Hidden Nature

It was very convenient for Nature to arrange that mammals and

other creatures should depend on blood. In the body, the tempera-

ture of the blood (composed 90% of water) is almost exactly the

same as the temperature of water at its point of lowest specific heat

of +37°C (+98.4°F). This means that our bodies are able to tolerate

a wide range of ambient temperatures, for a great amount of heat or

cold is required to change the temperature of water. But it also holds

on to heat well; good for body temperature and for domestic heat-

ing systems.

We are familiar with the principle that the normal temperature

of blood in the human body is +37°C (+98.4°F). A very small

change in that temperature indicates sickness. It is the same with

water and with sap. Schauberger demonstrated this to the world-

renowned hydraulicist, Professor Philipp Forchheimer by putting

some hot water into a mountain stream. The marginal rise in tem-

perature downstream caused the complex structure of the water

filaments to break down, so that a trout that they had observed

holding its station in the torrent was unable to stay, and was swept

downstream. Forchheimer was dumbfounded, because conven-

tional science does not recognize the importance of small temper-

ature differences.

If science were able to see water as possessing as well as giving

life, it would be a giant step towards the rehabilitation of water in

human society. Schauberger wrote:

Were water actually what hydrologists deem it to be — a

chemically inert substance — then a long time ago there

would already have been no water and no life in this Earth. I

regard water as the blood of the Earth. Its internal process,

while not identical to that of our blood, is nonetheless very

similar. It is this process that gives water its movement.^4

The symbol H 2 O represents pure or distilled water. Schauberger
called it 'juvenile' water, because it has no developed character or
qualities. It is raw and hungry. Like a baby, it grasps at everything
within reach. If you drink only this juvenile water, it will weaken and
eventually kill you because it leaches out the minerals and trace ele-
ments from your body. Water is mature when it is suitably enriched
with raw material, what we call 'impurities,' on which other organ-
isms depend for their energy and life.

HIDDEN NATURE