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o German, Viktor quickly signed it. It was only later that the soul- destroying realisation dawned on him that he had signed away his whole mind, his whole life and everything for which he had striv- en. I have studied this document myself and it does state in quite unequivocal terms that not only were all Viktor's models, sketch- es, prototypes, reports and other data to become the sole property of the Donner-Gerchsheimer consortium, but Viktor was to com- mit himself to total silence on anything connected with implosion thereafter. Moreover, any further concepts or ideas he might develop in the future were also to belong to Donner and Gerchsheimer, and under no circumstances whatever could he dis- cuss these or anything else with anyone else. While on the face of it this coercive action by the Americans might appear reprehensible, it could equally well be argued that, having expended considerable sums on this venture, they at least wanted to recuperate some of their losses by legally acquiring pos- session of Viktor's apparatuses as collateral. This would no doubt have been done with a view to exploiting them commercially in some way in the future. The manner in which this was achieved notwithstanding, to legitimise such acquisition, the signing of the above document by Viktor personally would have been a legal necessity. The deplorable upshot of all this, however, is that all Viktor's models, prototypes, drawings and detailed data—including Prof. Popel's original report implying that what might be termed “"nega- tive friction" was an actuality—have remained in the possession of the Donner-Gerchsheimer consortium. That this report was actu- ally part and parcel of this project is confirmed by Viktor's refer- ence to it in one of his reports to Boerner dated 23rd/24th August 1958. On the evening of 17th September, Viktor and Walter were told to prepare for an early start the following morning at 5.45 am. Ready and waiting, nobody appeared until 8.30 am, Gerchsheimer had overslept. In great haste they left for the airport, Viktor being transferred to Totten's car in Sherman. Walter continued the jour- ney with Gerchsheimer, who reminded him once more of the con- ditions stipulated in the last agreement signed with Donner— namely, that all further discussion of implosion and implosive devices in the future was restricted to US personnel. In other words, once in Europe, both father and son were constrained to total silence on the subject and the associated project. Due to this late start, Viktor and Walter arrived at the airport only eight minutes before take-off for New York. Arriving there several hours later, they changed planes and flew to Frankfurt by way of London where they had to make an emergency landing. Always a man to stand by his word or signature whatever the ulti- mate outcome to himself, on the way back in the plane Viktor turned to Walter and expressed the deep sadness of his innermost being, saying with utter resignation words to the effect that: I no longer own my own mind. I don't even own my thoughts. After ail I've done, finally there is nothing left. I am a man with no future. Leaving Frankfurt by train a few hours later, they arrived in Linz on 20th September at about midnight. On the afternoon of 25th September 1958, five days after arriving home in Linz, Viktor Schauberger, who throughout his whole life had fought so hard to heal the environment and improve the lot of humanity, died a broken man. oo They call me deranged. The hope is that they are right. It is of no greater or lesser import for yet another fool to wander this Earth. But if I am right and Science is wrong, then may the Lord God have mercy on mankind!!"* — Viktor Schauberger (1885-1958) Endnotes Walter Schauberger, a physicist and mathematician, When 24. Lackenbucher, Raimund, "The Death of Viktor Schauberger” Callum discovered that no material on Schauberger's ideas ("Der Tod des Viktor Schauberger"), Implosion, no. 93, p. 3. was ayailable in English, he decided to-abandon architecture 25. Op.cit., p. 5. and devote himself to their study. He spent three years 26. Lackenbucher, Raimund, “The Death of Viktor working full-time with Walter at his Pythagoras-Kepler Schauberger" ("Der Tod des Viktor Schauberger”), Neue System Institute in Lauffen, Austria, and studying Viktor's lllustrierte Wochenschau, no, 8, Sunday 22 February 1959. archives. He also helped revise the translation of Living 27. While Einstein is generally credited with its formulation and Water, the introductory work on Viktor Schauberger by Olof it may well have been an almost simultaneous but independently- _ Alexandersson (published 1981). arrived-at discovery, chronologically it was first postulated in In the ensuing 15 years, Callum Coats devoted his time 1903, in the form m = F/c’, by Prof. Friedrich Hasendhrl (30 Nov and resources to writing Living Energies and to translating, 1874 - 7 Oct 1915), head of Physics at the University of collating and editing Viktor Schauberger's books, articles and Innsbruck, and later Vienna, Austria. Since Hasendhrl died in the letters into the major archive of his work, Eco-Technology: First World War, he was never able to establish his priority inthe Viktor Schauberger's Writings on Subtle Energies in Nature. formulation of this equation. 28. Implosion, no. 99, p. 13. [Callum Coats’ article is reprinted from Chapter 1 of his book, Living Energies: An Exposition of Concepts Related About the Author: to the Theories of Viktor Schauberger, published in 1996 Callum Coats was born in London, England, in 1939.and by Gateway Books, Bath, UK. For information on how to was schooled in Scotland and Germany, although he spent obtain this book, contact your nearest NEXUS office as list- periods of his childhood in non-European countries, such as. ed below: India, with his parents who had connections with the * Australia: PO Box 30, Mapleton Qld 4560; phone (074) Theosophical Society. He speaks fluent French and German. 42-9280, fax (074) 42 9381. In 1967 he received a Master's degree in Architecture from © New Zealand: PO Box 34735, Birkenhead, Auckland; the Architectural Association in London, practising first in phone (09) 416 7320, fax (09) 416 7340. London and then in Queensland, Australia, where he now * UK: 55 Queens Road, East Grinstead, W. Sussex, RH19 lives. 1BG; phone 01342 322854, fax 01342 324574. Callum first heard about Viktor Schauberger al the age of * USA: PO Box 177, Kempton, IL 60946; phone (815) 253 17, but, in 1977, his mother introduced him to Viktor's son, 6464, fax (815) 253 6300.] 44 « NEXUS AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1996