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I think, living as we do at the cusp of one century and another, that we have an opportunity to take the best of the previous century forward with us into the new one. The discoveries made by Viktor Schauberger are part of what I would like to see carried forward.

I also think that we are living in exciting times. The industrial-revolution view of planet Earth, as a resource to be exploited without full consideration of the consequences, is in retreat. A new paradigm is being developed on many fronts, building on new insights (Chaos Theory, Gaia Theory, Morphic Fields, to name a few) and revisiting old philosophies. The view that I am left with is of life on earth as an integrated whole, which can be considered as a single organism. This requires a new level of respect for Mother Earth, and new approaches to working with her.

Regarding the copper tools themselves, using them reminds me of an experience I had a few years ago. For a while, I ate all my meals with chopsticks, and became quite adept at balancing rice grains on the wooden sticks. When I went back to using knives and forks, I can still remember the physical discomfort of putting a piece of pronged metal in my mouth. All I could taste was the grating harsh metal. However, I soon got used to using them and re-learnt to ignore the metallic taste. I wonder if the use of copper tools feels the same to the soil as chopsticks did to me.

Jane Cobbald

April 2001