JA Smith

You ladies really give much food for thought...thanks for sharing.
Sorry I do not have time to respond. My grandbabies are here until late
Tues.

Here's more about Dr. Emoto: "Messages of Water" which was amazing. The
link below talks a bit about the gist of the movie, but without the
science behind it.
It shows why it's a great idea to watch our thoughts and words.
http://www.spiritofmaat.com/archive/aug1/consciouswater.html

Jenny S. San Diego

S.Waynforth

--- In [email protected], JA Smith <hamiltonj@j...> wrote:

> It shows why it's a great idea to watch our thoughts and words.
> http://www.spiritofmaat.com/archive/aug1/consciouswater.html
>
> Jenny S. San Diego

I don't know that it demonstrates why we should watch our thoughts and
words as much as it demonstrates personal gulliability. Or maybe it
is the desire to believe that each of us controls the world just by
thinking "good" or "bad" thoughts. It makes super powers of us all.
Masura Emoto has found that taping the words "thank you" and the word
"arigato" to a glass bottle produce different effects. He has found
that "arigato" (Japanese thank you) gives rise to a much more pleasing
crystal than does the English equivalent
(http://www.randi.org/jr/052303.html about half way down the page). I
wonder what the word "ethnocentric" would produce?

Schuyler

Pamela Sorooshian

The "researchers" take a sample of water that has been frozen in a
container with certain words written on it (like "People are fools").
The "researchers" KNOW what words were written on it - they search
through all the crystals in the sample, looking for ones that are
ugly (if the message is an "ugly" one) or pretty (if the message is a
nice one). Then they take pictures.

The crystals are not being formed by anybody's thoughts - they're
being formed by freezing the water.

Having a bit of skepticism and trying to think clearly and not being
gullible is good for unschooling.

-pam

On Oct 3, 2005, at 3:11 AM, JA Smith wrote:

> Here's more about Dr. Emoto: "Messages of Water" which was
> amazing. The
> link below talks a bit about the gist of the movie, but without the
> science behind it.
> It shows why it's a great idea to watch our thoughts and words.
> http://www.spiritofmaat.com/archive/aug1/consciouswater.html



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nellebelle

>>>>>>>>>>>It shows why it's a great idea to watch our thoughts and words.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Nobody is suggesting that we pay no attention to our thoughts and words!

Mary Ellen

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Nancy Wooton

On Oct 3, 2005, at 3:11 AM, JA Smith wrote:

> It shows why it's a great idea to watch our thoughts and words.

Please, please, please -- don't raise your kids with this message. I
was raised in the Religious Science church, a "New Thought" religion,
where we believed our thoughts controlled the universe around us. It's
a terrifying thing for a child. Kids should be free to think whatever
thoughts arise, to examine them, enjoy them, reject them, as they
choose. To be told we have to watch what we *think* when our young
imaginations run wild, beyond our control, is too great a burden for a
child. Kids need to be free to try out ideas; how many kids don't
think about what life would be like if their parents died? Now,
imagine that child has been taught her thoughts make things happen.

Plus, kids, who tend to take things literally, will test the theory --
No matter how hard I thought, I never manifested a pony on Christmas
morning. Teaching a kid their thoughts or words have power is a real
faith-killer. When he discovers he can't move mountains, he'll cease
to trust you or himself, and telling him they're rhetorical mountains
won't do any good; it will be too late.

Nancy

Gold Standard

>>>>>>>>>>>It shows why it's a great idea to watch our thoughts and
words.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

>>Nobody is suggesting that we pay no attention to our thoughts and words!<<

Good point. We were originally talking about other's thoughts and words
coming into our space through movies and TV. We always have the power to
choose our own thoughts and words, no matter what is going on around us.

Jacki