More than ten years have passed since I began taking photographs of frozen ice crystals. For years before that I had conducted research into the measurement of wave fluctuations in water, but when I started learning about crystals, I discovered that water expresses itself in a vast variety of ways. 

In contrast to tap water, natural water displays a beautiful array of crystals—even more so when the natural water is exposed to beautiful music.

There are also fascinating differences generated in the crystals when the water is shown different words, such as “gratitude” or “stupid.”

As you begin reading this book, I’d like to ask you to evaluate your life. More specifically, I’d like you to ask yourself if you are happy. Of course, your definition of happiness will depend upon who you are—but do you have a sense of peace in your heart, a feeling of security about your future, and a feeling of anticipation when you wake in the morning?

If we can call this happiness, then would you say that at this moment you are happy? 

I think I can safely say that not many people will be able to reply with a resounding yes. Most people are unable to say that their life is everything they had hoped it would be.

What is it that causes us so much pain?

What is going on in the world that prevents so many people from simply being happy?

It seems to me that we are living in an age of chaos. Chaos describes a condition of confusion, indicative of the unorganized matter that existed before the creation of the cosmos.

Simply by going about our lives, we find ourselves worn out and fatigued. Newspapers and television bombard us with information, and at work we face problems and misunderstandings. The sources of our problems seem numerous and overwhelming.

This is likely to be a fact of life no matter where in the world we go. This tiny planet of ours is covered with economic conflict, domestic discord, ethnic prejudice, environmental distress, religious wars, and every other type of problem imaginable.

And all the bad news about people suffering, people enjoying the suffering, people getting richer, people getting poorer, the oppressed and the oppressors, reaches us within a matter of seconds from the opposite side of the globe.

Who, might we ask, is responsible for all this suffering?

 The world is becoming an ever more divided, estranged, and complicated place to live. We are already up to our necks in chaos, but the world’s troubles seem to be getting deeper and deeper.

One thing we all have in common is that we are looking for a way out. Everyone is looking for an answer—and it is an answer so simple and effective that it has heretofore eluded us.

So what is the cause of all this chaos?

Whatever it is, it is pushing the world away from harmony and towards discord. Perhaps this is an inevitable phenomenon. Though we all belong to the same species, if we live in different places and in different skin ways, the way we think is bound to be different. 

And to make matters worse, most people have difficulty accepting things that are unlike the things around them. The result is a never-ending process of troubles and suffering. It would seem that as long as people are people, any solution proposed is certain to come up short. 

And so now we are back where we started. Can there ever be a single solution that can apply to all people on the globe, that everyone can be convinced of, and that is so simple that everyone can understand it? 

In fact, I have found the answer, and it is just this. The average human body is 70 percent water. We start out life being 99 percent water, as fetuses.

When we are born, we are 90 percent water, and by the time we reach adulthood we are down to 70 percent. If we die of old age, we will probably be about 50 percent water. In other words, throughout our lives we exist mostly as water. 

From a physical perspective, humans are water. When I realized this and started to look at the world from this perspective, I began to see things in a whole new way. 

First, I realized that this connection to water applies to all peoples. Therefore, what I am about to say applies to everyone, all over the world. I believe I am also starting to see the way that people should live their lives.  

So how can people live happy and healthy lives? 

The answer is to purify the water that makes up 70 percent of your body. 

Water in a river remains pure because it is moving. When water becomes trapped, it dies. Therefore, water must constantly be circulated. The water—or blood—in the bodies of the sick is usually stagnant.

When blood stops flowing, the body starts to decay, and if the blood in your brain stops, it can belief threatening.

But why does blood become stagnant? 

We can see this condition as the stagnation of the emotions.

When you are living a full and enjoyable life, you feel better physically, and when your life is filled with struggles and sorrow, your body knows it.

So when your emotions flow throughout your body, you feel a sense of joy and you move towards physical health.

Moving, changing, flowing—this is what life is all about.

The World Will Change in but a Moment 

Do you know where you can obtain really good water?

Perhaps at the foot of the Swiss Alps; or maybe at the North or South pole?

It’s not hard nowadays to find bottled water claiming to be the best in the world, but can good water really be purchased?

Water is not simply about H20. No matter how natural or pure the water you drink, without a pure soul, it will not taste good.

Let me ask you:

After you’ve enjoyed participating in a sport or other exercise, water—even just tap water—tastes delicious and refreshing.

I know it sounds like I’m saying that it’s all in your mind, but what I’m actually trying to say is that when you drink water with a feeling of gratitude the water itself is physically different than when you drink the same water with clouded feelings in your soul. 

Our emotions and feelings have an affect on the world moment by moment. 

If you send out words and images of creativity, then you will be contributing to the creation of a beautiful world. However, emitting messages of destruction, you contribute to the destruction of the universe. 

If you become aware of this, you will no longer be able to speak words of anger to those around you, or blame others for your own mistakes and weaknesses.

You have the capacity to change the world within a moment. All you must do is make a simple choice. 

The answer will depend on your attitude at this very moment. 

According to the teachings of Buddhism, everything in the world is constantly changing, and nothing ever changes. Speaking from the principles of vibration, the energy of vibration must go on forever in continuous motion. 

You no longer need to be troubled by the past, and can know that the future can be anything that you will it to be. You, as you are, in this very moment hold the key to everything. 

However, science has progressed to a point where the failure to understand consciousness and the mind limits our understanding of much of the world around us. 

Quantum mechanics, certain psychological theories (such as the flow talked about by Jung), and genetic engineering have all taught us that there is a world other than the one we know so well.

You can’t see this other world with your eyes, and you can’t touch it with your fingers. It’s a world in which time itself does not exist. 

The famous quantum theorist David Bohm has called the world available to our senses the “explicate order,” and the existence within, the “implicate order.” He envisions that everything that exists in the explicate order has been enfolded in the implicate order, and each part of the explicate order includes all the information of the implicate order. 

This may be difficult to understand, but what he is saying is that every part of the universe contains the information of all the parts of the universe. In other words, within an individual—and even within a single cell—exists all the information of the universe.

The information of the universe includes time. In other words, the fact that you exist in the here-and-now is included in the information of the universe, along with all present, past, and future information. So the changing of the entire world in a moment isn’t just a fantasy. 

But let’s think about this moment for a moment. How can you interpret it using physical science?

David Bohm explained that an aspect of the universe within is projected into each moment in time, creating the present. The next moment in time is also a projection of a different aspect, and so on.

However, one momentary world will have an impact on the next momentary world, and so it appears to us as one continuous world. 

Based on this theory, the world is changing every moment, and being created anew. Our consciousness has a role to play in this creation of the world. If you become aware of this, I suspect that your life will never be the same. 

I’ve talked about some complicated things, and may have caused some confusion. But if we reconsider crystals, it will help to answer many questions. This world is changing moment by moment, and water is the first to recognize the change. 

I mentioned that I made a device for measuring vibration, and used it to better understand water. On the afternoon of the invasion of Iraq at the onset of the first Gulf War, I measured the vibration of the tap water in Tokyo, an found an unusually sharp increase in the values of vibrations produced by mercury, lead, aluminum, and other substances harmful to the human body.

There seemed to be no apparent explanation for this; at first I suspected that there was something wrong with my equipment, but repeated measurements indicated otherwise.

It wasn’t until the following day, when I read the newspaper, that I made the connection. News of the start of the Gulf War covered the front page. It’s been said that the weight of the bombs dropped on this first day of war was equivalent to all the bombs dropped through the Vietnam War. 

In Japan, thousands of miles from the Middle East, I was able to measure the vibrations from harmful substances at almost the exact time that war broke out.

You might ask, is this really possible? 

Of course, the harmful by-products of the bombs in the Middle East weren’t immediately transported to Japan. However, the harmful vibrations of the bombs being dropped on one side of the earth did reach the corners of the earth immediately. These vibrations spread out beyond the limits of time and space. 

I suspect that vibrations exist not in our three-dimensional world, and not in the unseen world of different dimension, but in a middle world. When something occurs on the earth, in no matter what world, water is the first to detect it and relay this new information to us. 

At the time of the Gulf War, I hadn’t yet started taking photographs of crystals, but if I had taken photographs, I’m sure they would have been very interesting. 

There is another world in addition to the one that we live in. 

When looking at our world from that world, we can see things that we cannot see now. 

Dr. Rupert Sheldrake of England is a researcher who focuses on furthering the understanding of a new worldview, in association with this world that we cannot see. After receiving a doctorate in biochemistry from Cambridge University, he served as a lecturer in biochemistry and biology at Cambridge, while also serving as a Fellow of the Royal Society. 

Dr. Sheldrake’s theory is outlined in a book that he wrote more than twenty years ago, but the scientific journal Nature dismissed the book by saying that it should be burned. Despite the rejection, his theory reached the hearts of many, and research into his theory continues. 

What was it that drew so much attention?

It’s often said that if something happens twice it will happen again. Perhaps you have found it strange that accidents and crimes tend to happen in series. Looking at history and social trends, you can see that over long periods of time, events do generally repeat themselves. How can we explain this strange repetition of events?

Dr. Sheldrake attempted to use scientific means to find an answer. 

Scientists normally approach objects that they can’t see with their eyes by using reductionism to isolate a physical phenomenon. However, Dr. Sheldrake took an entirely different approach. 

According to his theory, when the same thing repeats itself, a morphic field is formed, and resonance with this morphic field increases the likelihood that the event will happen again. A morphic field is not energy-based information, but more like a blueprint for building a house. 

We can see this as an example of resonance theory. Dr. Sheldrake has proposed that events are also capable of resonating in the same way that sound resonates. He refers to the location where such events take place as the morphic field, and the phenomena of repeated similar events as morphic resonance. 

Although his theory was quickly dismissed by Nature, the announcement of his theory was taken seriously by the more open-minded, resulting in serious discussion. There is no doubt that Dr. Sheldrake has departed from the existing paths laid out by science, but you have to admit that his theory goes a long way toward explaining mysteries that traditional science has been unable to deal with. 

During typical discussions of such mysteries, the talk often turns to glycerin crystals. For the first forty or so years after glycerin was discovered, it was generally accepted that it didn’t form crystals. Then one day at the beginning of the nineteenth century, a drum of glycerin en route from Vienna to London suddenly started to crystallize. 

A short time later, in a completely different location, another batch of glycerin also crystallized. This crystallization began to spread, and now it is generally accepted that glycerin forms crystals when temperatures drop below 17 degrees C (63 degrees F). 

What do you think the results were? 

The second group did a far better job than the first in identifying the man with a mustache. The experimenters did their best to account for all possible factors, such as removing the data from viewers in countries other than England and Ireland, but the results still showed that the second did three times better than the first.  

This experiment tells us that when someone becomes aware of something, other people also tend to become aware. It was the effect of the morphic field that led to the remarkable increase in correct responses. 

According to Dr. Sheldrake, DNA isn’t the only reason that people in the same family share similar features—morphic resonance also plays a part. Dr. Sheldrake’s theory also helps us to understand so-called coincidences (referred to as “synchronicity”), and the phenomena of group consciousness (collective memory), and archetypal patterns. 

The important thing about Dr. Sheldrake’s theory is that once the morphic resonance has spread, it extends to all space and all time. In other words, if a morphic field is formed, it will have an instantaneous impact on all other locations, resulting in an instantaneous worldwide change. 

Dr. Sheldrake currently has a strong interest in the phenomena of telepathy. He conducted an experiment to find out if dogs showed a response when their masters started to head home. Using video equipment to make observations, he has been able to verify this phenomenon in more than two hundred cases. 

I would like to pass on to you a message that I received from Dr. Sheldrake: 

Our lives are made possible by the movement of an unseen energy. Therefore, I would hope that we’ll always be aware of this and pay attention to those around us and the things going on around us. This is something that is very important. This is because the act of looking at something has an effect on it. Everyone seems to be aware of this, but we don’t put it into practice. In the home, parents need to pay attention to their children. It’s the same thing. 

Focusing your attention—on anything—serves as an expression of love. Dr. Sheldrake is on the leading edge of this study of the impact of consciousness on objects, and so his words come with special significance. 

If we combine the lessons that water teaches us with the theories proposed by Dr. Sheldrake, we go a long way toward unlocking the many mysteries of our world. Each one of us has a magical ability to change the world. If we use this power to the maximum, we will be able to change the world in but a moment. 

For people who see no end to their worries and suffering, this perspective should come as considerable comfort. You—yes you—have the ability to change the world! 

Everything in the world is linked.

We can cover the world in love and gratitude. This will become a glorious morphic field that will change the world. It’s not about time and space; now, here, wonderful and marvelous things are possible.