Masaru Emoto
Masaru Emoto (Japanese江 本 胜, Emoto Masaru, born July 22, 1943 in Yokohama, Japan) is a Japanese Para scientists and alternative medicine. He is president of the International Hado Membership (IHM ), which he founded in 1986 in Tokyo, and was the president of the now defunct Swiss Institute Wise Crystal. He is also Chairman of the I.H.M. General Research Institute and President Emeritus of the International Water for Life Foundation, a not-for - profit organization. He is also President of the Office Masaru Emoto, LLC and President of the Emoto Peace Project Foundation.
Training
Emoto studied Political Science and graduated with a focus on International Relations at the City University of Yokohama. In October 1992, he closed his training as an alternative medicine in the International Open University. On the concept of structural accumulation of water on a microscopic level he pushed in the U.S. and by the technology of magnetic resonance analysis.
Working with water
Emoto has since the early 1990s with water. He believes that water can absorb and store the influences of thoughts and feelings. To this view of it passes through experiments with bottled water, which he either labeled with positive messages such as " Thank you " or negative messages such as " war" and then freezes, photographed and on the basis of aesthetic and morphological criteria evaluated the resulting ice crystal. It attempts to represent an association between the appearance of the ice crystal and the quality or the state of the water. Water, which is inscribed with positive messages, forme always perfect ice crystal, while water with negative messages fancy imperfect, malformed crystals.
Emoto's claims, together with further than para- or pseudo-scientific approaches designated by Viktor Schauberger, Johann Grander, inter alia, the starting point for the treatment, manufacture and marketing of so-called " lively " water.
Related theories
Jacques Benveniste, a French physician, published in 1988 in the journal Nature results, influence by which highly diluted antigens via a " memory effect " of water white blood cells ( leukocytes). The results are highly controversial in scientific circles. The French virologist Luc Montagnier discovered that solutions with DNA of a virus or bacterium "Radio waves radiate in the low frequency range ." These radio waves keeps the water at even after many dilutions.
Criticism
Emoto's assumptions are highly contradictory to existing knowledge of water chemistry and physics. In particular, his methodology can not exist according to the terms of the science quality requirements. Since its supposed findings can understand neither logical nor empirical, his ideas are not taken seriously by the art. Masaru Emoto himself describes on its website the photographs as a new kind of art that should apply neither science nor a religion ( " THEREFORE, the photograph of crystals is neither science nor religion. I hope it is enjoyed as a new type of art. ").
2003 James Randi Educational Foundation offered the Emoto a million dollars if he could reproduce the results of his studies in a double blind trial.