The golden plough
Wherever we look, the dreadful disintegration of the bridges of life,
the capillaries and the bodies they have created, is evident, which has
been caused by the mechanical and mindless work of Man, who has
torn away the soul from the Earth's blood — water.
Viktor Schauberger^2
Viktor observed how steel ploughs damage the soil. Drawn rap-
idly through the ground, the hard steel ploughshares generate
minute ferro-electric and ferro-magnetic currents that decom-
pose the nutrient-laden water molecules in the soil, in a manner
similar to electrolysis, resulting in water loss. The surface tension
of the water molecule is reduced, the soil loses its energy poten-
tial and its nutritive subtle energies are dissipated. This not only
destroys the soil's subtler energies, but also converts the nutritive
elements or removes them from the mature water molecule. The
residual water becomes pure juvenile water that has no nutritive
value.
Abrasion with the soil removes tiny particles of steel from the
cutting surface of the plough, which break down to rust, an ideal
breeding ground for harmful pathogenic bacteria. An increase in
the iron content of soil inhibits its water retention. On the other
hand, soils high in copper have the capacity to retain greater quan-
tities of water.
The delicate soil capillaries that deliver nutrients and water to
the surface, and some of the micro-organisms that process them are
destroyed by the heat-producing friction and the compacting pres-
sure of the steel plough. As the normal supply of nutrients from
below is cut off and the water table falls, the soil fertility suffers.
Schauberger started to experiment with copper, initially as a
plating of thick copper over a conventional steel plough. The
destructive ferro-electromagnetic effects of the steel plough were
thus replaced by beneficial bioelectromagnetic ionization, enhanc-
ing growth and soil fertility. Because of the remarkable results it
achieved, this came to be known as the 'Golden Plough.'
Field trials were conducted near Salzburg in 1948 and 1949 to
compare the results of the new plough with the conventional steel
plough. Fields strips were ploughed, alternately using steel and
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