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"Looking at Matter and Energy from a Different Perspective "Science says that everything in existence is made of atoms. In the atomic model of reality, we have a nucleus surrounded by an electron cloud. The electrons are as far separated from the nucleus in an atom as the planets are separated from the sun in the solar system. So the atom is 99.9% space. "What is going on inside the atom? Well, the electrons are oscillating madly around the nucleus, and so the atom is vibrating within itself. All things vibrate, because all things are in motion internally, and relative to all other objects in the universe. When something ceases to move, it dies. To understand this, look at a sample of dead tissue under a microscope. Or, go to the morgue and look at a cadaver. "Lets go from the very small to the very large. The design of the atom can be understood from an examination of the solar system. We know that the sun has (at least) 9 planets, orbiting in an elliptical fashion around the sun and themselves spinning upon their axes. "In the solar system, the earth is 93 million miles away from the sun, and it is considered one of the inner planets! If we consider the entire volume of space mapped out by the orbit of the planets, and compare that to the tiny volume of space occupied by the mass of all of the planets, we can see that the ratio in the solar system of space to mass is zillions to one. So too with the atom - it is almost entirely space. Now consider that the mass of the planets themselves are all made of atoms, which are mostly space.... We can see that matter is very illusory, even though it appears quite real and solid to our senses. "Imagine that the actions of planets rotating on their axes (giving us day and night) and orbiting around the sun are speeded up, like a reel of film that gets drawn faster and faster through a movie projector. We would see the planets madly spinning and oscillating around the sun. If we speeded up the projector big time, the individual planets would become invisible to our eyes and the solar system, if shrunk to the size of an atom, might look like a tiny nucleus surrounded by an electron cloud. "Matter and energy is composed of atoms, and atoms are themselves vibrational in nature. And so matter and energy may validly be regarded as vibrational. If that is so, then, since everything in the physical universe is made of atoms, we can say that the universe itself is vibrational in nature. "But if matter is mostly space, then why do we see anything as solid? "Well, If something is vibrating very quickly, we cannot hear it; a dog whistle, for example, generates frequencies of sound which are too high for the human ear to detect. Similarly for a very low sound. The human ear can only pick up on vibrations in the range of about 20 Hertz to about 20,000 Hertz (Hertz is a measure of the frequency of a wave, or how fast it vibrates, named for Heinrich Hertz). When the tuner in your radio is set to 103 FM, it picks up only on the signals in that particular bandwidth, the rest are excluded. The concept of ‘tuning in’ is a very important concept in the Universal Operating System, that’s why we’re spending so much time on it. "Visible light is only a tiny portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. If this diagram were drawn to scale, the visible light section would be an invisible vertical line. This image shows that the human senses can detect only a very very small portion of the known range of universal vibration. Of course, with instrumentation, we can go out pretty far on the electromagnetic spectrum, but the data must all be arranged so that it resolves within the tiny bandwidth of human senses. In other words, a gamma ray counter may beep, or display a mark on a graph, but we cannot really see or directly understand gamma rays:
Figure 3. A ball mounted on a shaft. Ball rotated around shaft "The rotation pictured here is only going at about 20 revolutions per second, but the ball has turned into a solid looking ring (a torus). If it were rotated much much faster, the torus would feel completely solid, because the ball would seem to occupy every position along the ring at the same time! If we were to touch this torus/rotating ball it would, to our senses, be indistinguishable from a solid, motionless object. So we can say that the solidity, or reality, of anything is a function of how fast or slow it is vibrating, relative to our senses. "And since the senses of the human body are themselves composed of vibrating atoms, the perception of anything can be considered a matching or a tuning of vibration. In other words, once two vibrations become too distant from one another, it is impossible for one to see the other. "A being whose eyes could distinguish vibrations at very high frequencies would merely see a ball creeping along its orbital path, just as we do when the ball is slowed down to a crawl. We could say that what distinguishes one object from another is the vibrational signal it emits (I am not trying to contradict the atomic model of matter, just giving it a different 'spin'!) So not only does reality depend upon the character of the vibration, but also how that vibration is interpreted. "Science tells us that the light that bounces off the objects in our world and reaches our eyes has the characteristics of particles, and of waves. Waves are vibrations, so I think we are on solid ground in looking at the world vibrationally. "Imagine that the actions of planets rotating on their axes (giving us day and night) and orbiting around the sun are speeded up, like a reel of film that gets drawn faster and faster through a movie projector. We would see the planets madly spinning and oscillating around the sun. If we speeded up the projector big time, the individual planets would become invisible to our eyes and the solar system, if shrunk to the size of an atom, might look like a tiny nucleus surrounded by an electron cloud. "Matter and energy is composed of atoms, and atoms are themselves vibrational in nature. And so matter and energy may validly be regarded as vibrational. If that is so, then, since everything in the physical universe is made of atoms, we can say that the universe itself is vibrational in nature. "Looking at the physical world from this perspective, we can see that the solid material objects of our world are, internally, vibrational in nature…” If you start from A on the left and go up on the first inner circle, clockwise, 180 degrees and come to the middle, then go down on the second inner circle and come to C, then from C go around the second inner circle counter-clockwise 180 back to the middle, then down the bottom half of the first inner circle back to A, you will have made a complete circuit of both circles. The path traveled is exactly equal to the circumference of the big circle. We can continue this pattern of traversing the circumference of the smaller circles indefinitely, and the total distance will always equal the circumference around the larger circle. Even though this is unremarkable mathematically, it IS remarkable geometrically, because as the circles grow smaller and smaller, the path along the circumference of the circles flattens out and appears to our eyes, after only 10 iterations, to be a straight line. So the total distance around the circumference of the large circle appears to be from A to C in a straight line, and back from C to A again in a straight line. To our eyes at 'real world' magnification, it then appears that distance around the large circle is equal to twice the diameter of the large circle! The point is that by reducing the scale, we have introduced inaccuracies into our observation of reality. Of course, we have microscopes and telescopes to help us resolve these questions of scale. However, although we can observe individual atoms and even manipulate them with non–optical scanning tunneling microscopes, we still have never directly observed an electron, or a proton, or a quark. Our observation of galaxies, and the universe at large presents the same problem in reverse. This diagram serves to illustrate that the only things we can really be sure of in the physical universe are things we can perceive directly. And the only things we can perceive directly are those things that are vibrationally attuned to our senses. Now we make an assumption: that thought itself is also vibrational in nature, and, proceeding from the basis that consciousness is non–physical in nature and is the animating and creative principle of the universe, we also assume that emotions and feelings are vibrational. We also make another very important assumption: Emotions and feelings are directly experience–able by consciousness. It is not so important to us to determine the ultimate nature of matter and energy (although we have proposed that the basic quanta of matter is a thought); scientists are much more knowledgeable and qualified to make those determinations. What we are concerned with is how consciousness, as an eternal, non–physical causative principle, interacts within the physical universe and how it can maintain its inherently positive nature in the physical world. If thoughts and emotions are vibrational, and matter and energy is also vibrational, then the entire universe and everything in it is vibrational. In this model, every conscious personality has a unique vibrational signature or footprint, which makes it distinct and unique from all others. In effect, every conscious personality is broadcasting a vibrational signal to the rest of the universe, and is responding in kind. The medium for these transmissions is a (postulated) universe-wide field of subtle energy composed of thought and created by every conscious personality that has ever existed in the universe since the beginning of time. Because consciousness is self–aware and can think, choose, decide, and prefer, every person can change his or her vibrational signature at any time. The content of a persons thought determines his or her feelings and position on the scale of emotion (vibration). That means that, merely by a change in thought a person can change the way he or she feels. Because the inherent nature of consciousness is positive, one can, by stopping thought altogether and quieting the mind, establish a pure connection with Source and experience a feeling of joy and well–being. This is the idea behind meditation. In a vibrational universe, consciousness is always at cause–point. In such a universe, created by consciousness, whose nature is non–physical and eternal, all physical experience is temporary. The association with physical containers (bodies) may be terminated at any time, and a return to Source reestablished, in which a conscious being rediscovers its true nature and experiences a pure reconnection with well–being. This philosophy is a uniformly positive one, where all endings are joyful. Geometrically, we say that a physical experience is a circle, where death (exit point from the physical) is at exactly the same place as birth (entry point to the physical) and the life path is the journey round the circle. In this conception, a life path is never too short or too long. The little baby who dies in his or her crib as well as the grizzled old man both return to knowledge of self and re–experience the joy of consciousness in its Native State, regardless of the pleasantness or unpleasantness of the physical life. 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. 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. |
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