The equipment which is required for this sort of experimentation is simple, and
readily available. Michael Theroux mentioned that he had secured several
Biosensors from a local Radio Shack. He successfully employed these to monitor
plant responses. The Biosensors sold at Radio Shack were obtained for an
incredibly low price, and proved to be excellent monitors for use in plant
studies of this kind. I was later informed that none other than Dr. Buryl Payne
is the designer and patent holder for this wonderful circuit. Mr. Theroux
mentioned that his experiments began when, with these devices as a "poor mans
polygraph", he rediscovered the amazing sensitivity of plants to distant
influences.
With these Biosensors at your disposal, you too will find it possible to
discover the reality of this phenomenon. The units convert galvanic skin
response to an audio signal, generally registering tension responses as a
sudden increase in pitch, and tranquility as a lowered pitch state. In this
use, one measures the systolic-diastolic fluctuations of biological tissue.
Whenever such tissue is influenced by direct touch or from a distance there is
an audio reaction which is immediately discerned. The process is effortless for
the experimenter. "...
<snip>
"One observes the effect of increased light on the plant by simply turning a
bright lamp directly on the clamped leaf. Notice how the pitch begins to rise
in increased activity. Apply water to the soil, wait and hear the rising pitch
in the monitor. Blow a puff of air on the plant and notice the pitch rise.
Quantitative scientists would recite their long lists of force exchanges to
explain each of these effects. They would tell how light, water, frictive, and
compressive effects each stimulate increased cytoplasmic dilation and flow. The
application of these inert forces would be, for them, satisfactorily explained
in the enhanced electrical conductivity. This would then produce the audio
pitch rise. Their explanations for each of these experiments becomes
increasingly strained with each variable which I will cite. Nevertheless, they
will continue in producing their mechanistic "bucket brigades" even when it is
apparent that have strained their own credulity to the point of failure."...
<snip>
"Touch and stroke another leaf of the same plant, taking care not to disturb or
move the probes in any way. Now, the "sighing" responses are heard again, and
academic science halts for a moment to ponder the mystery. How to explain the
response in the probed leaf when touching other more distant parts of the same
plant? "...
<snip>
"Now we will perform certain experimental variations which will force the
academes to strain the reducible force explanations upon which they are so
reliant. What shall they say of responses which occur through space without
material connection? Bring a second potted plant into the room. Place it near
the first "wired" plant. Notice any pitch changes? However carefully you
approach the monitor plant, you will find that its audio pitch fluctuations
become strong and excited. Leave the two plants together for a time and listen
to the sounds. What you are hearing is a dialogue of mystifying content. These
are communications of a most remarkable nature."...
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Definitely some interesting stuff here, well worth reading.
-Russ