Topher Gardner | Bamboo & Biocharisma: Building Permaculture and Aligning with the Natural
Christopher Gardner, aka Topher, has spent over a decade in Costa Rica building with bamboo, practicing permaculture and providing clients with geometrically harmonious structures for farming and living spaces. In this chat we talk about his vast experience with biodynamic and radionic principles, orgone technology, and consciousness expansion.
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Core themes
Biodynamics and anchoring intention on the land
Topher traces his path to a Costa Rican organic farm that taught permaculture design courses and biodynamics, where he ran the greenhouse, handled the composting and spent two unpaid years helping terraform a 27 hectare property. He describes the biodynamic practice of packing a bull horn with insect ashes, crystal dust and intention, then pointing two horns at each other across a farm, and says it raised productivity. In his view such practices ground intention through a physical act, our bodies work like villi transceiving with the environment, and the land answers right away, an idea he now applies to perimeter protection for his clients.
From the Joe cell to the Mojo cell
Topher recounts installing orgone accumulators in cars, starting with the Joe cell, which he says a man called Joe built in 1980s Australia from nested metal cylinders holding water, echoing ratios Wilhelm Reich used in his cloud busters. He compares the design to bamboo and heart of palm, plants he calls bio accumulators because they are hard outside and soft inside. He reports big mileage gains on carbureted cars, then describes his friend Moshe's spherical Mojo cell, a night when two cells resonated and a quiet helicopter hovered at dawn, and efficiencies he says collapsed inside new 3G coverage.
Water, implosion and rethinking temperature
Topher tells of charging water in a Mojo cell, lighting its nano bubble foam and hearing an implosion rather than an explosion, which he took as Viktor Schauberger's principle at work, with a temperature gun reading the water cooler. He ties this to George Wiseman's Brown's gas, a flame he says reads thousands of degrees yet passes harmlessly over a hand. Drawing on Schauberger's idea that electricity is temperature differential, he calls electricity the ability to do work, describes water as a universal solvent that can act as a portal, and argues that microwave radiation disrupts it and that the humidity around us carries memory.
Memory holes and the human biofield
Chance says his sound healing work has convinced him that memory is not filed away in cells but held in the plasma of the biofield, and that punctures in that sheath form what he calls the memory hole, leaking the life force and self knowledge a person needs. He adds that our culture trains people to feed their light to others and call it goodness. Topher connects the picture to parasites, needles and ticks that puncture, and draws on 23 years as a massage therapist, saying he felt dead pockets around people and met only two in thousands whose fields felt whole.
Biomimicry and nature's repeating signal
Chance sees the nested cylinders of the Joe cell mirrored in tree rings, chakras and the auric field, and offers his idea of the ring of truth: a concept shaped like the rest of nature is probably onto something true. Topher answers with a lesson from a raja yogi mentor, given while they watched waves on a shore, that nature signals subtly and constantly through repetition, like a billion leaves on one tree. Build a cylinder within a cylinder, he says, and you repeat the signal back, and nature responds with abundance. He calls people little biomimicry machines who only ever copy what they see.
Quotes
“Once you start getting into these higher orders of permaculture and biodynamics, you start to understand that you're essentially grounding intention, and our bodies are our God's antenna.”
“A lot of the issues with new age is that it's the old cage, just dressed up with different gurus than before.”
“To me, water is the universal solvent. Not just to me, but the way I see it, it's the universal solvent, so it always has the opportunity to act like a portal.”
“Memory doesn't exist in the body in a physical location, in a cellular filing cabinet that you can open up and pull out: this is what I did on Tuesday, March 3rd, 1990.”
“There's not one leaf in a tree, there's a billion leaves in the tree. There's not one cloud in the sky. There's always a continual subtle signaling.”
“If you can encounter something or conceive of something in this structure that reflects the way the rest of nature operates and is shaped, then you will probably be on to something true and correct.”
“We're just little biomimicry machines. I've never created anything, even though I hybridize lots of stuff. I see it in one venue and then I just repeat it in another venue.”
“I got into making biochar in Costa Rica because there's no carbon in the soil. In the tropics, the way the tropics are made, all the carbon is in the biomass. It's just above ground.”
Topher Gardner hosts the BioCharisma Podcast, blending permaculture, alternative construction, and body work in his exploration of resilience and wellness.
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