■00:02〜 After five decades of obsecurity, a legacy of Jagadish Chandra Bose is now revived in SanDiego, California. 50年間の沈黙の時を経て、ジャガディシュ・チャンドラ・ボーズの伝説が、カリフォルイア州サンディエゴで復活の日の目を見た。
■00:18〜 Welcome to the Backster school of lie-detection, I am Cleve Backster, and during the next six weeks here in San Diego, you are going to be involved in very intensified instructional course in the use of Polygraph or so-called lie-detector. 「バクスター・スクール・オブ・ライデテクションへようこそ。 私はクリーブ・バクスターです。ここサンディエゴに於いて これから6週間、貴方達はポリグラフ、つまり嘘発見器の使い方について、とても厳しい教育コースに参加することになります。」
■00:35〜 In the course of career, dedicated to the investigation for the Federal or municipal law enforcement agencies, Cleve Backster has earned reputation as the world's foremost authority on the polygraph.
■00:48〜 As of February 1966, I've been in the polygraph field full-time for 18 years... and on this particular morning, I've been working all night in the laboratory, and I decided to water a plant in the lab, very similar to the plant here, you see the cane plant. My thought was as the moisture arrived to the leaf of the plant, it should be, the plant should be a better conductor, and I should get a reading on the chart. But strangely enough I didn't get this at all.... and in fact, it did just the opposite, instead of tracing, edging upward as it should have on the chart, it went into sort of a wild excitation very similar to the first part of human taking polygraph test. 「1966年の2月で、私はポリグラフにフル・タイムで携わり、18年の時が過ぎていました。 そんなある朝、研究所で夜通し仕事をしていたのですが、研究室においてあった観葉植物 --- ちょうどここにある植物と同じですね ---その植物に水をやろうと思ったのです。 そこで思いついたのは、植物の葉に水分が運ばれていくならば、植物こそ 非常に都合の良い導体であり、ポリグラフの反応チャートに結果が描かれるはずだ と考えたのです。」 「しかし、奇妙なことにそのような結果が出なかったのです。 それどころか全く反対の結果が出ました。 チャートでいえば右肩上がりで描かれるはずのグラフ線が、まるで人間が始めてポリグラフのテスト受けたときのように、とても不安定な状態でした。」
■1:42〜 Then it occurred to me, just about 14 minutes long, "what would be the real optimum threat to well-being of the plant ?" In fact, an imagery of fire entered into my mind, and not only a thought, but I fully intended to burn the very leaf that was being tested with a match. I had no matches in the room at the time, and I don't smoke and I had to go next door to my secretary's there to get a match. But the interesting thing is, right at the split second, that imagery of the fire entered into my mind, the tracing reflecting the changes in the plant just went right off to the top of the page. And the only thing occurred at that time, no lighting of the match, nothing else - merely an imagery of the fire... I would say that as of 14 minutes long of that initial observation in the morning of Februay 2, 1966, my life just hasn't been the same. 「そこでひらめいたのが、ちょうど14分ぐらい経ってからですが、『植物にとって一番の脅威とは何か?』という疑問です。 ちょうどそのとき、火のイメージが心に浮かんだのです。 そればかりか、本当にマッチで葉に火をつけて燃やしてやろう と強く思ったのです。 丁度研究室にはマッチが無く、私は煙草を吸いませんから、秘書のいる隣の部屋までいってマッチを取ってきました。 しかし面白かったのが、火のイメージが浮かんだその瞬間、植物の状態変化を示すチャートの線が、グラフの紙の上端はみ出すほどに描かれていたのです。 そのときに起きたことは、マッチに火をつけてもいないのに、ただ心に火のイメージが浮かんだことだけなのです。 つまり1966年2月2日の朝に起きた その14分間の初期実験の観察での出来事が 私の人生を変えたといっても過言ではありません。」
■2:42〜 With findings to the initial experience, when plant entered into his mind, Backster works nights, on his own, in his small laboratory. その最初の経験の発見から「植物が心に入り込んだ」バクスター氏は、それ以来、夜通し小さな研究室でただ一人仕事を続けている。
■2:54〜 His goal is to perfect an experiment that will satisfy a rigid criteria of the scientific establishment. 彼のゴールとは、科学的組織の厳正なる条件を満足させるべく、実験を完全なものに仕上げることだ。
■3:05〜 Backster hopes to show the plants react to any termination of life in their immediate environment. ここでバクスター氏は、近隣の環境で起きた生命停止状態に対し、果たして植物は反応するか、という実験を試みる。
■3:16〜 During the next six hours, at some undetermined moment chosen by a randomizer, these Brine shrimp will fall to the death in boiling water. By totally automating his equipment, Backster is determined to eliminate human influence. In another room, completely separate from his laboratory, Backster has placed a philodendron plant, a polygraph and a video tape recorder. Carefully he placed his leaf between a pair of electrodes, that will monitor electrical activities of the plant. As he has done during countless police interrogations, Backster establishes his base lines on a polygraph to get an accurate recording of reaction of his subjects. The video recorder will take the details of the experiment in Backster's absence. 今から6時間の内に、ランドマイザー(乱数発生器)という装置により決定される予期できない瞬間に、これらのブライン・シュリンプ(シーモンキー)が 沸騰したお湯に落とされ死に至る。 装置を完全自動化することで、人間の意志による影響が介入するのを防ぐためだ。 この研究室から独立した別の部屋では、バクスター氏はポトスを置き、ポリグラフとビデオ・カメラをセットした。 慎重に電極の間に葉を挟み、植物の電気的反応を計る。 いままで無数に行ってきた警察での取調べと同じく、バクスター氏はポリグラフの基本線を決定し、対象の反応を正確に記録する。 そしてビデオカメラが氏が留守の間、実験の詳細を記録するのだ。
■4:24〜 For the automation of this experiment to be successful, I have to get a certain distance away from my labs so that my conciousness will not affect the result. 「自動化した実験を成功させるために、自分の意識が実験に影響しないように、私は研究所からある程度距離をおかなくてはならないのです」
■5:34〜 I hadn't previously experienced any direct or indirect exposure to mystical philosophies, my contacts have been well within the establishment - particularly Federal agencies and law enforcement. Before working with plants I hadn't really thought about the idea of great conciousness or awareness. Now I look around, that I see differences in meaning . 「いままで、私は直接的あるいは間接的に、神秘的哲学というものに触れた経験はありません。 私の知人は連邦政府関連あるいは法律施行機関のような組織の人間ばかりです。 植物の研究をする前は、意識や自覚といった考えは有りませんでした。 しかし今となっては、その意味するところの違いが分かるのです」
■7:21〜 The California dawn often finds Cleve Backster still at work in his small room behind his laboratory. The results of each night's work must be carefully analyzed and recorded. In spite of his high percentage with successful results, only a few daring individuals from scientific establishment have come forward with offers to replicate his experiments, or test his results. The great majority are contempt to simply to condemn his effort without taking a trouble to investigate their validity. カリフォルニアの夜が明ける頃になっても、クリーブバクスター氏は研究所の小さな部屋で仕事に励んでいる。 毎晩の研究結果を、慎重にそして正確に分析し、記録しなくてはならない。 しかし彼の誇る高い実験成功率を持ってしても、その実験結果を調査あるいは再現しようと試みる主流派の科学組織から来る勇者達は、ほんの2−3人しかいない。 殆どの科学者達は、実験結果の正当性を検証しようとさえせず、単に嘲笑し、彼の努力を吐き捨てる。
■7:57〜 A few brine shrimps died and a plant feels their death. I think it's the smallness of the event that makes it so significant. It means that even on lower levels of life, there is a profound conciousness or an awareness that binds all things together. 「数匹のシーモンキーが死んで、植物が彼らの死を感じ取る。 この小さな出来事が、逆にとても重要な意味を示している、と思います。 それは、如何に低いレベルの生命であっても、人間には理解し難い意識や自覚というものが有り、それにより全ての生き物は繋がっている、ということなのです。」
■00:02〜
After five decades of obsecurity, a legacy of Jagadish Chandra Bose is now revived in SanDiego, California.
■00:18〜
Welcome to the Backster school of lie-detection, I am Cleve Backster, and during the next six weeks here in San Diego, you are going to be involved in very intensified instructional course in the use of Polygraph or so-called lie-detector.
■00:35〜
In the course of career, dedicated to the investigation for the Federal or municipal law enforcement agencies, Cleve Backster has earned reputation as the world's foremost authority on the polygraph.
■00:48〜
As of February 1966, I've been in the polygraph field full-time for 18 years... and on this particular morning, I've been working all night in the laboratory, and I decided to water a plant in the lab, very similar to the plant here, you see the cane plant. My thought was as the moisture arrived to the leaf of the plant, it should be, the plant should be a better conductor, and I should get a reading on the chart. But strangely enough I didn't get this at all.... and in fact, it did just the opposite, instead of tracing, edging upward as it should have on the chart, it went into sort of a wild excitation very similar to the first part of human taking polygraph test.
■1:42〜
Then it occurred to me, just about 14 minutes long, "what would be the real optimum threat to well-being of the plant ?" In fact, an imagery of fire entered into my mind, and not only a thought, but I fully intended to burn the very leaf that was being tested with a match. I had no matches in the room at the time, and I don't smoke and I had to go next door to my secretary's there to get a match. But the interesting thing is, right at the split second, that imagery of the fire entered into my mind, the tracing reflecting the changes in the plant just went right off to the top of the page. And the only thing occurred at that time, no lighting of the match, nothing else - merely an imagery of the fire... I would say that as of 14 minutes long of that initial observation in the morning of Februay 2, 1966, my life just hasn't been the same.
■2:42〜
With findings to the initial experience, when plant entered into his mind, Backster works nights, on his own, in his small laboratory.
■2:54〜
His goal is to perfect an experiment that will satisfy a rigid criteria of the scientific establishment.
■3:05〜
Backster hopes to show the plants react to any termination of life in their immediate environment.
■3:16〜
During the next six hours, at some undetermined moment chosen by a randomizer, these Brine shrimp will fall to the death in boiling water. By totally automating his equipment, Backster is determined to eliminate human influence. In another room, completely separate from his laboratory, Backster has placed a philodendron plant, a polygraph and a video tape recorder. Carefully he placed his leaf between a pair of electrodes, that will monitor electrical activities of the plant. As he has done during countless police interrogations, Backster establishes his base lines on a polygraph to get an accurate recording of reaction of his subjects. The video recorder will take the details of the experiment in Backster's absence.
■4:24〜
For the automation of this experiment to be successful, I have to get a certain distance away from my labs so that my conciousness will not affect the result.
■5:34〜
I hadn't previously experienced any direct or indirect exposure to mystical philosophies, my contacts have been well within the establishment - particularly Federal agencies and law enforcement. Before working with plants I hadn't really thought about the idea of great conciousness or awareness. Now I look around, that I see differences in meaning .
■7:21〜
The California dawn often finds Cleve Backster still at work in his small room behind his laboratory. The results of each night's work must be carefully analyzed and recorded. In spite of his high percentage with successful results, only a few daring individuals from scientific establishment have come forward with offers to replicate his experiments, or test his results. The great majority are contempt to simply to condemn his effort without taking a trouble to investigate their validity.
■7:57〜
A few brine shrimps died and a plant feels their death. I think it's the smallness of the event that makes it so significant. It means that even on lower levels of life, there is a profound conciousness or an awareness that binds all things together.
I can't conceive the nucleus of all
Begins inside a tiny seed
And what we think as insignificant
Provides the purest air we breathe
But who am I to doubt or question the inevitable being
For these are but a few discoveries
We find inside the Secret Life of Plants
A species smaller than the eye can see
Or larger than most living things
And yet we take from it without consent
Our shelter, food, habilment
But who am I to doubt or question the inevitable being
For these are but a few discoveries
Wwe find inside the Secret Life of Plants
But far too many give them in return
A stomp, cut, drown, or burn
As is they're nothing
But if you ask yourself where would you be
Without them you will find you would not
And some believe antennas are their leaves
That spans beyond our galaxy
They've been, they are and probably will be
Who are the mediocrity
But who am I to doubt or question the inevitable being
For these are but a few discoveries
We find inside the Secret Life of Plants
For these are but a few discoveries
We find inside the Secret Life of Plants