Good Vibrations

     The subject was a touchy one, but if it was brought out into the open, it might lend to some good blog fodder.

     I'm really not sure how it even evolved to the conversation, but the topic of plants being able to hear, and feel, came up while we were all in the kitchen.

     It is a proven fact that plants sense vibrations.

     Way back in the 1960's, an era of all things love, peace and cool, a specialist in the CIA, Cleve Backster, discovered something unique.  I have no idea if Cleve was just bored, or what was going on in his grey matter, but one day he decided to hook up a lie detector machine to one of his plants.  

     He put a flame under one of the leaves of the plant and the needle on the lie detector went off the scale.  From that point on there were many studies that coincided with the theory that plants could sense what was going on around them and thus reacted in kind to whatever was positive or negative......getting burnt was obviously not a good thing.

    Since this was a 1960's phenomenon, my oldest son-in-law broke into said dialect...."Wow man, I was talkin' to this plant and wow, it was really in to me and told me all about what had gone on in its plant life."

     Trying not to laugh, which really did not work very well, I explained that even creatures, great and small, pick up vibrations from their surroundings.....and that all have a purpose for being here in the first place.  This led to a conversation about insects.....namely spiders....and that a person had intentionally used another door out of the house, as to not disturb a spider that had made a web on the door that was the usual way out. 

     My youngest son-in-law jumped into the conversation to say that he had an episode with a spider.   He said he became aware of the spider and made a whooshing sound to describe his becoming "one" with the spider.  This sound turned out to be what a can of bug spray sounds like when the trigger is pulled.

     By this time, the kitchen was a swirling mass of hysteria. 

     Later, one of the co-conspirators to funniness, declared that he did not believe that plants could hear, except maybe.... for corn,,,,,,because corn has ears.

     The obituary of a man stated that he had been an avid hunter of many types of game.  As he grew older, he could not bring himself to kill another creature of the earth.  My father experienced the same thing.

     Everything has a vibration, even a rock.  The laws of physics has proven this.  The vibes may not be strong enough to hear or see, but they are still there.

     Knowing this, we should take care of what we say or do.....especially if we are standing in a corn field.