Addendum A Sample of Messages From The Plants (There never was any punctuation whatsoever in the messages.) [I never spoke aloud to the plants; I would simply "think" my questions] What type of communications with other plants? THAT OF THOUGHT FORMS Am I contacting one plant or all? WITH ALL ONE IS ALL Do you wish to communicate? THIS HAS BEEN PLANNED By whom or what? NOW TO BE KNOWN THE PLAN HAS ALWAYS BEEN TO BE UNDERSTOOD Have you a message for the species known as mankind? NOW TO BE FORTHCOMING TO BE A MESSAGE OF THE NEBULIUM What is the nebulium? THE SOURCE OF THE UNIVERSE ALL MANKIND MUST LISTEN (It was at this point that I hooked a philodendron to the G.S.R.) Is the intelligence aware of the testing? YES NOW YES NOW Are the variations (on the graph paper) natural, biological functions? YES Can the intelligence control these functions? YES I need a substantial positive indication above zero. NOW TO BE Can you demonstrate? THIS IS SO THIS WILL BE NOW (The needle suddenly swings beyond zero into the positive field) Can this be repeated? It is very important. THIS IS UNDERSTOOD Is it possible to differentiate between random thoughts and verbal requests? THESE ARE IN RESPONSE TO QUESTIONS OF ALL THOUGHTS RECOGNIZED ATTEMPTS WILL BE MADE TO REFINE Should the electrodes be removed? WITH DAMAGE COMES DIFFICULTY Can you tell me a simple way to avoid damage to the leaf while maintaining electrode contact? PRESSURE CANNOT BE CONSTANT TO REMOVE AND ALTERNATE POSITIONS ON SURFACES Is the water applied to the electrodes harmful to your response? IT IS NOT (An Electronics Engineer asked the next questions and found the answers correct.) Will the integrated circuit oscillator in the instrument result in a negative deflection? NO Can the integrated circuit oscillator be inverted? NOT NEEDED (I resume questioning) If these communications are valid, I need convincing proof. Can proof be offered? YES What is the best means of obtaining proof? YOU MUST OBSERVE ALL COMMUNICATIONS AND FOLLOW SUGGESTIONS Can you give some suggestions now? TO BE FOUND HELPFUL TO HAVE LEAF FULLY MOISTURIZED BEFORE INSTRUMENT IS ATTACHED MUST AVOID WATER IMPURITIES Is distilled water advised? IT IS The term fully moisturized – would it be best to submerge leaf in water instead of brushing water on? TO BE FOUND HELPFUL What is the best way to attach electrodes? AVIOD CUTTING EDGES AND SEVERE PRESSURE PREVIOUS SHOULD RESULT IN LESS PRESSURE Anything else? AVOID LONG PERIODS OF CONTACT FREQUENT RELOCATION WILL PROVE HELPFUL Are there times when I interfere with message given? THIS IS SO How can I avoid interference? DO NOT RATIONALIZE Is presence of voltage harmful to the plant? NOT IF SUGGESTIONS ARE FOLLOWED Does presence of voltage affect reactions of the plant? NOT IF SUGGESTIONS ARE FOLLOWED (Suggestions were followed and it was necessary to reduce voltage from 15 to 9 volts) (While concentrating on a leaf from a shrub): I wish to communicate, is this now possible? YES Do you wish to communicate with me? YES (With houseplant attached to voltmeter. Auxin voltage, according to research, is a steady 105 millivolts. I concentrated on plant and requested a change in auxin flow to result in a voltage change. Over course of ˝ hour, the voltmeter indicated a fluctuation between 100 and 110 millivolts.) [During a visit to a cabin in the Wisconsin woods] Am I now contacting all plant life? THIS IS SO What are the feelings of this, the wild plant growth, toward the humans who have infiltrated? THESE ARE FELT AS PRESENCES OF FORCES THAT CAN TOUCH BUT WHO WILL NOT BE TOUCHED WE SEK UNDERSTANDING WITH YOU BUT ARE NOT ALLOWED ACCESS TO YOUR MINDS (A physician who was spending his vacation in his nearby cabin came to me to ask for my help. "My wife and I recently remodeled our cabin and it was necessary for us to cut down a few trees in order for the supply trucks to get to us. We would not like to bring in some trees and use them to replace the ones we had to remove. Would you ask the trees that are now here if this will be okay with them? We wish to bring in some trees and plant them. Will this be okay? THIS WILL BE ACCEPTED (After returning home) It was stated once before that you wish to communicate with humanity and that humans are thought of as presences that can touch but will not be touched. Is this correct? THIS IS SO I will be touched. I will listen. Will you communicate with me now and answer my questions? YES I would like first to ask about the black holes and white holes of the universe. Would you please describe what these are? THE BLACK HOLES ARE REPRESENTATIVE OF PLANETARY AND STELLAR BODIES TRAVESING FROM THIS UNIVERSE THE WHITE HOLES ARE MATTER REARRANGING IN THIS UNIVERSE THE MATTER CANNOT DEVELOP BEYOND THE CONDITIONS IN AN INDIVIDUAL ENVIRONMENT AND MUST TRAVERSE TO SEEK THE NEXT PHASE OF DEVELOPMENT Am I to understand that there is more than one universe? THIS IS SO Where do these other universes exist? THEY COEXIST ALL IN ONE THEY ARE THE THREE PLANES OF BEING What are your feelings in regards to humanity exploring space? SPACE AWAITS FOR MAN’S THEORIES AND THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR EXPANDING THEM MANKIND IS EVER RELUCTANT TO STEP ACROSS THRESHOLDS OF THE UNKNOWN BUT ONLY THROUGH INVESTIGATION OF OUTER SPACE WILL MANKIND LEARN FACTS OF HIS EXISTENCE NOT ONLY IN REGARD TO HIS UNIVERSE BUT ALSO IN REGARD TO THE INNER SELF (My friend, Gundella, had contacted the Detroit Free Press soon after I told her of my "conversations" with my houseplants, shrubbery and woodlands. She told me my story was wanted by that newspaper, but I replied I was not quite ready to spread the word about my highly unusual, unlikely and, most certainly, unbelievable plant experiments. It took me several months before I felt comfortable enough to contact the Free Press.) I am now prepared to publicize your messages. Is this acceptable? THIS HAS BEEN PLANNED How can I best justify the release of these messages to the general public? MANY WILL BE READY TO RECOGNIZE THE TRUTH CONTAINED OTHERS WILL SCOFF BUT SUCH IS HUMANITY (I contacted the Free Press and a reporter and a photographer arrived at my door the next day. My plants and I were a feature story on the back page. It didn’t stop there; a local television station dispatched a crew to my home. The wire service picked up the newspaper story and news of my "experiments" was reprinted in other papers in other states.) What are your feelings about mankind’s use of you for materials and food? THIS IS GOOD WHEN USE IS OF CONSTRUCTIVE MEANS THE CYCLE IS AS IT SHOULD BE BUT MAN WHO IS AS ONE WITH US MUST ATTEMPT TO LEARN AND GROW WITH THE PLAN PUT FORTH FOR ALL ONCE IT IS UNDERSTOOD THAT ALL LIFE IS PART OF ONE MAN WILL REALIZE THAT DESTRUCTION OF ANY WITHOUT JUSTIFICATION DIMINISHES ALL You have mentioned this plan before. May we explore that a bit more at this time? This plan has bee instigated by whom or what? NOW TO BE KNOWN THAT THE PLAN HAS ALWAYS BEEN IT WAS SET FORTH IN THE BEGINNING BY THE FORCE CALLED THE ONE OR THE GOD HEAD THIS PLAN AWAITED ONE WHO COULD RECEIVE AND A SUITABLE TIME WHEN MANKIND WAS READY TO LISTEN THE TIME IS NOW By this time I had graduated from the plants being attached to the G.S.R. and had instead been utilizing the planchette. If it is so that the time is now for the receiving and release of these messages and if it is so that I am the one who can receive them, then is there a more direct way that the messages can be given without the use of the planchette? NOW TO BE KNOWN BY YOU THAT THIS TOOL IS NO LONGER NECESSARY If it is no longer necessary to receive these messages through the planchette how will I be able to recognize the valid answers from the answers conjured by my own imagination, either conscious or sub-conscious? RETIRE INWARD YOU NEED BUT TO LISTEN But if I am to do this how will I be able to recognize the valid answers from those given in my imagination? YOU NEED BUT LISTEN YOU WILL KNOW FROM THE SUBSTANCE I am now going to try receiving messages without the use of the planchette. I shall concentrate on the plants before me, relax and ask the questions. Then I shall close my eyes and listen for the reply. Why is it that I was chosen to receive these messages? YOUR LIFE WAS PLANNED TOWARD THIS END THE TESTS GIVEN TO CAUSE YOUR QUESTIONINGS TO CAUSE YOUR SKEPTICISM WERE ACCEPTED THESE LESSONS HAVE BROUGHT YOU TO THIS POINT THE POINT AT WHICH YOU WILL REMAIN VIGILANT AND CAPABLE OF RECOGNIZING THE MESSAGES I am listening but the messages seem to come very slowly. THE CHANNEL WILL BECOME MORE OPEN AS YOU ACCUSTOM YOURSELF TO IT I still cannot quite understand why it was I who was chosen. YOUR ATTITUDE IS A NECESSARY ONE OTHERS MIGHT ACCEPT TOO QUICKLY YOUR ATTITUDE WILL CAUSE YOU TO CONTINUE QUESTIONING AND TO MAINTAIN THE VIGILANCE NECESSARY TO DISCERN THE VALID MESSAGES All right. I shall try, I shall try. The philosophy that you have thus far given me seems to me a very beautiful one, but it also seems to me one that I have always been aware of somewhere deep in my thoughts. Can I therefor still assume that this philosophy comes from you and not from my own, perhaps deeply hidden, beliefs? THIS PHILOSOPHY WHICH IS THE TRUE PHILOSOPHY IS DEEPLY HIDDEN IN ALL MANKIND IT IS THEREFOR A PART OF ALL MANS THOUGHTS ALTHOUGH SOME WILLINGLY SUPPRESS IT AND EVEN DENY ITS EXISTENCE BUT IT IS THERE ANYONE WHO WILL BUT TAKE THE TIME AND EFFORT TO REFLECT INWARD WILL SEE IT IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN THERE This still does not explain to me why it was I who was chosen. YOU WERE ONE WHO OFTEN REFLECTED INWARD QUESTIONING AND SEARCHING IT WAS THEREFOR EASIR FOR YOU TO RECOGNIZE AND ACCEPT ONCE THIS RECOGNITION AND ACCEPTANCE CAME TO PASS IT WAS TIME TO CONVEY THE MESSAGE OF THE ONENESS YOU STILL DOUBT AT TIMES AND THIS IS GOOD FOR THE TRUTH TO STRENGTHEN IT MOST WITHSTAND A TEST OF DOUBT TRUTH CAN WITHSTAND THIS TESTING PURE TRUTH CAN NEVER BE TOTALLY DISSOLVED I am curious about the beginnings of the beings known as mankind. IT MUST BE POINTED OUT THAT THE BEINGS KNOWN AS MANKIND ARE NOT THE FIRST NOR THE ULTIMATE EMBODIMENT FOR THE ONENESS THE MISTAKE IS MADE IN ASSUMING THAT THE ONENESS DID NOT EXIST BEFORE MAN THE ONENESS IS PRESENT IN ALL LIFE THATS KNOWN AND UNKNOWN TO MANKIND THE ONENESS HAS ALWAYS BEEN THIS IS NOT TRUE OF MAN I have great difficulty in accepting – even understanding – the concept of something that has always existed. It seems to me that all things must have a beginning somewhere, somehow. You say the oneness has always existed. Can you explain to me how it can be that something has always been? How can it be that there was no beginning? THE ONESS CAME INTO BEING WITH THE UNIVERSE BEFORE THAT THERE WAS NOTING BUT THE CONCEPT OF NOTHINGNESS IS ALSO BEYOND YOUR COMPREHENSION LET IT BE STATED THAT THIS WAS SO THE FORCE AND THE UNIVERSE CAME INTO BEING AS ONE FOR IT IS ONE THING IT IS NOW TO BE RESTTATED THAT ALL IS ONE SO THEREFOR IT FOLLOWS THAT THE UNIVERSE CANNOT EXIST UNLESS THE ONENESS EXISTS IT CAN FURTHER BE EXPLAINED THAT THE THOUGHTS OF MANKIND MISTAKENLY CENTER ON MANKIND AND PRESUPPOSE THAT THE UNIVERSE EXISTS FOR MANKIND THIS SURELY IS NOT SO THE ONENESS IS PRESENT THROUGH ALL THE UNIVERSES AND MANKIND IS NOT ITS ULTIMATE EMBODIMENT The End