There is a Peace Village located up the road from me at Hunter
Mountain. The Brahma Kumaris is run by yogis that volunteer there. It is funded
through donations from the public and The United Nations. You can check
out their website and go to a retreat there to learn different things. I
went there for a workshop called "The Artist Within." Occasionally I go to their annual festival, so many interesting and
beautiful displays from all over the world. Food, dance, art, music, it
is a fun day.
This festival had
a display of the work of Dr. Masuru Emoto. His experiment fascinated me
because I study the mind, thoughts, and energy, and his experiment involved all
three. His theory was to prove the energy of words, ultimately what it
does to anything including water.
Dr. Emoto put
water from the same source into two containers, one labelled "hate"
the other labelled "love." Then the test is to say hateful
things to the one labelled "hate," and then say loving things to the
other one. After two weeks he froze the two waters, put shavings under a
microscope. The positive water produced symmetrical crystals, while the
negative water produced malformed crystals.
I guess he needed
to freeze the water to melt it on the slide?
Anyway a self-help
teacher wrote about the experiment in her book and asked her readers to do the
same experiment with an apple. Cut it in two, put one half in a clear cup or
set it on a plate, say negative things to it, and in another part of the house
put the other half,when you walk by say
positive things to it for two weeks. I have never done this experiment
but you can read about it, it's called The Big Apple Experiment. The
results were said to be the same, one half negative rotted faster than the
other one. See picture online, you GTS. (Google That Sh*t)
This experiment
intrigues me because although I have never done either of these, I do know what
it feels like to be criticized and cut down often. It made me sad and
rotten inside until one day I began to think for myself and became much, much,
happier. I surrounded myself with more positive thoughts and people and I
became balanced, happy, and excited about life. So I believe this
experiment has merit.
Last week my
daughter and son-in-law sent me a huge bouquet of roses. Because I go out
to work most of the day, I made a vase and put a few roses in it to carry in
the cup holder of my car. My Sweetheart was going out of town and we were
on such different schedules that we would not see each other for a few days.
I decided I wanted him to be reminded of me so I put a rose in an empty
Kombucha bottle to put in the carry cup of his car.
He said every time
he looked at that rose it made him smile. When he would hear a song on
the radio that reminded him of us, he would smile at the rose. When he
would ride by a restaurant or place we had visited together, he would smile at
the rose.
He got home put
the rose on the counter where he could see it every day. When he went by he
thought of me and smiled.
Now my big bouquet
has lasted longer than expected but the bouquet is dying naturally. His single
rose is looking so much better than the rest that I thought of this experiment
when he showed it to me. Now you may say that this rose experiment is malarkey,
but my husband wonders why his "rose" is so alive. I don't know
but if it has anything to do with the love he and I have for one another...
I say Dr. Emoto
has got it right! Here's Charlie's rose and my bouquet on the table, you
decide.
So I asked my
Sweetheart if he would like to try The Big Apple Experiment, his first response
was "Why do we have to say negative things to one half of the apple?
That half didn't do anything to deserve to be negative!'
I'm not sure about
reincarnation, but I think I may be married to Buddha.
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