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which the respective sickening macro-organism finds itself, which will be attacked by these parasites and which eventually must fall victim to them if its inner climatic conditions are no longer strictly regulated." But this aggressiveness is not confined to the creation of pathogens alone, for when water becomes overheated, due princi- pally to the increasingly widespread clear-felling of the forest, the health-maintaining, longitudinal, vortical flow transfers into trans- versely acting vortices, which undermine and gouge into the river- banks and embankment works, eventually bursting them, as well as creating pot-holes in the riverbed itself, bringing even greater disor- der to the already chaotic flow profile. According to Viktor Schauberger, water, subjected to these condi- tions, loses its character, its soul, and like humans of low character becomes increasingly violent and aggressive as it casts about hither and thither, seeking to vent its anger and restore to itself its former health and stability. However, due to the senseless malpractice of the clear-felling of forests, we are destroying the very foundation of life. For with the removal of the forest, two very serious things happen: 1) During its flow to the sea, the water warms up prematurely to such an extent that it is warmed right down to the channel bed. No cool, dense, water strata remain and the sediment is left lying on the bottom, blocking the flow, dislocating the channel and resulting in the inevitable, often catastrophic floods. Yet we still have the effrontery to call these awesome events ‘natural disasters’, as if nature herself were responsible. Furthermore, due to the broadening of the channel, more water is exposed to the sun's heat, resulting in over-rapid evaporation to the atmosphere, in many cases over- charging it with water vapour, which it is unable to retain in suspen- sion. 2) With the forest cover now removed, the ground also begins to heat up to temperatures much higher than normal and natural, which has a twofold effect: a) an increase in pathogenic microbial activity, harmful to plant life, and b) the rejection and repulsion by the warmer soil of any incident rainwater, whose temperature in this case is generally lower. Cold rain will not readily infiltrate into warm soil. This results in rapid surface run-off and no groundwater recharge. The upshot of all this is more flooding, reduced groundwater quantity and lower groundwater-table. One flood therefore begets the next in rapid succession. But since there is no groundwater recharge, the trees, the vital retainers of water, also die, leaving the land barren and dessicated with the necessary sequel of drought. The less the tree cover, the more extensive the flooding and the longer the period of drought, of waterlessness, which is synonymous with lifelessness! Whilst unnatural, quantity-inspired forestry practices, ignorant of nature’s laws, and the overwarming of the soil arising from massive deforestation are the primary causative agents for the decline in water quality, climate and the sinking of the water-table, the chan- nelling of water through straight, unnaturally constructed, trapezoid canals, steel pipelines and other misguided systems of river regula- tion also forces the water to move in an unnatural way, and acceler- ates its own degeneration and increased disease-carrying capacity. * "The more the engineer endeavours to channel water, of whose spirit and nature he is today still ignorant, by the shortest and straightest route to the sea, the more the flow of water settles down , into bends, the longer its path and the worse the water will become." "The spreading of the most terrible disease of all, of cancer, is the necessary consequence of such unnatural regulatory works.” * "These mistaken activities—our work—must legitimately lead to increasingly widespread unemployment because our present meth- ods of working, which have a purely mechanical basis, are already destroying not only all of wise nature’s formative processes but, first and foremost, the growth of the vegetation itself which is being destroyed even as it grows." ¢ "The drying up of mountain springs, the change in the whole pattern of motion of the groundwater, and the disturbance in the blood circulation of the organism—Earth—is the direct result of modern forestry practices." * "The pulsebeat of the earth was factually arrested by the mod- ern timber production industry." ¢ "Every economic death of a people is always preceded by the death of its forests.” * "The forest is the habitat of water and, as such, the habitat of life processes too, whose quality declines as the organic develop- ment of the forest is disturbed.” * "Ultimately, due to a law which functions with awesome con- stancy, it will slowly but surely come around to our turn." * "Our accustomed way of thinking, in many ways and perhaps even without exception, is opposed to the true workings of nature.” * “Our work is the embodiment of our will. The spiritual manifes- tation of this work is its effect. When such work is carried out cor- rectly, it brings happiness, but when carried out incorrectly, it assuredly brings misery.” There is only one solution! Would we live and ensure a sustain- able future then we must plant trees for our very lives; but, far more importantly, we have a duty to do it for those of our children. More immediately, however, we must care for the very lim- ited stocks of water still available. This means treating it in the way demonstrated to us by nature. Protect it from sunlight and all heat influences. In terms of what we can achieve per- sonally, we should at all times ensure that our storage vessels, tanks, etc., are thoroughly insulated so that the contained water is maintained at the coolest temperature possible under the prevailing conditions. Ideally, it should be placed in an enclosed, opaque and porous vessel, such as the ancient Greek, unglazed, terracotta amphora. If the porosity is correct, then for every 600th part of the contents evaporated, the contents will be cooled by 1°C, ultimately approaching a temperature of 4°C, YOu HAVE BEEN STOPPED AS PART OFA RANDOM SPERM COUNT CAMPAIGN. WouLd YOU MIND FILLING THE 6071, SIRE ‘D Viktor Schauberger (30/6/1885—25/9/1958), born in Austria of a long line of foresters stretching back some four generations, had the very great gift of accurate and intuitive observation, such that he was able to perceive the natural ener- gies and other phenomena occurring in nature, presently unrecognised by orthodox science, Refusing to attend univer- sity at the age of 18, to the fury of his father, Viktor Schauberger left home and spent a long period alone in the high, remote forest, contemplating, pondering and observing the many subtle energetic processes taking place in nature’s JUNE - JULY 1993 38eNEXUS