The water crystals also respond
beautifully to classical music as well as to synchronized prayer
The Secret Life of
Water
By Masaru Emoto
Atria Books 2005, 178 pp., $22.95
Reviewed by Diane Saarinen
References
to this book kept crossing my path, so when I was asked to review it for
New Age Journal, I took this as a sign of some sort of synchronicity and
accepted. I come to this review a bit handicapped, having not read the
previous Emoto books:
The Hidden Messages of Water or
The True Power of Water.
The Secret Life of Water focuses on Emoto’s work with frozen
water crystals and how they physically appear in response to positive
and/or negative energy. In this case, the energy provided is in terms of
messages that are thought silently or spoken aloud: “You’re beautiful,”
“You fool!” for example. Emoto shows in the many photographs that are
provided that the crystals that form in response to negative thoughts
are misshapen; while the ones that are created with the positive
thoughts are crisp and symmetrical. The water crystals also respond
beautifully to classical music as well as to synchronized prayer.
Emoto also speculates on some interesting hypotheses:
“In every minute of the day, about twelve comets, some as heavy as 100
tons, fall to earth. These comets are made up mostly of ice. When the
ice reaches the atmosphere, it forms clouds and eventually falls to
earth in the form of rain to fill the ocean. And since we are mostly
water, in a sense we all come from outer space.”
The author admits that the study of ice crystals is a subjective, and
not objective, science. Also, some ideas are not new to the New Age
community – we’ve all heard that if you talk to plants in a pleasant
fashion, they will grow faster and that people who are prayed for in
hospitals seem to recover more quickly. And to say that Emoto is a water
enthusiast is an understatement! The man seems to have studied
everything there is to know about it. However, the study of the ice
crystals (at least to me) is a new innovation and it is interesting to
see the photographic evidence of how the crystals form in response to
various stimuli.
The author writes much about hado – the subtle energy that exists in all
things – and also adds a bit on lunar cycles, homeopathy and music as a
channel for healing. All in all, I enjoyed the book’s positive message
of the effects thoughts and words have on the physical plane with the
focus on water as the source of life. If the reader can embrace Emoto’s
philosophy, he or she will truly add a new dimension to the phrase “go
with the flow.”
Diane Saarinen is the new book reviewer for New Age Journal. Visit
her website at
www.geocities.com/diasaar2002/ for her thoughts on writing, hunting
for second-hand treasures, and – oddly – her cat.
