And this especially in technical-social areas. In this way he will become the mentally choice-free person to which he was destined from the Paradise era. And so the question arises more and more: how will modern man choose?

Will he choose against God and the ‘good ’ and maintain an unjust social order, supported by a materialistic, environmentally harmful technology, based on logic without morality?

Or will he choose before God and the ‘good ’ and proceed to a just social order, allowing him a — licensed by heaven — 'explaining his mind' light how to arrive an environmentally sacred ether technique? However, a technique that will destroy people and nature if they fall back into immorality!

’ Man's moral and humanities progression lagged and lags behind what was hoped for in the world of the mind. So much for Rudolf Steiner.

Over the course of his life, Rudolf Steiner seemed to prove that (for the aforementioned reason) the world of the mind, with regard to up to ’man's mental enlightenment to arrive at ether technique, followed a middle ground.

Neither he nor anyone else was able to (have) build an ether motor. Neither he nor any other guessed and / or Keley's declared a secret. Rudolf Steiner did write a mystery drama in which that engine is discussed and he designed associated stage attributes that point to that engine; (in our opinion) in the form of so-called letters from the Akasha Chronicle, the memory of nature.

Regarding attributes are immobile. Nevertheless, they can be mobilized. And in a spiritual sense, in the world of the fourth and especially the fifth dimension. In material specifications this concerns the world of image and sound, of imagination and logos (word / tone).

The Imagilogos initiative group introduces this mobilization and a possible response from the celestial world. All this on the basis of the film Formatorium Accousticum Vitum.

This shows in one breath and discusses how that is consistent with a piece of calendar science, which commences with the 38-year period of the aforementioned years 1841 - 1879, exactly the duration of 2 Metoncycly. That concerns a period from its beginning, from 1841, 361 = 192 continues for years until the year 2202; exactly 19 Metoncycle, as many cycles as one such cycle counts for years!

Halfway through that period is a short time of 19 (= 0.5 x 38) year, exactly 1 Meton cycle, which started on 21-12-2012 and lasts until 2031. At the hinge point of that short one time appears to be light for the first part of the 361-year period throw on the second part of it.

Strip sum: C = 38 = 2 x 19
Total sum: S = 190 = 5 x 38

These things run parallel to what Maya calendar science reports in 2012. We point them out because the essence of time annex is with the ether nature of things, such as the space that is with the physical nature of things; and because it Strader main device, in itself and in its functioning, Turns out to be 19-fold structured.

Anyway: a new era has started, first of all as a reflection on past centuries; that it is our social justice and a new, life-sanctifying technique.

EDN — I JCH M — PSSR

Key
This is the key to mobilizing the Strader main device4 being a testimony of light in it Mammon's night culture robe:

The spatial device forms a 19-fold overhang (annex to the Meton cycle) by Rudolf Steiners semi-spatial 19-fold Jerusalem image. Halfway that bulge creates a flat figure, the so-called magical 19-hexagram with its 19 number fields and as many strips (straight and round), a mathematical unique.5 That flat hexagram can be used with the help of one ‘ genetic number code ’ linear display. That display can be mobilized acoustically.6

This film shows how things look and look sounds, as well as what that yields (as said). In the publication 'Formatorium Accousticum Vitum, Monadum and Quadrivium', to which the film is based, it becomes all over detail described and proven."

NOTES
1. John Worrell Keely (1837 - 1898). American technician and inventor; mostly working in Philadelphia.

2. See footnote 3.

3. A Meton cycle is (almost minute-accurate) the duration of 19 years in which sun, moon and earth relative to each other again in an equal position. This period includes (again almost minute-accurate) 235 synodic lunar months. Two Metoncycles represent in the humanities an echo of two incarnations of man, one as a man and one as a woman. Regarding double Meton cycle between 1841 - 1879 according to Rudolf Steiner a reflection on ’s man's fall in / out of Paradise. He speaks of a time of (renewed) ‘ war in heaven ’, a war between the archangel Michael and his and the lord of the matter, Ahriman- Satan and his demons. The latter were thrown to earth during and after that war, "in the heads and hearts of the people'.

This once became ’s human mental freedom of choice, once prepared, effected by Lucifer through that Paradise trap. But ’s man ‘intellectual fall ’ also took one start. For example, the — double — Meton cycle is considered one for the modern time crucial time frame, especially if it is related to the aforementioned years and the subsequent times.

4. A similar exists for the Strader ancillary devices key, which is not taken into account here.

5. The so-called pulley of surrounding; in fact the synthesis of the symbols of the elements fire, air, water and earth. The principles that lead to the surrounding area — Rudolf Steiners inverse keys — are provided by the symbols of the ethers, which trace the elements mentioned.

#strader #formativeforces #mechanicaloccultism #steiner #anthroposophy

New Discoveries of Plant Senses| SLICE Earth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8SJlyrEDX0

Plants possess many surprising senses beyond their known sensitivity to temperature, sunlight, and humidity, causing scientists to look at them with fresh eyes. Plants can move, sense, touch, and taste while reacting to stimuli of various kinds, and they also have fine hearing, memory, and can perceive shapes, interacting with the outside world more than previously conceived by mainstream academia. Professor Stefano Mancuso from the University of Florence explains that plants are able to sense the environment in a sophisticated way and are much more sensitive than animals because they cannot run away from danger, being rooted to the ground. Plants have electric networks resembling human nerves through which information travels, and they secrete hormones, with electric signals spreading throughout the plant when receiving stimuli like wind gusts or insect bites.

Research demonstrates that plants can detect specific frequencies between 100 and 1,000 hertz, with roots turning toward these frequency sources, while frequencies higher than 5,000 hertz cause roots to grow against the sound source. When plants are stressed, they emit sounds by producing brief ultrasonic clicks that contain information about their stress levels, with tomato plants and vines increasing sound production and intensity as stress levels increase.

Plants demonstrate sophisticated chemical communication and spatial awareness capabilities that revolutionize understanding of plant intelligence. Plants can smell each other and make selective choices, as demonstrated by the parasitic cuscuta plant that can sniff and select healthy host plants while turning away from unhealthy ones, with the perception of smell occurring at the tip of the vine. Plants perceive light with each of their cells rather than through a specific organ, seeing all visual light that humans see plus UV light and far red light for photosynthesis and near infrared wavelengths for communication with neighboring plants. Root systems function as collective intelligence networks that behave like swarms, with root apices coordinated in their activities and resembling insect swarms or birds, processing information collected by multiple apices to coordinate actions without a central organizer, creating networks that resemble the internet and are called the "root-wide web". These root networks multiply their expansion by uniting with mycorrhizal fungal networks, forming microrrhizae that increase the extent and original capacities of root networks by 10,000 times, enabling trees to share carbon and sugar with neighbors of the same species and other tree species, with up to 40% of biomass in pine tree fine roots potentially coming from carbon exported from nearby oak trees through microrrhizal connections.

The Polarity of Plants | Rupert Sheldrake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xHF1WB1loU

Sheldrake mentions the influence of Goethe upon his lifelong interest in plant research in which primary polarity in plants exists between roots and shoots, where shoots grow up and are attracted to light while growing straight up against gravity, and roots are attracted towards darkness, growing down with opposite behaviors in relation to light and gravity. When plants are cut, they regenerate in a polar way, demonstrated by pollarded willow trees where new shoots emerge at the top of the trunk, and willow branch cuttings that form roots at the basal end closest to the original roots and shoots at the opposite end. This polarity resembles magnets where each broken piece retains complete polarity with north and south poles, and this intrinsic polarity is established right from the beginning in plant embryos with embryonic roots and shoots connected by a suspensor. Charles Darwin discovered that an influence moves downwards in plants from shoot tips toward roots, later identified as the hormone auxin (indole acetic acid), which is actively transported in a polar way toward roots and maintains apical dominance by suppressing side bud growth while stimulating lateral root formation.

Radioactive carbon-14 labeled auxin experiments demonstrated that polar auxin transport occurs consistently toward roots regardless of cell wall age differences, as shown in monocotyledon leaves where youngest cells are at the base rather than the tip, yet auxin still moves toward the root system. Studies on dicotyledon stems during secondary thickening revealed that newly formed cambium cells transport auxin rootward even when dividing longitudinally rather than transversely, and inverted plant cuttings retain their original auxin transport polarity despite functioning upside down with reversed sap and sugar flow. Working with tropical bird's nest fern spores revealed polarity in single-file cell systems where nutrients flow toward growing tips, and plasmolysis experiments using sugar alcohols like mannitol revealed differential cell membrane attachment, with cells pulling away from basal walls while remaining attached to apical walls. Electrical polarity likely plays a crucial role in establishing initial plant polarity, with Earth maintaining a negative charge relative to the atmosphere, creating electrical gradients in trees and flowers.

Morphic Fields of Plants | Rupert Sheldrake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEeNt8oizM0

According to biologist Rupert Sheldrake, plants possess abilities to remember experiences without brains, neurons, synapses, or any recognizable nervous system, and this memory exists beyond their cellular biology. Plants demonstrate behaviors that suggest forms of intelligence, including growing toward light with continuous adjustment and adaptation, the Venus fly trap closing only when specific trigger hairs are touched multiple times within seconds as a counting mechanism, and plants recognizing specific predators by releasing chemical compounds tailored to attract parasitic wasps that are natural enemies of particular caterpillars. The mimosa pudica, commonly known as the sensitive plant, provides one of the clearest demonstrations of plant memory through Dr. Monica Galliano's 2013 experiment where plants were repeatedly dropped 15 cm without damage, causing them to initially fold their leaves defensively but then learning after four to six drops to stop responding to conserve energy. What's particularly striking is that when researchers returned days later and even a month later, the plants still remembered not to fold their leaves when dropped, maintaining this learned behavior without additional training and retaining memory despite regular cell division and regeneration where many original cells would have been replaced.

Sheldrake proposes that memory isn't actually stored physically within organisms at all, but exists in organizing fields called morphic fields through a process called morphic resonance, where organisms tune into species-specific morphic fields containing collective memory of their entire species. These morphic fields function like information fields existing beyond physical space yet influencing physical reality, where organisms access repositories of species memory rather than storing information locally. Through morphic resonance, each species contributes experiences to collective fields that guide development and behavior, with plants continuously accessing their species field to obtain collective information accumulated over evolutionary time. This creates the habit of nature, where repeated patterns of countless organisms become increasingly embedded in morphic fields, influencing future members of the species and explaining how embryos know how to develop, how plants time flowering to synchronize across wide areas, and how organisms perform behaviors without being taught.

How Fungi Makes our Worlds | Merlin Sheldrake (Son of Rupert Sheldrake)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRFmCXBv5R4

Merlin Sheldrake explains how mycorrhizal fungi form intimate relationships with plants through mycelial networks of branching, fusing tubular cells that function as chemical wizards and navigators in soil, foraging for nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus that plants need in exchange for carbon compounds like sugars and fats from photosynthesis. These fungi enabled plants to colonize land by serving as their root systems for tens of millions of years until plants evolved their own roots, and they continue forming as one of the living world's great intimacies through the intermingling of plant and fungal bodies. At any moment, a mycorrhizal fungus remodels itself to explore soil habitat, integrates information across billions of nodes strung between multiple plants across meters, and coordinates nutrient flows through trading decisions that influence entire continents.

Essential Energy Solutions | Plasmonics meets Biophotonics

https://essentialenergy.solutions?sca_ref=6630694.RTymKsda8i

Essential Energy Solutions harnesses cutting-edge plasmonic and biophotonic science to deliver real, measurable EMF mitigation results through their groundbreaking L.I.F.E. (Light-Induced Frequency Enhancement) technology that works by manipulating structured light at the molecular level within specially engineered stainless steel matrices. When independent researcher Marius D'Alexandre tested the Essential Energy pendant using bioresonance analysis, he discovered something remarkable: the device could harmonize 126 critical bioresonance frequencies corresponding to vital organs including the heart, liver, and kidneys, with significant improvements occurring within just 10 minutes of wearing and lasting through extended use. The technology employs plasmonic principles where carefully engineered molecular lattice structures resonate with and emit beneficial harmonics of light, effectively protecting the biophotonic matrices that allow our cells to communicate while shielding them from disruption caused by inorganic wave forms. This scientific approach tackles the root problem of EMF-induced stress by reintroducing structured light to improve both the quality and quantity of light in biological systems, directly countering the overwhelming electromagnetic pollution from modern technology that's 18 quintillion times stronger than Earth's natural resonance.

The quantified farm results speak volumes about this technology's real-world impact, with Steve Simpson's Washington dairy operation experiencing a remarkable 30% increase in milk production and 33% greater pasture harvest yields within just five weeks of installing the geofield conditioner in October 2022. Over in Minnesota, Rod Meyer's dairy farm with 150 cattle achieved 1-2 pounds increased milk production per cow per day while dramatically reducing somatic cell counts, translating to thousands of dollars in additional monthly revenue simply by creating an EMF-balanced environment for his herd. Marvin Graver's Illinois operation recorded half-pound daily production increases per cow within just four weeks of installation, and perhaps even more compelling, family and community members began experiencing remarkable health improvements including one Alzheimer's-like condition patient showing a complete behavioral turnaround. The technology's effectiveness extends beyond agriculture, with documented human health improvements including immediate anxiety reduction, normalized blood pressure, eliminated migraines, and enhanced sleep quality as verified through hundreds of testimonials from people who found relief from EMF sensitivity, chronic pain, and sleep disorders within days to weeks of using Essential Energy devices.

Introductory quotes in the first chapter of Philosophy of Freedom by Rudolf Steiner (1916 Hoernle) translation

"The spheres of life are many and for each there develop a special science. But life itself is one, and the more sciences strive to penetrate deeply into their separate spheres, the more they withdraw themselves from the vision of the world as a living whole. There must be one supreme science which seeks in the separate sciences the elements for leading men back once more to the fullness of life. The scientific specialist seeks in his studies to gain a knowledge of the world and its workings. This book has a philosophical aim: science itself is to be infused with the life of an organic whole. The special sciences are stages on the way to this all-inclusive sciences. .... Human ideas have been the medium of their art, and scientific method their artistic technique. Ideas turn life into forces. We have no longer merely a knowledge about things, but we have now made knowledge a real, self-determining organism. Our consciousness alive and active, has risen beyond a mere passive reception of the truths."

"All science would be nothing but the satisfaction of idle curiosity did it not strive to enhance the existential value of human personality. The true value of the sciences is seen only when we have shown the importance of their results for humanity. The final aim of the individuality can never be the cultivation of any single faculty, but only the development of all capacities which slumber within us. Knowledge has value only in so far as it contributes to the all-round unfolding of the whole nature of man."

"Man must confront ideas as master; lest he become their slave."

Man and Meaning | Owen Barfield
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oedVDN1xOWM

Owen Barfield’s philosophy focuses on the evolution and transformation of consciousness through the medium of language. Words do not possess fixed or static meanings but reveal an ongoing process in which meaning changes as collective human consciousness develops. The temporal aspect of semantic change is central, and this is demonstrated by tracing the etymology and shifting implications of specific terms over centuries.

Imagination and symbolism function as instruments by which consciousness encounters and makes sense of reality. Both the imaginative act and the symbolic capacity within language open access to deeper meaning and connection. Understanding meaning involves active participation and co-creation with language, reflecting an inner evolution that parallels outward historical events. Study of the history and transformation of words is necessary for recognizing changes in in the way a culture perceives, experiences, and responds to the world at a given time.

What Does Owen Barfield Mean By Final Participation?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHXV7fdTsHU

Owen Barfield’s notion of final participation is explained through a progression of original participation, idolatry, and final participation. Original participation refers to the ancient consciousness found in pagan and tribal societies where the world was alive with spirits, omens, and taboos. Everything had immediate meaning. However, this form of participating consciousness was also enslaving as it bound people to fear, ritual, and restriction. Barfield stresses that final participation is not a nostalgic return to this state, since history and revelation have moved human consciousness beyond from idolatrous participation by declaring God as beyond nature, present in the word, relationship, and logos. This stood against worship of animals, trees, or natural forms and prepared the way for a different relationship with the created world.

Idolatry emerges as the second phase when the living, participatory vision of reality is reduced to objects, symbols, or mere external appearances. Experiences that once carried deep meaning become codified into fixed, empty representations. The Renaissance, Reformation, and Enlightenment accelerated this shift by replacing creation with mechanistic nature, pushing God out, and reducing all things to what can be measured and weighed. In this view the universe loses its depth and becomes a collection of idols. Barfield maintains that this stage was necessary, but it also estranged humanity from direct participation in meaning.

Final participation, then, is a new consciousness achieved not by reverting to pagan animism but by entering into meaning again through imagination. This imagination is not mere fantasy or creativity but a disciplined act of re-configuration where one sees into the reality of things, in dialogue with science, history, and tradition. Final participation requires engaging the world inwardly, rediscovering its living meaning while avoiding mere simulacra, and becoming co-creators of shared reality through imagination that can be either deeply good or dangerously misleading.

Swedenborg and the Language of Correspondences | Gary Lachman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6JgpPsFmwo

Gary Lachman explains Emanuel Swedenborg’s system of correspondences as a vision of how the natural world is bound to spiritual realities. Swedenborg believed correspondences unlocked the true meaning of scripture. After his death in 1772 his ideas influenced Romanticism, Symbolism and later esoteric and artistic circles. Mesmer combined Swedenborg’s insights with animal magnetism, which led to the creation of groups known as societies of harmony. These were circles of thinkers and practitioners in France who sought not only personal spiritual renewal but also social and political regeneration modeled on Swedenborg’s idea of inner transformation. Charles Baudelaire tilted correspondences from a vertical axis into horizontal associations, laying the groundwork for Symbolism. In later centuries New Thought and mental science reframed Swedenborg’s law of attraction, shifting it from an afterlife principle about destiny to a tool for shaping outcomes in daily life. At the center remained his claim that heaven and hell are not merely places after death but psychological states already present within us and projected into the external world.

Goethe saw nature as symbolic of a higher order and shaped his science with this vision. William Blake argued that what is within precedes what is without, standing against Locke’s idea of the mind as a blank slate. Czesław Miłosz emphasized that correspondences are expressed through language, teaching us to read the world as a symbolic and sacred text. Henry Corbin developed this further into a spiritual hermeneutics, extending the discipline of interpretation to the reading of the world itself. Swedenborg also drew on Neoplatonic cosmology and the great chain of being, showing how divine love and wisdom appear in human life through the heart and lungs. He taught that heaven itself is made of angels, and angels are transformed human beings, forming what he called the Homo Maximus, the great human that mirrors the divine. For him the universe is structured to bring forth humanity, to fill heaven with angels, a vision resonant with the modern anthropic principle.

Vortex Engine | Louis Michaud
https://rexresearch.com/MichaudVortex/MichaudVortexEngine.html

Louis Michaud’s Atmospheric Vortex Engine (AVE) is designed to capture mechanical energy by creating controlled, tornado-like vortices from low-temperature heat sources such as solar-heated air, warm seawater, or waste heat rejected from industrial cooling towers. Instead of relying on the massive and costly chimneys of conventional solar updraft towers, the AVE uses a vortex that acts as a kind of virtual chimney, rising from a few hundred meters up to several kilometers in height. The system is built around a cylindrical arena, open at the top, with tangential air inlets at its base. Heated air flows into these vents, setting the rotation in motion. Once the vortex has formed, it is sustained naturally through convection and continues to draw in surrounding warm air. Unlike the violent tornadoes of nature, AVE vortices are intentionally anchored over their station and kept under control by adjusting airflow through the louvers.

Potential applications range from improving the efficiency of existing thermal power plants by turning waste heat into additional electricity, to replacing or supplementing cooling towers, and even producing precipitation through induced convection. Michaud has estimated that the AVE could boost the output of thermal plants by up to twenty percent while reducing the need for massive concrete structures like natural draft towers.

Vévaki | Edda (Full album)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6Uu1AAvSGo&list=RDw6Uu1AAvSGo

From time to time I will post some music or comedy to shift our mindset for a moment. There are very few albums that put me in a flow state like this musical rendition of the Edda. Something very powerful stirs within me while listening.

"Edda" is a compilation of various poems and stories from the Poetic Edda, or "Elder Edda" put to music. These stories are part of the biggest collection of anonymous Old Norse poetry dating as far back as 800 AD, and have inspired many artists and musicians throughout the ages. This album seeks to bring to life some of these tales, and to help the listener forge a connection with them."

The Descent of Light into Matter | Formscapes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2WzAr6w6NI

Arthur Young’s vision of the reflexive universe is set against the background of the materialist conception of nature that took hold after Galileo and Newton. Natural philosophy gradually formed into modern science, emphasizing universal laws imposed by a clockmaker God and picturing matter as rigid bodies extended in space, unable to overlap, much like microscopic billiard balls. By the nineteenth century, this image began to show its cracks: thermodynamics, advances in chemistry, and observations of atomic behavior revealed that atoms were not rigid spheres at all but dynamic entities capable of combination, transformation, and symbiotic bonding. Fields of electricity, magnetism, and light, unified through the work of Faraday, Kelvin, and Maxwell, only complicated the picture. Electromagnetism did not fit neatly into materialist metaphysics, behaving simultaneously as fluid and discrete. By the early twentieth century, the very flawed atomistic quantum field theory showed energy and matter to be deeply intertwined, unpredictable, and indeterminate, warping the old mechanistic worldview beyond recognition.

Arthur Young interpreted these scientific developments as a process model of seven phases. It began with light, understood as primordial possibility and action, and moved through subatomic particles, atoms, and molecules, before ascending into stages of biological life, animal consciousness, and finally human awareness. In this progression, freedom narrows into structure, determination, and matter, but then reopens into greater vitality, creativity, and self-direction. Young’s scheme echoes Rudolf Steiner’s layered view of existence, which included the physical, etheric, astral, and mental, each corresponding to deeper patterns of vitality, behavior, and form.

Every now and then, I find myself drawn to cosmology explored through the Vedic lens. It feels like it opens an archetypal doorway in my imagination, something I can’t fully grasp, yet I find deeply beautiful in its own way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY8bJQFeL7c

Here is a playlist of shorter videos diving deeper into it: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqwFXZeTUACXdOPaHb8KX1dhXqty_KxkA&si=oAVJ_wPOk24DWGFF

If I ever travel to India, top of my list would be to explore the Temple of the Vedic Planetarium which is still under construction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Kj1McO17GE

“The plant grows from node to node and terminates in the flower and the seed. It is no different in the animal world. The caterpillar, the tapeworm, grow from node to node and finally form a head; in the case of the higher animals and humans it is the vertebrae that grow one upon the other, until they termin-ate in the head, where the powers are concentrated.

'The same pattern that we see in individuals is repeated in collectives. The bees, similarly a series of individuals that come together, produce something as a totality that also completes the series, and is in effect the head of the whole: the queen bee.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/falsemirror/p/a-threefold-hive?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=rt9cv

This is a Problem of Nutrition
https://anthropopper.com/2017/11/13/this-is-a-problem-of-nutrition/

Rudolf Steiner told Ehrenfried Pfeiffer that spiritual development challenges stem from nutritional deficiencies, stating "Nutrition as it is today does not supply the strength necessary for manifesting the spirit in physical life. A bridge can no longer be built from thinking to will and action. Food plants no longer contain the forces people need for this." Agriculture with depleted soils, chemical fertilizers, pesticides and GMOs has degraded food quality since Steiner's time. Swiss food company founder Walter Danzer's research method is presented through his book "The Invisible Power Within Foods," which uses protocols to extract test liquids from foods and create crystallized images that reveal life energy or "order force." Danzer's photographic evidence demonstrates that organic apple images contain apple trees, blossoms, seeds and orchards, while non-organic apples show blurred, fragmented essences, and GM soybean drinks appear like "lifeless, abandoned planets" compared to organic versions displaying branches and six-petalled blossoms.

Danzer's theory presents foods as information systems that transfer energy, life force, memories and experiences to our bodies before serving as physical fuel. Food quality testing methods include three approaches: bio-photon counting machines, image-creating methods like Pfeiffer's round-filter chromatography, and "Wirksensorik" where humans become testing instruments through trained perception of bodily reactions to foods. Meditative breeding research shows that seeds treated with sound, eurythmy or meditation produce plants with different qualities.

Empathic Food Testing Development and Application
- https://www.wirksensorik.de/en
- https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0165991

Empathic Food Testing measures emotional and bodily sensations induced by food, distinct from short sensory impressions and personal preferences. Development of this method aimed to create a test suitable for stable foods and beverages that scientifically evaluates emotional and physical impacts of food on the body. Research compared three approaches: the Empathic Food Test (EFT), the multidimensional mood questionnaire (MDMQ), and hedonic sensory testing using panels of untrained consumers who evaluated sensorially similar pairs of milk, water, bread and sugar. Nineteen sensory experts derived twelve items using free choice profiling, with exploratory factor analysis reducing these to ten items organized into two scales measuring general bodily wellbeing and concentration or mindfulness. The EFT incorporates a preparatory body scan similar to mindfulness based stress reduction, guiding participants through systematic attention to body parts before food consumption and evaluation.

Results demonstrated that EFT showed higher discriminating power than MDMQ for most food pairs. Empathic awareness or mindfulness supports observation of food induced emotions, enabling the method to create transparency and optimization possibilities for production, purchase, and consumption decisions. The emotional properties of products strongly influence wellbeing and performance, with food production methods and food choices making substantial differences in quality of life. Analysis using trained observers or untrained consumers reveals that emotional and hedonic responses do not always correspond, with preferences sometimes showing inverse relationships between EFT and hedonic test results, particularly for sugar samples where hedonic testing favored sugar beet while EFT preferred sugar cane.

GeoEngineering Patent List
https://geoengineeringwatch.org/links-to-geoengineering-patents/

This patent collection covers atmospheric modification and weather control technologies spanning over several decades.

- Weather modification patents include methods for artificial rainmaking, cloud seeding operations, and systems designed to control hurricanes and tornadoes.

- Solar radiation management technologies include stratospheric aerosol injection systems, atmospheric particle dispersion methods, and reflective material deployment specifically designed for climate intervention purposes.

- Chemical dispersal patents detail the applications of barium and aluminum compounds, plasma generation systems, and metallic particle distribution methods that enhance atmospheric conductivity.

- Communication and sensing technologies entail radio frequency weather modification systems, atmospheric heating apparatus, and devices for ionospheric manipulation.

- Environmental control patents address drought mitigation systems, precipitation enhancement methods, and technologies for atmospheric temperature regulation.

- Military and defense applications include weather warfare systems, atmospheric disruption methods, and climate modification techniques for strategic purposes.