Christopher O. Bird
American author and alleged CIA operative who co-authored The Secret Life of Plants, popularizing Cleve Backster's plant sentience experiments.
Christopher O. Bird was an American author and alleged CIA operative. He is known for co-authoring the 1973 bestselling book, The Secret Life of Plants, which popularized the controversial experiments of Cleve Backster on plant sentience.1
Sources
- Jacobsen, Annie. Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis. Little, Brown and Company, 2017. ↩
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