Here is one of my "almost posted in the science forum" posts. :silly: I might even order the book if it was in English.
This got my attention for a few reasons. The reference to Rupert Sheldrake helps, but mainly it is the connection to orgone, which is a way of collecting the electrostatic energy from the air (as in pyramid shape, layers of organic/inorganic material etc. etc.). As most of you know from posts like the one about native American seed ceremonies, I am pretty interested in the use of orgone energy in agriculture, as well as in health.
Galvanic stimulators also use high voltage, low current (think static electricity) to help people with muscle injury. Anyway, like most relatively free technologies (well this I guess has an expired patent on the process), we probably won't see a lot of traditional news about this so I thought I would post it here.
This would be just a higher tech way to apply static electricity to agriculture.
http://www.urzeitcode.com/index.php?id=19 Can the global food problem at last be solved without using genetic engineering? This new book by Swiss journalist Luc Bürgin unveils the secret of a sensational biological discovery at the pharmaceutical giant Ciba (now Novartis), which unfortunately has been ignored by the experts up to the present day. In laboratory experiments the researchers there Dr. Guido Ebner and Heinz Schürch exposed cereal seeds and fish eggs to an "electrostatic field" in other words, to a high voltage field, in which no current flows.
Unexpectedly primeval organisms grew out of these seeds and eggs: a fern that no botanist was able to identify; primeval corn with up to twelve ears per stalk; wheat that was ready to be harvested in just four to six weeks. And giant trout, extinct in Europe for 130 years, with so-called salmon hooks. It was as if these organisms accessed their own genetic memories on command in the electric field, a phenomenon, which the English biochemist, Rupert Sheldrake, for instance believes is possible.
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"In the case of our 'manipulated' wheat, growth was so rapid that it was ripe in four weeks instead of the usual seven months", Heinz Schürch recalled. "However one has to say that although the ears and stalks were somewhat smaller, there were more ears per plant. The actual benefit is that we could cultivate this wheat in regions where spring and summer are short where conventional wheat cannot be grown at all." In this case, one can also cheerfully refrain from using pesticides and herbicides: "The pests that have adapted to the growth process of normal wheat have not yet developed when we harvest our wheat as early as four to eight weeks after planting."