FOOTNOTES

*1. The Scientific and Medical Network (SMN) is a leading international forum for people engaged in creating a new worldview for the twenty-first century, bringing together scientists, doctors, psychologists, engineers, philosophers, complementary practitioners, and other professionals. Formed in 1973, it has members in more than thirty countries.

*2. Viktor Schauberger possessed this rare gift. He noted: “The majority believe that everything hard to comprehend must be very profound. This is incorrect. What is hard to understand is what is immature, unclear, and often false. The highest wisdom is simple and passes through the brain directly into the heart.”

*3. The law of conservation of energy states that the amount of energy throughout the universe is finite; energy merely transfers from one form to another—potential to kinetic, and vice versa (the physical sphere). The law of anticonservation of energy postulated by Viktor Schauberger holds that the amount of available energy—potential, kinetic, or dynamic—can be increased at will to virtually any order of magnitude (the quantum sphere). Schauberger saw the two as dialectic counterparts.

*4. Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (1749–1827), was a brilliant mathematician and astronomer often referred to as the “French Newton.” He proposed a “demon” who understood all the forces that set nature in motion and would therefore be able to foretell all future events, based on the theory of causal determinism. This popular theory went against the idea of free will and particularly the theories of quantum mechanics, which state that unpredictability plays an important part in evolution.

*5. This describes water perfectly: the ground is our base, where we come from, our common denominator; our being is our very nature, our true integrity, our wholeness. Goethe was a scientist and polymath, as well as philosopher and poet.

*6. A BBC film crew shot a remarkable film of a surfer inside a four-meter (about thirteen feet) barrel wave for a Natural History Unit series on the South Pacific, which aired in 2009. Filmed in super-slow motion using a high-definition camera, it shows the wave forming recognizable multiple fractal-like vortices shooting back from the face of the wave.

*7. New research shows oxygen depletion in the atmosphere accelerating since 2003, which is bad news for mammals. Mae-Wan Ho, “O2 dropping faster than CO2 rising,” SiS, August 19, 2009.

*8. The research of Viktor Schauberger supports this view and will be more fully explored in later chapters.

*9. In 1913 the chemist and natural theologian Lawrence J. Henderson pointed out that the strangeness of water consists in its possession of the precise properties that make it “fit” for life on Earth. See The Fitness of the Environment.

*10. The Phoenicians called water mem, the root for “memory,” a reminder of the ancient belief in water’s ability to record and transfer information. Mem is also the thirteenth letter in the Hebrew alphabet. The Hebrew word for “water” is mayim.

*11. The most recent mission to search for planets like our Earth is the Kepler probe, which NASA launched March 7, 2009, from Cape Canaveral. This three-and-a-half-year mission is searching our galaxy for Earth-size planets in habitable zones around stars. It would take more sophisticated future missions to analyze their atmospheres to detect whether they could support life.

*12. An astronomical unit (AU) is the distance from Earth to the sun—approximately 93 million miles.

*13. The idea of Earth having a “consciousness” as part of its evolution is a variation of James Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis.

*14. See the box in chapter 17 titled “The Growing Acid Problem in the Arctic Ocean,” which discusses how acidity in the oceans threatens life at the bottom levels of the ocean food chain. Chris Bowler, a marine biologist on the EU Tara Ocean project in Barcelona is setting out on a three-year survey of the world’s oceans to study marine life-forms. His research should provide valuable data on the state of the ocean ecosystem.

†15. An extremophile organism is one that lives under extreme environmental conditions.

*16. Martin Chaplin is a professor and biochemist at London South Bank University, to whom I am grateful for permission to reprint models of the geometry of water structures from www.isbu.ac.uk/water. He identifies sixty-seven anomalies of water: twelve of phase (states controlled by temperature or pressure), twenty of density, twelve material, eleven thermodynamic (for instance, specific heat), and twelve physical (such as viscosity). A summary of the less complex is given in appendix 2.

*17. Electromagnetic fields are produced by living organisms; for example, the electric currents that flow in nerves and muscles.

*18. A covalent bond is a sharing of pairs of electrons between atoms.

*19. Specific heat of other substances: ethyl alcohol 0.54, wood 0.42, aluminium 0.21, iron 0.12, glass 0.11, copper 0.9, silver 0.6, gold 0.3.

*20. Albedo is a secondary feedback effect of the bright surface of ice and snow, which reflect substantial amounts of the sun’s heat back into space.

*21. For instance, the waters of the Sahara.

*22. These ice formations can create major power failures.

*23. However, meteoric dust particles act as nuclei for ice crystals when traces of water vapor are carried upward by high-level convection caused by the vertical decrease of temperature to form noctilucent clouds. Noctilucent clouds generally form in summer at about eighty kilometers (fifty miles) altitude in high latitudes and often have a shimmering, opalescent quality. The aurorae are also created in high latitudes by ionizing effects on ice crystals above the mesopause.

*24. The Australian dowser Alanna Moore describes a group pilgrimage down the Wimmera River in Victoria, teaching rivercare to the whole community, in her book The Wisdom of Water.

*25. The dyne per centimeter is the unit traditionally associated with measuring surface tension. For example, the surface tension of distilled water is 72 dyn/cm at 25°C (77°F).

*26. Schauberger identified subtle energies of the fourth and fifth dimensions (see chapter 10) as responsible for this alchemical process. He named them “dynagens,” the primal male (sun) energies, which initiate growth; “fructigens,” the feminine (Earth) energies, which symbolize fruitfulness; and “qualigens,” which determine the quality of life.

*27. The northwest coast of North America, the southwest of South America, small segments in northwest Europe, Japan, southeast Australia, and the west coast of South Island, New Zealand.

*28. In 1925 John Scopes, a high school biology teacher, legally challenged his right to teach evolution in the classroom, in defiance of a Tennessee law.

*29. Mae-Wan Ho identifies the antiquated and destructive worldview that dominates medicine, biology, economic, and social/political systems with the contraction “domo,” meaning “dominating model”; the powerful, controlling, and seductive antilife tool of the world seen as machine.

*30. In The Biology of Belief, Bruce Lipton presents an insightful introduction to the new biology that is inspired by epigenetic theory. Lipton is an award-winning cell biologist who taught in medical schools for twenty years.

*31. one example is the effects of harmful medication that can cause iatrogenic illness (or the possible side effects listed on the leaflet that comes with your prescription), which is now the main source of death in the united States (>300,000 per year: see Bruce lipton’s study of u.S. government 2003 statistics).

*32. See the principal qualities essential for living water in appendix 1: Water and Health.

*33. The extra “e” in “carbone” enlarges the usual range of elements used in forming the physical structures of life, excluding oxygen and hydrogen. (Schauberger also classified the elements as yin or yang (feminine or masculine).

*34. Theosophy is a metaphysical philosophy that originated with the Russian philosopher Helena Petrovna Blavatsky in 1875. Theosophists trace its ancient origin to the universal striving for spiritual knowledge that has existed in all cultures. They believe that all religions are attempts by spiritual masters to help humanity evolve to a higher level of consciousness. It has strong links to esoteric Buddhism.

*35. The second law of thermodynamics states that all self-contained systems must degenerate into a condition of entropy unless there is a further input of energy.

*36. See Ho’s background article “Quantum Jazz—the Tao of Life” on www.i-­sis.­org.uk. The science behind this research is contained in her remarkable book The Rainbow and the Worm: The Physics of Organisms, more popular presentations of which are her “New Age of Water” series of articles found on the institute’s website.

*37. Ilya Prigogine’s pioneering research in self-organizing systems, based on his dissipative systems theory, became a cornerstone of quantum physics.

†38. A hexagram is a six-line symbol that helps to discern both the energy in a particular situation and the best way to work with it.

*39. In order to comprehend the whole, German philosopher G. W. F. Hegel (1770–1831) insisted that it is imperative to consider opposites as: “such contradictions that are seen to merge themselves into a higher truth that comprehends them.” This is termed dialectic thinking. (Oxford English Dictionary)

*40. One such candidate might be the Transition Movement (see chapter 19), which seems to have a fractal way of multiplying. (Also see appendix 3: Ben Okri on “The Bankruptcy of Our Civilization.”)

*41. James Clerk Maxwell synthesized previously unrelated theories to formulate electromagnetic theory. He challenged the omnipotence of the second law of thermodynamics with his Maxwell’s Demon proposition in 1871, thus anticipating the basis of quantum physics.

*42. Callum Coats clarifies the relationship between phi and the egg shape in Living Energies. The numerical value of phi is 1:1.6187, or 5:8 (a √³ rectangle).

†43. This is why pointy end up is the best way to store eggs.

*44. Schauberger believed that a water body (for instance, a stream) can communicate with our own water body (chapter 10). Cleve Backster’s research suggests this might even happen at a distance (chapter 14).

*45. The term overlighted refers to a person who is a receiver of spiritual soul guidance, as opposed to direct psychic communication.

*46. The mystic George Gurdjieff said that our brains are principal receivers of cosmic energy.

*47. Lawrence Edwards’s The Vortex of Life is the fascinating record of his rigorous research. He shows how the moon, particularly when amplified by certain aspects of Saturn and Mars, can create a cyclical effect in the growth of tree buds.

*48. An exception was Albert Einstein, who was known to have experimented with dowsing (Alanna Moore, The Wisdom of Water).

*49. The Romanian film is a good summary of studies into the subtle energies of water. It can be viewed (in English) at the following link: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=–2933349021550318008.

*50. Backster’s controversial research was first published in The Secret Life of Plants (1973), by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird. It took another thirty years for Backster to publish his own account of his fascinating research in his book Primary Perception, which was well received by his peers: Deepak Chopra says, “Cleve Backster’s research has profound implications for humanity and its future evolution.” Jean Houston concurs, saying, “The implications of this work are enormous for science, society, and ecology.”

†51. This is one of the basic theories of quantum mechanics: an active observer is required for anything to become manifest.

*52. Monika Fuxreiter’s research at the Institute of Embryology, Budapest (cited by Mae-Wan Ho), demonstrates that DNA is inseparable from water. It may be that water records the information to be conveyed to the DNA.

*53. My mother believed in the inherent goodness in all people. That this was not just naïveté was shown by the fact that some people with a poor social reputation could respond to her with unaccustomed cooperation. However, in the past fifty years, basic standards of morality have given way to greater self-indulgence and lack of honesty.

*54. Distillation is normally done at a temperature of 100°C or higher.

*55. Is it accidental that the largest concentration of megalithic monuments of spiritual significance in Britain are found on the Orkney Islands, the only area in the British Isles where mineable uranium can be found?

*56. In Australia some of the fluoride laws are so draconian that people may be prosecuted for speaking out against water fluoridation (“Living in a Democratic Fluoridated Country,” Australian Fluoridation News).

*57. Essentially growth-promoting dynagens created by the bimetal composition: silver (male) and copper (female). The silver also has bactericidal properties. Dynagens are also produced by the centripetal movement of the main water body, raising the overall vitality, life energy, and wholesomeness of the water.

*58. The Uru Chipaya, the ancient “water people” of Bolivia, blame their upstream neighbors for diverting precious supplies (Guardian Weekly, 1 May 2009). Competition over the water of the River Jordan is a flashpoint in the Near East.

*59. The Water Association (1992) is a pioneering European group of like-minded scientifically trained innovators of sustainable systems for purifying and reenergizing waste water with reed beds, ditches, flowforms, and other water resources.

*60. In 2009 Christopher Field of the Carnegie Institute of Science testified: “With severe drought from California to Oklahoma, a broad swath of the southwest is basically robbed of having a sustainable lifestyle. We are close to a threshold in a very large number of American cities where uncomfortable heat waves make cities uninhabitable. Sacramento could face heatwaves for up to one hundred days a year.”

*61. It is more marked than in the Antarctic because most of the world’s CO2 emissions originate in the Northern Hemisphere.

†62. A German plan to build the most advanced polar research vessel in the world is being funded by the European Commission, to be commissioned in 2012. The research icebreaker Aurora Borealis will have a multifunctional role of deep-sea drilling and supporting climate/environmental research in both Arctic and Antarctic regions. See http://eri-aurora-borealis.eu.

*63. See the geological time chart, figure 2.1, which shows the timing of the five previous mass extinctions.

*64. Both Viktor and Walter Schauberger criticized people who tried to produce “free” energy with no understanding of what was involved. They claimed that the energies of the fifth and six dimensions require a state of humility and commitment in order to be cooperative.

*65. Mae-Wan Ho, in her book Genetic Engineering: Dream or Nightmare?, describes the large-scale release of transgenic organisms as “much worse than nuclear weapons as a means of mass destruction—as genes can replicate indefinitely, spread, and recombine.”

*66. The ancient round towers found in Ireland are thought to have been built to enhance the fertility of the soil by creating paramagnetic (yang) energy, which originates in the sun, whereas plants produce diamagnetic (yin) energy, stimulated by water (see Alanna Moore, Stone Age Farming).

†67. The use of human night soil is still widespread. According the National Geographic (June 12, 2010) nearly 200 million farmers in Tibet, Nepal, China, India, Vietnam, sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America feritilize their food crops with untreated human waste.

*68. James Lovelock, on a visit to the Hadley Center, the UK’s primary climate research center, while impressed by each scientist’s expertise in his own area, noted that there was little overall recognition of Earth as a dynamic system in critical imbalance.

*69. Environmental economist Herman Daly asks: “What is the proper range of inequality (the highest income as a multiple of the lowest)—one that rewards real differences and contributions rather than just multiplying privilege? Plato thought it was a factor of 4. Universities, civil servants, and the military seem to manage with a factor of 10–20. In the U.S. corporate sector, it is 500–1000” (“Toward a Steady-State Economy,” Resurgence). Endless economic growth, irresponsible banking, and unscrupulous advertising are basically unsustainable. A move away from these toward an awareness of fulfilling the needs of society as a whole would reduce inequalities.

*70. Callum Coats describes the correspondences as dialectic pairs, which together make a whole (Living Energies, 63). John baptized Jesus with water and the spirit, a metaphor for the water domain and the etheric field, which together are unity.

*71. Viktor Schauberger gave the term “carbone” to all the building blocks of matter with the exception of oxygen and hydrogen.

*72. Twice the size of Texas, the North Pacific gyre (one of the five major oceanic gyres) is an enormous garbage dump composed mostly of small fragments of plastic. It is formed and maintained by clockwise circulating ocean currents, and is a great hazard to fish and seabirds (nesting seabirds feed these bright bits to their chicks, and the chicks die of starvation).