having only the finest materials with the highest of nutritive qualities
remain, the coarser having been left behind to build up the structure of
the lower part of the tree.
In addition, this refinement of the energy at the leaves gives it a
kind of increased homeopathic potency; so that when they receive
the highly energized drops of falling rainwater there is an immedi-
ate transfer of pure energy or life force. It is therefore hardly surpris-
ing that this is where the most intense growth takes place.
These areas of dense growth where the biocondensers are
located are finely structured and susceptible to damage, either by
being pierced, or disturbed by excessive warming. If this happens,
the biocondenser fails, disease sets in and the tree dies.
By inserting copper probes, Walter Schauberger was able to
record significantly high electrical charges between the cambium
layer and the heart of the trunk, sufficient to light a small flashlight
bulb. The healthier and more naturally had the tree grown, the
brighter the light observed.Root systems
The root system, being the invisible part of the tree, has an aura of
mystery. A germinating seed puts down a root into the darkness before
it sends a shoot into the light. The root system is the complement to
the canopy, and its energy exchange system is just as complex.
It is important to see the whole tree as an energy pathway that
brings about a marriage of the negatively charged energies of the
Earth (a receptive, female system) with the positively charged ener-
gies of the atmosphere and the Sun (a radiating, male system). Out
of this union comes the primary manifestation of the organism,
'tree' — with its secondary life-enhancing processes of chlorophyll
production and photosynthesis.
We are taught wrongly that there is a one-way transport of
nutrients from the roots to the leaves. The very fine root tips, with
their tiny capillaries, correspond to the new, growing leaves in the
tree canopy, and at night the descending energies and nutritive ele-
ments contribute to the important processes that these root tips
perform.
At the ends of the root tips are tiny protoplasms, little chemical
factories that perform the important task of converting minerals
from their natural metallic to the organic form that the tree is able
- THE METABOLISM OF THE TREE