Spirit Science 34 ~ The Backster Effect

Spirit Science 34 ~ The Backster Effect is the 3rd episode beyond Season 2 and the 34th episode overall, published on April 19th, 2017 on YouTube.
== Plot ==
The episode begins with a quote from Thoth and fades to Patchman. Patchman explains that everything is made of a large field— energy that which comes from the quantum realm. Patchman pulls out the definition of the word "quantum" from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. With that definition of the word "quantum", he explains that everything is made up of energy, at every level at once. He notes that David Wilcock's The Source Field Investigations and Lynne McTaggart's The Field are regularly cited throughout the episode. The title begins afterwards.
As Patchman explains that quantum mechanics goes back way into Ancient Greece, he considers it to be very obvious and fundamental. Patchman introduces to Cleve Backster, a CIA interrogation specialist who studied hypnosis but then tried to find a way to prove that plants have feelings. He tried many ways to make the plant go under stress, but to no avail. His last thought was lighting a match to burn a leaf from the plant, only for the polygraph to show huge spikes, indicating the plant's "stress". He thought that the plant read his mind, so he recorded that part on the day of February 2nd, 1966. Afterwards, he used controls to take his experiment to the next level; they were Faraday cages and he moved on to a very large, "shield-of-the-art" room. The polygraph results remain intact. He contacted NASA astronomer Brian O'Leary to be a part of his experiment. His experiment was taken further one last time by taking a saliva sample from O'Leary, synchronizing watches, and then Backster went back to his lab to monitor the saliva sample with no breaks. O'Leary reported the times when he experience fear, such as when "O'Leary nearly missed his flight, as the plane took off and again as it landed, and when O'Leary's son failed to meet him at the airport". Those times were the same times as the spike activity on the polygraph.
Patchman finds Backster's experiments to be remarkable, but becomes concerned when he saw that this is not on mainstream media. Patchman knows that skeptics will be involved to just say that the experiments is being debunked instead of it being a conspiracy. He quickly generalizes that when scientists do an experiment, their thoughts affect the outcome of the experiment, whether or not the intention was to prove or disprove it. He goes back to the principle that thoughts are related to someone being psychic, so that if one has an emotion, everyone in the crowd will feel the same emotion as the original person. Backster tries eating food, but as the food was held to the polygraph, the polygraph recorded spikes for every bite that Backster took, leading him to believe that eating the food causes it to suffer. He quickly concludes that by praying, the food will not be stressed and willingly and gracefully succumb to the "fact" that it's the food's destiny to be a part of a person who wants to eat the food. The episode ends after Patchman is done explaining Backster's experiments.
== Trivia ==
* If one simply calls it "The Field", then the term is oversimplified, and hence, people will become confused, even scientists on the purpose of simply using the term "The Field" instead of specifying this so-called "field".
* The definition of the word "quantum" is misused to support the argument that everything is a field.
* Even though Backster is related to quantum mysticism, he has not contributed to anything in quantum mechanics, and unfortunately, the episode censored some other scientists, such as Max Planck, J. J. Thompson, Werner Heisenburg, and Paul Dirac.
* Despite Backster's experiments, the controls weren't suffice to make the experiments replicable.
** This can also mean that the fact that Brian O'Leary was experiencing fear at those times was just a coincidence or fabricated data.
* MythBusters actually showed the opposite of what Backster did. Even though Patchman said that this proves Backster's experiments otherwise.
** Looking back to the fallacy in Backster's experiment, one can conclude that the polygraph responded not because of the food's stress, but because of the force of the bite that affects the polygraph results, further increasing the egregiousness of the plagiarism in Backster's experiments.
== Sources ==
* Wilcock, David The Source Field Investigations: The Hidden Science and Lost Civilizations Behind the 2012 Prophecies http://amzn.to/2tdXMB1
* McTaggart, Lynne The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe, 2001 http://amzn.to/2rCU3jj
* Backster, Cleve Primary Perception: Biocommunication with Plants, Living Foods, and Human Cells, 2003 http://amzn.to/2rCU6vv
* Sherman, Harold How to make ESP Work for You, 1964 http://haroldsherman.com
* Talbot, Michael The Holographic Universe: The Revolutionary Theory of Reality, 1991 http://amzn.to/2rrbj6W
* Patterson, David and Jenson, Mark The University of Washington, http://ideas.ted.com/how-scientists-are-trying-to-unlock-the-mysteries-of-hypnosis/
* Radin, Dean, PhD The Institute of Noetic Sciences http://noetic.org
* Sheldrake, Rupert, PhD http://www.sheldrake.org
* Popp, Fritz-Albert PhD http://www.biontologyarizona.com/dr-fritz-albert-popp/
* Mythbusters – Primary Perception https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fStmk7e9lJo