Jeff Brown

Review: The Secret Life of Water, Masaru Emoto (follow up to The Hidden Messages in Water)



Posted: Thursday, July 24, 2008

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Inner Projection

Where do you find understanding? You have a need to know. Where do you get your answers?

Do you, like most, seek unobtainable answers? Where do you go?

Do you find your answers in nature? Do you find them in religion? Are you more in need of cold, hard evidence? Science possibly?

But do you know the answer to everything lies in theory? Theory, that according to Stephen Hawking is never absolute? Hawking, a physicist who believes that the best unity of knowledge theory or string theory will help us humans know the mind of God? But can an ant keep up with a jaguar?

Where do you find your answers?

Are you desperate? So desperate that you'll abscond with fact and believe out of pure need. Your answers taking precedent over and above that of logic and fact? Are your answers based more in faith, belief in things not seen?

Dr. Emoto has an answer. But your belief in that answer lies more in who you are than whether or not Emoto can prove his findings to be sound.

Dr. Emoto confesses that the observation of water crystals is based on "subjective science."

Emoto's water crystal experiments consist of exposing water in glasses to different words, pictures, or music, and then freezing and examining the aesthetics of the resulting crystals with microscopic photography.

Unfortunately, there are not enough controls on his experiments and Emoto has not shown enough details of his approach to the scientific community. His experiments are not of the scientific method-- rigorously researched and experimented upon by other scientists?

Kristopher Setchfield, (BA, Health Science) from Castleton State College states " It is this crucial lack of scientific foundation that prevents Dr. Emoto's work from attracting interest by widely accepted and respected scientists at long-standing research institutions. This is unfortunate for the world if there is, after all, truth to his claims--as reproduction of his results by any scientist would lend much credence to his work. A little change in Emoto's experimental design would do great things for the credibility of his claims. I recommend the following to ground his work in sound scientific principle:

After the lengthy review of Emoto's research methods and results, I have come to believe that Dr. Emoto is offering pseudoscience to the masses in the guise of defensible research. Only time and review by others will tell if there is any truth at the heart of Mr. Emoto's claims, as Emoto himself thoroughly believes in his findings but does not value the scientific method or community. What is truly fearsome is the great numbers of people that accept his words as proven facts without looking deeper to find out if his claims are truly justified. While I respect Dr. Emoto's desire to save the Earth's water from contamination and pollution, unless he can produce a scientific paper and get it published in a scientific journal, I believe that he will continue to be ignored by the scientific community, and his claims will never be soundly proved or disproved"

But what these scientists say matters not in the least . . . least of all to Emoto's fans.

Emoto has a massive following. Many have read his books, listened to his CD's, watched his DVD's and are looking at the calendars and posters they've bought, which are mysteriously missing from Dr. Emoto's web site Hado dot net.

But there is more here than meets the eye, or touch, smell, taste even. For one's belief, the wonderment received through Emoto's work, one's feelings of overpowering joy and purpose derived from his work take precedent over anything any scientist has to say. For those scientists, especially those looking for the answer to everything, work in the odd, abstract, intangible, un-provable world of theory. They work alone. We very rarely see them, never mind go to them.

But we go to Dr. Emoto. Often. For he has touched our hearts.

And this is where this holistic healer, this connector, this researcher into mankind's heart makes us happy. Fills our hearts. Quantum mechanics, relativity, and string theory never filled your heart. Even though many of us have reached out in great interest to Dr. Hawking's A Brief History of Time, it's not the same.

But we are common men and women. And we believe as the great physicist Richard Feynman, that if physics is such a great thing, then it should be accessible to all. He did not prove this to be true, as we know, so we go to Dr. Emoto. He has our hearts. And it's a rare individual who can get there through our minds. Sorry, Dr. Hawking.

But a word of caution. Buyer beware. Love Dr. Emoto for the great joy of possibility he brings. Just don't get blinded by a desperate need to know. That's all we are saying. All we are saying is give peace a chance.

Jeff is a Career, Life, & Mentor coach & CEO of  www.InnerProjection.com: working with students and parents using the proprietary Success, Design and Preparation system creating a plan to ensure his clients are of the 30% of college grads who don't waste 10 to 15 years or leave 100s of thousands of dollars on the table.

Prior to owning Inner Projection, Jeff worked as a computer programmer and in tech. support, but hated it enough to move from his home in Connecticut to do stand up comedy in Boston where he worked with such comics as Bill Burr, Dan Cook, and Billy Martin and wrote for people like Mz. Michigan who needed material for her ventriloquism act. He then moved to Los Angeles to do more stand up, but found being a coach & college instructor more rewarding. He's married with 3 children.
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