It would be safe to state emphatically, that water is the essence of our being, perhaps the most divine gift bestowed to mankind - and apparently it has a message to tell us.
Dr. Emoto's studies of water tell us that on the molecular level, our inherent well-being can be determined, even affected and changed by our hado - or vibration, our energy, our aura if you will. Through meditation and reflection of the positive we can disrupt and rearrange our inner molecules to create beautiful patterns of symmetrical organization. Our own body could in essence rehabilitate itself and become a temple of perfection should we reflect well and kindly by thinking good and kind thoughts.
But his philosophy doesn't end at the tip of our nose, like most philosophers, Dr. Emoto wants this school of thought to change the world by using the universal property of water. If by thinking positive and offering thanks and love to simple h2O we can change its molecular patterns, image if on a global scale we all did this what kind of positive hado might be able to create?
The school of thought on meditation (whether it is mass prayer, thinking positive or blessing and thanking water) is the same: make the world a better place.
I have contemplated this message in various forms throughout my life. The only negative caveat to all of this is that one person alone can not fix the world's ills. Just like the hydrogen atom needs the oxygen atom to create water, working together as a people to make the world a better place is also necessary.
What is water trying to tell us? And are we willing to listen?
Article comments
1 - NC
Water behaves like the mood slime in Ghostbusters II?
2 - NC
More about the possible effects of bad vibes on inanimate objects here.
3 - Russ
This is not science.
4 - Eric Berlin
This is super fascinating stuff, Dawn, and perhaps the best (or most real or most scientific) explanation of that intangible feeling of energy or aura or whatever you want to call it.
In an abstract, non-explainable way, I've always gotten good and bad vibes from physical spaces, indoors mostly. Likewise, people throw off good and bad "vibes" to each other all the time. Some of it can of course be explained by attractiveness and body language and speech and tone and voice and habits and manners and so on, but I think most people can at least be open to the possibility that there's something more to it.
Very cool... and yes, I was reminded of Ghostbusters II as well, I must admit.
5 - DrPat
OMG! I thought this fantasy was outed and thoroughly debunked in the 70s, following the publication of Powers of Mind by "Adam Smith" (the nom de plume of Wall Street economics journalist George Goodman), in which the author detailed 60s-new-age-science exploration into the "liveliness" and "intelligence" of water.
Smith suggested that the intelligence of plants (also touted in his book) was due entirely to this mutative crystalline structure of water. Check out Michael Shermer's The Borderlands of Science and # Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time for an in-depth examination of these bizarre theories.
6 - Eric Berlin
I have no idea about the scientific validity of this stuff myself... I just find it interesting!
7 - DrPat
Hey, I thought it was interesting, too - I have a copy of PoM as well as both of the Shermer books I named, and read them all with enjoyment.
But there's a big difference between my enjoyment of Crushkill's posts here, for example, and, say, Temple Stark's, Dave Nalle's or Bill Wallo's (to name just a few). Likewise, more of my brain is engaged with Shermer's essays than with the watery auras postulated by Smith and Dr. Emoto.
8 - Dawn
I find it too much of a coincidence that the ubiquity of water and all the various nuiances of its fluidity can be explained away with a wave of the hand.
I am hardly a new-agey kind of person, and considering I have a Shambala worshipping, Buddhist spouting, Dali Lama loving parent, I have tended to be skeptical about such things, but I found Dr. Emoto's discoveries all too tangible to ignore.
Hence, I will raise my glass of water and thank it for its bounty and goodness.
How can it hurt?
9 - Eric Berlin
I'll drink to that.
10 - Dawn
I checked out that link that NC pointed to, very fascinating stuff.
11 - JR
I think you're selling carbon short. It deserves at least as much credit for the existence of life as water does. And where would you be without diamonds and charcoal?
Mmmm, barbeque.
12 - Dawn
Yes, but what is the biblical and historical reference in carbon?
Carbons for anthropoligists, h2o's for us philosophers and dreamers.
13 - Russ
That's right ! And where are dinosaurs in the bible ? No where, right? That's why they're a lie! But seriously folks, we can't say something is true just because it appeals to our sense of warm and fuzzy. Yes, water *is* important to life processes, but it is not the source of life any more than oxygen or carbon. All of those costituents together is what makes life possible, as we know it. There is no need for mysticism here. Remember: Purity of Essence ! Peace on Earth !
14 - DrPat
Why is it that the water in rum and whiskey is just so much more active and life-enhancing that the stuff that comes out of the tap?
15 - Dawn
Ahh, Dr.P you have tapped into the spirit of life haven't you?
Puns intended.
16 - Tristan
Beautiful article Dawn ~~~
and something we are in desperate need of in this world so filled with dark pessimistic cynicism and foreboding.
In reference to Dr Pat's comments---
kinda odd isn't it - that the Eastern Peoples over there in China, etc, have been around for thousands of years and we here in the west ridicule & criticize their ancient belief systems such as "chi", "meridians", etc ....
Western medicine with it's allopathic outlook of just treating the "symptoms" and seldom getting at the root "cause"---seems so deficient compared to the Eastern medical systems with their homeopathic outlook of treating the entire person and finding the root "cause" to actually eliminate the symptom AND waht initially caused it.
Westerners can sit back in their arrogance and skepticism as they ridicule what they are ignorant of...an all too common happening these days.
(And if the pharmaceutical companies weren't subsidizing the medical schools and whoring all our western doctors--maybe they'd be able to see past the end of their noses and stop pushing the legal drugs so much.....)
17 - Shark
I'm a day late to be reminding yall of this, but check out another strange unexplained event.
18 - HW Saxton
I'm surprised that you didn't mention
how much of the human body is made of
water Dawn. It would seem to fit into
your story.Which is pretty interesting
by the way.
Oh yeah,sad to say Shark but,I think the
image of Satan as found upon a turtles
back recently beats your tortilla story.
19 - Dawn
HW, I did mention this in the post.
"Water makes up 2/3 of our body's chemistry"
and indirectly here:
"Through meditation and reflection of the positive we can disrupt and rearrange our inner molecules to create beautiful patterns of symmetrical organization. Our own body could in essence rehabilitate itself and become a temple of perfection should we reflect well and kindly by thinking good and kind thoughts."
20 - cody Luna
This may not be the white-labcoat science we see in the movies, but science is an empirical analysis and construction of hypotheses on the observation of that data...whether it deals with "aura" or electricity matters not....we forget very easily that it has been less than two-hundred years since we have agreed on the existence of meteorites and magnetic fields..
21 - Ian
Has anyone ever heard that no two snowflakes are alike? It makes perfect sense that the crystalline structure of water is affected by chemical impurities, but to attribute the random organizational patterns of nature to the effects of human conscious thought is a little far fetched for me to grasp. To photograph one crystal in a drop of frozen water doesn't tell me enough. They should all be somewhat unique in their own right anyway. Prove to me that all crystals in a frozen sample are the exact same, and that the circumstances that produced such crystals can reproduce such crystals anytime, anyplace, and that might hold alittle more water.
22 - izik moshe
hi!
I'm from israel and I just read a book written by a Rabbi about how this article proove there's a god who planed it all..... I would like to know if there is any scientific proof to this.
thx.
23 - gonzo marx
to izik..
tha Answer is....
no.
Excelsior?