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Users “Our Lives Have Changed” 10Users from all walks of life recount their experience with the Grander Technology – from housewives to industrial managers, from municipalities to high-tech enterprises.

Topic The Limits of Knowledge 26 Actual knowledge begins where supposed knowledge ends. An intensive discussion of the matter by Peter Ortner.

Report From China to Australia 8The general idea of the Grander Technologyhas long spread beyond its native soil. Among other things, you read about the resultsthe Chinese Railroad Corporation achievedwith Johann Grander’s Eco-Kat.

Essay Reflections on Water 4“Water is a cosmic matter.” This statement by Johann Grander made Hans Kronberger illuminate the subject of water from the historical angle.

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Editorial

Books and films on the subject 48Grander Technology sales offices 50Imprint 52

As a publisher, URANUS-Verlag has specialised in environmental themes in an uncompromising manner. We have not shrunk from tackling issues and adding them to our publishing programme even when they go beyond traditional narrow thought. An example is the diverse topic of “water”, which we treat from a point of view in stark contrast to that of “prevailing” science, in the truest sense of the word. It has been our good fortune that the un-dertaking has been successful. Meanwhile, the book On the Track of Water’s Secret, an examination of the thought and also the success of the natural observers Johann Grander and Viktor Schauberger, has been translated into seven languages. A film documen-tary with the same title has not only been shown in Austria, Germany and Switzerland, but has also been dubbed into nine other languages. We are very taken with Grander’s method of bringing life to water. Now you are holding in your hands the first edition of this journal, whose primary goal, on the one hand, is to spread the thinking of Johann Grander and, on the other hand, to make the experiences with the appli-cation of Grander Technology accessible to a wide public. This journal is rounded off with new research results on the durability of revitalised water. The exchange of experience among Grander users, their reports and their results are the most important driving force behind water revitalisation. Satisfied users are the secret of the successful spread of revital-ised water. Most of them are motivated by joy and gratitude to share their experiences with others; they are often the greatest experts. Thus all the users’ reports are accompanied by their full name and place of resi-dence. If you would like to become personally ac-quainted with a Grander user in your area, we would be most happy to help you establish the necessary

contacts. I hope you enjoy read-ing this first edition of the Grander Journal.

Yours faithfully, Ute Stockhammer

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InformationReflections on “dextro-rotatory” water 28Is it possible to determine the condition andenergy content of water by means of a pendulum?

“Where there’s much light there’s also shadow” 29The successful spread of the Grander Technologyhas called numerous imitators to the scene.

Science Water for Eternity 42Does the Grander Technology preserve drinking water (indefinitely long)?Without chemicals being added?A research report by DI Dr. Horst Felsch.

Table Talk Johann Grander is talking with his friends 30about his attitude towards nature, water and creation.

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Essay

Reflections on Water “Water is a cosmic matter.” This is how Johann Grander

characterises a natural phenomenon that becomes more

and more mysterious the closer one is concerned with

it. For one thing is clear: reducing water to the simple

chemical formula H2O is a very insufficient approach to

describe the nature and efficacy of water. By Hans Kronberger

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clearly, unequivocally, and at the same time, more comprehensivly and precisely.

It took me quite a long time to understand that, with his statement, Grander had perfectly described the dimension of how to approach the element of water in order to get one step closer to it. Whoever takes notice of water only in its momen-

Why has water strayed just to our

planet?

Falling water: the discovery of cluster

formation was one of the first phenomena to shake up a purely mechanistic

way of viewing water.

Water is a cosmic matter,”Johann Grander said to me when I

made my first TV interview with him. Driven by an old reporter’s reflex, I seized on this immedi-ately and wanted to know in detail what he meant by this sentence. Today I consider this question to be the most nonsensical I have ever put to an interview part-ner. “Water is a cosmic matter!” There is no way to answer this ques-tion of the nature of water more

tary state – in a water glass, in a river, a lake or in the ocean – or sees it as an ice block or a cloud, will only realize a fraction of the whole.

It is essential to scrutinise water in its function within the en-tire cosmos, which means nothing less than to open one’s thoughts to infinity and reflect upon why water has strayed to planet Earth. How it has come into being and what is its function for the origin and preser-vation of life.

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From this point of view it is worthwhile to scrutinise the early mythologies and to investigate the history of water observation as a whole. In the first written reports we read of an infinite primeval water with no top or bottom, but a purely “endless depth”. Along with the reflections on good and evil, the separation of heaven and hell developed. Little by little the sin-gle ancient cultures visualised their imaginations in the form of gods. It is remarkable that this was also the time that bipolar thinking emerged, i.e. it distinguished between man and woman.

The Babylonians speak of the mother creature Tiamat and of the father Apsu. According to the Babylonian belief, the uniting of salt water and fresh water led to the procreation of the first race of gods, whose descendants created heaven and earth from the cosmic ocean.

Indian mythology also talks of a primaeval water, from which the wonderful lotus burst into bloom. Out of the flower emerged Brahma, the creative god and great architect, who formed the universe in accordance with his memories of former worlds. When the work was completed, he went to sleep, not to awake for billions of years, when the worlds had vanished and there was a demand for the creation of new worlds.

The ancient Greeks made water the home of a superior, powerful god. According to Greek imagination, Poseidon, the ruler over oceans and rivers, lived in a water palace and crossed over the waves in a golden wagon pulled by white horses.

Surges and sea spray obeyed his command. Later on they created hosts of goddesses and gods, naiads, dryads and other nymphs, who – in their fantasy – had human attributes, among them gracefully beautiful as well as ugly, fearsome and de-structive characteristics. The rivers and springs where these gods were considered to live were therefore places of power.

The Greek philosopher and mathematician Thales of Miletus (625-545 B.C.) was the first to introduce the “logos”, i.e. reason, into the contemplation of water. He defines water as the “raw material” which is the “original source of all being”. From this time on, people tried to approach the phenomenon of water with “reason”: examples are both Empedocles (483-420 B.C.) and – in particular – Aristotle (384-322 B.C.), who for the first time divided the world into four fundamental elements. According to him, fire, earth, water and air are the basic components of the world. These four elements determined the thinking of the medieval alche-mists, who – among other things – were searching for an elixir to change raw materials into gold. In the following centuries, the striving for refinement of natural materials was perverted to the point that any “considered benefit” had absolute priority over the preservation of nature.

The great natural scientist, phy-sician and philosopher Theophras-tus Bombastus von Hohenheim, known as Paracelsus (1493-1541 A.D.), combined the traditional knowledge of the ancient myths with the empirical methods of the emerging rational natural sciences.

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Water. a lifegiving, healing, sustaining force, a life-threatening power. For the Greeks, rivers and springs were the homes of the gods.

A glass of water: if we contemplate it

only in its present state, we will recognise only

a tiny detail of its great potential.

In his opinion the four elements were animated by the appropriate elementary spirits: “Those in the water are nymphs, in the air sylphs, in the earth pygmaei, and those in the fire salamanderae.” This is how he described the forces (well ac-knowledged by himself), but how-ever, not compatible with modern natural science.

The “sceptical chemist”(called so after his book The sceptical Chymnist), the Irishman Robert Boyle (1627-1691), broke with Aristotle’s theory of the elements after he realised that all the alche-mist’s work had been based on this principle, and did not describe ma-terials but rather properties.

Towards the end of the 18th century, Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794) found out that the Aristote-lian element of water was composed of hydrogen and oxygen. He cre-ated a new definition of water as an element which can in no way be decomposed into other materials. This view was maintained up to the middle of the 20th century. By reducing water to the chemical for-mula H2O, water observation was reduced to a purely mechanistic approach. This absolute edifice of natural science remained unshaken until the cluster formation of wa-ter was discovered and the first attempts were made to prove the information transmission in water.

And here the idea of the natural-ist Johann Grander joins with one of the most important water scien-tists of the 20th century, namely Viktor Gutmann.

To my question whether wa-ter had already been entirely re-searched, the sixfold doctor and candidate for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry answered: “Today scientists proceed from the as-sumption that water is abnormal

“It is not water that is abnormal–but

our formulae, which are inadequate.”

because its highest density is at plus four degrees Celsius and not – as science wants to prescribe – at zero. It is not water that is abnormal, but our formulae, which are insufficient to describe the phe-nomenon of water.”

At this very moment I again remembered:

“Water is a cosmic matter!”

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Johann Grander’s relationship to China is a close one by tradition. The Chinese culture

is much more receptive to phenom-ena based on vibrations and natural magnetism than ours.

Yet the people are also well aware that much of this ancient knowledge of things has been lost.

The first contact between the National Chinese Railway Com-pany and the Grander Technology goes back to the year 1993. At that time the Chinese were looking worldwide for systems promising to reduce the fuel consumption of diesel locomotives. Subsequently, the Grander Technology was ap-plied in China.

A series of tests made in Shang-hai and Canton over several years proved successful. By the applica-tion of the Eco-Kat, which is a uni-versal energiser fitted over the fuel pipe, fuel consumption was reduced by 1 to 3 percent. This seems a rather small amount; it is however a huge quantity if we relate it to the gigantic fuel consumption of the Chinese railways, whose network covers more or less the complete area of the world’s third-largest country.

On top of that, exhaust emission values are considerably improved and engine attrition is reduced.

One of the highlights of the Austrian-Chinese water revitalisa-

The general idea of the Grander Technology has

long spread beyond its native soil. This report

describes the experience made with it elsewhere.

From China to Australia Grander Technology Worldwide

Zhu Wei and Liu Feng on a visit

to Johann Grander.

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tion connections was on September 24, 1997, when the vice-directors of the Chinese State Railway, Zhu Wei and Liu Feng, visited Austria. “For many years we have had the wish to meet the man whose discoveries are being so much discussed in China,” Zhu Wei declared. His prime con-cern is that all reports of experience worldwide be made generally acces-sible and shared.

There have already been steps in this direction: upon the initiative of the Grander Technology’s sales manager for Southeast Asia and Oceania, Tat Chee, the book On the Track of Water’s Secret was trans-lated into Chinese in 1997.

There is, however, one dream that won’t come true for the Chinese: Johann Grander will not accept the invitation for a visit in Peking and Shanghai. He is so busy that he hardly gets to visit nearby Kitzbühel.

Positive results in fish- and crop farming

Other members of the Grander team are more fond of travelling. In the fall of 1998 Georg Huber visit-ed China and Australia and returned with some interesting reports.

The Dalian Marine Diesel Works, a shipyard near the Chinese-Korean border, produces engines with a performance of 15,000 HP. After the positive experiences of the National Chinese Railway, the Dalian Works have also launched fuel tests with the Eco-Kat. Results are still pending.

The National Institute for Edu-cation and Research in Canton uses the Grander Technology for biolog-ical crop farming. A scientific report is in preparation. The first positive results have been in fish- and crop farming.

In New Zealand, Dr. John Whit-man Ray, a world-renowned special-ist in iris diagnostics (diagnosis of the eyes), concerns himself with wa-ter revitalisation. Dr. Ray is a former aircraft technician (physics and mathematics) and began to study medicine after completion of his first professional training. Today he teaches that the balance of all vital factors in our bodies (vitamins, minerals, hormones etc.) is the most important precondition for every healing process. In order to reach this body harmony more eas-ily, Dr. Ray recommends revitalised

water.In Australia biological agricul-

ture is still strongly underdevel-oped. Together with John Gault, the manager of Rural Innovation, which is an organisation propagat-ing the application of new methods in agriculture, the MP Ken Smith is one of the pioneers in biological agriculture in the state of Victoria.

His untiring support of the Grander Technology earned him violent protests in the parliament in Victoria. Yet he considers even this as a form of approval. For such attacks show that the problem is

being discussed. From this point of view, the day will come when Grander Technology will become firmly established on the Fifth Continent.

Grander experiments in China: (left) growth with revitalised water; (right) cross-check without revitalisation.

Iris diagnostician Dr. John W. Ray (centre):

greater body harmony through revitalised water.

15,000-HP engines at a Chinese shipyard:

fuel tests with the Eco-Kat.

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At present, there are more than a hundred thousand people using the Grander Technology. If we add family members, this figure is three or four times higher. That means:almost half a million people.Most Grander users declare them-selves actively and openly in favour of water revitalisation and are inter-

Users of the Grander Technology describe their practical experiences.

“Our Lives Have Changed”

ested in sharing their experience, in order to bring these advantages to others.Of course these will always be sub-jective impressions, but personal experience can often tell us more than can even extensive and circum-stantial studies.One thing can certainly be said: the Grander Technology is used by all sections of the population. The wide circle of users includes house-wives as well as industrial managers, and municipalities as well as high-tech enterprises.

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It is hard to select a single user’sreport as particularly repre-sentative and call it exemplary.

Too vast is the rich experience gathered by the individual us-ers. Maybe the statement of the pharmacist Dr. Hans Imhoff from Garmisch-Partenkirchen is, in its simplicity, typical of many others: “I feel my body differently.” This is how he describes his new vital consciousness.The academically trained natural scientist now runs the Alte Apotheke on the Marien-platz in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. His clients, local residents as well as

numerous tourists, enjoy the alche-mistic charm which the pharmacy has retained over the years since its founding in 1822.Various pharmaceutical instruments such as pestles, scales, big-bellied glasses, salve-jars and the typical cabinets with innumerous drawers give the impression of trustwor-thiness. The Imhoff family’s work has always been devoted to the max-im: “Retain tradition in progress!”Clients have drawn Dr. Imhoff ’s attention to the Grander Technol-ogy. Today he says, “It is very important to be unbiased and to get one’s own personal idea of the matter. What personally convinced me was a test in which the taste of revitalised water was compared with the taste of a non-revitalised sam-ple. There was no comparison! It is true that we do have good water here in Garmisch, but revitalised water tastes better. As if it came directly from an alpine spring. Now we have got one revitaliser at home and one in the pharmacy. We all feel the effects. Having a shower or a bath is now much more refreshing than before.”

Dr. Imhoff uses Grander water for the production of his own medi-cine – his arnica salves and arnica mixtures are well known – and oil-baths, soaps and drinks are also made with revitalised water. “Wa-ter is tremendously important,” says Dr. Imhoff. “An adult should consume up to three litres a day. And three fourths of the human body consists of water: we are wa-ter! It would be really worthwhile to continue research in the field of water.”

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Pharmacist Dr. Hans Imhoff of Garmisch-Partenkirchen: hiscustomers told him about the Grander Technology.

Can you tell the difference between revitalised and normal water? Grander

users say: “Try them both; there’s no comparison!“

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The National Testing Institute provided the proof

Of course we do not consume water only in a pure form; it is contained in all drinks and in many foodstuffs. Master brewer Georg Deil is the owner of the private brewery Deil – founded in the 19th century – in the Swabian town Osterberg. In the spring of 1998 he started experimenting with the aim of improving the qual-ity of his nine varieties of beer and numerous fruit juices. Georg Deil: „At first I installed a revitaliser into the water supply pipe of our bot-tle-cleaning machine. And it really worked fantastically, both regarding the calcium deposits and the use of chemicals (caustic solutions). Next

came a test with a small ‘revitaliser’ in bottling beer.”

Georg Deil himself has always been convinced that the beer pro-duced with revitalised water tastes better, and the carbonic acid in the non-alcoholic drinks has finer pearls, which is an indication of improved taste. But Mr Deil wanted official confirmation, so he sent samples of his “revitalised” beers to the National Testing Institute of the Munich University of Weihen-stephan. The results were astound-ing, if not sensational.

The national testers certified a clear improvement in taste in com-parison with non-revitalised beers tested at the same time. Stimulated by this success, Georg Deil is now planning his next experiment. He wants to equip all cleaning devices in his brewery with the Grander Technology. And from the results of the first test plant he has projected that the savings in detergents will amount to DM 20,000 per year.

“Flavour awakened from a deep, long sleep”

Speaking of the production of alcoholic specialities: let’s visit Ferdinand König in Dornbirn, Vor-arlberg, a passionate hobby-distiller for 15 years. He grows his raw ma-terial – apples and pears – in his own garden. Most essential for gaining an exquisite product is to choose neat and clean fruit, sort it accord-ing to maturity, remove the stalks and cut out even the smallest spots of rot. Ferdi König’s best product is his “Williams”.

Eight years ago Ferdi König changed over to revitalised water. The result: “Normally a schnapps gains its maturity through ripening over a period of four to six years. This is the time it needs to get that certain mildness that is characteris-tic of a high-quality product. Since I use Grander water, the schnapps immediately develops this mild maturity. Even during production, when the schnapps is blended, the fruit flavour comes out much more intensely.”

Beer-brewer Georg Deil from Osterberg in Swabia: higher quality through water revitalisation.

State-certified test results: all of the

“revitalised” beers had clearly better taste.

Test series B: revitalised.

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Stylist Karin Rupprecht: significant improvement of skin problems, after us-ing revitalised water for half a year.

“I had hands like an 80-year- old person”

There are numerous accounts regarding the effects of revitalised water in the personal sphere of life. These range from a general improve-ment in well-being, to a feeling of inner harmony, to an improvement of disease. More and more physi-cians support water revitalisation; most of them owe the first contact to their patients.

The sphere of health is a rather delicate one; therefore we ought to be very cautious in quoting overly euphoric accounts. In any case it must be avoided that people have exaggerated illusions and mistake Grander water for a medical rem-edy. However, reports of successful applications should not be withheld from an interested public – this would be some kind of censorship. As most of the users who have experienced successful results are grateful and thus willing to pass on their positive experiences, it would

only make sense to get in contact with such persons.

One of these is the hair-stylist Karin Rupprecht, owner of the salon Coiffeur Rupprecht in Gar-misch-Partenkirchen. One and a half years ago, she suffered from weeping and itching skin eruptions on her hands. This almost made her unfit for work. A catastrophe for the young woman who loves and is dependant on her work. “You should have seen my hands a year ago,” she said in summer 1998. “They were chapped and dried, and susceptible to allergies. The nail bed was completely destroyed, no cuticle remaining. My fingers were raw and the eruptions also affected my forearm – up to the elbows. No dermatologist could help; there was no chance to get this problem under control. I had hands like an 80-year-old.”

Half a year after installing the water revitalisation, a significant improvement was observed. Today nothing is visible, except for a slight deformity on one fingernail. With sparkling eyes the goodlooking woman reports: “My employees’ hands also got visibly better, and the water has positive effects on my

When he talks about his masterpiece, schnapps,

Ferdi König waxes poetic: “It is as if the flavour had

been awakened from a deep, long sleep.”

clients’ scalp, although we use the same products as before. Certainly we need less shampoo. Everything acts in a milder way; nothing is as aggressive as before.”

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representative, and from her Mr Buchwieser learned about water revitalisation. At first he was very sceptical, but today, he has a differ-ent view. “None of my treatments were successful. Only a combina-tion of acupuncture and Grander water brought the ardently desired cure,” he says.

“Today I don’t even use a body lotion. If you have ever been in a situation like mine, you are simply happy when something works. And in my case it was certainly not imag-ination or the so-called placebo effect.”

The argument of the placebo effect is put forward very frequently whenever the effect of revitalised water is discussed. Certainly it cannot be excluded in one case or another, but still it is the results that count. And if a positive result is achieved by the activation of psychic forces, that should be all right, too.

Suddenly her sense of smell returned

What happened to Elisabeth Huck from Völs am Schlern in South Tyrol is surely an outstand-ing experience. Due to extraor-dinary deformities in her throat and nose she was without a sense of smell and taste for ten years. An operation in 1993 effected relief, but a year later both senses had vanished again. The adenoids pinched on the nerves again, and thus another operation date was set for January 1996.

Two months before the opera-tion, it was recommended she use “revitalised water” and she decided to try it out. She remembers it as if it were yesterday: “It was ten o’clock in the morning when I went to church together with my husband. Suddenly I thought: this can’t be true; I smell the odour of shaving lotion! But it was true! I could smell everything again, and my sense of taste returned as well.” She even got rid of her asthma, which had troubled her since the birth of her son Thomas, spoiling the pleasure of her favourite hobby, singing.

Today Elisabeth Huck exclaims with happiness: “I can breathe and sing again!”

“I don’t need salves and lotions anymore”

Leonhard Buchwieser’s situa-tion seemed to be hopeless. He is the owner of a popular restaurant named Riessersee, situated in the German Werdenfelser Land. Over many years Leonhard Buchwieser suffered from serious neuroderma-titis, covering almost his entire body. His sister is a committed Grander

Buchwieser: “If you are in a position like mine, you

are simply happy when something helps.”

Innkeeper Leonhard Buchwieser suffered

from neurodermatitis for many years.

Elisabeth Huck: “And suddenly I thought, that‘s

impossible; I smell the odor of shaving lotion!”

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Physician Heinz Ulrich Wunsch: “Water bounces again, just as it did when I was a child.”

“We are more vigorous and feel much better”

Inge Krieger, together with her husband and a second couple, runs a therapy centre in the Swabian town of Giengen. A year ago Inge Krieger was taken ill with Lyme dis-ease, a severe illness transmitted by arachnids and insects (ticks, spiders, mosquitos) and damaging the nerv-ous system. Mrs Krieger has both feet firmly on the ground; it is ob-vious that nobody could fool her and she wouldn’t fool herself either. Along with that, she works everyday with ill people and so this justifies her experiences all the more.

Inge Krieger narrates:“ I had myocarditis, paralytic symptoms, dermatitis and simply everything else that was brought about by this disease. I had to take antibiotics. I

got psoriasis from head to toe and my stomach was ruined by all the medication.

There was hardly anything I could eat or drink. Finally, a patient told me about water revitalisation. I simply tried it.”

Inge Krieger sprayed Grander water onto the psoriasis and ob-served improvement on the third day. The radiation treatment she had to undergo was reduced. “If you look at me now, you won’t see anything at all. Everything’s gone. My skin is much softer and absolutely smooth!”

Today Inge Krieger has totally recovered; she can eat and drink whatever she likes.

Encouraged by her own experi-ence she tried to treat her daugh-ter’s neurodermatitis in the same way. “My two-year-old daughter had skin problems. We had to rub her with ointment three times a day, and still she scratched herself until she bled. I started to bathe her in the water. Now, she has a normal child’s skin and we don’t need any more creams or ointments. Now that we have Grander water at home, life has changed for us. We are much more vigorous, fitter and feel much better.”

Better effects with weaker potencies

Naturally enough, the experi-ence of physicians is particu-larly interesting. The practice of Heinz Ulrich Wunsch, a general practitioner in Bergheim/Erft, is always humming with activity, but still the atmosphere is notice-ably quiet. Heinz Ulrich Wunsch first had water revitalisation in-stalled in his private apartment, and there he made a surprising discovery.

“I realised that water bounces again. When I was a little boy, I was often lying in the bathtub and saw that from time to time the water bounced up, and I enjoyed that so much. Later on I failed to observe that again. Since I have had the revitalisation device installed, the water has started to bounce again, sometimes it even jumps. This is what convinced me.”

Heinz Ulrich Wunsch observes the Grander users among his pa-tients according to various criteria and has come to an interesting conclusion: “People consuming Grander water for some time re-act fantastically to homoeopathic treatment. We achieve better results with weaker potencies. Consuming Grander water for two or three months is enough to reach this rapid effect.

Inge Krieger: sprayed Grander water on psoriasis

and saw improvement in just three days.

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Even pneumonia can be treated perfectly with homoeopathic rem-edies.”

Heinz Ulrich Wunsch is con-vinced that Grander water stimulates the entire metabolism and improves the blood. On top of that, a con-scious consumption of water often goes hand in hand with a change in people’s view of life; many patients gain harmony and calmness. Heinz Ulrich Wunsch does not want to put his spectacular experiences to the fore; for him his observations of children are more important. Here he is especially successful with eczema and sleep disturbances.

Water helps in activating vital energy

The dentist Dr. Ute Schmitz-Florian, also from Bergheim, got in contact with water revitalisation through personal experience. She goes quite far in her statements.

Like her son, Dr. Schmitz-Florian had fallen ill with scarlet fever, which is a rather severe disease in adults. Some friends called her attention to the Grander water, and she experienced how the water helped her to get back on her feet. After only one week, she was able to open her practice again. Since then she has used only revitalised water for all materials that have to be mixed with water.

Her answer to the question how she – as a physician – can believe in effects of water that are still neglect-ed by great parts of science: “Well, there are certainly differences – we know that from homoeopathy. Water is a material with a wonder-ful ability to change. It is true that it always remains H2O, but in its three-dimensional structure it is very variable and flexible and ab-sorbs all approaching information. This is why water is able to help us to eliminate vibrations of harmful substances, and the high vibrations contained in the Grander water help to activate our vital energy.”

For quite a long time, Dr. Schmitz-Florian has taken a de-tached and critical view of tradition-al science. “My medical practice may be a little different from aver-age dental treatment. More than twelve years ago I withdrew from

classical medicine. Dental work is aggressive by nature, and I try to make this aggressive work, which I have chosen as my profession, as little traumatic as possible or at least to relieve the trauma. Today, there are many more chronically ill patients than in former times. A dentist has specific work and therefore cannot know the entire health of a patient. This is why I try to increase the energy level of my patients so that they react bet-ter to my traumatic work. We are always dependant on nature to help us, otherwise a dentist could not work at all.

Good water – foodstuff and counsellor

Basically it is of vital importance that people get a closer relationship with water. They ought to acknowl-edge and appreciate good water as a most important food, and as a fundamental curative factor.

More and more, people must become aware of the fact that there is only one water in the world and that in the course of the history of the Earth every water drop comes into contact with each of the others. This is why keeping water clear and clean and preserving its wonderful power is a highly important task.

Dentist Dr. Schmitz-Florian: water helped her, after a severe illness, to get back on her feet.

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Zum Mohren’s innkeeper, Gerda Herburger: “Most fascinating were the results in the area of detergent consumption.”

Results from the catering trade can basically be transferred to the application in private households. The main arguments in favour of using revitalised water are: savings in detergents, reduction of chemi-cals and – above all – the better taste of food and drink. Almost all the restaurateurs and hoteliers applying the Grander Technology have had the experience that their guests notice positive changes by themselves, without being informed beforehand.

Gerda Herburger, an innkeeper in Rankweil, Vorarlberg, has been awarded a “toque”( Austrian certif-icate of high-quality cuisine). The head of the hotel restaurant Zum Mohren laughs when she thinks of the guest from Berlin who told her

enthusiastically that after taking a bath his skin was “smooth as a baby´s bottom” and his hair soft as silk. Other guests stated that it sud-denly became overly warm in their rooms and asked to reduce the heat-ing. The water temperature in the coffee machine could be reduced by two graduations.

Gerda Herburger says, “What fascinated us most were the results concerning detergents. The dosing is done automatically; the machine itself takes the detergent it needs.”

“Since the installation of the water revitaliser we have been able to replace the acid rinse-aid with a neutral one. And even with this, we need only one quarter of the recom-mended quantity; 75% is saved. We observed the same thing with our laundry. In the beginning colours were bleached out – the standard

dosage was simply too high. Now we use only a quarter of the dosage and the results are super.”

The above-mentioned experi-ence – that the room temperature seems to rise although there is a constant heating performance from the boiler – has been widely discussed. One possible explanation could be that the room temperature does not actually rise, but that wa-ter revitalisation makes us feel the heat more intensely.

The hotel-restaurant Zum Mohren in Rank-weil. Guests are fond of “smooth skin” and “silky hair”.

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She’s a passionate coffee- drinker

The experiences with the Grander Technology in the catering trade are many. Erika Krönner runs a popular restaurant in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

“Drinking coffee is a great pas-sion of mine,” she tells us. “I had always drunk several cups in the morning. But suddenly one day, it no longer agreed with me and made me nervous. It was a terrible thing for me to go without cof-fee, but I had to. Over a period of some years I didn’t drink any cof-fee at all.”

The Krönner coffeehouse is well-known far beyond the city. Their speciality, Krönner’s Baum-stämme, is exported worldwide. After the water revitalising had been installed, Mrs Krönner’s son Franz observed the water softening plant in the baking-room and noticed: “The calcium has really become softer and is rinsed out more easily. For this

reason we can now set the plant controls to a lower level, and that’s really something.”

On this score it must be empha-sized that Grander revitalisers are not decalcification devices, nor are they reported as such. Nevertheless, many users report that both calci-um and rust are removed from pipes and often block the filters. Accordingly, there are sometimes complaints that after the installation of the revitalisation the water is col-oured red for a short period of time. This is caused by a natural cleaning process within the plumbing.

When the first guests told Erika Krönner that her coffee “tastes better lately” she had the idea of tasting a cup of it herself. The result: “It was like a miracle to me; it agreed with me again. Today I can drink six cups or even more, and it doesn’t bother me at all.”

And Erika Krönner has had an-other experience as well: “In our restaurant we need lots of lettuce, and it may happen – especially on hot days – that it gets a bit wilted. Then we put it into a bowl of Grander water and leave it there for about a quarter of an hour. It gets absolutely fresh again.”

“If we hadn’t seen it with our own eyes...”

The Hotel Post, again in Gar-misch-Partenkirchen, places a high value on tradition. Mentioned for the first time in the Bavarian State Archives in 1542, it is a masterpiece of Bavarian Baroque, situated on the old Venice to Augsburg trade route. Today many guests stay there because of the well-preserved origi-nal baroque furniture.

Also there are many other observations, like: better plant growth, increased fat solubility dur-ing dish-washing, and similar posi-tive phenomena, earning the family frequent compliments from their guests. The Stahl daughters have also tested the effect of the Grander heating water concentrate.

Normally the water in the pipes was “brown as coffee”. Today Elis-abeth Stahl says, “Now, after one and a half years, a new sample has been taken. The water is clear and odourless. If we hadn’t seen it with our own eyes, we wouldn’t have

Erika Krönner: “It was like a miracle; suddenly coffee

agreed with me again.”

Elisabeth Stahl, Hotel Post in Garmisch: clear and odourless water in the plumbing.

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believed it. And another striking thing is that the original odour of the wood in the rooms has come back again.”

Experiments brought the change

The connection between water revitalisation and microbiology in cooling or heating circuits was not being taken seriously. The change came with tests at the BMW factory in Steyr in Upper Austria. After a two-year test series, some extraor-dinarily sceptical technicians found that, with the installation of a water revitalising device, the demand for biocide was considerably reduced.

This result made technicians of other enterprises also keen to experiment. A classic example is the casino in the stylish Carinthian spa of Velden.

Constant problems with the air-conditioning made the ca-sino manager, Othmar Resch, take some uncommon measures. What happened previously, despite the massive use of chemicals, was that the germ-propagation rate in the air-conditioning water could not be controlled. This resulted in the formation of algae and a disgust-ing odour. Apart from this, people complained of irritations and in-flammation of the eyes.

In the spring of 1997, Mr Resch installed a water revitalising device. The objective: to establish an opti-mal air quality for visitors and staff. Another aim was to restore a micro-biological equilibrium in order to

keep the quantity of chemicals used as low as possible. At the first in-spection, the water catch basin was covered by 3 to 4 cm of froth, giv-ing off a sharp and foul stench. Any physical contact caused a strong and long-lasting itchiness.

About one year after the instal-lation of the Grander Technol-ogy new water samples were taken and the water quality had clearly improved. Addition of chemicals to stabilise the microbiology had become unnecessary.

At the same time the “Hygieni-kum Graz” measured and analysed the air germ count. The result of this was that the air quality in the casino was very good: “The air germ concentrations of all samples taken were within the lower range.” All of the casino staff confirmed that the air quality had perceptively improved. The unpleasant odour in

the machine-gambling hall, which was particularly strong in summer, had vanished. Croupier Michael Tschikoff says, “Over many years I have often had red and burning eyes when I was at work. Since the improvement in the air-condition-ing these symptoms have gone. As far as my eyes are concerned, I’ve no more complaints.”

Casino staff: “No more eye irritations, no more unpleasant odour.”

Germ analysis proved: the air in the Velden casino has become

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Grander Technology in hospitals

Some five years ago St Joseph’s Hospital in Braunau, near the Aus-trian-German border, had to cope with similar probems. Excessive germ contamination in the water-supply system caused the technical manager of the hospital, Wolfgang Plunger, to incorporate a water revitaliser into the central drink-ing-water plant. He tells about his experience: “We use our own well for our water supply. This well con-

tains very good water, which can, however, develop a special, rather unpleasant odour. Owing to our widely branched supply network and the warm conditions here in the hospital we always had to fight against germ contamination due to water stagnation.”

“We had to add chlorine, which in turn led to a change in taste and a bad odour. Both patients and staff found this very annoying.”

The hospital management trusted in their technical manager’s judge-ment and decided to install the Grander Technology. Since then, all the drinking water of St Joseph’s hospital in Braunau has been pass-ing the water revitaliser before enter-ing into the system.

The central chlorine-addition plants, which had been mechanical-ly controlled by measuring probes, were removed and have been out of service since then.

“This was an argument that convinced the management as well. Up to then we had to spend about ATS 60,000 to 80,000 annually on chemicals. The water revitaliser paid for itself within a very short time period. On top of that the chlorine quantity in the hospital indoor swimming-pool was also consider-ably reduced. The savings in run-ning costs are about 50 percent,” Wolfgang Plunger enthusiastically states.

“Since the water quality is with-in our own responsibility, we are obliged to carry out an annual extensive bacteriological check. Among other things the germ rate is monitored. This means we must prove that our water is drinkable. The results have always been per-fect. The same is true of the addi-tional internal tests, which analyse the germ contamination due to stagnation.”

The organic farmers were among the first...

Organic farmers were among the first users of the water revitalisation. Living close to nature, it has always been their aim to maintain high-quality soils and to produce food with no chemical residues. The organic-farming couple Inge and Konrad Weinberger from Regen describe their experience: “We had cows that didn’t calve for a full year, even with the help of a vet. Now that we use revitalised water, we no longer have such problems. The livestock numbers have increased. It was really very striking.”

And the couple reports on another noticeable phenomenon: “The liquid manure has also under-gone a fundamental change. Previ-ously, it had always been necessary to stir up the liquid manure, and this was very expensive. This past spring when we opened the pit, we saw that there was no floating surface

Organic farmers Inge and Konrad Weinberger: every-thing thrives; lifestock numbers have increased.

Hospital manager Wolfgang Plunger: all drinking water passes through a revitaliser.

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Since the spell was broken, water has gained a special impor-tance within the family. A second grandchild of Mrs Schmutz was born by means of a water delivery in Grander water.

Neighbours look at the garden products of the Schmutz family with envy. Due to a plant disease the tomatoes in the housing es-tate had turned black. While their neighbours did not find a remedy against the attack, the Schmutz family’s tomatoes have become red and juicy again. A manure mixture they made themselves is almost odourless and extremely beneficial to the plants.

About the child who now likes to drink water

Slowly, the Grander Technology is gaining recognition in Switzer-land as well. The Swiss are renowned for their high precision, but they are also rather keen on experiment-ing. Let’s take a look at the story of Doris Schmutz from Bern.

The grandchild of Mrs Schmutz suffered a fungus on his thigh. After three days of treatment with Grand-er water it was better. However, the Schmutz family wouldn’t be Swiss if they had not tried a cross-check. They halted the water treatment. The fungus again returned. When the water treatment was continued, the fungus completely disappeared. And the child who had always been very unwilling to drink anything, started to drink water of his own free will.

layer. It was a consistant mass, and we could pump it out and spread it on the fields. The manure has also improved in quality; it does not stink and it isn’t caustic. In spite of the fact that we use organic farming methods where artificial fertilisers are taboo, our fodder plants do not exhibit diminished growth.”

A survey of the most frequent experiences with Grander water reveals that most of them contain statements about improved growth of vegetables, fruit and, especially, of flowers.

Accounts of Grander us-ers: almost all of them

report better growth, especially of flowers.

The Schmutz familygarden: their neighbours look enviously across the fence.

Doris Schmutz from Bern: revitalised water is of extremely great importance to her family.

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Now sceptics only make him smile...

Sauna-owner Rudi Krebs from Bern was an out-and-out sceptic. But since he has been able to reduce the chlorine quantity for the water of his swimming pool and needs sixty percent less detergent than be-fore for washing his towels, he can-not help but smile about scepticism about the Grander Technology.

The use of Grander devices in swimming-pools, especially in public ones, is not easy, because in every country the minimum quantity of chlorine to be added is prescribed by law.

Remaining below this limit is, strictly speaking, illegal.

Pool attendant Engelbert Kienle (Trauchgau) was some years ago offered a wager. One of his friends bet he could identify revitalised water twenty-four hours after it had been revitalised. Mr Kienle lost the bet. However, he decided to install a revitalising device in the swim-ming pool.

The first result: “After a few days it was clear to me that this was an important thing for the baths. The water is different, it is milder now, and I can manage with less chlorine. People benefit very much from this because the water is softer to the skin, irritations of the eyes have noticeably decreased, and it is

less harmful to the environment.”The second result: constant

water checks by the Public Health Office over a period of four years – no easy matter for an employee of the municipality – did not result in any complaints regarding the germ count, although the amount of chlorine added was below the le-gally prescribed limit.

The third result: everybody is happy now, and there’s real peace in Trauchgau.

Sauna-owner Rudi Krebs: formerly an out-and-out sceptic, is now convinced about the merits of the Grander Technology.

Revitalising device in the public pool: despite less chlorine, there are no complaints about germs.

Pool attendant Engelbert Kienle: “I get by with less chlorine, and all pool-us-

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Water against fungus at-tack

If you happen to eat trout in a stylish Austrian restaurant or on a plane, the raw material has likely come from Styria, from fish-farmer Franz Kulmer. Some forty years ago, Mr Kulmer Senior founded a trout breeding farm. Today, 80,000 kg of fish annually leave the ponds and are delivered to such renowned customers as Sacher Hotel, Hilton Hotel, the stylish Viennese restau-rant Do&Co and to 52 interna-tional airline companies.

Despite the abundant clear springwater in this region, the Kulmers’ young fish were again and again infested with fungus.

Franz Kulmer:“Water is our ba-sic element. This is why we are quite open-minded towards new technol-ogies in this field. In January 1998, we first installed a well-revitaliser in one section of the inflow for small fish. The water runs almost through the whole fish-breeding area. Dur-ing spawning time, in January, the fish undergo an immense hormo-nal change, which especially makes river trout and salmon susceptible to fungal attack.”

At that time some 30 percent of the stock had already been infested with the disease. Franz Kulmer says, “The fungus infestation disappeared in no time – without adding phar-maceutical products, which cannot actually stop the infestation.”

Another consequence of the revitalisation in the Kulmer ponds is that the concrete floors, formerly always covered by mud and algae, are now clean and clear – they ap-pear to have been sandblasted.

Fresh power for bonsais

The vast estates of the German multimillionaire Dr. Karl Friedrich Flick are also situated in Styria.

Covering an area of 13,000 ha. the Flick Forest and Estate Management is the largest private forest enterprise in Austria. For many years the forest manager DI Maternus Lackner fought against pipe corrosion in the estate-owned buildings. “In some of our older houses we had massive problems caused by rust in the old iron pipes, and we had tried everything to get it under control. The use of chemicals brought lit-tle result. As a trial we installed a water revitaliser in one of these houses. Three or four weeks later we realized there were no more red markings in the toilets. After two

months the rust problem had disap-peared. In another wooden house we had the same problem, but to a larg-er extent. There were thick crusts of iron deposits. It took four to five months, but then the rust was gone. If we turn on the water tap today, the water comes out clear and clean, not red-coloured as before.”

For Maternus Lackner things have come full circle with his hobby. “I had always troubles propagating bonsai trees. For a year now, they have been thriving as never be-fore.”

Fish-breeder Franz Kulmer: fungus infestation

was stopped in no time – without pharmaceuti-

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Forest manager DI Maternus Lackner: he won the struggle against pipe corrosion.

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A baker who knows what’s good

This is the story of a baker who was fed up with running an average company and decided to move to one of the lovely valleys of Europe – the Johnsbachtal in the Austrian “Gesäuse”. Here Josef Bochsbichler runs a small traditional bakery. It is a must for visitors. He bakes his coarse brown bread in a stone oven, fired exclusively by beechwood.

Josef Bochsbichler is delighted:“Water revitalisation brings out the original taste of the grain. Not only with the bread, but with the pas-tries, which are produced according to traditional recipes.”

The grateful “lion”

Franz Josef Hartlauer, known in Austria as the “Fotolöwe”(photo lion), has worked his way up – from a small-scale photographer whiz-zing from wedding to wedding, to the owner of a large chain of photo – and glasses – outlets. It is a hard business; the competition never sleeps. Working eighteen hours a day is a matter of course for this successful self-made man.

“In our family my wife is in charge of all matters concerning health and well-being,” says Franz Josef Hartlauer. “Nevertheless, when she in secret had the water revitalisation installed, I realized that something had changed. Since then water has regained a special value in our lives. We draw strength and energy from it, and we are long convinced that there are things between heaven and earth we simply gratefully accept, when we find them.”

Fired only by beechwood: Josef Bochsbichler

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“Photo-lion” Franz Josef Hartlauer: “Water has

assumed a special place in our lives.”

Josef Bochsbichler: “Water revitalisation

brings out the original taste of the grain.”

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“It is extremely difficult to be the best”

The Austrian retail food chain MERKUR is a specialist baker and confectioner.

MERKUR, whose motto is: “It is extremely difficult to be the best,” is a subsidary of the giant food retailer REWE.

The bakery departments of MERKUR produce their own fine products, and if small bakers and confectioners can do it, thought the company, so can the big ones. MERKUR conceived the idea of creating their own recipes, whose natural quality and ingredients parallel the Grander philosophy. In March 1999, after several months of

tests and trials, the first “Grander” bread and rolls were available to the public. Since many of the MERKUR managers are long-time users of the Grander Technology, care is taken to ensure that only Grander revital-ised water is used in the production of “Grander” bread.

Following personal discussions with MERKUR directors, Johann Grander became convinced that the production of “Grander” bread is not an advertising gimmick but rather a responsible effort to apply the principles of water revitalisation to everyday life. Only then did he agree to allow the use of his name.

Those interested can try the taste and quality of Grander bread and decide for themselves whether they like it or not.

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Actual knowledge begins where sup-posed knowledge ends. Thus there are only a few people who – at the end of a lengthy path of research and study – come to the conclusion that one has to know a lot in order to realise how little one really knows.

The Limits of Knowledge Peter Ortner

O ur life on Earth is deter-mined by our attitude and conviction to be able

to prove all and everything. By this we restrict ourselves to accepting only that which is given as true and what is acknowledged at the present level of knowledge. Everything else is denied until being researched and proven in detail. And as the past has shown, this can take decades, even centuries.So inevitably the question poses itself: what do we really know? Once we regard our planet in relation to the entire universe, there ought to arise doubts as to whether we are re-ally entitled to lay claim to the all-conquering power of knowledge.

Natural laws:Why do they exist?

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Especially if we only acknowledge that which we have discovered and researched, on Earth up to this moment in time. Isn’t this attitude inconsistent with what we are striv-ing for, namely progress? To already know everything would imply that progress was no longer possible nor even necessary.“To err is human” and “you learn from your mistakes” are frequently used adages indicating that progress in the development of one’s person-ality is only possible if humankind recognises its mistakes and works on them.Consequently scientific-technical progress in the sense of permanent improvement cannot mean to ig-nore or reject everything that does not follow the official ideas – which by the way are frequently erroneous anyway – but to acknowledge that there must be many phenomena which do not yet correspond to our “knowledge”. In various spheres, for instance in medicine, we have often experienced that what was regarded as a “scientific fact” for decades had to be changed be-cause “recent findings” had given rise to completely new theories. The more surprising it seems that despite this experience we persevere in the opinion that only that which is proven holds ground. What does “knowledge” actually mean? Knowledge means to be conscious of an irrefutable law, of an incon-testable truth. But where – perhaps with the exception of sectors like mathematics – has there ever been such irrefutable and incontestable security? Certainly we human be-ings have come across laws and regularities leading to one result or another, under various circum-stances.Still we don’t really know why these

are regularities and what is their origin. For most phenomena so far discovered by man, knowledge re-fers only to the effect and not to the cause. On researching the causes we come to a limitation, and here is where our knowledge ends. In this case, we often draw the conclusion: “This is a law of nature.” But what is a law of nature and where does it come from? Basically the question poses itself why knowledge has not been there already, from the very beginning of mankind. Could it not be that people ought to find and discover all kinds of things in order to take notice of the existence of nat-ural laws and in this way to reflect on their deeper self. Why do they exist? Who creates the laws of nature?Driven by mainly material aspects,

man has always been striving to penetrate into the secrets of nature. If he had not only concentrated on inquiring into the laws but also on searching for the lawgiver – who knows, perhaps we would have been spared many of today’s troubles. There’s one thing we should not forget: “Man is not the inventor of the things he has discovered or estab-lished by means of calculations.” Everything lay in front of us, in all possible forms and lives. Much of it was only “newly re-discovered” to make use of it for the benefit of mankind. Actual knowledge be-gins where supposed knowledge ends. And thus there are only a few people who – at the end of lengthy research and study – come to the conclusion that one has to know a lot in order to understand how little one actually knows, and that not “knowing” but “sensing” is the real concern of mankind. And “sensing” also means having respect for creation, whereas eagerness for knowledge is often connected with conceit. Infinitely much can be sensed, but very little can probably be comprehended. We who are oc-cupied with the introduction of the Grander Technology are faced day by day with the significance of the difference between “sensing” and “knowing”. For many people it is exactly the idea that there are things between heaven and earth that hu-man intelligence does not compre-hend, and this makes the Grander Technology so fascinating.Others are unnerved by the lack of scientific proof of certain phenom-ena and are only able to sense what can be explained by the intellect.

Natural landscape: searching for the lawgiver might have spared us many of today’s problems.

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There are certainly diviners quite capable of find-ing water springs with or without the help of a wide variety of devices. What always causes a

lot of confusion is the so-called right-handed and left-handed rotation of water (“dextrorotatory” and “levorotatory” water). Mainly in these cases “right” is defined as “positive” in the sense of “good” and “left” by “negative” in the sense of “bad”.Again and again there are people who try to determine the compositon and energy content of water with the help of a pendulum. Maybe this is one of the reasons for the misleading opinion that dextrorotataory water has positive and levorotatory water negative properties. In fact, it is not the water itself that rotates to the right or the left, but the pendulum. Apart from that, the rotation of the pendulum strongly depends on the per-sonal attitude and willpower of the person holding the pendulum. Every minute reaction of his or her body can be transferred to the pendulum, which will cause varying results.The microstructural energy in the water is often measured in “Bovis-units”, which we regard to be an arbitrarily chosen and non-standardized measuring unit. The respective measuring results turn out to be accord-ingly unrelated, as they are, after all, arbitrary.The question regarding dextro- or levorotation of water becomes even more difficult if we refer to its flowing-off-rotation in a sink, which means the flowing direction to the left- or to the right-hand side. The causes for this phenomenon may be explained by the “Coriolis-force” (i.e. the deviation caused by the rotation of the Earth – dextrorotatory in the Northern Hemisphere, levorotatory in the Southern Hemisphere), the weather (low-pressure or high-pressure cyclone) and also by the influence of the moon.

As far as the lunar influence is concerned, Johann Grander has always pointed out that, in principle, the rotatory movements in the water strongly depend on the lunar cycles. A phase of waxing moon may intensify the dextrorotation, a phase of waning moon the levo-rotation, and annual and daily cycles are of additional influence. Thus we cannot say beforehand: dextrorota-tory is good and levorotatory is bad. Nature needs both polarities in a well-balanced relation.In order to clarify the confusion it must be said that there is no physical indication that we can judge the con-dition of water from its rotary motion, whether right-hand or left-hand. And even less can we use it to prove the efficiency of the Grander water revitalisation. Basi-cally, everybody can determine and prove microbiolog-ically the efficiency of the Grander Technology. And with precise measuring methods, it may be possible, in the future, to prove its physical qualities in the high-frequency vibration range.

Left- or right-hand rotation? Nature needs both polarities in a balanced relationship.

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Johann Grander had researched and experimented for decades before he brought his water revitali-sation to the public. The Grander Technology is

transmitted to clients exclusively by well-trained advi-sors. Any presentation at fairs and advertising are strictly rejected. This would be absolutely inconsistent with Johann Grander’s fundamental idea. On the other hand, the handling of the Grander Tech-nology requires a lot of sensitiveness. The fundamental philosophy is that – if possible – every user shall have a contact person who is always at his disposal for per-sonal support and exchange of experience. All of them benefit from the experience gathered during the prac-tical application. Decades of reconstruction work lie behind the Grander Technology.In the meantime, the successful spread of the Grander Technology, which is almost exclusively based on rec-omendations by satisfied customers, has called numer-ous imitators to the scene. Those have placed products on the market that promise to work in the “same” or “a similar way” as the Grander devices. Some competitors even praise their own products as “advancement” or “improvement” of the Grander Technology.Most of these “competitors” seem to lack the belief or the conviction that it is really possible to revitalise water, and consequently they are lacking in dealing with the significance of their statements. For how else can it be that a discovery, which nobody except Johann Grander himself knows the principles of, is copied or even further developed.

As it is our aim to work out clearly the real differ-ence between the Grander Technology and the sales promises of these imitators, we decided to publish the most important research results regarding the Grander Technology in the form of an extensive scientific bro-chure dealing with the phenomenon and all the differ-ent effects of the water revitalisation, based on various scientific examinations. We know that this publication is a challenge for all those who pretend to do the same as Grander to also furnish proof of their statements.The best protection against imitations is to ensure that the product in question bears the patented trademark “Original Grander-Technologie”. In case of doubt, simply call one of the sales offices indicated on page 50 of this journal.One thing must not be withheld: the water revitalisa-tion has not only friends. Too many economic inter-ests are touched by the Grander Technology, after all. It seems to have come into fashion nowadays to suspect successful people and enterprises of being con-nected with dubious economic and religious groups and to spread rumours with the malice aforethought to denounce and injure. Apart from the fact that they are untrue, these arbitrarily spread defamations are unfor-tunately very hard to trace because everyone has just heard it from someone else.Nevertheless, we will not be irritated by this. For every-body who knows Johann Grander or the leading persons of the distribution companies personally knows that these denunciations are totally absurd and particularly incompatible with the Grander Technology.

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It‘s a rare and therefore especially beautiful moment when Johann Grander takes time for a few hours to get together with some of his friends for a talk. Very soon the discussion turns to nature, water and creation.

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Hans, it’s been over three years now that we were having the last exclusive

talk with you. So it seems to be only logical to ask what has, from your point of view, changed since then?

As far as the water revitalisation is concerned, I can basically say that its efficiency has remained the same in the fifteen years I have been occupied with it. This has also been confirmed by monitoring of

devices after years in service. What has changed enormously is our own knowledge regarding the applica-tion and operation of our technol-ogy. And I am particularly pleased that we have succeeded in reaching so many people with the water revitalisation.

It has always been your greatest wish to again give people “food for thought.”

The last years have proven that the people’s awareness and sensibil-ity has very much changed for the good. And, I really wish this process to continue. We should not let our-selves be influenced too much from outside, because this prevents us from forming our own independ-ent opinion and from thinking of the essential things in life. Everyone ought again to assume responsibil-ity for oneself, as a single person. If we changed our value system more and, above all, the way we treat our fellow creatures and our environ-ment, this would set much afoot in the world.

That means that the condition of nature is closely connected to the awareness of the people?

The same as a healthy nature needs a variety of species, this va-riety is also necessary for a healthy mental attitude. It’s the variety that causes an equilibrium. By switch-ing over to monocultures we have disturbed this equilibrium. Many species of animals and plants are already extinct. In flora and fauna

The closest friends of the Grander family -Peter Ortner, Markus Salvenmoser and Georg Huber - spoke with Johann Grander in the autumn of 1998. The discussion was recorded by Peter Ortner.

the habitats are more and more restricted. Monocultural plants are hybrid, i.e. they are not able to in-dependently reproduce themselves. They require insecticides to survive, and huge amounts of artificial ferti-lisers for ever decreasing yields. The motivation is always the same: quick profit. Unfortunately, mental food is also more and more made up of monocultures. By the standardisa-tion and excess of information it is increasingly rendered difficult for people to assimilate and make use of it. This can be compared with bodily nutrition – many overfed people simultaneously suffering deficiency symptoms.

Is the natural growth process too slow for society’s “progress-oriented mentality”?

In nature everything has a slow growth process. Nobody who plants a seedling today can expect a big tree with much fruit tomor-row. Nature also teaches us that there must be a balance between give and take.

“It often hurts me to see how humanity is presented with a false view of nature, one that makes people ignorant and blind.”

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Is it not true that there was greater knowledge in former times? And that much knowledge concern-ing the connections in nature has been lost?

Yes, I’m sorry to say that nowa-days most people have completely lost the knowledge of what is go-

ing on in nature and of what really matters in life. It sometimes hurts me to see how people are given a completely false view. They become ignorant of, and blind towards, na-ture. I wish people would begin by themselves to reflect more on the processes in nature and by this learn to respect it. This knowledge of nature can only come from the inside.

Why is such a great deal of this “old knowledge” lost today?

In our time of continuous economic growth and technical progress, we are led to believe that scientific research offers solutions for everything, and that it is there-fore unnecessary to observe the laws of nature.

Is this lack of knowledge one of the reasons for the fact that many responsible people today are only partially aware of the disastrous effects that their actions may bring about?

You see, we live in a rather material world. It’s only money that counts; that is all people are interested in. So there is no time to be concerned with nature. Being Isn’t it somehow surprising

that we find it so hard to cope with things that are demonstrated to us by nature?

In nature, everything from the smallest to the biggest has its own special and important function. But: we don’t see the small things and we don’t understand the big ones.

“If you observe nature intensely and attentatively, you will see the perfection in it, and you will ask yourself: who created this perfection?”

Watercourses branch out in a way similar to

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When freshwater flows into saltwater, huge amounts of energy are set free.

aware of the perfect interaction and interdependance of the four ele-ments earth, water, air and fire, as the fundamentals of the entire ma-terial creation, is the pre-condition for recognising how harmful it can be to interfere in nature, and how much these interventions disturb the natural balance and order.

Most scientists say that the Earth came into being through a big bang. We know that you hold an opposing opinion?

As I see it, this is one of the main reasons for today’s worsening natu-ral environment. Somebody who attributes the origin of the earth to a chance “boom”, will hardly be able to treat nature with due re-spect and regard. If you, however, observe nature intensely and atten-tively, you will see the perfection in it and will ask yourself, “Who cre-ated this perfection?” I have always been fascinated by this thought; it has brought me closer and closer to God. Because it was Him, who created nature for us all. And only if you recognise the earth itself as a “living entity” will you also under-

stand its vulnerability.You see the network of rivers

and streams like a tree, do you not?

Yes, if you look more closely at all the water courses on a map, you will immediately see the similarity to the image of a tree. The small mountain brooks form the twigs; the streams correspond to the larg-er branches and the rivers to the trunks, whose roots are absorbed in the sea. There is obviously a close connection between the mountain springs and the sea. Therefore it is necessary that our rivers are alive. Unfortunately, today we are facing the problem that, by human inter-vention, most of the energetic lines of our waters – and by this their information flow – have been disturbed and partly interrupted.

How does this disturbance influence today’s weather

Basically, one has to know that – by nature – freshwater is positively and saltwater negatively charged. When freshwater flows into salt-water, huge energies are set free.

These energies are responsible for the weather. If these energy lines are disturbed, i.e. when the river no longer has the information, the result may be a disorder in the weather conditions, e.g. a change in the distribution of precipitation or temperature. For our weather is essentially influenced by energetic processes, and not only by me-chanical and chemical reactions, as is the meteorologist’s point of view. Countless dis

“Our weather is influenced by energetic processes, and not by mechanical and chemical reactions, as the meteorolgist is wont to see it.”

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turbances of the microclimate disturb the bigger world climate. In the future we should pay much more attention to this.

As we know, in the course of your nature studies, it was the weather events that impressed you and gave you food for thought. Could you expand on this?

Yes, just in connection with the weather, I have asked myself so many questions to which I haven’t found the answers. What keeps all those tons of water in the air? Why is there sometimes a downpour and later only a drizzle? How is the wa-ter transported to pour down some-where else? Why is there no rain in

the desert? How can hailstones sud-denly appear on an extremely hot day? How are these huge contrasts in temperature to be explained?

The entire universe is deter-mined by vibrations (information). As an example, every rock and min-eral on Earth is somehow connected with a planet. Therefore I consider the reason for why it rains when and where, or if it rains at all, to be found in the different composition of the minerals in the soil struc-ture, which (according to natural magnetism) are in resonance with the clouds. Perhaps, this can be compared to a radio receiver, which on different frequencies transmits

different programmes from differ-ent broadcasting stations. I always call white clouds “Ordnungshüter” (protectors of “order”), because when they impact on dark clouds, enormous amounts of energy are set free.

In your opinion, what is the influence of the moon with its phases?

Basically, nature is controlled by the entire cosmos. The moon exer-cises a great influence on the Earth. Nature as a whole is based on the principle of plus and minus. This is true for the seasons (beginning of winter until beginning of summer corresponds to plus, beginning of summer until beginning of winter to minus), the phases of the moon ( waxing moon is plus, waning moon is minus) and also the daily cycle (from midnight to noon is plus, from noon to midnight is minus). These three cycles work to-gether and bring about the contin-uous changes in nature.

In your opinion, how do peo-ple, animals and plants react to these cosmic influences?

For instance, plants blossom in spring and animals hibernate in winter. Plants which grow above the earth should be planted at wax-ing moon, whereas plants growing under the earth should be planted at waning moon.

Unfortunately, the influence of the moon is still neglected or even rejected by parts of the scien-

Peter Ortner is the manager of the official distributor for Grander Technology, U.V.O.

“Our Mother Earth is a living, breathing being. The rising and falling tides are not the result of lunar

influence, but rather of the Earth’s respiration.”

There is a close connec-tion between the mountain

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tific community, and some people’s sensitivity to the moon is often dis-missed as pure imagination.

How does water react to the lunar influence?

The behaviour of water under the various influences of the moon can clearly be observed. At waxing moon, water leaves the alluvium ly-ing in the riverbed, which can then fill with deposits. Such deposits make the river rise; thus the dan-ger of flooding after heavy thunderstorms is greater d u r -ing a w a x i n g moon. At waning moon, the water digs itself deeper into the riverbed, and by this the riverbed changes its profile. If you pay attention at the time of increased water flow, you may actually hear the river digging.

According to conventional opin-ion, high and low tide are attribut-ed to the influence of the moon. You have a different point of view?

We should bear in mind that our Mother Earth herself is a living being. And this is why high and low tides are not a consequence of the lunar influence, but the conse-quence of the Earth’s respiration.

Today we hear much about the ozone hole and the greenhouse effect. What do you consider to be the reasons for these effects?

The air consists of different atmospheric layers, which become thinner at higher altitudes. The highest air layers, the ozone layers, have the task to of filtering vital energies, transforming them and releasing surplus energies to the cosmos again. If, however, the air

is in a damaged condition, surplus energies cannot be released, and we would live in a greenhouse.

This damaged condition of the air is a result of today’s air pollution, i.e. more pollutants are produced than nature can bear. In this connection we must draw a distinction between the natural carbon dioxide, which is produced and transformed by living beings, and the toxic carbon dioxide in exhaust gases; and between the natural ozone (mountain air) and toxic ozone ( formed by the transformation of pollutants). Considering the fact that 1 litre of fuel pollutes 5000 litres of air and that exhaust gases contain over 200 different toxic particles, of which only a few are actually monitored, we may have the explanation of why we have to face so many severe problems.

In addition to all that, the most important and largest CO2-trans-formers, the trees, are cut down – all over the world.

“Every person vibrates with the cosmos, each in tune with his or her own planet, which provides power for transformation.”

We always hear that water animation sets water vibrating. What do you understand by vi-

brations?Vibrations are

information. We dis-t inguish

between pos-itive information,

this is the life-affirming vibrations, and negative information, this is the life-impeding vibrations. Every human and living being is – like every mineral – in connec-tion, i.e. in vibration, with the cosmos, each with his own planet, from which he constantly attracts power, transforms it and releases the surplus.

Why is water such an impor-tant storage medium?

Two thirds of the human be-ing, up to 90% of animals and plants, and more than 70% of the Earth consists of water. This alone makes obvious, how important water is and how closely connect-ed all life on earth is with water. In every seed and cell the genetic information is present exactly as

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it is in the water itself. A seed grain can be stored in a granary without anything happening. As soon as it comes into contact with water, it will germinate and begin to grow. It is the information contained in the water that activates the original information in the seed grain.

But if the water itself is damaged, what kind of information do we receive?

Being the most important stor-age medium, water absorbs all influences from the environment, positive and negative information alike. It passes these on to living beings. If, however, water is dam-aged, it will supply harmful rather than vital information. And as a consequence all living beings, in particular we human beings, can no longer cope with many of these influences. If we poison our water, we actually poison ourselves.

How can this development be affected by “water revitalisation”?

On the one hand, by means of the “water revitalisation”, damaged water is restored the positive infor-mation it needs to regenerate, i.e. it is invigorated by positive influences. On the other hand, the “water revi-talisation” takes over some kind of protective function against various negative influences to which we are exposed in so many spheres of our daily life. These negative influences do not only reach us through the water, but also through our food and through the air.

You often say that subterranean and ground water ought to have an adequate maturity. What do you mean by this?

Water has adequate maturity only when it comes to the surface by itself. If water is “forced open”, as it is often done (by necessity) today, because in some countries there are no more sources left, this water will probably lack adequate maturity. In such cases, the water revitalisation would be of particular significance.

Every type of vegetation benefits from the effects of free, natural water.

In this connection the mountains, mostly considered dead matter, assume an important function as well?

For me, stones, rocks and con-sequently the entire mountains are living. They are important sources of energy, bear the largest mineral resources inside, and moreover form the largest underground water reservoir. Inside the mountain the water is filtered and supplied with energies and minerals until it finally emerges as mature spring water.

And this vital process of matur-ing can also be applied to mineral resources, in particular oil. Is that the case?

Yes, because anything that does not come to the surface by itself, is not yet mature and should be left in the earth. This is why I regard the exploitation of fossile mineral re-sources – just as the useless atomic underground tests – as the greatest pain we can inflict upon the earth.

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Water is often called “the blood of the Earth”.

For the Earth, water has a simi-lar function as for mankind. But I would call oil the actual “blood of the Earth”. Thus the exploitation of the mineral-oil resources is very damaging.

Water is an important source of energy, too. Where does it take its energies from?

Above all, water supplies itself with energy from stones and miner-als, which are in resonance with the planets. In nature, every source has different energies and a different taste, because its contents vary with the minerals contained and thus the vibrations information is different.

In nature, everything has its

own order and its natural cycle. What humankind, for example, might consider to be a waste prod-uct could be a valuable food source for nature or another living being.

What are the reasons responsible for water’s loss of energy today?

In nature, water seeks its energy resources by itself, and for this it needs its liberty. Natural water flows over and under the earth, it forms its own loops and bends, and the entire vegetation benefits from this. Now, we deprive water of this liberty by forcing it into canals, by regulating riverbeds, by pressing it through pressure pipes, adding harmful substances, and exposing it to environmental pollution.

How would you briefly describe the significance and the function of the “water revitalisation”?

In our time, water has been damaged by various environmental influences; the “water revitalisa-tion” restores the information water needs to reconstruct all the energy it has lost, i. e. its stamina and self-cleaning power.

What is the “vital” part of the “water revitalisation”?

Basically, we have had 15 years experience, and during this period of time the water revitalisation has never fallen off in efficacy. For this reason, its function can well be considered permanent. Also the en-ergy used in water revitalisation is a natural one, and as we always say, “water revitalisation” transmits vi-brations, i.e. information, and not energy itself.

By this transmission of informa-tion, the water itself – and through it all life forms – are given the op-portunity to reconstruct their self-cleaning power and stamina, and to restore an inner order. Since it is a fact that information does not involve expenditure of energy, the efficacy will not fall off as long as there is a flow of information.

“Water revitalisation gives back to damaged water its information, which it needs to rebuild its self-cleaning power and stamina.”

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If water has the tendency to lack energy, what are the effects we get from such water?

Whenever someone comes in contact with low-energy water, by having a bath or shower, by swim-ming etc., they will feel an energy drop. This creates a sensation of fa-tigue, whereas water rich in energy provides energy.

It is a special concern of yours that “water revitalisation” will improve the condition of nature itself?

If we see the Earth as a living be-ing, we will understand why it more and more rejects the many painful human interventions and the careless way in which it is treated by people.

The consequences are ex-traordinary natural disasters such as earthquakes, flood-ing, storms, avalanches, etc. These occur verywhere on this planet, bringing people face-to-face with the ultimate realisation that they are absolutely helpless against the powers of nature. I regard this course of events, from the spiritual point of view, as simply a necessary cleansing process. This is the only way to

See the power streaming from water rich in energy!

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Every water is different, because in creation, everything is unique.

make people come down from their high horse and regain their respect for creation and for its natural laws, and to allow nature to develop itself according to these natural laws.

It is true that we have already put our nature in such a bad state that we will hardly succeed in stop-ping this self-cleansing process. We should, however, do all we can to mitigate it. And therefore it is of great importance to me that nature itself benefit from the water revitalisation.

Many people feel the effect of revitalised water immediately; oth-ers hardly notice the difference. Do we have to “believe” in the “water revitalisation”?

The effect of the animation, i.e. the transmission of information, is always there. But – just as it is with all matters in life – there are various factors determining which effects the water revitalisation has on dif-ferent people, i.e. their personality and personal attitude. Thus every person can generally have a positive, negative or neutral attitude. Should he disapprove he will hardly admit an effect from the beginning. On the other hand if he is over enthusi-astic, he could develop expectations too high to be fulfilled.

Can it be that people feel the intensity of the water revitalisation’s effect unequally?

In fact, this impression can occasionally appear and there are several reasons for this. As we have previously discussed, water tends to

compensate the energy it lacks as fast as possible. Of course this phase is to be felt most strongly immediate-ly after the water revitalisation has been installed. As soon as the water has reached the necessary energy level, this could give the impression that the intensity had faded. The natural yearly, monthly and daily cycles can be of some influence as well. Just as a tree loses its leaves in fall and sprouts again in spring, water also reacts to the changing natural cycles. On top of that a per-sonal habitual effect may also play a role. This means that in the course of time people get used to the new energy level and don’t realise the difference any more.

Are there any waters that don’t need a revitalisation? And are there people who don’t need a revitalisa-tion device?

In nature, everything is based on the exchange of information. As far as water is concerned, we know that every spring and with it every water is different, because within creation everything is unique. Just as there are no two identical people, there are no two identical waters.Therefore an exchange of information will have some effect on every water, no matter what quality it may be. If the informa-tion is positive, the effect, too, will be positive. Of course the same is true for people.

What is the difference between revitalised tap-water and Grander water?

As a result of the many various harmful influences, water today has lost its original purity. Through wa-ter animation it is restored all the original information it needs to reconstruct its self-cleaning power and to get rid of the non-partici-pating substances. This is an intense

“Every water is different from every other.

Just as there are no two identical people,

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process, which, of course, takes its time. Nevertheless, in most cases, a certain change in taste and partly also in structure will be noticed immediately .

Every further change to the pos-itive depends on the initial quality of the water and on the degree of damage. It is impossible to convert damaged water into pure spring wa-ter from one minute to the next.

The most important thing is to donate life to the water, so that it can again build up its own ener-getic power and consequently, it is enabled to fulfil its essential protec-tive function.

The Grander water is a spring-water of high, bacteriological quality. As such, it fulfils all pre-conditions for a pure, high-grade drinking water already from the start.

Sceptical people sometimes ask for a kind of security that by the water revitalisation only positive energies are converted.

I can understand that. Such questions may emerge, because today there’s a general tendency of being cautious. For me, personally, this question does not arise because I know where the energies come from. It was not me who made this discovery; I received it from God. I have observed nature for a long time, and I exclusively work with natural energy. And nature knows only positive processes.

You have a special attitude towards so-called “coincidences”? As I see it, not a single event in our lives is based on coincidence. This is why I believe that being aware of the fact that everything God allows to happen has its sense and importance and could help many people to cope with their daily problems, even if they don’t im-mediately see the sense.

So the discovery of the water revitalisation is not a coincidence either?

No. As I have already men-tioned, I was virtually guided towards the water. So, of course, it was not a coincidence. I am very grateful that I was allowed to succeed in discovering the water revitalisation. And it isn’t a coincidence either that we were al-lowed to acquire this mine, more or less opposite our house, in which we found a water of extraordinary quality, which was the basis for the whole discovery.

Hans, one of the things that I think your friends admire so much about you is that, despite your suc-cess, you have remained so modest and so restrained.

„Everything God allows to happen has its sense

and importance, and can help people cope with their daily problems.“

Johann Grander: “I was led to the

water, and I’m grateful for that.”

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I am simply grateful that I was allowed to acquire this knowledge for the benefit of the entire crea-tion. Above all, however, I consider it to be a grace that I was allowed to come to this state of humility, which I want by all means to preserve. Because, only by this humility will the divine guidance and the divine protection be maintained. I’d like to advise everyone to reflect and ask themselves the questions: “Where did I come from? Why am I here? Where will I one day go? Everyone who tries to find the way to humil-ity – and this is certainly not an easy path – will recognise that there are many aids accompanying them.

So you let yourself be guided?I, for myself, have recognised

how important it is to let oneself be guided instead of always trying to succeed with one’s obstinacy. All of us human beings should listen more to the positive information inside ourselves. The more we learn to differenciate these pieces of information and recognise the right

ones, the easier we will find it to do the right thing. Thoughts and feelings in the sense of charity are always the right ones.

What do you understand by humility?

It is not easy to express that in a few words. Perhaps the best way to explain humility is by an ex-ample: there are people who look down on others because of their financial and social position or be-cause of special talents. They have, however, been given these gifts by God. And others, in their turn, of-ten meet those whom they suppose to be superior due to their better position, with a false subservience. Both forms of behaviour handicap true human relations. Humility means seeing the divine soul in every human being, regardless of his so-cial position, and dealing with him in this sense, i.e. keeping company with one another on an equal level.

Why does it seem so important to you that the secret of the water revitalisation never be divulged to anyone?

It is not a secret at all, but rath-er a natural law. The fact that to so many people it seems to be a secret is only an indication of how far science has already digressed from nature.

Respecting nature andrecognising the perfection that it holds.

“As I see it, not a single event in our lives is based on coincidence.”

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Does the Grander Technology preserve drinking water

(indefinitely long)? Without the addition of chemicals?

Visionary outlooks on possibilities that might become

necessary for survival one day.

A research report by Dipl.Ing. Dr. Horst Felsch

Water for Eternity?

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T he subtitle of this contribution poses simulta-neously two questions: 1) Does drinking water have a problem in keeping its quality? And 2)

Why is the expression “indefinitely long” put in quota-tion marks?

To the first question: Drinking water is our most important, but at the

same time, most perishable food. For good reason we always want to drink fresh water. If water is left to rest in a glass, it will taste stale and flat in no time.

Why does water have this problem in retaining its quality?

All good groundwater passes through many layers of earth before it surfaces as a spring. By this it is filtered and purified again and again. But as a consequence of its contact with the earth layers, every drinking water contains microorganisms. This is an indicator of natu-ralness. If there are no microorganisms detectable, the water has been manipulated in some way or another.

How many and, above all, which kinds of micro-organisms a drinking water is allowed to contain to be fit for consumption is, in Austria, regulated by the “Lebensmittelbuch”, which is divided into several codex chapters. Codex chapter B 17 prescribes that drinking water must not contain any pathogenic germs.

There is, however, a limit to the number of non-pathogenic germs as well. The corresponding value says: drinking water must not contain more than 100 colony-forming units (CFU) per millilitre. If this limit is exceeded, the water is classified as only “fit for limited consumption”.

However, this maximum guiding value of 100 CFU/ml is being debated, as in comparison one ml of fresh milk contains more than 200,000 CFU. And whoever examines freshly pressed orange juice under a microscope will determine that it contains over 100,000 germs per ml as well.

Austria – endowed with the finestdrinking water

Most of the groundwater in Austria is of such good quality that there are fewer than 10 CFU in 1 ml. The water out of the Stephanie spring used for the production of the Original Grander Water contains only 1-2 germs per ml. It passes out of a crevice spring inside the Heiliggeist-Stollen at a temperature of 6.1° C.

Groundwaters usually have temperatures below

10° C. Due to these low temperatures the microorgan-isms contained are inactive and hardly reproduce them-selves. But if we leave drinking water untouched and it reaches room temperature, this will lead to increased microbial activity. According to the food supply avail-able it may happen then that the limit of 100 CFU/ml is exceeded.

A similar effect will occur if we try to fill the purest drinking water into bottles to put it on the market or store it for some time. In this case there are a number of pollution factors. At first the water must be transported through piping systems to the filling place. There it is usually stored, passed through pressurising steps and finally enters the filling machine. It is also impossible to acquire absolutely sterile bottles and stoppers. It is true that these are supplied factory-clean, yet they contain tiny traces of dust that supply food for the harmless microorganisms contained in water.

Horst Felsch is a chemist and works as a self-employed, state-authorised and certified civil engineer for tech-nical chemistry as well as a general sworn forensic expert witness for environmental protection. Since 1993 he has been conducting independent research into the phenomena of Grander Technology in the fields of microbiology, chemistry, physics and application technology.

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During the filling, pollution is almost inevitable

Result: even the purest drinking water is slightly polluted during filling. On top of that, the temperature of the water rises, and there are then completely new conditions for the microorganisms contained. Under these new conditions the microorganisms reproduce and multiply.

Now, there are some tricks to avoid the propaga-tion of microorganisms. One of these is the addition of carbonic acid. Smart advertising slogans place emphasis on the “prickling freshness”, but in fact carbonic acid is a kind of preserving agent, an acid which lowers the pH value when dissolved in water. Microbes do not propagate in an acidic environment, they simply die off. Waters containing carbonic acid are stabilised micro-biologically this way and will keep for about one year. When we drink such waters, our tongue is irritated by the released carbonic acid and we cannot determine the actual taste of the water.

Let’s return to the Grander Technology:Is it really capable of stabilising drinking water

without any agents being added, and if yes, how?I have carefully investigated this process and would

like to refer to the diagram.Let’s take a look at the red curve first. The drink-

ing water that was used had an initial germ rate of 25 CFU/ml. After three days at room temperature the germ rate had increased to 160 CFU/ml, which means that – according to the Austrian codex – it would have been classified as “fit for limited consumption”. Two days later this germ rate had risen to 200 and after 30 days to 210 CFU/ml. Thus the total germ rate of the non-revitalised drinking water increased eight-fold within 30 days.

Now let us look at both the blue and the green curves. Part of the above-mentioned water was used for a parallel test – it was revitalised by immersing a Grander energy rod for some 10 seconds into a volume of 500 ml and removing it afterwards (of course the rod was sterile).

Five days after this revitalisation the number of pin points (small colonies emerging as indicators for a successful revitalisation after Grander) had increased to 650. The non-revitalised mother colonies had dropped to 10. After this maximum both the pin points and the mother colonies decreased. After 20 days the mother colonies had reached a value of zero; after 30 days the pin points were no longer detectable.

What’s the reason for that?Microorganisms are living beings, and as such they

need food to maintain their functions. By a recently dev-eloped method it has become possible to measure the supply of carbon-containing food in a water. This meth-od is called determination of assimilable organic car-bon, abbreviated AOC. (In this connection assimilable means the same as “bio-available for microorganisms” – in other words, decomposable).

According to bibliographic references, propaga-tion in water is possible only if the AOC content is higher than 10µg/l. This is 0.00001 g per liter, a very small amount.

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Revitalisation causes the decomposition of organic food sources

Accordingly, a water with a higher AOC content would necessarily be subject to a “follow-up germ for-mation”. Therefore only waters containing less than 10µg AOC/l would be microbiologically stable. So could we fill these waters in bottles? Unfortunately not. As already stated, water of such purity would increase its AOC content beyond the 10µg limit during the filling process and from impurities in the bottles and caps, and new germs would develop.

We had the AOC content of pure non-revitalised Stephanie springwater examined and compared to that of bottled revitalised Grander water at the Agricultural University (Department of Hydraulic Engineering) in Vienna. The following are the results:

AOC in µg/lStephanie spring; sample no. 1,non-revitalised 125.7Stephanie spring; sample no. 2,non-revitalised 101.1

Original Grander water, sample no. 1 33.0Original Grander water, sample no. 2 39.9Original Grander water, sample no. 3 46.6

Mean value for Stephanie springwater 113.4Mean value of the three tested Grander waters1 month after the filling 39.8

Comment: the AOC content of the Grander water

is 65% lower than that of the fresh Stephanie spring-water. The original expectation was that the bottled Grander water would have a higher AOC value than the Stephanie springwater, because certain impurities caused by the filling machine and the glass bottles are inevita-ble. Such impurities are sources of increased AOC.

The test report from the University in Vienna reads: “It is absolutely inconsistent with all previous experimental results and any bibliographic reference that the two springwater samples had a higher AOC value than the Grander water samples.

It had been expected from a CFU value determina-tion that the results would be the reverse i.e. the spring

Photographic documentation illustrating the microbio-logical stability of water when using the Grander Tech-nology

Microbiological examina-tion of the drinking water before revitalisation. Containing 25 CFU/ml, this water was fit for consump-tion. The limits of codex chapter B 1 being observed.

Five days after the revitali-sation, the number of non-revitalised mother colonies had dropped to 14. As an indicator for the revitalisa-tion, 650 tiny colonies = pin points have developed.

After 20 days there are no more mother colonies, and the number of pin points has noticeably decreased. (100/ml)

After 30 days the purifica-tion process has been com-pleted. There are neither mother colonies nor pin points in the water.

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A few more test results with respect to the stability of revitalised waters:

Since March 1994 I have stored some original bottles of Grander water at room temperature in my laboratory. Microbiological tests made after more than four years have proved that these waters really keep – the test results were far below the limits prescribed by the Austrian Food Codex .

Also in this connection a very special bottle was examined. One day my lab received an original bottle of “Grander-Magnetwasser blau” by mail. The sender was Mr Peter Randorf of Salzburg. The original label revealed the filling date: October 1989. So Mr Randorf had stored the bottle for nine years. The microbiological examination of the water furnished only zero values. An additional proof of the fact that revitalised waters will keep exceptionally long.

This leads me back to the question why I put the expression “indefinitely long” in the title in brackets. “Indefinitely” is a scientific prognosis. The actually determinable period of keeping quality for the original Grander water is at present four years. I don’t know

This investigation has proved that the revitalisation leads to a

reduction/decomposition of organic food source (AOC).

water having a lower CFU value.It should be again noted: the springwater showed smaller rates of germ increase than the Grander water samples.”

However, this investigation has proven that the revitalisation leads to a reduction/decomposition of organic food source (AOC).

Now the question is: who decomposes this car-bon?

Study of the diagram indicates: pin points which are formed by the revitalisation process. These are termed “oligocarbophile saprophytic microflora”, which means that they are able “to make use of” various organic carbon sources.

Nevertheless the question whether it is really these pin points which carry-out the decomposition is still subject to intensive research.

Is revitalised water provided with its own immune system?

On the basis of these processes we may, however, draw a comparison: water is for us a food; for Johann Grander revitalised water is a life form. And this life form seems to be provided with its own immune system.

If by means of impurities, carbon-containing com-pounds are brought into the water, these constitute a kind of infection for the revitalised water. The immune system, characterised by the formation of pin points, reacts immediately and removes the pollution within one month. In the end this restores the water to health again.

Non-revitalised water on the other hand hardly reacts to an additional pollution because its self-cleaning ability is not really active. This would explain why in our case the AOC content in revitalised waters is lower than in the springwater of the Stephanie spring.

Another conclusion is that the drop in the AOC content prevents the propagation of microorganisms. This makes the water permanently stable.

Summarised in one sentence: by means of self-cleaning processes, revitalised water is in a position to decompose carbon-containing compounds, and thus stabilise itself microbiologically.

Further tests have proved that some eight weeks after filling the Grander water, the AOC value was about 12µg per litre. No subsequent germ formation was detected.

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Final summary:The information-transmission technology devel-

oped by Johann Grander renders it possible for the first time to preserve drinking water without the addition of any substance. Its characteristics and functions have been studied and investigated by the company. There are numerous practical applications and examples of the extent and significance of this invention.

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of any other water that can keep for such a long time without the use of any additives.

The true significance of imperishable revitalised waters – a future vision

The quality of the Austrian drinking water sat-isfies the highest demands. With our drinking-water supplies we could provide for some 500 million people. So at first glance the finding that the Grander Technol-ogy helps to preserve drinking water does not seem to be earthshaking.

Therefore some possible effects of this finding shall be listed:

Revitalised water for the first time allows bottling without additives. Thus it can be made available to large numbers of people.

• Worldwide, huge quantities of water are stored in tanks or storage bins for times of need. If these provi-sions are revitalised, they can really be kept stable and superior in taste. Up to the present, drinking-water stocks must be either exchanged from time to time or stabilised by adding chemicals (e.g. silver salts).

• The regaining of rain water so frequently prop-agated today will be possible only with the help of revitalisation. Now water running from rooftops is in most cases very soon microbiologically contaminated by germs, to such an extent that it cannot even be used for watering plants. This has been proved in a co-operative project with a large German market-garden business.

• Sprinkling plants for firefighting must work even in cases of power failure. Therefore the necessary water supply is stored in tanks above the sprinkling plant. Due to the formation of slime, the nozzles are frequently blocked up, and the plant’s function is restricted. This problem can be solved by water revitalisation.

• In ships, trains and campers, there are water provisions which need to be stored. By means of the Grander Technology it is possible to keep drinking wa-ter in good quality without adding chemicals.

Grander water is always marked with an original label indicating the filling date.

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A success story in nine languages“On the Track of Water’s Secret –

from Viktor Schauberger to Johann Grander”,

by Hans Kronberger and Siegbert Lattacher

Does water have secret, still unknown properties? Conventional science says no, naturalists say yes.

Hundreds of personal reports were read; a number of users interviewed; and secret experiments observed.

Scientists are quoted who have taken up the challenge of studying the mystery of wa-ter. Their amazing findings could shake the foundations of traditional natural science.

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“Grander®-Technology in Hotels and Gastronomy”,

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The celebrations for Johann Grander on the occasion of his presentation of The Silver Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences; plus the Sci-

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“The Elixir of Life”,Grander® Technology and its effect on the health and well-being of the human organism.

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