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On the Track of Water's Secret

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I am a friend of the author (Dr. Hans Kronberger)and I contributed to the book.

Thus I was very astonished that the book has been changed without permission.

This is neither the wish of the authors, nor can it be the wish of Amazon.

I can offer you a copy of the letter chancelling contract. (Uranus the original publisher chancelled the contract with Wishiland publishing)

The original translation can be bought from Uranus or from amazon.de (Germany)

Georg Huber

Ok, here's my gripe about this book : it really comes off more like an infomercial than a book, and I don't think I should have to pay for an infomercial. However, ironically, it teases with some information that is actually quite helpful, especially about how water becomes structured. This material really stimulates the imagination, but it left me wanting more, which I thought this book would satisfy. It becomes clear the book is trying to sell a product when repeatedly we are not told about how Grander's device really works. I don't want this information because I am a debunker attempting to discredit the idea, but rather because as a theorist, it really interests me, and would also allow me to become a practitioner. Revealing this sort of information doesn't mean one can't make money. Selling product becomes a matter of supplying to those who are too busy or lazy to prepare it for themselves, which constitutes a real service for people in the modern world, but it does not disclude providing practical information for those with the time or interest to construct the product for themselves. Does Grander's system work homeopathically? What frequencies are being used to purify the water? Aren't I entitled -- not only as a customer of the book but as a potential customer of the device -- to know how the water is being affected? Grander sounds like a fascinating individual, with a fascinating perspective. This testimonials-oriented, marketing book doesn't bother to go in depth about a man who is apparently still alive and coming from a vastly different paradigm than mainstream models, which is a shame as such an in-depth exploration could be quite enlightening. More work is going to have to be done on water structuring, and water energizing in order to come up with noncontradictory, practical models for the layman. There is a lot of information on this topic which seems mainly oriented towards selling product. We need more honest, open, sharing approaches which are synthetic, powerful, and help us understand this amazing substance that makes up more than 70% of our body. I hope someone will read this book and become intrigued enough to write a book which explores the topic in greater depth.

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Rarely is there a necessity for this, but unfortunately this book is nothing more than extensive marketing hype for very expensive and dubious products that are made available for sale at the end of the book. This work steps far beyond the boundaries of reputable journalism and in my opinion should not be allowed to grace the shelves of bona fide booksellers.

There is some interesting background information presented about Viktor Schauberger, a pioneer in water research, but this too is unfortunately used to further the marketing ploy.

I concur completely with the two previous reviews (see 'Caveat Emptor' and 'Tantalizing Informercial). This book does NOT track the secrets of water through the fascinating discoveries and observations being made from the perspectives of several fields of science (physics, biology, health and more), nor does it follow any of several non-mainstream investigations and experiments outside of ONE, and that is the inventions of Johann Grander.

Out of 10 chapters of material (after the opening chapter), just one mentions work other than Grander's, and it is merely an opening salut to the truest pioneer Viktor Schauberger in what seems to be an attempt to establish initial credibility by association. There is no actual linkage made between that work and Grander's.

The next nine chapters present highly repetitive information (even duplicate pictures!) that is overwhelmingly anecdotal. There are some potentially interesting results from tests in industrial applications (and thus the two stars) and a scattering of interesting insights from some supposedly credible scientists, but the only scientists interviewed or quoted are each closely associated with Grander. Exclusively. Much, perhaps even most, of the material is from people who SELL the Grander units. And the illustrations -- the expensive part of publishing a book and thus real indicators of the emphasis -- are more than 50 percent simply portraits of happy users of Grander water, that kind of family-down-the-street (in Austria or Germany that is) feel-good Coca-Cola shot.

The only good thing in the book are some concepts you can derive from what vivified water might be able to achieve if it works, and a teasing tidbit of engrossing information about water structure tossed into the very LAST chapter, which, if it had been an honest effort to explore water's secrets would have been presented very early in the book and built on from there. If you happen across the book for a dollar, that might be worth the lesson in the last chapter and some of the concepts for benefits of well-structured water if it does really work (this book is ultimately unconvincing because of its overwhelming narrow focus, advocacy and salesmanship).

As for Schauberger, go to one of his own publications, for there you'll find vastly more information than in this book... but I will pass on one citation that was intriguing that you might have difficulty finding elsewhere and that is that the Schaubergers (father and son) found that water's energy is depleted in daytime and sunlight and enlivened at night, especially in moonlight, to such extent that they could float logs heavier than water down river at night.

I was disappointed to see this particular book was just an advertisement. It was helpful to read this particular review:

"The book has been illegaly changed, September 7, 1999
Reviewer: A reader

I am a friend of the author (Dr. Hans Kronberger)and I contributed to the book.
Thus I was very astonished that the book has been changed without permission.

This is neither the wish of the authors, nor can it be the wish of Amazon.

I can offer you a copy of the letter chancelling contract. (Uranus the original publisher chancelled the contract with Wishiland publishing)

The original translation can be bought from Uranus or from amazon.de (Germany)

Georg Huber"