- Our Senseless Toil, Pt. II, p. 34.
- Heart specialists were recently astonished
to discover that blood flow through the
heart and arteries depended on a spiral
movement (New Scientist, Feb. 6,2001).
- 'Hydrodynamics of Blood Flow,' by Dr.
Ernst 0. Attinger, Div. Biomedical Engi-
neering, University of Virginia Medical
Centre, Charlottesville, VA 22901, USA.
- The Role of the Forest
- From the Schauberger Archives.
- 'The Dying Forest' ('Der sterbende
Wald'), by Viktor Schauberger, Pt. 1: Tau
magazine. Vol. 151, Nov. 1936, p. 30.
- The Gulf Stream, which gives north-west
Europe an exceptionally mild climate,
might fail for two reasons: (a) the inability
of the failing Amazonian heat engine to
push the stream from the Caribbean; (b)
the cold, salty waters around Greenland
power two 'pumps' which draw the warm
Gulf Stream towards Northwest Europe,
and send cold water back southwards. The
heavy cold water streaming down the
coasts of Greenland pours into the abysses,
propelling forward me lighter and warmer
Gulf Stream. Fresh water from the melting
Greenland icecap could weaken the pumps
and close down the Gulf Stream. An im-
portant new theory is that, within a few
years of the failure of the Gulf Stream
pumps off Greenland, a new mini ice age
would quickly spread in the North Atlantic,
with temperatures dropping by 10°F in
north-eastern USA and in Western Europe
(Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Re-
port, Nexus, Feb.2003 and especially see
http://www.whoi.edu)..) Interestingly, over seventy
years ago, Viktor Schauberger predicted
that over-clearing of forest and critical
mismanagement of water supplies would
lead to a new ice age (in Our Senseless Toil).
- Soil under forest floors retains ten times
more water than nearby grassland. The
Amazonian basin was almost devoid of
humid tropical rainforest in the last
glaciations. Clearing the forest produces
high contrast between day and night
temperatures, gusty winds and dry soil.
Clear-cutting and burning cause dieback
in neighbouring forest; water table disap-
pears and desertification ensues.
- 1.5 to 2 million animal species live in the
forest canopy. A profusion of epiphytes
(ferns, orchids, and so on) takes up nutri-
ents flushed down by heavy rain. All nutri-
ents are retained within the entire system,
and provide for the lateral expansion of the
forest. Medicinal plants are common, many
of which are as yet unresearched and may
be lost forever. The tropical rainforest envi-
ronment exhibits the highest levels of evo-
lutionary development and biodiversity.
- 'Destroy the Amazon — Destroy the
World' by Peter Bunyard, The Ecologist,
Jul/Aug 2002
- The Amazonian Forest produces latent heat to
drive air masses in three separate directions:
- Crossing the Caribbean to Florida,
helps drive the Gulf Stream NE
- Over the Andes into the Pacific west-
erly, following the trade winds
- Southwards, towards Patagonia
In the temperate latitudes, rainfall is de-
rived from moisture-laden winds blow-
ing in from the oceans. The tropical rain-
forests, on the other hand, particularly
the Amazonian, actually create rainfall
and recycle it. Only 25% of the Sun's en-
ergy heats the air. The remaining 75% is
converted into 'latent heat' by evapo-tran-
spiration, the mechanism through which
water is pumped into the atmosphere
from the leaves and stems of the plants.
The humid air rises rapidly, forming cu-
mulo-nimbus and layered clouds that ir-
rigate areas further downwind, releasing
the latent heat energy back into the at-
mosphere. Two-thirds of the world's rain-
fall is affected by these cloud systems
that also produce most of the world's
lightning in a narrow band on either side
of the Equator, helping to power the out-
reach of surplus energy from Amazonia
to neighbouring countries.
- Except when the El Nino is operating a
contrary wind system.
- Permaculture Institute, P.O.Box 1, Pyal-
gum 2480, NSW, Australia. Permaculture
International Ltd, P.O.Box 6039, South
Lismore 2480, Australia.
- The Life and Nature of Trees
I. Viktor Schauberger insisted that we must
understand more about the vital impor-
tance of trees for our environment. This
chapter, except for the last section, is rela-
tively standard information about trees
which, as the highest form of the veg-
etable kingdom, have a mediating role
with the animal kingdom.
- From Design in Nature by J. Bell Petti-
grew, Longman Green, 1908, p. 671
- Adapted from Health and Light by Dr.
John N.Ott: Devin-Adair, Greenwich CT,
USA, 1973.
- There is an intriguing exception to this
rule. Balsa, the softest wood of all, grows
in certain equatorial forests. This sug-
gests that the wood-quality-determining
frequency has proceeded past the point
where hardwoods are created and has re-
entered the resonant conditions of the
softwood-generating frequencies, al-
though one full octave below, because
balsawood is a magnitude softer than the
softest of normal softwoods.
- Schauberger found that the quality of
resonant timber could be improved by
submersion in a highly energetic moun-
tain stream. In fact, the timber for the fa-
mous Stradivarius violins that had su-
perb resonance was from mulberry that
had fallen into Alpine streams.
- See Wertheimer, N.,'Electrical Wiring
Configurations and Childhood Cancer':
American Journal of Epistemiology
(Mar. 1979). Also: Perry, S. and Pearly, L.,
'Power Frequency Magnetic Fields and
Illness in Multi-Storey Blocks,' Public
Health (1988) p. 102. See also: Dowdson,
D et al.,'Overhead High Voltage Cables
and Recurrent Headaches and Depres-
sion: Practitioner, 1988, pp. 435-6.
- Cowan, D. and Girdlestone, R. in Safe as
Houses? describe the German researcher
Volkrodt's theory of the resonance similar-
ity of some trees' leaves and needles to mi-
crowave receivers.
- Ibid.
- Girdlestone regards brief exposure to a
microwave oven in good condition not to
be dangerous. The problem, he says, is that
acceptable emissions vary internationally;
he quotes one German test in which
nearly all the 101 ovens emitted more than
the makers' guarantee, but passed the Ger-
man requirements, while all would have
failed the Russian standard.
- Callum Coats gives a fuller description of
photosynthesis in Living Energies, pp.
218-220, from which our table is repro-
duced.
- See Bunyard, The Breakdown of Climate,
p. 77.
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