Cleve Backster is a guy who has dedicated his life to truth. As a former CIA interrogation specialist, he’s one of the reasons that you know what a polygraph (lie detector) is. His school Backster School of Lie Detection is the generally recognized leader in teaching polygraph techniques in North America.
It’s a little intimidating meeting a guy like that....you really want to make sure you’re feeling truthful that day.
Stephen and I went to meet Mr. Backster to learn more about his research. On the night of February 2nd, 1966, Cleve spontaneously put his polygraph equipment on the leaves of a dracaena plant. After some experimentation, he found that the plant “screamed” when he had the intention of burning it’s leaf. If he pretended to take action, there was no reaction. If he was actually going to act, the sensors on his equipment went crazy.
This began forty years of experimentation on living organisms with polygraphs and EEG machines, direct combat with the traditional scientific community and an ongoing battle of sharing the outcomes of his research with the world. The book “Primary Perception: Biocommunication with Plants, Living Food, and Human Cells” is Backster’s first hand account of this amazing journey. His research can also be found in “The Secret Life of Plants” and “The Secret Life of Your Cells”.
Backster’s research did not stop with plants. He also measured the reactions of living human cells. What he found was that the cells in the lab would react at the exact same time that their former body reacted to emotional situations... 12 miles away. It seems that we are always connected to our living cells.
Reading his research drastically changed the way that I view the world. It appears that he has been able to measure a “connection” that is outside of the accepted properties of the physical world. So what is he measuring?
Despite ongoing pain from his knees, Mr. Backster was very welcoming and shared a lot of personal insights about his work. His peaceful manner showed that his search for truth had wielded some answers for him. He also has a great sense of humour and is quite a conversationalist.
In our meeting, Cleve patiently addressed his critics with slight exasperation. He welcomed the opportunity to recreate his findings with other scientists and researchers using the controls that he has learned are the most effective. He points to other experiments that support his research and other countries in which his work has been accepted because it fits more closely with their cultural beliefs. I recommend buying a copy of "Primary Perception" as he refutes each negative review of his work critic by critic (and in quite an entertaining manner).
After a tour of his lab, both Stephen and I agreed with Cleve: more people in the world, particularly people that are open to untraditional ideas, need to hear about his research.
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