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Callum Coates Living Energies an exposition of Concepts Victor Shauberger

I own this book, and the library has some of Shaubergers books such Living Water and Fertile Earth. I haven't read them yet, but having perused Living Energies I'm impressed by his empathy and understanding of nature. This book is all about Victor Schauberger and his exploration of Natures energy. I hope to donate this book to the library before I finish the course next year.Here's my review of Living Energies.

Victor used to meditate in nature as a child and found his consciousness merged with that of nature in a way that helped him understand how nature creates energy. He got many such insights and went on to create great techniques to harness natures energy.


Schauberger's insights into Nature's ways pivoted around the essential characteristics of water as a living substance that energises all life, both organic and inorganic. He frequently asserted "water is a living organism" - an idea to which poets and philosophers have subscribed, but which has escaped conventional science.

He was passionate about trees, and natural forests as the cradle of water. He warned how deforestation would deplete the world of water and destroy fertility, causing deserts and climatic chaos. He argued that when the natural eco-systems are in balance and diversity rules, there is great creativity and the evolution of higher and more complex life forms, but there is also order and stability.

When humanity walked lightly on the Earth, we cooperated with Nature. Although we are still part of Nature, we behave as though we are not, but above it, dominating and exploiting it. Viktor warned that the more we continued to go against Nature, the whole eco-system would become sick, the climate destructive, and human society would break down, with extreme violence, greed and pandemic illnesses.

Hitler came to hear of his great inventions and drafted him against his will into the S.S. in his very 'persuasive manner' to create machines that would help him in his war. This greatly pained Victor as he was a peaceful man, not a destructive man of war like Hitler.

In later years he developed methods to increase soil fertility. His many ideas fascinated man but challenged many theories that had been researched by others.

I found this book a fascinating read,even though I am not a technology minded person, but found it was the kind of book I could occasionally dip in and out of rather than read steadily.

The World Without Us
Alan Weisman




In The World Without Us, Alan Weisman offers an utterly original approach to questions of humanity's impact on the planet: he asks us to envision our Earth, without us.

From places already devoid of humans (a last fragment of primeval European forest; the Korean DMZ; Chernobyl), Weisman reveals Earth's tremendous capacity for self-healing. As he shows which human devastations are indelible, and which examples of our highest art and culture would endure longest, Weisman's narrative ultimately drives toward a radical but persuasive solution that doesn't depend on our demise. It is narrative nonfiction at its finest, and in posing an irresistible concept with both gravity and a highly-readable touch, it looks deeply at our effects on the planet in a way that no other book has.

Here's an excerpt from the book

University of Plymouth marine biologist Richard Thompson spends a lot of time pacing Plymouth’s historic edge. He especially goes in winter, when the beaches along the harbor’s estuaries are empty—a tall man in jeans, boots, blue windbreaker, and zippered fleece sweater, his bald pate hatless, his long fingers gloveless as he bends to probe the sand. Thompson’s doctoral study was on slimy stuff that mollusks such as limpets and winkles like to eat: diatoms, cyanobacteria, algae, and tiny plants that cling to seaweed. What he’s now known for, however, has less to do with marine life than with the growing presence of things in the ocean that have never been alive at all.


Although he didn’t realize it at the time, what has dominated his life’s workbegan when he was still an undergraduate in the 1980s, spending autumn weekends organizing the Liverpool contingent of Great Britain’s national beach cleanup. In his final year, he had 170 teammates amassing metric tons of rubbish along 85 miles of shoreline. Apart from items that apparently had dropped from boats, such as Greek salt boxes and Italian oil cruets, from the labels he could see that most of the debris was blowing east from Ireland. In turn, Sweden’s shores were the receptacles for trash from England. Any packaging that trapped enough air to protrude from the water seemed to obey the wind currents, which in these latitudes are easterly.

If you want to read more here's a link that will bring you directly to a chapter from this book
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