Am pleased to announce that after a Summer of making basalt electroculture cones unlike any you have ever seen, not only for the garden but also for the home, i have decided to make the prototypes available to buy here on Hive, prior to listing them on Etsy. I feel like making them available here first because it was with the help of this community that i have been able to find myself a viable business which ticks all the boxes, ethically, spiritually, physically & creatively.
Unlike a factory production line i never make the same cone twice so they will always be free to continue their evolution in sync with my own.
My explorations in electroculture have been varied over the last four years and i don't bother making copper spirals any more, not because i don't think they work, but because i think other things work better. Plus, many of the copper spirals i made four years ago have been trampled on and eaten up by the soil never to be found again, so i was looking to make something more robust, something which would never get lost, never deform and never stop working.
Further to this it is clear to me now that which is good for plants is also good for us, yet there are not many electroculture antenna we would feel good about putting on our mantlepiece. Yes, they can be pretty but still feel out of place in our home.
For this reason i have taken my favorite antenna, the 52° apex cone, currently only available in cement & basalt from other suppliers, and turned it into something which works both for the home and the garden.
Having had a fair bit of experience making orgonite, which is similar in many ways to these cones, i felt the transition from ugly concrete cone to original artistic creation come quite naturally and it has been a real pleasure using my skills & knowledge to enhance their effectiveness and beauty.
Another transition has been made from cement to Roman concrete. In this way i can claim that underneath the resin the cone is made of 100% natural products, with the potential to last 1000s of years, like the colosseum in Rome.
In a nutshell, no one else makes cones this way, so i trust you will enjoy this little tour of my journey of exploration along with some of the final products.
A cone is a pretty magical shape in its own right as a perfect circle extending out from a central point in a three dimensional form. Without any knowledge at all one could make an educated guess that the form focuses energy at its apex.
To illustrate this i draw your attention to listening horns, used before the introduction of electronic amplifiers to magnify sounds for the hard of hearing.
As sound-waves are nothing more than frequencies in the audible range one can say with certainty that the cone shape has the ability to increase the strength of frequencies, concentrating them at the apex for the listener, as seen here in WW1 before the invention of radar.
A brass wind instrument on the other hand uses the cone to increase the strength of a frequency in the opposite direction, from the apex outward.
So cones are able to amplify frequency no matter which direction the signal is traveling. A point worth remembering as we explore this subject further.
Now let's take a look at some historical cones.
Conical headwear has evidently been around since the earliest civilisations and importantly cones were not worn by the average person. Here you can see a carving made by the Ancient Mesopotamians and Sumerians of their gods, "those who from heaven came" (if we are to believe Sitchin's translation).
Then we have the Egyptian Pharaohs.
And what about the golden cone hats of the bronze age, found in Europe?
We don't know in what circumstances the golden hats were worn but we are at least sure they did go on peoples' heads. They are in fact much lighter than they look, each one made from a single sheet of gold leaf.
In the 10th century the Hungarian elite wore caps with silver cones at the top.
12th century Samurai. Elite warriors.
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In Medieval Europe the Jews were known to wear conical hats, initially by choice, but eventually enforced as a way to differentiate between them and other people.
Also in the medieval period noblewomen began to wear cone hats (hennin) as a sign of intelligence.
So we have to ask the question, did they wear the cones because they were intelligent, or were they intelligent because they wore cones?
John Duns Scotus believed the latter. He was a Scottish Catholic priest, Franciscan friar, university professor, philosopher and theologian, born around 1266. Scotus claimed that conical hats would funnel knowledge into the brain and his followers were known to wear them for exactly this reason.
Witches & wizards are also known for wearing conical hats, but this is in fact a false depiction of them, a product of post-medieval art, storytelling and fantasy, potentially originating with Scotus himself, a wizard type character who sported a beard, spiral ended staff and cone shaped hat with cone shaped robe over the top.
Followers of Scotus ensured that conical hats were made for children in classrooms to aid their ability to concentrate and it wasn't until many years later, when Scotus became first unpopular and then forgotten, that the dunce cap (named after him) became a sign of stupidity & punishment, a complete reversal of its original meaning and function.
In the 19th century Victorian England popularised cone hats for children at parties and the tradition continues today worldwide.
In our current age we do still have some folks, like Asian farmers or the Fulani people of West Africa wearing cone hats, and perhaps they are more enlightened for it?
But here in Europe and also in the US the cone hat is now associated with the conspiracy theorist, someone perceived to be paranoid and likely crazy.
So cone hats have gone from being knowledge funneling devices worn by leaders, intellectuals, elite warriors, Sumerian gods & even God's supposedly chosen people the Jews, to a symbol of stupidity, paranoia and youthful ignorance.
An intentional transition?
As a metaphorical cone wearer myself, i would say yes!
The clues are all around us but we don't see them until we are looking for them.
Why does food cooked in a tagine pot taste amazing?
Why do we feel so good when we step under a big top tent?
Why are children inextricably drawn to ice cream presented this way?
Why do the root systems of most plants form a conical shape?
Why is our pineal gland shaped like a cone and why were out ancestors obsessed it?
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I think by now you can guess the answer.
There's something quite magical about the cone shape.
The Great Pyramid of Giza has encoded within it fundamental mathematical constants like π, ϕ, and e, so the designers did not choose the slope angle of the pyramid's faces, approximately 51°51′ (or 51.85° in decimal) by chance.
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A 52° apex cone is therefore mimicking the slope angle of the Great Pyramid and by doing so it captures certain frequencies the pyramid itself was designed to generate.
I built a wood frame pyramid with copper wire boarders in my garden three years ago replicating the Great Pyramid's dimensions exactly and have seen impressive resulting growth since then from the plants in and around it.
We actually have pyramids, cones & towers all over the garden these days.
Because i can visibly see them helping the plants.
Here is a lettuce i grew this Spring.
And here is a cucumber i harvested for its seeds a few days ago, length 42cms, weight 1283g.
Am pretty sure you can't buy cucumbers & lettuce like this grown without fertiliser.
The only reason i can is because i have an understanding of what the pyramid was originally used for.
So the idea of a cone which focuses on just one of these magical pyramid angles, projecting its beneficial frequencies out in all directions from the centre seems logical to me.
The cone appears to act as a scrubbing device, cleaning the atmosphere around it of any harmful EMFs while at the same time projecting a frequency beneficial to anything living. You could call it a life force energy. Or you could call it by any of its other names, Prana, Chi, Orgone, Cosmic etc.
The 52° apex cone has appeared in ancient architecture over and over because our ancestors were much better than us at making their constructions serve both as buildings and as energy devices/antenna which would be of benefit to the occupants and local environment, extending out to surrounding agriculture & livestock.
The Irish elevated their 52° cones high up on top of towers, but for what purpose?
Locals tell us they were bell towers.
Historians tell us they were places of safety from Viking raiders.
While more open minded observers make the connection with agriculture, seven of whom wrote books about it between 1938 and the present:
O’Kelly, Michael. The Round Towers of Ireland: A Study of Their Electromagnetic Influence on Plant Life (Dublin: privately printed, 1938). – 42 pp. First mention of “paramagnetic stone field” around Clondalkin tower; germination tests on wheat and beans.
Walsh, Seán. Irish Towers and the Growth of Crops (Cork: Tower Press, 1956). – 78 pp. Observations on barley plots sited 20 m from Devenish and Glendalough towers.
Ó Laoire, Bríd. The Living Monolith: Round Towers as Bio-Energy Antennae (Galway: Celtic Science, 1981). – 96 pp. Includes 4-year rye-grass trial with EMF meters and soil conductivity maps.
Murphy, Liam. Electroculture in Ancient Ireland: The Round Tower Factor (Belfast: Lagan Books, 2004). – 132 pp. Controlled pot experiments with oats; compares tower basalt to local limestone.
Fitzgerald, Aoife. Paramagnetic Towers: Round Towers and Plant Vitality in the West of Ireland (Maynooth: NUIM Dissertation, 2011). – 187 pp. MSc thesis; detailed chlorophyll-a fluorescence data.
Casey, Pádraig & Ní Mhurchú, Máire. Sacred Stones, Living Seeds: Irish Round Towers as Natural Growth Enhancers (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2017). – 220 pp. Multi-site study (eight towers); growth-rate gains of 8-15 % reported for kale and wheat.
Kavanagh, Diarmuid. Bio-Resonant Towers: Round Towers and Electro-Horticulture in Early Christian Ireland (Skibbereen: Atlantic Grove Books, 2021). – 160 pp. Combines soil magnetometry, Arduino sensors, and basil germination trials.
And then we have the great Philip S. Callahan who examines the Irish round towers (amongst other things) in the following books:
Ancient Mysteries, Modern Visions: The Magnetic Life of Agriculture
Nature's Silent Music
Rediscovering Nature's Secret Force of Growth
The Mysterious Round Towers of Ireland: Low Energy Radio in Nature (article)
In Callahan's 'Rediscovering Nature's Secret Force of Growth' he discusses the construction of the towers, observing how they are built using paramagnetic materials like basalt, red sandstone, and granite, which he believes allowed them to function as resonant systems for collecting and storing magnetic and electromagnetic energy from the earth and skies.
He concludes that the towers act as large-scale "antennae" or "energy conductors", their form and materials enabling resonance with cosmic frequencies.
Basalt is for this reason the main ingredient in our modern equivalent cones.
The more paramagnetic the better.
Basalt with values above 2000µCGS is classified as having exceptionally high paramagnetism. The one i am using is 7200µCGS.
Yannick Van Doorne was the first person to make basalt/cement cones which mimic the effects of Irish round towers, bringing this and other technologies back into the public eye for the first time in a very long time. And for this we must congratulate him! Which i did in this 2022 article.
He has a few other competitors now, notably David Weschler of Electric Fertilizer who sells his cones here with one small difference, a steel wire coming out of the cone to widen the area of coverage.
I became friends with Yannick after writing the article and we ended up chatting on a video call for over an hour, talking about many fascinating things, so it was out of respect for him that i asked his permission to sell my cones on Etsy a few months ago. His response was blunt and cold, effectively telling me he does not agree with my right to sell cones in this design.
Not agreeing is of course a very different matter to having a legal hold on the design and it didn't take much research to see with certainty that no one can copyright an ancient design like this, particularly as i don't make them the same way he does.
I will be selling cement/basalt cones initially because these are my prototypes, but i will ultimately only sell cones which are made with Roman concrete, 100% natural ingredients.
While the raw materials of cement may be natural, the final product is a manufactured chemical mixture and it is known to be harmful to plants. Roman concrete is also quite alkaline, so it isn't perfect for plants but it is unquestionably better than modern cement which is both alkaline and full of chemicals. I hope of course that Yannick will ultimately steal my Roman concrete idea and say goodbye to the use of harmful chemicals in his products.
He may also be interested to learn that VOC free epoxy resin, once cured, is not harmful to humans or plants so by sealing our cones in resin we are eliminating the potential problem of alkalinity & chemicals seeping into the ground over time.
Yannick recommends placing seven cones like this in the centre of our garden, as a way to optimise the effect, rather than placing seven cones just on your favorite plants.
I will be giving out miniature basic cones for free with each purchase of a decorated cone and recommend playing around with the idea of creating your own grid matrix, perhaps under your bed or around your home, connecting them up mentally with a central quartz crystal, all clearly programmed with intention. Protection, healing, spiritual elevation, whatever you need. You may be surprised how effective it is.
Looking now at water i wanted to mention that i always use structured water when mixing cement & Roman concrete. Without water the process simply doesn't work, so it must be treated with respect.
I am currently using this home made device in which our filtered water runs past a very strong neodymium magnet, effectively erasing its memory and preparing it for being re-infused with intention & energy through vortex spinning.
This gives us opportunity to get the water involved and 'program' it for our exact requirements.
While the basalt, cement and water remain 'under the hood', the copper rings clinging to the exterior are very visible and these i believe are a major factor in separating my cones from others because they increase the overall functionality.
These two are made with Roman concrete, but what we notice first is the copper.
I really loved learning about tensor rings and the work of Slim Spurling, bringing back to us first the Sacred Cubit, the measurement used to build the Great Pyramid. Then the Lost & Empowerment cubits followed.
I also loved learning about Georges Lakhovsky and his open circuit copper coils which benefited the growth of plants.
So when i looked at my naked cone for the first time, drying in its mold, i could see both Lakhovsky's & Spurling's work shouting at me to use them in some way.
This is why around every decorated cone i have Sacred, Lost or Empowerment cubit copper coils, sometimes presented as Lakhovsky coils which are optimised by facing the opening towards north and sometimes as tensor rings which are active no matter the orientation.
Finally i use resin, gold/copper/silver flake & often crystals to finish the product.
The cones themselves seem to tell me what to do.
Yes, i will be selling basic 'naked' cones but this is not my main focus of interest as i do not seek to take anything away from Yannick and his cone competitors, but rather to evolve this product in an organic way, ultimately bringing them indoors so that we humans might benefit from them too.
The base of each cone presents one last opportunity to fill up a 'canvas' with information. At present i am using crystals.
And also gold flake with relevant symbols.
In the future i aim to create focused series of cones which will be identified by the symbol on their base. The number 8 for example is a powerful number associated with prosperity so if i were to create copper infinity symbols which resemble this number and attach them with resin to the base it would add an extra element not currently present. I think every opportunity to pack the 'machine' with useful pieces should be taken, while at the same time respecting the overall functionality and beauty.
Lastly i have been making double cones, which simply put have double the power!
The bases of the double cones can be planted directly in the ground.
Or you can buy one of my custom holders to keep your double cone upright indoors.
Am still playing with ideas for bases to be honest.
Here we have a resin covered piece of elder wood.
In recent weeks i have been replacing the tips with cone shaped quartz crystal and am feeling really good about this development, which actually came about from a mistake. I broke the tip off a cone basically and happened to have the perfect crystal to fill the hole.
When i saw how good it looked, i ordered more cone shaped crystals.
Will be trying out these lapis lazuli next, just arrived from India.
The ones with quartz look great when the sun is behind them, like they have an electrical light in them!
In some ways they do 🌟
My first mini tower can be seen here, made as a recent birthday gift for Sabrina.
Will be exploring towers more in the future.
The percentage of basalt to cement (or Roman concrete) within each cone is 60/40. With 200ml of structured water.
Two different grain sizes of basalt are used to achieve the 'speckled' look.
For best effect on plants one should also sprinkle some basalt in the soil which should be rich with organic life, ideally home made compost. Worth mentioning here that electroculture will do very little for plants growing in dead soil. The more life going on in your soil, the more the electroculture can work its magic, benefiting all that lives.
I have around 40 prototypes available for sale after which i will finish my current bag of cement and then make the switch to lime & volcanic ash (Roman concrete).
VOC free (free from volatile compounds) resin is best for lots of reasons and while i cannot make the claim i am using it yet, once i have sold a few cones, i will be.
Rather like the bag of cement which remains, i am using what i have to make the prototypes before recouping some money and making the switch to more eco-friendly products.
I am willing to accept HIVE for these cones and will sell them at the basic rate, without VAT.
The VAT column is the price Etsy users will see listed under the products and i have been very careful to ensure all these numbers add up to 8.
Even 98 because 9+8=17 and 1+7=8.
As i mentioned this is the number for prosperity, so let's see if it has an effect!
What you don't see in these figures is the amount of time involved. Hard to say for sure but on average i probably give each cone around 2-3h of my time, so i won't be earning big bucks but that's that's okay. Getting this old tech out to the world is my priority while earning money in a way which is acceptable to me.
Price of postage is extra and it isn't cheap as the cones are around 1kg in most cases.
For the States postage is €37.30 (for a single cone).
UK €21.45
France €8.70
Other European countries €18.45
Everywhere else €20
Perhaps i could be persuaded, if any of you feel inspired by these cones, to custom build one for you with your desired design, stickers, coils etc. This is not a service i will be offering Etsy users but for hive users, why not?
So if you see anything which interests you here just drop me a line.
Or you can wait a few weeks for me to list them all on Etsy where they will have multiple photos of each item. Don't know for how long they will be available however.
Wanted finally to mention that my family have also been getting involved making these cones.
And doing a really great job with some inventive crystal work! Esteban's resulting cone seen here.
Luna's here.
They want to sell them on Etsy now but i told them it would be better to keep these ones and focus on making more, with the clear intention to sell them right from the start.
Am going to make some films over these next few weeks which will go over much of the cone related history and information presented in this post because it seems to me that everyone who is new to the world of electroculture tends to focus on copper spirals. And this is simply because not enough people are getting those educational videos out there. No worries. This is what i made the Spiral Garden youtube account for.
In truth it has been a strange kind of year, not at all what i expected, in line with the Chinese zodiac cycle. We are in a snake year and what do snakes do? They shed their skin and renew themselves ready for a new cycle. Almost like being reborn while retaining old wisdom.
France has been fun for the last decade but i have been shown clearly now it is time to move on. Likely to Spain.
I remain grateful however for all that this country has done, teaching me to love the land and guiding me ultimately to this business.
Let us see now if the world is ready for these cones and what kind of future i can manifest for us in Spain?
If you want to have a go at making cones yourself i am buying my molds from @harmoniousinnature his Etsy link here.
On a personal note i have been resting in the afternoons with this Roman concrete apophyllite tip cone on my chest.
It was the first Roman concrete i made and with its Reiki symbol and dragon sticker (my sign) it felt like the right cone for me. After a month of using it i only have great things to say about the subtle shifts going on around here, not just for me but for all the family.
Love & Light everyone 🌱
