Three Buddhist Monks Use Their Minds To Change The Structure of Bottled Water
By
Arjun Walia
Arjun Walia
In Brief
- The Facts:Three Buddhist monks focused their intention on commercially bottled water with the goal of improving the growth of seeds. Results showed that they were able to have a significant impact.
- Reflect On:If human intention can alter physical material matter, imagine what effect collective human intention could have on the entire human experience.
A study published in the Journal EXPLORE, The Journal of Science and Healing conducted
by
scientists at National Kaohsiung Normal University, National Taiwan
University, and the Institute of Noetic Sciences referenced a previous
experiment which suggested that “consumption of intentionally treated
tea influenced subjective mood under double-blind, controlled
conditions.” They decided to investigate further, under double-blind,
controlled conditions. The new study used Arabidopsis thaliana seeds (a
commonly used wild type of seed that belongs to the Brassica family,
which includes cruciferous vegetables like cabbage, broccoli,
cauliflower), and measured differences in hypocotyl length, anthocyanin,
and chlorophyll between seeds hydrated with intentionally treated vs.
untreated water.
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The hypocotyl is the stem of a
germinating seed, anthocyanin refers to specific cell biology properties
of a plant, and chlorophyll deals with the biology of the green pigment
found within plants. The study was designed as follows:
Three Buddhist monks focused their intention on commercially bottled water with the goal of improving the growth of seeds; bottled water from the same source served as an untreated control. Seeds with the following three variations of cryptochrome (CRY) were used: the wild type Arabidopsis (Columbia-4), a gain-of-function mutation (His-CRY2), and a loss-of function mutation (cry1/2), where “gain” and “loss” refer to enhanced and reduced sensitivity to blue light, respectively. Seeds were hydrated with treated or untreated water under blinded conditions, and then placed in random positions in an incubator. The germination process was repeated three times in each experiment, each time using new seeds, and then the entire experiment was repeated four times.
The results of the Taiwan study showed a
significant decrease in hypocotyl length, a significant increase in
anthocyanin (treated mean 17.0 ± 0.31 mg, untreated mean, and a “modest”
increase in chlorophyll. To see the actual numbers, and more details
about the study, you can refer directly to the study.
According to the authors:
This suggests that the monks were able to change the structure of water.These outcomes conformed to the monks’ intentions because a decrease in hypocotyl length and increase in anthocyanin and chlorophyll are associated with enhanced photomorphogenic growth. These experiments suggest that the His-CRY2 mutation of Arabidopsis may be an especially robust “detector” of intention.advertisement - learn more
There were a couple of concerns and
biases but they didn’t hold much weight according to the authors. One of
them that the chemical composition of the water was not tested prior to
the experiment, so that could have somehow influenced the results
instead of the monks. Again, you can refer to the study for more
information like that.
Experiments over the past four decades
have investigated whether human intention alone can affect the
properties of water. This question has been of interest to alternative
medicine research, because the human body is made up of approximately
70% water. Interest in this topic has been rekindled by multiple
researchers suggesting that intentionally influenced water can be
detected by examining ice crystals formed from samples of that water.
Scientists have hypothesized and shown that water influenced by
intention can indeed influence the physical formation of the ice
crystals that water produces. Consistent results commonly point to the
idea that positive intentions tend to produce symmetric, well-formed,
aesthetically pleasing crystals, and negative intentions tend to produce
asymmetric, poorly formed, and unattractive crystals.
Dean Radin, the Chief Scientist at the
Institute of Noetic Sciences (one of the authors in the study above)
along with Masaru Emoto, Takashige Kizu, and Nancy Lund, designed an
experiment that tested this hypothesis.
As the study’s description reads:
Over three days, 1,900 people in Austria and Germany focused their intentions towards water samples located inside an electromagnetically shielded room in California. Water samples located near the target water, but unknown to the people providing intentions, acted as ‘‘proximal’’ controls. Other samples located outside the shielded room acted as distant controls. Ice drops formed from samples of water in the different treatment conditions were photographed by a technician, each image was assessed for aesthetic beauty by over 2,500 independent judges, and the resulting data were analyzed, all by individuals blind with respect to the underlying treatment conditions. Results suggested that crystal images in the intentionally treated condition were rated as aesthetically more beautiful than proximal control crystals (p < 0.03, one-tailed). This outcome replicates the results of an earlier pilot test.
You can access the full study here.
Obviously, it’s important to remember that this type of research does cause a lot of controversy.“There seems to be a deep concern that the whole field will be tarnished by studying a phenomenon that is tainted by its association with superstition, spiritualism and magic. Protecting against this possibility sometimes seems more important than encouraging scientific exploration or protecting academic freedom. But this may be changing.”
– Cassandra Vieten, PhD and President/CEO at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (source)
More Examples of Mind/Matter Influence
Stories of mind influencing matter have
been written about for thousands of years. Nearly all ancient literature
from all parts of the world have stories of such phenomena, whether
it’s ancient Vedic tests or the yoga sutras, all the way to Moses,
Jesus, Mohammed, and Milarepa or the Oracle at Delphi, stories of
‘superhuman’ ability have always been alive and well. The Buddha, for
example, was believed to possess all manner of supernormal powers and
ability. Were these just myths? Or are any of these stories actually
true? Why would literature that dates back thousands of years exist
describing these abilities in great detail, in multiple parts of the
world, if it wasn’t true?
There are many ‘paranormal’ abilities
that are said to be real, or at least what seem to be ‘paranormal.’
Perhaps they are simply just ‘normal.’ The scientific study of phenomena
like telepathy, clairvoyance, remote viewing, which are a few of many
that lie under the umbrella of parapsychology, have all yielded
statistically significant results. Remote viewing, the ability to
describe a remote geographical location regardless of ones location,,
for example, was an extremely successful program that worked multiple
times for intelligence purposes. That alone is a very fascinating topic .
According Dr. Jessica Utts, the Chair of the Department of
Statistics at the University of California, Irvine, when it comes to
scientific studies in these realms.“What convinced me was just the evidence, the accumulating evidence as I worked in this field and I got to see more and more of the evidence. I visited the laboratories, even beyond where I was working to see what they were doing and I could see that they had really tight controls… and so I got convinced by the good science that I saw being done. And in fact I will say as a statistician I’ve consulted in a lot of different areas of science; the methodology and the controls on these experiments are much tighter than any other area of of science where I’ve worked.” (source)
More Evidence of Mind Influencing Matter
Can mind influence matter? Today, there
are examples from looking at matter at the quantum scale, and there are
also real life examples at the classical scale of mind-matter
interaction. For example, the quantum double slit experiment is a very
popular experiment used to examine how consciousness and our physical
material world are intertwined. A study published in the journal Physics Essays is
one of many that explains how factors associated with consciousness
“significantly” correlated in predicted ways with perturbations in the
double slit interference pattern.
In this experiment, tiny bits of matter
(photons, electrons, or any atomic-sized object) are shot towards a
screen that has two slits in it. On the other side of the screen, a high
tech video camera records where each photon lands. In this experiment, a
simple “observer” “not only disrupts what has to be measured, they
produce it. We compel the electron to assume a definite position. We
ourselves produce the result of the measurement.” The experiment how
consciousness, or an “observer” actually influences what the electrons
and photos do, and what action they take.
As far as supposed real world examples,
there are many. One of my favourite examples comes from a document
archived within the CIA’s electronic reading room. It examines
experiments conducted by high level Chinese scientists examining people
with exceptional abilities and their ability to move objects without
touching them. The document is entitled “Research Into Paranormal Ability To Break Through Spatial Barriers.” I’ve cited it in many of my articles before.
The document reviews experiments by the
Aerospace Medicine Engineering Institute in Beijing, which the
CIA believed was “probably military operated.” It was reported in the
July 1990 issue of the Chinese Journal of Somatic Science (Kongzhi
et al., 1990; Jinggen et al., 1990; Banghui, 1990), and was translated
into English by the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency).
The document highlights experiments
involving the videotaping and high-speed photography of the transfer of
test specimens (nuts, bundles of matches, pills, nails, thread,
photosensitive paper, chemically treated paper, sponges dipped in FeCl3,
etc.) through the walls of sealed paper envelopes, double layered
KCNS-type paper bags, sealed glass bottles and tubes with sealed caps,
and sealed plastic film canisters without the walls of any of these
containers being breached. All of the Chinese experiments reported using
gifted children and young adults, who possessed well-known
extraordinary PK (psychokinetic) ability that allowed them to
teleport the various test specimens.
These particular experiments are mentioned many times in various publications. For example, a study titled “Teleportation Physics Study”
by Dr. Eric W. Davis, the Adjunct Professor in the Early Universe,
Cosmology and Strings Group at the Center for Astrophysics, Space
Physics & Engineering Research at Baylor University, the Chief
Science Officer of EarthTech Int’l, Inc. and the Institute for Advanced
Studies at Austin in Austin, Texas; who is also the Owner/Chief
Executive/Chief Scientist of Warp Drive Metrics which does consulting
and contracting for the Department of Defense, mentions these
experiments as well.
A study published in the American Journal of Chinese Medicine demonstrated
that a woman with special abilities was able to significantly
accelerate the germination of specific seeds for the purposes of
developing a more robust seed stock. You can read more about that and
access the study here. There are also declassified documents
that show human beings with these abilities. There are examples from
every country, and it’s not just from modern day. Ancient lore from many
cultures spoke of people with these same kind of ‘mystical powers.’
During a visit to remote monasteries in
the 1980s, Harvard Professor of Medicine Herbert Benson and his team of
researchers studied monks living in the Himalayan Mountains who could,
by g Tum-mo (a yoga technique), raise the temperatures of their fingers
and toes by as much as 17 degrees. It is still unknown how the monks are
able to generate such heat. (source) (You can read more about this here).
If human intention can impact
physical material matter, imagine the impact our thoughts, feeling and
emotions can have on the human experience and our physical material
reality. Imagine how important the concept of consciousness is when it
comes to solving our problems, and making the Earth a place of abundance
and peace for all life that resides here. Imagine the potential we
have, and what we are capable of, what what type of human experience we
could all create, together, if these concepts were at the forefront of
what it will take to change the world.
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