Masaru Emoto

Masaru Emoto
江本勝
Born(1943-07-22)July 22, 1943
Yokohama, Japan
DiedOctober 17, 2014(2014-10-17) (aged 71)
Japan
EducationYokohama Municipal University
SpouseKazuko Emoto

Masaru Emoto (江本 勝, Emoto Masaru, July 22, 1943 – October 17, 2014)[1] was a Japanese businessman, author and pseudoscientist who claimed that human consciousness could affect the molecular structure of water. His 2004 book The Hidden Messages in Water was a New York Times best seller.[2] His ideas had evolved over the years, and his early work revolved around pseudoscientific hypotheses that water could react to positive thoughts and words and that polluted water could be cleaned through prayer and positive visualization.[3][4][5]

Starting in 1999, Emoto published several volumes of a work entitled Messages from Water, containing photographs of ice crystals and accompanying experiments such as that of the "rice in water 30 day experiment."

  1. ^ "Masaru Emoto" (in German). Koha Verlag. Retrieved 20 October 2014.
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  3. ^ Kenneth G. Libbrecht. "Snowflake Myths and Nonsense". California Institute of Technology. Retrieved 21 July 2012.
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  5. ^ Harriet Hall (November 2007). "Masaru Emoto's Wonderful World of Water". Skeptical Inquirer. Retrieved 13 January 2024.