2025 Year End Summary

I want to preface this report that any conclusions I arrive at are purely conjecture and don't even rise to the level of hypothesis. In other words, my results may not be replicable. I encourage anyone interested in the technologies I employed in this project to test them out on their own. None of the devices I've constructed cost more than $100 in raw materials. 

Influence of Energetic Structures

The year 2025 began with severe damage from a winter that saw temperatures dipping to 12° F, which caused extensive damage to the spineless opuntia ficus indica orchard. Most of the pads rotted on the plant, were covered in a black mold and clearly could not survive. I cut most of the pads off down to one (or no) pads connected to the main trunk pad. I believed that most of them would die from their cold winter injuries eventually. As you will see later, I was wrong.

The line of dead and rotten pads was extensive and depressing. About half of the pads were planted in 2023, so they had two years of growth on them. I piled the dead pads into a wheelbarrow and dumped them just outside the electric fence where I expected them to dry up where they would later be chipped into biomass fertilizer. 

In February of 2025, I constructed a 24' x 24' platform frame at the location of water tank pit #2. On that frame, I placed the 10' square pyramid that had been on top of the chicken coop enclosure. It was not heavy and it was straightforward to drag it into place and secure it. Eventually this smaller pyramid was reinforced with framing for a future platform, but remains unfinished to this day.

A second pyramid with a base length of around 7' was constructed on a platform surrounding the well head and pressure tank. This was an experiment to see if the pyramid could be used as a water treatment system in an effort to add an 'effect' to the water to stimulate plant growth. My end goal was to treat well water to have the same beneficial affect as ionized rain water.

I watered the cactus on a rough schedule of one gallon of water every seven days. Although severely damaged, the existing cactus began to grow back. Most of the cactus were able to grow from ten to thirty new pads by the end of the growing season. I kept minimal track of this as all I hoped for was the survival of most of the crop. Only the opuntia arizonica cactus produced any fruit (about four) and I didn't harvest any of them. 

Persistent research throughout the year led to my encounter with the work of Wilhelm Reich. Although known principally as a former student and acolyte of Sigmund Freud, he moved to the United States from Austria to avoid the Nazi regime and ended up conducting research into a form of energy he called 'orgone energy'.

Orgone has two forms, positive orgone and destructive orgone, abbreviated as DOR. He further discovered that this orgone energy could be concentrated inside a specially insulated box, which he called the 'orgone accumulator'. This apparently had the effect of healing various ailments through a daily exposure of thirty minutes inside the device.

Further experimentation revealed that this positive orgone could be directed through metal tubes. When this apparatus was pointed at the sky, it had the apparent effect of inducing rain, especially in arid environments. As a resident of the desert, I especially wanted to test this device, and eventually acquired the materials and knowledge to construct a simplified prototype (mine uses steel tubes).

This prototype was installed next to the wellhead pyramid on 4 August 2025. On 8 August 2025, it rained. This may be a coincidence, but it did happen. Regrettably I did not keep any climactic records, though anecdotally rainfall from that point on did increase. There was also a very noticeable transformation observed in the cactus, though I did not connect the installation of this climate control device with that outcome until recently.

Most notable in the cactus was the following:

• Plump and shiny appearance of the pads
• Resistance to rotting from rainstorms or excessive watering

As any cactus grower will attest, over-watering cactus can cause them to rot in the ground. This had been happening to my cactus on a regular basis since starting this experimental station in 2023. Many of the cactus I planted on the east end of the property succumbed to this fate on a consistent basis, until the installation of the climate-control (cloudbuster) device. From that point on, no cactus died of over-watering. The shiny and plump transformation of the cactus took place over a period of three weeks. 

What I call "The Dead Pile" referenced earlier is shown below. I fully expected this cactus to simply melt into an organic mass to be recycled as compost, but instead it ended up looking like this:

As you can see above, these pads growing from dead, rotting cactus grew plump, shiny pads like those in the main orchard. This 'greening' and stimulated growth appears to be widespread over a large area and affects all plant life in the vicinity. I've noticed that mesquite, native plants and my own cultivated plants survived long after cold weather would have finished them off or caused leaf drop. Tomatoes held on until the end of November, though they should have all died after the first freeze. Sunflowers I planted as a seed bank plant sprouted in October and continue to grow:

As you can see above, sunflowers are thriving when they should be dead from the cold. This was taken inside one of the first swales constructed in 2025.

Water Retention Practices

A swale is a berm or pathway for rainwater to follow that will prevent flooding and improve soil water retention. My swales are semi-circular with a forty foot diameter. The face opens uphill so water will drain into them.The berms are built from dirt excavated by shovel from inside the swale. This breaks up the soil and leaves a very irregular surface conducive to trapping seeds, either windblown or planted there on purpose. The broken up soil traps water as well as seeds and allows them to sprout with a supply of water trapped in the soil. 

The swales are arranged in a fish scale pattern, where the the space between two adjacent swales empties into the opening of the next downhill swale. Swales are also equipped with a drain pipe made of ABS plastic partway up the berm to allow water to drain out if they become too full. These drains are oriented so that water drains directly into the next downstream swale.

The berm of my swales have opuntia ficus indica planted on them for several reasons:

• Berm stability. During monsoon season, intense downpours can erode a swale in minutes. Opuntia ficus indica roots can extend six to eight feet (two meters) beyond the pad. This will stabilize the soil and hold it in place. 
• Dust barrier. Blowing dust is a constant in the desert. The 'cactus dust barrier' will act as a shield and divert some of the dust to the base of the cactus.
• Dust accumulator: Building up the berm and adding a topsoil component to the outside of the structure.

Soil Restoration

Much has been written and portrayed on YouTube relating to the restoration of soil. Here is my conjectural sequence of events leading to the destruction of soil health:

1. A forested area with interspersed brush and grassland is cleared of its trees and native plants through human intervention or natural disasters that force grazing animals to over-consume available resources. 
2. With no vegetation to shade the land or hold the soil, rainstorms wash away existing topsoil due to hot soil's inability to absorb water. The vegetative cover that is now gone used to cool the soil, hold the water and most importantly exude aerosols into the atmosphere that stimulated cloud formation.
3. The soil becomes hard-pan dirt that cannot provide a medium for holding and sprouting wind-blown seeds. It becomes like pavement and water runs over it on its way to the lowest point.
4. This water eventually drains to a low area where accumulated salts and minerals are deposited when the water eventually evaporates. The soil in this depression is usually too alkaline to support most plant life.
5. This process continues until most vegetation disappears and the area becomes a desert. The area is subject to extensive droughts. Less rain falls because the vegetation necessary for a full rain cycle is gone.
6. Desert plants move into the area and dominate since they now have no competition for whatever scant resources remain.

I suspect this has happened over most of the western United States and most other deserts in the world. It is now accepted fact that the Sahara Desert once sported massive rivers, huge lakes and mega-fauna like hippos, crocodiles and human populations. Many have proposed tree planting campaigns which have had limited but significant success. I believe there are seven key factors that can aid soil and climate restoration:

1. Digging swales and/or fox holes to aid water retention and break up hard-pan soil.
2. Build alternating diversion barriers in watercourses to slow down the flow of water in storms. 
3. Build retention dams from local material that can trap water in a pond or small lake long after the rainy season.
4. Use egg shaped boulders in the middle of stream beds (Viktor Schauberger) between diversion barriers to increase the formation of water vortices which induces an electrical current in flowing water (I suspect this electrical charge in water is similar if not identical to the electrical ions picked up by rainfall on the way to the ground).
5. Plant annual and perennial food bearing plants in and around swales and foxholes. 
6. Plant evergreen and deciduous food bearing trees in and around swales and foxholes for water retention, shade production and soil stabilizing roots. 
7. Build and place energetic structures like pyramids, cloud-busters and volcanic rock towers (Philip Callahan) at frequent intervals to increase the transport of telluric currents into the atmosphere to induce rain and increase plant vitality.

My Speculation(s)

The preceding recommendations may sound like something from a science fiction movie rather than something to pursue in real life. However, I believe there is historical precedence for these structures from the ancient past. I suspect that the Egyptian pyramids, along with other pyramids and megalithic stone structures from around the world were monuments built to enhance the vitality of the land and climate in the pursuit of stable agricultural production.

Most of Egypt's pyramids are built along the current or past watercourse of the Nile river. There is growing evidence that these pyramids formed a vast network connected by underground tunnels and other structures that featured flowing water. Recall that flowing water creates an electrical current which has some involvement with the energy emanating from these structures.

I will further conjecture that each pyramid or similar energetic structure on the surface of the Earth forms an energetic network (see The Code by Carl Munck ) that exchanges energy in some form through the Earth's crust to and from each other. One may speculate that the often spoken of "Ley Lines" may be part of this energetic network or perhaps its backbone. 

The reader may now assume that my conjectures have descended into pure fantasy. Perhaps that is true. However, my use of pyramids built out of scrap lumber and a cloud-buster built out of scrap metal seem to have produced amazing results. I built this experimental research station on a very humble Social Security income. Recall what I wrote at the beginning: if it can't be done for less than $100, it's too expensive. 

I encourage anyone, anywhere to test out these techniques for themselves. I believe that a few thousand people around the world can reverse centuries of soil and climate destruction with minimal investment. 

Think about it.