Hidden Nature

Temperature controls

Another cornerstone of Viktor's ecotechnology is the importance of

temperature in Nature's processes. Modern technology creates vast

amounts of waste heat (entropy) which contribute to global warm-

ing, especially in cities and industrial centres (carbon dioxide from

burning fossil fuels being the principal source of global warming).

Increasing heat will ultimately destroy life on Earth. Nature's cre-

ativity, however, thrives on measured coolness.

Most significantly, he showed how small variations in tempera-

ture are as crucial to the healthy movement of water and sap as they

are to the human blood. He identified in particular the importance

for water of the temperature of +4°C (39°F), referred to physically

and chemically as the 'anomaly point,' when water is at its densest

and has the greatest vitality, health and energy content.

In all forms of water, in trees and other living organisms, the

temperature gradient (the upward and downward movement of

temperature) is active. In the natural process of synthesis and

decomposition, the temperature is either approaching (positive gra-

dient) or moving away from (negative gradient) the anomaly point.

Each form of gradient has its special function in Nature's great pro-

duction; the positive (cooling) temperature gradient must play the

principal role if evolution is to unfold creatively. We shall be looking

at this in more detail in the appropriate chapters.

Schauberger found that temperature changes according to certain

patterns and cycles that activate life and death, bringing increase and

decrease, decomposition and renewal. Temperature controls the

innate energies that produce the pulsations that punctuate and con-

trol all life's processes. These energy pulsations which at one moment

dissociate or disconnect, and at another recombine both energy and

matter, are the mechanism for creating the countless individualities

and qualities that make up life as we know it. Viktor said that the

cyclical change of temperature creates the conditions suitable for the

evolution of new individual life forms or the renewal of existing ones.

Evolution

Viktor Schauberger recognized that Nature's evolutionary purpose

is to facilitate the emergence of higher life forms, to promote greater

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