see the blood, but we don't see the energy that pushes it. What is
visible in blood is the matter that is too coarse to be taken to the
final destination of the energy. Energy manifests how it wants to
move in the most efficient way. It is as if, when we build a house,
we build it to suit our lifestyle, one in which it is easy to move
around.
All natural systems are mirrors of their pattern of energy, or of
the 'idea' that sought to create them in the first place. When the sys-
tem is in place, the energy from which it originated is rejected as
matter being too coarse to be carried further in the energy stream.
Viktor Schauberger used to describe the Earth as a huge dung-heap,
saying that all living things were the result of waste matter ejected
by the creative energies moving in a certain way, and which were
unable to continue transporting the material further.
Put simply, it is only those energies that remain immaterial that
contribute to an increase in life-force, while the remaining energetic
material is expelled as waste, just like daily human defecation. There
are subtle nonmaterial energies in the food we eat, which are used
to produce thought processes and metabolic functions. The human
body is like a energy path containing a complex vortex which trans-
forms the energy of matter into intellectual and physical actions. It
is therefore axiomatic that the quality of our functions is dependent
on the quality of the energy that we ingest. Viktor Schauberger cam-
paigned for high quality nutrition and water.
So, physical manifestation depends on the movement of energy.
All of Nature's creations that we observe are the outward shell of
the formative energy path. Schauberger used to say that a tree will
grow only to the height to which the energies can draw up the phys-
ical mass, although the tree's main energy body lies above it.
He demonstrated that the vortex is the natural form of move-
ment for energy. The accompanying photograph (Fig. 5.3) well illus-
trates the spiraling form that water prefers. Each of the twists is
slightly smaller than the one above. Viktor's son, Walter, calculated
the mathematics and proportions of this structure.^8
Callum Coats used the action of our weather to demonstrate the
importance of the vortex in creating material substance. The spiral-
ing air masses possess very little density, very slow rotational veloc-
ities and a large radius of influence. When these air masses
converge, they gain in speed with the reduction in their radius of
rotation.HIDDEN NATURE