Most of us are aware of how crucial water is to life on earth. The human body is nearly two-thirds water – it can function for many weeks without food, but will die after only a few days without water.
But it’s more than that. Take a deep breath. The air you inhale contains water molecules, the same water molecules our ancestors inhaled, the same molecules which grew every piece of food we’ve ever eaten. Through water, we are connected to everyone and everything that has ever lived, or ever will live on earth.
Yet, if water is one of the earth’s most distinctive and important substances, it is also one of its most mysterious. In modern times, some scientific studies suggest water might be so much more than we already know it to be, not only an inert life-giving substance, but perhaps one which itself lives, and one which remembers …
Jacques Benveniste Discoveries on Water Memory
In the mid-1980s, Jacques Benveniste was in the midst of a solid if unspectacular career as an immunologist, having risen to the position of Senior Director at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research, where he spent his days studying allergies and inflammation.
Much of his modest success was thanks to a new method he had discovered to detect allergens on a very sensitive level, his own small contribution to modern science. Little did Benveniste know, however, that it was this method which would change his life forever, shoving him out of his simple existence in the scientific establishment and into the new and unknown.
It happened unexpectedly one day, when one of the young doctors on Benveniste’s research team asked if they could use his method to test the efficacy of homeopathic dilutions.
Homeopathy is an alternative medical practice which believes that “like cures like,” that a substance which causes certain symptoms can be used to remove these symptoms. According to homeopaths, a substance can be diluted many times in water until there is none of it left, then this water, despite physically possessing none of the original substance, can be used to treat symptoms. The more diluted the substance, homeopaths believe, the more potent its healing powers.
Benveniste’s student wanted to examine water that had possessed a substance which had then been diluted out, to see if there was any scientific basis behind homeopathic beliefs. Of this, Benveniste was skeptical, responding, “try if you want, but there will be no effect; high dilutions are merely water.”
Benveniste’s assertion was nothing unusual for mainstream science, which had long looked down on homeopathy. Except, when he and his team ventured to actually conduct the study, what they found shocked them.
First, they diluted a substance which caused an allergic reaction many times in water, until no molecules of the substance remained. When they then added this water to living cells, it still triggered an allergic reaction, as if the allergenic substance was still present.
How could this be possible? It was as if the water had somehow retained a memory of the allergen it had previously been in contact with.
Benveniste was dumbfounded, unable to provide any theoretical explanation for the effect. In his words, “It was like shaking your car keys in the Seine at Paris and then discovering that water taken from the mouth of the river would start your car!”
He dubbed the mysterious effect ‘water memory,’ realizing that if what he had found were true, it would totally rewrite the laws of chemistry and physics. So, he did what any scientist would do when presented with an astounding and inexplicable discovery – he compiled his results into a research paper and submitted it to the prestigious Nature scientific journal for publication. He would open the floor on his discovery to scientists all over the world.
It was this submission which resulted in what the BBC later called “one of the most controversial research papers every published.”
Upon receiving the work, Nature’s editorial board was concerned. They simply could not bring themselves to believe Benveniste’s results were correct, since if they were, they would go against the established scientific laws the board knew and understood.
More than anything, the board wanted to reject publication of the study altogether, yet, they could not find any obvious methodological errors in the work, no loopholes which would take them off the hook and allow them to reject the work on objective grounds.
For more than two years they went back and forth, searching for a way out, before finally, reluctantly, they agreed to publish Benveniste’s work in 1988.
Their agreement, however, was contingent on two glaring caveats.
Suppression of The Water Memory Evidence
First, publication of the study would be accompanied by a note written by Nature’s editor in chief, John Maddox, which advised readers that “an article in this week’s issue describes observations for which there is no present physical basis,” before warning that “there are good and particular reasons why prudent people should, for the time being, suspend judgement,” and vigorously describing some of the fundamental laws of science which Benveniste’s work would violate.
In addition, Maddox would take the unprecedented step of making Benveniste agree to redo the experiment under the oversite of a team put together by Nature in order to “verify the quality.” It was when this team showed up that things started to get very weird.
Instead of scientists, Nature sent a professional magician named James Randi, and a professional debunker of scientific fraud, Walter Steward, to oversee the experiment. They would become known as the “ghostbusters.”
This was particularly unusual when considering that a foundational principle of the scientific method is objectivity. Scientists are not supposed to enter into a study looking for specific results, yet Nature had sent men whose job it was to debunk, to enter into the study looking for specific, contrary results.
Unsurprisingly, since this was their job, this was what they did.
At first, repeats of the experiment seemed to confirm Benveniste’s initial results, but when later trials failed, the “ghostbusters” rushed to publish the conclusion that the original results were “not reproducible.” Benveniste’s theory of water memory, the ghostbusters haughtily asserted, was “as unnecessary as it is fanciful.”
Professional magician James Randi delivered the coup de grace when he equated Benveniste’s work to claims of having seen a unicorn, when all one had seen was a goat.
Naturally, and perhaps justifiably, Benveniste was furious with the process, asserting that he and his team had been treated like “criminals,” that Nature’s so-called oversight was more like the “Salem witchhunts or McCarthy-like prosecutions.”
Despite his protestations, mainstream science quickly began referring to Benveniste’s work as that “widely discredited experiment.” Today, even Wikipedia tells us that water memory is “not something that deserves serious consideration.”
Ignoring the question of how ‘widely’ something can be discredited by magicians and ‘ghostbusters,’ who themselves admitted that “we might well have found ourselves unable to get to grips with the work of the laboratory,” the fact remains – since the 1980s, the concept of water memory has received ‘serious consideration’ by numerous scientists all over the world.
And what they have found goes far beyond the work of Benveniste …
Luc Montagnier's Discoveries on Water Memory
In 1983, a French scientist named Luc Montagnier made a discovery which ensured his name would be forever etched in the history books. Using his specialized skills with retroviruses, Montagnier discovered the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which leads to the AIDS disease.
It was a turning point in the AIDS crisis, making it possible to develop diagnostic tests and treatments for the disease, and saving millions of lives. Accordingly, Montagnier was awarded the Nobel Prize for his discovery.
Many might ask what a person can do next after reaching the pinnacle of their profession. For Montagnier, the answer was to continue working, continue searching for his next great discovery.
For over two decades he worked, until finally, in 2009, came the breakthrough he was waiting for.
That year, Montagnier published a paper in which he claimed that he had been able to detect electromagnetic waves emitted by DNA in a sample of water, even after the DNA sequences had been diluted out of it, as though the water was somehow ‘remembering’ the DNA.
This was a Nobel Prize winner asserting something which sounded an awful lot like the much-maligned work of Jacques Benveniste twenty years before.
Like Benveniste, Montagnier was widely criticized by the mainstream scientific community when his results were published. Yet, with a Nobel Prize in his pocket, he was undeterred. He continued his work, and the results got even more incredible.
In 2011, Montagnier found that a highly diluted sample of water which possessed the electromagnetic waves of DNA sequences that had been diluted out of it could actually transmit the information to a second sample tube containing only purified water. By subjecting the purified water sample to the electromagnetic waves emitted by the DNA which had been in the first diluted sample, then initiating polymerase chain reaction, DNA sequences could be replicated with 98-100% accuracy.
It seemed as if the diluted water not only held the memory of the DNA sequences, but was able to transfer the memory to other water.
But there was more. Montagnier and his team discovered that they could even transmit the DNA’s electromagnetic signals digitally between computers over the internet and replicate the DNA in totally new water in distant laboratories. They would send an audio file across the world to another research team, who would then play the audio file in a tube of purified water and use polymerase chain reaction to make a copy of the original DNA.
It must be noted that not everyone was derisive of Montagnier’s work. In fact, some even suggested that this was the breakthrough which could lead to the discovery of alien life.
If water can hold the memory of DNA sequences which, by Montagnier’s method, allows replication of this DNA in laboratories across the world, then why, some asked, could this same method not be used to replicate potential alien DNA trapped in the water found on asteroids and comets. Perhaps this water contains DNA sequences of alien life which, given the right tools, we could replicate and examine.
Through his incredible work, Montagnier forced his way back into mainstream science, even hosting an event on ‘the memory of water’ at the United Nations in 2014. Yet, like Benveniste before him, Montagnier often spoke about the opposition and derision he faced from the scientific establishment. In one interview, he described “a kind of fear around this topic,” how, when it came to work on water memory, scientific journals were “afraid to publish it because of the intellectual terror from people who don’t understand it.”
But regardless of the ‘intellectual terror’ water memory invokes, the work of scientists like Luc Montagnier continues.
Martin Chaplin's Discoveries on Water Memory
In fact, at almost the same time that Montagnier was working with water memory and DNA, another scientist was taking a different approach to the phenomenon. In 2007, Martin Chaplin, a specialist in the properties of water molecules, proposed an explanation for how water memory might be possible.
First, a water molecule is a dipole, with one end charged negatively and the other charged positively. A molecule’s negative end can attract the positive end of another, and it is through this attraction that the structure of water is formed. For the most part, this structure is fluid and short lived, constantly changing.
Except, within these ever-changing forms, there are certain stable formations known as clusters, in which individual molecules can be replaced without affecting the global structure. According to Chaplin, these statistically stable clusters may hold the secret to water memory, allowing water to retain information about anything it has come in contact with, to, in effect, retain a ‘picture’ of any substance within its molecular core.
Could it really be possible that water is ever recording a history of its relationship with the world through molecular clusters? And if so, what is it doing with this information?
Some scientists have provided an answer …
Masaru Emoto's Discoveries on Water Memory
Masaru Emoto was a Japanese businessman, scientist, and author who rose to prominence in the 1990s after he developed a method to freeze water samples and photograph the resulting crystalline forms using magnetic resonant analysis and high-speed photography.
Using this method, Emoto conducted a far reaching and extraordinary study of water, the results of which were published in the 2004 New York Times bestseller, The Hidden Messages in Water.
In the study, Emoto and his research team had exposed different water samples to different human intent, through thoughts and words, then photographed the crystals produced by each sample. Stunningly, water which had been exposed to positive, loving, compassionate intent formed beautiful crystals, while negative, angry, fearful intent produced “unpleasant” formations.
Of course, ‘beautiful’ and ‘unpleasant’ are subjective, so see for yourself: the crystal for “love and gratitude;” for “you disgust me;” for “eternal;” for “peace;” for “evil;” for “thank you.”
It was as though the water was taking in positivity to make something beautiful, and turning negativity into something ugly.
Emoto and his team continued their study, exposing water samples to different thoughts and spoken words, to written words on paper pressed against a container of water, even to music. Note the crystal formed by water which had listened to Mozart’s Symphony No. 40, and compare it to the crystal formed by heavy metal music.
Eventually, Emoto came to a conclusion which was both simple and profound. He asserted that positive changes in water crystals could be obtained through appreciation and love, through prayers and words of gratitude, through beautiful music.
In 2006, Emoto sought to show this on a large scale. That year, he asked thousands of people from across Tokyo to send positive intent towards water samples in an electromagnetically shielded room in his lab. Elsewhere, he kept other water samples from the same source, which would serve as the control and not be subjected to people’s intents. He then photographed the crystals produced by each sample, before asking an independent panel of 100 judges to score the resulting crystals based on their appeal. As might be expected, the water which had received the positive intentions received much higher scores for its crystals.
How could this be possible? Water appeared to not only be remembering, but physically changing based on what it interacted with, even if that interaction was through intangible thoughts and prayers. If true, this would change everything we know about water, and even our world. As Emoto put it,
“Water is the mirror that can show us what we cannot see. It is the blueprint for our reality, which can change with a single, positive thought. All it takes is faith if you’re open to it.”
Predictably, Emoto’s work was quickly written off in the scientific mainstream. Yet, at the same time as Emoto was studying his crystals, another scientist halfway around the world was conducting his own similar study on water memory, with equally amazing results.
Bernd Kröplin's Discoveries on Water Memory
At the Institute for Static and Dynamics for Aerospace Constructions at the University of Stuttgart in Germany, a scientist named Bernd Kröplin instructed a group of students to obtain one drop of water from the same source at the same time. Then, the inner structure of each individual droplet was examined under a microscope.
Incredibly, each drop created its own unique pattern, despite coming from the same source. It was as if the water had taken in and remembered something from each individual student and changed itself accordingly.
Kroplin and his team went further, putting different species of flowers into different samples of water from the same source. Again, droplets obtained from each sample produced totally different patterns depending on the flower.
Researchers could not get enough, repeating the experiment again and again with different inputs, exposing water to music, ultrasound, even the microwave radiation from a cell phone. Each time, water from the same source produced different patterns depending on the treatment.
It really did appear as though water remembered and changed itself based on what it came in contact with.
Here, the question must be asked: If water really is taking in information from everything it comes in contact with and changing itself accordingly, then what do these changes mean, for water itself, and for the health of human beings and our planet?
Viktor Schauberger's Water Memory Discoveries
Viktor Schauberger was born June 30, 1885, in the small Austrian village of Holzschlag, the son of a long line of master foresters which stretched back for many generations. As such, Schauberger grew up as a ‘son of the forest,’ often spending many days at a time in the woods with his father.
There, he developed a keen observation of nature, and particularly the flow and behavior of water. He was known to sit in solitude and stare at a babbling brook for many hours at a time without getting bored. It seemed to many that the young Schauberger had some sort of connection with the woods that others didn’t.
Perhaps this was no surprise. As he himself put it, “From my earliest childhood it was my greatest ambition to become a forest warden like my father, grandfather, great-grandfather and his father before him.”
When he reached university age, his father wanted him to go to university in Vienna and become an arboriculturist like his brothers. But Schauberger believed that teachers in classrooms would only distort his view of nature, that the best teacher about the forest was the forest itself. So instead, he attained his certification as a forest warden and set off on an apprenticeship under an older warden.
He received his first solo gig in 1920 at the age of 25, overseeing a huge forest for a German prince. It was at this time that Schauberger showed how special his connection with the forest really was.
First, he used his unique understanding about how water flowed, and how it wanted to flow, to invent a method for transporting logs down from a mountain known as the log flume. The invention would put Schauberger on the map after it reduced transportation costs of lumber to one tenth and made the German prince fantastic amounts of money.
He continued throughout the 1920s to file for patents for new inventions almost every year, becoming renowned for his knowledge, and earning the nickname “the water wizard.”
But for all his work, and all the standing he achieved with it, one moment always stood out for Schauberger, one experience which would come to totally shape his view of nature, and of the world.
While visiting a remote district up in the mountains with some old hunters, Schauberger was taken to an ancient stone hut which covered a natural spring long used by hunters. At some point, the hunters decided they would pull down the hut, old and decrepit as it was. But when they did, the spring almost instantly dried up, which, the hunters insisted, had never happened before.
Something had to be done, since they needed that spring. But what?
Eventually, someone made the unusual and perhaps desperate suggestion that the hut should be rebuilt. Incredibly, when it was, the water almost immediately returned. It was almost like the water had a memory of the stones and returned when it rediscovered their presence, defying gravity to seek the stones from beneath the earth.
Water is Alive
The more Schauberger thought about this spring, the more it became clear to him – water was not just some chemically inert substance, no, water was alive. In his words, “I regard water as the blood of the Earth. Its internal process, while not identical to that of our blood, is nonetheless very similar. It is this process that gives water its movement”
From his years of experience, Schauberger proposed that living water twisted and pulsated in very specific ways when it was “healthy,” allowing it to maintain purity and function. Conversely, water could die if it was treated poorly. Its vitality depended on how it flowed, natural spring water being the best and most ‘healthy’ choice since it rose from an unspoiled environment inside the earth.
From this realization, Schauberger became fearful of the ways humans used and treated water in modern times, pushing it through long straight channels in cylindrical devices not found in nature, across many sharp right angle turns, unlike the gentle curves of a stream or river. It was Schauberger’s belief that this treatment caused the natural structure of water to break down – if water was a living thing, then this was how it died.
What this would mean for the planet and human beings dependent on water for their survival terrified Schauberger. In fact, he spent the later years of his life working furiously on the development of a device which would produce ‘living’ water by simulating the movement of mountain streams.
For this, many in mainstream science mocked him, to which he replied,
“They call me deranged. The hope is that they are right. It is of no greater or lesser import for another fool to wander the earth. But if I am right and science is wrong – then may the Lord God have mercy on mankind”.
The question of how the way we handle our water supply impacts the water itself has been explored in more modern times by one Masaru Emoto. Using the same method by which he examined water charged with human intent, Emoto studied the crystals produced by water samples from different sources.
Remarkably, Emoto found that water from mountain springs produced beautiful crystals, while tap water from Japanese cities would form incomplete crystals, and tap water from London, England would form no crystals at all.
Decades after Schauberger theorized that water was a living thing which could die, it appeared Emoto was showing that somehow, something was wrong with water in cities, water transported and treated by unnatural means.
But what?
Konstantin Korotkov's Discoveries on Water Memory
In 2005, a team of Russian biophysicists led by Konstantin Korotkov traveled to a remote region of Venezuela to conduct a groundbreaking study. Their destination was Roraima, an area whose waters had never been in direct contact with humans, known to local tribes as “the mother of all waters.”
For three days the scientists traveled, across the Venezuelan savannah, through jungles, and finally, up an 800-foot wall to reach the Roraima summit, where the water was in a unique virgin state. Their mission was to test the water there using a device Korotkov had developed for measuring the electro-photonic glow around people, plants, objects, and, yes, water. In short, they would measure the energetic properties of ‘the mother of all waters.’
Korotkov and his team hypothesized that Roraima’s waters might have two, or maybe even as much as ten times the energy of normal water. But as they began their analysis, the results blew them away.
Roraima’s water was not two times more active, not ten times, but 40,000 times more active than normal water. Its energetic properties were so great that Korotkov and his team concluded that Roraima’s water and normal water were fundamentally different substances.
More incredible were the effects the Roraima water had on the research team while they were there. Using the same device which was being used to measure the energetic properties of the water itself, Korotkov found that the energy field of his team members spiked dramatically whenever they were at the Roraima summit.
Where Masaru Emoto had shown in his work that city water appeared to be sick in some way, here, Korotkov was showing that the virgin waters of Roraima seemed to be brimming with energy and life, and even seemed able to transfer these energetic properties to the people around it.
For this reason, many in recent times have, like Schauberger, devoted their lives to attempting to invent a way to return water to a more natural, virgin state, before it was affected by humanity, to, in effect, give it life.
This living water is often called structured water. In 2014, a scientist named Guy Lodechampt published the results of five years of research into subjects who drank structured water from a structuring device he had invented. According to Londechampt, subjects saw an 80% increase in their energy fields after only one glass.
Similar studies examining the effects of drinking living water instead of the water that comes out of the taps in cities, or even bottled water, continue to this day with similar results. But the idea that water can be alive or dead, energetic or non, is something which goes back far beyond modern science.
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Ancient Spiritual Knowledge of Water Memory
Many human traditions speak of holy healing water sources – from the Ganges River in India, to the holy water in the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in France, to professed healing springs all over the world.
But take it further, and remember Masaru Emoto’s experiment which showed that water could be infused with human intent. Numerous religious and spiritual traditions all over the world seem to follow this concept.
Think of holy water in Christianity, used in baptism, or the ritual washing before daily prayers in Islam. Think of how Buddhist monks chant over the community water supply, or how in both North and South American indigenous traditions water can be ritually infused with healing intent by priests and shamans. In each case, the belief is the same, that water can be changed into something more if it is treated correctly. Isn’t this ancient knowledge just what modern studies are confirming?
In fact, both Korotkov and Emoto studied the spiritual connection directly.
Korotkov studied water which had been chanted over in Russian monasteries and found that it had a much higher energy quality than ordinary water. He even worked with remote mental influence on water, getting healers to send their influence and intent to a sample of water from across the world, and again finding that the healers’ thoughts caused “significant changes” to the energetic levels of the targeted water.
Emoto, for his part, tested the waters in the Fujiwara Dam before and after it had received an hour-long prayer by Reverend Kato Hoki, the chief priest of Jyuhouin Temple, and found that after the water was infused with prayer, it produced much more beautiful crystals.
Perhaps, as is often the case, ancient traditions possessed a knowledge which has been forgotten or written off in modern times, about the life of water and how it can be changed.
But if this is true, the question then becomes, what does this mean for us in modern times? How can the knowledge of living water, of water with a memory which fundamentally changes what it is, alter our understanding of, and interaction with, the world around us?
Masaru Emoto's Rice Experiment
To answer this question, we might go back to one final experiment performed by Masaru Emoto, perhaps his most infamous, and most dramatic.
In the experiment, Emoto set aside three beakers, each containing a cup of rice covered with water. For one month, Emoto would repeat to one of the beakers “thank you” every day. To the second beaker, he would repeat “you’re an idiot,” and to the third, he would say nothing at all.
At the end of the month, the rice in the ‘thank you’ beaker was fermenting nicely and had a pleasant aroma. Meanwhile, the rice in the ‘you’re an idiot’ beaker was black and dead, and the rice in the neglected beaker had turned a blue-green color with rot.
Think about what this suggests. Water infused with life through positive intentions leads to healthy growth, while water infused with negative intentions, or simply left alone altogether, leads to rot and death. Is it possible that humans require living water for our own health and life? And that by drinking the dead water found in modern cities we are, in effect, poisoning ourselves? Think about the rampant spread of mental health issues in modern times, the astounding levels of depression and anxiety. Could this have something to do with our water? Are we rotting from the inside, like Emoto’s rice?
Benefits of Structured Water (Living Water)
For some, the solution to this perceived water problem is simple – we must drink living water from structuring devices, like those created by Schauberger and Londechampt. Failing that, we can at least take the time to pray, chant, or send good intentions into a glass of water before we drink it, or a tub of water before we bathe. In other words, we can and should, on a day-to-day basis, utilize water’s memory and its ability to change into something living and healthy for our own benefit.
Others, however, suggest that our knowledge of living water and its incredible memory can be taken much further in the pursuit of human health. In fact, some recent studies even suggest that living water and its memory could be a crucial factor in the future of cancer therapy, allowing for the transmission of healing substances which currently have no way to utilize their function clinically.
And yet, it’s not just the effects of water on human health directly, but its potential effects on the food we eat. Schauberger, for one, always asserted that living water was much better for agriculture, something numerous recent studies are now showing to be true.
For example, a recent study from the Water Technology Center at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University in India gave farmers water from a structuring device and instructed them to water some fields with the structured water and others with normal water. The results were a stunning increase in both growth and yield in fields using structured water, effectively doubling the output of each of wheat, tomatoes, zucchini, green peppers, and beans.
Other studies have shown that the use of structured water conserves water, improves soil health, lowers the need of pesticides, and even grows better tasting food with a higher nutritional quality.
It is incredible to think about, that in an era of global agricultural crisis brought about by climate change, living water might hold the key to feeding the world.
Water Memory's Suppression by the Mainstream
With its immense potential upside to human health, agriculture, and the health of planet, it is exceedingly bizarre than much of mainstream science continues to deride and write off concepts of living water and water memory. No matter how much evidence comes pouring in, mainstream science continues to derisively portray those working in the field, as they did Jacques Benveniste at the very start, as “widely discredited.”
An article in Vox speaking of Masaru Emoto is indicative of the attitude much of science takes to the subject. There, the tall foreheads of mainstream thought explain, “Few scientists have tried to debunk his claims since they’re so self-evidently ridiculous.”
In other words, it’s not that they’ve proven water memory researchers to be wrong, it’s that they are offended by the suggestion that they would even try, that such a thing as proof would even be asked for. Why such a close-minded attitude from a scientific establishment which surely knows how wrong it has been in the past?
John Maddox, the then-Editor in Chief of Nature magazine who dealt with Benveniste’s original paper on water memory may have accidentally provided an answer when he said, “Our minds were not so much closed as unready to change our whole view of how science is constructed.”
But that’s just it. Sometimes a dramatic change in view is necessary.
The earth was flat, until it wasn’t.
With what’s at stake, this might be one of those times. As the saying goes, sometimes today’s heresy becomes tomorrow’s truth.