The Secret Life of Plants
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| The Secret Life of Plants | |
 The Secret Life of Plants cover |
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| Author | Peter Tompkins, Christopher Bird |
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| Publisher | Harper & Row |
| Publication date | 1973 |
| ISBN | 0-06-091587-0 |
- For the unrelated nature documentary with a similar title written and presented by David Attenborough, see The Private Life of Plants.
Published in 1973, The Secret Life of Plants was written by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird. It is described as "A fascinating account of the physical, emotional, and spiritual relations between plants and man."
Essentially, the subject of the book is the idea that plants may be sentient, despite their lack of a nervous system and a brain. This sentience is observed primarily through changes in the plant's conductivity, as through a polygraph, as pioneered by Cleve Backster. The book also contains a summary of Goethe's theory of plant metamorphosis.
That said, this book is about much more than just plants; it delves quite deeply into such topics as the aura, psychophysics, orgone, radionics, kirlian photography, magnetism/magnetotropism, bioelectrics, dowsing, and the history of science.
It was the basis for the 1979 documentary of the same name, with a soundtrack especially recorded by Stevie Wonder.
[edit] See also
- The Secret Life of Plants - the film based on the book
- Plant perception (paranormal)
- Jagdish Chandra Bose#Plant research
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