Emotions are crystal clear
Dr Masaru Emoto, a Japanese water expert, explains how crystals can respond to the human mind and soul _ sometimes in astonishing and disturbing ways.
Published: 30/09/2011 at 12:00 AM
Newspaper section: Life
Masaru Emoto says water is the "mirror of humans; it knows everything!" Dr Emoto was addressing an audience during his visit to Bangkok to present his theory on water and its relationship with humans.
He says the core of his theory lies in how the formation of crystals can be influenced by human feelings and ideas.
While positive words and ideas will bring about pretty, clear and delicate patterns, negative expressions will produce irregular, even ugly crystals.
For example, a glass of clean water attached with a piece of paper that reads "family love" will form a half-transparent hexagonal crystal with a clear, delicate pattern. It is double-ringed. The inside hexagonal pattern is complete and regularly-formed while the outside one has a small breach at one of its sides.
However, a glass of water with a piece of paper that reads "9-11 air crash in America" will result in a yellow, putrid crystal with an unclear pattern.
But not only written words can influence their formation. Verbal expressions, music or video, even long-distance meditation can also influence water crystals in a similar way, as exhibited by all the 20,000 pictures Dr Emoto showed to his audience.
For example, if you shout at a glass of water: "I hate you" or "I will kill you" it will result in an ugly crystal with irregular forms, an exact reflection of human beings' uneven inner world.
Dr Emoto has studied water and crystals for more than 17 years. To make water crystals, he freezes a sample of water and stores it in a freezer at a temperature of -25C for three hours. He then removes the sample from the freezer and observes it under a microscope fitted with a camera, in a room with a constant temperature of -5C.
The expert established his own "office of water missionary" in Tokyo and is chairman of the International Hado Membership Association. He published a series of books on water and its crystals in different languages.
In one of his books, Message from Water, Dr Emoto writes water can listen, see, read and remember. It has life; knows everything!
His exhibit of more than 20, 000 pictures of water crystals can serve as good evidence. Those pictures are collected by his team through numerous experiments. All of them are blown up 200-500 times larger than the real objects.
Dr Emoto's lecture in Bangkok was arranged by Crystalion, a Singapore-based company focusing on promoting water-oriented facilities.
"We all know water is in everything: animal, plant, human, all forms of life. But we didn't realize the essence of water until Dr Masaru Emoto's theory came out," Crystalion chairman Vincent Seet said.
Dr Seet said the crystal theory was meaningful to Thailand as His Majesty the King is an expert in farming in which, water played a significant role. That means the King is very much into water which would definitely benefit his people.
"Thai people love His Majesty the King," said Dr Emoto who puts "Love & Thanks" as a slogan of his water missionary office. "Such a continuous, sincere faith indicates a great leadership and will generate huge, good power in water and thus greatly benefit Thai people."
In fact, the two words stand for the most important values in the world and also the theme of Dr Emoto's numerous public events worldwide.
One of those events was in 2005 when he was invited by the United Nations to present his discovery in New York.
But the world-renowned expert on water has kept a low profile.
He would sit in a corner of the presentation hall and have dinner quietly. No one would notice him until he is introduced to his audience.
However, when explaining how water would respond to people's positive words or ideas, he would sing the Edelweiss to a standing microphone, wearing a loving expression.
"Small and white, clean and bright, you look happy to meet me." The lyrics appeared on a video screen showing a dozen water crystals of snow-like appearance. They looked similar to each other; all of them were beautiful with clear hexagonal pattern.
As controversial as it may seem, Dr Emoto's theory has attracted a huge number of supporters who refuse to have their faith swayed.
"Those crystals are evidence of the power of human merit," Dr Seet said.
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