75 of 85 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not Really An Oracle, August 3, 2005
This review is from: Water Crystal Oracle: Based on the Work of Masaru Emoto (Cards)
"Water is a medium that receives and understands even the subtlest vibrations. Water captures vibrations naturally. Even when these vibrations are in characters, or letter representing language, water shows us the energy they contain in the form of crystals. Water is attempting to communicate something to us. Negative emotions prevent the water from crystallizing. Positive emotions allow it to develop in beautiful hexagonal shapes." - Dr. Masaru Emoto
In the realm of energy medicine, it is believed that everything has a vibrational signature and those signatures either promote health or hamper it. Words and intentions have vibrational patterns whereas water is a medium that receives and understands even the subtlest of vibrations. With this assumption, Dr. Masaru Emoto has researched the effects of words on water crystals by capturing images via high-speed photography. His work, which was featured in the film What the Bleep Do We Know!? and in his book Messages in Water, shows how negative emotions prevent water from crystallizing while positive emotions allow it to develop in beautiful hexagonal shapes.
After receiving many requests from his readers to produce posters of the water crystals, Emoto had chosen to create a set of oracle cards featuring the photographs so that they could be used for practical purposes.
The Water Crystal Oracle is a 48-card deck that is divided into four sets of twelve cards with the themes of Healing, Wisdom, Power and Earth. One side of the card depicts a water crystal photograph while the other side features the theme of the card at top and a focus word in the middle. The 16-page booklet that accompanies the deck suggests several ways to use the cards including focused meditation, keeping a card under a glass of water for two hours and then drinking it, placing the Love and Gratitude card on your bath or shower wall to increase the hado (vibration) of the water, and for global prayer with the intentions of "I love you" and "Thank you" projected into the connected water of the Earth.
Through Emoto's work, he realized the relationship between emotions and the organs in the body, concluding that vibrational disturbances negatively affect the body. However, the body's intrinsic vibration of health can be restored by giving a new external vibrational to cancel out the disturbance. Emoto than began to work with musician Alan Roubik to create music to balance the body. Thus, the Cards of Healing feature photographs of crystals taken after playing ten different melodies. Emoto discusses listening to the music while visualizing positive emotion and even lists the songs, but considering there is no CD that comes with the Water Crystal Oracle, this information seems out of place. There is no advice for the Healing Cards except for listing a positive emotion with which to work with and the negative counterpart to be released. Two examples are Pancreatic Hado (Sympathy/Self Pity) and Blood Circulation Hado (Bonding/Stress of Human Relations).
The Cards of Power can be used to amplify or to honor something in your life. Some of the cards in the Power group include Prosperity, Hope, Prayer, Honesty, and Eternity. However, there are no oracular meanings given for any of these cards.
The Cards of Wisdom and the Cards of Earth are really the only two groups that can be considered oracular. For example, the wisdom of the Happiness card says "What can we do to increase happiness in the world? Love ourselves!" The Harmony card conveys "There was once a spiritual awareness that attempted to raise the people's consciousness to pray for harmony in all things. Harmony is the greatest of virtues." In contrast, the Earth Cards feature all four seasons as well as Sun, Earth, Dolphin, Stonehenge, Rainforest, Coral Reef, and so on. The advice of the Dolphin card says "Dolphins are our teachers of unconditional love. Focus on them when you need to connect with this energy. Picture yourself surrounded by them in the ocean as you swim together surrounded by their bubbles of joy."
The Dolphin is the only animal included in the Earth cards. As an aside, I find it a bit amusing (well, maybe disturbing is a better word) that New Age folks elevate dolphins to mystical status, especially when these creatures are known for the calculated gang rape of female dolphins. They even have a secondary gang as back up-not to help the female, but to corner her to be raped.
In my opinion, the Water Crystal Oracle deck is misnamed as are many nowadays. It functions more as a meditative and contemplative deck more than anything. If you're really into Emoto's work with water crystals or just want a deck for contemplating the effects of thought and intention on water, our bodies, and the world, then you'll likely enjoy this deck. The cards would also be useful for "charging" water with specific healing intentions. However, if you're new to Emoto's work or want an oracle with substance, then you'd likely be disappointed with this deck.
(To see 3 card images from this deck, visit the Reviews--Decks section at http://JanetBoyer.com)
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27 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Water Crystal Wonder, July 8, 2005
This review is from: Water Crystal Oracle: Based on the Work of Masaru Emoto (Cards)
I heard of Masaru Emoto through the film "What the Bleep Do We Know?" These cards bring the beauty and awe of his work into my life and home in a fun and practical way. I place them under glasses or bottles of water, next to my bed, etc. When I hold one to my forehead and/or heart, I breathe in the energy of that word and water crystal and I can feel the effect as I absorb its essence into my mind and heart. I am delighted with this product.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Be careful how you use these cards!, June 29, 2009
This review is from: Water Crystal Oracle: Based on the Work of Masaru Emoto (Cards)
This will be a bit long but I need to set the background for why we love these cards.
These cards are not only beautiful, they work.
My husband and I believe in the power of thought and the power of words. We bought these cards knowing this fact.
We are starting in the business of rescuing horses and people and needed to have a little push with the idea of prosperity so, we used the prosperity card on the bottom of a glass and I drank this water for two days, drink refill, back on the card. Then I was re-reading the little book that comes with it and it said there are many ways to use them...be creative. So, I put theses cards under my pillow:
prosperity, prayer, release, creativity, and peace of mind. Well, I thought it was because of the weather turing muggy and hot that I could not sleep for a couple of nights. Then little things started being gone, things that we were holding on to that we really needed to get out of our way of being, to move forward. Then we encountered a total rip in the fabric, the owner of the place we paid to board our horses wanted to go on a trail ride with our Tennessee Walker and we had made other plans and stated this. The next thing we knew, we had to be rescued ...we were put out, on the spot because of that incident. We were given a 24-48 hour window to get our horses out. In less then 6 hours we had moved the horses to a new home with better accommodations and less worry about their treatment both physical and mental...were they can just be horses without nervous energy surrounding them!!!
We could not believe that change in the horses, and in us, all due to the move.
So, I would say if you really want help to move our of your own way theses cards are so fantastic that I again tell you to use them with caution...because if you are not ready for the change you are asking for, it could be a little toooo much to handle.
I would also say do not start out with that many cards under your pillow. Start out using one or two with the water and move slowly to the pillow.
So, within days we were moved on to getting closer to our goal, dreams, hopes and the list goes on.
We received the gift of each of the cards we used. I am looking forward to using them for health. I will do this a bit s l o w er.
Peace Love & Light
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