Living Food and Healthy Water - A Wish List

Hidden Nature
The Startling Insights of Victor Schauberger
by Alick Bartholomew


What if Water, Soil and Plants had awareness and feelings? Would we treat it differently? What if there were natural healing powers in all of nature, if we didn't take them away? Would we protect them, preferring to stay healthy over healing?
What if there were energy sources which would not create destruction, while being a whole lot more efficient? Utopia? Hardly. Victor Schauberger had it figured out before WWII. Why is it not in use then? Politics. Not surprising, but it is high time for change.

Everyone who cares about healthy food, water, healthy environment now and for future generations, should read this book. Maybe if enough of us change the way we think and act, if we refuse the damaging ways, demanding change, it might happen. Seems to be a good time to do so, since everything is in upheaval, industry has competed to the max, not coming up with anything really different. Lets inspire them with demand. People do have Power, and more people have more of it.

Other important books are The Secret Life of Plants, and Secrets of the Soil both by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird, also available through Amazon.com.
I have no investments or profits in either the books or Amazon. Just some of the things I am again re-reading and re-thinking. Always looking for ways of healing what I can, hoping to eventually being able to focus on maintenance instead. To me, this is what farming is about. Ultimately, a farmer guides production to what is wanted and needed, without hurting the natural balance of things. Not soil, not creatures. This is the only way to be able to have living food, which is what is needed to sustain life. As an extension, this food should be for everyone, not "labeled" and overpriced, making "healthy" a luxury item. This kind of thinking is rediculous.
I can hear all the arguments, that this is not possible because it would not feed enough, and bah-humbug like that. It would hurt, but not the food supply, not the people, not the farmers. Many might get to keep their farms, if they could bring dead soil back to full productivity. Chemical industries and pharmaceuticals would be in trouble. Is this who we want to support, at personal cost? I don't.

The paradox is, I don't even condemn these industries - not altogether. Much good has been accomplished, and we do need to remember that. What I do object to, is when the approved and accepted toxic levels lead to total destruction, and for no good reason. Why do we need fabric softeners with overdoses of musk chemicals for example. We don't. What about the "Swiffer" type products, which encourage a disposable attitude - use and throw. Plastic disposable dishes, plastic bags, the list is endless. What about the many medications in TV ads. The side effect rattled by really quick, while showing a happy life, often include severe issues, even death. Is that why they try to sell it to the public, not Physicians? And where do medications ultimately end up? ...in our drinking water. Yup, you can do the research on this horrific fact. Medications and drugs, legal and not, are excreted, and it's not getting cleaned out sufficiently.
In farming, the poisons are advertised much like these drugs. "You need more, and stronger, to solve your problems, caused by all that we sold you up until now." Is it not obvious that this is a big problem? A little predictive thought will ring alarms, saying that you will need even more, and even stronger next year - if there is a next year, and if the soil has not turned to concrete, or started to glow... - if you use all that stuff.


No, I'm far from ranting. These are things many of us are already aware of. Sad facts, of long standing, and in time there is not much surprise over the "latest outrage" - One thing leads to another, and another... Some prefer to ignore, surrendering to being powerless. Some fight windmills, at least it gives a sense of doing something. Some just go change what they can, and set an example, helping others do the same.


These are really, really good books to read, since it's freezing outside, while taking a coffee break, or snuggled by the fire at night. Thought provoking, eye opening, and offering alternatives. Some things are simple enough to do ourselves. THAT is what I'm always looking for. How to change things on an individual level. I also love to share it with others who feel this way. This is empowerment, freedom even, and ultimately how the earth-and it's creatures, including us- can be healed. When enough individuals educate and empower themselves and each other. We can't wait until politics and industry start to care - they won't as long as they can sell illusions. I'm also really not good at waiting, so I am once again cooking up all kinds of ideas, and playing with experiments during winter, thinking of large application possibilities. If only a fraction of it all works out, I'll be happy, and something will have changed for the better. A little at a time, things fall in place. What matters most is what we focus on. Like in riding, "the horse goes where the rider looks..." or at least so I heard. I don't ride, but I know it's true for me and life. A good incentative to try to stay positive.


What's your favorite book?

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