March 28, 2005
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MONDAY BOOKThe Hidden Messages in Water
One day, Dr. Masaru Emoto, a Doctor of Alternative Medicine from Open International University in India, read this sentence in a book: No two snow crystals are exactly the same. It set him on an eventual course to study water crystals to find out what they could tell us about ourselves, since human bodies are made up of 70% water. I picked up this little book from the desk of a friend I was visiting recently and brought it home to see what the heck he was up to. If you saw the film “What the Bleep Do We Know!?” you would be aware of his work. I have to confess I saw the movie out at the theater and immediately erased everything in it from my mind because it struck me as Way Too New Age, but other people just rave. It just came out in video recently if you want to try it safely at home. Anyway….Dr. Emoto and his
assistant proceeded to figure out a way using high-speed photography to meticulously record frozen water crystals under all different kinds of circumstances – exposing them to music (in the first photo above the music is Bach); exposing them to words typed and taped on the bottles holding them or spoken to them (the other two photos shown here are crystals that were exposed to the words “love and gratitude” and “you fool” – you guess which is which). It’s sort of a quantum physics thing – how much of what we are is energy and vibration? You can browse some of the beautiful crystals here. So I’ve just begun the book, but what it makes me think of already is the incident that happened recently when Brian Nichols went berserk in Georgia 
and wound up by fate in the home of Ashley Smith, who proceeded to use calm and thoughtful words and behavior to stop him in his tracks. Water crystals or no, we know that if the world leaders behaved this way to each other it would create a very different outcome than war and political corruption and greed. It’s not that those in power don’t know this either – it’s that they don’t care.
Deep Thought: “When I told Dad I wanted a kite he said, “Okay, but instead of buying a kite, let’s make one.” So we did. Then, about a month later, we also made me a bicycle, but it blew away.”
Today I am grateful for: Beaks
Guess the Movie: “Would ya just watch the hair. Ya know, I spend a long time on my hair and he hit it; he hit my hair.” Answer: Saturday Night Fever, 1977.
Winner: TheExWifeIAlwaysKnewIdBe.
Magnitude 8.7 – NORTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
2005 March 28 16:09:36 UTC
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End of Day: 8:19 pm
+ = Didn’t burn my house down once again after leaving for a few hours and not being sure I turned the heat under the teapot off – this time I really retired the teapot.
- = Rain still postponing yardwork.
Comments (17)
the movie is Saturday Night Fever
love that movie
WOW! Those pictures are so amazing. Often when it snows, I can’t help but wonder how that many snowflakes could be different. What a wonderous world we live in. It just boggles the mind.
While I completely and utterly love this, and the dreamer and idealist and lover of all in me is supremely happy at such a ‘finding,’ perhaps I need to see it with my own eyes… Or maybe (re arguments going on at my site triggered by that Bleeper movie, which I haven’t yet seen), I’m just wearing a Skeptics Hat today.
How do I set up an experiment at home to see these marvels with my own water under my own eyes?
*Hugs*
Saturday Night Fever wins! Good job.
I remember someone in my cancer support group said, on the wall, up at the max station at the zoo, was a display from some artist showing the spoken words and there effects on the water AND the difference between positive and negative THOUGHT on the water molecules. I am very careful about what I think and say when it comes to negativity.
great works…
your deep thoughts are always so *deep*
lovely post as usual
“it’s that they don’t care.” how stunningly true.
Interesting thoughts, I love that quantum physics stuff, it’s so interesting and philosophical. Thanks for your comments of a few days ago.
Love the ice crystals-saw them before on someone else’s xanga. Magical! Speaking of beaks, the Three-Headed Sarahs’ site is to be closed. Kites and bikes, I oh so understand!
OMG, not another tsunami!!!! Scary! ‘New Wave’ is fun to explore! Thank you for you…
That was fun – wearing my artist hat. Wearing my scientist hat I wished he hadn’t called it research, but I enjoyed looking at the pictures all the same. I’ve often thought about using the tools of science for art – some of what you can only see with a microscope is extraordinary and wondrous.
I heard something like the water and crystals from that movie Bleep? I think I remember James first discuss it on his site, then today, yours and brendaclews’ post remind me of it.
It all makes perfect sense to me. Bottom line, everything is energy.
you know what I love? the fact that the bleep movie is going through our community…I mentioned it on my site on saturday you today brendaclews…I love it!
Yes, I was unaware of anyone else blogging on it until after I did. Interesting coincidence.
I never could bring myself to see “What the Bleep Do We Know”. It played for a long time in San Francisco.
Synchronicities abound, it seems. I came here by way of brenda’s site, having not moments earlier finished an entry in which I made (among other things) an announcement of an upcoming conference here, in which Masaru Emoto is featured faculty. And then I ask myself if it’s part of INFJ-ness to have many cats. And so the journey down the rabbit hole continues…. maybe it’s all New-Agey, but such mindwalks are part and parcel of the NF temperament…