(from Michael Smith) Dear Allan,
Please forward: Peter Thomkins in Secrets of the Soil reports that Rudolf Steiner, before charging students Kolisko and Pheiffer with carring on his research, had observed differences between the formation of ice crystals on the window panes of butcher and flower shops. This caught my attention as a noteworthy item. So it was filed away into the cabinets of my mind and I plodded forward. One Saturday, in the not too distant past, our daughter found a small pocket of quartz in a creek bed. This brought me back to a statement in the SFA; "Quartz is not soluble in water, water just trickles around it." I kept asking myself; "what does quartz(SiO2) have to do with water?". I didn't recieve an answer to this until the past Sunday morning while watching a report on Afgahnistan. In the report, workmen where collecting large quartz stones in a dried river bed for use in glassmaking. While showing some pictures of beautiful bottles a brilliant flash occurred and I saw delicate drops of water forming on the inside of these beautiful glass vessels as the sunlight angled through them. Could it be that diffuse hydrogen from sunlight was knocking loose free oxygen radicals from the walls of glass(SiO2)? Then another flash. How many times have I found a closed glass jar left outside in the sunlight with drops of dew on its' interior. I thought of the mountains from which streams and rivers flow; all composed of silica bearing stone-- and growing water. So, if I may, the silica spray we call 501, perhaps need to be sprayed into the root zone of and on the plants we grow. I have noticed that sometime thereafter the spraying of 501 that the soil becomes hardened off. In doing so, what I imagine that is happening is that little beakers are being formed to collect moisture to support the plant from the outfall of this hydrogen with oxygen from sunlight(with the support of carbon) - or as Steiner put it "The eyes of the Earth". This too supports Hugh Lovels' idea of having 501 in the compost pile, but I would go further and suggest a piece of quartz in the piles bottom layer. What about applying this to the problem of deserfication? Eh Hugh, Peter? And do think about this to apply to the problem of fresh water supplies that World organizations claim are paramont while exploiting their productivity. --- Solutions are inherent. And so, as men run about collecting and measuring the water that falls from above, have they never noticed water that falls up from below? The kind of water that only mother earth gives, never ever realizing that water making is the funtion of earth, who after her husband comes to her gives forth that nectar of life. Hmmm, it's like Great Grandfather told father; get the turkeys out of the rain before they drown. All through little panes of glass. Michael. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
