brain, influences the pendulum.

At the same time, Bovis believed that the pendulum, acted as a perfect lie detector in revealing what a person really thought about a subject. More specifically, from what is known in the 1990's, the manner in which the pendulum user asks the questions for which an answer is sought, determines the truth and relevance of the answer indicated. The answer the dowser receives may be as exact or general in nature as is the reasoning of the individual. Asking whether you would like to do a particular activity rather than whether you should do that activity may result in opposing answers: each true according to the Spiritual tone of the question.

Some questions are more abstract than others thereby leading to a potentially more abstract than expected answer. Testing to determine where within a particular area the best water well should be drilled can provide the dowser with an exact location which is unlikely to change in the shorter-term. Testing to determine which food you should have for lunch will lead to a choice or choices dependent upon which foods are available - if so implied intuitively, or, to choices which may include items not currently available.
 

To further complicate the validity of dowsing and pendulum usage, it was known by the 1980's that the energy blocks harboured within the dowser or would-be dowser could result in negated answers. If traumatic experiences within one's own life, and/or pattern "memories" from one's ancestors raised the influence of the accumulated energy blocks within a human lifesystem, the natural intuitive "wisdom" of the person would be expressed in the negative.

If the correct answer to a question was "yes", the dowsed answer would be "no". If the correct answer was "left', the negated answer would arrive as "right". Typically, the psychic abilities of the person would be reversed. Intuitive or "feeling" answers would tend to be incorrect to an alarming degree. Soon, the person would learn to negate through distrust any confidence in felt answers and seek to intellectualize and rationalize all decisions. Ego deception (obstructed "Heart" feelings) would be denied in favour of "head" decisions; passive-aggressive communication (non-assertiveness) would be exchanged for manipulation. Instead of being wrong 80% of the time, a more favourable ratio of 50% might be achieved. The less afflicted person, however, being able to dowse correctly, could have a correct answer ratio nearing 100%.

Obviously, this is a motivation to rid oneself of energy blocks and develop intuitive and dowsing skills - yet this questions the relevance of intellectualization. Have humans so concentrated on this skill of consciousness so as to make excuses to lend credibility to decisions made rather than take responsibility straight-forwardly for an answer which has an error ratio of 50%? Have humans increasingly exalted their intellectual conscious abilities in denial of their spiritual, and if so, has that path been taken simply because it supported the formation of authority structures and the irresponsibility of destructive interpersonal relationships and unrestricted population expansion?

1939 -
In April, Dr. Ruth Drown, a vivacious young Los Angeles, California chiropractor made an astonishing finding while making refinements on Albert Abram's devices. She developed a camera which could be used to take pictures of organs and tissues of patients using nothing but a drop of their blood, even when the patients were hundreds or thousands of miles from her office. Even more startling, she could take pictures in "cross-section", which cannot be done with X-rays. Although she received a British patent for the camera, the American FDA authorities regulating her practice, regarded it as science fiction and confiscated it in the early 1940's. To suitably discredit Dr. Brown, the same authorities ensured that reporters from  Life magazine were on the scene at the time of the confiscation and that their story presented her as a charlatan. She reportedly died of grief.

Once again, "modern" human culture proved its own spiritual decay by denying the fair and scientific assessment of new concepts which could enhance health, reduce illness, and reduce the cost of health care relative to the sophistication of the diagnosis required.

1941 -
In February, Didier Bertrand's Magnesium and Life was published in French. In it, Bertrand stated that each time wheat, maize, potatoes, or any other crop is harvested, elements in the earth used by the plants in their growth process are taken out. Since virgin arable soil contains from 30 to 120 kilograms of magnesium per hectare, Bertrand stressed that most of the earth's arable land should long since have been exhausted of this element. Yet not only is this not the case, but in various parts of the world, such as Egypt, China, and the Po Valley in Italy, soils continue to remain highly fertile in spite of enormous quantities of magnesium taken from them through harvests of crops over thousands of years. In July, 1960, the work was published in English and Louis Kervan wondered if the reason was because plants could make magnesium from calcium or carbon from nitrogen.

If human civilizations which had used irrigation to build food surpluses, enabling a growth in the arts, technology, politics, bureaucracy and the military in the past had possessed "plant intelligence", their lands might not have become infertile and their culture extinct.

1942 -
In September, Wilhelm Reich meets with Albert Einstein to demonstrate his phenomenon of orgone energy. The accumulators he has built to collect the energy show a permanent rise in temperature within their tops, thus disproving the second law of thermodynamics. Einstein confirmed the phenomenon. Reich was still considered insane by the status quo establishment including most of his contemporaries.

Reich maintained that matter is created from orgone energy, that under appropriate conditions matter arises from mass-free orgone, and that these conditions are neither rare nor unusual. Exposed to sufficiently high temperatures and made to swell, all matter, even sand, undergoes vesicular disintegration and the resulting vesicles can later develop into bacteria.
 

1945 -
By this year, Marcel Vogel, a research chemist, who studied for years to become a Franciscan priest, was finding his interest in luminescence paying off. His company, called Vogel Luminescence , in San Francisco, California was becoming a leader in its field. It would develop a variety of new products: the red color seen on television screens; fluorescent crayons; tags for insecticides; a "black light" inspection kit to determine, from their urine, the secret trackways of rodents in cellars, sewers, and slums; and the psychedelic colors popular to "new age" posters. By the mid-1950s, he would become bored with the tedium of running a company and sell it to go to work for IBM.
 

1946 -
In March, T. Galen Hieronymus, an engineer for the Kansas City Power and Light Company paid tribute to Albert Abrams by stating over Kansas City radio station WHAM:

"About 20 years ago a discovery was made by a California man that was so hard to believe and more especially by those who did not wish to believe it, that the world was set back by their disbelief for many years. There were a few of those following along who took the original idea to the point where today it is as important, in fact, more important to mankind than the atomic bomb because the latter means destruction of humanity and the other idea means the lengthening of life and the alleviation of disease."

Hieronymus had earlier discovered that silver emanated some form of energy, when buried in the ground, upwards; yet, for a few hours every 2-1/2 days, the radiated energy would be projected downwards towards the Earth's core. He found that these cycle correlated with phases of the moon. Further work indicated that these radiations were also strongly influenced by magnetic attraction. Since this energy could be transmitted over wires, Hieronymus considered that it could be related to sunlight and might also affect plants.

To find out, Hieronymus placed some aluminum-lined boxes in the pitch-dark cellar at 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 anaemic and drooping.

The radionics devices he was building for doctors he noticed were "short-circuited" in operation if placed in sunlight. Building a special analyzer with a prism, he found he could identify by the radiations emitted, many of the elements on Mendeleyev's periodic chart. He found that the energy, when refracted through a prism, behaved in the same manner as light, except that the angles of refraction were much more acute, and that the energy from the various elements came through at angles of refraction in the same order as the contents of their nuclei. This convinced him that disease was destroyed by the Abrams device "through a radiative attack on the binding energy which holds molecular structures together."

Hieronymus found that the frequency of emanation from materials, or angle of refraction, was in exact proportion to the number of particles in the nucleus of an element and that the range of frequencies or angles of refraction from complex substances could thus be used to analyze what they obtained. He also found that this energy radiated out only a certain distance depending on the object from which it is emitted, on the direction it takes, and even on the time of day of its measurement. He coined the term "eloptic energy" to indicate that this energy obeyed some but not all of the laws of electricity and optics.

Hieronymus applied for a patent for his detection apparatus stating that "the apparatus preferably relies upon the element of touch and, therefore, the skill of the operator." The operator had to stroke a detector which, substituting for the area of the patient, was "preferably an electrical conductor coated with a material having such characteristics that under influence of energy flowing through the conducting portion, the coating will change its surface tension or viscosity, or in some manner give evidence of the presence of the energy flowing through the conducting portion by producing a greater drag or resistance to the movement of any part of the body of the operators thereover, such as the hand or fingers." Still, how the actual device worked remained a mystery of understanding.

Otto Rahn, a bacteriologist, wrote to the inventor:

"Since those radiations hold the secret of life, they also hold the secret of death. At present, very few people know about the possibilities, and very few know  all the facts. It seems imperative that those few keep their knowledge to themselves, and divulge only as much as is necessary to perform the immediate applications to cure disease. Your discoveries open up great possibilities, as tremendous as those of the atom bomb, and just like atomic energy, these radiations may be used for the bad as well as for the good of humanity."

"This is a controversial subject only because it involves the pocketbook of a large group of people who might be harmed financially should the truth of the present day status of (Abram's) little black box be made generally known to the public. The unfortunate part of the situation at the moment is that a large pressure group is still fighting tooth and nail to keep the known facts from being presented and I just wonder if the article in the  Saturday Evening Post wasn't instigated by that group."

In 1973 , Hieronymus was not revealing the full details of his device to others, in caution against its misuse by irresponsible people. He had expressed an open invitation that "If a group of responsible people will help us to run a proper and broad investigation of eloptic energy for the good of mankind, I will be glad to cooperate and tell them all I know."

Hieronymus also determined that personal objects could carry a positive or negative influence imbued by the person who had formerly worn or handled them. Such objects, given as gifts, found or purchased, were capable of altering the demeanour of the person who wore them or in whose presence they were. Some influences resulted in the person feeling tired, enlivened, depressed, elated, afraid, courageous. Thoughts and emotions appear transferable to the objects around us, including the artifacts we leave behind. Hieronymus also believed it was possible to rid an object of malevolent energies.
 

1948 -
UKACO, Inc. (Howard Armstrong, Curtis P. Upton, William J. Knuth).
Howard Armstrong, an industrial chemist at Princeton University, took an aerial photograph of a cornfield under attack by Japanese beetles, he cut one corner off the photo with a pair of scissors and laid the remainder together with a small amount of rotenone, a beetle poison, extracted from the roots of a woody Asian vine which the Japanese call "roten", on the collector plate of one of Upton's radionic devices.

Curtis P. Upton, a Princeton-trained civil engineer whose father was a partner of Thomas Alva Edison, and William J. Knuth, an electronics expert from Corpus Christi, Texas, had built a radionics device about a generation after the death of Abrams. In 1951, in Tucson, Arizona, Upton and Knuth treated 4,000 acres of cotton crop for the Cortaro Management Company, one of the largest cotton growers in Arizona. Aerial photographs of the fields were placed on the radionics machine together with a small amount of insecticide. The crop increased beyond normal yield by 25% and the plants had 20% more seed than normally expected. The field workers further noted an almost complete absence of snakes in the areas treated.

Dr. Edward Purcell published an article referring to the characteristic resonant frequency of elements when resonated in selected magnetic fields. Describing the work of Dr. Felix Bloch, he referred to a process called "nuclear induction". This involved turning atomic particles into what, in effect, were infinitesimal radio transmitters, whose broadcasts, if highly amplified, could be detected in loudspeakers.
 

1949 -
In December, E. Pfeiffer published his findings about plants and soils. His experiments showed that natural soil conditions lend themselves to finding a balance of nutrients when free growing plants are allowed to prosper following nutritional losses to cropping. When lime was missing, plants poor in silica grew and their ashes were rich in lime. In this manner, "wild" plants growing amongst a crop could indicate the deficiencies present in the soil due to the losses resulting from the intensive cropping of the soil by previous crops. Rotation cropping was one method of resolving the problem of intensive cropping of soils leading to lower yields resulting from soil nutrient depletion. Companion planting was more efficient in the immediate term but more difficult with the technology available.

On another level of perception, it was suggested from the results that the plant spectrum tries to maintain a balance in the vitality of the ecosystem through a recognition of the benefit of all plant species notwithstanding that the environment was not manipulated in favour of just one specie.

This "plant intelligence" approach would soon come in contact with human intelligence which has historically held that balance is unimportant in the ecosystem which should be manipulated ruthlessly for the benefit of a single species: humanity. Human intelligence, by action and attitude, supports the use of power to secure advantage to remedy the weaknesses of lack of responsibility, lack of reverence, lack of harmony.

1951 -
B.A. Rockwell: director of research for the  Pennsylvania Farm Bureau Cooperative Association in Harrisburg, in writing of the successes of the work of UKACO, Inc., stated:

"To control insect pests at a distance of thirty miles with no danger to man, plants or animals would perhaps be an accomplishment heretofore unrivalled in the scientific control of insects injurious to vegetation. To an individual with 19 years experience in the research field this feat appeared unreal, impossible, fantastic, and crazy. Yet careful counts by the writer of the treated corn plants and untreated corn plants indicated definitely that the kill ratio was 10 to 1 in favor of the treated plants."

1952 -
During April, F.C. Bishopp, assistant chief of the Agricultural Research Administration's Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, began releasing information to the press regarding the conclusions drawn by Rockwell and others regarding the work of UKACO, Inc. He inferred that tests had been conducted under unscientific conditions and that adverse reports on the process had reached his department. In a second letter to the York  Dispatch , he stated:

"From our limited knowledge of the use of radiation in control of insects we frankly feel that the claims of this company are exaggerated. The question naturally arises as to why the company should proceed with large-scale tests without having competent authorities evaluate the method. We are anxious that unsound methods not be permitted to divert the farmer's attention, at this critical time, from recognized sound insect control practices."

This is another in the long list of examples in human culture in which status quo (in power) authorities, whether by certificate of achievement of rote study of theory or from past effective experience, motivated by fear or pride, seek to discredit or ridicule any new concept which may diminish their own stability of authority. Bishopp is so uninformed about what he is judging that he makes the mundane error of the time of mistaking the radionics "radiation" with nuclear radiation: the two bear little more resemblance than a comparison of sound wave radiation to light wave radiation!

The media, where allowed to be immature and easily rush to the sensationalism of innuendo, slander, and conflict, mask the truth within disinformation, unresearched and unconfirmed. This encourages the defeat of truth, justice, responsibility and acceptance of radical yet beneficial and effective solutions to widespread problems and hardship. In the end, as the GRAYs are confident of, and the REDs are mournful of, humanity - not God - is responsible for all the disease, conflict, injustice, and poverty which any individual human must face.

1952 -
In September, Vannevar Bush, science adviser to U.S.A. President Eisenhower, was among those establishment scientists approached by members of UKACO, Inc. and General Henry M. Gross, the distinguished head of the Selective Service Board for the State of Pennsylvania, seeking support for patenting of the radionics disease control process for crops. When Gross explained to them UKACO's accomplishments and said that every particle has its own generic frequency, the scientists responded heatedly that the UKACO-obtained results were impossible. Invitations to the scientists to visit the fields and talk with the farmers who had been exposed to and used the process were declined. Gross had no more success with the director of the Carnegie Institution in Washington, who flatly told him that there was nothing in the science of electronics to suggest that the UKACO process could work. Lack of support eventually forced UKACO to close its doors.

Several things are noteworthy here:

1. Had the process been  fairly investigated by persons carrying the title of "scientist" at the time, it would have replaced chemical insecticides, decreasing the chemical toxicity of agricultural soils later and reducing the rise of chronic illness frequency. Further, crops would have had higher yields over longer durations while costing less to grow.

2.  GRAYs are insect-like in their biological characteristics . Had the process been developed, the Earth could have been "protected" from occupation and domination by the GRAYs relatively easily and without danger to humans. That option is no longer possible. We are too close to the "take over" date and the GRAYs have had almost 50 years to prepare and place controls on human society such that endeavours in this direction now would be detected quickly and stopped.

3. Vannevar Bush was part of  Majority 12 (MJ-12) , had met with the GRAYs, knew their biology was insect-like, and with the feedback of the Intelligence and Armed Forces members of that group was aware that such a technique could be used not only against insects but also possibly against concentrations of troops or even the populations of whole cities in wartime. Grudgingly, they had to acknowledge that the GRAYs were technologically superior to humans. In fear and projection they further assumed that if humans were in the position of the GRAYs and saw such a weapon being developed, the humans would capture it and use it against the originators.

1953 -
By February, Maurice Messegue, a sophisticated Frenchman born a peasant in a remote section of Gascony known as Gers, became known to the courts of France. Taught by his father, who took him as a child on herb-collecting trips all over the countryside, Messegue had become a famous herbal healer successfully treating hundreds of patients. Some of his patients had included the president of the French Republic, Edouard Herriot, and artist Jean Cocteau. Others included a beautiful girl with a withered arm which was cured when bathed in infusions of wild plants. A child of 12, apparently unable to talk, gained the ability. The courts repeatedly censured him for practising medicine without a medical degree even though those with degrees had proven their inability to assist the persons cured by his treatments. Messegue resisted the court challenges feeling that it would be criminal not to use his skills in the service of others.

In unfortunate but typical human fashion, the messenger of good was challenged, humiliated, ridiculed, feared, restricted, threatened with loss of freedom and defamed by a status quo which revered human political and legal authority above that of the rights of the individual and without reference to the authority of the God they professed to follow.

Few humans appear willing to offer their material wealth, their freedom or their life to support another without whose efforts and service they would have nothing, perhaps not even life itself. By refusing to take a stand on any issue, based on spiritual direction rather than person gain or safety, the individual becomes responsible for the injustices enacted by the authorities they maintain.

Historically, too little is done until too late, or, those who are in a position to make a change for the more spiritual lack the power of will and spiritual strength and guidance to take action. The decision to act, spiritually, is not in the individual, but is given by God to those who by searching and self-advancement receive the Word. Ask and it shall be given, yet so few ask.

1956 -
During the year, Marcel Vogel, a research chemist, sells his luminescence business and goes to work for IBM. Back into research full-time, he studies magnetics, optic-electrical devices, and liquid crystal systems, developing and patenting inventions of crucial significance to the storage capabilities of computers. When first approached by a student who asked him about an article on  Do Plants have Emotions? , he rejected the idea. Several days later he decide to take the question seriously.

With more prompting from his students, Vogel built reaction detectors to use with plants and had his students run experiments to test the ability of the plants to anticipate actions of destruction against them. Vogel, but not his students, detected stronger reactions from the plants which were in threat of being burnt or uprooted than from those which actually were. Using his knowledge of hypnosis and researching magic and spiritualism the response seemed to indicate that some form of energy might be present throughout the universe, the disturbance of which explained health or disease. Wondering if this energy could be stored like other forms of energy, Vogel asked a spiritually gifted friend, Vivian Wiley, to test substances for that purpose.

Ms. Wiley picked several leaves from her garden and each day projected her will on the one to live and paid no attention to the other. A month later she showed Vogel the leaves. The one without attention had died and was brown; the other was radiantly vital and green. Vogel performed a similar experiment with the same results. Vogel transferred his interest to the experimentation of this "psychic" energy on liquid crystals at his IBM lab.

Vogel took hundreds of slides of the behaviour of the crystals and magnified them hundreds of times to try and detect any changes. He found that by "relaxing his mind", he could sense activity not visually revealed in the microscope field. "I was led by some form of higher sensory awareness to adjust the lighting conditions to allow these phenomena to be optically recordable to the human eye or to a camera." Vogel concluded that crystals are brought into a solid, or physical, state of existence by  pre-forms , or ghost images of pure energy which  anticipate the solids. Since plants could pick up intentions from a human, that intent produced some form of energy field.
 

1958 -
In January, Pierre Baranger, a professor and director of the laboratory of organic chemistry at the Ecole Polytechnic in Paris, established in 1794, announced his discoveries before a distinguished audience of chemists, biologists, physicists, and mathematicians at Switzerland's Institut Genevois. His discovery was that plants transmute elements: they have the capacity to change one element into another.

This feat is one which human alchemists had tried to accomplish for centuries. Only through the use of alpha particle nuclear radiation in 1919, had Ernest Rutherford been able to modify one element into another. The tiniest blade of grass and the frailest flower achieve on a daily basis what humans require an atom smasher to do. Which is more "intelligent"?

"For me, any meticulously performed experiment is a homage to science even if it shocks our ingrained habits. ... I understand perfectly well that you are astonished by these results. For they are astonishing. I understand perfectly well that you are seeking the error which could make nonsense of these experiments. But so far no such error has been found. The phenomenon stands: plants can transmute elements."

1958 -
In November, A.M. Sinyukhin, a research scientist in the Soviet Union, referred in an article to the work of Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose, of India. Sinyukhin noted that the work of Bose had been buried during his lifetime by sceptical Western science and hardly ever cited since his death. Sinyukhin made clear that the biologists of the U.S.S.R. were so impressed by the achievements of Bose during the 1920s that they were going to mount a research campaign based directly upon his long-ignored conclusions. In December, 1958, a meeting would be held in the main conference hall of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Bose.
 

1959 -
By October, Vladimir Grigorievich Karamanov, director of the Laboratory of Biocybernetics of the Institute of Agrophysics, in the U.S.S.R., published an article on plant intelligence. As a young biologist, Karamanov had been inspired by Abram Feodorovich Ioffe, a mentor, to become familiar with semiconductors and cybernetics. He began building microthermisters, weight tensiometers, and other instruments to register the temperature of plants, the flow rate of fluid in their stems and leaves, the intensity of their transpiration, their growth rates, and characteristics of their radiation. He was soon picking up detailed information on when and how much a plant wants to drink, whether it craves more nourishment or is too hot or cold.

He showed that an ordinary bean plant had acquired the equivalent of "hands" to signal an instrumental brain how much light it needed. When the brain sent the "hands" signals, they had only to press a switch, and the plant was thus afforded the capability of independently establishing the optimal length of its "day" and "night". Later, the same bean plant, having acquired the equivalent of "legs", was able instrumentally to signal whenever it wanted water. "Showing itself to be a fully rational being, it did not guzzle the water indiscriminately but limited itself to a two-minute drink each hour, thus regulating its water need with the help of an artificial mechanism.

In replying to suggestions that the achievements were a sign of humanity's progress in control over plants, Karamanov replied:

"Nothing of the sort! That plants are able to perceive the surrounding world is a truth as old as the world itself. Without perception, adaptation does not and cannot exist. If plants had no sense organs and didn't have a means of transmitting and processing information with their own language and memory, they would inevitably perish."

1962 -
In May, Louis Kervan publishes his  Biological Transmutations . In it he made clear that those who believe in a system of farming which takes into account chemistry alone are in for a rude shock and that man and animals nourished on diets formulated by chemists will not long survive. Kervan freely accepted the formulation set out by Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, who had founded chemistry, that as far as chemical reactions were concerned elements could be shifted but not transmuted; elements could be combined but nothing created nor lost. The mistake made by science, Kervan contended, was to assume that  all reactions in living organisms are chemical in nature and that, consequently, life should be interpreted in chemical terms.

Kervan wrote that one of the main purposes of his book was

"to show that matter has a property heretofore unseen, a property which is neither in chemistry nor in nuclear physics in its present state. In other words the laws of chemistry and biochemists lies in their desire to apply the laws of chemistry at any cost, with unverified assertions in a field where chemistry is not always applicable. In the final phase the results might be chemistry, but only as a consequence of the unperceived phenomenon of transmutation."

Cultivation based on classical chemistry alone fails wherever intensive and abusive methods are employed. The marked crop increases can last only a certain time. The use of chemical fertilizers has led to a mounting lack of resistance to pests. The increase in infestation is no more than a consequence of biological imbalance.

"Classical soil scientists and agronomists attached to the dogma that biology equals chemistry cannot conceive that all that is within plants has not been put into the soil. They are not the people to advise farmers; farmers should be guided by the enlightened and intelligent agriculturalists who have long recognized the division between a purely chemical and biological agriculture. ... If they are men of good faith, they will admit their past errors, but one doesn't ask that much - only that they act."

1963 -
In March, Jean Lombard, a geologist, in a preface to Louis Kervan's book,  Natural Transmutations , wrote:

"The true workers of science, who are always ready to welcome new suggestions, sometimes ask themselves if the greatest obstacle to the progress of science is not bad memory on the part of the scholars; they wish to remind the latter that some of their predecessors were burnt at the stake because of proposed "interpretations" which have now become foremost truths. If pioneers of science were still being burnt, I would not give much for Louis Kervan's skin."

1963 -
During the Spring, Professor Yves Rocard of the College de France, head of the physics department of the prestigious Ecole Normale Superieure, published his book on dowsing. Still untranslated to English by 1973, his work had been translated and put to use in the Soviet Union by that date. There, Soviet geologists began using dowsing effectively to locate minerals from airplanes and helicopters and to locate underground archaeological artifacts.
 

1963 -
During the year, J.I. Rodale showed that a mother plant did not have to be growing near children for them to benefit from her "protection". The mother could apparently be in the next city, the next country, across the ocean, or anywhere on Earth. This suggests that plants use a form of communication, like telepathy, which can be carried on between two known entities at almost limitless distances. This concept serves to emphasize that advanced plant intelligences may represent a higher form of spiritual lifeform than more ego dominated lifeforms such as animals and humanity.
 

1963 -
By October, Pierre Baranger, a professor and director of the laboratory of organic chemistry at the Ecole Polytechnic in Paris, France, had proven that in the germinations of leguminous seeds in a manganese salt solution, manganese disappeared and iron appeared in its place. Experimenting further, he discovered that a whole web of complexities related to the transmutations of elements in seeds, including the time of their germination, the type of light involved, even the exact phase of the moon.
 

1965 -
By May, Dr. Bernard Grad, a research biochemist at Allan Memorial Institute of Psychiatry of McGill University in Montreal had performed some tests which demonstrated that the hands of some humans radiated healing energies. Working with a retired Hungarian Army colonel, Oskar Estebany, as a subject with demonstrated healing powers in his hands, Grad found that the sprouting of grains and the total amount of green plant issuing therefrom could be significantly increased when compared to controls, by watering them with a solution sealed in bottles and exposed only to the healing energy of Estebany's hands. Testing further, Grad found that  the most important influence on a saline solution with which plants were watered  was the mood of the person who held the solution beforehand.

The person who felt positive emotions about the possible good influence they might have on the plants resulted in healthier plants. A psychotic person was found to imbue the solution with energies which resulted in the slowest plant growth. The unemotional and uninformed person who held the solution produced an interim amount of growth between that of the person with the depressed mood and that of the person with the pleased mood. These findings were extended to offer an explanation for cultural prohibitions against menstruating women being involved in activities such as the canning of foods, the survival of cut flowers, etc. Presumably the accompanying mood of depression negatively influenced the life energies involved in the activity.

It should be of particular importance that if as a culture, humans see themselves as greatly superior to the plants which they grow for their survival and express moods of pride, impatience, anger, and disdain toward the plants, the crop may be less healthy than the one grown by the farmer who expresses sincere concern for his plant "children" who he acknowledges are equally a part of God's creation and worthy of respect.

This attitude may one day mean the difference between the success and failure of a space colony in which the attitudes of the humans in charge of growing the food supply determine the difference between eventual starvation or community distress and adequacy and contentment. The history of humanity overall demonstrates an inability for humans to adopt, instill and practice this spiritual awareness for their survival on Earth.

1965 -
By September, Alick McInnes, of Scotland, had become known for his Exultation of Flowers, introduced to the public in 1956. They were being used to treat illnesses and emotional difficulties in humans, diseased animals and insects. McInnes had found a way by which he could transfer the vital energy from highly vitalized plants to water without destroying or harming the plant. McInnes spent 30 years in India working for the British Raj. He became interested in plants after visiting the Bose Institue near Calcutta. In South India, he spent a couple of weeks as the guest of Ramana Mohan Maharishi at the foot of the holy hill Arunachalam. McInnes was astonished to see that during the Maharishi's daily walk in the evening cattle, dogs, children, wild animals, birds and even snakes would congregate behind him peacefully and quietly following along - only to disperse back to their habitats quietly at the end of the walk.

As McInnes interprets the phenomenon of human and plant radiations, each individual member of either kingdom modifies or qualifies with his own wavelength the fundamental energy radiated through him. The same applies, says McInnes, down to the finest particle of matter: "Everything radiates wavelengths which can be identified as sound, color, form, movement, perfume, temperature and intelligence."

McInnes says the radiations from some flowers are circular, others go from left to right, others from right to left. Some go up and down; others down and up; some go diagonally from left to right; others in the opposite direction. Some feel cold; others warm. But the same flower species always gives off the same radiation. McInnes found it possible to transfer flower radiations to water, where the radiations will stay more or less indefinitely. Each flower species has a time when its radiations can best be transferred to water, usually, though not always, when the flowers are at the peak of their maturity, which is also usually near a full moon.

Far from damaging the plant, McInnes says that just at the moment when its potency is transferred to water, other members of the same species for miles around brighten up and appear to grow more vigorously than before. The resulting potentized water McInnes calls an Exultation of Flowers, which he says is not a specific treatment of any diagnosable disease, but operates in a subtle way on the radiations coming through the human body, on animal or the soil, and in so doing raises the vitality of the person, animal, or soil concerned. When vitality is raised to the necessary level, illness disappears. There are parallels with the Bach Flower Essences developed in 1932.

McInnes prescribes his Exultation to be taken by mouth, so many drops at a time for varying conditions, as a salve for cuts and burns and other problems of the skin, and as a tonic diluted in one's bath. Of the forty-odd varieties not all can be mixed. Some seem to cancel each other out; others disturb the mixture; others upset the temper of the radiations already in preparation. Chemists who ridicule his Exultations as nothing more than water, he points out that magnetized steel and ordinary steel show the same chemical ingredients but are obviously quite different from each other.

McInnes believes that all forms of life are created to live in harmony, but mankind has so misused this dominion over created things that there is now disharmony everywhere, which is expressed in physical disease in human, animal, and plant life, the life forces coming from the Source of the Creation becoming more and more distorted. "If we deliberately cause suffering and disease in other lives, we increase our own suffering and disease." All creation suffers when plants in their millions are burnt by chemical weed killers, when animals are inflicted with diseases in laboratories, when work is demanded of half-dead, diseased and suffering animals.

If McInnes is correct, then any intelligent advanced plant lifeforms in the universe would feel the pain of the millions of acres of plants sprayed with defoliants in southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. So also would all of such a species mourn at the decreasing vitality which humanity emanates from the Earth as its degree of endemic chronic illness rises and its degree of political unrest and global catastrophe increases in balance with its decreasing degree of true spirituality.

How painful it might be for such an intelligence, perhaps spiritually progressed far enough to feel the distress and know that it would be wrong to interfere in the choices which humanity takes for itself.

RUST-likes are humanoid with plant-like digestion. From our perspective, they are spiritually perfect. They absorb energy as their mode of "digestion". They time travel and traverse space both in semi-physical and spiritual form. They seldom show themselves to humans and on such occasions they express concern for the future of humanity and a wish for humanity's spiritual upliftment. Are we too proud to listen?

1966 -
In April, Rudolf Hauschka, in his book  The Nature of Substance states that life cannot possibly be interpreted in chemical terms because life is not the result of the combination of elements but something which precedes the elements. Matter is the precipitate of life.

"Is it not more reasonable to suppose that life existed long before matter and was the product of a pre-existent spiritual cosmos? ... The elements as we know them are already corpses, the residue of life forms. Though chemists can derive oxygen, hydrogen and carbon from a plant, they cannot derive a plant from any combination of these or other elements. What lives, may die, but nothing is created dead."

1968 -
On December 24,  Apollo 8 transmitted live pictures of the surface of the moon.
Astronauts Borman, Lovell, and Anders were on board.

T. Galen Hieronymus and his wife Irene (see 1946) decided to use their radionics "eloptic" energy detector to check the ongoing conditions of the 3 astronauts during their flight. Using photographs of each of the astronauts, placed individually into their machine, they were able to track all physiological functions of the men while determining that the transmitted energy could neither be shielded by the metal shell of the space capsule nor affected by the great distance from Earth to the far side of the Moon. They were able to measure the influence of high "G" stress on each during takeoff and re-entry as well as the effects of living in weightlessness - zero gravity - environment for an extended period of time.

When the capsule was on the far side of the Moon,  relative to the Sun , radio signals were easily sent to and received from Earth, whereas Hieronymus' analyzer could pick up nothing. When the capsule was on the far side of the Moon  relative to the Earth , no radio or other telemetered signals could be transmitted back to the Houston, Texas base. Hieronymus' instrument continued to be able to monitor the astronauts during the same period. Sunlight rays seemed somehow to relate to the generation of or detection of the "eloptic energy".
 

1969 -
By the Spring, George and Marjorie De La Warr realized that the real key to getting plants to flourish was simply asking them to do so and an article was published in his journal,  Mind and Matter , entitled "Blessing Plants to Increase their Growth". He asked readers to produce evidence to support his own experimental results which conflicted with the commonly accepted materialistic atomic theory which implied that chemical fertilization was the only substantial variation applicable to plant health.

One of the most crucial steps in a 15-step procedure outlined in the article was that in which the experimenter was to hold bean seeds in his hands and invoke a blessing, varying according to his faith or denomination, in reverent and purposeful manner. Though warmly received by readers, the article evoked a harsh reply from officials of the Roman Catholic Church, who took umbrage because, as they pointed out, it was inadmissible for anyone below the rank of deacon to perform any act of blessing. To still the waters of protest, the De La Warrs renamed their experiment "Increasing the Rate of Plant Growth by the Mental Projection of an Undefined Energy".

Results were reported by the Reverend Franklin Loehr, Dr. Robert N. Miller, and others.
 

1969 -
Between July 16 to 24, Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing had on board astronauts  Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins : the latter stayed with the mother ship. T. Galen Hieronymus and his wife Irene (see 1946), continuing their researches from earlier monitored flights, used their radionics "eloptic" energy detector to check the ongoing conditions of the 3 astronauts during their flight. Using photographs of each of the astronauts, placed individually into their machine, they were able to track all physiological functions of the men.

The Hieronymus' most startling discovery was that of a lethal radiation belt around the moon, which during the landing of Apollo 11 apparently extended from an altitude of roughly 65 miles down to about 15 feet above the moon's surface. While the astronauts were travelling through or within the belt, Hieronymus noted a drop in the vitality of the astronauts. When they got out of the capsule and climbed down the ladder onto the surface, trends showed a dramatic turnaround.

On later flights, the lower level of the lethal atmosphere was as high as two miles above the moon's surface. Its altitude was thought to have been influenced according to time period and exact position over the surface of the Moon with some influences including the altitude of the lunar topography.
 

1969 -
In the Autumn, the Reverend Franklin Loehr, under the auspices of his Religious Research Foundation in Los Angeles, completed 700 experiments on the effect of prayer on plants, conducted by 150 persons, using 27,000 seeds. The results were reported in his book  The Power of Prayer on Plants and followed the directions set out by the De La Warrs earlier in the year.

Loehr showed that the growth rate of plants could be accelerated as much as 20% when individuals singly or in concert visualized the plants as thriving under ideal conditions. Though their experiments seemed to be acceptable from the evidence and the pictures presented, the results were ignored by scientists on the basis that Loehr and his assistants had no scientific training and used relatively crude methods to measure growth.

Once again the power and inflexibility and hypocracy of the authority vested in the human status quo dictated acceptance according to allegiance rather than by truth. Human culture again reinforced its historical and non-spiritual pattern of denying truth on the basis that it did not reinforce accepted authority structures. The hypocracy lay in the fact that those who originated any of the fields of science began with a striving for truth without the intolerance of the modern so-called representatives of the search for truth.

Is it any wonder that a representative of an advanced intelligence based on plant biology would have died over 10 years earlier under the care of human jailors who shared such negative spirituality and intolerance. His health had been poisoned to death by the toxic influence of the iniquities shared by the humans responsible for his survival!

1969 -
By September, Dr. Howard Worne starts  Enzymes, Inc. at Cherry Hill, New Jersey, U.S.A., where microorganisms are bombarded with strontium 90 (nuclear radiation) and mutated to produce enzymes which will transmute waste carbon into usable carbon simply through digestion. By 1973, Dr. Worne will be in Mexico using microorganisms to transform solid waste from garbage and stockyards into humus for the compost-hungry Western states and methane gas for the energy-hungry Eastern states.
 

1970 -
By this year, Dr. Zaboj V. Harvalik, a professional physicist, then recently retired from his post as scientific adviser to the U.S. Army's Advanced Material Concepts Agency, had determined that dowsers react to energies yet undetectable by human technology. He became chief of the research committee of the American Society of Dowsers. At his home in Lorto, Virginia, he made meticulous tests which showed that dowsers reacted with varying degrees of sensitivity to polarized electromagnetic radiation, artificial alternating magnetic fields in a frequency range from one to one million cycles per second and to DC magnetic fields. Harvalik believed that dowsers pick up magnetic field gradients whether they are trying to find water, underground pipes, wires, tunnels, or geological anomalies.

To shield parts of the human body from the effects of the ocean of magnetic forces surrounding it, Harvalik took an eight-foot-by-ten-inch strip of highly effective magnetic shielding (made from a Co-Netic AA Perfection Annealed sheet 0.025 inches thick, produced by the Magnetic Shield Division of the Perfection Mica Company) and rolled it into a two-layered cylinder which could be lowered around the body to shield head, shoulders, torso, or pelvic area.

With the shield covering the head, Harvalik walked blindfolded across a level area known to produce dowsing signals and obtained a strong reaction over each of three dowsing zones. The same reactions were obtained with his head exposed but his shoulders shielded. Gradually lowering the shield, Harvalik found that he could pick up dowsing signals until he reached an area between the 7th and 12th rib, that is to say from sternum to naval. This suggested that "dowsing sensors" must be located in the region of the solar plexus.
 

1970 -
Professor William A. Tiller, chairman of the Department of Material Science at Stanford University synthesized a concept uniting Hindu Yoga, the endocrine centres, acupuncture meridians, the life force and spiritual bonding. Tiller demonstrated that the more complex the structure, whether physical, emotional or otherwise - the more complex the radiated electromagnetic energy became that was radiated from the substance. He set out 7 principles acting in humanity including the physical, the etheric or bioplasmic, the astral or emotional, intuitive mind, intellectual mind, spiritual mind, and pure spirit or divine mind.

Further, he pointed out that the 7 endocrine centres - the gonads, cells of Leydig, adrenals, thymus, pineal and pituitary, paralleled in Hindu philosophy the 7 chakras, linked by a current of vitality. Tiller believed that one of our main personal goals should be to tune the various systems within ourselves such that they radiated their energies synchronously providing a degree of high power and awareness that would bring us individually into harmony with others over the spectral distribution expressed. Failing to do so would result in a more limited awareness, a more limited degree of expressiveness, a more restricted ability to identify and communicate with others easily.

"When we love, we release our thought energy and transpose it to the recipient of our love.
Our primary responsibility is to love."

1970 -
In October, Professor Ivan Isidorovich Gunar, head of the Department of Plant Physiology, the Laboratory for Artificial Climate at the Timiryazev Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and his chief assistant, Leonid A. Panishkin, were highlighted with the Department in the U.S.S.R. newspaper  Pravda by reporter V. Chertkov. The reporter described his witness as follows:

"Before my eyes a barley sprout literally cried out when its roots were plunged into hot water. True, the plant's "voice" was registered only by a special and extremely sensitive electronic instrument which revealed a "bottomless vale of tears" on a broad paper band. As though it had gone crazy, the recording pen wriggled out on the white track the death agony of the barley sprout, although, to look at the little plant itself, one would never have guessed what it was going through. While its leaves, green as ever, stood upright, the plant's "organism" was already dying. Some kind of "brain" cells within it were telling us what was happening."

"talked about plants as he would about people, distinguishing their individual habits, characteristics, and proclivities. He even appears to converse with them ... only persons invested with certain power are like this. I have been told of a test pilot who talked to his misbehaving airplane, and I myself have met an old captain who talked with his ship."

Panishkin, like, John Ott, was investigating the influence of light on plants. He had found that by using a special lamp which shone with the same intensity as the sun's rays reaching the earth, plant tired in an overextended day and needed rest at night. He hoped that it might one day be possible for plants to turn lights on or off in a greenhouse at will:

"a live electric relay."

The Department studied the influence which factors such as sunlight, wind, clouds, the dark of night, tactile stimulus from flies and bees, injuries produced by chemicals and burning, and even the very proximity of a vine to a structure to which it might cling - was shown in the neurological pulses of the plant. It was desired that the health of a plant could perhaps be assessed at some future point by the characteristics of these pulses. Later findings proposed that plants receive signals and transmit them through special channels to a given centre, where they process the information and prepare answering reactions. This nervous centre could be located in root tissues which expand and contract like heart muscle in man. The experiments showed that plants have a definite life rhythm and die when they don't get regular periods of rest and quiet.
 

1970 -
In November, Louis Kervan an engineer and biologist, noted the following in an interview:

"powerful energies are at work in the germination process of seeds which synthesize enzymes, probably by transmuting matter within them. ... lunar forces are extremely important in germination ...

We cannot deny the existence of something just because we don't know about it. The kind of energies to which the great Austrian natural scientist and clairvoyant Rudolf Steiner refers as cosmic etheric forces must exist if only from the fact that certain plants will only germinate in springtime no matter what amounts of heat and water are administered to them during other parts of the year. There are varieties of wheat said to germinate only as the days lengthen, but, when days are artificially lengthened, the wheat does not always germinate. ...

We do not know what matter really is. We do not know what a proton or an electron is  made of, and the words serve only to cloak our ignorance. Forces and energies may lie within the atomic nuclei of a totally unexpected nature. ...

Physicists are mistaken in claiming that physical laws are the same for the living as for inanimate matter."

1971 -
Dr. Ken Hashimoto: doctor of philosophy, successful electronics engineer, psychic phenomenon researcher. He is chief of the Hashimoto Electronics Research Center and managing director for the Fuji Electronic Industries, and author of Mystery of the Fourth Dimensional World.

Developed a modification of a polygraph which converted plant responses into graph tracings and converted those into modulated sounds: in response to the loving responses of his wife, who loves plants, a selected plant would respond back with a sound

"like the high-pitched hum of very-high-voltage wires heard from a distance, except that it was more like a song, the rhythm and tone being varied and pleasant, at times even warm and almost jolly."

Eventually, the Hashimoto's established such a rapport with the plant that they were able to have it add and count up to 20. There is no reason why a sophisticated form of plant life could not be as intellectually and technologically advanced as humans, or even considerably beyond humans.
 

1971 -
From April, Professor A.P. Dubrov of the Institute of Earth Physics of the USSR Academy of Sciences, in following up on Kervan's work, began experimenting with radiosensitivity in animals and the geomagnetic field. By the end of the year he would write to Kervan suggesting that the magnetic field of the earth itself might well play an important role in biological transmutation, and that elements might be affected depending on whether biological forms are oriented north-south.
 

1971 -
By May, many of the findings of Andre Simoneton, a French engineer, were beginning to be considered more closely. He reasoned that if human nerve cells can receive wavelengths they must also be transmitters. For many years he had studied, experimented and used the arts of dowsing and pendulum detection. He had developed the pendulum technique in May of 1917 as a matter of his own life and death. He recovered from a terminal diagnosis and became so healthy that age 66 and 68 he still fathered children, and at 70 was still playing tennis.

With his background in the French Army working on the new science of radio, during WWI, he had also worked alongside such electrical luminaries as physicist Louis de Broglie, who was to establish that every particle, down to a photon of light, is associated with a specific wavelength. Simoneton became aware of the work of Andre Bovis and extended Bovis' system to measure the wavelengths emanating from foods as an indicator of their vitality and freshness. (see the separate file on "emanations")

From his research, Simoneton set out four general classes of foods with the primary classes radiating a higher wavelength than that of later classes. The amount of energy radiating from the foods varied not only by type but by their degree of exposure to the sun, their degree of ripeness, their degree of oxidation from the influence of cooking, preservation, or staleness. He found that normally healthy people give off a high level of the energy he detected; however, ill persons and persons predisposed to becoming ill emanated lower levels of energy.

From the fact that most microbes read well below the energy level of healthy humans, Simoneton deduced that they can only affect a person whose vitality has been lowered to a point where cells become lower energy producers than the microbe. What herbs, flower extracts, roots, and barks might be able to do was to vitalize the human system to a higher energy level thereby closing out the negative influence of the microbes. This meant that the components of a diet for optimum human health could be defined and that, for individuals, a diet could be devised to enhance their vitality if their system was less vital than the norm. These choices could be determined by the artful use of pendulum detection or by dowsing.
 

1971 -
During the summer, Dr. Stanley Krippner: director of the  Dream Laboratory at the Maimonides Medical Center in New York, U.S.A. One of the experiments frequently done was to direct pictures at sleepers in order to produce in their minds desired dreams. These were largely successful.

In the summer of 1971, while visiting in Moscow, Krippner was the first American invited to give an address on parapsychology to the Institute of Psychology in the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences. The lecture was attended by 200 psychiatrists, physicists, engineers, space scientists, and cosmonauts in training.

Krippner learned that Genady Sergeyev, a neurophysiologist working at the Ukhtomskii Military Institute in Leningrad, had made Kirlian photographs of Nina Kulagina, a sensitive who can, by simply passing her hand over, but not touching them, move paper clips, matches, cigarettes, and other objects on a table top.

Sergeyev's photographs revealed that while Kulagina performs these psychokinetic feats, the "bioplasmic field" around her body expands and pulses rhythmically and a  ray of luminescence seems to shoot out of her eyes .

1971 -
By the fall, Marcel Vogel, a research chemist, realized that before he could observe with precision the effects on plants of human thoughts and emotion, he would have to improve his technique of affixing electrodes to the plant leaves in such a way as to eliminate random electromagnetic frequencies. Vogel developed an agar paste to use with stainless steel electrodes. Vogel also found that individual philodendrons responded with individual sensitivities: their own personality. Leaves with a high water content proved best. Plants appeared to go through phases of activity and inactivity, full of response at certain times of the day or days of the month, "sluggish" or "morose" at other times.

Starting a new line of experiments, Vogel projected positive feelings toward a philodendron and outstretched his fingers to it while breathing deeply and staying relaxed. The plant appeared to respond by sending energy back to him until it became "exhausted". Like lovers the emotion transferred between the two appeared to remain suffused with joy and contentment after the communication. Vogel then found that his sensitivity had increased such that he could pick out a particulary sensitive plant by running his hands over a group until he felt a slight cooling sensation followed by what he describes as a series of electrical pulses, indicating a powerful field. Gradually, Vogel found that he could get responses from further and further away from the plant until he was 8 miles away.

In another experiment, Vogel wired 2 plants to the same recording device and snipped a leaf from the first plant. The second plant responded to the hurt being inflicted on its neighbour, but  only when Vogel was paying attention to it! If Vogel cut off a leaf while ignoring the second plant, the response was lacking. It was as though Vogel and the plant were lovers on a park bench, oblivious of passers-by until the attention of one lover became distracted from the other. It became apparent to Vogel that a certain focused state of consciousness on his part seemed to become an integral and balancing part of the interconnections or relationships required to monitor the plants. In this way, man and plant seemed to interact, and, as a unit, pick up sensations from events, or third parties, which became recordable through the plant. The process of sensitizing both himself and the plant could take a few minutes or up to half an hour.

Asked to describe the process in detail, Vogel said that first he quiets the sensory responses of his body organs, then he becomes aware of an energetic relationship between the plant and himself. When a state of balance between the bioelectrical potential of both the plant and himself is achieved, the plant is no longer sensitive to noise, temperature, the normal electrical fields surrounding it, or other plants. It responds only to Vogel, who has effectively tuned himself to it - or perhaps simply hypnotizes it.

"It is a fact: man can and does communicate with plant life. Plants are living objects, sensitive, rooted in space. They may be blind, deaf, and dumb in the human sense, but there is no doubt in my mind that they are extremely sensitive instruments for measuring man's emotions. They radiate energy forces that are beneficial to man. One can feel these forces! They feed into one's own force field, which in turn feeds back energy to the plant."

Vogel discovered that the reaction of sceptics or hostile observers (negative attitudes) could influence the process of plant-human communication. To counteract this force he found that by paying attention to it, he could isolate the individuals emitting the negations , and, taking a deep breath, he would then switch his mind to another mental image just as if he were turning a dial to a different setting.

"The feeling of hostility, of negativity, in an audience, is one of the main barriers to effective communication. To counteract this force is one of the most difficult tasks in public demonstrations of these plant experiments. If one cannot do this, the plant and therefore the equipment will "go dead" and there will be no response until a positive tie can be reestablished."

Vogel concluded that a Life Force, or Cosmic Energy surrounded all living things and was accessible between plants, animals, humans, and other lifeforms. From other experiments, Vogel came to the conclusion that

"we can move into individual cells in our own bodies and, depending on our state of mind, affect them in various ways. One day, this may explain the cause of disease."

Adults, with their characteristic preconceptions, less open minds, pride and fear - found the development of such abilities difficult or impossible. To some degree, those with positions of authority and more highly trained through institutionalized instruction were less likely to be successful. It would seem that human institutionalized schooling more often trains the individual to fit into the goals and systems of the culture than to develop intelligence based on higher degrees of awareness, innovativeness, and creativity. The question is whether popular institutionalized schooling is enslaving by deception or growth enhancing by guidance and challenge?

"Hundreds of laboratory workers around the world are going to be ... frustrated ... until they appreciate that the empathy between plant and human is the  key , and learn how to establish it. ... Spiritual development is indispensable ... ."

Even when a person can affect a plant, the result is not always a happy one. Vogel asked one of his friends, a clinical psychologist, to project a strong emotion to a philodendron 15 feet away. The plant surged into an instantaneous and intense reaction and then, suddenly, "went dead" in communicating. When Vogel asked what had gone through the friend's mind, the man answered that he had mentally compared Vogel's plant with his own philodendron at home, and thought how inferior Vogel's was to his.

The "feelings" of Vogel's plant were evidently so badly hurt that it refused to respond for the rest of the day; in fact, it sulked for almost two weeks. Vogel could not doubt that plants have a definite aversion to certain humans, or, more exactly, to what those humans are thinking. Further experiments suggested that plants could be used to "read" the minds of humans at some future point, for they could register whether a person was thinking or not, what the subject of the thought was and whether it was the same as a previously expressed one. If the tracings could be correlated with the thoughts, a kind of language might be constructed.

Some plants responded to conversations about sex.
Plants also seemed to respond to spooky stories told in darkened rooms lit only by a red-shaded candle. At certain points in the story, where suspense was elevated, the plant seemed to pay closer attention. Devices similar to those used with humans to measure electrical resistance in the skin (galvanic skin response - GSR) were used with plants with the terminology changed to Psycho-Galvanic Response - PGR, as plants are not perceived to have skin in the human sense.

Vogel stressed that experiments with plants could be extremely dangerous to those who do not have the ability properly to alter their states of consciousness. "Focused thought can exert a tremendous effect on the body of a person in a higher mental state, if he lets his emotions interfere." No one who is not in sound health, Vogel advises, should become involved with plants or any other kind of psychic research. Vogel feels that a special diet of vegetables, fruits, and nuts, rich in minerals and proteins, allows the body to build the kind of energy necessary for such work. "One draws energy at high levels and this requires good nutrition." Learning the art of loving leads one to realize that when they think a thought they release a tremendous power or force in space. By knowing that one  is his or her thoughts, you will know how to use thinking to achieve spiritual, emotional, and intellectual growth.

"So much of the ills and suffering in life comes from our inability to release stresses and forces within us. When a person rejects us, we rebel inside and we  hold on to this rejection . This builds a stress which, as Dr. Wilhelm Reich showed so long ago, becomes locked in as muscular tension, and if not unlocked, depletes the body's energy field and alters its chemistry. My research with plants indicates one pathway to deliverance."

1972 - During the year, Dr. J.A. Kopp of Ebikon, Switzerland, reported that a German engineer had himself carried horizontally on a stretcher over a dowsing zone in an effort to determine if some particular area of the body responded to dowsing signals more than another. As his head passed the dowsing zone, the rod was undisturbed; when his solar plexus was above the same zone, the dowsing rod immediately reacted. Kopp had for years used dowsing techniques to locate geopathic zones that seemed to relate to high incidences of cancer and other chronic diseases. This experiment confirmed the findings of Harvalik, as noted in 1970.

It is known that plants respond to the same energy radiations or signals that a dowser detects. Certain plant formations are known to occur in various parts of the world over geopathic energy points which may indicate the presence of underground watercourses at differing depths crossing each other. Some plants respond favourably to such small regions, seeming to grow abundantly in place of the dominant surrounding vegetation. If an advanced intelligent being came to the Earth with a plant-like biology, it is likely that it would be aware of such signals and could use them as travel beacons, homing indicators, and bad or good energy stations."

1972 - Pierre Paul Sauvin:
electronics specialist in aerospace, with A.T.&T., investigator of ESP and remote hypnotism, remote controlled aircraft models, from West Patterson, New Jersey, U.S.A. ; has written frequently under pseudonyms.

Established that a human could communicate with a plant on an emotional basis.

Best results came from plants with which a special mental rapport was made.

A cluster of cells can change polarity; that can change the electrical potential of the whole (voltage).

Plants exhibit a quality of awareness and an empathy for other organisms in their presence. Personal emotional memories could influence plants over 80 miles away.

Plant reactions to thoughts about harming them, or pain, distress, sexual orgasms or death of cells of a significant human were sharp; to joy and pleasure they were more gradual and less able to "trigger" remote devices. These results can be tied to Sentic research. Individual plants may respond to local incidents of differing nature involving different lifeforms.

The simplest signal that could be transmitted extrasensorily and effect a sharp response was from an electric shock; remembering or re-feeling the shock would later be sufficient to activate the response. The death of living human cells provided the strongest plant reaction. Plants which receive too much stimuli have a tendency to "faint" under such excess stress, similar to animals expressing exhaustion, shock, confusion.
 

Plants could be/have been connected to technological switches which opened garage doors, detected anxious people, exploded a weapon. His  Device 13 he desires to remain secret because he does not want the Department of Defense to develop it into a foolproof thought-controlled guided missile. The proposition remains: if he could design such a weapon, so could other persons.

The sensitivity of plants to lifeform distress at a distance may explain how highly spiritual spacebeings located as far away as Andromeda galaxy can sense massive biological shock elsewhere, as on the Earth, as an example. Thought-controlled detonation of explosives will be used in a conflict on the Earth in 1996. They will represent a human-GRAY hybrid developed technology which the BLONDs and REDs oppose.

1972 - By July, A. Merkulov, a U.S.S.R. engineer, noted that scientists at the state university in Alma Ata, capital of the Soviet Kazakh Republic, and a major apple growing region, had found that plants repeatedly reacted to their owners' illness and to their emotional states.

Noting that plants had long ago been shown to have "short-term memory", Merkulov said that this fact had been conformed by the Kazakh scientists. Beans, potatoes, wheat, and crowfoot after proper "instruction" seemed to have the capability of remembering the frequency of flashes from a xenon-hydrogen lamp. The plants repeated the pulsations with "exceptional accuracy", and since crowfoot was able to repeat a given frequency after a pause as long as 18 hours, it was possible to speak of "long-term" memory in plants.

The Kazakh scientists conditioned a philodendron to recognize when a piece of mineralized rock was put beside it and to differentiate between it and a barren rock. This was done with Pavlovian reward-punishment techniques. Control of the growth of plant ranging from monocellular seaweed to that of higher plants was also being worked on. Merkulov suggested that this control might be possible over great distances. The overall goal of the scientists was to "understand" plants such that

"man may create automatic contrivances which themselves will watch over fields in such a way that, at any given moment, they can satisfy the every need of crops. The day is not far away when scientists will also work out a theory on the adaptation and resistance of plants to unpleasant conditions in their environment which will encompass how they react to irritants, and to stimulators and herbicides as well."

1972 -
Published in July, Dr. Robert N. Miller, an industrial research scientist and former professor of chemical engineering at Georgia Tech, released the results of experiments he had begun in 1967 with Ambrose and Olga Worrall. Their feats of healing had become celebrated in the U.S.A.. Using an extremely accurate method of measuring plant growth rates developed by Dr. H.H. Kleuter of the United States Department of Agriculture, with accuracies up to one thousandth of an inch per hour, Miller working in Atlanta, Georgia, asked the Worralls to direct their thoughts at rye seedlings from Baltimore, some 600 miles away.

Whereas the growth rate of a new blade of rye grass had been observed by Miller to stabilize at 0.00625 inch per hour, after he asked the Worralls to think of the seedling at exactly 9 P.M., the trace on a graph indicating growth rate began immediately to deviate upward and by 8 A.M. the following morning the grass was growing at a rate 84% faster. Instead of growing the expected 1/16 inch in the interval, the seedling had sprouted more than 1/2 inch. Miller reported that the dramatic results of his experiment suggest that the sensitive experimental technique could be used to measure accurately the effect of mind over matter.

This experiment demonstrated the health enhancing, and potentially health destroying, influence of the spiritual mood emanating from lifeforms directed at other lifeforms, particularly plants. It also demonstrates that such energies or communication can occur over great distances. How might this relate to the abilities of a higher form of intelligent being whose biology is similar to that of plants?

1972 -
By September, Vladimir Soloukhin, a writer from the northern U.S.S.R., wrote several articles in four issues of the popular  Science and Life (Nauka i Zhizn) magazine. Disappointed with the response of the public and administration to recent publication of information on the thinking-feeling capacities of plants, he wrote:

"Human observation is so precise that we begin to notice the very air we breathe only when it is insufficient for our needs. More exactly, I should say "value" rather than "notice". We do not really value air, or even think about it, so long as we breathe normally, without difficulty."

He added that, though man prides himself on his vast array of knowledge, he is like a radio technician who knows how to repair a receiver without understanding the theoretical essence of radio waves, or like our caveman ancestors who put fire to use while unaware of the process of rapid oxidation. Even today we squander heat and light yet have not the slightest clue to, or interest in, their original essence. Man is equally callous about the fact that the land around him is green.

"We trample grasses into the dirt, we strip the land with bulldozers and caterpillar treads, we cover it with concrete and hot asphalt. Disposing of wastes from our infernal industrial machines we dump upon it crude oil, rubbish, acids, alkalis, and other poisons. But is there that much grass? I, for one, can imagine man in a boundless, grassless wilderness, the product of a cosmic, or perhaps humanly non-cosmic, catastrophe."

Soloukhin is unremittingly denouncing unecologically minded industrialists in his country, who are turning the rivers and lakes into cesspools, and despoiling its forests, all in the name of increased production. Seeking to re-evoke wonder for nature in the hearts of an overurbanized Soviet youth, Solukhin tells the story of a prisoner who, incarcerated in a dank cell, finds among the pages of an old book, given him by a kindly jailer, a tiny seed smaller than a pinhead. Overcome with emotion at the first visible sign of real life he has seen for years, the prisoner imagines that the microscopic seed is all that remains from the former luxuriant and festive plant kingdom in the great world outside the prison. Planting the seed in a bit of earth in the sole corner of the cell afforded a ray of sunlight, and watering it with his tears, the prisoner waits for a wonder to unfold.

Soloukhin accepts this wonder as a true miracle ignored by man only because it is repeated thousands of billions of times daily. Even if all the world's chemical and physical laboratories with their complex reagents, precise analyzers, and electronic microscopes were placed at the prisoner's disposal, he continues, even if the prisoner studied the seed's every cell, atom, and atomic nucleus, he still would not be able to read the mysterious program lying within the seed, to lift the impenetrable veil which could cause it to transform itself into a juicy carrot, a branch of sweet-scented dill, or a radiant-coloured aster.
 

1972 -
In December, V.N. Pushkin, a U.S.S.R. professor and doctor of psychological sciences published an article in the popular magazine,  Knowledge is Power issued by the leading organization for popular science in the U.S.S.R.,  the Knowledge Society . Pushkin had been aware of some earlier accomplishments in the field of plant intelligence and with two colleagues, V.M. Fetisov and Georgi Angushev, he went farther. Angushev had been working at the Lenin Pedagogical Institute in Moscow and was an excellent hypnotist. They reasoned that if plants responded to human emotions, then the communication of these to the plant should be more effective if the human subject was hypnotized, a form of focused directed attention.

A young girl by the name of Tanya, with a "lively temperament and spontaneous emotionality" was hypnotized and sequentially implanted with very positive and very threatening perceptions about herself. At each change in the girl's mood the plant, which was attached to an encephalograph, responded with an appropriate pattern on the graph. "We were able to get an electrical reaction as many times as we worked, even to the most arbitrary commands." Tanya was then asked to perpetrate a lie and the plant would be tested for its ability to detect truth from falsehood. Tanya was asked to choose a number between 1 and 10 and then not reveal it. She was then queried, one by one, if any one of the 10 numbers were the number she had picked. The humans could not detect any difference in her responses, but the plant gave a clear and specific reaction to the number she had chosen, yet denied. Pushkin concluded that continued research could lead to advances in human neurology.

Pushkin warned

"Experience in the development of natural science, especially physics, has shown that one should not fear new discoveries, however paradoxical they might seem at first glance."

At the same time, at the Soviet Academy of Sciences, in Akademgorodok, near Siberia's largest industrial centre, Novosibirsk, other biopsychological experiments were being carried out without public exposure. There, they clearly demonstrated the ability of plants to have long-term memories and to react through instrumentation to dramatically indicate the presence of persons who were good to them and others who were abusive. Also, it was determined that somehow, plants can share water in unknown ways. A cornstalk planted in a glass container was denied water for several weeks. Yet it did not die; it remained as healthy as the other cornstalks planted in normal conditions nearby. In some way, water was transferred from healthy plants to the "prisoner" in the jar. Yet they have no idea how this was accomplished.
 

1973 -
Eldon Byrd: operations analyst with the Advanced Planning and Analysis Staff of the Naval Ordnance Laboratory in Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S.A. has also worked with Dektor Counter Intelligence Systems; working with a Psychological Stress Evaluator (polygraph), special amplifiers and chart recorders, he demonstrated that a plant could indicate by responding to the inaudible vibrations of the human voice played to it on tape recordings which people were telling the truth or lying. In a review of 25 segments of the television program  To Tell the Truth , the plant response was 94.7% accurate.

1973 -
In February, Debbie Sapp visited Marcel Vogel, in California, U.S.A. who noted that she had an immediate ability to enter into rapport with his philodendron. He asked her if she could "get into the plant" and she affirmed she could. Her face took on an attitude of quiet repose, of detachment, as if she were far away in another universe. Immediately, the recording pen which detected energy differentials in the plant began to move in ways showing that the plant was receiving an unusual amount of energy. Debbie later recorded the experience:

"I made a conscious decision to let my imagination take over and found myself entering the main stem through a doorway at the base. Once inside, I saw the moving cells and water travelling upward through the stem, and let myself move with this upward flow.

Approaching the spreading leaves in my imagination, I could feel myself being drawn from an imaginary world into a realm over which I had no control. There were no mental pictures, but rather a feeling that I was becoming part of, and filling out, a broad expansive surface. This seemed to me to be describable only as pure consciousness.

I felt acceptance and positive protection by the plant. There was no sense of time, just a feeling of unity in existence and in space. I smiled spontaneously and let myself be one with the plant.

Then Mr. Vogel asked me to relax. When he said this, I realized I was very tired but peaceful. All my energy had been with the plant."

1973 -
In April, Louis Kervan writes that microorganisms are a concentration of enzymes. Their ability to transmute elements is not a mere hooking of peripheral electrons to form bonds as in classical chemistry but involves a fundamental alteration of the nucleus of elements.

Most transmutations have been observed to take place within the first 20 elements of the periodic table. They further always seem to involve hydrogen or oxygen. The transmutations do not involve the displacement of electrons in the peripheral atomic layers nor the chemical bonding of molecules. It involves the alteration in structural arrangements of the atoms induced by enzyme activities in living matter. Since nature's atom smashing is performed by biotic life, microorganisms are thus nature's prime mover in maintaining balance in soils. Some transmutations are biologically beneficial; others are harmful. Kervan questions: If yeasts and moulds for penicillin are already being produced on an industrial scale, why not factories for growing microorganisms for the transmutation of elements? "Organic" fertilizers could replace chemical ones with prospectively enhanced production and benefits.
 

1973 -
In June, the work of Melvin Calvin, an American Nobel prize winner, was acknowledged in the first issue of the Soviet Union magazine  Chemistry and Life . Calvin had discovered that plant chlorophyll under the influence of the sun's rays can give up electrons to a semiconductor such as zinc oxide. Such a photoelement produced a current of about 0.1 microamperes per square centimetre. After several minutes the plant chlorophyll became desensitized or "exhausted", but its life could be extended by the addition of hydroquinone to the semiconductor. A ten square meter chlorophyll photoelement could yield a kilowatt of power. He has theorized that in the next quarter century such photoelements could be manufactured on an industrial scale and would be a hundred times cheaper than silicone solar batteries now being experimented with.