Depending on what concept you have of your soil, you either treat it as dirt or as a living, breathing being full of emotions and feelings, just like you would treat me and yourself.
No, even more than that; as a receptacle full of wisdom and divine intelligence.
If you don’t want to go that far, just attend the latest scientific conferences about the intelligence of the mycelium and the mycorrhiza.
In Japan they are now designing the most efficient transport networks using mycorrhizas for the modelling and in computer science.
They are now tethering the mycelium to the quantum computers they are building to perform the fastest calculating AI interactions, ever discovered and fueled by sunlight.
Have you ever thought that the fibre-optic information highway might have been invented long before we people ever, started thinking on our own?
The plants with their fibres and rootsystems are that fibre optic network, receptors and communicators with the interlaced soil microlife.
Everything is light, frequency and resonance before it manifests as energy and matter.
Our plants are the interface between the Universal Laws of vibration and information and the “inert” matter of the minerals in the soil and the bedrock, which have temporarily fallen out of that fast vibrating Universe.
Yet they resonate on a very deep atomic and subatomic level with each other.
The plants with their fibre and the mycorrhiza and mycelium with their hyphae take this information, where it is needed to foster life and according to R. Steiner the highest intelligence in the soil (Now also confirmed by modern science).
How can we channel and direct that information most effectively into the Earth?
1 Use all the mineral, plant, animal and human residues, found in your farm or garden organism and pile them consciously and skillfully into a compost pile.
Prepare this pile with the 6 biodynamic compost preparations at least 2 times.
This will enhance the information flow between the past, present and future of the soil’s experience to produce highly nutritious food plants.
This will also ensure the quick establishment of these mycorrhizal communities in a garden, where we disturb the soil frequently and sow and plant new species, bred by people and interplant them in “unusual and creative” ways.
2 Open the soil in winter to the cosmic environment (Father Principle) to penetrate the Mother Earth with its new information to allow the new patterns to take hold of life on the earth.
This pattern forming principle is carried by the 4 elements deeply into the bosom of the Earth to unfold and spring forth as new plants in spring and summer.
3 Enhance this birthing and expansive gesture of growth by applying on a regular basis the soil activator preparation (horn manure, 500). This will activate the little creatures, we don’t see.
Under magnification, you would discover anywhere from 3 million to 50 billion bacteria up to 1.0 micron in size- in just one handful of dirt (more than all stars discovered up to this moment)!
A single handful of soil contains in excess of 500 species of fungi and potentially more than 50km of fungal mycelium.
4 Allow the soil to bring forth the widest variety of cultivated and wild plants, to enhance the diversity of information taken up by the soil, which then gets channelled into the food plants by us weeding out the wild flora and stirring the soil under propitious influences of the circadian rhythm and the lunar cycles, with all its wonderful rhythms and moderation of the constellational influences.
Keep the soil well covered with living plants to protect it from harmful rays of the cosmic environment both natural and manmade and to restore the “virginal skin’ of the soil, as the Austrian farmers used to call it (Use feldspar preparation or clay preparation to substitute this protection if soil is bare).
5 Create a lightshow for the visible and invisible beings in the garden inviting the most diverse frequencies of light to manifest in your garden, by spraying the horn silica preparation. This will enhance the growth of fibre in plants and the transmission of information into the soil, which in turn will activate the release of silica in abio-available form to feed the resilience of the plants and helps in the long-term fertility building by aiding the formation of the silicate clay-humus complex.
Now when you put another step into the garden, marvel about the mysteries of processes and life forms, which manifest in the alchemical kitchen of nature aided by our guiding hand.
Enjoy building soils for progeny and regenerate our planet by using the biodynamic preparations liberally.
Happy gardening
Hans-Gunther
For further enlightening reading:
Victor Schauberger “ Living Water”
Paul Stamets “Mycelia running”