My Three Stories About Water
Or, how water found me in the west. There is such a difference between thinking something and feeling something. What can drive us crazy as human beings, namely our emotional life, is the very thing that allows a visceral response to what we are experiencing. Are you familiar with that vibration that seems to begin in one’s gut, then travels all through one’s body? It precedes a kind of knowing that can only come from our absorbing an experience right into our cells. It functions as an alarm of sorts. An alert. A physical message saying, Pay attention. This is important. The first time it happened to me during an experience with water, a friend had just gifted me a copy of Masaru Emoto’s book The Hidden Messages in Water . Emoto’s work revealed, through empirical observation, that water reacts to human thought and emotion by playing certain kinds of music to water, then photographing the resulting affects. Emoto observed both beautiful crystalline structures, and sometimes disturb