Hidden Nature: The Startling Insights of Viktor Schauberger Paperback – January 15, 2004

With no formal training in the sciences, Schauberger made a "spiritual" connection with Nature. He understood that the Universe is not complex, and the Laws of Nature are actually very simple, since the highest wisdom passes directly from the brain into the heart.This allowed him to understand how human interaction is destroying Nature, and how balance could and should be maintained so everything would flourish. "Highly ordered systems lose stability when their environment suffers deterioration." He predicted that a decrease in biodiversity in nature would lead to an increase in violence and a degeneration of spiritual qualities in humans. He also predicted how deforestation would lead to more violent weather worldwide. I think we've proven these predictions as accurate, and they were made before Al Gore was even born.But, like other visionaries who challenged the establishment, Viktor posed a threat to those who benefitted from the status quo. From their perspective Nature exits to be manipulated and exploited for the "benefit" of humanity. There is no accountability.The book is divided into sections dealing with water, trees and energy. Some of this gets moderately complex, but understanding the exact workings of how a tree pumps sap based on temperature gradient is not necessary to comprehending the basis of balance in Nature. The most fascinating discussion involved water, and the fact that it is a living entity.

This book is amazing and will forever alter the way you look at water and how humans interact with it. Extremely powerful and informative information.

Viktor Schauberger was an absolute genius, easily the equal of an Albert Einstein or a Nikola Tesla. He came from a family of foresters, and many of his early ideas came from watching the movement of water and fish in the forests he protected.His knowledge was tapped by Hitler during WWII, leading the Allies to the suspicion that he might have been affiliated with the Nazis. He wasn't, but it is understandable why someone back then might have had concerns in that regard.Schauberger's scientific contributions were many, and included some of the most mind-boggling ideas about propulsion of aircraft that have ever been produced. Even today, his ideas are light years beyond anything we have in production; at least the stuff our military/government will admit to. After Schauberger was released from military custody at the end of the war, he remarked that the Allies had confiscated his research and it was never returned to him. To the best of my knowledge, the research materials taken from him have to this day, never been declassified or released. That's not bad for 70 or 80 year old ideas, eh?Perhaps his greatest contribution is his work regarding water, and its conservation. He produced water chutes to bring timber down out of the mountains that were copied the world over. He employed principles to work with the water that had never been considered before. For instance, he maintained, and rightfully so, that water has greater energetic capacity when it is chilled. The cooling of water and regulation of its temperature was one attribute of his timber chutes that made them work. No one believed what he said would work until he proved it by building a working prototype and proving it.His single most mind-boggling idea is that virtually all our technology today is based upon the explosion. For example, in our cars, the engine works by combustion, with explosions pushing pistons, etc. This, says Schauberger, is absolutely the opposite of the way Nature works. Nature produces its energy through a process of implosion, which, he maintained, produces far more work capacity, while causing little or no environmental pollution. If he is correct, and there is every reason to believe he is absolutely correct, our entire technological foundation is heading us for some ultimate burnout. It cannot be sustained, and in attempting to do so it will continue to waste and destroy all our resources. It may yet be possible to turn this around by adopting the concept of implosion technology, but it remains to be seen if the economic powers of the world will have enough wisdom to pursue this course, or if they will ride the train of greed all the way until the tracks fall off the cliff.I could go on and on, but you really need to read this book to get even a small idea of the scope of this man's thinking and his contributions. Like several other figures from the past, Schauberger's is a name that is only now beginning to be appreciated for the contributions he made, and the contributions the further implementation of his ideas are yet capable of making.

Lo primero que me impresionó al tener este libro en mis manos, fue la hermosa imágen de tapa y la calidad del conjunto.El libro en sí es una introducción a la manera de ver el mundo según Viktor Schauberger, pero narrado de una manera muy entendible, con un lenguaje muy claro y correcto, sin ahondar en complejidades innecesarias para un libro que es introductorio. Los temas que toca, siempre alrededor del agua, sus características y la importantísima relación de ésta con el mundo y con nosotros mismos.Es realmente esclarecedor, inspirador e informativo. Para quienes no tienen en claro quién fué Viktor Schauberger, creo que esta es la pieza de texto indicada para empezar. Nos hace reflexionar a cerca del cuidado que debemos tener en relación al medioambiente en general y al agua en particular, y nos propone un cambio radical de nuestra conciencia para cooperar con nuestro planeta.

Bought for a very scientifically intellectual friend of mine. Seems to really appreciate it.

I first bought this book twenty years ago. It amazed me, and I lent it out too many times. I had to buy it again because it is invaluable. Just the idea of a fish in a river being startled, and swimming upstream, was enough to get my excitement up for thinking again about what we all assume is fact.

I wish I would have discovered this book forty years ago (& 37 years before it was printed)- I do this New Age, holistic, alternative lifestyle stuff for a living & this book is far beyond anything I've ever encountered.How anyone can start out daydreaming on a riverbank & end up inventing a flying saucer travelling 1500 miles per hour with antigravity properties that broke through the roof of its manufacturing plant.And speaking of plants, Viktor's tree realizations and H2O's role on Earth is so different than anything ever conceived.And speaking of conceived, it is very straightforward to conclude that if Germany would have discovered Viktor Schauberger's gadgets sooner, Germany would have been viktorious in World War II.