Viktor Schauberger

A new edition of a book I reviewed in 2005. Readers unfamiliar with Schauberger will find this an excellent place to start. The author integrates biographical insights and explains the context in which his work arose. The text is also interspersed with some stimulating quotations and hand drawings: 'a bird does not fly - it is flown. A fish does not swim - it is swum.' She brings out the influence of Goethe in a way that clarifies the parallels with contemporary Goethean science. Schauberger's basic vision and philosophy was to understand the processes of nature from within, and then to devise technologies that imitated these processes. He contended that modern civilisation is based on destructive forms of energy use and technological exploitation, which can only take us down a correspondingly destructive path. As one who is convinced that our attitude to nature must undergo a complete revolution, I regard the work of Schauberger as essential reading.