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Click here to read an interview with the John Wilkes.  What is the true nature of water and does it have memory? By working with the rhythm and flow of water, can we increase its life-giving power?
Water is not only fundamental to life but is essential for the cycles and changes in nature. John Wilkes asserts that water is the universal bearer of whatever character we put into it. Consequently, the way we treat water is crucial to our own health and to the well being of the planet as a whole.
Working with his remarkable invention, the Flowform, Wilkes uncovered many mysteries of water and, in the process, created an art of great beauty. His lifetime of applied research into rhythms and water, fully revealed here for the first time, has startling implications for such topical issues as farming and irrigation; food production and processing; water treatment and recycling; and health and cosmetic products.
The author includes a history of Flowform research as well as the most important, up-to-date developments in this research around the world. He also includes informative appendices on metamorphosis, Flowform designs and applications, and the scientific and technical aspects of Flowform research.
Flowforms is a groundbreaking, lavishly illustrated book, revealing both the beauty of Flowforms and their broad range of applications.
Contents:
- Water and Rhythm
- Rhythm and Flow: The Water Cycle
- Metamorphosis
- Experimenting with Water
- Discovery of the Flowform Method
- In Flowform and the Living World
- Järna: the First Major Flowform Project
- The Next Generation of Flowforms
- The Metamorphic Sequence
- Research with Cascades
- Flowform-related Developments
- The Flowform throughout the World: An Illustrated Survey
- Present and Future
- Appendix 1: Metamorphosis
- Appendix 2: Flowform Types, Designs, and Applications
- Appendix 3: Scientific and Technical Aspects
- Appendix 4: Virbela Rhythm Research Institute
 John Wilkes studied sculpture at the Royal College of Art. While in London, he met the mathematician George Adams and later Theodor Schwenk, a pioneer in water research and author of Sensitive Chaos. In 1961 Wilkes joined the Institute for Flow Sciences in Herrischried, Germany, and his research over many years into the flow and rhythm of water eventually led to the Flowform Method in 1970. He worked concurrently at the Goetheanum in Switzerland, researching and restoring Rudolf Steiner’s sculptural and architectural models. In 1966, he began contributing at Emerson College in Forest Row, Sussex. He is currently director of the Virbela Rhythm Research Institute.
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