An excerpt from an article originally featured in New Age Retailer magazine:
~ Waterfall ~
An Interview with Masaru Emoto
(Manami Hara served as Masaru Emoto's translator for this interview, which was conducted in late 2005 in Vancouver, British Columbia.)
Ray Hemachandra: My mother-in-law has been diagnosed with advanced cancer. After seeing the movie What the Bleep Do We Know!? she began writing words on her body. My son is 4 years old and autistic, and my mother-in-law began writing healing words on his chest to help him, too. He started scribbling on himself, so my wife and I asked her to stop. Now, she writes words on his back.
Have you heard of other people writing words on themselves to improve health and well-being as a result of your work?
Dr. Masaru Emoto: A lot of people question me about whether or not that has a good effect on the body. I always answer with a mixed response. I worry about people’s tendency to go toward tattooing on the body.
In a story from a long time ago, there was a priest, whose name was Ho’ichi. He was studying at a certain temple. A strange creature, a bad creature, would come out every night. Always this creature would eat a young priest. Ho’ichi was really worried about it, so the master priest said, “I will write all the chanting words on your body to protect you.”
The master priest wrote the words all over Ho’ichi’s body. But the master priest forgot to write on Ho’ichi’s ears. That night, Ho’ichi was sitting in the temple, chanting, going through the night hoping that nothing would happen to him. The creature came. The creature said, “It is so strange. I cannot see the young priest, but I can only see his ears.” And the creature ate those two ears. Later on, Ho’ichi was teased and called “the priest without ears,” because his ears were eaten by the creature.
I believe that when you get so caught up with the notion of protecting yourself or getting better with the words and believing in their effect, there is also the possibility, or side effect, of missing something. Such mistakes sometimes can create even bigger problems in the end.
That said, I believe it is a good thing to put healing words on your body. However, what is most important is to really understand what it means to have heart and what it means for you to receive heart or to give heart. That’s the starting point.
When the illness is so great, and you have such a stress on your heart, I think it is hard to have such clear and pure heart to overcome problems. So, as a starting point, write down words and have them close to you. Have them in your room. That is a good starting point to encourage yourself and start seeing though the problems.
Hemachandra: Words are representations. They are creations. We assign them to things.
What is it about words that has such power? Why do words get a response from water when you conduct experiments?
Is it the history of a word? Is it the associations the researchers have with a word when you conduct the experiments?
Emoto: Ray, I don’t believe words are made artificially. I believe the first words were made from the vibrations, from nature. The “roahrrr” sound that lions make, for example. The birds make beautiful “byoop, byoo” sounds, and the storm makes an ugly “phoom” sound.
I believe the beginning of the word was when a man wanted to warn the village there was a lion. People associated lions with the sound they heard lions make. People made that sound through vibration, and then passed the sound on to other people. That’s how words came into being.
So many different sounds exist in this world. There are very soft, mellow, peaceful sounds, and there are dangerous, crisis sounds. Probably, the sounds that come from destruction make bad, negative words. Beautiful sounds from beautiful phenomena in the world create beautiful words.
If you speak negative words, that leads to destructive matters, and if you speak positive words, then some positive and beautiful thing will occur.
I believe I can explain how and why we have so many different languages in this world. In the Bible, it is written that the God divided the words after the Tower of Babel was built. However, I don’t agree with that. I believe what happened was that every country has a different nature.
In particular, I can speak of Japan. Japan has four different seasons that are significantly different from one another. Because of the very different seasons, different sounds are created. Every season has different sounds. Nature in Japan is why the Japanese people have a language that is so elaborate, with much variation and a lot of adjectives, too — more than any other language.
In Inuit, up north, because the nature is quite flat — it’s always wintry cold, cold, cold — in the Inuit language there are 167 words that describe ice. Because the people heard and lived with so many different levels or elements of ice, they needed 167 words to fully account for what nature presented.
It is really easiest to understand this by looking at animal sounds. In Japan, pigs make sounds of “boo, boo.” In North America, people say pigs make sounds of “oink, oink.” Of course, in other languages in other places, pigs would have different sounds. In Japan, dogs make sounds of “wan-wan,” while in North America, it’s “bow-wow.” Here, cats make the sound “meow, meow,” while in Japan it’s “niao-niao.”
It depends on the nature of a place — that is what generates different sounds and words.
Hemachandra: Dr. Emoto, what originally gave you the idea to work with water?
Emoto: It is a very popular question, so I always have two answers. Which answer would you like?
Hemachandra: Answer No. 2, definitely.
Emoto: OK, No. 2 then. I can understand that!
I believe in reincarnation. I believe that in my previous life I probably was a scientist working with water. I probably made many mistakes and had many failures. I believe because of those failures, this time around before even coming to this world, I vowed that I will make definite progress, and I will not fail. And then I came out!
Until I was about 50 years old, I really wanted to be an ordinary man. After 50 years, I would like to share my experiment with the world.
I believe I had a master plan that I didn’t want to become a master or someone superior. I wanted to be an ordinary person who wanted to share something very grand with ordinary people.
How about that!
Hemachandra: That’s great! How do you think water takes in information?
Emoto: I believe water is a very complicated substance. When you look at physics, you can understand everything that exists in this world. But, I believe water came from outside of the Earth — from outer space. So, we cannot understand water with normal physics.
I believe that water is a light, because water has many different kinds of shapes and forms. Maybe this universe is like water soup — a soup made of water! Some places are hard. In some places, there is nothing. Some places are light. What has connection to all these different elements is the vibration. I believe that water gets information through vibration.