There is a Chinese parable about a village in a severe drought. Having tried all of their prayers and sacrifices, they send for a rainmaker. Emerging from his carriage, he appears disgusted, and asks for a house on the outskirts of town, where he should be left undisturbed. Three days pass without a glimpse of the rainmaker, but finally a thunderstorm arrives. Emerging, a villager approaches him, “You did it! You really can make it rain!” Dismissive, the rainmaker replies, “Of course I can’t. When I arrived, I could tell immediately that the people here were at odds with themselves, and I became at odds with myself, too. It took me three days to find my balance, again, and when I did, the rain came. Where I come from, people are in balance, and so it rains and dries as is needed.”
Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957), once Freud’s favorite student and famously persecuted for his study of a mysterious energy he termed orgone, found that irritated orgone seemed to prevent the atmosphere from contracting sufficiently for water vapor to form clouds. He also found he could remedy these droughts by drawing in healthy orgone from nearby atmospheric currents.
Read next to the parable of the village (and perhaps reading between the lines of Reich’s own writing), it’s easy to imagine that people, not just high-voltage electrical equipment and nuclear power stations, are capable of irritating atmospheric orgone.
Viktor Schauberger (1885-1958), an Austrian naturalist and researcher referred to as the Nikolai Tesla of water, believed that modern man had made a serious error in the use of explosion (combustion engines, nuclear fission) to generate energy, whereas he found nature employed implosion to the same ends, and without the polluting, destructive side effects. In his view, a balance between the implosive and explosive forces was essential for growth: “In Nature, two forces prevail: gravitation, for expulsion and purging, and levitation, for upward impulsion and synthesis. In the struggle between the Ur-Feminine – the formative life-principle – and the fertilizing, husband-like Ur-Masculine, cycloid motion plays a decisive role in determining whether a rise or fall in living standards results.”1
Taken altogether, these threads make me wonder whether our observations of the universe’s expansion, and its theoretical terminus in a so-called heat death where all matter is so spread out that life is impossible, are not merely of drought on a larger scale. How would the universe appear to us if we were all in the Tao?
Schauberger, Viktor. The Water Wizard – The Extraordinary Properties of Natural Water (Ecotechnology Book 1) (p. 44). Gill Books. Kindle Edition. “