There is some evidence in recent years of a decline in thunderstorm
activity.^7
If this were the case, the implications for the protective ozone
layer would be serious. Water particles have to be very fine in order
to spin fast enough to produce an electrical discharge (the water
atom is an electrical dipole). One of the features of more stormy
weather is to produce a larger water drop that cannot spin fast
enough to produce a significant electrical charge.Electricism and magnetism
Viktor Schauberger coined the term 'electricism' for the effect that
electricity has on life, which is destructive, dismantling, disintegra-
tive and debilitating. Magnetism is the energy that circulates
through and around the Earth on its polar axis. Electricism and
magnetism are apparently contradictory (or dialectic partners, see
p. 47). Together they form the electromagnetic whole, magnetism
being the more cohering and life-affirming (female) of the two. Its
higher state, biomagnetism, which is associated with living organ-
isms and whose qualities are uplifting and upbuilding, is an energy
responsible for the combining of elements in the creative process of
building new life forms on a higher, more refined octave (e.g. the
fourth dimension). Bioelectricism, on the other hand, is associated
with the deconstructive aspect of organic life.
As we saw in Chapter 3, bioelectricism and biomagnetism are
complementary, but operate differently in contrasting functions,
representing extremes of bielectromagnetic quality. As in all form-
ative and life-building processes, both bioelectricism and biomag-
netism are part of the action, but normally balance each other.
However, in order for creative processes to be successful, biomag-
netism must predominate.
The Van Allen belts, encircling the Earth roughly over the area
between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, form the radial
expansive (centrifugal) electric (bioelectric) function of the Earth
dynamo. The axial magnetic (biomagnetic) contractive (cen-
tripetal) function is performed by the magnetic lines of force pass-
ing through the centre of the Earth from the South to the North Pole
and sweeping around the Earth globe from North to South. Between
these two component forces, a pulsation, which is the hallmark of
all living things, is created as electrical and magnetic moments
HIDDEN NATURE