Primary Perception

In this blog, I want to, firstly, touch back to the main topic of our responsibilities to ourselves. You may have wondered, in what way what I have been writing lately relates to our individual responsibilities to self. Firstly, I am extending what we think of as "our selves"; secondly, I am attempting to demonstrate that what we are as individuals is far greater than the average person would ever believe possible; thirdly, I am, in today's blog, beginning to demonstrate our interconnectedness with everything.

As stated previously, the consensus human sciences allow humans five senses--touch, sight, hearing, smell and taste. As stated, these are only our physical senses. There has been some tacit acknowledgment of a sixth sense in the non-scientific populace. The reason for this acknowledgment is that most people personally know people who possess a way of knowing that is outside the physical senses. One of these ways is precognition, (knowing something is going to happen before it happens). These "sixth sense" faculties have come to be called "ESP," (extra sensory perception) and attempts have been made to establish their validity scientifically, known as "Parapsychology."

A new challenge to consensus science was made by Cleve Backster, the developer of the Lie Detector. While his work with the Lie Detector was controversial enough, and still not fully accepted, he has gone on to expand on what he discovered using his Lie Detectors on humans to experiments involving connecting similar devices to plants. What he has discovered is truly extraordinary. As a result he has become a target for the professional skeptics, as well as many who are normally open to alternative possibilities.

What Backster initially discovered was that plants have awareness of their surroundings, and that our house plants have a connection to those humans who care for them. He found that this connection would develop in a very short period of time. This research was first made public in Peter Tompkins, The Secret Life of Plants.

Mr. Backster is well aware of the controversial nature of his discoveries, while having done interviews, and had multiple articles written about his research, as well as, at least one, video. He has also published articles, but, not until recently, written a book, along with Flora Powers, about these extraordinary findings, published in Paperback, in 2003; Primary Perception: Biocommunication With Plants, Living Foods and Human Cells

His new research has found, what appears to be, a non-physical field that interconnects everything--all species and forms of life. He has named this field of communication, "Primary Perception." It appears that communication is going on all the time between everything.

This research has been ongoing since his first discoveries in the late '70's. His earliest findings were mind expanding, to say the least. His latest research findings have, obviously, blown the circuits of the consensus scientific community.

His earliest research involved trying to discover if a plant he had in his work place would react if threatened. It turned out that the plant would not react, unless there was an actual intention to do it harm. Later, he had the plant attached to a Lie Detector type machine continually. As a result, he found, among many other things, that the plant would react to the unintended demise of other life forms. One example of this: Mr. Backster had poured boiling water down a sink, killing minute life forms, causing a major reaction on the part of the plant.

Subsequent research has shown that, if a scraping of human cells is taken from a volunteer, and the volunteer leaves the area, (no mater how far) those sample cells react to whatever it is that he is doing at a distance.

Many people have experienced, and written about the fact that pets seem to know when their person is ready to come home--not just be near by--and react.

An indication that this Primary Perception connects everything, not just what humans normally consider to be living, is some of the behavior of animals prior to major earth quakes, and at the time of the great Tsunami which occurred a few years ago. Animals are aware of such events before they happen, and do their best to get out of the way.

Primary perception explains a great deal about our world, that consensus science and Consensus Belief Systems are unwilling to accept, and that is everything is alive and communicating all the time. Our connection to Primary Perception is our unconscious selves.

With that to ponder, I end this blog.

Shirley Gallup