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force them into a total economic collapse, for no stable system of In this quest I was thus drawn time and time again up into the equilibrium exists. Therefore the principles upon which our forest. I could sit for hours on end and watch the water flowing by actions are founded are invalid because they operate within para- without ever becoming tired or bored. At the time I was still meters that do not exist. unaware that in water the greatest secret lay hidden. Nor did I Our work is the embodiment of our will. The spiritual manifes- know that water was the carrier of life or the ur-source® of what tation of this work is its effect. When such work is done properly we call consciousness. Without any preconceptions, I simply let it brings happiness, but when carried out incorrectly it assuredly my gaze fall on the water as it flowed past. It was only years later brings misery.’ that I came to realise that running water attracts our conscious- Taking his mother's advice and following his natural instincts, nesses like a magnet and draws a small part of it along in its Viktor became a junior forest-warden, spending the next few years wake. It is a force that can act so powerfully that one temporarily often in areas of remote forest. There he was able to perceive loses one's consciousness and involuntarily falls asleep. movements of energy and natural phenomena in Nature's own lab- As time passed I began to play a game with water's secret pow- oratory, because in Austria im the early part of this century, circa ers. I surrendered my so-called free consciousness and allowed 1900-1915, there were large tracts of forest still untouched by the water to take possession of it for a while. Little by little this human hand. After the 1914-1918 war, in which he was wounded, game turned into a profoundly earnest endeavour, because I Viktor returned to forestry, eventually entering the employ of realised that one could detach one's own consciousness from the Prince Adolph zu Schaumburg- - body and attach it to that of the Lippe, the owner of a large hunting water, and forestry reserve in Steyrling. When my own consciousness we "How did the trout actually manage to In these districts there had been . . : was eventually returned to me, no interference in the balance of | get to this spot...which was cut off by Bf then the water's most deeply con- Nature, and Viktor was thus able to a 60-metre-high waterfall about a cealed psyche often revealed the observe events that are today * an most extraordinary things to me. inconceivable and which no longer kilometre downstream where the As a result of this investigation, a take place because of the enormous water was atomised inte a veil of researcher was born who could deterioration of the environment. © 69 dispatch his consciousness on a It was here that he acquired the mist? voyage of discovery, as it were. In this way I was able to experi- ence things that had escaped insights into the natural movement | if * ‘ ; . of water that resulted in the build- How was It able to flee upstream like ing of his first log flume. Here, a streak of greased lightning in other people's notice, because too, he first became aware of other : ity! they were unaware that a human levitational energies inherent in mockery of all the laws of gravity? being is able to send forth his water, for one day in the middle of free consciousness into those a very cold winter, as he was about places the eyes cannot see. to cross over a fast-flowing mountain stream, he flushed a station- By practising this blindfolded vision, I eventually developed a ary trout from its lair as he sought a firm hold for his staff on the bond with mysterious Nature, whose essential being I then slowly stream bed. Its lightning flash upstream immediately caused a learnt to perceive and understand.* number of questions to race through his mind: It is very interesting to compare this with a statement taken from How did the trout actually manage to get to this spot—and later The Urga Manuscript’, which is the record of a letter by Do-Ring, I saw dozens of them in the same stream—which was cut off bya a scholar and scribe to the Panchen Lama, written in the early 60-metre-high waterfall about a kilometre downstream where the 1920s to his friend, Wing On, concerning the inner life and water was atomised into a veil of mist? describing the functions and phases of spiritual evolution: How was it able to flee upstream like a streak of greased light- It [the 6th function] is the one in which the initiate is given the ning in mockery of all the laws of gravity? power of sending his intellect or conscious mind right away from How was it possible for this fish to stand so motionlessly, only _ his body, directing it to any part of the material earth he desires it steering itself with slight movements of its tail-fins, in this wildly to visit, and then recalling it still conscious of all that it has seen.* torrential flow, which made my staff shake so much that I could Truly the intellect, or that part of life that sees and records its hardly hang onto it? observations, can and does leave the body and travel great dis- What forces enabled the trout to overcome its own body-weight tances, observe detail at those distances and return, giving to the so effortlessly and quickly and at the same time overcome the spe- mind as a whole an accurate picture of where it has been and cific weight of the heavy water flowing against it? what it has seen. This function occurs at the immeasurable will Why didn't the water freeze even during periods of severe frost and is preceded by a short, deep meditation.” with temperatures below -30°C* These perceptions of truth presented Viktor with considerable While Viktor undoubtedly had an especial talent for observa- _ problems in translating them into everyday language, for when it tion, a penetrating power of perception undimmed by preconcep- comes to transferring spiritual ideas into mundane word-pic- tions, he also developed what might be called an active conscious- tures—regrettably still the only means of human communica- ness, an ability to go beyond the merely visual in search of what tion—enormous difficulties are encountered due to the limitation lay behind a given phenomenon, This taught him a great deal, and of language. While all languages are in a constant state of evolu- how this ability gradually evolved he explained as follows: tion or devolution, the words and terminology at any given The Schaubergers' principal preoccupation was directed moment are a reflection of the current state of conceptual aware- towards the conservation of the forest and wild game, and evenin ness. Thus, for someone who is ‘ahead’ of his time, generally earliest youth my fondest desire was to understand Nature, and _ speaking the conceptual framework of language does not necessar- through such understanding to come closer to the truth; a truth — ily extend to the clear and unequivocal explanation of new con- that I was unable to discover either at school or in church. cepts for which new acceptable words may have to be coined. NEXUS ¢ 13 APRIL-MAY 1996