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they enhance an applied magnetic field and so have a positive magnetic susceptibility. Oxygen (4,000 cgs units) is the most paramagnetic of the elements. Igneous rocks such as granite or basalt are usually the most paramagnetic soil-making materials. Diamagnetic materials have no magnetic field, but they weaken an applied magnetic field and so have negative magnetic suscepti- bility. Chlorine is about as diamagnetic as oxygen is paramagnet- ic. If organochlorine compounds are similarly diamagnetic, at least part of their high toxicity and resistance to microbial break- down could be due to repression of the Life Field and dissipation of these radiative energies. Chlorine and organochlorines are the biggest single threat to life on this planet. Ferromagnetic materials strongly enhance an applied magnetic field and may maintain a magnetic field of their own, They have a high positive magnetic susceptibility, but they also have inherent in their crystal structures the shapes that focus and project magnet- ic forces. Crushed terracotta is paramagnetic, but contains a small propor- tion of particles that display ferromagnetism because their shapes act as antennae. : Soils of low magnetic susceptibility can be improved by plough- ing in a mixture of crushed paramagnetic stone. Model ‘towers of power’ can be constructed from paramagnetic materials to enhance energy flow in the soil. These work very well and their design can be modified to broadcast homoeopathic reme- dies and/or biodynamic reagents and/or to discourage specific ‘pests’. Callahan noted that the vegetation at the base of these towers was always lush and healthier than elsewhere (Ancient Mysteries, Modern Visions). The towers were laid out as if to form a map of the night sky. Callahan constructed scale-model round towers from silicon car- bide (carborundum) paper and tested these in a 3 cm radar beam to show that they functioned as antennae, the conical roof serving to collect and amplify stellar radiation which was then channelled down the tower and into the soil. Radish shoots were grown under even artificial light about a scale-model tower. Net growth (biomass) was greater than the control (no tower) but distributed in a cloverleaf pattern centred about magnetic north that was typical of a magnetic antenna effect. Another scale model tower was soaked in epsom salts and left to dry in an upright position. Crystals of epsom salts disclosed hotspots of magnetic energy as horizontal bands about the tower but with most energy concentrated in the top room just under the conical roof. It is obvious that the Irish round towers were deliberately built as antennae powered by stellar energy. Such antennae are also transmitters. The tuned resonant cavity of a tower and the concen- tration of human activity in the top room suggest that each tower had a prime function as a broadcasting station whose message of biological harmony may well have been enhanced by monkish meditations. Callahan does not draw this conclusion directly, but notes that during active operation of these ‘towers of power’, Ireland was the spiritual and intellectual centre of Europe. ELF RADIO STUDIES Extremely low frequency (ELF—less than 200,000 cycles per second) radio waves are found to be highly potent in affecting liv- ing organisms because they more readily resonate with brain wave thythms than do the higher frequencies. Callahan developed his “Photonic Ionic Cloth Radio Amplifier Maser" (PICRAM) ELF detector by combining the qualities of natural antenna substances. All sorts of structures, both living and non-living, emit ELF radiations that can be readily detected and analysed into a spec- trum of their component frequencies. Callahan's studies into the ELF aspects of neolithic and later structures and of shamanic and agricultural practices within indigenous cultures around the world, show that our forebears applied a high degree of knowledge of the radiative relationships of life. Westem civilisation is unique in its current ignorance of these relationships. It has lost sight of its roots. Callahan's insights (Nature's Silent Music) go a long way to redress this unhappy situation. Pat Flanagan's colloidal ELF detector does the same job as the PICRAM detector, but uses the fields from electrically charged particles as waveguides for incoming radiations. Such fields would be extended within paramagnetic environ- ments but curtailed within diamagnetic environments. Flanagan suggests that living protoplasm may employ the same principle. This could well explain why life needs a paramagnetic environment, particularly within the soil, and why the level of oxy- gen in our atmosphere is so critical to life. eo SOIL FERTILITY & MAGNETISM Callahan points out that all fertile soils are paramagnetic, and that all diamagnetic soils are infertile. The susceptibility of mate- rials to applied magnetic forces is a measure of the conductivity of these materials to magnetic and electromagnetic energies. Magnetic susceptibility is an antenna quality. The other impor- tant antenna quality is shape. Paramagnetic materials have no magnetic field of their own, yet Kilmacduagh Sun Prof. Phil Callahan is conducting a series of lectures and workshops in Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia during October '93. For tour details, phone (054) 73 4332 or (02) 799 3738. Callahan's classic book, Ancient Mysteries, Modern Visions, has been reprinted in Australia. Copies are available on tour, or from Hugh Sangster on (08) 296 8848. Price: $25 (inc. p&p). The tower at Kilmacduagh in County Galway, Ireland, thirty-four meters in length, is the tallest of the Irish round towers, which served, according to Professor Philip S. Callahan, as antennae to receive cosmic or magnetic energy. Part of the base below the doorway of such towers was filled with dirt. They could thus, according to Callahan, constitute a dirt ‘tuning pile’ for shortening or lengthening the paramagnetic rock antenna. (From Magnetic Antennae and Ancient Agriculture.) NEXUS¢47 OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 1993