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The Magic of Fish Flow Forms

What can the Fish Flow Forms tell us?

There were times when people experienced all kinds of beings, in nature in general and in rivers, waterfalls and sources in particular. We still listen to the music about Erlkönig, and are familiar with pictures of the Lorelei. But we do not go as far as the Eastern world, where river deities are revered, and the proposed presidents of Indonesia still go to the South coast of Java, between Borobudur and Prambanan, to receive the blessing of the Sea Goddess Nyai Roro Kidul. Even more empathic: ‘Sultan Hamengkubuwono IX of Yogyakarta described his experience on spiritual encounters with the spirit Queen in his memoirs; the Queen could change shapes and appearances, as a beautiful young woman usually during full moon, and appear as an old woman at other times.’ Now, the Sultan of Yogyakarta was not an uneducated person, his nearby collegue, the Susuhunan of Surakarta (incidentally, my birthplace) even studied at Leiden University in the Netherlands.

In the West, we seem to have lost such faculties, or even deny their existence. But not quite. For example, read what they say of Pistyll Rhaeadr in Wales, not the most massive but just about the highest waterfall in Europe. Read the description of the magical atmosphere around it, and see the painting of its female waterbeing in the small café at its foot.

Are all waterbeings experienced as female? Not necessarily. Recently two Western-world science educated researchers visited the Rheinfall at Schaffhausen. Their first impression was of the intense vitality in a wide region around the fall. In the course of their prolonged presence the spirit of the waterfall ‘spoke to them’, or should I say ‘entered their thoughts’: ‘Tausende starren mich an, kaum Einer sieht mir.” (Thousands of humans look at me, hardly anyone sees me”.) And:”I enhance the vitality of this entire region.” After that, he explicitly mentioned that he was male.

How seriously should we take such reports, in such a case not from someone standing in age-old traditions, but from Western-science educated persons who have extended and expanded their methodological thinking into as yet underexplored regions?

Reasons there are many, I’ll speak of just one very fundamental one.

After a mere hundred years of quantum physics, do you really expect the Standard Model to be the final answer to all physical questions, let alone questions about life, consciousness and self-consciousness? Did you know that quantum physics was originally formulated in the language of projective geometry? Now, in its geometrical form, this mathematical discipline is completely dualistic, polar, symmetric. In the now habitual algebraic form this symmetry is partly lost. How do quantum physicists use this discipline? They accept the solutions in Hilbert Space and discard those in Dual Space. So they throw away half of the symmetric and thus holistic possibilities of their mathematical instrument. How and where do we find the other half of the solutions? Is it a coincidence that researchers of life report that they perceive there to be, polar to the four centripetal forces of the Standard Model, four centrifugal forces in everything that is living?

Do not expect me to give final answers to these questions, based on a handfull of researchers in the latter field, as opposed to the millions of researchers that have toiled on the magnificent edifice of quantum physics for a hundred years. But we should not shrink back from them when we return to the opening sentence: What can the Fish Flow Forms tell us?

For of course we make measurements, before and after installation of the Fish Flow Forms. We measure the oxygen saturation, the amount of nutrients, the degree of purification. We observe micro-organisms and plant growth in and around the water. We count the number of insects and finally, conclusively, the increase in the number of fish that migrate through them.

But what more can the Fish Flow Forms tell us?

Although the vitality around the Fish Flow Forms is not as massively vigorous as at the Rheinfall, people who have regularly visited them can experience the increase in vitality after their installation. You do not have to be very sensitive to experience that. But what about what Frank Sinvis seems to hear from the nature beings around, and what Lydia van Oort seems to see of them. For many of us such experiences are very unfamiliar, surprising, improbable, maybe childish or even downright humbug. But consider the following.

All honest-to-themselves naturalists confess that there are (at least) two things they don’t understand: Mathematics and consciousness. I would add a third: Life, and I will say something about all three. Now, wouldn’t it make sense, just for a while and just for the sake of scientific open-mindedness, to lower the defenses of one’s formed opinions. Nothing wrong with formed opinions, they protect us like dikes and dams against the tsunami’s and banjirs of misinformation. But, like a misplaced dam in a streamlet or river, they can also stifle the flow of renewal. So, look at the fish and try to meander your way around the dams through the flowforms, and accordingly try to find access to new growing points of knowledge without discarding the protection and safety of your formed opinions. Practice agility.

I have spoken of life, that the observation of increased vitality is for most people the easiest to experience.

I have spoken of mathematics. The discipline of projective geometry, in its anschauliche, figurative form, is excellently suited to describe and understand life in its myriad appearances. This is not the place to do so.

And then consciousness. I’ll speak of the two-dimensional character of the drawings that accompany this treatise. And of the name-giving of the beings that present themselves to us (or so it seems at least to some).

The world out of which our dying, entropy-striving, physical world is constantly revitalised is a two-dimensional world. So it is reported. Does this surprise you? Then think back to the Renaissance, when Galileo investigated the centripetal force of gravity, when for the first time dead human bodies were obducted, and the projective geometrical constructions of perspective were developed. In this manner, in the representation of our world, three-dimensionality commenced conjunctly with the investigation of death and increasing entropy. Before that, all paintings and drawings and icons were two-dimensional. And they show the same articulation that the drawings of Lydia van Oort, quite truthfully, show. Important, mighty beings present themselves larger and more dominant in the consciousness of the observer than other ones, and are portrayed this way.

One might judge Lydia’s drawings as too soft and friendly. Yet I think they are better presentations than, for example, the fleshy Gods of William Blake. Look at these open faces and you may, in due time, become perceptive of their guiltless intentions. Yes, their appearance is coloured by the observer who reports of them. But other trained observers can read through such subjective appearances and can become aware of the objective character of the beings that want to express themselves.

The same goes for the names. These beings express themselves in a way that they do hope we understand. This understanding grows through long aquaintance. So Nyai Roro Kidul is generally known under this name. In the Netherlands, in the watery spheres next to the Belgian-Dutch border, our own Celtic-Germanic Sea-Goddess is well-known under her name from the Roman period, Nehalennia. The remnants of a temple refer to her, and she has a statue in Domburg overlooking her sea. With the Fish Flow Forms we have a new apperance in Hendrik. What does this common Dutch name express? We have thought that maybe there was an old water mill, where the millar was called Hendrik, and the waternimph might have adopted this name for his contact with human beings.

I know it is not easy, but, to summarize all this, I would ask people to, at least for some time, suspend their formed opnions and possibly biases, circumvent the dams in their opinion-forming thinking-flows, and meander around to investigate the possibilities of these other forms. Just follow the fish, who seem to rightly value and appreciate the magic of the flow forms.

Willem Daub 11-12-2017

Marga Klompestraat 15

1862 DC BERGEN(N.H.) 06-44038905

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