The Water Wizard
* Threatening to hang the fifty-eight-year-old man and to harm his family if he did not cooperate, Adolf Hitler forced an Austrian Inventor to build a flying craft which levitated without burning any fuel. The inventor had previously produced electrical power from a unique suction turbine by the same implosion principles using air or water in creating the force. The Third Reich wanted these inventions developed quickly. But the inventor took his time; understandably he did not want to give Hitler a technological advantage.
* The Austrian, Victor Schauberger, was known in his time as The Water Wizard. The courageous inventor built prototype examples of beneficial technology, in his effort to turn humanity away from death-dealing technologies. He defended Earth’s water, air, and soil, but at the end he was out-manoeuvred by people with lesser motives.
* From childhood Viktor aspired to be a forest warden like his father, grandfather and a line of great-grandfathers. As a boy he explored nearby woods and then roamed farther. He came to know the rumbling rivers and the musical streams which feed them, just as other young people know streets and hallways and sounds of their childhood. However, he noticed that natural waterways rarely flowed in straight corridors. Instead, a river undulates through the landscape, swerving to one side and then to the other. Within the larger meandering caused by Earth’s turning, water coils around a twisting central axis as it sweeps downstream. Keeping in mind this inward-spiralling motion, Schauberger developed the basis for a technology in tune with nature.
* Schauberger had the opportunity, rare in his century, of living for years in a vast unspoiled forest. After the First World War ended, Prince Adolf von Schaumburg-Lippe hired him to guard 21,000 hectares (51,870 acres) of mostly virgin forest in a remote district. As he patiently observed rhythms of life in this huge watershed Schauberger saw phenomena which may be impossible to find today. One terrifying example, which in the end impressed him with the self-regulation of nature, was a landlocked lake which rejuvenated it self before his eyes. One warm day he was about to strip and swim in the isolated lake, when it roared with sudden movement. Whorls appeared on the surface and half-submerged logs started to move. The debris circled, faster and faster while a massive whirlpool formed in the middle of the lake. Then the logs sucked into the center upended and disappeared into the whirlpool. After the waters stilled momentarily, a gigantic waterspout startled Schauberger even more. Turning as it rose, the spout reached as high as a house then settled back, and the waters began to rise on the shore. The young gamekeeper ran; he had seen enough. But the incident added to the mystery of this substance which fascinated him; water.
* Another clear night, in late winter, he again rubbed his sharply observant eyes in disbelief. Exploring a rushing stream in bright moonlight, he stood on the bank looking down into a deep pool. The water was so clear that he could see the bottom, several meters below the surface. Large stones on the bottom were jostling about. Even more amazing, an egg-shaped stone about the size of a human head started circling in the way as a trout does before jumping a waterfall. Suddenly the rock broke the surface of the pound, and slowly a circle of ice formed around the floating stone. Was this a cold-generating instead of a heat-generating process? Then one by one nearly all the egg-shaped stones circled up and appeared on the surface. Stones of other shapes remained unmoving on the bottom.
* What metals did the dancing stones contain? Why the egg shape? What force develops in the pristine water? What is motion, anyway? Schauberger had a lot of solitude for mulling these questions, and eventually he developed a theory about different types of motion. He saw that water needed freedom to move in a vortexian motion (three dimensional spiralling).
* Schauberger was well-placed for developing his unique understanding of water; his workplace was big enough for interconnected life processes to mesh without hindrance there. Life forms interacted in balance; it was still an unbroken web of life.
* Schauberger believed that an invisible field structure permeated everything and was necessary for life, but he observed that technologies could propel the unknown field structure into either motions harmful to biosystems or helpful to biosystems. In other words, he held technical planners responsible for the life or deaths of biological systems. How did he prove his ideas?
* Not one to stay at the vapourware (designed but not yet produced) level of ideas, Schauberger picked up his tools and built hardware. From water-courses to agricultural implements, his construction attracted praise from users. Then he turned to extracting electrical energy directly from the flow of water and air.
* At the end of the Second World War, American and Russian military confiscated his models, diagrams and even the materials he used. Reportedly the Russians even burned his apartment in case they had missed any technological secrets hidden there. Did anyone carry-on the levitation-craft work after Schauberger’s wartime research team was split up? The answer may be buried in some country’s classified defense files.
* Victor was tricked into signing a contract that said he can’t write about or even talk about his past and future discoveries, and was bound to give everything he knew to the boss of a Texas consortium.
* Victor Schauberger was at the end a despairing man. In the last few days of his life he reportedly cried over and over, “They took everything from me, everything. I don’t even own myself!” Stripped of hope, he died a broken man.
NO COMMON SENSE
ANALYZE THE EXAMPLE
* Which supports and barriers were in play?
* What were the dynamics?
* Who, or What, won the Tug-of-War?
* Discuss the outcome with your friends and family.
* Use Post #4 as a reference for the dynamics and relationships between supports and barriers.
