minute. Unfortunately, his efforts to provide needy areas with copi-
ous quantities of high quality, fresh water were thwarted by Cali-
fornian politicians with vested interests, and he was persecuted
relentlessly. His experiments should now be replicated.
Water is conventionally described as H 2 O, having two hydrogen
atoms, each carrying a positive external charge, and one oxygen
atom carrying two negative external charges. It has, however, been
analysed to contain 18 different compounds and 15 separate types
of ions.^3 Both seawater and our bodies contain 84 elements in the
same proportion. There is 4% salt in our blood; in the oceans it is
also 4%.
Water is not a straightforward substance with its own identity,
for it takes on the qualities of the medium in which it moves, or the
organism in which it resides. It has the unusual ability of being able
to combine with more elements and compounds than any other
molecule and is sometimes described as the universal solvent. Vik-
tor called it an 'emulsion' when it is supercharged with these cre-
ative, 'fructigenic' energies. The more diverse the make-up of
constituents dissolved or suspended in water, the more complex
the emulsion and the broader the range of its properties. (Carbon,
its so-called inorganic counterpart, has a similar capacity that no
other elements possess.) Water is found in three physical states:
solid as ice, liquid as water and gaseous as water vapour. It also
comes in many guises and forms: it is saline and fresh, it is blood
and it is sap.The anomaly point of water
The density of water is crucial to its behaviour. It is at its densest
and has its greatest energy content at a temperature of +4°C
(39°F). This is the so-called 'anomaly point,' which has a major
influence on its quality. Viktor called the temperature of +4°C
(39°F) the state of indifference of water, meaning that when in its
highest natural condition of health, vitality and life-giving poten-
tial, water is at an internal state of energetic equilibrium and in a
thermally and spatially neutral condition. Above a temperature of
+4°C (39°F), water expands. Below this temperature it also begins
to expand and become lighter in weight. Because of this ice floats
and is able to protect the fish in the water below from extremes of
cold.
- THE NATURE OF WATER