January 2025
Glioblastoma cancer cells grown in water that had been intentionally treated by Buddhist monks were markedly less aggressive than the same type of cancer cells grown in a medium with untreated water. This is the result of a new Taiwanese–American study published in the January issue of science & healing journal Explore.
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The researchers chose to use glioblastoma cells because it is an aggressive form of brain cancer that is particularly difficult to treat, justifying “exploration of unconventional approaches”. Glioblastoma migrates rapidly throughout the brain.
In the trial, three Buddhist monks entered a meditative state and directed their awareness to bottles of purified water. They held the intention that the water would cause beneficial changes in the glioblastoma cells.
The cells growing in a medium with treated water significantly reduced migration activity as compared to cells grown in a medium with untreated water.
“Intentioned awareness appeared to change as-yet unknown properties of ultrapure water, resulting in a reduction of U87MG (glioblastoma) cells migration activity”, the authors write.
The trial was done under double-blind conditions. All aspects of the study were performed without knowledge of the type of water being used.
The Taiwanese-American study is one of many in recent years that have looked into the mind–body connection and its relation to quantum science. Others include a 2008 study at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and a 2023 study at the National University of Ireland.
The authors of the new paper say their approach was “based on evidence suggesting that the human mind may interact directly with properties of the quantum world, as suggested by the quantum observer effect”.
Clinical trials are “possibly justified”, the authors say, “to test if such water can provide an unorthodox therapeutic approach to treating glioblastoma”. But they also point out that further research is warranted to replicate the results.
Alternative therapies like homeopathy are based on the notion that water has powerful properties that Western science has yet to discover.
Japanese researcher Masaru Emoto conducted groundbreaking experiments showing that water crystallizes in very different ways depending on what kind of thoughts and emotions it has been exposed to.
New Zealand independent water researcher Veda Austin has documented hundreds of experiments with “hydroglyphs” – ice patterns in petri dishes that have been exposed to pictures or words – which indicate that water has “memory” and can store information.
Anders Bolling
