Cleve Backster - Wikipedia
WEBHe is the former director of the Backster School of Lie Detection in San Diego, California and was a polygraph instructor before his experiments on plants.
Cleve Backster Talked to Plants. And They Talked Back. - The New …
WEBDec 21, 2013 · On a lark, Backster, who had a playful streak that belied his military background (he studied astrology, dabbled with LSD and supposedly spent a summer as a stunt diver in a circus), decided to...
The Secret Life of Plants – Harvard Science Review
WEBJan 22, 2014 · On a night in 1966 interrogation specialist Cleve Backster taught how to perform lie detection to policemen. On a whim, Backster attached electrodes of a galvanometer to a nearby dracaena plant. A galvanometer is an instrument that detects minute electric currents, often used as a part of the polygraph lie detector.
Backster, Cleve (b. 1924) | Encyclopedia.com
WEBFormer interrogator for the CIA who became one of America's leading polygraph ( lie detector) specialists. He became director of the Keeler Polygraph Institute in Chicago and later founded the Cleve Backster School of Lie Detection in Manhattan, New York.
Cleve Backster | Psi Encyclopedia - SPR
WEBIn 1959, he returned to New York and founded what would eventually become the Backster School of Lie Detection, which is still in operation today.
The Plants Respond: An Interview With Cleve Backster
WEBJul 1, 1997 · Lie detectors work on the principle that when people perceive a threat to their well-being, they respond physiologically in predictable ways. For instance, if you were conducting a polygraph test as part of a murder investigation, you might ask a suspect, “Was it you who fired the fatal shot?”
Cleve Backster – the man who talks with plants - San Diego Reader
WEBNov 24, 1982 · Consulting work calls him away several times a year, and whenever one of the school’s seven-week lie-detection courses is in progress, Backster teaches, usually three afternoons a week.
The Intelligent Plant | The New Yorker
WEBDec 15, 2013 · The most memorable passages described the experiments of a former C.I.A. polygraph expert named Cleve Backster, who, in 1966, on a whim, hooked up a galvanometer to the leaf of a dracaena, a...
Parliament of Things — The Secret Life of Plants
WEBMay 3, 2017 · This video shows Cleve Backster, a polygraph tester at the CIA, explaining how his experiment on plants changed his life forever. On a particularly boring February 2, 1966, Backster noticed a houseplant in his office and decided to perform a polygraph test on it while giving it some water.
Who was Cleve Backster? - Medium
WEBOct 15, 2020 · Backster was a former CIA lie-detector specialist who helped to develop the polygraph techniques that are still in general use today by the U.S. military and government agencies who recorded...