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... And the water talks back. Meet Dr. Emoto.
LAST SPRING, a thousand people streamed into a church in a leafy lakeside suburb west of Minneapolis to hear a lecture called "The Hidden Messages of Water." The pews were brimming and the lecturer himself was surprised at the overflow crowd: After he was introduced, he paused to take pictures of the audience, who cheered and waved.
Who was this conservatively dressed, tousled, middle-aged Japanese man, and why did all these people-mostly women-fill the parking lots with their luxury cars and pay $25 each to see him?
It was Dr. Masaru Emoto, a half-scientist, half-evangelist whose books have sold more than half a million copies. Trained in alternative medicine (his title refers to a degree he received in 1992 from the Open International University in India, which opened in 1991 and confers such degrees for under $500), Emoto fills bottles with water, exposes them to words, music, or prayer, and then freezes them....