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DNA discoveries linked to paranormal?
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 SOUTH KOREA. As Prince Charles will tell you, talking to plants or playing them soothing music can accelerate their growth. Now comes news that suggests he was right after all. Scientists in South Korea claim to have identified genes that can "hear” and have discovered which sounds enhance the growth of plants.
They monitored gene expression in rice plants – the process by which their DNA code is translated into instructions for biological processes such as growth. Russian scientists experimenting with DNA have also claimed that it plays a vital role in certain paranormal phenomena.
In the South Korean experiments, researchers led by Mi-Jeong Jeong of the National Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology in Suwon, played 14 different classical pieces to rice plants. They found that sounds at specific frequencies – 125Hz and 250Hz – made certain genes more active, and Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata was once of the pieces which had this beneficial effect, whereas waves at 50Hz made them less active.
The genes in question (rbcS and Ald) are known to respond to light, so the scientists repeated their experiments in the dark, with the same results. According to the New Scientist the researchers speculate that the production of chemicals that lead to the genetic changes they observed could be harnessed to activate other specific genes that could trigger the flowering of crops.
But it also quoted sceptical scientists who suggested that other factors, such as the wind, could “drown out” the effects of the sound. It was also suggested that too few samples had been analysed for the results to be trusted.
This report echoes a claim – taken from a book published in 2001 – that is circulating widely on the Internet. It says Russian biophysicist and molecular biologist Pjotr Garjajev and his colleagues have been carrying out cutting-edge research into “the more esoteric nature of DNA”.
Working with linguists and geneticists, they are said to have proved that DNA can be influenced and reprogrammed by words and frequencies, concluding that human DNA is a biological internet that is superior in many respects to the artificial one.
Russian researcher Dr. Vladimir Poponin is said to have put DNA in a tube and beamed a laser through it. When the DNA was removed, the laser light continued spiralling on its own, like it would through a crystal. This phenomenon is called “Phantom DNA Effect”.
The Russian team’s investigation was inspired by the realisation that 90 per cent of our DNA appears to have no relevance – it has even been described as “junk DNA”. It is the other 10 per cent, which is used for building proteins, that western scientists are focusing their attention on. But Garjajev and his colleagues did not believe that the bulk of our DNA is useless, so they began delving deeper.
 In their book Vernetzte Intelligenz (2001), which means “Networked Intelligence”, Grazyna Fosar and Franz Bludorf describe some of these findings and make their own interpretations. The book is only available in German, but this English summary indicates the scope of their work:
“The latest research explains phenomena such as clairvoyance, intuition, spontaneous and remote acts of healing, self healing, affirmation techniques, unusual light-auras around people (such as spiritual masters), the mind’s influence on weather-patterns and much more.
“The Russian scientists also found out that our DNA can cause disturbing patterns in the vacuum, thus producing magnetised wormholes! Wormholes are the microscopic equivalents of the so-called Einstein-Rosen bridges in the vicinity of black holes (left by burned-out stars).
“These are tunnel connections between entirely different areas in the universe through which information can be transmitted outside of space and time. The DNA attracts these bits of information and passes them on to our consciousness.”
As one commentator puts it: “Their results, findings and conclusions are simply revolutionary!”
If proved to be true, and confirmed by other scientists, then that could be an understatement. But a word of caution is necessary. It is strange that these research results appear to be available only through a book written by authors who specialise in the paranormal.
None of the numerous versions of this story to be found on the Internet tell us at which scientific establishment Pjotr Garjajev and Dr Vladimir Poponin are based and which scientific journals have published their work.
Until that information is available we must reserve judgment.
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Posted on Saturday, September 01, 2007
Category: Paranormal
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