The article below is an extract from the chapter Cosmiculture in the book Secrets of the Soil by Christopher Bird & Peter Tompkins. Secrets of the Soil has introduced hundreds of thousand farmers worldwide to primal mysteries of the soil. Please Enjoy.
Luckily our Indian heritage is slow to die. In the highland woods of Georgia, within sight of the Great Smoky Mountains, mystic haunt of the Cherokee, it lives on by the Tallulah River into whose turbulent waters the daughter of the chief once threw herself from a thousand-foot cliff to join her young white lover, sacrificed by her understandably segregationist father. A few miles upstream from the lover's leap, the grandaughter of another Tallulah Cherokee, Sarah Hieronymus, has been tapping cosmic waves. In a labaratory on the shores of Lakemont, not far from the Cherokee reservation, she is carrying on the work of her late husband, T. Galen Hieronymus, running the Advanced Sciences Research and Development Corporation, a nonprofit organization presently devoted to the spread of "Cosmiculture"-the channeling of cosmic energy into the ground for the benefit of plants.
