In his lectures, Vogel confidently stated: “The fact remains that a person can communicate and communicate with plants. Plants are living, sentient beings. They create a special space around themselves. They may seem deaf, blind and dumb to us, but it is quite obvious to me that plants are an excellent indicator of human emotions. Plants emit energies useful to humans. And we can all feel them! They charge a person with energy, and a person, in turn, charges them. The North American Indians were well aware of these properties of plants. If necessary, the Indians went into the forest, found a suitable pine tree and, spreading their arms to the sides, leaned against it with their backs to recharge its energy.
In nurseries, among a multitude of plants, Vogel could easily recognize those who were especially sensitive. To do this, he moved his palm over them until he felt, according to him, a slight chill, and then a series of electrical impulses - all this indicated the presence of a powerful field. Vogel began to experiment with gradually increasing the distance between himself and the plant.
Then Vogel set up such an experiment: he connected two plants to the same device, and then pinched off a leaf from one of them. The second plant reacted to the pain of its neighbor, but only if Vogel paid his attention to it. If a scientist tore off a leaf from one plant without paying attention to another, then the latter did not react in any way. Vogel and the first plant are like lovers, secluded on a bench in the park and completely oblivious to passers-by. But suddenly the young man is distracted by a girl passing by and for a moment forgets about his girlfriend.
From his own experience, Vogel knew that teachers of yoga and other methods of deep meditation like Zen, being in a meditative state, do not react at all to external stimuli. The encephalograph shows that the waves emanating from the brain of a person in meditation are completely different from the brain waves of the same person in a normal state. Gradually, Vogel began to understand that his special concentrated state is the basis for interacting with the plant. He switched from his usual state of consciousness, concentrating on the thought that the plant is good and joyful, loved and sincerely wished that it grows healthy and strong. The plant felt this mood and came out of the state of slumber.
It seems that the interaction between plant and man took place at this very level; a person, thus, could read information about events or living objects through the plant, recording its reaction with the help of instruments. Usually, it took Vogel from a few minutes to half an hour to establish contact with the plant.
When the scientist felt confident in himself, he wanted to experiment with plants in public. In one of the programs on local television in San Francisco, a plant connected to a recorder clearly reflected Vogel's various emotions: from irritation from the questions of a journalist to a state of harmony when communicating with the plant. At the request of the director of one of the programs of the ABC television company, the scientist showed the plant's reaction to his thoughts or the thoughts of another person: the devices clearly recorded the violent reaction of the plant to a surge of human emotions and its return to normal.
When Vogel began to demonstrate to the public the sensitivity of plants to the altered state of human consciousness, he noticed that the skepticism and hostility of some spectators had a very strange effect on him. He began to pay attention to negative attitudes emanating from the audience, and found that the deep breathing method (which he learned in yoga class) can isolate those who exude these emotions. Then he created a positive mental image and switched to it, just like we turn the radio knob, tuning in to another wave.
“Hostility and negative emotions from the audience,” Vogel noted, “are the main obstacles to good contact with the plant. The hardest part of publicly experimenting with plants is to neutralize these emotions. If I fail to do this, the plant and, of course, the device, freeze until I deal with negative emotions and establish a new positive connection with the plant."
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“It seems to me,” he said, “that I am a mediator, filtering the plant's response to environmental influences. I can remove this filter to link the plant and viewers directly. At the same time, by charging the plant with my energy, I can increase its sensitivity. It is very important to understand here that, in my opinion, when in contact with a plant, you are not communicating with the mind in the guise of a plant. Rather, the plant becomes an instrument, an extension of human sensitivity. In this case, a person can interact with the bioenergetic field of the plant or through it with the thoughts and emotions of other people."
Vogel once hosted a group of skeptical psychologists, doctors and programmers. The scientist invited the guests to examine their equipment for hidden devices and "bugs", which, in their opinion, were stuffed with Vogel's devices. Then he asked them to sit in a circle, start a conversation and see what thoughts and feelings of the people present would affect the plant? For an hour, the group chatted about this and that, and the plant paid almost no attention to people. Those present already suspected that Vogel's experiments with plants were nothing more than a fraud. But then one of the guests said: "Let's talk about sex!" Imagine the general surprise when the plant suddenly revived, and the recorder began desperately to draw zigzags on the tape. This suggested that when talking about sex, people emit a special sexual energy into the atmosphere,“Orgone,” discovered and studied by Dr. Wilhelm Reich, and ancient fertility rituals (where people performed intercourse in a newly planted field) could actually stimulate plant growth.
The plant also responded to horror stories told in a dark room lit by only one red-shaded candle. At critical moments, like: "and then the door in a black hut in the black forest began to slowly open …" or "suddenly a black man jumped out from behind the fragility with a knife in his hand …" or "Charlie bent down and lifted the lid of the coffin …", the plant woke up and began to "listen". Apparently, the mental images of people merged into a single energy field and influenced the plant.
Vogel concluded that the Energy of Life, or Cosmic Energy, which surrounds all living things, is the basis of life and plants, and animals, and humans. Thus, man and plant are one. "This unity makes possible not only communication between man and plant, but also the recording of this communication through the plant on the tape recorder."
From his observations, it became clear to Vogel that during communication between man and plant, an exchange and even mixing of their energies occurs. Then he wondered if a person with psychic abilities could enter the plant. History mentions the sixteenth-century German mystic Jakob Boehme, who became enlightened at a young age and could see other dimensions.
According to Bem himself, he looked at the plant and by an effort of will merged with it, became a part of it, felt that "his whole being strives for light." He could share the simple joys of the plant and "enjoy life with a carefree growing leaf."
One day, Vogel was visited by Debbie Sapp, a quiet, shy girl who amazed the scientist by the fact that, according to the readings of the instruments, she could come into instant contact with his philodendron.
When the plant was serenely dozing, the scientist suddenly asked the girl: "Can you enter this flower?" Debbie nodded, and her face took on a calm and detached expression, as if she were somewhere in another universe. And then the recorder began to draw a zigzag curve, which meant that the flower was receiving a huge surge of energy.
Debbie later described the event as follows:
“Mr. Vogel asked me to relax and project myself onto the philodendron. I began to fulfill his request, and the following happened to me.
At first I did not know how to enter the plant. I decided to use my imagination and suddenly realized that I was entering the stem through the entrance at its base. Inside the flower, I saw moving cells and water rising along the stem, then I decided to climb up along with the water.
When, in my imagination, I began to approach the branches of the leaves, I felt that I was being dragged from my imagined world into reality, where I was losing all control over my actions. I did not see the images, but rather felt that I was filling and becoming a part of something huge, all-embracing. I could call it nothing more than pure consciousness.
I felt acceptance and gentle protection from the plant. I did not feel time, but only unity with all that exists. I suddenly smiled and allowed myself to merge with the plant. Then Mr. Vogel asked me to relax. When he said these words, I realized that I was terribly tired, but in my soul I was peaceful and calm. I was a plant."
Vogel, observing the curve of the recorder, drew attention to the sudden stop at the very moment when the girl "left" the flower. Later, when Debbie again "entered" the plant, she could describe in great detail the structure and shape of its cells. She noted that one of the leaves of the flower was badly burned with an electrode. Then Vogel removed the electrode and discovered that this sheet was indeed almost burned through.
Since then, Vogel has tried to repeat the same experiment with dozens of other people. He asked them to enter a separate sheet and view the shape and structure of his cells. Each and every one gave a similar description of cells down to the structure of DNA molecules.
Then Vogel concluded: “A person is able to enter the cells of his own body and influence them depending on the state of his consciousness. One day in this way we will be able to find out the cause of all our diseases."
Children are always open to everything new. Knowing this, Vogel began to teach them how to communicate with plants. First, he asked them to feel the leaf, describe in detail its temperature, texture, consistency. Then he let them bend the sheet and feel its elasticity, then feel, gently patting the sheet on both sides. If the students described their feelings with pleasure and joy, Vogel asked to let go of the leaves and feel the power or energy emanating from them. Many children immediately report tingling and throbbing sensations.
Vogel noticed that the most powerful and vivid sensations were in children who devoted themselves entirely to their occupation. As soon as someone felt a tingling sensation, he would say: “Now relax completely and feel how you exchange your energies with the plant. As soon as the feeling of pulsation comes, gently move your hand up and down over the sheet. The children complied with his requests and clearly saw that when the hand was lowered, the leaves were deflected to the side. By repeating the movement up and down over and over again, the children made the leaves begin to wobble. With both hands, the children made the plants sway from side to side. With the confident completion of this exercise, the children began to train at an ever greater distance from the plant.
“These simple exercises help you become aware and feel invisible energies. Having developed sensitivity, a person acquires the ability to control these forces."
Adults are far less successful at this than children, Vogel said. He suggested that not all scientists will be able to reproduce his personal experiments and those of Baxter in their laboratories. "If you approach such experiments formally and mechanically," Vogel emphasized, "not trying to establish mutual contact with the plant and not taking it as a best friend, then the result will be zero." Indeed, one scientist from the California Psychical Society told Vogel that he could not repeat a single experiment, although he worked on them for months. The same fate befell a well-known psychoanalyst from Denver.
“Collapse of plans and disappointment will haunt scientists around the world until they understand one thing: the key to success is the connection between man and plant and the ability to establish this connection. A positive result does not depend on the exact observance of the conditions of the experiment, but on preparation, and what is especially important, on the spiritual development of the experimenter himself. But this already contradicts the philosophy of many scientists. They do not realize that a creative experiment implies that the researcher and the investigated phenomenon must merge and become one."
An excerpt from The Secret Life of Plants, Tompkins Peter., Excellently showing how one can communicate and become part of any manifested physical body.
