In 1987, the physical chemist Dr. Guido Ebner, while working for the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Ciba-Geigy, made a startling discovery— Seedlings and microorganism, exposed to a certain electrical field, could change their gene expression, their morphology, their phenotype.

The Ciba Group checked the discoveries of its scientists, patented the process under the misleading title "Fish culture method" - and immediately stopped further research.

Lo, from the electrically charged spores of a basic feathered male fern (left) an unknown variety of stag's tongue fern emerged (right).

Below is an ancient fossilized leaf form of a stag's tongue fern that has long been extinct. It shows clear correspondence with the mysterious Ciba fern which emerged from the electric field.

Ebner didn't just apply his techniques to ferns, he also exposed the eggs of fish, corn seedlings and ancient fungus taken from salt cores obtained deep within the earth to his experimental elektrofeld.

Eggs from conventional, farm raised rainbow trout were used for the fish experiments. Here is a specimen of the untreated control group (without the electric field).

The eggs treated with the electric field developed into a massively larger wild form of trout. Features: >Salmon hook< (the lower jaw of the males was formed into a powerful hook, similar to that of wild salmon), a distinctive grain and a striking, reddish gill coloration.

Like all other electrically treated rainbow trout, this specimen behaved savagely, extremely difficult to net and darting away instead of feeding directly from the hand— as is typical for wild forms.

Entire wheat bushes sprouted from single E-field seeds (1997). Also of interest is the presence of poppies, which would not have grown here without the wheat.

Corn from the electric field: Up to six cobs grew in this electrically treated, non-GMO corn in contrast to one to a maximum of three pistons (normal case). Ebner was able to grow corn with as many as twelve cobs per stalk, and he succeeded in reviving extinct Aztec varieties.

Ebner's finding were confirmed by famed microbiologist and Nobel Prize winner Professor Werner Arber from the Basel Biocenter – the discoverer of the gene scissors. Arber personally inspected the elektrofeld experiments at the Ciba laboratory.

“For me as a geneticist, it was of course very interesting that you could influence the development of genes with static electric fields. All the more so since it was reproducible.”

f it feels as though this technology may have been "suppressed" because it competes with GMOs, that may be true, but let me tell you it goes deeper..

The Dept. of Agriculture issued a bulletin in 1926 concluding ”a review of the literature of electro-cultural experimentation up to the present time does not lend assurance of great progress” Half a century of positive results vs. one D.C. bureaucrat-scientist. As example-

Ten years later in 1936 the "British Electrocultural Committee" finished the job: “little advantage to continue the work either on economic or on scientific grounds… [we] regret that after so exhaustive a study of this matter the practical results should be so disappointing.”

Despite many positive results of the Committee's work, they were never in the public domain— from the fourth Interim Report in 1922 the reports were all marked "not for publication". Electro-Culture remained almost untouched until the 1960s and 70s.

There seems to be an almost transcendental aversion to the fruits of this electrified technology tree. It keeps resurfacing only to be purged. The Ebner effect is a portal to perfect autonomy. The slaves of technique want nothing to do with *real* "sustainable development."

These systems were *in use* since the mid-eighteenth century. You can say it was disregarded for economic reasons but what we are witnessing is emergent suppression, except for some reason only in the anglophone world...

As if it had never been disproven, research in Russia continued from the 19th through the 20th c. until today, with pre-sowing electro-treatment of seeds and construction of equipment in Chelyabinsk, Novosibirsk, Bashkiria, Krasnodar, and Chuvashia.

The Chinese are actively developing their own complete electroculture systems, all based on unused American and European research.

Research in Japan found that generating artificial lightning strikes near shiitake logs almost doubled the number of mushrooms they produced.

In France, some forms of electroculture are widely known and have been in continuous use by home gardeners, permaculture hobbyists and farmers. There is even a French Wikipedia article which calls it a pseudo-science, but nothing in English despite numerous articles (2018-2023).

Sustainability, autonomy, new prehistoric pets.. All this sounds wonderful but there is another line of implications... this technology doesn't only apply to fish and plants, it also has ramifications for human reproduction—

@realhumanschwab Silphium would be a nice target for that