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This book started life as my attempt to explain Viktor Schauberger's ideas to myself. Each chapter looks at one aspect of his system in detail, and illustrates it with stories from his own life and direct quotations from his writings. The book also contains original drawings by Viktor Schauberger.

Contents:

Foreword by Alick Bartholomew

Introduction 

Chapter 1: The making of a Water Wizard

Chapter 2: The Winding Way to Wisdom

Chapter 3: Feeling the Earth's Pulse

Chapter 4: Eggs and Egg-shapes

Chapter 5: The Rhythms of Life

Chapter 6: Natural Magnetism

Chapter 7: How Things Grow

Chapter 8: Life Energies

Chapter 9: A Material Difference

Chapter 10: The Inheritance, The Inspiration and The Vision

Chapter 11: Passing the Baton

Chapter 12: Into the Twenty-first Century

A conversation with Frau Ingeborg Schauberger

Sources, Contacts and Applications

References and Further Reading

Index

176 pages, published by Floris Books 2006, ISBN 0863155693. It can be ordered via our order form.

Reviews

From the Ecologist, March 2007:

"Schauberger was a visionary whose ideas were so far ahead of his time that they are still hard to comprehend now. Even attempting to summarise them in a short review would be next to meaningless. What is most important about the man, though, to which Cobbald's elegantly written biographical account of his life provides a wonderful introduction, is his belief that if we want to live with nature, we should spend time watching and learning from it. Schauberger spent his life doing just this, and for those of us too busy to notice the changing of the seasons, as much as anything this book is a salient reminder of the merits of slowing down, taking time and asking why"

James Cousins

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From The Scientific & Medical Network Review, Winter 2006:

"I have reviewed a number of books about Viktor Schauberger since Alick Bartholomew began publishing these in the early 1990's. His own book came out a couple of years ago, and he writes the foreword for this one. Readers unfamiliar with Schauberger will find this an excellent place to start. The author brings in biographical insights and explains the context in which his work arose. The text is also interspersed with some stimulating quotations and hand drawings. She brings out the influence of Goethe in a way that clarifies the parallel with contemporary Goethean science. His 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."

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"This is a very special book."

 from the Introduction by Alick Bartholomew