organic substances are spun into this belt of rapidly rotating core
water (emulsified) that is composed to a large extent of ionized ele-
ments. What this does is to enable new combinations and recombi-
nations of the various elements and suspended substances. This is
a process that Viktor called 'cold fermentation,' which is very much
associated with longitudinal vortices. These are beneficial because
the cooling makes the oxygen and silicates more passive and able to
combine with carbones, which then produce a fructigenic or
growth-promoting effect.
Overheating of the water creates other types of vortices that are
not so beneficial. These might be vortices forming laterally across
the river (transverse vortices), or vertical vortices ascending to the
surface from the river bed. In these the oxygen is heated, becoming
aggressive, and producing low quality, germinating-inhibiting ener-
gies or pathogen-producing bacteria. This often happens as a result
of poorly conceived river regulation, and can propagate harmful
energies to the countryside.The formation of bends
A river will always follow a sinuous energy-generating path, because
this is in its nature, unless mountains or other immovable objects
prevent it. Rivers are the mirrors of an unseen flow of energy.
The water on the right bank heats up where it has been exposed
to the Sun's heat (see Fig. 11.6 section and profile 2-2^1 ); the water
becomes more turbulent and begins to decelerate compared to the
main body of water. The water flowing along the left-hand bank
which is cooler and faster moving then overtakes the slower moving
water and curls towards the right around it, due to the increasing tur-
bulence and deceleration of the warmer water, eventually creating a
bend. The faster flow will pull the heavier sediment centrifugally to
the left, while sediment on the right is scoured out by the colder
water. Meanwhile at this point the cross-sectional profile of the river
becomes asymmetrical, due to the varying flows and temperatures,
the coldest water flowing in the deeper section of the channel.
The cold water now flows on the other side of the channel; a
bend is formed in the opposite direction due to the momentum of
the cold water-masses, (see section and profile 3-3^1 ). This rhythm
of the river changing its course from left to right and right to left is
an integral part of its pulsating flow. It is our interference of this
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