Cleve Backster
1 archived appearance · 2004
Plant ConsciousnessPolygraphPrimary Perception
Cleve Backster (1924–2013) was a leading polygraph expert and former CIA interrogation specialist who became known for his controversial experiments demonstrating what he termed "primary perception" - the apparent ability of plants and living cells to respond to human thoughts and emotions. On Art Bell's programs, his decades of biocommunication research, documented in Primary Perception, challenged fundamental assumptions about consciousness and the boundaries of sentient awareness.
On the air with Art · 1
Oct 3, 2004 · 2h 53m
Plant Perceptions
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...
