Happened (a needle deflection) and examine what was occurring in theĮnvironment to explain that deflection. Recording without sitting and watching it in real time (as you would forĪ planned experiment) but to go back later and see when something Hook up the plant or cellular material for electrophysiological Results if they assure spontaneity, by which he means, basically, to 139-141) where he argues that anyone can easily replicate his
Repeatability, which he says destroys the spontaneity essential toĭemonstrating the Backster effect. In this book, Backster defends his avoidance of controlledĮxperimentation by arguing against science's demand for Of conducting experiments that could be published in peer-reviewed That may help explain why he's writing books like this one instead Perception in plants-is apparently very appealing in this lower court.
Backster hasĭone well in the court of public opinion. To the court of public opinion than to do the tightly controlledĮxperiments that appeal to the higher court of science. Informal, unplanned observations of spontaneous events and present them The mainstream by not dotting his 'T's and crossing his Theme of science-he seems to want the blessings of science but misses Backster has found his own variation on the Scientifically validated (and they are not) certainly does not rule out Just because Backster's beliefs are not yet Reading this book reminds me that science is but one way ofĪrriving at truth. Polygraph deflections synchronous with the abuse of other nearby Yogurt and, later, to human in vitro cellular materials, to look for In eachĬase, he eventually found ways to attach electrodes to the eggs, the On the continuously running polygraph attached to some plant.
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He cracked open an egg to feed his dog one night, orīoiled an egg another night when he was hungry, or opened a yogurtĬontainer and started eating it-and unexpectedly observed deflections Were killed, Backster happened upon variations that led to more After his initial publication, which featured plantsĪttached to polygraphs showing deflections when healthy brine shrimp Man's love affair with an idea and the creative ways he'sįound to woo it. What the reader will find in this book is the charming story of one Limitations and delimitations, as expected in a scientific discussion. Shortcomings, rival hypotheses, need for additional controls, or And Backster offers no criticalĬomments regarding his results or observations, such as their Others (Galston & Slayman, 1979 Horowitz, Lewis, & Gasteiger,ġ975 Kmetz, 1977), arguing that they didn't sufficiently nurture Mentions but doesn't describe the failed replication attempts by His own peer-reviewed experimental study (Backster, 1968). Of Jagdish Chandra Bose and Harry Saxton Burr without even providingĭetails or commentary on their works. Provides only the skimpiest of literature reviews, mentioning the names The science of biocommunication are advised to go elsewhere. This book summarizes these years of mostly informal experimentation.īe clear-this is not a scientific treatise! Those interested in Search of "primary perception," which is his term for psi. "Aha!" experience, after which he attachedĮlectrophysiological electrodes to a variety of nonhuman things in That entered his mind-to burn a leaf of the plant. Instead, he found serendipitously that theĬhart-recording pen jumped in synchrony with a rather vicious thought His laboratory to see if the polygraph recording would be affected as Whimsically attached GSR electrodes to a newly watered dracaena plant in Techniques and methods to the field during its development. He was a pioneer in that area with the CIA, ranĪ private sector polygraph business and school, and contributed key Fortunately for the reader, Backster's tracingsĬleve Backster is a nicely credentialed expert on human polygraph Reports the surface activities-leaving the reader to inferīackster's personal biases, hopes, or expectations, from the But like a polygraph tracing, this book only The impression of reading the undistorted truth, WYSIWYG, emergingĭirectly from his viscera. Wants to call this book "Tracings," because it reads like aĬumulative polygraph tracing of Cleve Backster's public life.īackster's writing is so direct and straightforward that one gets The part of me that is attracted to clever, multileveled rifles Anza, CA: White Rose Millennium Press,Ģ003. PRIMARY PERCEPTION: BIOCOMMUNICATION WITH PLANTS, LIVING FOODS, AND
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