The Double-Blind and Triple-Blind Water Intention Studies

Sep 6

Written By Tina Clancy

Thousands of people gathered in Japan and Europe.

Thousands of miles away, bottles of water waited quietly in California.

The participants could not touch them.

They did not stand beside them.

They did not speak directly over them.

Instead, they directed something across the distance:

Intention.

The water was later frozen.

Ice-crystal formations were photographed.

Independent people evaluated the photographs without knowing which water had received the distant intention.

And in two published experiments associated with Dr. Masaru Emoto, researchers reported differences in the direction they had predicted.

Behind the photographs and statistics was a question much larger than water:

Can focused human intention reach across distance and somehow become reflected in matter?

Masaru Emoto had already spent years exploring relationships among water, words, music, prayer, gratitude and consciousness.

These studies carried part of that exploration into another realm:

randomization

controls

blinding

independent judging

image analysis

statistics

The beautiful water crystal had entered the laboratory in a new way.

From Water Crystals to a Testable Question

Emoto's earlier work explored water exposed to words, music, photographs, prayer and other influences. His official organization describes these categories as central parts of his water-crystal work and continues to preserve examples from the original collection. (Masaru Emoto)

But distant intention presented a particularly fascinating question.

What if the people directing intention were nowhere near the water?

What if the person photographing the crystals did not know which sample had received the intention?

What if the people judging those photographs did not know either?

Could the story behind each bottle remain hidden while observations were made?

Could intention become an experimental variable while expectation was deliberately separated from observation?

That became the heart of the blinded water-intention studies.

The 2006 Double-Blind Pilot Study

In 2006, Dean Radin, Gail Hayssen, Masaru Emoto and Takashige Kizu published:

Double-Blind Test of the Effects of Distant Intention on Water Crystal Formation

in the journal Explore.

The experiment was described as a pilot test conducted under double-blind conditions.

Approximately:

2,000 people in Tokyo

focused positive intentions toward water samples.

But the target water was not in Tokyo.

It was in:

California.

The target samples were located inside an electromagnetically shielded room.

Similar water samples were maintained elsewhere as controls, and the people directing the intentions did not know about those control samples. (ScienceDirect)

Tokyo to California

Think about the experimental question.

Approximately 2,000 human beings were in one part of the world.

The water was thousands of miles away.

The participants could see where their intention was being directed, but they could not physically interact with the water.

Afterward, ice crystals were produced from both the intention-treated and control samples.

The crystals were identified and photographed under blinded conditions.

Then another layer was added.

100 independent judges

assessed the resulting photographs for aesthetic appeal without knowing whether the images came from intention-treated or control water. (ScienceDirect)

The experiment created a remarkable chain:

Human intention

↓

Distance

↓

Water

↓

Freezing

↓

Crystal formation

↓

Photography

↓

Blind evaluation

↓

Statistical comparison

An invisible question was being approached through something visible.

What Did the Double-Blind Study Report?

The crystal photographs formed from the intention-treated water received higher aesthetic ratings than photographs formed from the control water.

The researchers reported:

p = .001, one-tailed

and concluded that the result lent support to their experimental hypothesis. (ScienceDirect)

Approximately 2,000 people had directed positive intention toward distant water.

The resulting crystals had been blindly photographed.

Independent judges had evaluated the images.

A difference appeared in the predicted direction.

And then something important happened.

They asked the question again.

From Pilot Study to a Stronger Experiment

A meaningful experiment does more than produce a result.

It can reveal how the next experiment should be designed.

The researchers developed a follow-up investigation with additional controls and stronger blinding.

They expanded the judging dramatically.

They added computerized image analysis.

They randomized additional portions of the procedure.

And all 300 photographs produced for the experiment entered the dataset.

The question remained.

The method evolved.

The resulting study was published as:

Effects of Distant Intention on Water Crystal Formation: A Triple-Blind Replication

by:

Dean Radin

Nancy Lund

Masaru Emoto

Takashige Kizu

in the Journal of Scientific Exploration. (Journal of Scientific Exploration)

The Triple-Blind Water Intention Experiment

This time approximately:

1,900 people

in Austria and Germany focused their intentions toward water located inside an electromagnetically shielded room in California.

And the design contained an especially interesting addition.

There were not merely treated bottles and untreated bottles.

There were:

Intention-treated water

Proximal-control water

Distant-control water

Three conditions.

Six bottles.

And until the experimental identities were eventually revealed, letters concealed the stories behind those bottles. (Water Crystal)

Six Bottles of Water

The replication began with six bottles of commercially bottled Fiji water.

They were identified by letters:

A

B

C

D

E

F

Randomization was used to assign bottles to experimental roles.

Two became intention targets.

Two became proximal controls.

Two became distant controls.

The experimental identities were preserved separately so that people involved in the blinded stages would not simply know:

This is the intention water.

This is the control water.

At first, there were only letters.

The story remained hidden.

The Hidden Water Beneath the Table

One of the most fascinating features of the replication was the proximal-control condition.

Two intention-target bottles were placed on a small table inside the shielded chamber.

Two additional bottles were placed beneath that same table.

Those were the proximal controls.

They occupied essentially the same immediate physical environment as the target water.

But the people directing the distant intentions did not know those nearby controls existed. The published paper specifically describes water located near the target water, but unknown to the people providing the intentions, as the proximal-control condition. (Journal of Scientific Exploration)

That created a particularly interesting comparison:

Two bottles were intentionally targeted.

Two nearby bottles shared their environment but were not identified as targets.

Physically close.

Experimentally different.

The Distant Controls

Two additional samples were maintained outside the shielded room as distant controls.

The researchers therefore created three relationships:

targeted and nearby

untargeted and nearby

untargeted and farther away

This allowed them to explore something the original pilot could not examine in the same way.

If a difference appeared between the target water and water sitting close beside it, the shared local environment alone would be less able to explain that particular comparison.

The proximal controls became one of the most important additions to the second experiment.

Inside the Shielded Chamber

Imagine the room.

Four bottles.

Two above.

Two below.

The target bottles were visible in the experimental presentation.

The nearby controls were hidden from the intention participants.

Thousands of miles away, people would focus upon the intended target.

But they would not be consciously directing that intention toward the water waiting immediately beneath it.

This was no longer simply an experiment about beautiful crystals.

It had become an experiment about experimental identity.

Could two samples occupy almost the same physical environment while producing different outcomes according to whether one had been the intended target?

That was the question hidden beneath the table.

Across Continents

Over three days, approximately 1,900 people in Austria and Germany participated in the distant-intention experiment while the target water remained in California. (Journal of Scientific Exploration)

Bodies remained separated by thousands of miles.

The experimental variable was intention.

That makes distance itself one of the most compelling parts of the story.

A physical object must travel across space to reach another physical object.

But human attention behaves differently in our experience.

Think of someone you love on another continent.

Your awareness of that person is immediate.

The deeper experimental question is whether intention merely occurs within the person intending, or whether anything associated with it can correspond with measurable change elsewhere.

The water provided a physical destination for that question.

Gratitude Was at the Heart of the Exploration

There is something important here that can disappear beneath all the methodology.

Emoto's larger body of work continually returned to:

Love and Gratitude.

His official organization still presents water-crystal photographs associated with prayer, words, music and other intentional conditions, including prayer-related collections involving Fujiwara Dam, Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, Lake Biwa and other waters. (Masaru Emoto)

For Emoto, water was never simply an anonymous laboratory material.

It represented life.

Connection.

Nature.

Responsibility.

Gratitude.

And peace.

That larger philosophy traveled with him into the intention experiments.

The Water Eventually Became 300 Samples

After the intention sessions, the coded water was eventually taken through the crystal-formation process.

From each of the six bottles, 50 samples were prepared.

Six bottles.

Fifty samples each.

That produced:

300 frozen samples.

The samples were randomized within the freezer.

They were frozen at approximately:

−25°C to −30°C

for at least three hours.

The random placement helped distribute variations within the freezing environment among the different experimental conditions. (Water Crystal)

The six bottles had become 300 individual observations.

Inside the Cold Room

The frozen samples were examined under cold conditions.

Takashige Kizu photographed the formations using microscopy.

Some drops produced pronounced crystalline structures.

Others formed differently.

But the second experiment made an especially important methodological move:

All 300 photographs entered the experimental record.

The experiment was no longer dependent upon showing readers only a small collection of representative crystals.

Every photographed sample became part of the dataset.

That development is especially meaningful when placed beside Emoto's broader crystal work.

Office Masaru Emoto explains that its normal educational presentations typically involved observing 50 to 100 crystals from one water sample and choosing a representative photograph. (Masaru Emoto)

The triple-blind experiment moved toward a different approach.

Every experimental image counted.

Six Bottles Became 300 Images

Think about that transformation.

Six ordinary bottles.

Then 300 frozen samples.

Then 300 photographs.

Somewhere behind the anonymous coding were:

two intention targets,

two hidden proximal controls,

and two distant controls.

But the people evaluating the photographs did not need those stories.

They needed only the images.

More Than 2,500 Independent Judges

The photographs were assessed for aesthetic beauty by more than 2,500 independent judges.

The resulting data were analyzed while the relevant participants in those stages remained blind to the underlying treatment conditions. (Journal of Scientific Exploration)

Instead of one person declaring:

This crystal is beautiful.

The experiment gathered a vast collection of independent human impressions.

One photograph.

Many judgments.

Another photograph.

Many more.

Subjective perception gradually became numerical data.

Beauty Became Data

There is something extraordinary about this part of the experiment.

It attempted to turn:

beauty

into something that could be statistically examined.

Beauty feels personal.

Intuitive.

Immediate.

Yet human beings often share perceptions of:

symmetry

balance

complexity

clarity

organization

harmony

Rather than allowing the story behind the water to influence those perceptions, the judges saw the images without knowing their experimental identities.

Water.

Crystal geometry.

Human perception.

Statistics.

All meeting inside one experiment.

What Did the Triple-Blind Study Report?

The researchers reported that crystal images from the intention-treated condition were rated as aesthetically more beautiful than proximal-control crystals.

The result reported in the study's abstract was:

p = .03, one-tailed

The authors described the result as replicating the outcome of the earlier pilot test. (Journal of Scientific Exploration)

That is the central reported finding of the replication.

The 2006 pilot had produced a difference in aesthetic ratings in the predicted direction.

The larger experiment approached the question again with proximal controls and stronger blinding.

And once again, the researchers reported a difference in the predicted direction for the key treated-versus-proximal comparison.

The Researchers Also Looked Inside the Images

The second experiment did not rely entirely upon human perceptions of beauty.

Computerized image analysis was also introduced.

One characteristic examined was image contrast.

A pronounced crystal can create brighter structures against darker surrounding areas, while other frozen formations may produce more uniform images.

This provided another way of looking at the photographs:

not simply:

What do people find beautiful?

but:

What characteristics can be measured within the image itself?

That was an important evolution.

The experiment was beginning to move from human visual interpretation toward quantifiable properties of the crystal photographs.

The Experiment Had Evolved

Several features distinguished the triple-blind replication from the earlier work.

Proximal controls allowed intentionally targeted water to be compared with nearby water sharing essentially the same local environment.

Distant controls created another comparison outside the immediate target environment.

Randomized sample placement distributed freezer-position effects among experimental conditions.

Blinding separated experimental identity from important stages of crystal photography, judging and analysis.

Computerized image analysis added quantitative image characteristics.

And:

all 300 experimental photographs were included.

The question had evolved substantially from simply placing selected crystals beside one another.

What Triple-Blind Really Means

Six bottles entered the experiment carrying nothing more revealing than letters.

Somewhere else existed the answer.

Two had been selected as distant-intention targets.

Two rested nearby as hidden proximal controls.

Two waited elsewhere as distant controls.

But during the blinded stages, the people producing and evaluating the evidence did not have the complete story behind those letters.

The crystals had to appear before their identities did.

That is what makes blinding powerful.

Observation arrives before expectation.

The images existed first.

Their experimental stories could be reconnected afterward.

The Photographer Saw Crystals, Not Stories

Takashige Kizu had spent years photographing water crystals associated with Emoto's work.

In this experiment, coding separated the crystal from the experimental narrative.

The microscope could reveal:

ice

geometry

branching

light

structure

formation

But the coded bottle did not announce its story.

The camera recorded what appeared.

The experimental identity remained concealed.

The Judges Saw Images, Not Intention

The independent judges experienced another layer of that separation.

They did not need to know:

People directed intention toward this water.

They did not need to know:

This was a proximal control.

They simply evaluated what appeared before them.

The narrative remained hidden while the data accumulated.

Only later could the experimental condition and the judgments be brought back together.

The Distant Controls Added Another Mystery

The distant controls did not create a perfectly simple staircase in which every outcome lined up neatly according to distance and treatment.

That makes the experiment more interesting.

The authors' central reported result concerned the difference between the intention-treated samples and the proximal controls. (Journal of Scientific Exploration)

But the broader pattern raises another fascinating question:

What constitutes the ideal control when the phenomenon being explored is distant intention?

If the hypothesis itself concerns consciousness acting across distance, then defining the boundary of an experiment becomes unusually interesting.

How far away should a control be?

What counts as completely outside an intentional environment?

Can awareness of an experiment itself matter?

How should future researchers isolate intention?

Rather than closing the investigation, these questions point toward increasingly sophisticated experiments.

From Representative Crystals to Every Image

This may be one of the most important developments in Emoto's research story.

His famous books introduced people around the world to selected crystal photographs.

Office Masaru Emoto itself explains that researchers commonly observe dozens of crystals from a water sample and choose representative examples for educational purposes. (Masaru Emoto)

Those images opened the door.

The triple-blind experiment walked farther through it.

300 samples.

300 photographs.

More than 2,500 judges.

An observation had become a larger experimental question.

And the methodology was changing along with it.

What Were the Researchers Actually Asking?

It would be easy to reduce these experiments to:

Prayer changed water.

But the research question was more precise and far more interesting.

The studies explored whether water exposed to distant positive intention would later produce frozen crystal photographs receiving different aesthetic evaluations from control water.

The observable chain looked something like this:

Human intention

↓

Target water

↓

Frozen samples

↓

Crystal formation

↓

Photographs

↓

Blind evaluation

↓

Statistical comparison

The invisible was being approached through an observable outcome.

What Is Distant Intention?

Distant intention is the idea that focused consciousness can be directed toward a person, organism, object or physical system without ordinary physical contact.

Human beings have practiced forms of this idea for thousands of years.

Prayer for someone far away.

Blessings offered across distance.

A congregation praying for someone in another city.

A parent praying for a child across the country.

A person directing love toward someone on the other side of the world.

The spiritual idea is ancient.

The experimental question is different:

Can anything associated with that distant intention be detected at the destination?

The water studies attempted to give that enormous question a physical target.

Why Water?

Water offered something unusual.

It could sit quietly.

It could be coded.

It could be separated into groups.

It could be transported.

It could be frozen.

It could be photographed.

And crystallization could transform transparent liquid into elaborate visible geometry.

For Emoto, water became more than an experimental medium.

It became a place where an invisible relationship might possibly leave a visible trace.

Distance Became Part of the Mystery

California.

Tokyo.

Austria.

Germany.

Different countries.

Different continents.

Different people.

Different rooms.

One question connected them.

Physical distance is enormous to the human body.

But consciousness gives us a curious everyday experience.

Think of someone you love thousands of miles away.

Your awareness of that person can arise immediately.

The water-intention studies pushed that familiar experience toward a much larger question:

Does intention remain entirely within the person intending, or can something about it participate beyond that person?

That mystery lies at the heart of these experiments.

Prayer Entered the Laboratory

There is something extraordinary about an experiment involving:

bottles

randomization

shielding

freezers

Petri dishes

microscopes

image analysis

statistics

and:

human intention and gratitude.

Prayer and blessing belong to human history far older than laboratories.

Here, ancient human questions met experimental methodology over water.

The laboratory did not create the meaning of gratitude.

It attempted to ask whether something associated with intentional meaning could correspond with a measurable physical outcome.

Love and Gratitude Appeared Again

Throughout Masaru Emoto's work, two ideas returned repeatedly:

Love

and

Gratitude.

His official water-crystal archive continues to preserve the visual record of that exploration, including natural waters, words, music and prayer-related crystals. (Masaru Emoto)

For Emoto, water was something worthy of appreciation.

Something humanity should protect.

Something intimately connected with life.

Something deserving thanks.

So even amid randomization, controls and statistical analysis, the larger spirit of his work remained recognizable:

Thank you, water.

What Could We Do With This Experiment Today?

Technology has changed enormously since these studies were conducted.

Imagine the same fundamental question explored with:

thousands of coded samples

robotic water dispensing

computerized randomization

automated freezer placement

continuous thermal mapping

humidity monitoring

vibration monitoring

automated microscopy

continuous crystallization imaging

computer vision

artificial intelligence

pre-registered analysis

independent statistical teams

multiple laboratories

and experimental identities inaccessible until every analysis had been completed.

Every crystal could be measured.

Every environmental change could be logged.

Every image could become data.

Artificial Intelligence Could Look Deeper

An AI analysis system would not need to know:

which water received intention,

which bottle was a proximal control,

which bottle was distant,

which photograph Emoto preferred,

or which image a human being considered beautiful.

It could receive only coded images.

Then it could measure:

six-fold symmetry

branching complexity

crystal area

edge structure

angular relationships

fractal characteristics

formation time

brightness

contrast

radial organization

structural completeness

and perhaps hundreds of other characteristics.

Only after the analysis was locked would the treatment code be revealed.

Imagine a repeated pattern appearing across independently operated laboratories.

The questions would become extraordinary.

What carried the influence?

What information crossed the distance?

What property of water responded?

What role did consciousness play?

What does intention actually do?

Emoto began with human eyes.

Today we possess instruments capable of looking far deeper.

Perhaps These Experiments Were an Opening Chapter

Masaru Emoto did something deceptively simple.

He looked at water differently.

Then people began asking how those observations might be examined differently.

A pilot experiment led to a more elaborate experiment.

A more elaborate experiment created additional questions.

That is how exploration grows.

One generation asks.

Another develops better instruments.

Another sees patterns the previous generation could not measure.

Another asks questions nobody had yet imagined.

The water-intention studies can therefore be viewed not as the final chapter:

but as:

an opening chapter.

Consciousness Remains a Profound Mystery

We experience consciousness every waking moment.

We know what it feels like to:

think

intend

remember

pray

love

imagine

choose

focus

feel gratitude

Yet fundamental questions about consciousness remain.

Where does consciousness fit within nature?

How does intention relate to physical reality?

Does consciousness only observe the world?

Can consciousness participate in it?

Does distance matter to consciousness in the same way it matters to physical bodies?

These questions reach far beyond Masaru Emoto.

But water gave him and his collaborators a remarkable place to ask them.

Six Bottles and One Extraordinary Question

Return to those bottles.

They began as ordinary bottled water.

Randomization gave them different experimental roles.

Two became targets.

Two became hidden neighbors.

Two became distant controls.

People thousands of miles away focused intention.

The water eventually became hundreds of frozen samples.

The samples became photographs.

The photographs were judged.

The judgments became statistics.

And only through the experimental code could those numbers finally be reconnected with the stories of the water.

The journey was never merely about creating a beautiful crystal.

It was an attempt to build a bridge:

from intention to observation.

The Most Beautiful Part May Still Be the Question

What happened within those samples?

We can document the experiment.

We can count the participants.

We can identify the locations.

We can record the temperatures.

We can count the photographs.

We can examine the judgments.

We can report what the researchers found.

But underneath all those numbers lives a question humanity has asked in different forms for a very long time:

Does consciousness reach farther than we understand?

Perhaps intention participates in reality through relationships we have not yet learned how to measure.

Perhaps water still has something to teach us about information, consciousness and connection.

Perhaps future experiments will reveal patterns we cannot yet imagine.

These studies did not exhaust the question.

They gave humanity another way to ask it.

Explore Masaru Emoto's Original Water Crystal Collection

Masaru Emoto's original water-crystal photographs deserve to be experienced through the people preserving his work.

Today, Office Masaru Emoto continues the mission associated with his water-crystal photography and maintains an official collection featuring natural waters, music, words, photographs, prayer and other explorations. The organization says it has continued producing water-crystal photographs and sharing Emoto's message since his death in 2014. (Masaru Emoto)

Readers can explore the authentic photographs directly through the official Masaru Emoto Water Crystal Gallery.

The official archive also contains a dedicated collection showing water crystals associated with prayer, including examples connected with Fujiwara Dam, Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, Lake Biwa and other waters.

For those who would like to know more about the man behind the photographs, Office Masaru Emoto maintains an official biography and legacy page for Masaru Emoto.

We have intentionally chosen to direct readers to these official collections rather than reproduce Emoto's original crystal photographs here. Office Masaru Emoto states that original water-crystal photographs should not be used without contacting the organization beforehand and that licensing applies to their use. (Masaru Emoto)

In this way, the images remain connected to the people entrusted with preserving Emoto's work, while readers who discover his research here can continue their journey directly with his official legacy organization.

A Final Reflection

Thousands of people.

Six bottles.

Three experimental conditions.

A shielded room in California.

Gatherings thousands of miles away.

Hundreds of frozen samples.

Hundreds of photographs.

Thousands of independent judges.

And somewhere beneath all of it:

intention.

Masaru Emoto spent much of his life asking humanity to look at water differently.

These experiments asked us to look at consciousness differently too.

A thought cannot be placed beneath a microscope.

A prayer cannot be held in the hand.

Gratitude cannot be poured into a measuring cylinder.

So the researchers gave intention a destination.

Water.

They coded it.

They separated it.

They directed intention toward it.

They froze it.

They photographed what emerged.

They hid the identities.

They gathered the judgments.

They analyzed the results.

And eventually, the experimental identities could be revealed.

The mystery did not become smaller.

It became larger.

Because somewhere between human intention and frozen water lies one of the most profound questions we can ask:

How deeply are consciousness, matter and the world around us connected?

Masaru Emoto believed water might help humanity look.

Perhaps one of the most honoring things we can do is continue looking.

With better instruments.

Better experiments.

Open minds.

Deep curiosity.

And gratitude for the water that made the question visible.

Questions and Answers

What was Masaru Emoto's double-blind water intention study?

The 2006 pilot study involved approximately 2,000 people in Tokyo focusing positive intentions toward water inside an electromagnetically shielded room in California. Ice crystals formed from treated and control samples were blindly photographed and assessed by 100 independent judges. The intention-treated crystal photographs received higher aesthetic ratings, with the researchers reporting p = .001, one-tailed. (ScienceDirect)

Who conducted the 2006 study?

The published study was authored by Dean Radin, Gail Hayssen, Masaru Emoto and Takashige Kizu. (PubMed)

Was the 2006 experiment published in a journal?

Yes. Double-Blind Test of the Effects of Distant Intention on Water Crystal Formation was published in Explore, Volume 2, Issue 5, in 2006. (ScienceDirect)

Readers interested in the research paper itself can view the 2006 study record at PubMed.

What was the triple-blind water intention study?

It was a follow-up experiment in which approximately 1,900 people in Austria and Germany focused intentions toward water in California. The design included intention-treated samples, proximal controls and distant controls. Crystal photographs were assessed by more than 2,500 independent judges, while relevant stages of photography, judging and analysis were conducted blind to treatment condition. (Journal of Scientific Exploration)

Who conducted the triple-blind study?

The paper was authored by Dean Radin, Nancy Lund, Masaru Emoto and Takashige Kizu. (Journal of Scientific Exploration)

Readers who would like to examine the research directly can visit the Journal of Scientific Exploration study page.

What were proximal controls?

They were water samples located near the target water but unknown to the people providing the distant intentions. This allowed researchers to compare intentionally targeted water with nearby water sharing essentially the same immediate environment. (Water Crystal)

How many people participated?

Approximately 2,000 people participated in the Tokyo pilot. Approximately 1,900 people participated in the later experiment involving Austria and Germany. (PubMed)

How many people judged the triple-blind crystal photographs?

More than 2,500 independent judges assessed the crystal photographs for aesthetic beauty. (Journal of Scientific Exploration)

What did the 2006 study report?

The intention-treated crystal photographs received higher aesthetic ratings than the control photographs, with a reported result of p = .001, one-tailed. (ScienceDirect)

What did the triple-blind experiment report?

The researchers reported that crystal images from the intention-treated condition were rated as aesthetically more beautiful than proximal-control crystals, with p = .03, one-tailed reported in the abstract. The authors described the outcome as replicating the earlier pilot result. (Journal of Scientific Exploration)

Did the researchers analyze all the experimental photographs?

Yes. The triple-blind experiment incorporated the full set of 300 photographs, an important development from the representative-image approach associated with Emoto's broader educational crystal work. (Water Crystal)

Did the study use measurements other than human judgments of beauty?

Yes. Computerized image analysis was incorporated to examine characteristics of the photographs, including image contrast. (Water Crystal)

Can I see Masaru Emoto's original water-crystal photographs?

Yes. The official Office Masaru Emoto crystal gallery preserves examples involving natural waters, words, music, photographs and other conditions. A separate official gallery contains prayer-related water crystal photographs.

Can Masaru Emoto's crystal photographs simply be copied onto another website?

Office Masaru Emoto states that people planning to use its original water-crystal photographs should contact the organization beforehand and that licensing fees apply. Its current photography agreement states that copyright in photographs taken by Office Masaru Emoto belongs to Office Masaru Emoto, LLC. (Masaru Emoto)

Does Office Masaru Emoto still exist?

Yes. Office Masaru Emoto says its staff continued the mission after Masaru Emoto died in 2014 and continue producing water-crystal photographs and conducting educational activities related to the work. (Masaru Emoto)

Could these experiments be explored again with modern technology?

Yes. Automated microscopy, robotic sample preparation, continuous environmental monitoring, computer vision, artificial intelligence and multi-laboratory protocols could examine water-crystal formation on a scale and with a degree of automation unavailable when the original experiments were conducted.

What is the larger question behind these studies?

At their deepest level, the studies explored whether focused human intention corresponded with measurable differences in a distant physical system, and what such a relationship might mean for questions involving water, consciousness, information and matter.