Leaps of Consciousness

Viktor Schauberger is not well known despite his discoveries about water and nature’s use of implosive energy instead of our explosive method. Born in Austria in 1885, he had a gift for observing nature.

When he saw the effect a university education had on his brother’s thinking - limiting him to ‘academic’ views and alienating him from nature - he became a forester like his forebears. He learnt through reading, from the wise and working things out for himself.

He became famous for transporting felled logs down hillsides in open flumes without any damage at all. His insight came after watching a snake swim over a fast moving current in a spiralling up-and-down and side-to-side motion. He used the spiral shape to make battens inside the wooden half-barrel-shaped flume. This floated large logs and even kept them centred around corners. The project was such a success that a building contractor hired him to make flumes in several European countries.

His motto was ‘Kapieren und kopieren’ - To comprehend and copy (nature) and he was far ahead of his time. He understood that nature was conscious and water intelligent. Rivers meandered to keep the water alive and rarely flooded when left to their own devices. He believed an invisible field permeated everything and was necessary for life.

One day, he saw a trout staying motionless in a fast moving stream and wondered how it did so. After much careful observation, he realised the trout flashed its gills, which created vortices that travelled down its body. A vortex creates a vacuum, so the water moved upstream to fill it in, providing forward momentum. A further forward force was provided by the water itself. The trout was in the centre, the coldest part of the stream. The water in the centre was forced out by the trout’s body and Schauberger comprehended there’s a relationship between the water’s velocity and temperature and if it’s exceeded turbulence occurs - which creates a vacuum down the trouts body which is a form of vacuum and so an additional forward force helping it stay stationary.

Perhaps his greatest insight into nature was when he realised that nature uses creative centrifugal motion like tornadoes, where the fastest speed is always at the centre. These are creative and cool. However, society uses destructive and explosive centripetal energy where the fastest motion is at the periphery - like the wheel or internal combustion engine. These generate heat and pollution.