Harmony with Nature, part 1
Schauberger foresaw societal breakdown if technology took destructive path.
A chance encounter was a turning point in my life.
As I was leaving Colorado Springs on the last day of the 1986 International Tesla Society conference, I had confused thoughts. Should I abandon my attempts to write about this topic?
Most of the Tesla Conference speakers had used science jargon not meant for newcomer tourists. Even ‘zero-point energy’ and ‘vacuum of space’ didn’t mean much to me at the time.
Anyway, how could I finance any more travel and time spent learning about it?
Freelance writing wouldn’t be the answer. Editors didn’t buy articles written about non-standard science, especially if the research didn’t connect with a mainstream source.
Editors expected mainstream-science credentials.
There was another reason to drop the breakthrough-energy field if I had to rely on sanctioned experts. At that Tesla conference, the few presenters who had Ph.D.s seemed to me to be disconnected from nature’s ways and common sense.
One proposed to beam power up to the ionosphere to see what would happen.
I interviewed a different speaker who had credentials from a most prestigious university. That gentleman thought he could get funding for a proposal to get rid of nuclear waste by building a gigantic railgun and shooting the toxic waste into our sun.
I wasn’t going to promote such insanity.
While walking away from the Colorado Springs university with the new friend who would drive me to the airport, I may have been sharing those thoughts with him.
Then we reached the parking lot. He recognized two conference presenters, Walter Baumgartner and Rhetta Jacobsen, who were packing luggage into a vehicle.
“What did you think of the meeting?” Walter called out.
My friend could have given an intelligent assessment, but looked to me to reply. I admitted “I’m not a techie.”
Rhetta was still curious, probably because we women were rarely present at such gatherings. So I started to share my motivation for being there:
“I met a couple of inventors back in Canada who talk about Nikola Tesla and I wanted to understand...”
“We need writers in this field,” Rhetta said. She asked if I had a card with my address.
Walter opened his vehicle and pulled out a packet of newsletters titled Causes, and a magazine, Energy Unlimited. “Take these. We’d like to stay in touch.”
They weren’t in a hurry to end the conversation. The more they told us, the more I wanted to hear.
Walter and Rhetta explained that mankind is doing technology the wrong way.
And forestry, agriculture, water, education, and society in general also needed to change direction.
Yet beneficial new roads to the future had already been surveyed.
“So people could have plenty of clean power and live in harmony with nature?” I asked.
Two weeks later, a package was in my Vancouver mailbox. It contained more newsletters from Rhetta, and a photocopy of Living Water: Viktor Schauberger and the Secrets of Natural Energy, by Olof Alexandersson.
Schauberger had apparently shown how heat-producing/radiation- and explosion-related technologies destroy a life force, and—in contrast—cooling, frictionless, implosive systems can rejuvenate water and our health while performing work such as energy generation.
Reading the Schauberger biography Living Water changed my mind. I wouldn’t give up after all. I wouldn’t ditch the topics of new energy-related discoveries.
I had learned that there could be harmonious-with-nature ways to power a civilization.
Even if there continued to be little money flowing to transformative technologies that don’t require fuel, our world needed them,
‘Needed’…is an understatement today.
Looking back, I realize that 1986 was a different era in terms of attitudes at breakthrough-energy conferences.
Today there’s a higher number of Ph.D. scientists who dare to be seen there. (Maybe there’s less need to be safely retired and therefore free from employers’ reprimands or ridicule from academic colleagues.)
A more important change is that a higher proportion of technically trained people sincerely seek to work in harmony with nature’s ways.
Many have now heard that Viktor Schauberger (1885-1958) saw how to do that, and his understandings are ever more crucial to our species’ survival.
World events this week made me reflect on Schauberger.
He often wrote that balance is one of nature’s most urgent requirements, and that a society and its technology are inter-related. Vast inequality in wealth and opportunity disrupt that balance in human society.
Unfortunately, he predicted a moral and spiritual collapse of our civilization as well as climate disasters if we continued to degrade the environment with the wrong type of technologies.
Yet he pointed the way toward “thinking an octave higher.”
“He also, supremely, gave us the keys to reclaiming our heritage as true guardians of Nature,” wrote Schauberger biographer Alick Bartholomew, “and showed us how to repair the damage we have done to our precious Earth.”
Forthcoming posts will look at Schauberger’s keys regarding energy, climate, water and more.
I remember Baumgartner's "Causes" newsletter that introduced me to the ideas of Viktor Schauberger, whose works I studied in German in, I think it was the late 1980s. Schauberger was much ahead of his time, and his writings use an unfamiliar terminology that makes understanding difficult, even if you understand the language the originals are written in.
Anyway, his statement to technologists at the time "you're using the wrong kind of motion" and his work on vortex and implosive technology is certainly something to pay attention to.
Any suggestion or solution that has Nature as its core or source has my approval. There exists a conundrum right now in that the push to digital and AI might provide solutions in a manner that analog doesn't, but they are devoid of a natural component. Even the very minds that conceive these 'solutions' don't seem to be 'human'!