Wonderful response, guys, and thank you for taking the time to give my usual 'open-skeptic' help-me-out-here questions the attention of your diverse thoughts.
At this point in the discussion, I'm going to assume (please correct me ASAP if I'm erring) that no one here in the discussion was familiar with any of this before reading the OP. I was hoping for some member from Japan to give us their thoughts on it, or at least anyone who had come in direct contact with Emoto, or the effects of the phenomenon itself.
However, I see that I've provoked some of the finest minds at GTP, and this is a good start. And thanks to our astute German military driver, who has actually brought us back some images that are connected with this. And
Omnis - when I start thinking of Dr. Nakamatsu, my brain starts oozing out of my ears. He's not human - and I shall duly investigate him one day.
I first heard of him, while researching the effects of oxygen deprivation and the resulting 'thinking' patterns within the brain . . . and decided to take a breather and leave him alone for awhile, while I tackled some easier puzzles.
Let's clarify this issue a bit:
What is the concept that is being presented to us?
That . . . "
Consciousness Changes Water"
This is what he touts as
his (?
) 'thesis'.
What does this mean - this 'consciousness changes water' thing?
We will have to tackle the concepts of the words themselves, first - so let me try to put in in some 'other' ways - maybe we can then hone it down to specific words that will truly pinpoint the concepts of the words themselves before using the words to conceptualize the larger concept.
Consciousness changes Water. Or - Attention morphs liquid. Intention influences chemical. Or . . Water is a chemical that can be changed by Thought.
(Dont even start thinking of That Cat at this point - you'll end up always nondetermined.)
If you have other ways of defining the concept we're actually skeptical about, or prone to believe, please throw it in here. His way of putting it (his thesis) is quite simple:
"
Human Consciousness Changes Water."
Now we have to prove or disprove this.
We've heard this thesis before. Water can be changed to wine. People have walked on water. (I think Chris has a trick up his heels, though - Chris Angel, that is). There is what is called 'holy' water - a magical potion (more easily transmutable than lead into gold) that allegedly has a good vibration that neutralises opposing bad vibrations. There must be a dozen more examples of this supposedly 'magically' transmutable characteristic of our plain and simple old water - the lifeblood of our planet.
That, it is the lifeblood of our planet, is true, is it not? All life contains some percentage of it. However, some lifeless things also contain some percentage of it.
But that will now take us down the part of defining what 'life' is - so to keep our investigations simple, we will take life that contains water, as people, plants, animals (and so on) and water as that stuff we are used to as a norm - out of a tap, out of the lake, from the sky, from a hole in he ground, etc.
Baby steps.. . .
So he says that human consciousness changes the 'structure' of the water. According to what's reported he measures visually, and via radionics, (using an American-designed HADO device) the specific vibrations at the molecular level. He has documented these changes using a plethora of different tests in different situations involving subjects that range from a few at a time to several thousand Japanese at once.
We'll put aside as to how the changes effect us, or how the changes occurred, for a moment and look at the changes themselves.
To put it in a nutshell - he says that
positive vibrations change water to a positive state, and that negative either leaves no change at all, or that the change is an 'ugly' one. (When I dig deeper I see no 'bad' or 'good' here - just a change towards this side or that.)
Fiddle-faddle, we would say. Bosh. Why the hell can't we change water into wine then, and save ourselves a trip to the liquor store?
Well apparently we don't have that strong a consciousness, our will being awfully weak and all. (I can't even keep away from meat, alcohol and tobacco!) But others can do it. They can make water solid enough to walk on, they can part the whole damn Red Sea if they wanted to. Frightening. Water listens to them. Water retains information and is changed by it. Water can be changed into medicine. (Yes, he's done it - and to all accounts keeps doing it - which is my interest in find someone who has undergone such therapy - and getting some information directly.)
To be honest, what's frightening is the fact that we are about 96% water when sperm and egg meet. We hold on to that water, though reducing it to 80% at birth and remaining watery at around 70% at adulthood. So if water is being changed by thoughts (or human consciousness) then the negative thoughts of others are effecting your 'water' - congealing it into an uncrystalised mess, while when people 'stroke' you, and make you feel good, your water takes a beautiful shape and you positively glow.
Obviously we can give ourselves good attention, too, not having to be totally dependent on others for good vibes.
And what interested me most was the experiments that show that not only do water-based substances (such as rice) change in diverse ways when different information was projected at it, but that the test receptacle that was ignored (
no attention) fared the worst.
Ignoring our bretheren seems to be not a good idea; they may rot and come back to shoot us.
More on this later . . . photon's walls-of-text kill my time, but your thoughts are gold to me - and so I mine you.
