In the presence of a number of friends, she carried out an experiment that remains unique in the annals of science. First she showed them a model of the result she intented to achieve: she took a marigold bloom and attached five small subsidiary blooms around its stem with copper wire. Holding her spiral pendulum by one end and allowing the other to swing freely, she stood before the marigold bed and began to ‘pendulate’ the plants in the front row, one by one. Starting on the left, she spoke out loud to each plant, telling it clearly what to do: the first was to produce five subsidiary blooms, the second seven, the third nine, the fourth eleven and the fifth thirteen. Then she went on, silently ‘pendulating’ one row at a time.

Within a few days, her friends saw that each plant was producing the number of subsidiary blooms specified by Emma Kunz. To their astonishment, they found a whole rank with five, another with seven, another with nine, another with eleven, and another with thirteen blooms. To us, this is an extraordinary and incomprehensible event. But Emma Kunz explained that it was an experimental demonstration of a law of nature. Such laws were extraordinarily simple and obvious, she said; indeed, they were too simple for our ingrained thought processes, with the result that we could either not understand them or else understand them only by complicated, roundabout means.

Emma Kunz: artist, researcher, natural healer, Anton C. Meier, Emma Kunz Zentrum, 1998, p. 27.