Interview with Dr.Emoto
Water Mirror of the Soul
An Interview with Dr. Masaru Emoto
Interview is from Pure Inspiration magazine published in September 2006.
Pl: One of your remarkable discoveries is that water responds to words, whether they are spoken, written, or even thought, as in prayer. Kind, uplifting words tend to produce beautifully shaped water crystals, while angry discordant expressions have produced warped crystals.
Does this mean that the water is a living presence with awareness and feelings?
Dr. Emoto: To that kind of a question I usually answer that water is existing just as a mirror to the human mind. For example, if a person is not esthetically beautiful but is truly a beautiful person, when his or her face is shown to the water the water will respond to it and respond to it beautifully. However, if a very unpleasant person shows his or her face to the water, the water will respond accordingly.
In the Bible it says that at the beginning was the Word, and I think words, whether spoken or written, are vibrations. So, going back to this saying in the Bible, we can replace, “In the beginning was the Word” with “In the beginning there was vibration.” The Creator made water to carry or to convey there vibrations.
In my long career of researching water, I have concluded that we need some sort of existence like God or the Creator or we won’t be able to answer many of our questions.
Pl: Based upon your experiences with water, given that the body is made up of about ¾ water, do you feel that we can heal the body by thinking and visualizing positive, good thoughts?
Dr. Emoto: Yes, that is possible. A body can be healed when a person visualizes beautiful images or listens to beautiful music. However, quite often a person does not know what is wrong with him or her or what has to be done, so in that case that person can have a third person’s help in figuring it out.
Pl: Many of us have experienced the power of prayer. Please share with us some of what you’ve learned through water about the power of prayer and its ability to affect our lives.
Dr. Emoto: I started taking pictures of water crystals and that was the same time I started to discover the power of prayer. It doesn’t matter if we show written words to water or if we say some beautiful words to water such as “love” and “respect.” The water responds beautifully by producing beautiful crystals.
I have performed some interesting experiments with prayer. I have many students, and I asked some of them to direct prayer to water, specifically to a glass of water sitting on my desk that was really dirty which never produced beautiful crystals. Even though those students were located in various places far away from my office, regardless of the distance, they directed prayer to the water and that produced a great change! The water slowly started to clear up.
I was also interested to hear that a certain Buddhist priest was able to offer a prayer to dirty water and then clarify the dirty water through this means. I decided to go to Fujiwara Dam in Japan together with this priest to offer a prayer to the water. After an hour of prayer, I saw for myself that the dirty water was becoming much clearer. Then I decided to take a sample of that cleared water to my office and take a picture of the crystals, and we discovered some of the most beautiful crystals in this water. A movie called What the Bleep Do We Know? Shows one of the pictures of the water crystals I brought back from the dam. Interestingly, a week after we prayed over the water, a female body floated up to the surface of that body of water, and the next day the person who murdered her was arrested. From that point forward I really began to understand the power of prayer.
Also, late in July 1999, we had a ceremony offering prayer to the biggest lake in Japan called Lake Biwa. Because Lake Biwa is in the shape of a female uterus, it has traditionally been called the “Mother Lake.” Unfortunately, Lake Biwa was extremely polluted and every year it would give off a foul smell. I thought this was an unacceptable situation because Lake Biwa is a symbol of the female body, and I thought we had to do something about that. So 350 people got together around the lake, and we offered a great invocation led by a 97-year-old doctor. We started praying at 4:00 in the morning. Interestingly, about a month later there was a fascinating article in the newspaper. The article stated that there had been no foul smell detected around Lake Biwa that particular year. Because the lake was so polluted, it typically gave off a foul smell around the 15th of August. Every year after that date the city office would receive more than 300 calls about the smell, but that year they didn’t receive any calls. Since then, I heard that a group of people have been getting together to offer a prayer to Lake Biwa, and I understand that the lake is getting cleaner every year.
On July 20 of this year, I plan to go to Lake Galilee in Israel. I heard that about 1000 people will be gathering at the lake and everyone, including myself, will be offering prayers of love and gratitude to the lake. As you know, Lake Galilee runs into the River Jordan, which runs through the areas where Palestinians and Israelis are living, and they are using this water as drinking water.
These two groups of people have been in conflict for many years, and the Middle East is one of the biggest sources of conflicts in the world. Actually they are almost dividing the world into two. So if these two groups of people can create peace among themselves, it will contribute to world peace. I am really hoping that the positive energy we are offering to the water will contribute to a peaceful relationship between the Palestinians and the Israelis, and that by drinking the water maybe the conflict between them will disappear.
I’m not a “religious” person at all; I have simply conducted experiments over the years and, looking at the results, I have come to believe that there is such a thing as “the power of prayer.”
Pl: you have written about the importance of love and gratitude and that those words, used together, produce beautiful crystals in water. You said that the balance of love and gratitude is very important to maintaining health. Please tell us why you attribute so much importance to love and gratitude.
Dr. Emoto: To carry out my mission, I cannot deny the existence of the Creator. This wonderful Creator has made everything in this world, and in order to make everyone happy and harmonious He or She placed positive energy as well as negative energy concepts into the water and then sent the water to us.
I think that love is a active energy because it is the energy to give. Gratitude is a passive energy because it is the energy to receive. I think the Creator was really clever to think about the balance between love and gratitude. He or She thought that love, the giving energy, had to be one, but that the receiving or “thanks” energy had to be two and this explains the true meaning of the symbol H2O for water. “H” represents thanks and gratitude and “O” represents love. Because of this love and gratitude energy, when water is shown or hears the words “love” and “gratitude” it becomes happy and shines more.
It was the intention of the Creator to give love and gratitude to the world; however, it was also embedded into the system that people would become sick if they deviated from those two qualities. Over many centuries, humankind gradually forgot the original intention of the Creator and started having egoistic emotions and feelings which in turn, blocked the ability to feel love and gratitude.
Pl: I read about your idea that life was meant to be eternal but that we’ve gotten away from that and now we die. Is there any way to get back to that eternal nature, and if so, is it to think and act more purely?
Dr. Emoto: I think the correct status of people on Earth is that we are all going to elementary school here, so Earth isn’t a country but a school. After graduating elementary school you go to junior high, high school, university, and graduate school. We have to first graduate from elementary school; then in order to move on to higher levels of education we have to study very hard and graduate the next level. If we keep doing that, ultimately we will be able to go to eternal life staging- the true meaning of our existence.
However, the reality is that people on Earth aren’t able to graduate from elementary school! In fact, there are lots of dropouts over the years, and that’s why the population has been increasing at a very rapid pace. This is actually the concept of reincarnation. Reincarnation is not going to the higher stage but is what happens to the dropouts. They keep reincarnating in the same world which is Earth. So they really have to hurry up and graduate from elementary school as soon as possible. I think human beings are water, and there are more and more human beings on Earth which means we are getting more and more water on us. I believe this is why we are experiencing more natural disasters involving water such as tsunamis and floods.
Pl: It was particularly interesting to read in The Hidden Messages in Water about your teacher Nobuo Shioya who is still alive. In the book he was 101 and in wonderful condition. Can you tell us about his unique breathing technique to which he attributes much of his health?
Dr. Emoto: Dr. Shioya wasn’t a very healthy person as a young man. After reaching 16 years old, he devised a way to improve his health, and this is his breathing method. Called the “right mind long breathing method,” it involves breathing in air until it entirely fills up your lungs and provides oxygen to your entire body. While doing this, you are to think about the universe’s energy surrounding you and providing you with invigorating energy. Finally, he recommends that people say the following affirmation after the exercise, “The infinite power of the universe will be concentrated and bring true peace to the world. “This is the same phrase that was chanted over Lake Biwa under the supervision of Master Shioya. If you are suffering from a particular illness you have to say, “My sickness is (or will be) healed. “Though these are forms of prayers, the use of the word “will” imbues them with particularly strong determination.
So this is the “right mind long breathing method.” ”Long breathing” happens to have the same pronunciation as “long life” in Japanese. I think the number of breaths you can take in a lifetime is limited, so if you can prolong your breath, you can prolong your life! Today Dr. Shioya is 104 years old. He’s been living so long that I think it’s worth trying! I’m a student of Dr. Shioya but unfortunately I haven’t been practicing that breathing method because I’ve been traveling all over the world these days and I’m just too busy to take a long breath!
Pl: Are there any additional things we can do to help raise awareness of your work?
Dr. Emoto: Yes, I would like to ask you to help me with the Emoto Project which is a project to distribute free copies of a water book to children in the world. The Emoto Project’s website should be available by the end of June 2006 (https://www.hado.net/dremoto/project.php). There is a 32-page book about water for children, and all of the pages are available for downloading from our website, because it’s cheaper than printing. These copies are distributed free of charge to children, but many children in the world don’t have access to the internet, so these children are in need of people willing to publish books. We are looking for sponsors to fund the publication of hard copies, which will be distributed to children in poorer parts of the world. What we’re looking for from sponsors is for them to translate the template for the book into the language of the country they are distributing to. And this book can be arranged to be localized for any particular area. Or we can remix some of the music with local characters as well. As a reward for sponsoring this, a project sponsor can place one page of advertising in the book.
Pl: Can you tell us a little bit more about the children’s book?
Dr. Emoto: We’re focusing on the effects of words uttered. We have seen that words can affect the state of water or one’s state of mind. Thus, if a child utters a bad word to a friend, the friend will feel sad and the person who uttered the word will feel sad and this will affect, to a degree, their health as well. Therefore, we are stressing the importance of words.
Pl: Are there any closing messages you want to share with our readers?
Dr. Emoto: Yes, I think it was when my first grandson was born that I started to think about the word “peace” more seriously. Some indigenous groups make decisions based on the effects their decisions will have on many future generations. I’m sure many members of your audience have children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren, and they love them purely. If you truly love your following generations then you can purely think about the future for them and be motivated to take some positive actions to improve their world. So I simply want to say, “Think about your grandchildren and their future. After thinking about that, you can decide the way you live and act in your daily life.”
Pl: Thank you very much.
Dr. Emoto: I wish you great success.