The Hidden Messages in Water

I learnt about Masaru Emoto’s water research in the film 'What The Bleep Do We Know!?' It was an information that really left me speechless, and I ordered his books at once. I will not enter here the discussion about the credibility of his research. Allegedly, his water photography technique is not meeting the standard of double-blind tests. So, I will base my book reviews strictly on quotes taken from the books, and try to check his research back with my own twenty years of bioenergy research. This is an approach that allows me to avoid judging the controversy, or any of the positions as ‘right’ or ‘wrong’, yet it helps to see that there is a certain probability that the memory of water is likely to reflect a certain bioenergetic functionality inherent in nature. I will try to bring some structure in this book review by relying not on hearsay, but on the author’s own statements. I will put some quotes and comment on them. If Emoto has not got full credentials, let us look what his writings reveal about him. I got the impression that he comes over as a wise man, a man with a very high level of intuitive knowledge, and also somebody who knows to write. His style is easy yet deep. He knows to express truth in a very clear and pristine way. To begin with, he writes: —So how can people live happy and healthy lives? The answer is to purify the water that makes up 70 percent of your body./xvi Frankly I have never considered before in my life the fact that I consist mainly of water, and that because of this simple fact, I have to do something about that water I am consisting of. Have you? To be true, Paracelsus, one of the greatest healers in human history, said something similar. And my next question, logically so, would be: and why water? Emoto replies: —Water serves as a transporter of energy throughout our body. /xvii Having studied virtually all written traditional knowledge about the bioenergy, after so many years, I overlooked the most essential and thus had to learn it from Emoto, that is, that this ch’i that flows through my body flows through my body because of water, because it basically flows through that watery substance in me. Now, Emoto puts it more precisely: —More now than in the past, the medical community has begun to see water as a transporter of energy, and it is even being used in the treatment of illness. Homeopathy is one such field where the value of water is recognized./xvii Homeopathy is indeed concerned with water. But most of us hardly ever knew why a homeopathic formula is diluted so much, and consists almost entirely of water? When we get to know that water is the magic here, and not the substances that are mixed with it in the homeopathic tincture, all becomes clear. Succinctly speaking, there are two major arguments that Emoto advances in order to explain his research, and that his detractors do not seem to catch up with. What is it that makes water to be a receptor and vehicle for thought? It is the fact that water, as all in life, is vibration and that this vibration can be manipulated through intent. But then, how and why does vibration change its frequency? Emoto writes: —What you really know is possible in your heart is possible. We make it possible by our will. What we imagine in our minds becomes our world./xxii The lesson what we can learn from this experiment has to do with the power of words. The vibration of good words has a positive effect on our world, whereas the vibration from negative words has the power to destroy./xxv Now, in fact this is true. The hermetic tradition taught since times immemorial that words are codified vibrations. The scriptures all converge in saying that in the beginning there was the Word, and that the Word was sacred and had creational power. In old Egypt and India, the hierophants used vibrations for healing. It is crucial to have a glimpse into the background of Emoto’s expertise, which is the Japanese Shinto tradition. Shinto is the native religion of Japan and was once its state religion. After World War II, Shinto lost its status as the state religion of Japan; some Shinto practices and teachings, once given a great deal of prominence during the war, are no longer taught or practiced today—yet they are still an essential part of the Japanese culture, be it only on the level of the collective unconscious. The fact that we vibrate, that we are a particular arrangement of frequencies, has been affirmed by not only the hermetic tradition, but also by clairvoyants. Not only do we vibrate, but we vibrate differently. In a sense, we all come with a unique vibrational pattern. I would like to add one interesting detail that was a surprising result of exposing water to positive affirmations, negative affirmations (insults) or else leaving the water completely unattended. The surprising outcome was that the worst water, the one with the worst crystals, was not the water that had received the insults from the school children who helped carry out the experiment, but the water that had received no attention at all from their part. Emoto comments: —To give your positive or negative attention to something is a way of giving energy. The most damaging form of behavior is withholding your attention./65 This is a fact known from research on child abuse. Children who have been abused tend to go back to their abusers despite the fact that abuse is going to continue. And there was always a question mark in forensic research why children do that, and why they do not, or very seldom, betray their abuser in order to get rid of the abusive relationship? It has been found that it’s because the negative attention children receive in the form of abuse is for them still better than the total lack of attention they get in their homes. This fact may eventually lead us to better understand the true needs of children, because attention and love are one and the same thing. Try to show somebody that you love him or her and try to do that without giving them any attention. You will see that it’s impossible. The very thought of the person is already attention, and by thinking of the person you are sending out a vibration, and energy. What we commonly call love is exactly that bioplasmatic energy that pervades the universe, and that has been given so many names over the ages. And when we think in what Fritjof Capra calls the ‘systems view of life’, it is not astonishing after all to note that a natural element such as water can be impregnated with that energy, or its upside-down version, which is hatred.

The gist of this fascinating book is that water is the "life-blood" that circulates through all biological life on Earth and it should be treated with all the due respect it deserves. When one comes to understand the dynamics of water, it should not be considered a stretch to then see water as life itself and hence, the "Noblest Element". Masaru Emoto has studied water for years using an intriguing method of analyzing various samples of water from the crystals formed when frozen. Pure water forms beautiful prism-like ice-matrices, while polluted water forms distorted, or no ice-matrices at all. Perhaps the most amazing discovery of Masaru's research is that water demonstrates that it has sentient qualities by reacting with healthy or sick responses to various stimuli such as good, loving thoughts or bad, negative thoughts. These same studies were performed on plants with the same results and related in the book, "The Secret Life of Plants" by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird. Both books conclude that ALL life is sentient and dynamic. Skeptical or not, one should find this study of water and ice-crystals to be fascinating and with the many beautiful photographs of crystals included, that makes the book worth the time all on it's own. Indeed, there are few other forms of art so profoundly beautiful, whether from Nature or humans, that can compare with the awesome matrices formed by ice-crystals, especially those from pure, un-polluted water. In her book, "Taking The Waters: Spirit, Art, Sensuality", Alev Croutier also relates the need for respect of water and humble feelings of gratitude for all that it does for us. This is a perspective and over-view of the history of how humans have been "taking the waters" from drinking, to baths, to health spas and more, and all over the world. Towards the end of this beautiful, colorful book, there is a prophecy of the water story from the Cogui Indians who live in the Columbian Mountains and have decided to break their traditional isolation from the outside world by giving humanity a strong warning about the abuse of water and environment. In the Cogui language, the word for water and spirit is the same. [They refer to the act of creation as "water thinking" and all their teachings begin with the question "what is water?" Water is life itself. It thinks, it is alive, and it needs to be fed.]- (p 183). Indeed, considering what water is and does for all life, it needs to be held in high reverence and not abused. Masaru Emoto has truly clarified and enhanced what "Love and Gratitude" really means in his beautiful little book!

If what's written is true (and it seems very true) this book is both incredible and eye opening at the same time. We've always known water holds a special place in ancient India, but actually seeing the results of the experiments is shocking. And such beautiful pictures. For such a small book though, the price is high, but nothing's ever too much for scientists who spend their lives discovering and educating people!

It seems we have no real idea what water really is and how it works .. Emoto takes the reader on a ride into never heard re-alms and even though some thoughts to actually sound to abstract for me to follow, I give him the benefit of making me think. Besides that he caries a message of love and compassion !

Its not a long book but it is an interesting read. There are less than 200 pages but the price is reasonable. The photos in the book are in 2 sections and they are very detailed and interesting. The author was generous with the photos. I am glad I bought it. I would give it as a gift.

This fascinating pioneering evidence that water is alive even as it is within us has since been validated further as technology has expanded. It is essential that everyone understand that our thoughts and emotions contain real power. We CAN improve the world by positive thinking. Seeing is believing!!

The book arrived well packaged in the mail and has gloss paper, which I wasn't expecting. It is a fast read due to the many pictures that accompany the experiments of words spoken and how these look in water crystals. I find Emoto's research fascinating, and I'm so happy to obtain his work so that I can add it to my physical library collection.