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category: "Psychics & Remote Viewers"
tags:
  - Person
  - RemoteViewer
summary: "American journalist, former OSS officer, and co-author of the 1973 bestseller The Secret Life of Plants on plant sentience."
born: 1919-04-19
died: 2007-01-23
location: "Athens, Georgia"
---


[[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]


[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.