Blog 12 - ''Structured Water''

Water is life, thousands lived without love but no one lived without water.

As we all know and might have experienced that one of the blessings that living creatures have is water. Many cultures believe that water is something that is divine or something that is a gift from the divine. Water has been on our planet for more than billions of years. Life started in water and then it evolved. Water is essential for everything. With all that said, I wondered would it be possible that water would hold the information about our past and probably our future. I was curious enough to search if there are any traces of water holding any information; I was shocked to learn that a few years back people have done experiments to determine the very fact if the water holds any information about the events that occurred on our planet. Let’s come back to this in the later part of this blog.

In many cultures, for a number of rituals, water is considered as a medium to communicate or to present the offerings to their spiritual entity. It is the humble nature of humans that makes us grateful to the things in life that we get, thus to show respect to the supreme force that governs this we make a number of offerings to it. Some cultures have termed the water bodies like the rivers or lakes or seas as deities to worship. The Ganges in India is considered as a sacred river for this very reason in the Indian culture. But there is an interesting scientific reason why the Ganges or any holy water source is so important.

If we notice, the human settlements around the globe, the major factor that matters in flourishing these settlements is the availability of water. Even animals migrate to far distances in search of water be it on land or in the sky. Living creatures procreate when there is an abundance of water, which in turn guarantees that presence of food in different forms. In our quest to search for a habitable planet in our solar system, water is considered as the primary element for the development of settlements.

Coming to the research on water and the information it holds, the lead scientist was Dr. Masaru Emoto from Japan. His hypothesis was to determine the structural changes water demonstrates when exposed to different phenomenon, words, pictures or music. The experiment concluded that when water is exposed to the depiction of Happy events our history, the crystals that are formed after freezing this water show beautiful structures, same goes when the water is exposed to stories of great people. On the other hand, when water is exposed to depictions of horrific events the crystal patterns that are formed are just random and ugly. Thus water from different places can have different effects on humans, water can be structured to have a positive effect on the living creatures. Check the pictures of the experiments with both the scenarios. (just for reference, I do not own the copyrights)

There were many theories that scrapped down this experiment; they termed it something called as pseudoscience. It was also publicized that Structured water is a Marketing strategy used by the packaged water companies to sell their product for a higher price. However, I realized that the experiment makes if not complete but relevant sense to me. There have been many instances where water is used to cure some illness where this water was termed as holy. To mention some sources like the water from the Ganges or the water from Mecca called Aab-e-zam-zam or the water from the Holy-Grail* all have traces that say water has magical or healing properties.

Somehow I think there is a link between the experiments performed by Dr. Masaru Emoto and the importance of water mentioned in the holy books. Well it might sound like a good fictional story but think on this for a second, why would anyone term water of all the things as holy, there has to be some relevance to it. It can be like a wild goose chase to keep thinking why not, the science says it the books say it, what matters if we believe in it.