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from the secret life of plants, by tompkins and bird, (p. 15)
 
"A fortuitous occurrence led Backster into another whole realm of research. One evening, as he was about to feed a raw egg to his Doberman pinscher, Backster noticed that as he cracked the egg one of his plants attached to a polygraph reacted strenuously. The next evening he watched again as the same thing happened. Curious to see what the egg might be feeling, Backster attached it to a galvanometer, and was once more up to his ears in research.

"For nine hours Backster got an active chart recording from the egg, corresponding to the rhythm of the heartbeats of the chicken embryo, the frequency being between 160 and 170 beats per minute, appropriate to an embryo three or four days along in incubation. Only the egg was store-bought, acquired at the local delicatessen, and was unfertilized. Later, breaking the egg and dissecting it, Backster was astonished to find that it contained no physical circulatory structure of any sort to account for the pulsation. He appeared to have tapped into some sort of force field not conventionally understood within the present body of scientific knowledge.

"The only hint as to what sort of world he had wandered into came to Backster from the amazing experiments in the energy fields around plants, trees, humans, and even cells, carried out by the Yale Medical School in the 1930s and 1940s by the late Professor Harold Saxton Burr, which are only just beginning to be recognized and understood.

"With these considerations Backster temporarily abandoned his experiments with plants to explore the implications of his egg discoveries, which appeared to have profound implications for the origin-of-life research -- and are the makings of another whole book."

 
 
from the secret life of plants, by tompkins and bird, (p. 22)
 
"In a botanical nursery, Vogel found that he could easily pick out a particularly sensitive planet by running his hands over a group until he felt a slight cooling sensation followed by what he describes as a series of electrical pulses, indicating a powerful field. Increasing the distance between himself and the plant, Vogel found, like Backster, that he could get a similar reaction from it, first from outside the house, then from down the block, and even from his laboratory in Los Gatos, eight miles away."
 
 
from the magus of java, kosta danaos, (p. 202)
 
   
Home Video of Chang Sifu by Mr. Danaos
 
"Yin-Yang Energy -- Electrogenesis: The easiest of John's powers to witness, it is also the most difficult to quantify. ...John routinely uses this ability on a daily basis to treat patients with acupuncture, passing said energy into the traditional points. However, repeated testing with both AC and DC voltmeters and amperometers indicated neither current nor potential; nor was my teacher capable of producing incandescence in DC light bulbs of the lowest voltage. Therefore, while this power feels like electricity, it is most definitely not. One characteristic worth noting is that the "current" generated does not seem to follow the standard wave form of physics, but instead consists of a series of peaks. I have no hard data to quantify this statement, but I could feel this effect in Chang Sifu's body during electrogenesis."
 
 
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