October 3, 2004: Plant Perceptions - Cleve Backster
Podcast: The Art Bell ArchivePublished On: Tue Sep 23 2025
Description: Art Bell welcomes Cleve Backster, the pioneering researcher behind the "Backster Effect," to discuss his decades-long investigation into plant perception and biocommunication. Backster recounts his groundbreaking 1966 discovery, when a polygraph test on a plant produced tracings strikingly similar to human emotional responses, including reactions to mere thoughts of harm directed at the plant.The conversation covers Backster's expansion from plants to eggs, bacterial cultures, and human cells, all of which displayed measurable electrical responses to emotional stimuli from nearby living organisms. Backster explains how the communication appears instantaneous and unlimited by distance, aligning with principles of quantum non-locality. He also addresses the challenge of repeatability, noting that plants seem to learn and stop reacting to repeated non-threatening stimuli.Art and Backster discuss the implications for consciousness research, the Russian replication of his experiments using hypnosis, and how his findings connect to remote viewing and mass intent. The program also features open lines covering topics from nuclear bombs lost at sea to the XPRIZE space competition and RFID chip implants.
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