| Further experimentation led to even more astonishing results: Picking three leaves from an elm, Vogel laid them side-by-side on a glass plate at his home. Each day he spent a few minutes concentrating on two of the leaves - sending them love, and thoughts of well-being - - while ignoring the third. After a week, the leaf he ignored was brown and shriveled, while the only noticeable difference from the plants he communed with from the day he picked them was that the stems actually appeared to be healing. Additional experimentation revealed that through thought alone he found he could make a plant register up to 8,000 miles away. In one experiment, he wired two plants to the same recording device. He pulled a leaf from one plant and found that the second plant responded to the injury of the first, but only if he was paying attention to it. It appeared to be his own mental responses he was recording through the plants, as if the plants were mirroring his own consciousness. Vogel was convinced that the experiments were revealing to him a method of storing energy - subtle, psychic energy. The plants were behaving like batteries for his own thoughts and intentions. Of this period in his life, Vogel says, "It finally taught me the lessons that I needed to learn. There is energy connected with thought. When one pulses one's thought, that energy becomes coherent, and the coherency of thought has the power of a laser." After extensive experimentation using a plant connected to a Wheatstone Bridge as a measuring device (which measures electrical resistance by comparing a known resistance to an unknown resistance), Vogel learned that when the breath is released slowly in a natural way, the instrumentation showed little activity. But by holding the breath and releasing it in a sudden burst - a pulsing of breath from the nostrils - the charge was consolidated and took on a laser-like quality. The needle measuring the activity would practically go off the chart. He further discovered that distances of 10, 20, and even 100 feet did not lessen the charge. Apparently, he had overcome the inverse square law (the square of distance inversely proportional to the influence of two bodies acting on one another) and was witnessing a new type of energy transformation. And breath, it seemed, was the key. Of the two distinct polarities involved in breathing, inhalation draws a charge into the body, while exhalation discharges an opposite polarity. Scientifically, inhalation draws oxygen in to the blood forming oxyhemoglobin, and exhalation releases carbon dioxide. But on an esoteric level, Vogel believes that inhalation also draws in Prana (Ki, Chi') - the Life Force, while exhalation releases the power of thought. And, indeed, it is difficult to argue that, at least, the expression of our thoughts is accomplished through exhalation. If you doubt this, just try and carry on a conversation while only inhaling. | |
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