Dear Mr. Ron Poitras,
Here is an excerpt from an article which we wrote for the Santa Barbara
Independent that I think you might like:
Soil mineral balance. Recently we tested the soil of a local medicinal
herb project. Previously someone had grown Christmas trees on the land,
which, as the story goes, started dying from some kind of disease. The
soil has some really good properties, namely, high organic content, high
Cation Exchange Capacity, and a generally good mineral balance. Its only
problem is high phosphate levels. Well, it is obvious what happened. The
soil needed calcium, which is the main electrolytic mineral. The previous
owners, instead of addressing the mineral balance, poured high-phosphate
fertilizers into the soil. This locked up the trace minerals, and the
plants starved to death. When plants or creatures lack sufficient nutrient
levels, the intelligences in Nature send insects and bacteria to eliminate
the unfit. This never happened when Nature evolved naturally, and only
plants, animals and humans grew who were balanced and powerful. And this
is today, what the ancient prophesies foretold, and what we presently call
disease.
Modern day science is learning to understand this, and that it must
consider all the great interconnections of Creation. It works marvelously
with the details within part boundaries, and must always see �the big
picture� by maintaining a comprehensive overview. And when doing gardening
we must avoid limiting ourselves to a materialistic worldview which cannot
acknowledge the physically invisible power that streams through everything
and gives it meaning and existence.
Delve into science and physics, and you will find divine ratios and
proportions. Our children in school are taught about pi, the ratio between
the radius of a circle and its circumference and area. And the speed of
light, approx. 186,000 miles per second in a vacuum Go to a good
encyclopedia and look up the Golden Section, Avogadro�s number, Fibonacci
series, V=IR, E=MC2. And the list goes on and on. There is an order to
our universe and Creation, which through growing and gardening we can
intuitively learn to recognize, to understand, and to work with.
Leonardo da Vinci, sometimes dubbed the Father of the European Renaissance,
worked with ratios and numbers referred to as Divine Proportions. These
have been used for milleniums by, among others, Chinese and French Royal
Garden Designers, by Frank Lloyd Wright, and within the music of all great
classic composers such as Bach, Beethoven and Mozart. Johannes Kepler in
his Harmonies of the World shows how even the planets in our solar system
oscillate within the notes of the natural octave in which middle C=256
megahertz. Frank Lloyd Wright designed his works of art with a certain
intention. He noted that if a person�s environment exhibits these Divine
Proportions, that these would naturally elicit and unlock the latent genius
within. And Nature is formed through this Sacred Geometry.
The human brain has two major divisions, the intuitive and the
intellectual. Originally these worked in balanced harmony and were of
equal proportion. The brain opened itself not only to the five physical
senses, but was connected with whole other sets of high-frequency senses,
which today are all lumped together and called Extra Sensory Perception
(ESP). Over the past milleniums through neglect and wrong education, we
have allowed that part of the brain, the intuitive part, to atrophy. This
part of the brain would have opened us for all those answers which now
elusively evade us and which nowadays merely degenerate into groping
intellectual theories.
Think back to a time when you were grappling with some problem. It
probably seemed like the harder you tried, the more elusive became the
answer. You decided to do a little light work in your garden, go out for a
walk in nature, or just relax and �smell the roses� for a spell. Then,
boom, the answer to your problem jumped into your head.
This is one reason why it is so important to break away from our
offices, our televisions, our computers, that is, away from our world of
virtual reality and go to our gardens and Nature. Nature allows us to
connect with reality, to enhance the intuitive side of our brains and our
life, and to teach us how to re-balance our lives and nurture the spirit
within.
Natural soils have Divine Geometric Proportions. In a virgin soil
untouched by man, Nature will bring in whatever plants, insects, microbes,
animals, etcetera that it needs to create a perfect balance. Nothing will
grow that does not belong there, and nothing belongs there that will not
grow. When we pull a plant out of its natural ecosystem and mono-crop it,
we must ask, �What would the intelligences in Nature do here to create the
proper balance?� And foremost among the answers to this question is the
proper mineral balance. The minerals exist in Divine Geometric Proportions
and, if we learn those proportions and recreate them in our gardens, we can
take our gardening into a whole new performance realm.
William Albrecht in his Albrecht Papers addresses the mineral ratios
and needs of soils. The most predominant mineral proportion in soil is the
Calcium to Magnesium ratio. This should be about 9 to 1. If you test your
soil through a reputable lab, make sure they give you the Calcium and
Magnesium base saturation levels. Calcium should be about 68% and
Magnesium should be about 13.5%. If they are not, then enlist a seasoned
professional to advise you on how to correct this deficiency. If you do,
you will solve about 90% of your growing problems.
(Resources: The Notebooks of Leonardo De Vinci by Leonardo. Epitome of
Copernican Astronomy & Harmonies of the World by Johannes Kepler. A Frank
Lloyd Wright Companion by William Alin Storrer. Asimov on Physics by Isaac
Asimov. The Albrecht Papers by William Albrecht. In the Light of Truth:
The Grail Message by Abd-ru-shin.)
ron poitras wrote:
Timothy Hollingsworth wrote:
>Nutrients absorbed from the soil are dependent on the life force of
the
soil, ....., one being the sacred
geometric ratios between minerals, cation exchange capacity, and
companion minerals.>
I wondered if you could elaborate on this, Timothy?
Thanks
Ron Poitras
-----Original Message-----
From: Green Gold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 11:18 PM
Subject: Re: Albrecht System and plant brix testing
>Hi,
>
>One can use plant sap analysis mainly to determine what nutrients to use
in
>foliar spray applications. This can be especially important in
>transition while building the soil to higher energy levels, but not
>always necessary.
>
>A Brix meter can be an indicator. And plant sugar is just one thing
>that we are after. The thickness of the interface line between the
>refracted and not refracted liquid is an indicator of minerals. Another
>concern besides just having materials present, is also what energies are
>stored in the materials, structure of the molecules, and cosmic strength
>of constituent components, etc.
>
>Nutrients absorbed from the soil are dependent on the life force of the
>soil, which may be indicated by several parameters, one being the sacred
>geometric ratios between minerals, cation exchange capacity, and
>companion minerals. Earthworms, microbes, myccorhizae and all natural
>entities "naturally" implement their primordial design to bring about
>these ratios.
>
>One does not necessarily have to do soil testing, the report of which is
>a dynamic, changing photograph. It may speed up the transition
>progress, however, where monetary considerations are important. The
>most important factor in Agriculture from our perspective is the
>realization and bringing about the energies needed, and also, the
>Spiritual transformation of those involved.
>
>Timothy Hollingsworth
>Green Gold International
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>Lloyd Charles wrote:
>
>> Allan wrote
>>
>> ". Brix can readily be affected by foliar applications can't it?
>-Allan "
>>
>> Above is the most important little snippet of information thats been
>on this
>> list for ages
>>
>> I know that (but dont understand why) a lot of organic and BD
>certified
>> producers are philosophicaly opposed to foliar nutrient applications.
>When
>> farmers are in the situation where we dont have our soils in balance
>yet, or
>> something else is wrong that has put our system off the track for a
>while
>> and we are suffering insect or disease attack, or poor plant growth
>due to
>> some nutritional disorder then is when we can make a major improvement
>in
>> quality of produce by using the brix meter to monitor the crops
>response to
>> a range of available foliar nutrients. And there are plenty of nice
>things
>> to use this includes the BD preps, fish emulsion, kelp, worm juice,
>compost
>> teas, manure teas, molasses, sugar, vinegar, etc etc as well as the
>host of
>> proprietary brand stuff, and the so called nasties from the chemical
>> companies ( we often use small quantities of say calcium nitrate -1/2
>to 1
>> kg per hectare -combined with molasses and fish emulsion or 300 to 500
>ml of
>> food grade phosphoric acid with a molasses - kelp - fish - homebrew
>tea )
>>
>> I use four small pump spray bottles from the supermarket to test for
>crop
>> response - mix the different brews in the exact proportion that will
>be put
>> out with the field sprayer, spray a meter square plot of each and
>measure
>> the brix response half an hour later, you will often get a down
>response
>> from a perfectly good material that is just not appropriate at the
>time -
>> whichever bottle mix gives the best crop response (increased brix of
>crop
>> and decreased brix of any weeds) is the one to use and less quantity
>is
>> usually better than more
>>
>> The crop response (yield and quality ) that can be achieved at low
>cost
>> using this method can be truly amazing. We have had several times
>where
>> brews that ran around a dollar an acre material cost have given
>several
>> bushels per acre more wheat as well as lessening the vigour of weeds
>in the
>> crop
>>
>> This is not rocket science and its not new either
>> I read the brix mans online book this morning and would recommend it
>to
>> all - and while it seems written more for the consumer than the
>producer -
>> its good information - as also the book by Arden Andersen that is
>referred
>> to there
>>
>> For those having difficulty finding instruments at a reasonable price
>in
>> Australia or New Zealand David Von Pein in Queensland is the most
>cost
>> effective supplier of this gear that I have seen (dont know how this
>bloke
>> makes a profit he's heaps cheaper than most) - OK thats a plug but I
>have no
>> financial connection !
>>
>> After we get our soils properly balanced and remineralised to
>Albrecht
>> standards and get our biodynamics working right and everything else is
>good
>> then I suppose what I have written here no longer applies - in the
>mean time
>> its another tool we can all use to grow better quality produce at
>less
>> expense for the good of all - and I know at least one feller that
>needs to
>> make a profit from his farm in the short term.
>>
>> Best to all for the new year
>> Lloyd Charles
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