health from the ceaseless bombardment of the body's very sensi-
tive, electrically charged cells by the veritable salad of electromag-
netic emissions from high-tension cables, radio, television, radar,
microwave transmitters, etc.
A very tragic example of this was publicized by the media in the
summer of 2001.^5 The navies of several countries, notably the US
and Britain, have developed sonar technology for hunting sub-
marines. This involves using massive blasts of sound up to 230 deci-
bels which have been blamed for several mass killings and
strandings of marine mammals, notably in the Bahamas in 2000
when at least seventeen Cuvier's beaked whales are known to have
died.
Post mortem examination showed that sonar killed them
through resonance, a process in which air bubbles in water can
amplify sound waves by up to 25 times. When whales dive the air is
forced out of their lungs into the tiny air spaces around the brain.
Harmful resonance in these air spaces is believed to cause massive
tissue damage and hemorrhaging, so that injuries can occur at
much lower sound levels and over a much larger area than is
presently acknowledged.
The rules that the US navy scientists follow are based on old-
fashioned physical science which puts the safe noise level below 180
decibels, and the safe distance below 2.2 km (1.4 miles). There is
now evidence that resonance effects could injure whales up to 100
km (62 miles) away.Plants have perception and memory
Cleve Backster was a former CIA interrogator who trained police in
the use of the polygraph, or lie detector. One of their techniques was
the use of 'threat to wellbeing' to evoke emotionality in suspects. In
a spontaneous experiment, he attached the electrodes of the instru-
ment to a plant. In considering what a plant would regard as a
threat, he thought of applying a burning match to a leaf. Without
even moving, only his thought alone triggered a strong response in
the plant.^6
Subsequent experiments, which were then widely repeated by
different researchers, showed that plants are able to communicate
or 'resonate' their shocked or pleasurable experiences to one
another. Backster describes how he tried to block whatever signals
- NATURE'S PATTERNS AND SHAPES