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EARTH & US: Water and Gratitude
Dr. Masaru Emoto, whose work with photographing frozen water crystals became famous due to the movie “What the Bleep Do We Know?” spoke recently at the University of North Carolina. Emoto emphasized the messages water offers, one of which is the power of gratitude.
With his characteristic straight face, he said (in English): “Japanese man, what do you expect?” then pulled out a camera and snapped pictures of the audience, much to our amusement. His talk was sprinkled with humor in such a way that one was never quite sure whether he was serious or having fun.
We are water. The voice within us is the water inside of us, he said. We are water: 80% at birth, 70% at adulthood, and 60% after age 65. At less than 50% water, we die. The fertilized egg is 96% water.
Eternal questions. Water gives us the answer to the eternal questions: 1) Where do we come from? 2) For what purpose are we on earth? and 3) What happens when we die?
1) According to NASA (1997), 10 million ice comets, each weighing 100 tons, fall to earth each year—but this fact is rarely reported. “So since water comes from space and we are water, we come from space—we’re aliens,” he said.
2) We are here to study at the earth school, to learn about vibration and resonance. Quantum physics teaches that all energy is vibration. “In the beginning was the word” (sound vibration). God is the note that resonates with all 12 notes on the piano. Emoto described himself as an atheist until the age of 45, because of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But water restored his connection with God. “God used vibration freely to create the universe,” he said; water was what God used to carry information, as vibration, to earth. Vibration creates all phenomena. Humans have creative ability also, through singing. It is possible to resonate with the same vibration as Jesus or Buddha. If there is no harmony, the result is destruction.
3) When we die, he believes, the “graduates” sublimate and go on to other levels, while the “dropouts” reincarnate, and stay around earth. Those who sublimate are people or animals who lived unselfishly, understanding the principle of the Creator; they transcend ego. The rest keep coming back. “I’ve been here 700 times, so I’m king of the dropouts,” he boasted. Indigo or crystal children are the exception, being “graduates” or bodhissatvas who choose to return to help the rest of us get free. For animals, it is hard to sublimate when they don’t live a natural life (e.g., domesticated animals). 650 million slaughtered cows linger on as spirits. The spirit, according to Emoto, is actually water vapor (like those ghosts in the Japanese movies). “The earth is full house!” he exclaimed, referring to all the human and animal ghosts which hover around, unable to sublimate. Prayer helps to release them, and prayers of love and gratitude are the most powerful.
Global warming. With global warming of 3.6 degrees F. in the last 100 years, and another 5.4 degrees expected in the next 100 years, the earth is sick, just as a human with a 3.6 degree temperature increase would have a fever. But the earth won’t die; it will protect itself by getting rid of harmful influences (humans). Hence the tsunami, hurricanes, and earthquakes we are currently experiencing. The UN predicts the human population will double in the next 100 years. “The Japanese say that the dragon god (god of water) is angry when there is a tsunami,” he told us, while showing a remarkable satellite picture of the coast of Thailand in which the wave indeed had the shape of a dragon. “We owe our life to water, but don’t think of or take care of it, so the water god is angry,” he said. He mentioned the lost continent of Mu in the Pacific, and the great flood for which Noah built the ark. Then he played with the Spanish words for earthquake (terremoto) and tidal wave (maremoto), saying, “Don’t make Emoto angry!”
Global warming has been caused by combustion of fossil fuels (fire); the solution is to produce energy from water, he said. He also hinted at a “non-consumptive energy from the vibration of pure consciousness.”
Vibrational energy. We were then treated to a stunning video of crystals evolving during the playing of Beethoven’s 9th symphony. Water crystals are manifestations of vibration, just as music is vibration. Water in our bodies is energized by fine music; we get sick when we stray away from the right vibrations, he said, predicting that music therapy will become increasingly important. Singing is even better than listening to music, he said, and invited the audience to sing John Lennon’s “Imagine.”
We were shown images of water crystals which had been exposed to photographs of a Shinto shrine (the crystal bore a remarkable resemblance to the shrine) and a crop circle (the water crystal looked somewhat like a UFO). He showed us the difference between water with the words “Do it” vs. “Let’s do it” taped onto the vial, and the words “mother’s cooking” vs. “instant food.” The thirteen virtues extolled by Ben Franklin were taped to water, each making a beautiful crystal. “Words are hado (Japanese word for vibration); beautiful words create beautiful nature, ugly words create ugly nature,” he said, and recounted the famous rice experiment: two covered jars of cooked rice are compared over the course of three weeks, and one jar is repeatedly verbally abused (“You fool”) while the other is thanked. The rice in the first jar turns black and rotten, while the second ferments beautifully. This little experiment has been done by hundreds of Japanese school children.
A Japanese proverb: “Water is the mirror of our hearts.”
A short video showed parents and children taking part in an experiment on tap water from Tokyo. They prayed over the water, saying “Thank you water, we love you, we’ll take good care of you water,” projecting these thoughts for one minute. The water was placed in Petri dishes and frozen; three hours later, to the children’s obvious delight, beautiful crystals formed from the blessed water (but not from the control water).
Love, gratitude, and consciousness. Emoto set up a correspondence between love (fire) and gratitude (water) as yang and yin. The yang, active energy he likened to oxygen, while the yin, receptive energy he likened to hydrogen. Water is the perfect balance of gratitude and love: 2 parts gratitude and 1 part love, he said.
What does e = mc squared mean? According to Emoto, e means energy, m (mass) means world population, and c (speed of light) means speed of consciousness. So, as consciousness increases, energy increases. A woman of high consciousness organized to clean up or close down polluting factories in Tokorozawa; three years later, the rainwater (which had previously not crystallized well) formed beautiful crystals.
What we, including scientists, know about water is the tip of the iceberg; we use about 3% of our brains. So, we have much to look forward to, in understanding vibration and resonance.
The International Water for Life Foundation now gives out free books of water crystal photos to children. Emoto hopes to give out 650 million such books in the next 10 years (10% of the world’s population) to shift consciousness by giving this information to young children. In 10 or 20 years, these kids will be adults with higher consciousness. All we really need is love and gratitude, he said in closing. Emoto’s website: www.hado.net.
Happy Thanksgiving! May all the water of the Earth be blessed with our love and thanks
Cathy Holt
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