Water is Alive
The Physics of Water
70 to 75% of the earth’s surface is covered with water. Two-thirds of our bodies consist of water. In total, it makes up 99% of all molecules in our bodies. And still, there’s so much we don’t know.
We're really in the dark about water, we know so little. - Dr. Gerald Pollick, University of Washington, Bioengineering Professor
Most of us think of water as a highly pervasive and simple molecule (H20). That's what we learned in school. Everything ought to be known about water right? Many scientists and academics feel that everything must be known, however; that is not the case. We know the molecular structure of water. What we don't know is the social behavior of water. We don't know how water molecules actually share information or interact. We don't know how water molecules interact with other water molecules. We know there are three phases of water: solid, liquid and vapor. But is there a 4th phase that remains undiscovered?
Dr. Pollick raises some important questions:
Why does evaporated water collect in clouds, when the evaporation is all over the broad surface?
Droplets can float on water. Why don’t they immediately emerge?
How can the Jesus-Christ-lizard from Central America walk on water? Yes, there’s surface tension, but is that just a single molecular layer?
When you have two beakers of water and put two electrodes in with high voltage between them, the water will form a bridge of up to 4 cm. Wow! How? Why?
Sir William Hardy (1864–1934), biologist, food scientist and physical chemist, said there was a fourth phase. Somewhere in between solid and liquid. According to his research, it has a gel-like consistency.
And then he found out that some water is actually not H2O.
It’s H2O3.
Water is the ultimate carrier of information. For that very reason, our brains are composed of up to 83% water. Neurons transmit electrical signals through water, and research at the National Institutes of Health demonstrates that neurons even absorb and release water as a way of communication.
Water also acts as the ultimate neurotransmitter between all parts of the natural world. All ecosystems are connected by water, and damage to one ecosystem causes ripple effects throughout the world.
Indigenous Wisdom about Water
“Taking care of water has been part of our knowledge for most of our history as Anishinabe people. It is only recently that we have not been able to exercise these responsibilities.”
The Indigenous Peoples’ Kyoto Water Declaration (2003), the Tlatokan Alahuak Declaration (2006) and the United Nations Declarations on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) (2007) all emphasize the holistic dimensions of water as the source of material, cultural and spiritual life, and they outline the contributions water rights can bring to addressing global water issues. However, so far, the indiscriminate and narrow application of Western science and technologies has prevented full and equal participation of Indigenous peoples in water management and is contributing to the loss and degradation of water around the world.
While Indigenous world views regarding water are far from homogenous, some traditional beliefs and attitudes towards water are widely shared across Nations. As part of a submission to the 2000 Walkerton Inquiry, the Chiefs of Ontario have collectively shared the views that water is a living being with its own spirit. Water is life and as such is sacred and respected as a relative. Water is part of a greater, interconnected whole; therefore, a focus on just drinking water is misguided. One must consider all that to which water is connected. In keeping with this traditional perspective, water is not about “use” but rather about proper relationships. Because water is recognized as a living spiritual force, one’s relationship with water should be based on respect and an ethics of thanksgiving and should fulfill specific responsibilities. Proper relationships to water ensure that water is, in turn, able to fulfill its responsibilities. Those views entail that planning for water governance must take a long-term approach where knowledge about water is shared, with respect of the special role of women to speak for the water and with an emphasis on using the original Indigenous names of the waters.
Christian Wisdom about Water
Water is mentioned a total of 722 times in the Bible, more often than faith, hope, prayer, and worship. In the Bible, it doesn’t take long for water to be mentioned. Right away in Genesis 1:2, “The earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters.” Water is such an essential component of life, it was created on the very first day.
In Revelations water is mentioned again, and it is almost the last words of the Bible. Revelations 22:17, “The Spirit and the bride say, ‘Come.’ And let everyone who hears say, ‘Come.’ And let everyone who is thirsty come. Let anyone who wishes take the water of life as a gift.” Water flows throughout the scripture, and this should remind us of its importance…both spiritually and physically.
St. John Damascene summarized, “Water, then, is the most beautiful element and rich in usefulness, and purifies from all filth, and not only from the filth of the body but from that of the soul, if it should have received the grace of the Spirit”. (An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith– Book 2: Chapter 9).
Water has the power to heal, as can be seen from the stories of Naaman – the Syrian cured from his leprosy in the waters of Jordan (2 Kings 5:1-14) and the annual miracles at Bethesda in Jerusalem (John 5:1-9). Water has the power to purify, to provide deliverance, and it can also destroy evil and enemies as in the stories of the Flood (Genesis 6:17) and the flight of Israel from Egypt (Exodus 14:1-15:21).
Water Has Memory
A documentary by Anna Popova called Water: The Great Mystery covers the work of several key scientists in the field of water study. This documentary reveals surprising characteristics of water—specifically, that it carries a footprint, or memory, on a molecular level. In the best- selling Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness, author Peter Godfrey Smith dispels with our land-centric ideals of intelligence and examines octopuses and other cephalopods to answer the question, what happens when water shapes intelligence?
“When we begun to understand water, the roadmap to ending all pollution will begin” – Matt Thornton, The New Water Generation
Water consciousness first gained international attention with the unconventional but groundbreaking experiments of Japanese researcher Masaru Emoto. While you may not recognize his name, chances are that you have seen or heard of his work- namely, the theory that water can understand and retain the energy of human intention.
In the 1990s, Emoto performed a series of experiments in which water was kept in a variety of bottles, each carrying a label with a different message. The messages ranged from positive and caring (thank you, love) to negative (I hate you, I want to kill you), and then drops of water from these bottles were placed on slides and deep-frozen to form snowflake-like crystals.
His findings were astounding. The crystals that formed on positive messages were found to be more geometric and aesthetically pleasing, while the crystals formed by water with negative messages were chaotic and non-uniform in shape.
He called his findings hado– the life force energy-consciousness of varying frequencies infused in all matter. The follow-up argument has been this: Given the high water composition of the human brain and body, if water is in fact conscious and receptive to energy frequencies, how can these positive or negative messages affect our bodies on a molecular level?
To date, mainstream science has not been able to verify or reproduce Emoto’s findings due to the unspecified techniques he used to freeze his samples. On a wider scale, the scientific world has been quick to dismiss similar works of related research as homeopathy and borderline pseudoscience.
What on the theme of water consciousness has been scientifically proven and verified?
In 2015, the highly-respected Max Planck Institute in Mainz, Germany, published a comprehensive study, “The Structural Memory of Water Persists on a Picosecond Timescale” in the prestigious journal Nature Communications. This study demonstrated that water cannot be treated as a continuum (or as substance through which information only travels but does not remain), but that specific local memory-enabling structures do in fact exist within liquid water.
While this may not be as dramatic as the findings of Benveniste & Montangnier, nor as visually appealing as Emoto’s snowflake studies, this German study was a huge step towards providing quantifiable, verifiable, reproducible evidence that liquid water can store information and may even have more properties that we have not yet uncovered.
Another important piece of the puzzle is the well-documented concept of hydrogen bonds in water, an attraction between two atoms that already participate in other chemical bonds. Hydrogen bonds form between neighboring water molecules when the hydrogen of one atom comes between the oxygen atoms of its own molecule and that of its neighbor. This happens because the hydrogen atom is attracted to both its own oxygen and other oxygen atoms that come close enough. A consequence of hydrogen bonding is that hydrogen bonds tend to arrange in a tetrahedron around each water molecule, leading to the well-known crystal structure of snowflakes, as we saw in Emoto’s work. These bonds are the primary reason water displays such interesting and unusual chemical properties, many of which aren’t found in any other chemical substance.
While the concept of water consciousness has been historically polarizing, attracting both ardent fans and vocal skeptics, modern research such as that done by the Max Planck institute does show that water demonstrates scientific properties which we previously thought impossible.
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