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Concrete as a humanity project
Concrete is the philosopher’s stone of the present day: universally applicable, powerful, affordable, infinitely formable, and, after water, the most consumed material in the world.
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Ancient – and more relevant than ever. A project for humanity. But it also raises questions and challenges for new developments. What is the place and significance of Pneumatit® in this story?
Natural concrete (Project Phase 1)
Production of the first lime mortar 12,000 years ago. Significant innovative steps by Phoenician builders and the Romans. Humankind technically triggers geological processes once again. And directs them towards the growth and densification of an artificial stone of any size and shape.
The effect of natural concrete on life in the surrounding space corresponds to that of natural minerals.
Industrial concrete (Project Phase 2)
Extreme firing temperatures, pressure ratios, and accelerations since the 19th century. The components of natural concrete prepared in volcanic processes had not undergone such conditions.
However, the technical contraction and densification force of industrial concrete takes effect: as an “absorption effect” on the organic forces of living beings in the surrounding space. Consequences, depending on one’s constitution: discomfort, thin-skinnedness, nervousness and irritability, sensation of inner coldness and darkness, faster fatigue, oppression to depressive mood, joint pain, headaches.
Cultural concrete (Project Phase 3)
Today, we need places of power: contemporary spaces with additional uplifting and protective functions.
Human beings and life should be central again, also in the concrete project!
Concrete deserves the next step: Pneumatit® retains its full performance capability but also permanently conveys a subtle, invigorating vitality.
Pneumatized concrete is once again in harmony with the forces of nature. It supports physiology, emotional functions, and thus the development opportunities of the contemporary human being, also in social aspects.
PDF: «A Humanity project» Natural concrete, industrial concrete, and cultural concrete. Background, purpose, and effect of the Pneumatit additive. Comprehensive presentation (PDF). Written on request of the magazine Menschen+Architektur (Sept. 2014 / June 2020), this article also explores the origins and spiritual backgrounds of concrete development.
PDF: «A Step Into the Interior of Concrete» Uwe Kirst, editor of Menschen+Architektur, in conversation with Pneumatit Managing Director Markus Sieber. In 2017, three years after the publication of the article “Humanity project concrete” in the same magazine, certain aspects of Pneumatit® are deepened and the development since then is examined.
The Pneumatit® formula
Substances
All starting materials for Pneumatit® are of natural origin: a series of metals, plant-based and mineral homeopathics, and much more. Each substance is chosen because it carries specific forces into the concrete, always with regard to humans and the world.
Processes
The subtle, lengthy and complex manufacturing process is carried out exclusively by hand. Apart from a precision scale, refrigerator, and electric light (incandescent bulb), no technical aids are used, but various processing devices developed by us.
Several substances are produced as side products during the manufacturing process. Each of them is introduced into the main strand of production in a specific way and at specific times.
In total, the manufacturing process comprises around 100 steps over 2 working weeks. The ready-to-use end product has the homeopathic format D7. This is one of the reasons why Pneumatit® does not exert any physical or chemical influence on the building material. Further steps are added for special formulations: for adjustments/optimizations to specific products from partner companies, for automatic admixing at the concrete plant, and other purposes.
Substances and processes
Pneumatit® is the product of a genuine biotechnology. Its development is based on systematic fundamental research. To our knowledge, the physiological effects emanating from cement-based building materials have been subjected to an in-depth diagnosis for the first time ever.
The following presentation refers to standard Pneumatit®. Adjustments / optimizations for specific products of partner companies or for automatic admixing in the concrete plant may contain additional elements.
Substances
The primary materials of Pneumatit® are exclusively natural. Except for indigotine, all substances in the final stage of Pneumatit® have a homeopathic format: either due to their prior processing or through the Pneumatit® development itself.
With one exception, we produce all homeopathic remedies ourselves, partly using innovative methods developed in-house. The finished product has been potentiated to level D7.
The following substance groups are used:
Mineral: Lead sulfide, cuprite, calcium carbonate, copper sulfate, elemental sulfur.
Metallic: Lead, iron, gold, copper, mercury, silver, zinc.
Plant-based: Euphorbium, Gingko.
Animal-based: Femur (right) of the Eurasian jay, shell of Nautilus pompilius, dust from butterfly wings.
Sustainability The three animal-based substances in Pneumatit® are represented in vanishingly small quantities. Each of them is sufficient for many billions of cubic meters of concrete. They, therefore, only had to be obtained once. This is possible thanks to the biotechnology employed by Pneumatit AG, which uses homeopathic dynamization.
Other: Water (partly from the tap, partly from a mountain stream), ethanol 70%, indigotine.
Each substance carries and anchors very specific forces in the concrete between spiritual-physical realms on the one hand and geological-geomantic foundations on the other, always with regard to the resulting effects on humans and animals.
Processes
The effect of Pneumatit® is not molecular but exclusively biological in nature: it unfolds deliberately and specifically only at the level of life forces
Etheric / Astral Etheric: "Etheric forces", "Etheric body"
= organically building up life forces.
Astral: "Astrality", "Astral body"
= organically breaking down formative forces.
Please note our in-depth module
"Supraphysical: A Crash Course".
Link right next door.
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The processing of the substances, the manufacturing process itself, is therefore at least as important as the substances themselves. It comprises about 100 steps and takes about 2 weeks.
The process steps of Pneumatit® production are diverse, almost all of them rhythmic in nature: rhythm is one of the central properties of all life. In incomplete and non-chronological order:
Mechanical preparation by crushing, mortaring, grating, filing, sieving. Dilution and dynamization by stirring: in lemniscatory or special shape. Exposure to the open air. Irradiation with artificial light (incandescent bulb) through firstly a layer of quartz crystal powder, and secondly plant-dyed silks in the blue-violet spectrum. Condensate extraction. Process-accompanying reading of John 2 (Wedding at Cana) and violin music (J.S. Bach), interwoven in alternating de-/crescendo. Simple, cheerful flute music. Meditation. Rest periods under certain conditions such as: in a field between natural magnetite stones; in the darkness of night; in a strongly plant-influenced natural environment. Magnetization at the center of a field between 3 natural magnetite stones, which are manually rotated around the semi-finished product at 9-degree intervals for one night (with superimposition of two rhythms). Hourly temperature modulations, using candles and ice, between 45 degrees and 2 degrees Celsius during 3 consecutive nights. Controlled vortex formations in organic shapes.
Conditions and tools
Pneumatit® is so full of life and inner integrity that, upon introduction to the plant, it can pass through the industrial processes unchanged and then, in the small amount of only 125 ml, transform a whole 2.4 tons of solid building material (= 1 m3). For this purpose, we must also optimize the environmental conditions during the processing of the primary substances.
On the one hand, therefore, only a minimum of technical aids are used in the manufacture of Pneumatit®: precision scale, refrigerator, and electric light (incandescent bulb). On the other hand, general and special conditions (for certain process steps) are designed to actively support the process. At the elementary level, these include the shapes and materials of the vessels, the times of day and night of the work, the astronomical position of the sun and partly the planets, and the alignment in the coordinate system.
For certain steps in processing the substances, we have also developed several installations and manually operated processing “apparatus” ourselves. These include a climate and color lighting cabinet; an installation for the rhythmic influence of a rotating, tripolar natural magnetic field in the vicinity; a device for organically swirling admixture of fluids of different temperatures.
Simpler tools or substances used in the environment, if not already mentioned, include, for example, precious and semi-precious stones such as hyacinth, topaz, emerald, sapphire; gas burners and beeswax candles; a gold sphere segment with a Tribrachidium-like, but 5-armed, punched pattern; a Nautilus relief of about 50 cm in diameter made of copper wire embedded in an oak board.
Individualization
A basic formula for Pneumatit® has been developed, which takes European conditions into account and is suitable for both normal and recycled concrete. For a larger construction project in western Canada, the formula was significantly adapted in terms of substances and processes (Pneumatit-BC).
Product protection
We hope that this website conveys some of the honesty and openness that are necessary conditions for our work.
We cannot disclose the formula for Pneumatit® in all its details. Firstly, imitations would jeopardize its quality. Secondly, we rely on the material flow back into our research activities. For the same reasons, we have also refrained from applying for a patent and have opted for trademark protection instead.
The research
Pneumatit® is the product of a genuine “bio-technology.” Specific and unique manufacturing processes unlock the purposefully selected physical starting materials in such a way that the super-physical life or etheric forces contained in them can be “skimmed off” and transferred to a new carrier substance.
Etheric / Astral Etheric: "Etheric forces", "Etheric body"
= organically building up life forces.
Astral: "Astrality", "Astral body"
= organically breaking down formative forces.
Please note our in-depth module
"Supraphysical: A Crash Course".
Link right next door.
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The product Pneumatit® is simple, gentle, and friendly. However, the path to its extraction is demanding and complex.
New approach
Non-material areas have been and continue to be included in the Pneumatit® research (diagnosis, development, diversification) based on real observations. Because today we must work again – and anew – from the whole!
This requires competence in the exact and differentiated observation on non-physical levels. Of course, a certain degree of theoretical and practical knowledge in various involved fields is also necessary, namely human physiology, the science of human nature and medicine, concrete technology and the history of concrete, substance processing and transformation, and so on.
Research framework
Underlying every manifestation of the physical world are non-physical dimensions of forces and beings. For the development of Pneumatit®, observations mainly took place in the super-physical dimensions of the etheric (“ether world”) and the astral (“astral world”).
The perceptual organs for super-physical phenomena are fundamentally available to everyone in the structure of the so-called “chakra system.” For modern research, they must be consciously and systematically developed.
Research process
The research process in the super-physical realm, begins with a physical-material phenomenon, is fundamentally divided into three stages: observation – thinking – cognition.
Although these stages occur purely within the soul in super-physical research, they do not fundamentally differ from collaboration, for example, among biologists.
Detailed research approach
True biotechnology
The term “biotechnology” is commonly used (or misused) today for technical processes which interfere with the realm of life by modifying its physical conditions. This is done without knowledge that – let alone how – life represents a self-sufficient, diverse, and highly complex dimension of reality, from which the physical world is causally shaped, supported and determined.
From the outset, the development and production of Pneumatit® consciously and purposefully focus on the non-physical level of vital essences
Etheric / Astral Etheric: "Etheric forces", "Etheric body"
= organically building up life forces.
Astral: "Astrality", "Astral body"
= organically breaking down formative forces.
Please note our in-depth module
"Supraphysical: A Crash Course".
Link right next door.
Internal link “Superphysical” — a crash course
. Pneumatit® is conceived on its own level and with the corresponding methods as deliberately designed — composed, planned, measured, “built” and tested — as the physical structures in which it is used.
Overview of the research process
Our research processes in the superphysical, which connect to a physically material phenomenon, are divided into three phases:
Phase (1) – Perception
Current perception of superphysical phenomena of an event that was previously perceived only in its physical-material-external aspects (concrete slab, human organism’s transformation on a concreted floor, etc.).
Phase (2) – Thinking
Connection of the superphysically perceived event with its essence and “location” within the ideal-spiritual context of reality, taking into account the researcher’s existing knowledge (about building materials, human physiology, the structure of the spiritual world, etc.).
Phase (3) – Knowledge
Reference back to the perceptions and material appearance.
These phases proceed purely in the inner soul during superphysical research. Nevertheless, they fundamentally differ no more than the collaboration among biologists, for example: one observes a plant in the forest (Phase 1); another seeks to understand the obtained data within the context of taxonomy (Phase 2); a third processes these results for a new descriptive presentation of the corresponding plant family (Phase 3).
Conditions of research
Every type of research can only succeed in a space that fulfills specific conditions commensurate to the field. Necessary conditions for successful superphysical research include remaining free from influences from non-physical levels situated “below” the physical plane, just as they are “above.” This is done through various measures that cannot be elaborated here.
One example is that research questions to be subsequently worked on superphysically must first be formulated on the physical level or in everyday consciousness. Moreover, questions that are asked in the superphysical sphere from the superphysical consciousness itself may evoke impulses that oppose the free, ego-consciousness of the human being and compromise research. Such impulses are often captivating because they impart insights or capacities that still lie beyond the individual’s present possibilities.
Upheaval
Superphysical research is in a pioneering situation, ever since Rudolf Steiner first postulated its use and demonstrated it with great success.
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This pioneering situation is strikingly reminiscent of the situation in natural science 500 years ago. As it was then, there is a lack of infrastructure, finance, broader scientific-theoretical and methodological discourse, networks and institutes, publications, key figures, self-evident knowledge and resources on all levels, both big and small.
All this must be co-developed simultaneously, as far as necessary and possible. This includes, not least, an understandable and yet appropriate language capable of communicating the relevant insights and connections.
Diagnosis
It is a fact that many people do not feel truly comfortable in concrete spaces. Sensations described range from a diffuse sense of unease, feelings of inner coldness and perhaps darkness, to thin-skinnedness, nervousness and irritability, increased fatigue, oppression, depressive moods, joint pain, and headaches.
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Such sensations are seldom taken seriously. However, research on a superphysical level
Etheric / Astral Etheric: "Etheric forces", "Etheric body"
= organically building up life forces.
Astral: "Astrality", "Astral body"
= organically breaking down formative forces.
Please note our in-depth module
"Supraphysical: A Crash Course".
Link right next door.
Internal link “Superphysical” — a crash course
reveals that there is a reality underlying the described experiences.
Concrete is a genius material – but it is not yet finished. Once recognized, its deficit of life can be remedied.
Life in concrete
Concrete possesses an extreme power of contraction and compression. This is technically desired but leads to a “negative pressure” of life force in concrete spaces, subsequently exerting a suction effect on the organic forces of living beings within this space. Life forces are released into the concrete as if into a bottomless barrel.
These insights – briefly hinted at here – make discomfort in concrete understandable. They show that the widespread emotional distance to this magnificent building material is based on actual, albeit mostly sublimal perceptions.
Concrete development approaching a new stage
Concrete deserves the next step.
We have made it our mission to develop an additive that firstly preserves the outstanding properties of industrial concrete while secondly imbuing it with delicate vitality and permanently anchoring this new quality within it. The result is Pneumatit®.
Pneumatized concrete is cultural concrete. It has the performance capabilities of industrial concrete but harmonizes with natural forces once more and supports human physiology as well as functions of the soul.
Frequently Asked Questions
We learn from you!
We are grateful for all questions and feedback, including those that may be critical. We take them seriously.
The development of Pneumatit® was triggered by a question. Questions and feedback have led us on new directions of work.
We present a selection of questions to you here, which will be supplemented. Please contact us.
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No! Time and again, people who have never heard of Pneumatit® inquire about it because they find this concrete “somehow different.” Others initially reject Pneumatit® until they experience its effects themselves.
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The comparative studies have also clearly demonstrated: pneumatized concrete has a different effect.
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We certainly do not promise this. However, it can evidently be the case. For on various occasions, people have reported to us that suffering they experience specifically in concrete spaces or in general is much weaker or does not occur at all in Pneumatit®-concrete.
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We are, of course, aware of these concerns. That is why we are pleased that issues such as energy intensity, CO2 emissions, overuse of marine sand, and others are rapidly gaining awareness today. We focus on our own contribution – the reconnection with the dimension of life. We believe this to be the central task of our time. It is important to consider: There are no technical “solutions” to ecological or other problems in the realm of living things that have been caused by technology without creating new problems at the same level.
In all building materials that do not have cement or anhydrite as their base. A clay wall is already life-friendly and does not need Pneumatit®. However, it is very sensible to combine a clay wall with a pneumatized concrete floor. Also, a Pneumatit®-cement plaster on an existing concrete wall has positive effects on the indoor climate.
It certainly does not make our mediation work any easier. However, walls that we constantly feel would not set us free. We must get used to the fact that many essential effects cannot be directly perceived physically. This applies not only to various technical vibrations and rays but also to more subtle phenomena. On the other hand, the ability to perceive on such levels is becoming increasingly common.
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The world and humanity suffer from the same problems! The use of Pneumatit® in building materials brings an increase in life not only for humans but also into the world. This is important to us.
Agreed. Our technical-industrial production must not only limit its emissions and conserve resources. We also need to connect it with the realm of life forces. Only then will our products truly be sustainable for the life of both world and humanity. This demand should and will be incorporated into future material testing procedures. And it will open up entirely new perspectives for the economy itself.
No. During the setting of concrete (hydration), Pneumatit® becomes part of the microcrystalline formation and remains permanently anchored in the material. It even appears to strengthen over time. This can be explained with the analogy of a living watercourse: Over time, it connects with additional tributaries from its surroundings, thereby becoming more powerful.
These are subtle impressions that are most easily registered when one is as unbiased and alert as possible, yet relaxed. If you do not feel anything, it does not mean that there is something wrong with you or with Pneumatit®. It simply means that you are not currently having a conscious experience.
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Yes, it can! The specially developed Pneumatit®protect paintings liberate your spaces from the effects of concrete. Please inquire here:
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Concrete is a magnificent, yet not fully matured material. There are many practical reasons for using concrete. Challenges demand us to develop new skills for innovative solutions. Moreover, almost no wooden construction can be completed without the use of concrete. However, when refined with Pneumatit®, a harmonious whole is created. We have received wonderful feedback on this matter.
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Upon sober examination, a consistent return to natural constructions is not feasible at all. Even attempting such an endeavor would result in a serious degradation of biodiversity.
Human beings and the world form an inner unity. Therapists and healers have always known this. To illustrate with a concrete example, our research has shown that the same force present in red blood cells, and thus in human blood warmth, is also embodied in the nautilus shell. In a certain sense, we still carry within us the primordial sea with its vast swarms of nautiluses through our blood. Pneumatized concrete is “inoculated” with a living warmth impulse thanks to the nautilus shell. This impulse is closely related to the I-warmth in our blood and supports it. In this way, concrete becomes friendly; it approaches the human being. Each substance in Pneumatit® contributes to this effect in its own unique way.
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