By late summer of 2009, the only place in Europe which I was not reasonably sure was under the sheng canopy , was the Iberian Peninsula. Cesco and I had penetrated into France south of Paris in 2005, but I had never been so far south as Spain, and I felt I needed to know if that country were under the sheng canopy .

          I still had a ticket to America from London, since I unexpectedly had had to return from the Middle East trip via Taiwan. Friend Rich’s wedding was on September 5, so it seemed right to attend the wedding, and then fly down to Gibraltar and back before going home.
          After returning from Russia, I received an invitation to attend the IWONE conference in Höör, Sweden, held during the last few days of August. The conference was inspired by Viktor Shauberger’s work, and was about non-standard energy sources and vehicle propulsion, and the extraordinary properties of water: subjects of which I knew little, but for which I had some curiosity. So I decided to begin my trip a week or so early and attend the conference.
          Furthermore, I had enjoyed my too short stay with Manfred last spring, and wished to follow up on a few things with him.

          All these things in fact went well. A new friend Marcus Gullberg, whom I met at the IWONE conference, invited me up to Helsingborg afterwards, and we found a strong latent vortex on a small mountain on the coast, near Höganäs, as I recall.
          The visit to Gibraltar came after visiting Manfred in Austria, and when I reached the island, I realized that the sheng canopy was already over the area. Not on the "Rock", but on a nearby hill was a strong latent vortex, and after a several hour hike from the airport I was able to open it up.

          My trip home was through London, New York, Vancouver, Seattle, and Spokane. Nowhere did I come come out from beneath the sheng canopy .

          My work in Taiwan was still not completed, and I flew there on October 1, returning on the 8th. I brought the flu back with me in the form of a sore throat which by the 10th had grown more serious and forced me to go to bed for a couple days.
          The trip back from Taiwan was through Tokyo (Narita), San Francisco, and Seattle. On the San Francisco-Seattle leg the weather and visibility were good, and my throat keep me sufficiently awake that I looked somewhat closely at the etheric phenomena along the way.
          I saw that there were various spots with a quite a positive feeling, such spots as I had not noticed before. One was in a large lake, and they seemed to be in lower ground rather than higher ground in general.
          I decided to climb up Kamiak Butte when I got home, to get a stationary panoramic view before I came to any conclusions.

          The flu hit me reasonably hard, and it was several days before I felt up to climbing Kamiak, but I did so on Tuesday afternoon, October 13. Seated on an old log I could see the hills and mountains for an area of about 500 square miles. I counted roughly 20 such places in that area, where the sheng qi caught the eye or senses. Looking closely I found that sheng qi was swirling down from above to these places (counter-clockwise when viewed from above), and then moving directly down into the earth, as far as I could feel.

          For some time sheng qi has been falling from the sheng canopy , concentrating in the beginning through the trunks of trees. Looking closely at the conifers on top of Kamiak, I could see that this was still the case, but that the sheng qi was moving much more rapidly through the trunks than before.
          The cycle of qi from the opened vortices up to the sheng canopy and then back down again into the earth seems to have increased in speed: now there are actual vortices going down as well as up. At least I know this is true in the areas on the Pacific Coast and in the Palouse where the sheng canopy has been in existence the longest.