The Fertile Earth – Nature's Energies in Agriculture, Soil Fertilisation and Forestry

Volume 3 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger's Eco-Technology Series

Viktor Schauberger, Callum Coats

• Publisher: Gill Books
• Year: 2000
• Print ISBN: 9781858600604
• eBook ISBN: 9780717165346
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Ecology
• Index: Biological Sciences

How does nature work? When one looks closely at the enormously complex web of life, it is impossible not to be caught by the wonder of how all living things – including rocks and crystals – are interconnected. Just as there is thought behind action, so there is energy behind matter. The Fertile Earth, the third volume of the Eco-Technology series which presents the original, passionate and convincing research of Viktor Schauberger in translation for the first time, contains his groundbreaking writings on trees, biodynamic agriculture and subtle energies in Nature. It provides answers to pressing questions, like why so many plant and animal species are disappearing. Schauberger was a pioneering genius who combined keen observation of Nature with intuitive brilliance and a sharp engineer's brain. One of the first genuine environmentalists, he was predicting ecological catastrophe when no-one else could see it coming. In the era of global warming, deforestation and desertification, Schauberger's predictions are now being proven right. His work is enjoying a worldwide revival because he was able to convey how an understanding of Nature's subtle energies is essential to our survival. The Eco-Technology series makes available for the first time Viktor Schauberger's original writings and passionate debates. Callum Coats has painstakingly collected, translated and edited the material for what promises to be the most definitive study yet of this extraordinary man's life and work.

The Fertile Earth: Table of Contents

Introduction by Callum Coats

• A Different View of Natural Phenomena
• The Influence of Temperature and Water Movement
• Forestry — Agriculture — The Energy Industry
• The Dying Forest
• Timber and Water in the Building Industry
• Agriculture — Soil Fertilisation — Increased Productivity
• Appendix: Austrian Patent Office — Description of Patent No. 166644

1. A Different View of Natural Phenomena

From Heaven descending,
To Heaven ascending,
To Earth returning,
Eternally changing.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature’s Secrets Unveiled: In Transmutation Lies Eternity

From Implosion Magazine, No. 48 — written in Salzburg, 1954.

Since the beginning of the First World War and the resulting spread of our technical industrial processes there has been a striking deterioration in quality. The disappearance of water that this has produced has become so evident that this vital necessity of life should already be considered a scarce commodity.

The scientific profession is helpless against this coming catastrophe — otherwise the crisis would not have developed to the extent that it has. The situation has to be studied from every angle and the causes of the deterioration of water exhaustively demonstrated. It must be stated at the very outset that here we are dealing with the demagnetisation of springwater, which should be seen as the blood of the Earth. This happens through over-illumination by sunlight and therefore over-warming of the ground, or through unnatural methods of conduction and water storage. Because no one knows what electricity and magnetism actually are, it makes it all very hard to understand. Such ignorance likewise makes the explanation of these causes uncommonly difficult.

The demagnetisation of water signifies the removal of its soul. The widespread over-exploitation of forest has caused the mountain springs to dry up, leading to the desolation of high alpine pastures. A particularly striking phenomenon, however, is the constant deterioration in the quality of young stands of timber, in spite of all the conservation measures applied by forestry. Former higher-grade species of timber and high-quality species of fish in the river-channels where water continues to flow are disappearing in the same way as former mountain springs, which dry up when robbed of their shade-giving protectors and are thus over-illuminated and exposed to direct sunlight.

Even glaciers are retreating noticeably. Wild deer are also becoming mangy as a result of deforestation, because they can no longer find medicinal herbs rich in ethereal (volatile, essential) oils, since these do not grow in lower lying areas. The Earth’s solid crust is gradually drying out, and it is no exaggeration to predict that one day the major cities will cry out for water and that our great-grandchildren will have to dig for it as today we dig for gold or other valuable substances.

One word suffices to describe the mistakes made by contemporary leaders of industry and scientific advisors to government, whose experience is usually far more academic than it is practical. In various academic institutions they are schooled in unnatural (unreal) systems of water management, which I refer to as techno-academic systems. The present evils are wholly to be ascribed to the erroneous forms of water movement thus produced, and it is for this reason that the above term has been coined. Only in this way can one explain the bioecological consequences which logically follow, if the ‘original’,¹ planetary movement of mass is replaced by a heat- and pressure-increasing form of motion. This inaugurated the demagnetisation of the ur-source² of all life — water. Just how far advanced this danger to life has already become is shown by a report in the periodical Der Spiegel of 9 April 1954, according to which at least 10,000 million Deutschmarks will have to be spent merely to repair the most flagrant depredations caused by the mismanagement of water resources. An extended period of drought would be quite sufficient to provoke chaotic conditions in the supply of drinking and general-purpose water. German rivers are already so polluted that an average of 400,000 parasitic embryos per cubic millimetre make all use of even filtered riverwater impossible.

It is an open secret that scientists concerned with hydrology are both helpless and perplexed in the face of these catastrophes, for otherwise these malheures would never have happened. The consequences of their incompetence are incalculable, and will become all the more so if present methods of water reticulation, storage and regulation are not radically altered. Natural methods of water conservation and treatment will have to be introduced through the enactment of a uniform set of regulations with universal application. However, all experience and know-how is lacking in this area due to the unquestioning acceptance of methods used over thousands of years. It is therefore high time that these errors be exhaustively addressed.

What is to be understood by the concept of techno-academic motion? It is diametrically opposed to the one that wise Nature uses to move and ur-procreate water, giving it every possibility to reproduce, regenerate and qualitatively evolve. However, this natural form of motion assures not only the increase and maintenance of this vital asset, but the qualitative improvement of increasingly diverse forms of growth and life as well.

This natural form of motion will here be called planetary motion, for the reason that all planets, including our Earth, move in just such a manner. Moreover, the various kinds of blood, sap and juices have also to avail themselves of this type of motion in order to maintain and constantly improve the progressive forces of reproduction and upward evolution.

However, when techno-academic motion was introduced, the vital opportunities mentioned above became increasingly inhibited, as technology expanded the application of the reversed form of motion. In view of this, it is also necessary to define the term ‘technical’, or ‘techno-academic motion’ more precisely. ‘Technical’ is derived from the ancient Greek word technao, which means skill or artifice — and hence something unnatural, or not naturally occurring and therefore deceitful. On these grounds even the ancient Greeks unconditionally rejected such motion, for with it, heat-intensifying, centrifuging and destructive forces are triggered off in substances having a bipolar charge (earth, water and air).

According to ancient knowledge, the economy of any people or nation who make use of this treacherous form of mass-motion will collapse, because it confers spiritual and physical ponderousness. As a result earlier cultures disappeared in conformity with natural law, as little by little the original (planetary) form of mass-motion was replaced by the techno-academic form.

In order to comprehend the full ramifications of the unnatural motion introduced by mechanically minded science, the term ‘motion’ or ‘movement’ must likewise be defined in terms of its natural manifestation. According to an old saying, ‘The wrong motive impulse can turn the whole world upside down’. In an intermixture of bipolar elements, every motion triggers reactive effects of an atomic and imperceptible nature. Whether supplementary energies evolve from sediment, minerals or metallic trace elements, or from the earthly remains of earlier life-forms, depends on the shape of the apparatus in which these substances are moved and the alloys used in its fabrication. As reactive components of pressure and traction (suction) these forces control the metaphysical, metamorphic currents (panta rhei) already known to antiquity.

Techno-academic motion, together with its unnatural appliances and unsuitable alloys, causes the emission of X-ray-like emanations which penetrate all resistance and build up pressure and heat in surrounding cell structures. They are the true cause of cancer since they provoke nuclear fission in the cell nucleus and turn every cell into an epicentre of decay. Exactly the opposite reactive effects take place, however, if the various media of earth, water and air are artificially accelerated planetarily and in a predominantly centripetal manner. In this instance radiation is emitted from substances, acting to invigorate surrounding cell structures. Here it triggers cell division and an increase in the number of cells, leading to the creation of additional nuclei for growth. It is therefore radiation of a type which is the very antithesis of that produced by techno-academic motion, the latter being supercharged bioelectrically and functioning electrolytically. In contrast, planetary motion leads to biomagnetic supercharging and has a contractive (structure-densifying) property. In the form of new, juvenile, cell formations, it propagates a cooling tendency and maintains the optimum condition of health.

With these products of interaction, whose effect and characteristics can be controlled, wise Nature regulates reproduction, upward evolution and the multiplication and ennoblement of later life-forms. However, if techno-academic motion is employed, then a centrifugally-propagating impulse is imparted to these life-forms. In this case oxidising processes are initiated and decomposive energies activated and liberated. These lead to inflammation and swellings and provoke the regressive development of cancer. This explains in general terms the erroneous form of motion that is today cultivated and promoted in all areas of human activity.

In consequence the possibility for water, the blood of the Earth, to reproduce, regenerate and upwardly evolve has been perverted and prevented, which applies equally to all growth. In lieu of growth, a retrogressive cancerous development has inevitably set in and, as a degenerative process, assumed more and more dangerous forms the greater the ramification of these errors and the intensity of their effects. The prime question therefore is:

Does an insuperable force of gravity actually exist?

A variety of experiments led to the insight, startling to all technologists no doubt, that a physical force of gravity exists only in the atmospheric living-space, and even then only to a certain extent. At first view it seems amazing, even impossible, that the force of gravity can be overcome almost effortlessly, and that physical heaviness will become equally non-existent, in the same way that a healthy organism is barely conscious of its own bodily weight.

The most instructive and revealing demonstration of this phenomenon is not only the mountain trout’s almost motionless stance amidst torrential flows of springwater, but also its lightning flight upstream when danger threatens. In the spawning season — during the period of highest sexual arousal — it can surmount waterfalls many metres high with the greatest of ease. For this to happen the falling water has to wind in about its own fall-axis through a system of hollow, spiral curves. In the process of falling, its density is increased mechanically, it becomes specifically heavier through coactive physical influences, and approaches its anomaly point of +4°C (+39·2°F).

Such waterfalls exhibit a fall-pattern that becomes progressively more conical towards the base, and within it a biomagnetic field evolves that radiates levitative substances. These substances should be understood as formative and uplifting atomic forces, which on a larger scale trigger off hitherto unidentified forces which are active in cyclones. In this instance, however, they screw the trout’s body upwards along a spiral path until the point of the initial downward curvature of the water is reached. The trout then leaps under its own power, entering the upwardly tractive water flow above the waterfall in which it moves effortlessly upstream with a characteristic twisting and looping movement, eventually reaching the vicinity of a spring. Here it lays its shell-less eggs, which without any physical contact are then fertilised by the milter (the male trout). This is only possible, however, if the water is temperature-less; if it lies at the anomaly point of +4°C (+39·2°F), and if it is deficient in oxygen and extremely rich in volatile ethericities³ of carbonic acid. The same also applies to herring, which congregate so closely together during the spawning season that there seems to be more fish than water.

These preconditions for reproduction were once known to fishermen closely connected to Nature. Similarly, in the past every butcher knew that the body of a calf slaughtered during the cold part of the year would weigh more on the scales dead than alive, provided that it had been expertly hung in such a way as to prevent the blood congealing. This only holds true if the appropriate temperature-gradient⁴ is activated indirectly by way of the filter wall, which hermetically seals the thorax. Between lungs and pleura the necessary biological vacuum must be maintained. For this reason the old huntsmen took great pains to hang the deer they shot properly in order to preserve the venison’s full flavour. In another example, under certain conditions of temperature the drowned are drawn towards the bottom, whereas under other conditions they become bloated and are deposited at very particular places on the banks. Here too, therefore, no constant law of gravity exists.

Weightlessness prevails over gravity

Many interesting examples follow which illustrate that there is no constantly active force of gravity in the atmospheric living-space. From this it can be inferred that there is neither a constant conservation of energy, nor any other rigid regularity. On the contrary, there is only a rhythmical reciprocity, which can be mechanically controlled so that levitation prevails over gravitation (physical weight). The spiritedness of an animated organism such as water can be so intensified that it surges upwards, as happens in mountain springs, or it can gently pulsate on steep slopes. It can therefore overcome its physical weight, the prerequisite for this phenomenon being planetary motion.

Decomposive energy triggers cancer

The centrifugal form of motion, which increases pressure and heat, was first recognised for what it was when it triggered the release of decomposive energies. This is what happens when the media of earth, water and air are over-illuminated or warmed up, which today occurs virtually all over the world. The seed of decay is created in this way, which reproduces and establishes itself, and is the unresearched, causal agent of cancer. In this case, instead of the negative pressure normally prevailing, an atomic excess pressure develops in every blood and sap vessel. This acts not only as a resistance to motion, but in addition fosters the decay of amorphous structures, and explains, for instance, the tumorous swellings that can clearly be distinguished in shade-demanding trees over-exposed to light or otherwise overheated. This is known as light-induced growth, with which modern forestry strives to achieve accelerated growth and thereby reduce the period of rotation. In reality, however, it is tree-cancer.

The magnitude of this disastrous blunder in forest management will only be appreciated once it is realised that a genetically-diseased (cancer-impregnated) shade-loving tree sustains such a loss of reproductive and upwardly-evolving power that the seeds produced by the immediately succeeding generation are already sterile. Instead of being a water-producer, the tree becomes a water-consumer, thus turning into a veritable forest parasite that extracts the last residues of water from the soil.

Through an intermixture of diffuse substances, the shade-demanding tree becomes a water (blood) donor. As a result, the more water that is produced, the more luxuriantly a healthy mixed forest thrives. Even the modern botanist is guilty of fallacious reasoning, when he assumes that the plant absorbs dissolved substances along with groundwater. Qualified hydraulic and hydroelectric engineers suffer from similar flawed logic, and must be retrain...

Table of contents

• Cover 
• Title Page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Introduction by Callum Coats
• Sources
• Chapter 1: A Different View of Natural Phenomena
• Chapter 2: The Influence of Temperature and Water Movement (on Forestry, Water Resources Management and the Formation of Structures)
• Chapter 3: Forestry — Agriculture — The Energy Industry
• Chapter 4: The Dying Forest
• Chapter 5: Timber and Water in the Building Industry
• Chapter 6: Agriculture — Soil Fertilisation — Increased Productivity
• Appendix: Austrian Patent Office — Description of Patent No. 166644
• Glossary
• Copyright
• About the Authors
• About Gill & Macmillan