Proof of a Subjective Reality

[ChrisB]

Hello everyone. I recently performed the Masaru Emoto rice experiment and posted the results on my blog. I was pleasantly surprised to have my expectations confirmed. I haven't seen anyone here talk about it, but the rice experiment consists in saying a loving or hateful word to a container with cooked rice every day for 30 days. You will notice a change in the rice eventually. I wonder if Steve has heard about this experiment. I wanted to tell him about it, but I don't know his email, and do not want to get Twitter for the sole purpose of communicating this to him. Anyways, hopefully he'll check this post and give his thoughts on it.

I am planning to repeat the experiment in a systematic manner to see if the results are reproduced.

To read about my results, just click the following link: Christian Bureu . com: Proof of a Subjective Reality

Would appreciate any feedback. I'm new to blogging!

[Steve Pavlina]

That's a freaky synchronicity for me.

I was just talking to someone last night who did this experiment a long time ago and got similar (amazing) results. But she used "I love you" and "I hate you" for the two messages. She said the love rice was fluffy and had pristinely clear water. The hate rice water turned into disgusting black sludge.

I didn't even know about this experiment yesterday, and now it pops up twice in my reality in 12 hours. Hmmmm...

[ChrisB]

Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina

That's a freaky synchronicity for me.

I was just talking to someone last night who did this experiment a long time ago and got similar (amazing) results. But she used "I love you" and "I hate you" for the two messages. She said the love rice was fluffy and had pristinely clear water. The hate rice water turned into disgusting black sludge.

I didn't even know about this experiment yesterday, and now it pops up twice in my reality in 12 hours. Hmmmm...

Wow. To get a reply from none other than Steve Pavlina. Just wanted to let you know that you are a great inspiration for me Steve, and you have changed my life in an extremely positive way.

Anyways,
I have pictures in my blog of my results, and you will notice that I got nearly the same results you describe i.e. the "stupid fool" rice has become dark grey sludge. In fact, the more days that pass, the more pronounced the difference between the two containers.

The synchronicity could be a sign to reproduce the experiment, maybe as a 30 day trial. You have millions of readers, so your results would have a profound impact on many border-line skeptics into believing such things as the LoA and subjective reality. Just a suggestion though.

[themaster]

Very nice work.. you know there is a mythbusters episode too about this with plants I do believe

[jeff3]

Just be careful posting about this, some here will acuse you of "rice abuse" .

[Amro]

Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina

That's a freaky synchronicity for me.

I was just talking to someone last night who did this experiment a long time ago and got similar (amazing) results. But she used "I love you" and "I hate you" for the two messages. She said the love rice was fluffy and had pristinely clear water. The hate rice water turned into disgusting black sludge.

I didn't even know about this experiment yesterday, and now it pops up twice in my reality in 12 hours. Hmmmm...

Steve, it would be highly valuable if you did a 30 day intention experiment as above and logged your trial publicly just as you did for polyphasic sleep and raw food.

There's plenty demand for seeing the LoA in conscious, deliberate application.

[Thomas H]

Fascinating

[Zas]

Wow, thank you for sharing this!

[Find My Sanity]

Originally Posted by themaster

Very nice work.. you know there is a mythbusters episode too about this with plants I do believe

Really? I saw one where they played constant music while growing plants - they thrived on death metal. Was that the one? XD

[ChrisB]

I looked up a summary of that episode online and found that the death metal plant grew the most, but was also the only plant that died. The classical music plant grew the most of the plants that stayed alive. Don't have the link though. I'm surprised that they found the experiment plausible. I'm sure that Penn & Teller would have experienced no conclusive results if they had perforemed the experiment. I guess it depends on the group conducting the experiment. If you read my article, you will see that I am planning on repeating my rice experiment, but without "channeling" emotions into the container. I am just going to let the rice sit with the words written and see if text alone can do the trick.

Originally Posted by Find My Sanity

Really? I saw one where they played constant music while growing plants - they thrived on death metal. Was that the one? XD

[DerekMB]

Maybe I miss something but you wrote cooked rice are you sure the rice isn't just spoiling/decomposing over time?

[rei]

Derek, if it was simply a case of spoiling, it would happen to both containers.
right Chris?

[ChrisB]

Originally Posted by DerekMB

Maybe I miss something but you wrote cooked rice are you sure the rice isn't just spoiling/decomposing over time?

As rei says, if it was simply a case of spoiling, both containers would have spoiled. There is a possibility that luck may have played a role in the outcome, but I am going to continue conducting variations on this experiment. I believe that it was my intentions/beliefs that the rice would be affected which gave me my results. I do understand your skepticism however, since I once was very skeptical of such things (I'm an ex-atheist). That is why I'm repeating my experiment and encouraging others to do so for themselves. However, you must believe you are going to get results. I watched success stories and explanations until I believed. Then I started my experiment.

[impaul99]

Some videos on YouTube show that the rice that is taken from the TOP of the rice cooker and put into a sealed jar ends up spoiling faster than the rice from the bottom of the rice cooker. Something to do with bacteria settling on the top of the rice.

Knowing that, the experiment could be faked or you could "self-delude" yourself if the first jar you put rice into comes from the top and you label that as "negative" rice, and then the rice from the bottom of the cooker gets put into the "positive" jar.

As long as you always start with the "negative" jar to be filled first with the rice from the top of the cooker, you'll reproduce it going bad every time.

Having said all that, I'm not saying I don't believe in the Emoto experiments. I've got all his books on my bookshelf.

It's just that I keep thinking that such "proof" can be so easily spoofed with improper scientific procedures. And at the end of the day the double slit experiments have already proven the same thing in a much more "scientifically sound" way. Even my physics teacher in high-school taught it as fact, so I think "proof" that our intentions affect the very fabric of reality is already out there.

Anyone who's studied even just highschool physics should know this to be true. It's only the general public that ignores this fact of science.

[impaul99]

Originally Posted by rei

Derek, if it was simply a case of spoiling, it would happen to both containers.
right Chris?

Yeah, the point isn't that rice spoils. We know that. The point is that the rice in the container being "hit" with negative thoughts spoils FASTER than the rice in the other container which is being "hit" with positive intention thoughts.

The point is to see if our thoughts affect physical reality.

Emoto originally did experiments with water crystals, showing that when water was sent loving energy, and then later frozen, the crystals that formed were beautiful and symmetrical. However, water from the same source, put in a container that was labeled with a negative word like "loser" or "failure" or "I hate you" created distorted and ugly looking crystals.

[DerekMB]

Originally Posted by impaul99

Emoto originally did experiments with water crystals, showing that when water was sent loving energy, and then later frozen, the crystals that formed were beautiful and symmetrical. However, water from the same source, put in a container that was labeled with a negative word like "loser" or "failure" or "I hate you" created distorted and ugly looking crystals.

Well, can you give a link because I feel I need more info on this. And what do you mean by ugly? I don't understand if you are speaking in terms of geometry or structure of matter how can you subject yourself to attach emotions to such a logical and organized thing? I wouldn't exactly call a sqaure or triangle ugly, you know what I mean? So what's these crystals you talk of? Got some pictures or something?

[Acting Like Godot]

Originally Posted by DerekMB

Well, can you give a link because I feel I need more info on this. And what do you mean by ugly? I don't understand if you are speaking in terms of geometry or structure of matter how can you subject yourself to attach emotions to such a logical and organized thing? I wouldn't exactly call a sqaure or triangle ugly, you know what I mean? So what's these crystals you talk of? Got some pictures or something?

You can easily google and see for yourself.

However, Dean Radin has replicated the experiment under more rigorous conditions. Among other things, he had a very large number of photos taken of the crystals, and asked a panel of many judges to score them in terms of aesthetic quality.

The judges themselves, of course, were not told which photos were of the crystals that had been subject to positive thoughts, and which photos were of crystals that had not been subject to positive thoughts.

However, their rankings showed that the scores allocated to the photos of the "positive thought" crystals were significantly higher than those for the other crystals.

[CoolBee]

Well, hey, we could all try this experiment, and make sure we stir the pot thoroughly and and maybe put a spoonful in one jar, then the next spoonful in the other jar and have a third jar as a control.
Maybe we could also pick the words we use and all do it the same.
Then we could all report back.
Off to the shop to buy rice tomorrow

PS I guess we would also have to try to anchor an emotional state relevant to each jar so a negative message was really delivered negatively and a positive message positively without any giggling or feeling like an idiot.

[Nimo]

Although I dont dispute existence of subject reality, i'l do this experiment to boost my confidence. I'm thinking, why not use uncooked rice thereby eliminating the bacteria factor. Uncooked rice can also go bad (maggots etc) besides, won't it be swell to see what will happen without expecting some 'predetermined' outcome? I'l start my experiments tonight and begin with labelling the jars because i don't trust that i won't feel silly talking to a jar of rice tehehe. Am a be posting my results in 30days..p/s, in 30days, i'll take the rice to a lab for testing. This is exciting!

[blossom]

Once I gave a boyfriend a poinsettia plant for his birthday and told him that if our love ever died...how corny is that, can't believe I actually said that, but if it did, then the plant would die within a day and all it's leaves would fall off, I said this in a merriful spirit, and didn't really take it too seriously. When we did breakup though , infact the very next day...he called and said the plant had shrivelled up and died for no particular reason, it had previously been thriving!

[Wax Frog]

Originally Posted by CoolBee

PS I guess we would also have to try to anchor an emotional state relevant to each jar so a negative message was really delivered negatively and a positive message positively without any giggling or feeling like an idiot.

That's easy - tape photos to each jar, one with an image that makes you feel good, another that ticks you off

[CoolBee]

Well I haven't started it yet because I fell asleep on the couch instead of going to buy the rice but I will I promise

[DerekMB]

Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot

You can easily google and see for yourself.

However, Dean Radin has replicated the experiment under more rigorous conditions. Among other things, he had a very large number of photos taken of the crystals, and asked a panel of many judges to score them in terms of aesthetic quality.

The judges themselves, of course, were not told which photos were of the crystals that had been subject to positive thoughts, and which photos were of crystals that had not been subject to positive thoughts.

However, their rankings showed that the scores allocated to the photos of the "positive thought" crystals were significantly higher than those for the other crystals.

I looked in google images at some snowflakes and I don't see anything what you are talking about

[Nimo]

Originally Posted by Wax Frog

That's easy - tape photos to each jar, one with an image that makes you feel good, another that ticks you off

Hey waxfrog, was wondering...suppose I picked a photo that i think ticks me off (say that of an exboyfriend or least favourite teacher/colleague etc) and taped it to the 'negative' jar but instead of the rice going bad, it actually becomes fluffy etc (refer to Steve's post above), would that mean that the photo doesn't quite tick me off (that infact I may still love the exbf or like the teacher/colleague) and its only that my subconscious mind has not 'communicated' as much to my conscious mind? Maybe the experiment could be used in reverse to test our emotions about certain words, photos etc?

[Wax Frog]

Originally Posted by Nimo

Maybe the experiment could be used in reverse to test our emotions about certain words, photos etc?

Nice catch! I never would have thought of that angle!

[cylon]

Well, last night I was on here and I was describing one of my visualizations, and it takes place in a certain city (which I didn't say by name) and shortly after the next response was someone from that very City.

Works for me.