Cleve Backster

Biography:

Cleve Backster is the founder of the Backster Research Foundation and currently teaches at the Backster School of Lie-Detection. He is also on the teaching faculty at the California Institute for Human Science and serves on the advisory board at the Institute of HeartMath.

Cleve is an international speaker on the subject of Biocommunication and has been a professional observer of human psycho-physiological tracings since 1948. Since 1966, Cleve has conducted extensive research related to observed electrical responses in plant life and at a cellular level in other living organisms. His research into what has been called “The Backster Effect” has attracted world-wide attention.

Past Shows:

	Plant Communication
	Wednesday June 27, 2007

An expert in the polygraph and biocommunication, Cleve Backster related details of his research into electrical responses in plant life. ... More
Host: George Noory

	Plant Perceptions
	Sunday October 3, 2004

International speaker on Biocommunication, Cleve Backster returned to the show to share details of his years of research related to electrical responses in plant life, human cells and living foods. In various situations, these substances have shown reactions on such tests as the Galvanic Skin Response when hooked up with electrodes, he said. For example, he noted that plants seemed to sense intent, and would show an electrical reaction to the mere thought that someone was planning to burn one of their leaves. Backster surmised that the plant is somehow reacting to images it is receiving, in a type of "primary perception," that comes before other senses.He suggested that plants are sentient and have the equivalence of memory and discrimination. He cited a test of growth rates in three groups of plants, in which the tester spoke to each group differently. The results showed the praised group had the highest growth rate, the ignored had average growth and the disliked group had the lo ... More
Host: Art Bell

	Biocommunication
	Wednesday February 11, 2004

Cleve Backster (primaryperception) presented an overview of his 37 years of research related to electrical responses in plant life and at a cellular level in other living organisms. Even the tiniest living organisms such as bacteria can demonstrate reactions to their environments in a kind of "primary perception" that comes before the five basic senses, he said. Backster, a leading expert in the use of the polygraph, first noticed such biocommunication in experiments with plants that were hooked up to a polygraph machine. To his surprise he found the plants seemed to show the ability to read people's minds, in that they demonstrated visible reactions on the polygraph to the mere thought of someone burning one of their leaves, for instance. Later he discovered plants seemingly reacted to their owners' emotional surges, even if they were at an entirely different location. Discussing his research into human cells, Backster concluded that they are also capable of showing a kind of ... More
Host: George Noory