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created: 2025-07-23
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title: Peter Tompkins
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description: Peter Tompkins was an American journalist, author, and former OSS officer, known for co-authoring "The Secret Life of Plants."
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[[Peter Tompkins]] was an American journalist, author, and former [[Office of Strategic Services|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]
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[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.