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Inspired by Snowflakes – Challenge of Taking Photographs of Water Crystals!<\/h3>\n
Masaru Emoto<\/div>\n

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One day I encountered a book on snowflakes by Professor Ukichiro Nakaya of the University of Hokkaido. \u201cSnowflakes are letters from heaven. There is no snowflake that is identical to the others.\u201d This is according to the book.
\n\u201cThat\u2019s it! If each snowflake is unique, water must form a unique crystal as well. Snow is also water. What if I freeze water and take photos of the crystals of water?\u201d I thought.
\nIn 1994 a young man who was inspired by my book \u201cPrelude of Hado Era\u201d came to work for my company. That is Mr Kazuya Ishibashi, who studied science at the University of Kumamoto. \u201cYou will be in charge of this water crystal project.\u201d I said to him and gave him a mission to complete.
\nAs a scientific person, Kazuya might have thought it was impossible to create water crystals. He did not seem very keen on this job, so I encouraged him to do this work every day.<\/p>\n

The World\u2019s First Photograph of Water Crystal!<\/h3>\n

\"The<\/a>Two months later, Kazuya brought me great news.
\n\u201cDirector, I\u2019ve done it! I took a photo of a water crystal!\u201d He was jubilant. This first successful photo was from the frozen micro – cluster water. It was the moment my prediction became the reality.
\nAround that time, Mr Taguchi from Nichirei Ice Company was involved with my work. Because of his job he had been going around the world and from the holy water in Lourdes, France to the tap water in New York he sent me water from different places. Then Kazuya took photos of water crystals of those samples. Once he succeeded, he took a lot more photos of water crystals with very interesting shapes. These photos are published in my book \u201cMessage from Water\u201d.<\/p>\n

I tried to recruit more photographers by placing advertisements at the Tokyo University of Art and other art and photography colleges. I wanted people with artistic sense in my staff. Also around that time I experimented with different methods such as playing music or showing photos to water. The work with water crystals photos was going very well. In 1994 I published another book called \u201cThe Truth of Hado\u201d in which photos of water crystals were introduced for the first time. Many readers showed their interest.
\nAlthough I actively introduced water crystal photos in our newsletters and at my talk events, I also wanted to release them at more official places where specialists could share their opinions with me. For this purpose I sent Kazuya Ishibashi to\u201cThe Japanese Society of Snow and Ice\u201d where he became a member and gave a talk with the water crystal photos. However, the response from the audience was rather cold.
\nI also joined Society for Mind-Body Science, which was established in 1993. In 1998 I had the fortune to give a talk at a conference held at the University of Tenri in Nara city.
\nThe reaction, however, was quiet again. Feeling disappointed I was just about to leave the venue when a gentleman approached me.
\n\u201cIt was very interesting. Please keep up the good work.\u201d he said to me. That was Professor Kazuo Murakami from the University of Tsukuba. Professor Murakami\u2019s words were strong encouragement for me. He made me feel that I would not give up.<\/p>\n

The Legendary Book \u201cMessage from Water\u201d – The Unknown Story of the Birth of the Book<\/h3>\n

\"Message<\/a>The amount of water crystal photos steadily increased in number. In June, 1999 \u201cMessage from Water\u201d, the world\u2019s first collection of water crystal photos, was published. No publishing company was interested in publishing it though. It was my wife\u2019s secret savings that made this publication possible. She had worked very hard and saved money for many years and we were able to self-publish the book with my wife\u2019s funds. The first order was only 380 copies. I thought I might be in big trouble however thankfully soon more orders came from the people who had already bought the book. People told friends about my book and it was spreading rapidly by word of mouth just like ripples of water.
\nThrough my book I made contact with Mrs. Shizuko Ouwehand who lived in Europe at the time. In the year 2000 Mrs. Ouwehand made a huge effort to invite me to visit Austria, Germany, and Switzerland to give talks.
\nThis European tour became the foundation of my world travel as MASARU EMOTO, the Water Messenger.<\/p>\n

The Enormous Influence that the Technology of Water Crystal Photography has given to the World<\/h3>\n

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\nTaking photos of water crystal is infinitely more important than I first thought. I did not realize this at the beginning, however as I met many people around the world, I began to understand the importance.
\nMy work has been welcomed by various religious people and has been 100 percent accepted by them.
\nOne day I was sitting at the hotel lobby in a small country hotel in France. A young couple came into the hotel and said \u201cWe have been told by our leader to pass this to you, Dr Emoto. It is up to you as to what to do with this.\u201d What they gave me was something extremely important in the Islamic faith called \u201cNinety-nine Beautiful Names of Allah\u201d. After giving me this, they just left.
\nThen I knew that my work, making the invisible visible, was accepted by the Muslim people.
\nOther religions groups such as Daihonkyo in Japan have been supporting my work. Great faiths of the world including Shintoism, Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, and many religious or spiritual leaders around the world have invited me to visit their countries.
\nWhy is this? By taking photos of water crystals, I have been realizing my work to make the invisible world into the visible. This is a very important concept for mankind beyond countries, religions or race. This is the reason.
\n\"Fusion<\/a><\/p>\n

(To be continued)<\/div>\n
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