Miraculous Messages from Water

Masaru Emoto (江本勝, Emoto Masaru?, b. July 22, 1943, Yokohama, Japan) is an author known for his controversial claim that if human thoughts are directed at water before it is frozen, images of the resulting water crystals will be beautiful or ugly depending upon whether the thoughts were positive or negative. Emoto claims this can be achieved through prayer, music or by attaching written words to a container of water.

With the recent popularity in music therapy, Mr. Emoto decided to see what effects music has on the structuring of water. He placed distilled water between two speakers for several hours and then photographed the crystals that formed after the water was frozen.

Tibet Sutra

Kawachi Folk Dance

Beethoven's Pastorale

After seeing water react to different environmental conditions, pollution and music, Mr. Emoto and colleagues decided to see how thoughts and words affected the formation of untreated, distilled, water crystals, using words typed onto paper by a word processor and taped on glass bottles overnight. The same procedure was performed using the names of deceased persons. The waters were then frozen and photographed.

Thank You

Mother Teresa

You Make Me Sick, I Will Kill You

Adolph Hitler

These photographs show the incredible reflections of water, as alive and highly responsive to every one of our emotions and thoughts. It is quite clear that water easily takes on the vibrations and energy of it's environment, whether toxic and polluted or naturally pristine.

Masaru Emotos extraordinary work is an awesome display, and powerful tool, that can change our perceptions of ourselves and the world we live in, forever. We now have profound evidence that we can positively heal and transform ourselves and our planet by the thoughts we choose to think and the ways in which we put those thoughts into.

Criticisms

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. Even with the best of intentions, cognitive biases can easily lead to the misinterpretation of such data.

Over time scientists have developed ways to reduce the risk of such biases occurring. Double blind experiments are a key method. In this case it would mean having the photographer and the judge carry out their work without prior knowledge of which sample had been sent which message.

A proper experiment would also require comparing a sample with another sample that has been treated identically in all ways except one. If the samples turn out different, then it may be plausible to attribute the difference in results (such as the formation of more or less aesthetically pleasing water crystals) to the one difference in their treatment (such as praying towards one but not the other).

But if there were multiple differences in the ways the samples were treated (such as the rate of cooling or other factors known to affect crystal formation), then it may not be possible to conclude from the experiment whether it was the treatment of interest (prayer in this example) or the uncontrolled experimental conditions that caused the samples to turn out differently.

Even sympathetic commentators have criticized Emoto for insufficient experimental controls, and for not sharing enough details of his approach with the scientific community. In addition, Emoto has been criticized for designing his experiments in ways that leave them open to human error influencing his findings.

James Randi, founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation, has publicly offered Emoto one million dollars if his results can be reproduced in a double-blind study. Randi has also stated that he does not expect to ever have to pay the million dollars.