Our
philosophy
I
think, living as we do at the cusp of one century and another, that we
have an opportunity to take the best of the previous century forward
with us into the new one. The discoveries made by Viktor Schauberger
are part of what I would like to see carried forward.
I
also think that we are living in exciting times. The
industrial-revolution view of planet Earth, as a resource to be
exploited without full consideration of the consequences, is in
retreat. A new paradigm is being developed on many fronts, building on
new insights (Chaos Theory, Gaia Theory, Morphic Fields, to name
a few) and revisiting old philosophies. The view that I am left with
is of life on earth as an integrated whole, which can be considered as
a single organism. This requires a new level of respect for Mother
Earth, and new approaches to working with her.
Regarding
the copper tools themselves, using them reminds me of an experience I
had a few years ago. For a while, I ate all my meals with chopsticks,
and became quite adept at balancing rice grains on the wooden sticks.
When I went back to using knives and forks, I can still remember the
physical discomfort of putting a piece of pronged metal in my mouth.
All I could taste was the grating harsh metal. However, I soon got
used to using them and re-learnt to ignore the metallic taste. I
wonder if the use of copper tools feels the same to the soil as
chopsticks did to me.
Jane
Cobbald
April
2001
