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HOW TO GROW YOUR OWN SUPER-ORGANIC FOOD

A subject that has me all excited has to do with the many different ways that have been discovered to speed and enhance plant growth. One of the books reviewed in my Secret Guide to Wisdom is a beaut by Chris Bird, Secrets of the Soil. Fabulous book. You really ought to read it. It's been reprinted and is available from the Dowsers book store — 800-711-9497.

One of the products described in the book is something called Sonic Bloom. When I read the book I sent a letter asking for more information. Nothing happened, so I almost forgot about it. But every now and then I'd hear Sonic Bloom mentioned, so I dug out my letter, looked up Dan Carlson on my Phone ROM, and called him. Wow, was he interesting to talk with!

Dan sent me an information package and a video, which converted me from merely being interested to being really excited. This stuff is absolutely amazing! Wait'll you see his video!

What Dan discovered was that playing music to plants gets the pores of their leaves to open up so they can draw in more nutrients, which helps them to grow faster and produce much bigger and sweeter fruit and vegetables. He was getting three times the normal growth and huge fruit and vegetables—if you call 400-pound pumpkins huge.

His next step was to spray the plants with a kelp solution, which provides nutrients containing all the minerals that are long gone from our farm soils, but are badly needed for good plant growth and our healthy eating. The combination of the music and the spray is producing plants seven times normal. He now has the world record for an indoor plant, a purple passion plant that's 1300 feet long! They normally grow to about 18".

His video shows tomato plants with 500 tomatoes on a single vine, and interviews with a long string of exceedingly happy farmers who have been using Dan's system. It's producing bigger, sweeter fruit and faster growing plants, even under adverse growing conditions.

You can get a Sonic Bloom kit from Dan for $50, complete with audio tapes and start growing your own giant vegetables or whomp up a bodacious science fair project: Scientific Enterprises, 708-119th Lane NE, Blaine MN 55434.

If nothing else, be sure to get Dan's video so you can amaze your friends with what is obviously the agriculture of the future. Sonic Bloom is being used with great success in Japan, Australia, Mexico, and in the U.S.

The Pyramid

At about the same time as I was being amazed by Sonic Bloom, I got a book from Acres USA called The Pyramid by Les Brown. It's a 30-year old book, but it's a corker. Les made some small pyramids and found they helped seeds and plants grow faster, make sweeter fruit, and the fruit stayed fresh much longer after being picked. He went on to build a 30-foot pyramid out of wood with three floors of garden in it.

This whole business about pyramid power is weird. I've read about it mummifying animals and sharpening razors. Then there is the mystery of the pyramids in Egypt, which scientists agree we could not replicate today, even with all of our technology. The more I read about the pyramids, the more amazing they are. Yeah, I've been there to see them.

Can the alleged power of pyramids be used to help our plants grow and produce better fruit and vegetables? Les Brown's book says yes, and he has photographs to prove it. The 80-page book is $3 from Acres USA (#3045), 800-355-5313.

If you're interested in the Great Pyramid you'll enjoy a book packed with statistics about it. It's a scientific as well as a construction marvel. I found The Great Pyramid Speaks by Joseph Gill at Barnes & Noble bargain table for $7. Maybe try abebooks.com and see.

Another really interesting book is Peter Tompkins' Secrets of the Great Pyramid. This is a large format, 416-pager, and profusely illustrated. ASD has it for $30 (800-711-9497). Graham Hancock has also done a wonderful job in his The Message of the Sphynx, 350 pages, hard cover $27.50 from Dowsers Society book store (ASD).

Radionics

While we're dealing with things which are as yet unexplainable by science, but which anyone not too brainwashed to try, can prove are real, we have what is called radionics. With this "power" it's possible to rid fields of pests and substantially improve plant growth. I've got a couple of good books on the subject, but I'll be looking for more.

How is it possible to put a photograph of a field into a device and have it keep pests from bothering the crops in that field? Ridiculous, right? Well, so's dowsing, which has been working reliably for thousands of years and still has no "scientific" explanation. Is it even remotely possible that there are still a few things we don't yet understand? Yes, I have an explanation for how and why dowsing works.

Look, we know that the accumulation of knowledge (and technology) has been speeding up. A hundred years ago scientists were just as certain as those today that they knew the fundamentals of everything. Ditto two hundred years ago — and probably ditto a thousand years ago.

If you find any outstanding books on radionics, let me know.

Feeding Roots

Jim Patterson, the cold fusion pioneer, has a bunch of patents in many fields, but the one of interest to farmers is his micro-piping system for delivering water (and nutrients) directly to the roots of plants. A bundle of tiny plastic tubes can be stuck into the ground next to a plant's roots and, by osmosis, will siphon water as needed to the root system from a jar or a pipe system. This is particularly efficient for desert areas where it's critically important to keep water evaporation to a minimum. This could help open vast desert areas to cultivation in the Middle East.

One of the biggest problems in the Middle East today is poverty. Imagine what a change it could make if the governments of these countries encouraged their farmers to start growing organic crops, complete with the critically needed minerals which are missing from our commercially grown crops? Here is a product even the poorest of farmers could grow which would command a premium price on the international markets.

I recently made a trip to Minneapolis to try and interest an Iranian billionaire in initiating such a project in Iran, Jordan, and Morocco.

Magnets

If you've read the Davis and Rawles book on magnetism, which I've reviewed in my Wisdom Guide, you know that seeds and plants growing over the south pole of magnets grow much faster than control plants. Those over north poles grow slower and tend to be deformed. The book is 132 pages and is $15 from Acres USA (catalog #703).

I've been after my old friend Don Lorimer, who has been lecturing on the power of magnets to heal animals and people, to do a book on the subject. Once you get to know more about magnets you're going to be taking your freshly distilled water, putting it in the morning sunlight on top of the south pole of a strong bar magnet before you drink it. Don has found that the south pole energy helps wounds heal incredibly fast, while north pole energy can slow down or stop cancer growth. One pole increases the blood flow and the other restricts it. Never mind why.

A veterinary surgeon in upstate New York has been using a magnet to speed up the healing on the animals she's operated on. Will this powerful force ever be used to help people heal faster? Not until the pharmaceutical industry can figure out a way to patent it and charge big bucks, I suspect.

Prayer

In The Secret Life of Plants, also by Chris Bird, we learn that plants and humans can communicate. Anyone who wants to can prove this for themselves by planting a couple seeds in plastic cups. Select one seed to talk to. Tell it frequently what a fast growing, beautiful plant it is going to make. Think about it every now and then, lovingly. Ignore the other seed. You can even plant a third seed and tell it every now and then how ugly and awful it is. Tell it how much you dislike it. The results will make you a believer.

On the same level, whatever that is, this same force also works on children and animals. I suppose that, no matter how much I've been after you to read Kinship of All Life by Boone, that you haven't bothered. Spend the $11 and get it from Radio Bookstore (#5280), 800-243-1438. The Plants book, same source, is $16 (#5300).

What a great science-fair project this would make.

Gravel

John Hamaker and Don Weaver back up what Dr. Joel Wallach preaches in his Dead Doctors Don't Lie tape, plus in his books, Let's Play Doctor and Rare Earths �� Their Secrets to Health and Longevity. The fact is that our bodies need a bunch of minerals that are no longer available to plants on our farms. Farmers have been substituting chemical fertilizer, which makes the plants grow, but doesn't provide us with the minerals our bodies have adapted to need over the millions of years they developed.

In the Hamaker-Weaver book, The Survival of Society, they call for remineralizing our farms. Weaver documents the fact that remineralized earth grows healthier, bigger plants, with larger and sweeter produce. Cows fed hay from mineralized fields give more milk and have more meat on their bones in a shorter time. The book is $12 from Radio Bookstore (#6221).

They recommend putting ground up rock on the fields to replenish the used-up minerals.

Light, Too!

Another book reviewed in my Wisdom Guide is Health and Light, by Ott. Ott was a photographer who wanted to take pictures of plants and flowers. To keep them undisturbed for good photos he tried growing them in a box with a glass top. He got lousy plants. He found that the plants required ultra-violet rays from the sun in order to grow strong and healthy. His work was carried on my Jacob Lieberman in Light, Medicine of the Future, where he shows that people also need those UVs if they are going to be healthy. Yes, it's in my Wisdom Guide, and you can get it from Radio Bookstore (#5430) for $17. You'll be out in the sun without your glasses for at least 20 minutes a day after reading this well documented book. Yes, I know that too much UV is said to be harmful, but our bodies developed using UVs and we need 'em—particularly in our eyes. Take off your glasses.

Research has shown that rats fed the standard American diet and exposed to UVs get carcinomas, just like we do. Rats fed raw food, with the same UV exposure got none. It's our diet, not the sun, that's causing skin cancer.

Dirt

There are all kinds of soil, so it shouldn't be any real surprise that some is better than other for plants. So we want to learn how to provide an optimum soil for plant growth. There are a bunch of books on composting, which is a way to return your garbage to the soil. But mostly you want to read Bird's Secrets of the Soil. It was out of print for a while, but it's available again. Buy it. Chris died a few years ago, but his wife Shabari is carrying on his work.

The bottom line, of course, is that the better the soil, the better plants you can grow. This ties in with the remineralization program of Hamaker-Weaver. You'll also want to splurge $1.50 for Rock Dust and the Environment by Donald Supkow, 28 Sefton Circle, Piscataway NJ 08854. See page 26 of my Wisdom Guide. Rock dust is cheap and it works miracl

Water

If you don't think fluorides in your drinking water are going to affect your body, try growing plants with that stuff. Ditto chlorine. Beyond providing plants with lots of pure water, if you can lower the surface tension of the water it will be more easily absorbed by the plants, making for faster, more healthy growth. You can do this by exposing the water to the south pole of a magnet.

There are several manufacturers of magnets for water pipes aimed at keeping the minerals in the water from sticking to the pipe, gradually clogging it. I'd like to see some tests of these used on water for plant growth. I'll be surprised if they don't help.

Once you read Living Water by Alexandersson about the amazing work of Victor Schauberger (p.21 my Wisdom Guide) you're going to be experimenting with enlivening the water for your plants by spinning (vortexing) it. We sure have an awful lot to learn about water.

Hydroponics

Those huge, gorgeous gift fruits they sell in the Japanese railroad stations are grown hydroponically. If you get to Epcot Center I hope you go through their special hydroponic garden exhibit. They grow most of the vegetables for one of the Epcot restaurants there.

Hydroponically grown fruit and vegetables are economical to grow and are superior in appearance, flavor, and nutritive value. They can be grown disease free, grow faster, and have better keeping qualities than most fruit and vegetables. Around 15 minutes a day spent gardening should feed a family using a 10 x 12 foot part of your backyard. You can read Hydroponic Gardening by Bridwell, which is $12 from Acres USA (#6182) to get all the details. You grow everything without soil.

Fair Enough?

If all those weird ways of stimulating plant growth for a science-fair project aren't enough, I've got one more for you. This has to do with voo-do — no, it's called "paramagnetism." It seems that if you hang things by a string and put a magnet near them, those which are paramagnetic will be attracted a little bit. Stuff that's weakly repelled is called diamagnetic. Like wood and water. Most organic stuff is diamagnetic and the most paramagnetic are volcanic rock and ash. Like basalt, which is almost off the chart.

It's difficult to measure paramagnetism with a string and a magnet, so the "experts" in the field use a pendulum. Well, why not, once you get the hang of it, a pendulum will dowse for just about anything you ask it to.

But you don't have to buy into any of this to do an experiment and see for yourself. Some high school kids have won local and state science-fair contests with this one.

Since basalt has the most power, if you can find or make a basalt rock about 3" in diameter and 12" long, you're in business. Granite will do. The idea is to emulate in miniature the round towers of Ireland. About 65 of these still remain, and the fields around them are in much demand by local farmers, who want to fatten their cows on the luxurious grass that grows there.

For the experiment use two plastic buckets or dishes filled with potting soil from the same bag. Plant radish seeds about 1/2" deep around the pots, three or four seeds per hole. Water both pots the same and keep both in the sunlight, but in one place the stone in the middle. The shape of the rock isn't critical.

After eight days in a growing temperature of 70-80°F pull the plants up and weigh the roots' "held in place" soil. You'll see that the plants to the east are the smallest and lightest. Those to the north and south will be middle-sized, and those to the west of the rock will be the largest and heaviest. The plants in the control pot should all be the same.

Now, why should a rock in the pot have such a startling effect on plant growth?

The next step, naturally, is to start using this phenomenon to our advantage.

If you're interested in reading more about this you can read Paramagnetism by Phil Callahan (#6158 from Acres USA - $15) and Enlivened Rock Powders by Harvey Lisle (#6103 Acres USA $15).

I've been interested in the using of rock powders to both stimulate plant growth and as a way of providing the minerals which are missing from our commercially grown produce. In the Hamaker-Weaver book, The Survival of Society (Acres USA #6221 - $12), Weaver mentions his eating a quarter to half teaspoon of rock dust every day to supply the missing minerals. Talk about nitty-gritty! But it solved his chronic constipation problem. He also could have solved it by switching to raw food, but he didn't know about that.

There are a bunch of enlivened rock powders on the market that farmers feed to their livestock. It makes the animals more alert, have glossier coats and be generally much healthier, so they should help people too. Hmm, have you any rock powder recipes for me? Yum. And who wouldn't want a glossier coat?

Supersonic Lemons

By treating the roots of a lemon tree with supersonic sound an experimenter has been growing two-pound lemons. He found that the tree's branches were producing four flowers instead of one, so he pinched off three of the flowers, allowing all of the growth to go into the fourth. The lemons grow so large that they have to be supported so they won't fall off the tree before they are ripe.

No, I don't have any details on the frequencies used, so get busy and start experimenting. That should make a great project using any fruit or vegetable bush or tree. You can read more about this on page 281 of Chris Bird's The Divining Hand (p.29 my Wisdom Guide). By the way, if you have any reservations about dowsing actually working, I'll take care of them in another booklet.

Now Let's Suppose

What would happen if some enterprising person were to start combining these growth enhancers? Like using Sonic Bloom in a pyramid greenhouse, using magnetized (wetter) water, prayer, UVs, and so on. The mind tends to boggle (with apologies to my old car rallying friend Alan Turoff, who invented Boggle — I see, according to the TV program King of the Hill, that they're having Boggle tournaments these days). If nothing else, what a great science fair project it would make for kids to grow seeds using these systems for increasing growth, both alone and in combinations. With Sonic Bloom providing about seven times growth, by the time a few other approaches are used we could be seeing ten and even twenty times growth! Plant the seeds and jump back!

Yes, I guess I'll have to start a newsletter or journal for the super growth gardening fans. Should I call it "The Greener Thumb?"

Not only can we start producing fruit and vegetables that will be infinitely healthier to eat, these technologies should go a long way towards feeding the world's hungry.

Here's a high value product that anyone can grow almost anywhere — even in the desert, and without even a high school diploma. Here's the answer to starvation in third world countries. Here's the answer to the terrible tomatoes our supermarkets are selling.