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Alick's Lectures on themes from The Story of Water:
Saturday 5 June, Glastonbury: The keynote lecture in at Chalice Well's Companion's Day.
Saturday & Sunday 11, 12 September, Cirencester: British Society of Dowsers Autumn Conference
THE STORY OF WATER
Source of Life (UK edition)
THE SPIRITUAL LIFE OF WATER
Its Power and Purpose (US edition)
This breakthrough book recounts the extraordinary role of water in creating and sustaining life. How it stimulates evolution and balances the environment, constantly encouraging greater complexity, interdependence and integrity in all of creation.
Part I of this comprehensive book deals with water’s origins, its basic qualities, and the all-important cycles it performs in the atmosphere, on the Earth’s surface and the interior, in plants and other living organisms, and especially in the human body. Much of this is known to mainstream science.
Part II examines water's qualities as an organism with biology's new quantum view of how water is able to perform its complex roles in communication, balancing energies, storing information. It examines the challenge of holism and evolution, with a summary of the effects of climate change on water supplies.
Its themes include: Mae-Wan Ho's research into the long-range order or coherence of water & Martin Chaplin’s on the importance of biological cell water and its two states; Viktor Schauberger’s discovery of the importance of vortexical movement of water; Theodor Schwenk’s evidence for how water conveys cosmic patterns to life forms; Jacques Beneviste’s evidence for memory in water; Cleve Backster’s research into biocommunication, and Masaru Emoto's for its sensitivity to the emotions, music and pollution.
A wide range of other aspects of water are discussed: dowsing, planting by the Moon, water birthing, water as an engine fuel, why the best surfers are mystics, evolutionary theories, how planetary movements affect bud growth, trees as biocondensers of energy, what’s so special about biodiversity - and many more!
Part III includes practical material on the causes and likely outcome of the coming world crisis with water, and a study of some of the solutions. Much information is given on how to access the best quality of living water for our health, and various water treatments; the perils of bottled and distilled water, etc.
The book shows, in the simple language of holistic science, how water's role as the stage manager of life is really a partnership (as co-creator) with the field of quantum energy (which some call "the God field") that surrounds us.
328pp, 235x165mm [9"x 6"] 22 figs + 29 col. pics:
UK pub. Floris Books: p/b price £12.95.
US pub. Dec 2010, Inner Traditions: p/b price $19.95 (£19.95)
Note: The US ed. is more up to date, has twice as many colour illustrations and the information notes are boxed on the text page, rather that at the back of the book as in the UK ed.
Please email to reserve me a copy of The Story of Water/Spiritual Life of Water
Three excerpts from the book: Still Water; Chapter 8 & Chapter 17
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Why This Book is Important
You will know that one of the surprising discoveries made by quantum physics is that space is not empty, but filled with energy; it is called the quantum energy field. The quantum physics pioneers didn’t realise that this was known by cultures as early as the Vedic, 3,000 years ago; it also resonates with the prana of Hindu metaphysics.
Physicists in our time, e.g David Bohm and Fritjof Capra, have made the link between the quantum field and the ancients’ idea that ‘all is one’ — everything is inter-connected and, indeed, inter-dependent. J.W.von Goethe (1749–1832) was the first to make the distinction between the newly emerging reductionist world view and the traditional nature-centred view that he called the ‘holistic’.
So what is the function of the quantum field? Rudolf Steiner and his interpreter Theodor Schwenk believed it is the encoded data bank of the information required for evolution to proceed. I have accepted this as a viable hypothesis, and have built on it using the age-old concepts of yin/yang balance. Esotericists and scientists alike have used the idea that action, movement and evolution proceed along a pathway of alternating attraction between positive and negative forces. You might call it ‘the electromagnetic principle’ which is the driving force of life.
While there are as yet few ideas on how this information is communicated by the quantum field, fascinating research has been done in recent years on the quantum, or subtle energy levels of water which demonstrates that, in higher energy dimensions, water has an important role in communication between life forms, from the cellular to the organic. The radical hypothesis I present in the book is that water and the quantum field are partners in the communication of energy to life, the quantum field with a yang polarity and the water domain with a yin.
Quantum biology research has demonstrated extraordinary qualities and anomalies which make water the perfect vehicle for stimulating the evolution of higher levels of order, in sophistication, in biodiversity and in the complexity of inter-dependencies. Many chemists say that it is the asymmetry of the water molecule that allows it to perform its life-creation role. Apparently life depends on the curious structures and anomalous nature of water.
In its evolutionary role water’s functions include the creation of optimum climates, building soil and fertility; breaking down and dissolving substances into their constituent parts. From the atmosphere it takes nitrogen, oxygen and CO2, while from rocks it absorbs potassium, sodium, calcium etc. It is constantly moving around the building blocks of life, taking from one source and depositing them elsewhere for new growth, in a fortuitous manner which can hardly be accidental.
Water is an essential part of metabolic processes in the body and DNA depends on it. Water is essential to photosynthesis. The common denominator of all living systems, it performs many well-attested, complex roles in the maintenance, health & nutrition of all organisms.
Water has a memory. It can store dynamic energy, and through restructuring is able to carry more complex information from the Earth and the Cosmos which, as Nature’s manager, it imparts to organisms. It receives cosmic information from the quantum field.
When moving correctly, water is self-organising and self-purifying. It behaves as though it had consciousness. Water is generally associated with the more complex states of awareness ― emotional, intuitive, creative, qualitative, etc. It is appropriate, therefore, that water should be the medium for their communication.
Water’s fundamental property is that of holism, which is the principle that gives meaning and purpose to life. So life is no longer seen as an accidental, mechanical process, but an integrated and dynamic journey towards higher consciousness. Every action has consequences. There are, indeed, natural laws which we deny at our peril. Water follows these laws. It is a great inspiration and a marvellous teacher.
Unless we can understand water’s true role in life and in evolution and learn the lessons water freely offers, how can we hope, as a species, to survive?
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Commendations
Alick Bartholomew has done a great service to us all by putting the fundamental issues of water so clearly and lucidly in front of us. His 'Water Story' is a perfect guide to show us the way to put right our broken relationship with water. This is one of those rare books which brings science, spirituality and practicality in one integrated whole.
Satish Kumar, Editor Resurgence
In a single volume, by analysing and synthesising the insights of recent research into the qualities of water that best support life, Alick has taken us a step closer to answering that most fundamental of questions, "What is Life?"!
Chris Weedon, Co-founder The Water Association
The Story of Water
Foreword
I have a great fondness for Water Bears. Less than a millimetre long, Water Bears – or Tardigrades — clamber about like minute animated jelly-teddies in a watery micro-world, on eight stubby legs, tipped with the tiniest of claws. Endearing! But Water Bears are much more special than that. When dry conditions arrive, instead of succumbing to death, Water Bears survive by just drying up . . . completely! Well, almost. Drying to a body content of 1% water, from close to 100%, the creature transforms into a microscopic spec of organic dust, utterly resistant to drought, extreme cold, vacuum and even radioactivity. In this dormant, desiccated state, a Water Bear can survive for thousands of years! It’s a good trick if you can do it!
Yet, however remarkable the resilience born of desiccation seems, surely the greater miracle is the life that water brings! For, with even a single drop of water, the sleeping Water Bear bounces back into action, again to stride through mossy jungles. How is it that one extra ingredient has the power to awaken a mote of dust? What has happened? What is water doing? What is water that its presence facilitates and empowers life?
The Story of Water sets out in answer to these questions, probing much further than merely repeating that favoured adage that “Water is Life”. Here is a tale of wholeness and connectivity told through water; of the interplay between material and non-material, enacted on Earth, yet influenced from far beyond the bounds of our planet.
The extraordinary subtlety and complexity of water’s roles are vividly illustrated. And having done so, the book then asks: what are the qualities of water that best support life? The quest for a comprehensive answer to this question has been the research focus of the ‘heroes’ of Alick Bartholomew’s story. By drawing together the findings and insights of these researchers into so many aspects of water’s reality, a picture emerges of a seemingly infinite array of interrelating properties and qualities, which we are only just starting to comprehend. And by analysing and then synthesising these insights within a single volume, Alick has taken us a step closer to answering that related and most fundamental of questions, “What is Life?”!
Chris Weedon
Somerset, UK
Co-Founder of the Water Association
February 2010
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