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The Long Tide and its action are also known in some areas of fringe science. There
is a wonderful video of the research of a botanist, William Seifriz, on a primordial
living organism, the slime mold. The research was done at the University of
Pennsylvania in the 1950s. The slime mold is an undifferentiated fluid mass of
protoplasm without cell membranes, with multiple free-flowing cell nuclei. Seifriz
studied the slime mold under microscopes and noted that its protoplasm is
constantly streaming first one way and then the other in 50-second cycles. He also
noted that this is a stable rhythm, not affected by the toxins and anesthetics he
introduced into the protoplasm of the slime mold. With great insight, he said that if
we could only understand the nature of the constant and stable rhythmic streaming
of the protoplasm, we would be close to understanding life itself! He was
observing the Long Tide acting directly in a primeval organism.
Viktor Schauberger was an Austrian scientist of last century whose research is also
relevant to our discussion. He came from a family of foresters and spent much time
in nature. In his observations in the natural world, he came to recognize a subtle,
yet powerful ordering force that he called the Original motion. (Coates, 1996)
Similar to Sutherland, he perceived that it is a manifestation of what he called
Creative Intelligence, the divine creative intention in action and, like Sutherland,
he perceived that it transfers its ordering intentions to the waters or fluids of the
world. Schauberger noted that the Original motion, or Long Tide, acts from the
outside-in to generate a stable field of action with a midline at its center, which,
in turn, organizes cohesive living structures.
Schauberger perceived that the Long Tide manifests locally via spiral-like
centrifugal and centripetal motions. He perceived that this is a universal principle
at work in all levels of creation. It is equally present in the creation of stars and
galaxies and in the generation of microscopic plants and animals. These motions
were likened by Schauberger to the action of a tornado, a local phenomenon that
arises in the vastness of the whole of the earths atmosphere.
Schauberger maintained that when a dynamic equilibrium is established within
these centripetal and centrifugal forces, a stable ordering field is generated that
underlies the organization of the human system. This is a dynamic field of action
that is continually being renewed and re-established in every moment.