My ninty-one year old grandmother gave me this book for Christmas last year, and I just now read it cover to cover. (On Christmas day I did flip through it and admire the amazing pictures, but it finally made its way to the top of my "books to read" stack.) My grandmother is an artist who reads all the time, is extremely interested in science, and is always sharing with us new things that she reads. While I admittedly don't always take an interest in EVERYTHING that she gives us to read, I was intrigued by the ideas contained in this book.
Masaru Emoto is a Japanese scientist who has conducted hundreds of experiments having to do with water. In this book, he uses the results of his experiments to comment on personal health, the environment, and ways to create peace in the world around us. Emoto shows the reader through photography how water reacts to different energy. For instance, in one experiment, Emoto and his researchers took pieces of paper with different words written on them and wrapped the paper around bottles of water with the words facing in, toward the water inside. The bottles were then frozen, and the crystals were studied. The bottles that had been shown positive words like "Thank you" and "Love and gratitude" formed beautiful, complex crystals. The bottles that were shown negative words like "You fool!" or "You make me sick" did not form any crystals. Similar outcomes appeared when Japanese school children spoke to the bottles of water. (Reading about this made me want to conduct my own frozen experiment, but I doubt tupperware and a magnifying glass would present the same results.) As if this wasn't enough to think about, Emoto goes even further by making suggestions on how we can use energy to create peace in the world.
I am still wrapping my brain around the ideas presented in this book, and I think I might have to pick it up again and read it so that I can think about it more deeply. Emoto presents ideas that are exciting and pretty wild, but I love the overall idea of how energy connects all things on earth, and we have the unique ability to control how our energy affects our experience and the world around us. Near the end of the book, Emoto presents an interesting thought: "If we fill our lives with love and gratitude for all, this consciousness will become a wonderful power that will spread throughout the world. And this is what water crystals are trying to tell us" (Emoto 146). Isn't this a wonderful idea?
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