Product Description

Why are so many species of plant and animal disappearing? How is it that Earth is losing more fresh water than it is producing? What are the effects of chlorination and fluoridation of water? The answers to these and many more pressing environmental questions are to be found in this remarkable book - the first in-depth examination of the life and work of the brilliant forester, scientist and pioneering inventor, Viktor Schauberger. Schauberger's insights into Nature pivoted on the essential characteristics of water as a living and pulsating substance that energises all of life, both organic and inorganic. He frequently asserted, "Water is a living substance!" - an ideal to which many philosophers have subscribed. With his ground-breaking concepts on energy, biomagnetism and the true function of trees, he showed how a world that exploited its resources rather than cherishing them was doomed to destroy itself. Above all, he demonstrated how Nature's abundance is the result of a complex interaction of energies that actually create matter, not the other way around as orthodox science believes. For him energy was primary, and physical form the secondary effect.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #211599 in Books
• Published on: 2001-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

About the Author
Scientist and architect Callum Coats spend twenty-three years translating, collating and editing Viktor Schauberger's books, articles and letters. The result is 'Living Energies'. He is also the translator and editor of the four-volume Eco-technology series encompassing a large and representative spectrum of Schauberger's work, also published by Gateway Books - 'The Water Wizard', 'Nature as Teacher', 'The Fertile Earth' and 'The Energy Evolution'.

Customer Reviews

Coates does a great job
Victor Schauberger was famously difficult to understand. He used terms all of his own, he had a rather nonlinear way of expressing them, he could be forceful at the expense of clarity, often entering into wars of words with academics of his time, and the ideas themselves are not in accord with our conditioning. That makes for a very difficult package.

But Coates has done a a great job. He has immersed himself in Schaubereger's documents and overcome these obstructions. We get the ideas in an orderly fashion, with a nice linear exposition, and the all terms are explained as we go. All the hyperbole and exclamations are taken out and we gain access, at last, to what were Schauberger's core ideas, and very wonderful ideas they are too.

I will not go into them, that is what the book does so well, but for me the most exciting of them is that the vortex can be self sustaining. This is because of the implosion of elements at its core. You might say the tip of the vortex is the interface between the world of matter and the world of energy - free energy!

But it is wrong to say that Coates has been merely the decipherer of Schaubeger, he has not, he has actively investigated what Schauberger wrote and been able to amplify it nicely.

For people who are ready to think right outside the science they were taught at school this book will be perfect. They will however, quite possibly experience just a little frustration. In the book several free energy devices are described, but none of them have appeared in concrete form, to my limited knowledge. In that sense Schauberger's revolationary ideas appear to be untested in the post-war era. I hope I am wrong about this and it is only my ignoarance makes me think it so.

This is far better than reading Schaberger direct.

Buy it you will love it!

Thought Provoking
An excellent book outlining Viktor Schauberger's ideas and world view. The brilliance in this work is that it is the story of one man's attempt in explaining the natural world as he actually observes it operating first-hand. Whether his theories are correct or not is actually not as important as the lesson learned from his approach to studying the world around him. Comprehend nature first without assuming that human interference will/can improve on it. Only after understanding the optimal (natural) phenonema, can a study of our effects on it be meaningfully assessed.

All in all, this is a very thought provoking book which I recommend to hydrologists, ecologist, agronomers, soil experts and the like: if he's wrong - then prove it!

A sustainable perspective through nature spirit-science.
Brilliantly highlighting life's "open" parameters, enhanced by a nature-spirit perspective, which is discovered through a scientific framework. Harmony in nature is discovered through a scientific hybridisation with knowledge of nature as a seemingly complex, yet fathomable energy existence. A timeless, continuous, process of discovery through "yielding" and "following" natures intrinsic potential of life creation through sustainable en-light-enment. Honest and incredible, a fitting, sound, perspective of wonderful science- and spirit- expansive worth.