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Plants, like animals and humans, have DNA made up of the double helix structure. Even more surprising, plants have awareness, memory, communication and emotions.

Over the past 100 or so years, many experiments have been conducted on plants. Even Charles Darwin did experiments with plants, causing him to decide that plants have consciousness.

Sir Jagadis Chundra Bose, a famous Bengali scientist conducted many experiments with plants. One experiment involved electrical stimulation. In reaction to this stimulation, the plant “wrote” its signature on a piece of smoke-covered glass. During another experiment he found that the cortex tissue in a plant contains tiny heart like cells that pump the sap up the tree from the roots to the tips of the highest branches.

Further plant experiments were conducted in the 1950’s and 1960’s regarding stimulation of plants. Electrical fields, magnetic fields, music and other sound waves were all used to determine their affects on plants. It was found that plants like jazz and classical music and grow more quickly, produce more blossoms, seed pods, fruit and mature more quickly when listening to this type of music. However, plants do not like rock and roll. When they are subjected to it, they lean away from the source of the music. If it continues for long periods to time, they do poorly, eventually withering and frequently dying.

Canadian Eugene Canby recorded a 66 percent increase in the yield of a wheat field from playing the music of Bach to the wheat plants.

T.C. Singh, a botany professor in India experimented with harmonic sounds. He found that when plants were subjected to certain harmonic sounds, they would speed up growth and increase the number of flowers, fruits and seed yields.

Another experiment involved wiring a fruit tree with DC electrical current which caused it to drop its ripe fruit but retain its green fruit. Further investigation of this phenomenon may uncover a new harvesting method for orchard growers.

George De La Ward determined that children of a female plant did much better when their mother was alive, even if she was hundreds of miles away. As soon as the mother plant died, all its offspring did poorly.

Another experiment proved that when Irises had magnetite added to their soil, they doubled the number of flowers on each stalk.

Cleve Backster, a polygraph examiner, connected a polygraph machine (a lie detector) to plants and measured their reactions. His experiments revealed that plants can communicate with one another and that they have an awareness of what is going on around them. He proved that plants can tell the difference between a real threat and a pretend threat.

One experiment that he conducted proved that plants can distinguish among individuals in a group of people. In this experiment several people were brought into a room containing two plants. One of these plants was connected to a polygraph and the other sat by itself on another nearby table. Everyone was taken out of the plant room into a nearby office. All were fitted with blindfolds. One person was quietly escorted out of the room. This person’s blindfold was removed and they were taken back into the plant room where, as instructed, they violently destroyed the plant not connected to the polygraph. The plant connected to the polygraph registered pain and anguish. The mangled remains of the destroyed plant were disposed of in a covered garbage can. This person was then blindfolded again and taken back into the room with the rest of the experiment participants.

Everyone was told to take off their blindfolds. Then they were told to walk back into the plant room and slowly, one by one, to walk by the plant connected to the polygraph. The plant identified the individual that had “murdered” its fellow plant.

Backster went away for a while to another city. He had no set time to return to his plant room. Several days later, he looked at his watch as he decided that he would return home. When he got to his home, he went into the plant room and checked the graph produced by the polygraph connected to one of his plants. At exactly the same time that he decided to return home and looked at his watch, the plant knew that he was coming home, because it showed the same reaction that it did whenever he walked into the room. To date, no one has been able to identify how plants can sense things or communicate, not only in their immediate vicinity, but over distances of hundreds of miles.

Backster concluded that there may be a means of communication among all living things and that consciousness may go down to the smallest level, perhaps even to the molecular or subatomic level.

So, remember to talk to your plants . . . they will understand you. Also remember that unlike the human race, plants improve their environment instead of destroying it.