Tribe.net. Local Connections mello http://secretlifeofplants.tribe.net/thread/4af8ded9-a402-438d-bf9e-08ec3d3c4075 2007-11-12T18:53:37Z 2006-01-18T03:11:02Z

<div>Anyone else a witness to the power of planting corns on the solstice? I am. <br/> <br/>This summer I was living in a place where I discovered a spiritual connection to the plants around me. I helped to form the beds and rows, and planted crops every now and then throughout the following months. Everytime that I strolled through this lush field of edible vegetation, I could feel a special force emiting from within. <br/> <br/>On Summer Solstice, my small community held a special midnight planting of sacred corns from the Adrean mountains. It was also a full moon, give or take a few hours. The leader of the ceremony had the group plant their hopes, dreams and intentions into the ground with our kernels and say them aloud one by one. And so we did. I sunk my hands into the soil and could feel something special. <br/> <br/>This type of corn came with a special trait; it needs to be sung to before it will start to crown. So we did when the time came to do so. Now I catch myself chanting every now and then when I feel the need to grow a little more inside of myself. <br/> <br/>Before I left this place in the middle of December, I went to the garden and went to the corn that we had planted under the moon on Summer Solstice night and thought about the ceremony that we performed that night. I couldn't remember specifically how I had phrased my dreams and intentions that I planted along with the corn kernels, but I did know that they had all been realized and had come true by the time that I said goodbye to the mature and harvested cornstalks still standing all alone in the garden. Later I asked a friend who was a part of the solstice planting if she had felt a change too, and her request for new eyes to see the world had indeed been granted. <br/> <br/>My last day there I took one last walk amongst the lone cornstalks left in an empty covercropped garden and sunk my hands into the ground where I had knelt six months prior. I had frustrations with this place about how it was operated and how it was set up, and unleashed both my concerns and my hopes for improvements into the loving soil through my hands. As I walked away, I chanted like never before. This was about a week before the Winter Solstice. <br/> <br/>I celebrated Winter Solstice with my family and friends back at home with a dinner. We all took a minute and recognized the past darkness in both the absence of sunlight and in our life's troubles, and welcomed in the return of growing sunlight and future opportunities. <br/> <br/>About a week after Winter Solstice, a massive flood occured where the garden was. The water levels reached as high as the 10+ feet corns had reached upwards. Thankfully nobody had gotten hurt, though many material belongings had been lost. This cleansing flood had purged this place of several aspects that had caused frustrations for me and others. Had the corns heard my cry and known how to remedy the problem? I don't know for sure. Will this place change for the better now? I don't know, but the opportunity had opened up for it to be possible. <br/> <br/>So, am I alone in the awareness of this power?</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://secretlifeofplants.tribe.net">Secret Life of Plants</a> - 11 replies </div>

mello 2006-01-18T03:11:02Z mello http://secretlifeofplants.tribe.net/thread/c7ad778e-e6af-4aa3-a587-66dd022cad27 2007-07-20T20:47:21Z 2006-11-06T00:24:38Z

<div>For two weeks I cleared brush and tree saplings along a mile long private road, for two weeks I listened to what the land had to say. Watching the colors change in the Green Mountains as I walked and cut was healing. It was a much needed respite along my journey, albiet one that challenged me as its fee. <br/> <br/>Snip, snap, cut, saw, haul, breathe, repeat. One by one by hundreds and hundreds I cleared out the understory lining the hilly drive. The seeming mindlessness of it opened up my senses to how they must have lived their short lives, struggling and twisting and spiraling themselves to reach towards the canopy. Each one had a tale, and each one contributed to me seeing my own journey through the sweat and sap. Their whispers had me observe and reflect, and shuffled thoughts grew lucid. <br/> <br/>Towards the end of the fortnight, one morning I heard a tree speak to me through creaking and groaning. I looked around me and noticed the big dead tree waiting for me to reach its sappling friends in another hour or so. As I got closer, the tree groaned a few more times to remind me not to just pass by without a greeting. As I looked away I could feel the groan at the back of my neck, and knew that it had something to say. As I came close, I knew that it wanted help getting down, and spent a few minutes rocking down what would be by far the biggest tree that I felled. <br/> <br/>After I brought it down and helped it through the embracing branches of fellow trees, I listened and looked at the tree that had uprooted as it descended. Right there, on the side of its soil-covered taproot, was the secret that the tree had wanted to share with me in return for assistance in getting it unearthed. The copper arrowhead's tip snapped off as I pulled it from the tap root. Shivers rocked me during my awe of the moment. <br/> <br/>Thank you, Tree, thank you for telling me. </div> <div> posted in <a href="http://secretlifeofplants.tribe.net">Secret Life of Plants</a> - 7 replies </div>

mello 2006-11-06T00:24:38Z Abulafia http://secretlifeofplants.tribe.net/thread/fbde2c24-6ffe-40df-b07c-c5fc74fe9628 2007-07-13T22:43:51Z 2007-07-12T10:31:02Z

<div>'Secret Life of Plants', the classic 1979 documentary with music and songs composed by Stevie Wonder, is available for viewing online here: <br/> <br/>http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4753736638977368381 <br/> <br/>For more background on the film see: <br/>http://www.psychobotany.com/projects/SLOP.htm </div> <div> posted in <a href="http://secretlifeofplants.tribe.net">Secret Life of Plants</a> - 1 reply </div>

Abulafia 2007-07-12T10:31:02Z ninjad http://secretlifeofplants.tribe.net/thread/92183e8f-aa26-4d8c-9415-0a9a7b38c296 2007-05-17T13:27:12Z 2007-05-07T20:43:37Z

<div>http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20070505/mathtrek.asp <br/> <br/>"A surprising number of plants have spiral patterns in which each leaf, seed, or other structure follows the next at a particular angle called the golden angle. The golden angle is about 137.5º. Two radii of a circle C form the golden angle if they divide the circle into two areas A and B so that A/B = B/C. <br/> <br/>The golden angle is closely related to the celebrated golden ratio, which the ancient Greeks and others believed to have divine and mystical properties. Leonardo da Vinci believed that the human form displays the golden ratio."</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://secretlifeofplants.tribe.net">Secret Life of Plants</a> - 2 replies </div>

ninjad 2007-05-07T20:43:37Z ninjad http://secretlifeofplants.tribe.net/thread/af31df93-7b28-447e-8ef1-80591133e948 2007-04-06T23:43:51Z 2005-05-10T03:11:00Z

<div>From <br/>http://www.wingmakers.site.cz/Telepathy.html <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/>Telepathy in the Plant Kingdom <br/> <br/>We are all aware that plants are living things, they take in nourishment (light), exhume waste (oxygen), and reproduce. But as you walk on grass, snap off branches while walking in the forest, or cut down your Christmas tree - did you ever stop to wonder that plants may have an intelligence, feelings, or even mental telepathic powers? <br/> <br/>Some studies done at a southern California university show plants seem to indeed be able to communicate, by the first method we described last week: global telepathy. The following is one of a series GSR experiments done with plants. GSR stands for "Galvanized Skin Response" and is a small device usually used on humans in 'lie detector' tests. It is a tiny flat metal that when placed on and individual's body, measures the opening and closing of the pores in the skin. <br/> <br/>This is wired to a machine that draws lines of the pores activity, which resembles the lines drawn of machines that detect earthquakes, or brain activity. The theory behind the GSR is that when a person lies, several responses happen inside the body, such as high pore activity, or a faster heart beat. Since plants also have pores, these series of tests were to see what kind of pore activity occurred when different things were done to the plant. <br/> <br/>At first a multitude of simple things were done; such as what happens when the plant is watered, covered with earth, and even sung or played music to. Something curious was found early in the experiment. When ever one thing happened to a plant in the control room, many of the other plants showed activity as well (even though to a lesser degree). Was this some form of communication? The experiments were expanded to see if this was so. Half of the plants were then taken to another control room which was several buildings away, and a series of more complicated conditions were added. <br/> <br/>In one of the more evolved experiments, 5 five people came into the first room of plants, each performing a different task (for example, one watered the plants, the other played a guitar one shined a high powered light, and so on). The plants in the first room showed their usual responses, while the plants in the second room showed none. Then, a 6th person entered, who had a pair of scissors and began cutting up the plants - more than a simple pruning to say the least. At this moment, all the lines drawn by the GSR machines showed violent reactions by ALL the plants in the first AND second rooms. <br/> <br/>Later in the day, each of the individuals entered the second room one by one, but without their accompanying "tool" they used in the first room. As the first five students entered the room, there was no significant reaction by the plants (although there were a few slight reactions when the girl who played music can in, drawing lines patterns similar to the ones made when she was playing to the first group). However, when the 6th person entered, the lines drawn by the machine went crazy! Even though he entered the room without his scissors, it was as if they KNEW he was the one who "cut up" the first group of plants! Keep in mind the two groups of plants were in completely different buildings.... <br/> <br/>We often think of plants as belonging to a "lower kingdom" in the evolution of life, but forget these creatures have been on the earth long before the dinosaur. If they are one of the first forms of life on earth, then they have had to longest time to evolve. All life forms communicate in some way, and plants then have been communicating long before any other life form that exists today. The WAY a plant communicates (global telepathy), is then probably one of the most evolved processes.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://secretlifeofplants.tribe.net">Secret Life of Plants</a> - 8 replies </div>

ninjad 2005-05-10T03:11:00Z ninjad http://secretlifeofplants.tribe.net/thread/f84b954a-1aa5-4b0d-9a93-51f2a57a9cd7 2007-03-21T05:12:36Z 2006-01-13T22:22:41Z

<div>While surfing the web I found a page that (in very complex scientific jargon) basically states that throughout the brain there are receptors specifically meant for the chemical found in the Amanita Muscaria mushroom. This mushroom has been used for thousands of years in Shamanic ceremonies as a potent "psychedelic" sacrament. <br/> <br/>The nicotinic receptors also correspond with the chemical nicotine, stimulating parts of the brain that only that chemical can stimulate. That's why nicotine hooks people so much, it's built into the human brain, and once that receptor becomes stimulated a reaction happens and once that reaction happens over a certain period of time the brain expects it to happen again and thus craving begins. For all you smokers out there, that's where the cravings come from. It's not going to kill you to stop smoking, the brain will adjust. The cravings are the reasons the tobacco industries make so much money off of all of you. <br/> <br/>For anyone interested, this all takes place in the "acetylcholine system" in the brain. <br/> <br/>"Muscarinic receptors <br/> <br/>Acetylcholine and carbamylcholine can bind to both muscarinic and nicotinic receptors, yet the responses elicited by activating each receptor differ in several ways. Muscarinic responses are slower, may produce excitation or inhibition and involve second messenger systems, rather than the direct opening of an ion channel. Muscarinic receptors are G protein-coupled receptors and mediate their responses by activating a cascade of intracellular pathways. Muscarine is the prototypical muscarinic agonist and derives from the fly agaric mushroom Amanita muscaria. Like acetylcholine, muscarine contains a quaternary nitrogen important for action at the anionic site of the receptor (an aspartate residue in transmembrane domain III). Most muscarinic agonists obey the "rule of five" atoms from the quateranry ammonium moiety to the terminal atom. <br/> <br/> <br/>Muscarinic receptors are found in the parasympathetic nervous system. Muscarinic receptors in smooth muscle regulate cardiac contractions, gut motility and bronchial constriction. Muscarinic receptors in exocrine glands stimulate gastric acid secretion, salivation and lacrimation. Muscarinic receptors also are found in the superior cervical ganglion where they can produce at least two physiologically distinct responses. In addition, muscarinic receptors are found throughout the brain, including the cerebral cortex, the striatum, the hippocampus, thalamus and brainstem."</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://secretlifeofplants.tribe.net">Secret Life of Plants</a> - 4 replies </div>

ninjad 2006-01-13T22:22:41Z greengoddess http://secretlifeofplants.tribe.net/thread/0909b848-2a16-4680-8299-b4a2adc8fcaa 2007-03-14T20:50:45Z 2006-01-13T06:03:28Z

<div>what do ya know about them medicinally??? <br/>do u have direct expierence w/ treating yourself?</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://secretlifeofplants.tribe.net">Secret Life of Plants</a> - 6 replies </div>

greengoddess 2006-01-13T06:03:28Z atomicearth http://secretlifeofplants.tribe.net/thread/e47dfece-a2fe-47e4-82dd-426b0f436ef9 2006-04-10T17:41:20Z 2005-08-08T03:27:13Z

<div>Agnihotra a most simple and revolutionary concept for the admiration of the Mother of Life...mama cow. Yes not only is she an amazing anibody maker for us needing humans (self innoculated collostrum) yet after my latest read in the Secrets from the Soil, a bit of dried dung sprinkled over a fire with rice and ghee in an inverted copper pyramid shaped container with specific mantras and amazing ionic transfer of vital life giving factor is made! <br/> This is another sign as well of how the most sacred things in life have been gentrified, basterdized and made either illegal or desicrated: cows, coca, cannibus, grain, women, native peoples amongst other things. Feeling the regeneration of sacred aspects of life....exponentially starting NOW. </div> <div> posted in <a href="http://secretlifeofplants.tribe.net">Secret Life of Plants</a> - 2 replies </div>

atomicearth 2005-08-08T03:27:13Z ninjad http://secretlifeofplants.tribe.net/thread/ada53a69-fc5b-47cc-b277-394abbee5cef 2005-11-10T05:20:24Z 2005-11-09T10:04:39Z

<div>IV, i <br/> <br/>"KANWA: Hear me, ye trees that surround our hermitage! Shankuntala never moistened in the stream her own parched lips, till she had fondly poured its purest water on your thirsty roots; and oft, when she would fain have decked her hair with your thick-clustering blossoms, in her love she robbed you not e'en of a single flower. Her highest joy was ever to behold the early glory of your opening buds; Oh then, dismiss her with a kind farewell. This very day she quits her father's home, to seek the palace of her wedded lord... <br/>PRIMAVADA: You are not the only one , dearest, to feel the bitterness of parting. As the time of separation approaches, the whole grove seems to share your anguish. In sorrow for thy loss...the very trees around shed their pale leaves, llke tears, upon the ground... <br/>KANWA: Yes, my child, I remember thy sisterly affection for the creeper... <br/>SHANKUNTALA: [approaching the jasmine] My beloved jasmine! most brilliant of climbing plants, how sweet it is to see thee cling thus fondly to thy husband, the mango-tree; yet, prithee, turn thy twining arms for a moment in this direction to embrace thy sister; she is going far away, and may never see thee again." <br/> <br/>Excerpts from the play "Shankuntala" by Kalidasa. Reprinted from "A Treasury of the Theatre, vol 1 World Drama from Aeschylus to Ostrovsky"</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://secretlifeofplants.tribe.net">Secret Life of Plants</a> - 2 replies </div>

ninjad 2005-11-09T10:04:39Z http://secretlifeofplants.tribe.net/thread/5cb2ae93-4f54-4300-b5fd-bd4c517856b8 2005-11-07T19:34:22Z 2005-11-04T04:53:25Z

<div>Hi everyone, <br/> <br/>I thought this was interesting for a number of reasons. I am not a pot smoker at all but I believe that it has some very valuable medicinal properties and should not be demonized by either the government or the press. It saved a dear friends life in Canada recently after morphine was administered to her to relieve chronic pain from a broken neck. The morphine almost killed her not once but twice. She was allowed to use marijuana medicinally brewed in to a tea with some other herb, by a pharmacist in Canada. It killed the pain as well as the extreme nausea that the prescribed pain killers were causing her. Here is the text of an article out of Los Angeles. <br/> <br/>GETTING HIGH IN THE MILE HIGH CITY <br/> <br/>Lost in all the press reports about the "defeat" of TABOR in Colorado on Tuesday was an <br/>even bigger defeat for the nation's drug warriors. <br/> <br/>"Denver on Tuesday became the first city in the United States to wipe out all criminal <br/>and civil penalties for adults caught possessing a small amount of marijuana," reports <br/>the Los Angeles Times. "About 54 percent of voters supported a ballot measure legalizing <br/>possession of less than an ounce of pot by individuals 21 and over." <br/> <br/>The only problem is that the city's mayor, Democrat John Hickenlooper, says he'll still <br/>bust people under the auspices of state law regardless of what the voters of his city <br/>say. What the hell do they know anyway, right Mr. Mayor? <br/> <br/>In any event, let's hope now that the ice has been broken, more cities and states will <br/>adopt this common sense policy on marijuana and get over "reefer madness." Law <br/>enforcement officers shouldn't be diverting limited resources and manpower to such a <br/>victimless crime, nor should our jail cells, as expensive as they are, be filled with a <br/>bunch of potheads. It's high time, so to speak, we brought some common sense to this <br/>issue. <br/> <br/>Thank you, Denverites.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://secretlifeofplants.tribe.net">Secret Life of Plants</a> - 2 replies </div>

2005-11-04T04:53:25Z atomicearth http://secretlifeofplants.tribe.net/thread/b3df53a6-51b6-4b0c-ada8-cb818e8ae795 2005-10-25T00:00:51Z 2005-10-18T16:33:18Z

<div>yes I HIGHLY admire these worx of Tompkins and am into ANY feedback from anyone on the highly successful techniques to raise human consciousness via plant vibrations. Of couse this site is open for discussion on Secrets from the Soil and Secret Life of Nature too. <br/> Has anyone tried any of these simply amazing techniques themselves? I have been a complete Urbanite and plan on moving onto land very soon to implement the Protocol of Life..I will share results ASAP. <br/> Thank you for biggin up this page for we are in time and sharing n The Worx</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://secretlifeofplants.tribe.net">Secret Life of Plants</a> - 4 replies </div>

atomicearth 2005-10-18T16:33:18Z hallelujahv http://secretlifeofplants.tribe.net/thread/c44385f1-c770-482e-ae5c-a8ea67ed2549 2005-10-24T07:05:22Z 2005-10-23T21:53:40Z

<div>So...maybe you want to write a response essay on this book Darwin; anybody? We would love to include it in our first publication of THE B-SIDE! <br/> <br/>&amp;lt;3</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://secretlifeofplants.tribe.net">Secret Life of Plants</a> - 1 reply </div>

hallelujahv 2005-10-23T21:53:40Z ninjad http://secretlifeofplants.tribe.net/thread/99bdb215-7d6c-4194-8ce5-d19eb1a69bff 2005-08-26T02:28:56Z 2005-08-23T19:58:12Z

<div>Has anybody here heard of the experiments with water, I think by some Japanese photographer, that deals with how though affects water?</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://secretlifeofplants.tribe.net">Secret Life of Plants</a> - 3 replies </div>

ninjad 2005-08-23T19:58:12Z ninjad http://secretlifeofplants.tribe.net/thread/e81a0c20-df5b-4c2e-8422-c7611265cbcd 2005-08-09T19:11:17Z 2005-05-10T00:12:12Z

<div>After reading this fascinating book I decided to start this tribe for anyone who has ever read the book or is intrigued by the mysteries of the plant kingdom.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://secretlifeofplants.tribe.net">Secret Life of Plants</a> - 8 replies </div>

ninjad 2005-05-10T00:12:12Z ninjad http://secretlifeofplants.tribe.net/thread/93bb94f1-1823-4708-a448-4f446f54a379 2005-08-08T03:19:03Z 2005-07-18T22:25:04Z

<div>Hey all, <br/> <br/>Just wondering who you all are and what drew you towards SLoP. Obviously I invited some of y'all. What kind of relationship do you all have with the plant kingdom?</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://secretlifeofplants.tribe.net">Secret Life of Plants</a> - 2 replies </div>

ninjad 2005-07-18T22:25:04Z atomicearth http://secretlifeofplants.tribe.net/thread/cc54c547-bc54-42be-a4c2-7eec92ef3fc1 2005-08-08T03:13:58Z 2005-08-08T03:13:58Z

<div>yes, working on a living example of Secret Life of Plants...a tribute of sorts and am wondering if anyone knows how to contact Tompkins? Love ALL of the worx o this remarkable investigative reporter...</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://secretlifeofplants.tribe.net">Secret Life of Plants</a> - 0 replies </div>

atomicearth 2005-08-08T03:13:58Z ninjad http://secretlifeofplants.tribe.net/thread/675d260e-edf6-4483-802b-b25addc13394 2005-05-24T17:16:59Z 2005-05-24T17:16:59Z

<div>From <br/>http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,762082,00.html <br/> <br/>Science <br/>Wounded Beans <br/> <br/> <br/>ALSO IN THIS ISSUE <br/> <br/> Oct. 16, 1939 <br/> <br/>Table of Contents » <br/> <br/>Science <br/> Attack on the Atom <br/> Warm and Cloudy <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/>Oct. 16, 1939 <br/>That plants have "emotions," "heart beats," feel pain, were theories of the late Hindu Botanist Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose. Every gardener knows that "wounded" plants heal themselves with mysterious juices. Last summer, Chemist James English Jr. and James Frederick Bonner, working at the California Institute of Technology with famed Dutch Plantman Aire Jan Haagen-Smit, announced that they had solved the mystery of that healing juice. In a kitchen-simple experiment, they butchered a batch of fresh Kentucky Wonder string beans, dribbled the hormone-rich juice into the pod-linings of other wounded beans. In a few hours, large clumps of healthy new cells piled up. After painstaking analysis, they isolated a complicated compound containing oxalic acid, a common plant substance. <br/>Last week the California scientists announced artificial production of the hormone. When tested on bruised potato tubers, "traumatic acid" (from the Greek trauma meaning wound) "was found to be identical with the natural product."</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://secretlifeofplants.tribe.net">Secret Life of Plants</a> - 0 replies </div>

ninjad 2005-05-24T17:16:59Z ninjad http://secretlifeofplants.tribe.net/thread/ba352db2-25b6-471d-b204-839d2f914227 2005-05-24T17:14:57Z 2005-05-24T17:14:57Z

<div>From <br/>http://www.pitara.com/discover/earth/109.htm <br/> <br/>Are your ferns drooping more than usual? Perhaps a bit of music may perk it up, for it is a known fact that music plays an important role in plant growth. But plants are choosy about the kind of music they want to hear. <br/> <br/>Experiments show that plants thrive if soothing instrumental music is played in the background. On the other hand they shrivel and die if exposed to heavy metal or rock music. And now a Japanese company has created a gadget that puts you in touch with the 'feelings' of plants. <br/> <br/>This gadget gauges the electrical activity in plants and can register a plant's response when exposed to music. The device is called the Plantone and has two sensor clips that are attached to the leaves of the plant. <br/> <br/>When the device's lamp turns red, it means a strong electrical current has passed within the plant's cells. It signifies a positive response. A green light on the other hand occurs when the cell electrical signals are weak, signifying a negative or unhappy response. <br/> <br/>So plants respond to music, but did you know that plants create music, too? Well, a biologist from England, Dr Linda Long, has discovered that the molecular structure of proteins found in plants can be used to create music. The question is how. <br/> <br/>All living matter contains proteins. Proteins are the basic building blocks of life and are essential for cell growth, muscular movement and transmission of hereditary characteristics. <br/> <br/>Seven sequences for seven notes <br/>Proteins are made up of a group of an organic compound called amino acids. These amino acids are nothing but combination of hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and sulfur. <br/> <br/>Dr. Long grouped these combinations into seven sequences. Then she related the seven sequences with the seven musical notes - a note per sequence. <br/> <br/>After this she created a software which simply read the structure of a protein and converted it into the corresponding musical notes. They thought they would get random notes; instead the sequence formed a tune. <br/> <br/>Each protein in a plant has its own specific tune, which means that if an organism has 100 proteins, 100 musical compositions can be created. Dr Long, who plays the keyboard apart from studying plant proteins, has now turned artist. <br/> <br/>She has made a 25 minute CD called Music of Plants by putting together the tunes created by certain proteins found in the common coriander and mustard plant, among others. <br/> <br/>For her next musical project she intends to turn the proteins found in the human body into music. And considering the human body has an estimated 30,000 different proteins, she certainly has her work cut out! <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> END </div> <div> posted in <a href="http://secretlifeofplants.tribe.net">Secret Life of Plants</a> - 0 replies </div>

ninjad 2005-05-24T17:14:57Z ninjad http://secretlifeofplants.tribe.net/thread/514b2951-21a4-499c-a56a-d9c33f27f3e1 2005-05-13T21:56:54Z 2005-05-13T21:45:12Z

<div>Autofluorescence in plant tissues is a common and useful phenomenon arising from a variety of endogenous biomolecules that absorb light in many regions of the near-ultraviolet and visible light spectrum. One of the primary contributors of plant autofluorescence is chlorophyll, but lignins, carotenes, and xanthophylls also produce a significant level of fluorescence emission when stimulated with the proper wavelengths. This digital image gallery examines natural autofluorescence in plant tissue thin sections using multiple excitation wavelengths with laser scanning confocal microscopy. <br/> <br/>http://www.olympusconfocal.com/gallery/plants/index.html</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://secretlifeofplants.tribe.net">Secret Life of Plants</a> - 1 reply </div>

ninjad 2005-05-13T21:45:12Z ninjad http://secretlifeofplants.tribe.net/thread/f4b790db-4028-4675-b056-1f29821ebf4a 2005-05-13T18:45:15Z 2005-05-10T16:32:50Z

<div>Just curious to see if anyone else here has read it or has seen the film.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://secretlifeofplants.tribe.net">Secret Life of Plants</a> - 10 replies </div>

ninjad 2005-05-10T16:32:50Z ninjad http://secretlifeofplants.tribe.net/thread/41109522-b62e-4579-8456-e38f88e48aa9 2005-05-11T00:43:56Z 2005-05-11T00:43:32Z

<div>The Backster Effect <br/>(How conscious are plants?) <br/> <br/>Late one night in 1966 Cleve Backster, a well-known American lie-detector examiner, was at his school for polygraph examiners. On impulse he decided to attach his Galvanometer to the leaf of a plant he had in his lab. He thought of burning a leaf on the plant but before he could do anything the tracing pattern on the graph changed dramatically. He hadn’t done anything yet. Had the plant sensed what he intended to do to it? When he didn’t intend to burn the plant but had a match in his hand and went through the actions as if he was going to the needle on the graph didn’t move. After many experiments Backster concluded that plants could actually discern real intent from pretend. He recorded the behavior of other plant species of plants and their reactions in many experiments. One of his experiments led him to discover plants have a memory. Not just a simple memory that allows them to remember the direction of their light sources. He also discovered sometimes plants go unconscious when threatened. This is only a small summary of his work. To read more about Backster and his experiments read the book “The Secret Life of Plants” which also has many other scientists accounts of the physical, emotional, and spiritual connections between plants and man.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://secretlifeofplants.tribe.net">Secret Life of Plants</a> - 1 reply </div>

ninjad 2005-05-11T00:43:32Z ninjad http://secretlifeofplants.tribe.net/thread/c59dd3cc-68d5-493b-bd1b-70ea63f1b057 2005-05-10T03:07:34Z 2005-05-10T03:07:34Z

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