Theodore Schwenk 1910-1986 showed that shaking water on different days would somehow imprint that water with a record of cosmic events and that this would affect the germination of seedlings immersed in such water. Water shaken during an eclipse had an especially deleterious effect on the growth of the plants.
From his book, “Sensitive chaos”:
“As a striking example among the abundance of constellations in the heavens we will choose an experiment made on the day of a total eclipse of the sun.
“During the course of the day at regular intervals – say every quarter of an hour – a different vessel filled with water is shaken for a short time. Each time this is done a kind of sense organ, which closes again when the movement ceases, is opened to the momentary happenings in the heavens. And each time a somewhat different situation in the universe is imprinted upon the water: the gradual movement of the moon towards the sun, the commencement of the eclipse, the totality of the eclipse and the gradual movement of the moon away from the sun.
“At the end of a series of experiments like this, the whole course of the happenings of the day is contained in the row of bottles that have been shaken.
“How can this be made visible?”
“There are various methods, of which we have chosen the following: in the water of each vessel grains of wheat are caused to germinate: this can be done days or weeks later, as long as the water has not been disturbed anew. The grains of wheat are all placed in the water at the same time and under the same experimental conditions; the effect of the impressions which permeate the water will be seen in the growth of the blades.
“During the same span of time the blade in one vessel of water will grow better than that in another. The lengths of the different blades in the different vessels will depict the course of the eclipse. The blades in the water shaken at the time of the total eclipse do not grow as high as those in water shaken before or after.
“A graph can be made of the lengths of the blades in the consecutive of the water and the so-called growth curve results. Other planetary constellations will give growth curves of a different character.”
