The Pioneering Work of Dr. Masaru Emoto & The Journey Behind Rius Water
The Pioneering Work of Dr. Masaru Emoto
The late Dr. Masaru Emoto, a Japanese researcher and author, dedicated his life to understanding water at deeper level and revealing water's hidden messages. Through his groundbreaking work beginning in the 1990s, Dr. Emoto demonstrated that water is far more than an inert substance—it is responsive, alive, and deeply connected to consciousness itself.
Using high-speed photography, Dr. Emoto developed a method to capture the crystalline structure of frozen water samples. What he discovered was nothing short of extraordinary: water exposed to positive influences—loving words, beautiful music, prayer, and gratitude—formed stunning, symmetrical hexagonal crystals reminiscent of intricate snowflakes. Conversely, water exposed to negative thoughts, harsh words, or polluted environments produced distorted, incomplete, and asymmetrical structures.
His most famous experiments involved labeling bottles of water with words like "love and gratitude" versus "hate" or "you fool," then freezing and photographing the results. The differences were visually striking and undeniable. Water from pristine mountain springs produced brilliant, complex crystal formations, while tap water from major cities often failed to form crystals at all.
Dr. Emoto's bestselling book, The Hidden Messages in Water, brought his research to a global audience and sparked a worldwide conversation about water consciousness. His work was featured in the documentary What the Bleep Do We Know!? and inspired countless individuals to reconsider their relationship with water.
While some in the scientific community criticized his methodology, a double-blind study conducted with the Institute of Noetic Sciences showed statistically significant results supporting the hypothesis that human intention could influence water's crystalline structure. The implications were profound: if our thoughts and intentions can structure water, and we are approximately 60-70% water ourselves, then consciousness may play a far greater role in our health and wellbeing than conventional science has acknowledged.
A Documentary That Changed Everything
When Ryan Philipsborn, founder of Rius Water, watched Gaia's documentary Secret of Water, it became a turning point in his life. The film, which features Dr. Masaru Emoto alongside other prominent scientists including Konstantin Korotkov, Nassim Haramein, and Dr. Larry Dossey, explores water's extraordinary properties and its vital role as a living substance.
Secret of Water reveals that water is known to ancient traditions as a transmitter to and from higher realms—a substance that retains memory and conveys information to DNA. The documentary demonstrates how influences such as sound, thoughts, intention, prayer, and environmental toxins restructure water's molecular arrangement, affecting everything it comes in contact with.
The film's central premise—that water can die if treated poorly, but can be revived and restructured through natural processes and conscious intention—resonated deeply.
Through his decades of work in aquaculture and coral reef keeping, Ryan understood the importance of water quality and water filtration. Secret of Water helped him realize the filtered water most people drink, while free of contaminants, had been stripped of its vitality and natural structure through aggressive processing. It was "dead" water, lacking the hexagonal crystalline structure found in pristine natural sources and lacked the energetic properities that water brings to life.
Answering Nature's Call
Inspired by Dr. Emoto's work and Gaia's insights from Secret of Water, Ryan embarked on a multi year mission to develop means to make water excellent, energic and full of vibrance. The goal was to create an magnificent water by using the gifts of mother nature and minizing the influence of human intention. Therefore, each method developed, would provide consistent and repeatable results. By utilizing his background in water filtration, Ryan began his work with pure water and then relied on his intuition and sensory skills to utilize methods and materials to bring the water back to life. The goal was not just to structure water, but to amplify it with properities that promote human health, physical and mental wellness, positive energies and promote spirituality.
When Ryan achieved what he sought to develop, he then set up experiements and trials with the most gifted energy workers that he knew. After receiving the validation of healers and energy workers, the scales tipped even further when Ryan would observe his friends' children seeking and drinking excess amounts of the water at gatherings even when they had the option for more kid friendly drinks.
We have observed a number of instances were dogs and other animals have chosen Rius Water, even after they already drank other waters and were assumed to not be thirsty.
The result of it all? A company dedicated to providing a naturally excellent water that has been validated by the Office of Emoto in Tokyo, Japan—Dr. Masaru Emoto's own laboratory—as producing beautiful, structured hexagonal water clusters with high levels of hado (life energy). The Office of Emoto even provided Rius Water with crystal images but they own the copyright to the images and we are unable to share them without a significant contribution back to the Office of Emoto.
Water Remembers
Dr. Emoto's most powerful message was simple yet profound: water is a mirror. It reflects the consciousness, intention, and environment it encounters. If we treat water with disrespect—polluting it, processing it harshly, or ignoring its vital nature—it responds accordingly. But if we honor water, express gratitude, and work with nature's principles to restore its structure, water responds by becoming a powerful ally in health and vitality.
In a world where so much of what we consume has been processed, depleted, and stripped of life force, Rius Water stands as a testament to what becomes possible when we align with nature's wisdom rather than working against it. Dr. Emoto showed us that water has feelings, memory, and consciousness. Ryan Philipsborn answered that revelation by creating water worthy of the respect Dr. Emoto's work revealed it deserves.
As Dr. Emoto himself said, "Water is the mirror of the soul." At Rius Water, every bottle reflects gratitude, respect, and the understanding that water—like all of life—responds to love, gratitude and good caretaking.
The youtube link before allows you to rent and water Gaia's beautiful production Secret of Water
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNwo9NWMdKA&t=714s