Chapter XVI: Coherence and Conduct
Coherence is based on physics and chemistry. And the same laws that stabilize gradients in water may also govern how conduct stabilizes or fractures living beings.
Collapse is secondary. What matters is what collapses: the capacity to transmit energy.
If disorder spreads through structure, then order must move through the same pathways. The medium does not change. What changes is the quality of what travels through it and the effect it leaves behind.
Once that framework clicked, I went back to observations I had initially dismissed months earlier, including the work associated with Masaru Emoto. He became widely known for photographing ice crystals formed from water exposed to different inputs, spoken words, written labels, prayer, music. Some samples froze into symmetrical, ordered crystal forms. Others froze into fragmented, irregular structures.
The usual reactions missed the point. Supporters treated the images as evidence that water stores meaning or intention. Critics dismissed the work as pseudoscience. Both sides misunderstood the chemistry of water.
Water cannot store intention or remember language. But water does respond to energy passing through it, especially mechanical and vibrational energy. Sound is organized pressure moving through a medium. When that pressure moves through water, it induces motion and polarization patterns that reflect the structure of the signal. Water does not need to “understand” language to register vibration. It is simply transmitting frequency, rhythm, and amplitude.
The freezing step was the key. Emoto’s technique was to “flash freeze” the water, and in that way, he arrested the energy mid-transmission, locking a dynamic state into a static lattice. The resulting ice crystal did not record meaning. It recorded configuration, the physical geometry present at the moment motion stopped.
Once I interpreted his work in that way, it dawned on me that Emoto’s work actually carries enormous implications.
If expressions delivered calmly, steady tone, coherent cadence, regulated amplitude, produce symmetrical crystalline forms, and hostile, erratic, aggressive inputs produce fractured, irregular ones, then what we call “positive” and “negative” may not be sentimental categories, rather they are categories of order, of structure.
From Photographs to Physics: Defining Coherent Water
