I saw in the 12/17/2007 issue of Newsweek (page 16) that several companies are marketing blessed water. Now, this is not the classic holy water (“take that, you undead monster!”) but water that one buys to drink. One company, Liquid OM, sells water that has supposedly been energized by striking a big gong (perhaps a relic from the Gong Show) and Tibetian bowls. The “inventor”, Kenny Mazursky, claims that the water provides “good energy.” Other companies sell filtered tap water that has been given a Christian label.
While I agree that people should drink water, the idea that water can be energized or blessed is an absurd idea. Such claims have been made in the past and, when subject to verification, have all turned out to be false. Water can, of course, be transformed into an energy granting elixir-just add sugar and caffeine and there you go.
Obviously, some people do believe in the power of such “magic” water. But, I offer the standard challenge-show, in a proper, independently run controlled experiment, that 1) the water has qualities distinct from that of normal water and 2) that the qualities stem from the blessing or similar “treatment.” If that can be shown, I’ll buy the water and drink that instead of Gatorade.
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My favorite is the stuff marketed as “Real Water”.
Unlike normal water — which is clumpy and difficult for your cells to absorb — Real Water has been negatively ionized to make the water molecules unclump from each other.
But watch out! Since Real Water may provide the first true hydration your cells have ever experienced, it may initially cause nausea and fever as your cells finally have the liquid resources to purge all the toxins that have been collecting within.
Clumpy water? That would explain so much.
I need more ‘Hippy’ money so I think I’ll market water filtered through healing crystals.
It would sell well.
Or how about one filtered through ‘all natural Gaia approved water filtered through poison oak’ and guaranteed to lower your CO2 emmissions?
“Cyanide Water: Reducing Your Carbon Footprint to Zero.”