The panic of Dracaena

Consciousness-Science Protocol 1

We were alerted to these problems in consciousness-science protocol by our interviews with Dr. Cleve Backster, who has conducted groundbreaking studies in this emerging science for over 40 years now. His work will be featured in our Hollywood film CONVERGENCE.

You may remember to Backster as the scientist who wired up his house plants to a lie-detector [polygraph] and found that they 'screamed' like a human being in shock when they were threatened with burning -- even though he only THOUGHT about doing it. Here's a slide of his original 1966 observation:

Backster later found out it was very, very difficult to have a truly 'random' consciousness effect. The only way he could achieve it with his plant experiments was when no other humans were in the building.

He used the most expendable living creature he could think of -- the brine shrimp -- and tested if the plants would respond to their random death in boiling water. The next image shows the diabolical contraption that did the deed:

Cup Dumping Device

Plants were much more interested in the people in the building than in the random death of a few brine shrimp. Only when the plants were cold and lonely, without any humans to focus on, did they 'scream' when the shrimp suddenly died on a random time circuit.