My friend Debra is a fervent believer in the power of thoughts. When she wants something, she fixes the image of her in her mind, feeding the thought daily with expectation and gratitude. So she waits. Invariably, whether she takes 2 days, 2 months, or 2 years, she gets what she wants. She has repeatedly shown that there is power in thoughts.
What you have fixed in your mind invariably appears, in one form or another, a mantel clock that is a perfect replica of one you saw in a magazine, a parking space that opens miraculously in a blizzard, the ideal companion for a lonely and divorced friend, a perfect place for her husband’s new business. Her life is filled with the blessings of a pure and tender heart, which she knows how to ask for and expect to be given.
The more I am in contact with her, the less I am surprised by her clear and prophetic way of receiving the gifts of the universe. After all, we have seen a pronounced paradigm shift in the last 25 years, a change in the way we perceive the world and our role within it. We now recognize that there is not only power in our thoughts, but power in the thoughts of the natural realm. As humans, we have arrogantly isolated ourselves from the plant, animal and mineral worlds, thinking that we have been the only privileged species with thought and power.
Not anymore, according to two books — Masaro Emoto’s “The Hidden Messages of Water” (2004) and Cleve Backster’s “Primary Perception: Biocommunication with Plants, Living Foods and Human Cell” (2003) — both published within the past 3 years, in step with a growing recognition that we are no longer the only intelligent species in the universe. These books introduce us not only to the secret life of water, but also to the secret thoughts of plants.
Masaru Emoto, a renowned Japanese researcher and independent thinker, shocked and inspired the world with his high-speed photographs of the structure of water taken at the moment of freezing. What these photographs showed was that water responded directly to human thoughts, words, and even music. Crystals formed in frozen water changed their formation and behavior in response to specific thoughts or words directed at them. Water blessed with benevolence and love, for example, displayed bright, symmetrical patterns. The water, exposed to negative thoughts and words, assumed asymmetrical, incomplete and depressed shapes.
Emoto has come to see that water is not an inanimate substance; he is able to “copy” and “memorize” information. Memory is alive and pulsating throughout the universe; The rock in our garden is not just a rock; it carries layers of memories ridged like gristle beneath its surface, all the more reason we revere it. Our own memories are carried in our cells; these memories are made up of the words we say and the thought we hold in our minds. Emoto says, “In Japan, it is said that the words of the soul reside in a spirit called… the ‘spirit of words’ and the act of speaking words has the power to change the world.”
If water can respond to human thoughts, so can plants, says Cleve Backster in his book. Considered a leading authority on polygraphs and lie detection, Backster attached electrodes from his polygraph machine to the stem of a plant to measure the time it took for water to travel up the plant to the leaves. In the process of this experiment, he discovered that the plant could respond to human thought; the idea of burning the leaves of the plant registered wild and erratic movement on the polygraph. This was the beginning of his lifelong interest in understanding the process of cellular communication, what he calls “Primary Perception”, the ability of plant, animal and human cells to perceive and respond both locally and non-locally.
Devising further experiments, he discovered that memory and cellular communication can transcend both space and time and can be measured: plants reacted to boiling shrimp in water; the yogurt reacted to killing the bacteria even when these experiments were carried out miles away. In an interview, Backster recounted a visit by a botanist to his lab that elicited a strange response from his plants: the graphs showed a wandering flat line indicating the plants were in shock. Prompted by his reaction, he asked his guest if she had done anything to hurt the plants she worked with.” His response was comically online: “Hurt them? My dear, I roast them for their dry weight.” More than 40 years of research have reinforced his observation: that plant cells, animal cells, and even bacteria are sentient organisms that responded to thought or intent, engaged in a primal perception that we, by the modern human world, they seem to have forgotten.
In summary, let me quote not Sufi mystics or poets, but one of the leading scientists and thinkers of our time: the physicist David Bohm, whose book “Wholeness and the Implicate Order” (1980) is an important catalyst for our change. of paradigm. . Bohm speaks of two orders in the universe: the explained or unfolded order of ordinary perception and the implied or involved order of extraordinary perception. This is what he says: In the implicate order, “space and time are no longer the dominant factors determining the dependent or independent relationships of different elements. Rather, an entirely different kind of basic connection of the elements is possible.” from which our ordinary notions of space and time, together with those of separately existing material particles, are abstracted as forms derived from the deeper order.”
We’ve had him strung out the whole time. We think that what we see with our physical eyes is the whole truth. But this ordinary perception of space and time is just a derivative of the primary and extraordinary perception that we have lost: the power of thought, but that we can regain with a change in our thinking and attitudes, as my friend Debra has done.
Copyright 2006 Maria Desaulniers
