Pure Water, Pure Consciousness:
Finding a Water Filter That Works
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 by: Mark Sircus Ac., OMD
http://www.naturalnews.com/023314.html
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To understand something as important and beautiful as pure water
we need to understand consciousness because pure consciousness and
pure water have many things in common. Though absolute, pure water
does not exist outside of a laboratory except as a concept, pure
consciousness is not a concept, but it is rarely experienced or
perceived in its pure form.
"Ask yourself what the world's most precious
commodity is, and you might say gold; you might say diamonds. You'd
be wrong on both counts. The answer is water. If by "most precious"
we mean what's most desired by most people, nothing comes close
to water -- fresh, clean water, that is." - Michael McCarthy
Pure consciousness, what is that? It is much easier
to say what it isn’t than what it is. If we sit down in meditation
and relax until we do not feel our bodies, then slow our minds down
till there are no more thoughts to think, and calm our hearts until
there is no more emotion, no feeling, no hearing, and no images
in our imagination, what do we have left? Nothing but our very own
pure consciousness; pure awareness is what is left and this is the
foundation of everything that we are.
Water and consciousness are both remarkable substances.
Water for example, although we drink it, wash with it, fish and
swim in it, and cook with it, we tend to overlook the special relationship
it has with our lives. Without water, we would die within a week.
Now consider pure consciousness, without it we die in a nano-second.
We use it all the time for the most basic life processes, to think,
imagine, feel, plan, touch, taste, see and hear with, yet we pay
it no attention.
Pure consciousness is an idea that a physicist would
be more comfortable with because the best comparison to it would
be the black light of space. We normally look up into the nighttime
sky and see the blackness of space in-between the stars thinking
that space is absent of light. Such thoughts are foolish because
in each square centimeter of black space is all the light of the
universe. So intensely full of light is space that we cannot see
it because it would burn our retina in an instant.
Most of us are not familiar with the dynamics of our own consciousness
nor do we bother to train ourselves in meditation to perceive the
pure light within for it is an intensely dynamic space that is difficult
to pin down. In that space we call pure consciousness, even one
thought crashes us out of it, like being kicked out of heaven. But
back we can go when we re-silence the mind, which we can do if we
train ourselves to do it.
As it is with consciousness it is with water. Anything
added makes it impure. One very small drop of mercury will destroy
many gallons of pure water, polluting it terribly. The pure is highly
vulnerable to the impure. This is the most basic similarity between
water and consciousness as is the fact that both immediately take
the shape of anything. The thought arises in consciousness and consciousness
takes the exact shape of the thought. Water will fit into any vessel
and it will accommodate any chemical, any poison, any heavy metal
in its breast. Dirty water and dirty consciousness seem like cousins
and they are. Those who would dirty our waters by adding poisons
to the water like fluoride are dirty and indecent in their consciousness
as well. And those who would sell us filtering equipment that does
not remove this cancer-causing agent are playing a game that puts
their commercial interests above their responsibility to protect
our children and ourselves from harm.
We are water and we are consciousness and the purer
we can keep both the better off we are. To ensure our families the
best health possible we have to be dedicated. We have to invest
our consciousness in subjects like water and learn to be wise about
it. So many of us take our water for granted just as we take our
consciousness for granted.
"Each year in the U.S., lead in drinking water
contributes to 480,000 cases of learning disorders in children and
560,000 cases of hypertension in adult males." - U.S. EPA
The cost of distancing ourselves from the purity of
consciousness and the purity of water are astronomical. Only when
we care about purity will we really contemplate on our absolute
need for the purest water possible. When we do sit down and concentrate
our consciousness on pure water we come to see it as a powerful
medicine for prevention and treatment of disease.
"In 1994 and 1995, 45 million Americans drank
water from water systems that fell short of SDWA standards."
- Environmental Protection Agency
Pure water is a most basic medicine though it can
contain health and life giving substances like magnesium and calcium
and still be considered pure, at least by the meaning we are putting
out here. It is the same with pure consciousness as well. A person
can be in touch with their pure consciousness and this does not
mean that the person will never have a thought running through their
brain.
The funny thing about pure water is that it can be
full of impurities and still look pure. That’s why we can so
easily deceive ourselves and drink life destroying water from our
taps, wells, and yes even bottled water. And we find the same in
human consciousness. A person can be all dressed up in lily white
garments and say all the right words and behave most of the time
correctly yet still hurt people.
The pure water that we will be studying, achievable through various
treatment/filtering approaches, is dynamic and is dependent on water
inputted into our filtering systems and what we do to that water.
As with consciousness, it is with water. We need to understand the
impurities to reach understanding of the pure. When it comes to
our approach to the best water possible we have to pay attention
even to what we store the water in. Plastic, as we will see, is
just the next disaster waiting to happen to our water, our lives
and to the ecology of the entire planet. The chances of water remaining
pure stored in some kinds of plastic are close to zero.
"35% of the reported gastrointestinal illnesses
among tap water drinkers were water related and preventable."
- Center For Disease Control
Some scientists believe that for every outbreak of
poisoning from water reported in the United States, another ten
may be occurring. One such study found that as many as one in three
gastrointestinal illnesses -- often chalked up to "stomach
flu" -- are caused by drinking water contaminated with microorganisms.
It was only ten years ago that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
and the EPA advised that people with weakened immune systems should
consult with their doctors and consider boiling their drinking water
to kill any cryptosporidium.
Detoxification is probably the single most important
component to long-term health and this has become increasingly true
each year, as environmental chemicals have built up all around us.
Successful detoxification and chelation are totally dependent on
an adequate intake of good water. Water is our body‘s only
means of flushing out toxins. The more water we drink, and the purer
and more alkaline that water is, the more we allow our body to purify
itself.
Since almost all degenerative diseases are the result
of toxins, water becomes and is the most basic and essential medicine
we have to employ. Thus the quality of the water we drink is equally
as important as the amount. If water already contains chlorine and
other chemicals‚ it has less of an ability to carry toxins
out of our body. If we consume water that contains traces of synthetic
chemicals‚ then we force our liver and kidneys to be the filter.
It makes much more sense, if we care about our health, to externalize
the filtering of water with one of the three basic types of filtering
systems widely available. Instead of ultimately damaging or destroying
our liver and kidneys and destroying healthy cell environments we
let the filters do the work for us. Money is well spent on filtering
our water. Bottled water, on the other hand, is a poor and insecure
substitute for the care we must individually put into our own water
supplies. With an abundant intake of clean‚ healthy water we
allow our body to perform all the healing processes that it is naturally
capable of and this makes all the difference in the world with all
the other medical or naturopathic treatments we employ.
When you bring things down to the very simple level
of the pure it becomes crystal clear that healing is about bringing
a person back to a relatively purer state. What it comes down to
is this. What do you think would be better when you are sick and
run down? What would you put down your throat, some poison or something
pure in its ability to cleanse you of the impure? In reality there
are many people who think a little poison will do the trick. Most
of these people who believe this are of course doctors, dentists
and nurses and hundreds of millions of people who worship at the
allopathic alter and have no problem swallowing the toxic drugs
and medicated water recommended to them.
"Unhealthy drinking water affects children in
different ways than it does adults. There is cause for special concern
for the health of children who do." - Natural Resources Defense
Council
Water is what we make it out to be; for we as a society
pollute and treat it and we are the ones who can treat it again
inside of our own homes. We can protect our family and drink pure
healthy water but to do this we have to treat the water ourselves.
Most people buy a cheap carbon filter and think they're protected
when they are not. If we are using tap water, no matter where in
the world we live, it is safe to assume that every time we go to
the faucet for a drink or take a shower we are taking toxins into
our bodies. Point-of-use water treatments systems today (filtration,
Reverse Osmosis, Distilled) are extremely viable and readily available
means by which water of extremely high quality can be provided.
In today’s world with water supplies being what they are, any
good home based water treatment method is much better than no treatment
at all. When we get into comparing one type of water processing
system with another, disagreements break out about which is the
best or healthiest water to drink.
"As to carbon filtered and reverse osmosis (RO)
water, these are better solutions than tap water or mineral water,
however they still fall far short of the standard set by distilled
water." - Dr. Ron Kennedy
If we consider that a good carbon filtration system
can remove above 95 percent of all water impurities, we can consider
them as a viable and convenient option. Yes reverse osmosis and
distilled water will be purer and thus in need of some kind of re-mineralization
treatment for optimal healthy water. Filters can be used with confidence
as long as one does not push the life cycle of the carbon and one's
selection of filter takes out most of the fluoride, which many do
not.
When it comes to water, we cannot afford to be lazy.
We have to take a good look at what is in our local water supply
and decide what we are going to do about it. We cannot allow our
public water officials to pull a rug over our eyes. We cannot afford
to fall back on crude beliefs and basic assumptions but have to
examine all sides of the issue and look into the facts. It’s
a fact that William K. Reilly, Administrator of the EPA under the
first Bush Administration, classified drinking water contamination
among the top four public health risks posed by environmental problems.
Why don’t we hear our present health and medical
officials warning us about our water? Some experts estimate that
560,000 people become moderately to severely ill each year from
consuming contaminated water. About 10,700 bladder and rectal cancers
each year may be associated with Trihalomethanes (THMs) in the water
and their chemical cousins. That translates into about thirty cancers
per day and that estimate is from fifteen years ago or when there
were literally billions of tons less of chemical poisons in the
environment. All we hear from the CDC is their fears of the bird
flu to justify even more vaccines with which to poison the public
with.
When it comes to the concept of pure water, it is
just accepted that nothing can compete with distilled water for
purity but some RO systems do come quite close. But some doctors,
despite the fact that distilled water has been used by spas around
the world for serious detoxification programs, complain that going
for 100 percent purity with water has its disadvantages. The worst
option is to drink tap water with the second worst option being
bottled water sold in plastic.
Dr. Masaru Emoto has demonstrated that the relationship
between water and consciousness is not a joke. Dr. Emoto took samples
of water from various sources, froze a few droplets, examined them
under a dark field microscope and photographed them. He experimented
first with water from a pure source in Japan. The picture revealed
a beautiful crystalline form. He then did the same thing with water
from a nearby-polluted river. The result was a muddy, smeared pattern
with very little structure. He then asked a priest from a temple
to offer a prayer to the polluted water sample and repeated the
experiment out of curiosity. To his surprise, another beautiful
crystalline structure appeared. The Crystalline structure produced
by "Thank you" in Japanese and the crystalline structure
produced by "You make me sick, I will kill you." strikingly
showed the difference in their final form.
To deal effectively with pure water, we in fact have
to become the manager of our own water treatment plant. After all
who are we going to trust? Those who put poisons like chloramines
and fluoride into the water or ourselves? To take responsibility
for our own water is an important act of love. Pure consciousness
and purified water are bound together by love. It is the unloving
among us that pollute our waters and the indecent who deliberately
put poisons into the waters thinking they are doing us all a favor.
It is our obligation to strive for the purest water
possible. Deciding what system is best for our needs is a very individual
and personal process and there is no filtering system that is best
for everyone. If we want pure water we have to put our devotion
to it, our spirit, and some financial resources but we shall be
surprised at how little a reasonably good system can cost. In a
world with inequalities of wealth, we have to pause and consider
what we can afford in time, energy and financial resources. Very
few can afford the kind of systems that can handle every problem
with water but for very little we can do some amazing things to
the water we drink.
Note: Beware of the quick and uninformed opinion about
water. There is tremendous disagreement here as everywhere. Everyone
in the water business is going to try to sell you something. - Mark
Sircus Ac., OMD
About the author
Mark A. Sircus Ac., OMD, is director of the International Medical
Veritas Association (IMVA)http://www.imva.info/. Dr. Sircus was
trained in acupuncture and oriental medicine at the Institute of
Traditional Medicine in Sante Fe, N.M., and in the School of Traditional
Medicine of New England in Boston. He served at the Central Public
Hospital of Pochutla, in México, and was awarded the title
of doctor of oriental medicine for his work. He was one of the first
nationally certified acupuncturists in the United States. Dr. Sircus's
IMVA is dedicated to unifying the various disciplines in medicine
with the goal of creating a new dawn in healthcare.
He is particularly concerned about the effect vaccinations
have on vulnerable infants and is identifying the common thread
of many toxic agents that are dramatically threatening present and
future generations of children. His book The Terror of Pediatric
Medicine is a free e-book one can read. Dr. Sircus is a most prolific
and courageous writer and one can read through hundreds of pages
on his various web sites.
He has most recently released his Survival Medicine
for the 21st Century compendium (2,200 page ebook) and just released
the Winning the War Against Cancer book. Dr. Sircus is a pioneer
in the area of natural detoxification and chelation of toxic chemicals
and heavy metals. He is also a champion of the medicinal value of
minerals and is fathering in a new medical approach that uses sea
water and different concentrates taken from it for health and healing.
Transdermal Magnesium Therapy, his first published work, offers
a stunning breakthrough in medicine, an entirely new way to supplement
magnesium that naturally increases DHEA levels, brings cellular
magnesium levels up quickly, relieves pain, brings down blood pressure
and pushes cell physiology in a positive direction. Magnesium chloride
delivered transdermally brings a quick release from a broad range
of conditions.
International Medical Veritas Association: http://www.imva.info/
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