water.

 

Kinds of  fresh water for drinking

 

Fresh water has many qualities or types, which can be differentiated according to drinking quality.

· Distilled water - the ‘purest’ water, with no elements, therefore absorbs and grasps any minerals or elements in reach. Dangerous when drunk continuously for this reason, though has been used (as in the ‘Kneipp Cure’) to purge the body of excessive deposits of such material. Tends to be quite acidic.

· Rain water - unsuitable for long term drinking, since it is only slightly richer than distilled water due to absorption of atmospheric gases and dust particles. If you do collect it from your roof, employ a system which siphons off the first few litres, and ‘seed’ it with rock dust to replace minerals, and store in a concrete tank which improves the mineral content and alkalinity.

· Juvenile water - usually from geysers, etc., this is also immature water, with little mineral content.

· Surface water - from creeks, dams, etc. The main source of drinking water. Contains any substances that can be found in the catchment area, i.e., living pathogens, nitrates, blue-green algae, pesticides, industrial residues, etc. Also exposed to heavy oxygenation from the atmosphere and heat exposure from the sun, which removes a lot of the character and energy of water.

· Ground water - from wells, springs, bores. Often safe but increasingly susceptible to pollution, so needs filtering. Best so far, as it has a larger quota of dissolved minerals, salts, etc.

· True Spring Water - the best, and considrer yourself lucky if you have access to such water. Often has a shimmering, bluish colour.

 

Our energised water systems bring ground water back to spring water quality.

 

What treatment methods exist?

 

Water Boards disinfect at best, at worst don’t even succeed in that. What they do is add a cocktail of chemicals - alum (a coagulant), a pH correction to make the water non-corrosive to metal pipes, fluoride, chlorine... None of these is good for you, some positively bad for your health.

What’s more, the water is piped to us in every conceivable kind of pipe, and each has its disadvantages in water quality terms.

 

Soft v Hard water

 

Hard water has high concentrations of calcium and magnesium, results in reduction in lathering ability, and scale buildup in pipes leading to higher power bills, and blocked pipes.

Soft water lathers nicely, but corrodes pipelines and thus delivers contaminants to you. Better to drink hard water and wash in soft

 

DIY Methods of Purifying

 

Human bodies are the final filter! But there are many simple ways to help your body out.

 

· Volatile organic compounds - including THMs and chloroform, can be removed by boiling, agitation (stirring), or just letting it stand long enough with good ventilation.

· Boiling removes 95% of organic compounds, and some bacteria and microbes - but the water tastes a little flat, and boiling concentrates nitrates and other minerals.

· Reverse Osmosis - an effective method, in which water is forced against a semi-permeable membrane by pressure. Removes turbidity, sediment, colloidal matter, dissolved solids, toxic metals, pesticides, herbicides, radioactive elements. Tends to be slow, expensive and wasteful of water.

· Mixed bed ion exchange - removes a range of impurities including fluoride, nitrates and heavy metal salts along with most other contaminants. It produces very pure water, but the beads must be replaced when exhausted, and there are simple tests for this.

· Distillation - Water is heated to steam leaving behind bacteria, minerals and other substances, after which it is condensed again. Not effective with chemicals whose boiling point is lower than water, including THMs, chloroform, phenol, etc. They can be costly to buy and run, and slow. Requires 5 L of water to produce a litre of distilled water. See also previous comments about the quality of this for drinking.               

 

   

Conclusion

 

Unfortunately, it’s up to you. You have to take responsibility for the quality of your water, because the authorities aren’t, even on the level of decontamination, not to mention purification or energising. A sobering thought.

 

Scientific background notes

 

Some will say: this is all very well, but what does Science say about all this? To investigate this, a few background remarks are in order.

 

First, science has tended to claim the entire universe as its arena, and then ignored most of it - particularly that which pertains to life.

Systems and theories which are appropriate for mechanical, lifeless objects of study are co-opted to explain the workings of life and living beings. Science in its current state thus fails repeatedly to understand, and therefore manage effectively, living systems. There is a large gap, a discontinuity, a difference in kind, between the inanimate and the animate - a new kind of thinking is required to examine the animate.

 

For example, water itself can not be analysed in a lab - as Schauberger says, all that is being investigated is a ‘water-corpse’, because water itself is a living entity, and to live must be moving, must be in flow. A materialistic science which does not realise this can only look at dead water.

 

This is the springboard from which we leap in investigations about living, energised water. And keeping in mind that such thinking is still marginalised by the mainstream culture and its science, it should be understood that we stand only at the beginning of a science that reveres, investigates and understands life (or its synonyms energy and spirit), with simple and perhaps primitive tools.

 

Some of those tools include:

 

· an understanding of the principle of homeopathy, as a science, technique and healing art which stands squarely in the energetic tradition since its emergence over two hundred years ago. Many studies have been conducted which establish the basis and efficacy of this discipline, which flies in the face of the assumptions of mainstream science - see the introduction for more on the implications of this regarding energised water.

 

· Anthroposophical science is perhaps the strongest continuous stream of investigation in this method during this century. Many of its practitioners are by nature both scientists and poets/artists, highlighting the need for both analysis and synthesis (right and left brain) approaches. Theodore Schwenk has been the leading light in the energetic investigations of water, and devised the ‘Water Drop’ technique of water analysis, a potent tool in the energetic analysis of fluid. Such science owes its original impulse to the ideas of Rudolf Steiner, whose understanding of thinking as a most practical tool and spiritual force is still to be understood by the mainstream.

 

· The understanding of the different types of thinking and scientific investigation, and how they are to be used best, another realm enlightened by the work of Rudolf Steiner and Wolfgang Goethe.

 

· the work of Viktor Schauberger, a natural scientist in the Goethean tradition whose understandings are beginning to infiltrate the culture which ignored him.

 

· Kinesiology (muscle-testing) and dowsing are excellent tools in the right hands, i.e., in the hands of one with clear thinking.

 

· Technology is bringing us new tools which are beginning to enter into the energetic domain. Amongst these are the LisTEN Computerised Diagnostic system, a development of the Vega system a German precursor which measures and records subtle energy effects - i.e., effects for example within the ‘meridian body’, as understood in acupuncture.

 

· Simple living microscopy is very effective in revealing the obvious about living systems. Usually microscopy is used only to investigate dead tissues and mechanical processes, as in the four graphics below (thanks to Nordic Water Systems for these): 

 

1) A circular membrane around a drop of Water is one of the most significant characteristics of Alive Water.

 

2) The opposite is the case with dead Water. Here the dead drop of Water is characterized by a deformed membrane where the outline is seriously damaged.