Fig. 17.2. Motor-driven mixing device
with golf club-shaped impeller.
of the mixing vessel. A left-hand vortex builds up the positive
energy and the right hand vortex creates a negative energy that
draws in the inseminating O 2. The alternating energy charge builds
up the inherent energies of the 500 mix. This recalls the alternat-
ing left and right hand bends in a river building up its energy in a
longitudinal vortex (see p. 143).
This method of progressively raising energy is analogous to the
Japanese art of sword making. The base material is heated in the
furnace, and then beaten out or 'structured' with a hammer as it
cools. It is then further heated to incandescence, folded over on
itself, fused together and beaten out again. Each time the heating
partially breaks down the structuring created by the beating. But
with repetition, the structure is cumulatively enhanced and the level
of chaos is diminished, ultimately producing a razor-sharp blade
whose structure is both laminar and flexible. In a similar way, as the
vortices are alternately formed and destroyed in making the fertil-
izer, the level of energy rises and the degree of chaos decreases until,
after about an hour, the product is ready for use. This is sprayed on
the fields towards evening within two to three hours of preparation
and before the accumulated energies have dispersed.
In order to produce larger quantities of the 500 mix, motor
driven paddles are used in cylindrical vessels. Viktor's son, Walter,
found that the energies build up more strongly in an egg-shaped
vessel, and he devised one (Fig. 17.2) using a simple blade like a
gold golf club head as an impeller to infuse carbon-dioxide perma-
nently into water under a partial vacuum.^4
The farmer that Viktor watched also sang into the brew, rising
tones as he stirred to the left and falling tones as he stirred to the
right, adding crumbling pieces of aluminium-bearing clay into the
water. The chanting builds up creative energy in the water's mem-
ory (see p. 108, homeopathy). After about an hour the mixture was
ready to be spread over the fields. The following morning he did this
by dipping a branch with small leaves into the barrel and then flick-
ing the energized clay-water emulsion over the ground, rather like
holy water is sprinkled with palm fronds on Palm Sunday.
Viktor Schauberger's methods of producing natural fertilizer
were similar to Rudolf Steiner's biodynamics, but they did not
depend on the thousands of cow horns used by Podolinsky, which
are available now only because of the high demand for beef. Ulti-
mately such a supply is non-sustainable, when you consider that inHIDDEN NATURE