As an friend, and co researcher with Cleve in 1970, I can state that he
did not measure any type of emission, but all his instrument was was
basically a galvanic response meter. That is it measured resistance, and
that resistance varied over time, and could be affected by thoughts, and
the sudden death of brine shrimp, and even microbes in a drain when hot
water was run into the sink.

Marshall

William Missett wrote:

>   Former top FBI lie detector expert Cleve Backster went into private
> practice with similar services in NYC.  One day in the 1960's (I
> believe) he got bored and hooked his lie detector up to a plant
> growing in his office, and to his surprise noted that it registered on
> the detector. He then started wondering about the plant's ability to
> emit detectable frequencies, and wondered if he could affect the
> plant's behaviour.  He made menacing moves against the plant (a
> rhodendren, I believe) and to his amazement saw the lie detector peg
> the meter. He kept this experimentation up for some time, and found
> that he could communicate his intentions from one plant to another,
> and many more amazing examples of human-plant energy exchange
> possibilities.  His story is told in depth in Christopher Bird's book,
> The Secret Life of Plants. It might change your opinion.  -----
> Original Message -----From: "Mike Monett"
> <5ay1wk...@sneakemail.com>To: <silver-list@eskimo.com>Sent: Sunday,
> August 15, 2004 12:27 PMSubject: Re: CS>signals and frequencies >
> CS>signals and frequencies
> > From: Terry Chamberlin
> > Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 08:33:24
> >
> >   >> ...there is no way a signal can come from the body...
> >
> >   > The problem  with this statement is in a narrow definition  of
> the
> >   > words, *signal* and *frequency*.
> >
> >   Hi Terry,
> >
> >   Everyone seems to be taking a narrow interpretation of what  I
> said.
> >   Here is my statement
> >
> >     "There is  no  measurable radiation from the human  body  at
> these
> >     frequencies. You  cannot measure it with an  antenna  and
> spectrum
> >     analyzer. I owned a HP 8568A spectrum analyzer for many  years
> and
> >     can absolutely guarantee there is no measurable radiation from
> the
> >     human body at 50MHz. Or from bottles of oil, or lumps of soil."
> >
> >     ...
> >
> >     "However, there  is  no way a signal can come  from  the  body,
> as
> >     Tainio claims. His BT3 instrument is a scam."
> >
> >     http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/m72409.html
> >
> >   Please do not attribute my words to other areas outside the topic
> we
> >   were discussing, which is frequency measurement with the  Tainio
> BT3
> >   system.
> >
> >   An instrument  that  claims to measure signals  produced  by
> plants,
> >   bottles of oil, lumps of soil, or the human body at  the
> frequencies
> >   and under the conditions described on his web site is a scam.
> >
> > Best Wishes,
> >
> > Mike Monett
> >
> >
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