Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, once a prominent and well-respected biologist, has been an outsider to the scientific establishment ever since the publication of his groundbreaking book, A New Science of Life. In 1981 the book and its theories came uder fierce attack by the scientific establishment, led by Sir John Maddox in an unsigned editorial at Nature, noxiously titled “A book for burning?”

Do plants communicate telepathically with the world surrounding them? Do they collaborate with nature using telekinesis to control people and animals and objects? These questions surfaced last week as I read about sage plants, which blossom at incalculably irregularly times—yet when they do, every nearby sage blossoms in unison. The question was posed: Is it plant telepathy?