Spiritual healing - Power of thoughts

Grad, Bernard (born 1920) is a Canadian Professor of psychiatry at the McGill University in Montreal. He conducted spiritual healing experiments on mice. During the experiment, the mice were exposed to an iodine undersupply which led to thyroid dysplasia. One group of mice was to receive 15-minute treatment sessions carried out by spiritual healers twice a day for six weeks. This showed that those mice which were treated by spiritual healers reacted differently to the iodine shortage.

In another experiment, the wound healing was observed. For that, a third control group was set up and treated with heat. All mice were injured on their backs and the healing process was documented. After 14 days, Bernhard Grad considered it proven fact that wounds on mice which received spiritual healing healed significantly better than those of mice from the 2 control groups. [1]

In 2002, Roney-Dougal & Solfvin showed that healers had an influence on the growth of plants. The plants which received treatment from the healers grew faster, were healthier and yielded more revenue.

Conclusion: It has already been scientifically proven that spiritual healing works. Now it is important to keep in mind that not everybody who calls himself a spiritual healer actually is a spiritual healer. This probably explains the failure of other attempts. Thus, noetic sciences can indeed achieve successful results.

Can plants communicate?

On 14/01/2001, the German TV station "VOX" broadcasted a video clip reporting about giraffes perishing in a national park in South Africa. The giraffes showed no external injuries and no diseases could be ascertained either. It is common knowledge that giraffes like to eat leaves from acacia trees. Yet the trees produce a toxin: tannin. Actually, these animals are resistant against that toxin. However, a significant increase in the level of tannin was detected, rendering the animals poisoned.

Yet what caused this? Confined by the fences of the national park and by means of tourism, a great number of giraffes were held within a small area. Subsequently, the acacia population was extremely endangered, rendering the plants in a need to defend themselves. In the end, the imbalance caused by man killed the animals.

The first thought was that trees that were eaten up significantly increased their level of tannin in order to protect themselves against complete defoliation. However, non-affected trees, too, showed increased levels of tannin. Thus affected trees somehow managed to warn their conspecifics. [3]

Plants´ ability to communicate was even used in a movie. In "The Happening" , plants secrete a toxin when too many people are near them, causing those people to commit suicide. Even if this version is extremely unlikely, one should not underestimate the abilities of plants.

Do plants have a consciousness?

Fascinating experiments were carried out by Clive Backster. In New York, he connected plants to lie detectors.

As he watered the plants, the instruments showed a curve that is typical of exhilaration. He considers setting the plants on fire with a match in order to test the reaction. The instrument deflects and shows a curve that is typical of fear, and that before he actually did it.

Did the plant read his thoughts?

The murder: Backster picks one out of five students to kill (trample) one of two plants. In the presence of the other students, the plant did not show any reaction. Yet when the plant murderer approached, the measuring instruments, once again, displayed the typical signs of fear.

Plants seem to be able to actively detect threats. In addition, they are able to differentiate individual persons from each other and to remember things. [4]

When Backster made all this public, the reactions were as expected: Rubbish, plants do not have any nerve pathways, which simply makes all this impossible. )

Further research showed that plants do have an electrical conductive system [5]. Nevertheless, this research is being kept under by the media. This could be a bête noire for the vegetarian movement in particular. After all, the research says nothing less than that hundreds of living creatures were killed for a rye bun and that they felt fear and pain during that process, just like animals.

Conclusion: The fact that plants react and interact just like animals causes significant conflicts. Maybe man should stop differentiating between higher and lesser forms of life. Every living being, regardless of whether it is a plant or an animal, has feelings and a right to exist.

We also conduct experiments ourselves. You can find them in the experiment overview.

Sources

When such controversial statements are made, the respective sources are always crucial. Below, the sources of the most important statements in this article about research examples are named:

[1] Grad, Bernard, Remi J. Cadoret, and G. I. Paul. "The Influence of an Unorthodox Method of Treatment on Wound Healing in Mice." International Journal of Parapsychology 3, no. 2 (1961).

[2] Roney-Dougal, S.M. & Solfvin, J. "Field Study of Enhancement Effect on Lettuce Seeds - their germination rate, growth and health," Journal of the Society of Psychical Research (2002).

[3] VOX (13:30, 14.01.2001): Tierzeit "Versteckte Giraffen".

[4] Clive Backster. "Evidence of a Primary Perception in Plant Life." International Journal of Parapsychology, vol. 10, no. 4, Winter 1968, pp. 329-348.

[5] ARD (20:30, 17.05.2010): Erlebnis Erde "Kluge Pflanzen".