Peter Tompkins
American journalist, former OSS officer, and co-author of the 1973 bestseller The Secret Life of Plants on plant sentience.
Peter Tompkins was an American journalist, author, and former OSS officer. He is best 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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