Sin death and beyond

SIN, DEATH AND BEYOND: M.M.NINAN
and affection gives out a different vibration compared to a plant subjected to torture. Plant
perception or bio-communication is the idea that plants are sentient, that they respond to
humans in a manner that amounts to ESP and that they experience pain and fear.
Recent research has shown that plants can respond to electrical impulses, but their lack of a
central nervous system and nociceptive A delta fibers implies that plants have no feeling of
pain. The theory is dismissed by scientists because plants lack a nervous system. The notion
that plants are capable of feeling emotions was first recorded in 1848, when Dr. Gustav
Theodor Fechner, a German experimental psychologist, suggested that plants are capable of
emotions and that one could promote healthy growth with talk, attention, attitude, and affection.
The mythbusters TV series broadcasted experiments in Season 4, Episode 18, 2006 which
also came to the same conclusion that plants have no feeling of pain using polygraphs and
other devises.
The idea fits in with the classification of Jainism where even within the vegetatbles there is a
hierarchy indicating existence of several lower dimensions which we are not aware of. In
Jewish tradition the hierarchy divides all life form upto seven levels. Vegetative life thus falls
just above non-living and is the gateway of life form in the material world. According to biblical
verses they were created to repair deficiencies of the living and prolong life.
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