raise fears about the safety of microwave ovens, radar transmission
towers, mobile phones, the official response from scientists is
inevitably, 'there's no evidence that they are any danger to health.'
Naturally, cynical collusion between government and industry only
strengthens this misguided view in order to discourage public
protest or lawsuits.
Viktor Schauberger brought a further dimension to the concept
of energy pollution. He understood that the creative process of
Nature is consistently to refine, to diversify and produce higher
forms of organic systems — to use a metaphor from human experi-
ence — to raise consciousness (consciousness as integration of
higher levels of connectedness). He distinguished three forms in
which subtle energies perform these upwardly evolutionary func-
tions, which in the last chapter we called dynagens, fructigens and
qualigens.
They are produced, as we shall see in the chapters that follow,
through the specific forms of motion and temperature that Nature
designed for the purpose of evolution. If I were in a court of law, it
is these complex processes that I would cite as evidence for mean-
ing, purpose and above all, intelligence in Nature. Schauberger
described these 'enlightened' control systems thirty years before Jim
Lovelock and his colleagues proposed the Gaia theory of intelligent
self-sustainability in Nature, and in the area of evolutionary ener-
gies, went far ahead of them.
The blocking of these creative energies by the emanations from
modern technological processes Schauberger saw as the most dan-
gerous form of pollution. Their heat, pressure and, above all, chaotic
effects actually destroy the more delicate energies of Nature's con-
structive developmental processes. Thus, chemicals invading a
stream not only make it dirty and smelly, but they also destroy the
complex structure of the water, so that it can no longer behave like
healthy water, but literally dies (see Chapter 11).
This form of pollution has an evolutionary as well as a health
effect on people. Schauberger suggested that this explained the well-
documented degeneration of intelligence and the increase of vio-
lence in industrial communities. Dr Weston Price, studying fourteen
isolated indigenous communities around the world in the early
1930s noted this in the effect that changing from their slowly
evolved local diet to a western-type diet had on these people (for
food is energy medicine!).^6HIDDEN NATURE