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In many instances, therefore, when he came to describe these have to change its values and way of thinking before these trail- phenomena, Viktor uses not the conventional terminology of breaking concepts could be taken seriously. It wasn't until 1974 physics, chemistry or biology, etc. but his own words. In this he that this document was released to Viktor's son, Walter was greatly assisted by the structure of the German language Schauberger. which facilitates the formation of new concepts through additive Forchheimer did change his views later, however, and saw to it nouns. Despite this, and for lack of suitable technical vocabulary, that Viktor's pioneering theories on temperature and its effect on their interpretation and comprehension is still sometimes extreme- the movement of water were published in 1930-31 in a series of ly difficult, which in his writings he freely admitted: articles in Die Wasserwirtschaft, the Austrian journal of hydrolo- Few will understand the meaning of the above! Some individu- gy. This showed Forchheimer to be all that a true scientist should als, however, will obtain an indefinable inkling." be and rarely is. It demonstrated the honesty and humility of a In an attempt at clearer explanation, he did eventually study sincere academic who was prepared to accept that his former ideas these subjects on his own in order to acquaint himself with their had been wrong and that current thinking could be changed; that respective terminologies. However, in his writings they are often there was another way of looking at things. used merely as indicators of the theme under discussion and there- Viktor's aim was always to try to perceive the dynamic reality fore cannot be taken literally. behind what he saw as physical illusion. He claimed, and rightly Water, forests, natural energies and their generation were ever _ so, that by and large we human beings are extremely superficial, his passionate concern. In our present way of looking at things, he looking for and only seeing direct relations between cause and would probably be considered one of the world’s first ‘greenies’ —_ effect, whereas Nature always moves indirectly. But worse than another being Dr Richard St Barbe Baker, founder of "The Men of __ this, in our ignorance of the unseen dynamic behind the seen man- the Trees" in 1922, and Viktor's friend. ifestation, we mistake the effect for the cause, greatly compound- Viktor had tremendous foresight and an enormous capacity for __ ing this error by failing to see that an effect becomes the cause for writing, reputedly having com- a further effect in an endless chain of posed many, many thousands of causes and effects. In this regard, pages. At times, apparently in a Viktor comments: trance-like state, he wrote for Our thinking is inconsistent with hours on his typewriter with no All the various crises that are today what we actually see. The eye is a idea of what he had written until engulfing humanity, he foresaw as perfect, natural organ. The seen finally reading it at the end. image is a reaction phenomenon. Amongst other things, he set iong ago as 1930. When questioned Using an artificial optical appara- down all that he saw would | gn his predictions, he answered very tus, the same effect, for example, inevitably happen if we did not * . E can only be obtained by a round- mend our ways and change our simply, Saying that: about way, by means of a negative. whole approach to the environ- | "For q person who lives 100 years in The eye, on the other hand, immedi- ment, both technologically and x Al ately presents us with the diaposi- conceptually. All the various | the future, the present is no surprise." J tive, namely the true image. crises that are today engulfing Our sight constitutes an uncon- humanity, he foresaw as long scious, automatic transformation ago as 1930. When questioned process, whereby the negative on his predictions, he answered image—like a photographic nega- very simply, saying that: tive—i.e., the effect, is transformed into a positive one, like a dia- For a person who lives 100 years in the future, the present isno positive colour slide. Our thinking, however, is really a purely surprise." individual, conscious process and therefore learnable. If our In the late 1920s, as a result of the successful operation of thinking is to attain the same perfection as our seeing, then we Viktor's Steyrling log flume, Prof. Philipp Forchheimer was asked — must change our way of thinking and learn to see reality not as an by the Austrian Government to investigate Viktor's unusual theo- action but as a reaction. Perfect thought lies in the apprehension ties. Through their collaboration, Forchheimer gradually became —_of the correct reaction, for before the eye can show us the positive, aware of the truth of Viktor's ideas, eventually insisting that it must first transform the negative and in a certain manner must Viktor put all his discoveries down on paper, saying that he break up what it records. What we see, therefore, is the turning thought Viktor's theories were not only valid but extremely valu- inside out of what we receive. What our mind grasps in this way able. Forchheimer later confided that he was delighted to have —s must be re-formed and re-thought if we wish to attain that for retired because he would now be relieved of the humiliating task — which we strive.” of telling his students that he had been teaching them rubbish for Our direct mental approach towards the understanding and the previous forty-five years. investigation of natural phenomena, our present materialistic and With the cooperation of Prof. Wilhelm Exner, President of the scientifically ingrained view that only the physically palpable and Austrian Academy of Science and inventor of the Exner electro- measurable represents the true reality, has led to greater and scope, a Viktor Schauberger treatise entitled "Turbulence", which greater confusion and the necessity to elaborate more and more described the braking function of vortices and their relation to complex theories to explain the various functions of the physical water temperature, was placed under seal and on deposit at the world. Our great omission has been our total disregard and our Austrian Academy of Science on Ist January 1930. This was done _ failure to come to grips in depth with the more ephemeral, unseen, not only to ensure the precedence of Viktor Schauberger's theories — yet fundamental energetic causalities. Like the negative men- on water movement but also to safeguard them for some time in tioned in the quotation above, these energics manifest themselves the future. While stressing its value, Forchheimer considered only indirectly, the physical constructs of the outer physical world there to be no point in publishing it at the time because the hydro- _ being a positive reflection of their respective functions. What we logical world was not ready. The science of hydraulics would first perceive as the foundation of physical reality—a reality to which APRIL-MAY 1996 14 * NEXUS