Water the original human being?
Water has a nervous system, a rhythmic system and also a metabolism of its own. It has a skin, and a purpose. It 'owns' all living forms on the planet as these forms have been created by the power of water to inform living shapes, and as such all living bodies are unified through water.
Water remembers and stores information within its manifold sheaths at a molecular level, taking on the character of its material and conscious surroundings. Research in BioPhysics shows this, as does the global work of homeopathy. To see the wonderful crystals created by Dr Masaru Emoto convince us of the sensitive receptivity of water, its capacity to collect and respond to its environment and organise itself accordingly.
Water also responds rhythmically to all that influences it. Yet in a stream there are so many influences we seldom see a rhythm held before it is affected with further change. However, within a less chaotic situation water, where single influences occur, water exhibits rhythmical formative properties. Forms akin to plants, insects, bones, organs and embryos spontaneously develop, causing us to wonder aloud. Here we meet the creative hands of a fabulous artist, playing with being living-nature. Yet in living nature, the plant and animal forms are alive, move and carry out chemical reactions well beyond human consciousness....and are beautiful at the same time! The scientific life work of Theodor Schwenk on this flowing movement, shows a wonderland of creativity that we are all suddenly familiar with.
Within the oceans and artesian waters metabolic processes of mixing and digestion are deeply at work. The best water, Victor Schauberger tells us, is minerally enriched water rising from below through springs after long periods of digestion within the earth. Water mixes and dissolves matter, carries it to new places and places it into new living forms and ecosystems where it is taken up and built into constantly maintained life processes.
Water even provides everything with its own skin, its own meniscus, seen most easily as the concave and firmer surface to any glass of water. Within the water there are many such sheaths, providing the basis for all skin whether plant or animal, plus connective and muscular tissue sheaths.
Organs and bones develop out of liquid movement in embryos and harden later to form what we too often believe are mechanisms. For instance does the heart simply pump the blood?
The engineering breaking system within the thousands of kilometres of capillaries, where blood lines up corpuscle by corpuscle, and then has to travel vertically up hill, is simply too great for a muscle the size of a fist to maintain for 80 years without stopping. The heart itself is created by embryonic liquid flow in the womb, and this liquid flow has its own minute rhythms held steadily before the heart even exists. Simpler organisms in the evolutionary scale have pulsing rhythms within their bodies but no heart.
The rhythms of life inform the pulsing blood, the pulsing lymph and cranio-sacral fluids and are not simply driven by a physical mechanism from within.
The problem is human consciousness, which simply needs to expand its imaginative faculties in a scientific manner, so it can feel and grasp realities in nature.
To understand something, we must become like it. To understand water, to perceive it anew from its own point of view (which is ever anew and moving) means we will come to understand living nature itself in a more helpful light. Our thinking and perceiving simply need to become more fluid and responsive! Water also flows to the lowest place, and human thinking also needs to practise this humility in order to under-stand.
And in the process we may discover that the world is not simply 'out there', something different to we humans. Then we may well come to care for it in an entirely new way.
The design and use of Flowforms is a small step in our communal walk into a new culture where we learn from nature and design with nature, and create a world in harmony with nature.
Some interesting website links:
Crystals Tell The Truth
Snowflake Research Dr Masaru Emoto San's inspiring work.
www.hado.net For excellent articles with inspiring photos on Consciousness of Water and other matters see Articles in his website.
Sensitive Crystallization based on the research and observations of Dr Steiner and the work of Drs Kolisko.
http://www.hagalis.com/ They have a beautiful book available, all in German but the 180 pictures are in any language you speak!
Water is more than we realise!
Theodor Schwenk (English intro) It is almost impossible to find pictures of his work on the web, and the best thing is to simply buy the book Sensitive Chaos. His son Wolfram now runs the Institute for Flowing Sciences.
http://www.stroemungsinstitut.de/prospect.htm
Sophisticated, beautiful, sevenfold sculpture moving water from a contracted upwelling phase through expansion processes into a very active forward motion. The sculpture and the water make a perfect water-art experience of a high calibre. Other combinations are available.