their chest, while the 'tester' tries to push
down the raised right arm of the subject,
who tries to resist the pressure. If the arm
has lost muscle tone, the food may have an
undesirable effect on the subject.
- Living Energies, p. 42.
- If they are above absolute zero (-273°C).
- BBC Wildlife magazine, June 2001.
- See Bibliography: Backster; also Bird &
Tompkins The Secret Life of Plants contains
an evaluation of his work.
- Cymatics: The Study of the Interrelation-
ship of Wave-forms with Matter, by Hans
Jenny, Basilius Press, Basle, 1966.
- Democritus (460-370 BC)
- Callum Coats shows scores of examples
from Nature in Living Energies, pp. 51—53.
- Harold S. Burr, Blueprint for Immortality:
Electrical Patterns of life Discovered,
Spearman, 1972.
- Lawrence Edwards: The Vortex of Life:
Natures Patterns in Time and Space,
Floris Books, 1993.
- Earth's diameter is 7,920 miles; the
Moon's is 2,160.
- Named after a twelfth century Italian
mathematician born in Pisa, Leonardo
Fibonacci or Filio Bonaccio. The son of
an Italian customs agent based in
Alexandria, he helped to bring Arabic
numbers to the Roman world and popu-
larized the modern decimal system of
numbers. The series bearing his name
progresses by adding the two previous
numbers to make the next, e.g. 1,1,2,3,
5,8,13,21,34,55,89, etc. (It is said that
he used it as a model for the growth of a
population of rabbits.) Dividing a Fi-
bonacci number by the number before it
produces the Golden Mean proportion
(the Golden Ratio) in increasing accuracy
of decimal places, the larger the number.
- Walter Schauberger's research of this
phenomenon was groundbreaking.
- Energy Production
- There is controversy about whether hu-
man activities are the cause of global
warming. Climate change goes through
enormous cycles. In Britain, for example,
from 1,000 years ago when it was much
warmer than now (grapes were grown in
Scotland), to 200-300 years ago when the
ice on the Thames could support an ele-
phant, with many fluctuations in be-
tween. We have insufficient records to say
with certainty that the present acceler-
ated warming world-wide is cyclical in its
origin. However, there is little doubt that
its increasingly severe impact is greatly
compounded by the enormous output of
carbon emissions (Observer, January 5,
2003). See also Chap. 13, note 1.
- The average fuel consumption of a typi-
cal car allows a journey of 620 miles
(1000km) for an energy expenditure of
l000kW, or one person's annual energy
consumption. In terms of oxygen con-
sumed, a car driven at 50kph requires
22.25kg of oxygen, roughly 750 times the
amount needed by a human being for the
same period. In eleven hours, the car has
consumed the oxygen one human being
requires for a year. Callum Coats calcu-
lated that to replenish the oxygen de-
voured by the world's roughly 450 million
vehicles would require a healthy produc-
tive forest of 38 million km^2 , or 28% of
the total world's total land area.
- Kilowatt hours.
- The ratio between created matter and the
energies required to create it was estab-
lished in 1984 by the Nobel awarded
Swiss atomic scientist Dr Carlos Riebers
as about 1:1 thousand million, effectively
the proportion of the whole of reality of
which we are aware.
- Entropy has its counterpart — ectropy
(sometimes called 'negentropy'). The laws
of entropy or thermodynamics apply to
the products of our mechanistic science
as it is a 'closed' system. Nature, however,
is an open system, and one finds in fact
that entropic tendencies are held in check
by the predominant ectropic ones, other-
wise life could never have developed. Evo-
lution is essentially ectropic or energy in-
tegrative rather than energy dissipative,
as increasingly complex organizations
harmonically stabilize more energy.
- Weston Price: Nutrition and Physical De-
generation, 1938,1945,1998. As an expe-
rienced dentist, he noted the degenera-
tion of jaw and bone structure, but also
the deterioration in intelligence that en-
sued from a change to western diet.
- Living Energies, p. 35.
- See Living Energies, pp. 50-55 for further
illustrations of spiral forms in Nature.
- H.H.Price, Wyckham professor of Logic
at Oxford (Hibbert Jour, 1949).
6. Motion — the Key to Balance
- Viktor Schauberger, Implosion magazine
no.51,p.22.
- Viktor Schauberger, Implosion magazine
no.48,1954.
- A hyperbolic spiral represents the physi-
cally nonmaterial centre-less dynamic of
Nature's outside>inward motion. The phi
spiral is the dynamic of inside>outward
physical and material growth.
- Ibid. p. 56.
- Dr Tilman Schauberger, Viktor's grand-
son and an expert on his work, described
his grandfather's ideal spiral-vortical mo-
tion, the 'Cycloid Spiral Space-curve,' as
goal-oriented, structured, concentrated,
intensifying, condensing, dynamic, self-
organizing, self-divesting of the less valu-
able, rhythmical (cyclical), sinuous, puls-
ing, in-rolling, centripetal (and
out-rolling centrifugal) movement. This
applies also to Figs. 12.1 and 12.2.
- If the starting radius is 1 and the initial
resistance is 1 on an inwinding path,
when the radius is halved, the resistance
is [V2]^2 = lA and the rotational periodic-
ity, frequency or velocity is doubled.
- The Atmosphere and Electricity
- High specific heat means that water is
slow to heat up, but also slow to cool. Its
heat retaining quality makes it good for
heat storage systems.
- The temperature neither decreases nor in-
creases constandy, but fluctuates as we as-
cend through the various atmospheric lay-
ers, so that at a certain altitude, at around
7 miles (12km) for instance, the tempera-
ture is -76°F (-60°C), whereas around 31
miles (50km) it is 50°F (+10°C).
- This increases by the inverse square of
the separation. If, for example, the sepa-
ration is 10mm, then the potential is 12.
If the separation is reduced to 1/2, i.e.
5mm, then the potential is 22 (=4) and
so on, as shown in Fig. 12.6. The smaller
the separation, therefore, the greater the
corresponding potential, which could be
unleashed once the permittivity of the di-
electric has been overcome. (Permittivity
is the amount a substance can assist or
resist the transfer of an electric charge.)
- Pure water has a dielectric value of 81,
which is 81 times greater than a vacuum
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