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 “Our present global crisis is more profound than any previous historical crises; hence our solutions must be equally drastic. I propose that we should adopt the plant as the organizational model for life in the 21st century, just as the computer seems to be the dominant mental/social model of the late twentieth century, and the steam engine was the guiding image of the nineteenth century.”  (McKenna, 1992) “Our present global crisis is more profound than any previous historical crises; hence our solutions must be equally drastic. I propose that we should adopt the plant as the organizational model for life in the 21st century, just as the computer seems to be the dominant mental/social model of the late twentieth century, and the steam engine was the guiding image of the nineteenth century.”  (McKenna, 1992)
  
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 ====ABSTRACT==== ====ABSTRACT====
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 A successful HPI would undoubtedly help provide illumination or elucidation of the tantalising, yet unverifiable experiments of Cleve Backster and his "stately DRACAENA MASSENGEANA, one of the plants which had officially ushered in the age of sentient plant reactions",  in which he investigated  "a yet undefined primary perception in plant life, that animal life termination can serve as a remotely located stimulus to demonstrate this perception capability and that this perception facility in plants can be shown to function independently of human involvement." (Swann, 1996) A successful HPI would undoubtedly help provide illumination or elucidation of the tantalising, yet unverifiable experiments of Cleve Backster and his "stately DRACAENA MASSENGEANA, one of the plants which had officially ushered in the age of sentient plant reactions",  in which he investigated  "a yet undefined primary perception in plant life, that animal life termination can serve as a remotely located stimulus to demonstrate this perception capability and that this perception facility in plants can be shown to function independently of human involvement." (Swann, 1996)
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 ====HUMAN PLANT POLLINATION==== ====HUMAN PLANT POLLINATION====
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 An HPI could reveal possible futures where interactions between humans and plants moves from consumption, nutrition and competition, towards a fertile, symbiotic entanglement. An HPI could reveal possible futures where interactions between humans and plants moves from consumption, nutrition and competition, towards a fertile, symbiotic entanglement.
  
-“Suddenly I realize +“Suddenly I realize\\ 
-That if I stepped out of my body I would break +That if I stepped out of my body I would break\\ 
-Into blossom.”4+Into blossom.” ((From James Wright's poem "A Blessing"))
  
 ====REFERENCES==== ====REFERENCES====
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