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Psychic Reactions From House Plants?
Adapted from Plant Spirit Shamanism by Ross Heaven and Howard G. Charing (Inner Traditions, 2006).
What mind boggling information can a lie detector and interrogation expert tell you about caring for your house plants? A lot, it turns out. He found that plants can read your mind, for one thing: They know your intentions for them, both good and bad. And they react to you emotionally. They might even love you!
Learn more about your house plants from this unlikely source: a scientist whose job was to teach policemen how to use polygraph equipment.
Cleve Backster, the scientist working with the police, decided one day to attach the electrodes of a lie detector to the leaf of a dracaena plant to see if the device was sensitive enough to pick up reactions from a nonhuman subject. After the device was attached to the leaf he thought maybe the reaction would be stronger if he burned the leaf. As soon as he had this thought there was a dramatic peak in the polygraph chart, a trace signature that Backster recognized as fear.
Intrigued, Backster continued his research and the results were always the same: The plants always reacted to his intention before any action was taken. Backster concluded that not only are plants as sensitive as human beings, but they are able to read emotions and intentions, because there is a form of psychic connection, or affinity, between plants and people.
Backster’s other results show that plants have memory, emotions, and very humanlike reactions, as well as psychic abilities. In other experiments, Backster demonstrated the love or empathy between a plant and its owner. One day he accidentally cut his finger and noticed that a plant being monitored was demonstrating a stress reaction of its own, as if it was experiencing Backster’s pain and shock at the sight of his blood.
Using this perceived affinity for the basis for his experiment, Backster walked to a different building some blocks away and directed loving thoughts toward the plant. The polygraph recording showed a heightened trace as the plant picked up his intentions.
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add your comment »This is so amazing! I am so happy that I have read this article! I have always shown my plants love and talked to them-now I will do it even more...I always knew that they had great energy but never imagined it was on this level! Thank you to the author!
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I agree with all of you and your experiences with your plants!! If one has a positive, healthy, happy,environment, I have found all of my plants will perform to the best of their ability, often with very little care!!
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I first read about this many years ago, and since then I've always thought positive things towards plants!!
However, I hate weeding!!!! I feel so mean!!!
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I am so happy to hear this. I am currently ending a painful long term relationship and a strange (or perhaps not so strange) thing has happened - old unhealthy habits have just dropped away with the relationship, with no effort or 'willpower', additionally, I have instinctively known to turn to nature for healing. During the course of this relationship my plants have been relegated to the courtyard as they would not survive in the house - but they have clung on to life, and after reading this, I would like to think perhaps they were waiting for me with unconditional love. Now that I am reconnecting with them they seem to be responding remarkably! And I am very glad to think they respond to my thoughts, as I am a little reluctant to speak loving words to them out loud lest the neighbours think I'm 'nuts'. lol.
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I've always enjoyed houseplants, have always talked with them, give them Reiki weekly, and have found they prefer to be next to one another, don't like being alone. My christmas cactus amazes everyone, it always blooms flowers often twice a year. Plants sense our energy, abnd respond to love, as everything does.
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I believe that all living things have a spark of the Divine spirit...perhaps not consciousness as we know it, but spirit that responds to loving or negative energy. I've been blessed with my mother's green thumb and cannot imagine a home not filled with plants. Not only are they good for the spirit but they help us by cleaning our air. Whether you truly believe that your plant is responding to you psychically, a little loving intention towards it will at least make YOU feel better.
Namaste,
Jenny
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My grandmother always had a "green thumb" but that did not explain her beautiful Christmas cactus that thrived for over 50 years. I have never seen anything like it. This cactus was one of the last gifts my uncle gave to Nanny before his death at the age of 22 in World War II. I always believed her love for this lost son lived on in this beautiful plant and allowed it to flourish those many years.
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I had a dying philadendrom plant in the office I work at. I placed some Orgone on the soil and have been doing Reiki for it every once in a while. This plant is now healthy again.
Anything with life responds to love. It may not have a brain, but it responds in it's own way.
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this is all v.encouraging, I talk to my plants in my mind a lot & ask them what to do to help if any don't look happy. they live together in the best two room for plants, they grow better together, must talk to each other too!
they also have crystals,healing music fairy ornaments - I ask them for help too.hamsters & gerbils used to live in the same room.
plant auras are good to learn to see before peoples.
one large guardian houseplant that was by my bed used to move the odd leaf in seeming agreement to my thoughts!
I do the same in the garden. last year I was enjoying the beauty of them all & time caring for them, other people were moaning it was all planted wrong/overgrown because they grew well, felt v.sorry for them, some got decent new loving homes.
I get upset weeding & pruning without warning them first & if any plant dies & I've inadvertantly missed what it needed.a houseplant has died today & another one definitely did not want moving away from it's spot or the other plants, I instinctively put it back!
the milk is for leaf shine & to aid cleaning & respiration & photosynthesis by the way!
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My plants seem very unhappy, except for the orchids which I added to the group this year. I think maybe I have spent too much time with the orchids and the other plants are feeling left out and unwanted. Maybe I can try giving out my love and attention to all. I'll let you know what comes of what ever change I am able to make. I really love plants and feel badly about the decline of the other plants in the house.
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