Looking Closely at Water Revitalization, II
Last post I set the stage for a closer look at water revitalization, using this quote from Johann Grander as the jumping-off point:
“As a result of the many and various harmful influences, water today has lost its original purity. Through water animation it is restored all the original information it needs to reconstruct its self-cleaning power and to get rid of the non-participating substances. This is an intense process, which, of course, takes its time. Nevertheless, in most cases, a certain change in taste and partly also in structure will be noticed immediately.
“Every further change to the positive depends on the initial quality of the water and on the degree of damage. It is impossible to convert damaged water into pure spring water from one minute to the next. The most important thing is to donate life to the water, so that it can again build up its own energetic power and consequently, it is enabled to fulfill its essential protective function.”
This quote says a lot about both water, and its renewal, or revitalization. In the present perspective of water and water treatment, we are accustomed to thinking that we can take water in a given condition, treat it with modern technologies, and produce water that is “as good as new”. Its a great thought, but when we look to Nature for corroborating evidence- for systems that display the ability to instantly regenerate and recover their full range of properties and capabilities- we find strikingly little. Healing, at least in the natural world, always takes time.
I think this is an important part of Johann Grander’s message, not only because of what it suggests about water, but about our stewardship of the environment as a whole. If you accept this notion, then it reinforces the realization that nothing can really replace a healthy environment: anything we do to “fix” a problem after the fact is merely a patch, or work-around, to the larger issue. The end products are not what they might be. Water that is the fruit of a strong, clean, well-developed ecological system is not the same as water that is the product of a damaged or compromised environment.
With machinery, we could replace a few parts and be up and running again, but the natural world is not a mechanical device, and it does not depend merely on the health of simple parts. The natural world is a self-reinforcing orchestration in which elements seamlessly perform multiple functions. “Fixing” it is not as simple as swapping out a bad bearing: it often involves a rebuilding of the whole system. When damaged or stressed, the system de-volves to a lower state. When given the opportunity, the resources, and the good fortune, the system will evolve towards a higher state. Nature works to maintain the highest possible state of energy, quality, life, and growth- but it can only sustain the level corresponding to the resources and energy available to it. Renewal begins when a system is given access to greater resources, such that it can rebuild itself to new heights.
As Johann Grander has noted, the donation of life to water so that it can rebuild itself is a primary function of the Grander Technology.
Along these same lines, another important point of Johann Grander is that not only are two waters from different environments unique in their initial states, their potentials are also different. Unlike the uniform-appearing brands and products with which many of us have become accustomed, like the franchise hamburger that is made to taste identical anywhere in the world, waters from different environments and regions cannot simply be “made the same”. They will all have a positive response to revitalization, but revitalization will not make all waters identical. This is because, like a living system, each water begins to renew itself internally in the manner appropriate to its available resources and given conditions.
The short-term recovery that a given water will achieve is also unique to each. Two waters with different histories and exposure to natural environments and forces of differing types and intensities will not yield an identical short-term result from revitalization. Just as the exposure of several generations of plants to a particular combination of natural conditions will produce plants that are heartier in those conditions than others of the same species, the ideas of Johann Grander suggest that the hereditary information at work in water predisposes the water systems to differing potentials. In time, this potential may be built up and increased, and such is one of the goals of revitalization, but in the short-term the immediate result will be a maximizing of available potential. Continuing with the analogy, the first generation of plants provided with advanced nutrition will respond very favorably, but subsequent generations will develop an even greater potential.
This discussion is not intended to lessen the significance of water revitalization- only to note that when we work with the systems of the natural world the mindset of “instantaneous results” is not necessarily achievable, or desirable. As living systems heal and renew, they recover and unfold new potentials in a way that is self-reinforcing and organic.
Water revitalization is important because it is a powerful catalyst to maximize the short-term potential of the water, while initiating the processes of renewal within water which lead to the longer-term effect of restoring water’s natural stability and self-purification abilities.
© 2010, Michael Mark
