Dr Masaru Emoto

[Apollyon]

Any of you guys familiar with Dr Masaru Emoto? http://www.masaru-emoto.net/english/entop.html

I'd heard of his 'work' with water being responsive to human emotion before, but I'd paid it no heed as I would imagine anybody with reasonable intelligence would.


The Hidden Messages in Water is an eye-opening theory showing how water is deeply connected to people's individual and collective consciousness. Drawing from his own research, scientific researcher, healer, and popular lecturer Dr. Masaru Emoto describes the ability of water to absorb, hold, and even retransmit human feelings and emotions. Using high-speed photography, he found that crystals formed in frozen water reveal changes when specific, concentrated thoughts are directed toward it. Music, visual images, words written on paper, and photographs also have an impact on the crystal structure. Emoto theorizes that since water has the ability to receive a wide range of frequencies, it can also reflect the universe in this manner.

However, I was watching What The Bleep Do We Know? when they mentioned his name. Now I found this quite disappointing as the movie presented quantum physics and a number of concepts in an entertaining way which seemed technically accurate. But one segment of the film was dedicated to the Dr Emoto's pictures of water.

Presently I am at a loss for words, so I'd like to welcome everybody's thoughts and feelings on the subject.

[JadeDragon]

In a number of metaphysical/spiritual disciplines, water is highly revered for its "life-giving" properties. According to those theories, water is linked to human feelings and emotions because of its liquid state at room temperature, and because of its appearance of purity in a reasonably unpolluted condition. It's also connected to ideas of life cycles and rejuvenation due to natural occurrences such as tides and lunar rhythms, and perhaps not coincidentally, in Wicca, it's an elemental that is said to influence artistic pursuits.

I've also watched "What The Bleep Do We Know?" and I thought the motif of water running throughout the film was quite fascinating, actually. After all, water is also used by different faiths in a ritualistic manner, by imbuing it with "healing" and/or "holy" qualities through prayers and chants, which is really directing specific, concentrated thoughts towards it. And many people believe that water treated in such a way does have an effect on them in real life. So it would only be logical to test this hypothesis in a scientific environment, like what Emoto is doing. I'm not going to say that I agree with Emoto's theories whole-heartedly, but I'm not dismissing the possibility that he may be right either.

And just for the record, I kinda think that I'm a person of reasonable intelligence. :P