When attacked, plants use bugs to protect themselves and to retaliate. It turns out they can also defend themselves by using their roots to secrete acid that brings bacteria to the rescue.

This quashes the misperception that plants are at the mercy of passing pathogens and sheds new light on a sophisticated signaling system inside plants that rivals the nervous system in humans and animals.

Researcher Harsh Bais says, “Plants are a lot smarter than we give them credit for. People think that plants, rooted in the ground, are just sitting ducks when it comes to attack by harmful fungi or bacteria, but we’ve found that plants have ways of seeking external help.”
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A post-Halloween reflection – In her newdiary, AnneStrieber writes: “Shortly after I did the subscriberinterview withDawnBrunke, a listener wrote and asked, ‘Is Anne Strieber apagan?’ I was scratching my head over that one, but then Ifinally figured it out.” If you want to listen to theinterview she’s talking about (as well as the Dawn Brunkeshow), subscribetoday!

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Shortly after I did the subscriber interview with Dawn Brunke, a listener wrote and asked, “Is Anne Strieber a pagan?” I was scratching my head over that one, but then I finally figured it out.

Dawn’s book talks about animal shapeshifting and since I experienced once of the most amazing examples of this when my dead mother came to me in the guise of my dead Siamese cat, I snagged Dawn for the subscriber interview. I think the question was asked (I must admit I didn’t bother to answer it) because, in the interview, I talked with Dawn about some Wiccans I knew who were out in the country and hungry and so pretended (in a kind of shape-shifting exercise) to be bears and wade into a pond, where they were able to catch fish by clapping their hands together underwater.
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Bert Janssen is one of the most remarkable of crop circle researchers because he is both a mathematical expert and a meditator, scientist and shaman both. By using both sides of his brain, he has made true breakthroughs in understanding, communicating with and using the energy of crop circles. And DO NOT MISS LINDA HOWE THIS WEEK–ALL-TIME INCREDIBLE UFO SIGHTING.

Bert relates crop circles to quantum physics and talks about how their quantum-physical aspects account for some of the strange phenomena, such as sudden shifts in time, that people sometimes experience in the circles. He understands that crop circles are a school for the development of human consciousness, and he ALSO understands how to enter that school and take lessons that can change you forever.
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