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Then, at a meeting in Houston, I met a dental researcher from advanced spiritually. It also could be that we are approaching a the Texas University School of Dentistry who had perfected a place where we may be able to safely enhance our perception. I method of gathering white cells from donors' mouths. This was think more and more people are openly working in these so far great. It was politically feasible, easy to do and required no med- marginalised areas of research. ical supervision, as would have been necessary with white cell For instance, have you heard of Rupert Sheldrake's work with extraction directly from blood. dogs? He puts a time-oriented camera on both the dog at home Once that hurdle was out of the way, I started doing split-screen and the associated human at work. He has discovered that even videotaping of experiments, with the chart readout superimposed for people who come home from work at a different time each at the bottom of a screen showing the donor's activities. We day, at the moment the person leaves work the dog at home heads found that a person could be 10 blocks away, or even 20 miles for the door. away, and we still got reactions. DJ: How did you monitor over distance? REACTIONS FROM MAINSTREAM SCIENTISTS CB: We took the white cell samples, then sent the people home DJ: How has the scientific community received your work? to watch television. I would have preselected a program that CB: With the exception of scientists at the margins, like would elicit an emotional response from them—for example, Rupert Sheldrake, it was met first with derision, then hostility, showing a veteran of Pearl Harbor a documentary of West Pacific and mostly now with silence. enemy aircraft attacks—and then I taped At first they called primary perception "the both the program and the response of their Backster effect", perhaps hoping they could cells. What we found was that cells outside ridicule the observations away by naming the body still react to the emotions you feel, them after this wild man who claims to see even though you may be miles away. things that have been missed by mainstream The greatest distance we've tested has been . science. The name stuck—and because about 500 miles. Brian O'Leary, who wrote "We took the white cell primary perception can't be readily dismissed, Exploring Inner and Outer Space, left his samples, then sent the it is no longer a term of contempt. white cells here in San Diego, then flew At the same time the scientists were home to Phoenix. On the way, he kept care- people home to watch ridiculing my work, the popular press was fu track of different things that aggravated television... paying very close attention to me, with him, carefully logging the time of each. The dozens of articles and portions of books, such correlation remained over distance. as The Secret Life of Plants. I never asked DJ: The implications of all this... "What we found was for any of the articles to be done, and I have CB: Yes, are staggering. We get two that cells outside the never profited from this work. People different kinds of bacteria very much in . have always come to me, requesting sync with each other. We get plants body still react to the additional information. responding tothe death of other crea emotions you feel, was getting prety upset. They wanted tures. All my work, which consists of even though you may to get to the bottom of all this "plant file drawers full of this kind of very . " nonsense", so at the 1975 American high quality anecdotal data, has shown be miles away. Association for the Advancement of time and again that these creatures— Science meeting in New York City they bacteria, plants and so on—are all fan- planned to resolve the issue. Arthur tastically tuned in to each other. Galston, of Yale University, a well- Now, as you get to humans, this capa- known botanist, got together a select bility gets lost. In one observation after group of scientists to try, in my opinion, my lecture at Yale University, graduate to neutralise the work. This is a typical students monitored a plant and simulta- response by the scientific community, to neously hassled a spider, put their hands around it and stopped it "compare notes" regarding controversial theories. The year from running away. When they moved their hands away, they before in Chicago, they focused on Immanuel Velikovsky, who saw a reaction in the leaf being monitored the instant before it ran, wrote Worlds in Collision. 1 had already learned that you don't go apparently right as it was making the decision. That's a type of into these things to win; you go in to survive. And I was able to high-quality observation I have seen repeatedly. do that. And human cells, too, have this primary perception capability, They've now got to the point where they can't counter the but somehow it gets lost; somehow with humans it doesn't surface research I'm doing, and so their strategy has been to just ignore at the conscious level. It makes you wonder if we have lost that me, hoping I'll go away. Of course, that's not working, either. capability, or if we ever had such a talent. DJ: What is their main criticism? I've come to the conclusion that when a person has evolved CB: The big problem, and this is a big problem as far as spiritually enough to handle these other perceptions, she or he will consciousness research in general is concerned, is repeatability. become properly tuned in. Until then, it may be best not to be The events I've seen must be spontaneous. If you've thought them tuned in because of the damage we cause by mishandling the out in advance, you've already changed them. It all boils down to information received. a very simple thing: repeatability and spontaneity do not go Sometimes we have a tendency to see ourselves as the most together, and as long as members of the scientific community highly evolved life-form on the planet. We're very successful at overemphasise that aspect of scientific methodology, they're not intellectual endeavours. But these may not be the ultimate scales going to get very far in consciousness research. I am sure of that. by which to judge. It could be that there are others who are more That is precisely what has held it back for years. advanced spiritually. It also could be that we are approaching a place where we may be able to safely enhance our perception. I think more and more people are openly working in these so far marginalised areas of research. For instance, have you heard of Rupert Sheldrake's work with dogs? He puts a time-oriented camera on both the dog at home and the associated human at work. He has discovered that even for people who come home from work at a different time each day, at the moment the person leaves work the dog at home heads for the door. samples, then sent the people home to watch television... body still react to the emotions you feel, even though you may be miles away." 44 = NEXUS "What we found was that cells outside the www.nexusmagazine.com AUGUST — SEPTEMBER 2004