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Lyall Watson
book _Supernature_
(1973)
book _Beyond Supernature_
Life survives in the
chaos
of the cosmos by picking order out of the winds.
Death is certain, but life becomes
possible by following patterns that lead like paths
of firmer ground through the swamps of
time.
Cycles of
light
and dark, of heat and cold, of magnetism, radioactivity, and
gravity
all provide vital guides, and life learns to respond to even their
most subtle signs. The emergence of a fruit
fly
is tuned by a spark lasting one thousandth of a
second; the breeding of a bristle worm is co-ordinated
on the ocean floor by a glimmer of light reflected
from the
moon;
the development of the eggs of a quail is synchronized
by a soft conversation between the embryos; conception
in a woman waits for that phase of the moon under which
she was born. Nothing happens in isolation. We breath and bleed,
we laugh and cry, we crash and die in time with cosmic cues.
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Inorganic matter got together
in the right way to create a self-perpetuating
organism that started a system of elaboration that has
produced a pattern with several million pieces. This is Supernature,
and man sits at the center of its web, tugging at the strands
that interest him, following some through to useful conclusions
and snapping others in his impatience. Man is the spearhead
of
evolution,
vital, creative, and immensely talented, but still
young enough to wreak havoc in his first flush of
enthusiasm.
Hopefully this period of awkward adolescence is coming to an endas he begins
to realize that he cannot possibly survive alone, thatthe web of Supernature
is supported by the combined strength of a vast
number of individually fragile fragments, that life on earth isunited into
what amounts to a single superorganism, and that this in turn
is only part of the cosmic community.
At first sight, the process of evolution looks extremely wasteful, with most developments running into the dead ends of extinction, but even in their failure these contribute something to the few species that do succeed. It is imperative that there should be a multitude of participants so that life can move on a broad front, testing all possibilities in a search for the right ones. Even those thatdie have not lived in vain, because of the inheritance of Supernature.
This communion is possible because
life shares a mutual sensitivity to the cosmos,
has a common origin, and speaks the same organic
language.
"Professor Gavraud is an engineer
who almost gave up his post at an institute in Marseilles because he always
felt ill at work. He decided against leaving when discovered that the recurrent
attacks of nausea only worried him when he was in his office at the top of the
building. Thinking that there must be something in the room that disturbed him,
he tried to track it down with devices sensitive to various chemicals, and even
with a geiger counter, but he found nothing until one day, nonplused, he leaned
back against the wall. The whole room was vibrating at a very low
frequency.
The source of this energy turned out to be an air-conditioned plant on the roof
of a building across the way, and his office was the right shape and the right
distance from the machine to
resonate
in sympathy with it. I was this rhythm, at seven cycles per second, that made
him sick."
"Fascinated by the phenomenon, Gavraud decided to build machines to produce infrasound so that he could investigate it further. In casting around for likely designs, he discovered that the whistle with a pea in it issued to all French gendarmes produced a whole range of low-frequency sounds. So he produced a police whistle six feet long and powered it with compressed air. The technician who gave the giant whistle its first trial blast fell down dead on the spot. A post-mortem revealed that all his internal organs had been mashed into an amorphous jelly by the vibrations."
"Gavraud went ahead with
his work more carefully and did the next test out of doors, with all observers
screened from the machine in a concrete bunker. When all was ready, they
turned the air on slowly - and broke the windows of every building within
half a mile of the test site. Later they learned to control the amplitude
of the infrasound generator more effectively and designed a series of smaller
machines for experimental work. One of the most intersting discoveries
to date is that the
waves
of low frequency can be aimed and that two generators
focused
on a particular point even five miles away produce a resonance that can
knock a building down as effectively as a major earthquake. These frequency-7
machines can be built very cheaply, and plans for them are available for
three French francs from the Paten Office in Paris."
- Supernature pp. 92-93, Coronet Books 1974.