Secret of Water might be a great film to watch if you're high. The meandering, non-narrative documentary cuts between digitized representations of molecular energy, super-saturated shots of waterfalls and ebbing tides, and slow-voiced talking heads. In the background, offscreen, water drips and rushes. We hear the trickle of melting snow filling the dry crevices of a stream bed, and rain pounding on a roof. Water, directors Jirka Rysavy and Saida Medvedeva claim, is alive, intuitive, and changing according to the environment and even to mood. It's no surprise that the toxins humans produce affect our natural resources, that the pharmaceutical residue we piss out and flush away winds up in the water supply. Dr. Masaru Emoto of Japan, whose philosophies the film highlights...
- 3/18/2015
- Village Voice
At least Gwyneth Paltrow keeps an open mind... In the May 29 edition of Goop, the Mortdecai actress, 41, revealed that she is "fascinated by the growing science behind the energy of consciousness and its effects on matter." In particular, Paltrow said she loves a book by Japanese scientist Masaru Emoto, The Hidden Messages in Water. "I have long had Dr. Emoto's coffee table book on how negativity changes the structure of water, how the molecules behave differently depending on the words or music being expressed around it," she wrote. Emoto's work has often been criticized by his peers and is widely considered to be pseudoscience. Still, the Oscar-winning mother of two asked her...
- 6/4/2014
- E! Online
Gwyneth Paltrow, medicine woman. The actress and purveyor of kale, 41, used her lifestyle website Goop to warn against the negative effects of, well, negativity this weekend. "I am fascinated by the growing science behind the energy of consciousness and its effects on matter," the newly single Paltrow wrote. "I have long had Dr. Emoto's coffee table book on how negativity changes the structure of water, how the molecules behave differently depending on the words or music being expressed around it." The controversial Japanese doctor Masaru Emoto has [...]...
- 6/4/2014
- Us Weekly
Ian Somerhalder, actor and eco powerhouse, uses celebrity for change. 'The Vampire Diaries' star uses social media and his foundation to bring on the next revolution to save our species. The following is an excerpt from Origin Magazine.
Interviewer: Maranda Pleasant, Editor in Chief, Origin Magazine
Maranda Pleasant: What is it that makes you feel the most alive?
Ian Somerhalder: It’s one of those things that hits you when you’re not even looking for it. It’s a moment when you find those words surging through your mind -- “I feel so alive right now.” There’s varying degrees of it. Acting definitely makes me feel so remarkably alive. Sitting on a beach or walking through nature makes me come alive always.
What I’ve started to realize is that social media is not just technology -- it’s become its own entity, full of energy waves.
Interviewer: Maranda Pleasant, Editor in Chief, Origin Magazine
Maranda Pleasant: What is it that makes you feel the most alive?
Ian Somerhalder: It’s one of those things that hits you when you’re not even looking for it. It’s a moment when you find those words surging through your mind -- “I feel so alive right now.” There’s varying degrees of it. Acting definitely makes me feel so remarkably alive. Sitting on a beach or walking through nature makes me come alive always.
What I’ve started to realize is that social media is not just technology -- it’s become its own entity, full of energy waves.
- 4/21/2013
- by Kate Bratskeir
- Huffington Post
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