Author Robert B. Stone, Ph.D., explores the latest research of Cleve Backster who, by attaching a lie detector to the leaf of a plant, discovered that it had feelings and the ability to read our thoughts. Now this ability - primary perception - has been traced even to disconnected single cells of our own bodies. In this book, Backster and Stone - both frequent speakers as Silva International Conventions - show how the Silva Method provides practical applications of these exciting research findings to help keep us all healthy, happy, and more successful. Quality paperback. Written by Robert B. Stone, Ph.D. |
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| Book ReviewA Book Review by Marjorie Dearmont Imagine how you would feel if you discovered your houseplant shave awareness of your activities and your thoughts and have responses to them similar to human emotions. One curious man made such a discovery and the ensuing work of his Backster Research Foundation has changed the way we look at plants and the world around us Cleve Backster, foremost polygraph expert, hooked his office plants to a lie detection equipment, out of curiosity, and learned that just the intention of burning a leaf created a violent response. Further research showed that when he began a walk to the store and, blocks away from the plant, he discovered he had forgotten his wallet and started home to retrieve it, there was a sharp peak on the recording device. When Backster replicated his steps, there was no response. The plant’s apparent differentia of planned and spontaneous activity, and other responses recorded by Backster, suggested to him that plants have primary perception, that is, more fundamental than the five senses. Backster’s curiosity led him to record reactions of cells taken from the mouth of a person. He discovered that the cells, at a distance, reacted to the appreciation of a playboy centerfold just as the man’s intellect did. The implications of cells reacting to thoughts and emotions are enormous. Does this mean we can “talk” ourselves well? How is this connected to “remote viewing,” mental telepathy, subjective communication or psychic ability? What are requirements for making it “work?” Robert Stone describes the challenges Backster faced with the scientific and medical communities and the holistic health implications. He also details how Jose Silva’s “Silva Mind Control Method” trains students to function at the proper level to effectively use this “mind to cell” for the benefit of humanity. You may have heard stories about organ recipients who took on personality characteristics of their organ donors as in the romantic comedy, “Return to Me” -but have you ever heard how scrapings of cells from a man’s mouth reacted as he sat some distance away looking at pictures in a magazine? Perhaps you know that dogs can tell when their owners are coming home but have you heard that plants become excited at the exact moment that their people decide to come home? THE SECRET LIFE OF YOUR CELLS asks many such profound questions as it describes many of Cleve Backster’s fascinating experiments. Seldom has one book managed to successfully to address the non-local nature of consciousness in the form of describing very concrete experiments. As I read this book and mulled over the fact that all cells are aware and conscious, my life took on a fresh new feeling of awe. Part of Backster’s genius as an experimenter has been his ingenuity in devising original experiments and another aspect of his genius has been his ability to create experiments which are capable of testing plants and cells for their awareness of their surroundings without psychically tipping them off to the intentions of the experimenter. Backster’s experiments depend upon spontaneity and real feelings (just like what happens in the real world), rather than artificial and repetitious redundancy (what most scientific researchers study). Anyone who is seriously interested in better understanding the field of consciousness research, needs to read this classic book. It will change your view of the world forever! |
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