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I purchased this book having read the reviews on Amazon first .... which just goes to show how variable we all are in our judgemental levels, Eh? First, let's be quite clear on one thing, as the word 'science' is mentioned so often by other reviewers of this book; there is no science in this book what so ever. The methodology used (where one can divine it) to 'test' water crystals is completely undocumented, unregimented and without rigour. Any results reported in this book therefore MUST be seen as conjecture, and highly coloured conjecture at that. I really was hoping for something better. The text itself is just chock-full of unqualified statements about the author's conclusions, as in "we can see...." and "it can be inferred..." and so on, when in actuality it is far from clear to see and it really can't be inferred at all. My hackles were well and truly up by the time the author administered the Coup de Grace, and I quote: "It is universally accepted that there can be no life without water, and if we accept that water, the source of all life, was sent from Outer Space, then logic leads us to the conclusion that all life, including that of Human Beings, is alien to this planet." At this point, having acute mental indigestion already from the preceding 57 pages of tripe, my brain exploded. The photographs in this book have drawn praise in other reviews - they are of interest, much as snowflake photography, or ultra-high definition audio recordings of micro-sounds can be (the proverbial sound of a pin dropping - yes, you can buy that as a recording), however they are presented as some sort of tea-leaf devinition, which they most certainly are not. One may as well lie on one's back in a field and give anthropological descriptors to cloud-shapes... this sort of schoolboy activity is just as "scientific" as Emoto's claims for the water crystals. To close, let me say that I am unable to finish this book - it is just too 'specualtive' in the worst "crysal gazing" manner. There was so much that *could* have been done with the research, that what is presented here is not merely disappointing, it is an insult to a promising area of "bleep research". Others have gone before in researching water and it's mysteries - I refer particulary to the German farmers who sing ancient tonal songs to buckets of water and stir it in a rhythm before sprinkling on their crops - they have done so for generations; or the nineteenth century forest warden who developed and produced specially shaped flumes to 'activate' water on it's way to crops, with impressive results. Alongside these empirical stories, this book full of extraordinary and unsupported assertions is just useless. Sorry, lads, this one will hurt your mind - keep away.