The Science of Spirit. Part 8
By: Seeker
Is there evidence that there is actually anything more going on than what can be accounted for by physics and chemistry as understood in the early 21st century?
Rupert Sheldrake started out in straight Biology. Working as a scientist, he began to come across mysteries. For example he found, by accident, that plants react to outside stimuli in ways that defy the idea of them being basic chemical factories and structures. He found reactions to cutting leaves or stems, and even changing the evnvironment so as to include a toxin would get a reaction. And it went further than that… simple organisms can detect and react to a threat in ways that can be recorded by a polygraph or similar machine even when it is only the intention of a threat!
Think this through – it leads down some very interesting pathways. A plant can pick up the mental intention of a human about to do it damage. It gets better. The plants didn’t react to a non-real intention – in other words, pretending to intend to do damage didn’t get the same reaction – you have to honestly intend to hurt the plant.
And an even better step followed not long after – the plants can react to the threat of damage to organisms other than themselves. Killing off laboratory brine shrimp caused the plants to react as well.
Now Sheldrake has gone much further down the path of just what makes up life. The plant experiments were decades ago and he has spent the intervening years chasing down possibilities that come from his initial observations. It’s worth googling to see what he has done since.
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