Why Use a Map?

There are several reasons for using a map of the property, drawing its boundaries on the map and writing an intent for the broadcaster to broadcast only within the boundaries as drawn. Very early  experimentation with Cosmic Pipes, named  by their inventor, T. Galen Hieronymus, researchers were faced with the issue of whether or not they had a right to treat other people's property with organisational energy patterns. The conclusion was they had neither the moral nor the legal right to treat other peoples' property without their informed consent. Perhaps in catastrophic extremis one might do so if his own life and his neighbours were threatened. But if he did so and was sued in a court of law, Field Broadcasting might be legislated against and banned.

It was not that anyone personally had any fear that they would cause irreversible harm to someone else's property, although we once received a phone call from someone who stated they had put Black Flag (an over-the-counter insecticide) in a homemade broadcaster in order to "take care of [their] bugs." But what if one or another of the agricultural chemical industries, which might find their business adversely affected, were to encourage people to sue for damages? Even though the claims might be false ruinous litigation could occur and could be seriously detrimental to Field Broadcasting as a whole. As the designer of Field Broadcasting  I looked at strategies to contain the broadcaster energy patterns to the property of their owners so there would be no grounds for lawsuit and no cause for complaint. This led to some surprises.

At that time it was very clear that plants within a couple meters of the broadcaster seemed to grow almost double the height and robustness of those at a distance of ten meters or more. There was really a big difference in the near vicinity of the device. A surprise occurred when containing the broadcast within the farm boundaries as drawn on an aerial photo. Instead of the effect being strong close to the broadcaster and fading away over distance, the entire farm experienced a uniform robustness not much less than previously occurred within a couple meters of the broadcaster. It seemed obvious then that what happened was that the farm resonated as though it was a single organism.

Rudolf Steiner asserted in his Agriculture Course that each individual farm should be treated as a living organism whose energies and activities were—or that is should be—self-contained. One of the essential characteristics of living organisms is they all have an outer boundary, a cell membrane, skin, bark or some sort of integument that holds their life forces within. Going back to the rule that life arises at boundaries, by setting boundaries for the area of enhanced life forces we created a local concentration of organizational energy which more strongly drew a stream of organizational energy to itself. Dowsing revealed a ten-fold increase in the area that was noticeably affected by the Field Broadcaster. Moreover, it no longer made so much difference whether the Field Broadcaster was located near the centre of the farm. It could be located on the strongest energy centre of the farm even when that was off in one corner; and it would still affect the entire farm within the boundaries drawn on the map. In fact, we found that it did not matter so much whether all the farm property was in one block or was dispersed in various individual parcels.