human experience over its half million or so years on the Earth. The
clearest modern examples of a more 'normal' worldview are the
Buddhist beliefs, the Celtic, and those of the indigenous peoples
worldwide who share the idea that the Great Spirit (or God) inspires
and inhabits the rocks, the waters, and all living things.
In our detachment from the complete or 'real' world, we assume
that it is normal to divide different 'bits' of knowledge into separate
compartments or 'disciplines.' In fact it is quite abnormal. For tradi-
tional peoples, there are no barriers between cosmology, science
and the spiritual, for in the interconnectedness of all Nature there is
no separation; all is One.Different dimensions
Viktor Schauberger didn't write about hierarchies of energy, but we
know that he subscribed to Theosophical or Eastern concepts of
energies, so we shall give an outline of these in order to understand
where he was coming from.
Our physical spacetime dimension contains that spectrum of
energy that vibrates at a rate low enough to support material form.
This Third Dimension or domain has length, breadth and height,
but it also has the three components by which humans may be con-
scious. These are: the physical, neutral energy through which the
material world exists; the emotional, negative energy by which we
receive sensory information; and the mental, positive energy by
which we project our beliefs and personalities into the world. (NB:
The terms negative and positive are used not in a qualitative sense,
but more in the electrical sense of polarity.)
Our daily lives demonstrate the differences between these ener-
gies. The mental is the most changeable; it is harder to change our
feelings, and the dense, physical form is almost impossible to
change. If we move into a lower dimension, we lose one aspect of
consciousness, and if we move higher, we gain one. Moving from the
third to the second dimension, we lose the ability to generate origi-
nal thought. Moving from the third to the fourth, we add the ability
to mould time.^4
In terms of the pure physicality of our three-dimensional world,
our consciousness places and senses each lower dimension as being
external to the body, although, paradoxically, it is both within and
without, and permeated by the higher one (see Fig. 2.1, next page).^5
- DIFFERENT KINDS OF ENERGY