The Life of Water
I saw a movie last night that changed my life. While watching it, I felt a rug being pulled out from under me. All that I thought I had known about life and reality has been challenged. All the paradigms I have naturally assumed to be right are now all under question. And since I only watched a movie on the subject and being less than a novice on the subject I am a very lost soul right now. I am trying to grasp these new ideas, but it seems as though I have to break free of what I have thought about the universe for the last 23 years.
The movie, What the Bleep do we Know? is a look into Quantum Physics. It is an extremely well done documentary that hit me like lightning to the power of the mind. I have always been impressed with the power of thought, and personally it was always targeted on the power of positive thinking. After watching this though, I began to realize that the world as I know it is completely conjured from my brain. It was such an empowering experience, and has really put me in the driver seat of life.
I would try to go into some of the specifics of some of the ideas, but it is still very much over my head for me to speak without sounding foolish. However, the movie really hit home with me when they showed one scientist who took pictures of water molecules under different situations. He took a picture of purified water without anything else as a control, and then took pictures of the same water after different prayers had been done by a Zen Monk and the pictures took on different forms. Wow, the power of thought, our bodies are 90% water, that’s when it hit me like a train. Our thoughts have completely shaped us into the people we are and have the ability to change us at every new moment we face.
I have started to read the first few chapters of the book written by the same people who did the movie and I really want to divulge into this subject. I am somewhat scared by what I may discover, I am not really in a position in my life to lose my mind, but I have been searching for answers for quite a while.
I have also been pondering water. It seems to be a symbol for so much. It can be a symbol for life itself, for without it, there would be no life. It also has the ability to take on so many different forms, it is susceptible to external elements, it is a solvent for most other liquids, and it is a source of power and energy. And looking at the similarities of ourselves and water, we can see how intertwined we both are. We have the ability to change forms, as we evolve over the course of millions of years, but more as we evolve daily with the new knowledge we acquire. The environment we are in, always has effected how we act and leaves a lasting impression of us, just as water would whether is sit still in a pond or cascading down in a magnificent waterfall or boiling and transforming to a gas form in a pot on a the stove. It being a solvent is really powerful idea to look at in our lives, our own minds ability to absorb all we have experienced in the world with each new experience leaving a lasting impression and becoming part of who we are. And the power of water to us is so plentiful. It refreshes us, cleanses us, quenches our thirst and seems to bring us back to life. It can even cure hangovers.
Pete Townshend looked at water as a synonym for love, and I always really liked that idea. But now I seem to be expanding that view to think of water as a synonym for life. Although maybe I am not expanding that at all, just accepting that love and life are also synonyms.