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#110 - Messages From Water
Episode 110
Saturday, 22 November, 2025

Masaru Emoto, for most of his life, was an ordinary middle-manager for a newspaper. Then one day he stepped out of the shadows to announce that he had discovered a new fundamental force in the universe - emotional water memory. Check my album, Ruined Numbers, for sale on Bandcamp! It's an album of acoustic arrangements of Final Fantasy music. You can also stream the album on Spotify or YouTube Music. Enjoy! You can also find me on Twitter @sequencepod, or you can listen to my other podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app. Sources: Skeptical Inquirer - https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/a-grain-of-truth-recreating-dr-emotos-rice-experiment/ Medium blog by James Donner - https://medium.com/@jamesbonner_63058/masaru-emoto-our-spiritual-enlightenment-e6999cf45fde Guardian article on What the Bleep Do We Know? - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2005/may/16/g2.science Good Therapy - positive intentions - https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/mindfulness-matters-dr-emoto-studies-reveal-power-of-positive-emotion-012914 The Wellness Enterprise - https://thewellnessenterprise.com/emoto/ The Irish Times - https://www.irishtimes.com/news/science/the-pseudoscience-of-creating-beautiful-or-ugly-water-1.574583 Neurologica article on Emoto - https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/the-pseudoscience-of-masaru-emoto/ Rational Wiki - https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Masaru_Emoto Hado World - https://hado.com/ihm/ Google Patents - Automated computerized magnetic resonance detector and analyzer The website for Masaru Emoto The website for the Emoto Peace Project Wikipedia - Masaru Emoto The Cut - That's Not How Physical Reality Works, Gwyneth