The Soul of the River

Centripetal motion is a RadialàAxial flow.  It is movement inwards on an axis, or to a central point of gravity.  The brilliant forester-scientist Viktor Schauberger described centripetal flow as nature’s original creative motion and the predominant flow pattern of growing and healthy biological as well as hydrological cycles.  He saw that the streams and rivers are not just pushed by gravity down to the ocean, but they are also wound by alternating longitudinal vortices.  These self-organizing vortices cut out the meandering pattern by which the water winds itself like a snake down to the ocean.  As the spirals alternate down the river bends, they chew up earth minerals and micronutrients, charge them and disperse them at the midpoint between bends.  At this point, as the chewed and charged sediment is being deposited, the water begins to alternate its flow in a reverse spiral for the upcoming bend.  Viktor Schauberger called this “the soul of the river” or “the river generator.”  This pattern is very much responsible for the shape of rivers and can even be seen self-organizing with a droplet size stream flowing down a smooth diagonal pane of glass.  Schauberger mentioned a definite electromagnetic effect from this alternating spiral flow pattern, and this is evident in his term “river generator” as he was referring not just to the generating of the physical flow pattern but also the building up of electromagnetic charge.  The Swedish engineer Olaf Alexanderson, who authored a book on Schauberger, has done many years of research along those lines.  He found that when he placed copper plates in the bends of the river and connected them with copper wire, he got pulsed direct current electricity.  This is part of the logic of “the river generator,” and according to Schauberger, increased the capacity of the water to support life--part of a process he called “ennoblement.”    

Implosion , Explosion, and the Great Binary part. 1

Time to start breaking down/building up some basic concepts.  Implosion is Radial->Axial motion, while explosion describes Radial->Axial flow.  During implosion, matter undergoes densation and cooling, while explosion is expansive and heat-inducing.  Thus temperature gradients are associated with a shifting polarity--expanding and heating/contracting and cooling.  For now, the goal is to line up qualities co-occurring horizontally (stacked together) in time as different aspects of relative concepts, or analyzing the shifting polarity of yin/yang.  Heating and cooling are likewise associated with entropy and ectropy.  Entropy is part of the study of Thermodynamics, and we’ve all probably heard it associated with heat loss or decay.   But chances are ectropy may not have beeped on your lexical radar.  You could say that our culture has taken more stock of one side of the Great Binary than the other.  For example, the difference in length and detail of the Wikipedia entries of the two relatives amounts to 10 or more pages for “entropy” and small slice of a page for “ectropy.”  Spellcheck also reflects this imbalance as it doesn’t recognize “ectropy” in its native dictionary.  That the universe right now is continually expanding may only be part of the reason for this.  Historically, equations for power and energy flow and conversion were developed as part of the need for accounting for and improving upon energy systems.  As energy is used to perform useful work, it is progressively degraded into less useful forms while heat loss/friction co-occurs.  All systems, at some point, necessarily decay and disintegrate into disorder.  However, since nature is an open system, more ordered/higher quality forms of energy often flow upstream against the flow of chaos and disintegration, allowing moments in and through time for order to arise and comingle with chaos.  Now, as science shifts away from main emphasis on mechanical/ explosive systems and technology, the energetics of self-organizing systems and biological systems is progressively coming to light.  See:  Into the Cool, The Rainbow and the Worm, and Water, Energy, and Life: Fresh Views from the Water's Edge.

VorticalAxis?

Vortical comes from vortex.  Coiled vortical flow can be seen everywhere in nature from the alternating longitudinal vortices which wind streams and rivers down to the ocean, to DNA's coiled compression of life, to galaxies imploding into the intense gravity of black holes.  Vortex is also related to "voracious" as in "swallowing," ie. suction.  The vortex is about flow.  It is an archetypal flow pattern observed self-organizing across all scales in nature.  The impulse for my posts on this blog is to promote the use of such patterns, flows, and qualities inherent to nature herself, so as to help regenerate the biosphere and build a harmonious society.