Masaru Emoto 江本勝
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Born	July 22, 1943 (1943-07-22) (age 64) Yokohama, Japan
Education	Yokohama Municipal University, Open International University for Alternative Medicine (India)
Occupation	Writer

Masaru Emoto (江本勝, Emoto Masaru^?, b. July 22, 1943, Yokohama, Japan) is an author known for his controversial claim that if human speech or thoughts are directed at water droplets before they are frozen, images of the resulting water crystals will be beautiful or ugly depending upon whether the words or thoughts were positive or negative. Emoto claims this can be achieved through prayer, music or by attaching written words to a container of water. is the 203rd day of the year (204th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Japan. ... For the town of Yokohama in Aomori Prefecture, see Yokohama, Aomori. ... A writer is anyone who creates a written work, although the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... is the 203rd day of the year (204th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For the town of Yokohama in Aomori Prefecture, see Yokohama, Aomori. ... Crystal (disambiguation) Insulin crystals A crystal is a solid in which the constituent atoms, molecules, or ions are packed in a regularly ordered, repeating pattern extending in all three spatial dimensions. ...

Since 1999 Emoto has published several volumes of a work titled Messages from Water, which contains photographs of water crystals next to essays and "words of intent".

Biography

Emoto graduated from Yokohama Municipal University with courses in International Relations, and in 1992 he received certification as a Doctor of Alternative Medicine from the Open International University for Alternative Medicine in India, an unaccredited institute with minimal academic requirements. ^[1] Yokohama City University ) is one of the public universities in Japan. ... Foreign affairs redirects here. ... Main article: Unaccredited institutions of higher learning This article lists colleges, seminaries, and universities lacking educational accreditation. ...

Emoto is President Emeritus of the International Water For Life Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Oklahoma City, founded in 2005. He has three children and is married to Kazuko Emoto. 501(c)(3) is a provision of the US tax code that provides exempt status, for Federal income tax purposes, for some non-profit organizations in the United States (see 26 U.S.C. Â§ 501(c)(3)). The term refers to: Section 501. ... A non-profit organization (abbreviated NPO, or non-profit or not-for-profit) is an organization whose primary objective is to support an issue or matter of private interest or public concern for non-commercial purposes, without concern for monetary profit. ... Nickname: Location in Oklahoma County and the state of Oklahoma. ...

Water crystal work and criticism

Emoto's water crystal experiments consist of exposing water in glasses to different words, pictures, or music, and then freezing and examining the aesthetics of the resulting crystals with microscopic photography. ^[2] Aesthetics (or esthetics) (from the Greek word αισθητική) is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty. ...

Commentators have criticized Emoto for insufficient experimental controls,^[3] and for not sharing enough details of his approach with the scientific community. ^[4] In addition, Emoto has been criticized for designing his experiments in ways that leave them open to human error influencing his findings. ^[5] It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with scientific control. ...

In the day-to-day work of his group, the creativity of the photographers rather than the rigor of the experiment is an explicit policy of Emoto.^[6] Emoto freely acknowledges that he is not a scientist,^[7] and that photographers are instructed to select the most pleasing photographs.^[8]

In 2006, Emoto published a paper together with Dean Radin and others in the peer-reviewed Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing, in which they claim to have proven in a double blind test that approximately 2000 people in Tokyo could increase the aesthetic appeal of water stored in a room in California, compared to water in another room, solely through their positive intentions.^[9] Dean Radin is a researcher in parapsychology. ...

James Randi, founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation, has publicly offered Emoto one million dollars if his results can be reproduced in a double-blind study.^[10] Randi has also stated that he does not expect to ever have to pay the million dollars. James Randi (born August 7, 1928), stage name The Amazing Randi, is a stage magician and scientific skeptic best known as a challenger of paranormal claims and pseudoscience. ... The James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) is a Fort Lauderdale, Florida non-profit organization founded in 1996 by magician and skeptic James Randi. ...

Kristopher Setchfield, (BA, Health Science) from Castleton State College (Natural Science Department) in Vermont has made a paper called Review and analysis of Dr. Masaru Emoto’s published work on the effects of external stimuli on the structural formation of ice crystals^[11].

He concludes the following: " It is this crucial lack of scientific foundation that prevents Dr. Emoto’s work from attracting interest by widely accepted and respected scientists at long-standing research institutions. This is unfortunate for the world if there is, after all, truth to his claims--as reproduction of his results by any scientist would lend much credence to his work. A little change in Emoto’s experimental design would do great things for the credibility of his claims. I recommend the following to ground his work in sound scientific principle:

 * Eliminate the possibility of the scientist’s bias affecting the experiment’s results by implementing double blind procedures. * Publish the entire collection of photos for all water sample tests that he has performed, not just the ones that support his claim. * Minimize the sources of possible error in his procedures, such as variation in temperature and humidity between sample. * Pay more attention to the time-tested methods of the scientific community rather than disregarding them. Emoto’s research could go much farther if he could interest scientists around the world in testing his hypothesis. 

After the lengthy review of Emoto’s research methods and results, I have come to believe that Dr. Emoto is offering pseudoscience to the masses in the guise of defensible research. Only time and review by others will tell if there is any truth at the heart of Mr. Emoto’s claims, as Emoto himself thoroughly believes in his findings but does not value the scientific method or community. What is truly fearsome is the great numbers of people that accept his words as proven facts without looking deeper to find out if his claims are truly justified. While I respect Dr. Emoto’s desire to save the Earth’s water from contamination and pollution, unless he can produce a scientific paper and get it published in a scientific journal, I believe that he will continue to be ignored by the scientific community, and his claims will never be soundly proved or disproved"

Books

Emoto claims to have sold 2 million copies of his books.^[12]

• Messages from Water, Vol. 1 (June 1999), Hado Publishing, ISBN 4-939098-00-1
• Messages from Water, Vol. 2 (November 2001), Sunmark Pub. ISBN 0-7881-2927-9
• The Hidden Messages in Water (April 2004 Eng., 2001 Jap.), Beyond Words Publishing ISBN 1-58270-162-8
• The Message from Water III: Love Thyself (January 2006), published by Hay House ISBN 1-4019-0899-3
• Water Crystal Healing: Music & Images to Restore Your Well Being (17 October 2006), published by Atria Books ISBN 1-58270-156-3
• The Shape of Love: Discovering Who We Are, Where We Came From, and Where We are Going, Doubleday, 2007. ISBN 978-0-385-51837-6

References

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Further reading

• Sheridan, Patricia (September 26, 2005). Masaru Emoto. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved on 2007-05-19.

• Lafee, Scott (March 22, 2006). Money can buy love – an additive to bottled water. The San Diego Union-Tribune. Retrieved on 2007-05-19.

• Felt, Susan (April 27, 2005). Good vibes: Author says water holds love, gratitude. The Arizona Republic. Retrieved on 2007-05-20.

• Norrell, Brenda (March 16, 2004). News from the Southwest. Indian Country Today. Retrieved on 2007-05-20.

• Berlin, David (February 10, 2007). Let them count the ways to court your sweetie. The San Diego Union-Tribune. Retrieved on 2007-05-20.

• Pasternack, Nancy (February 12, 2005). Water-enlightening doctor comes to S.C.. Santa Cruz Sentinel. Retrieved on 2007-05-20.

• Zander, Carly (October 13, 2005). Global Water Guru Considers Research Center in Big Bear, Says the Native Voices Foundation. Send2Press. Retrieved on 2007-05-20.

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See also

• Pseudoscience
• Water memory
• Polywater
• Penta Water
• Scientific method
• PEAR Lab
• Snowflakes
• What the Bleep Do We Know!?

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• College Research Review of Emoto's Work @ www.is-masaru-emoto-for-real.com
• Emoto's personal web site
• Emoto's section of the web site of the movie What the #$*! Do We Know!?
• International Water For Life Foundation
• Criticisms of Emoto's work, by chemist Stephen Lower
• James Randi's 1 million dollar challenge
• Physicist Bob Park writes about water scams
• Gary Greenberg, a biomedical researcher and artist with patents for microscopes, challenges Emoto to explain why his work has not been peer reviewed