世の中には色んな人がいることを、いろいろな場所に住むと尚更実感する。知らない食べ物、飲み物、知らない価値観…挙げたらキリがない。言葉では「当たり前が当たり前じゃない」ってよく言うけど、本当に人それぞれのスタンダード、土地のスタンダード、環境のスタンダード…様々な固定概念の元にそれぞれ皆一生懸命生きている。動物的にいえば、遺伝子的に居心地の良い場所を求める•それが環境要因も相まって多様であるのは当たり前の事だけど。
頭では皆多様性とか、それぞれが違うこととか分かっているけど、出会うたびに意識していなければ、忘れてしまうよね。故に満員電車の後ろにいるおじさんに物凄い嫌悪感を抱いたり、通りすがりの自分とは違うファッションの人を小ネタにしたりする。友人でさえも、些細な事で友情に亀裂が走るし、もっといえば家族や兄弟とも仲良くできなかったりする。勿論、それだけが原因ではない場合も多いだろうけど。
今回紹介するのは、「水に優しい言葉をかけた時と、蔑むような悪い言葉をかけた時で、結晶が変化する」ことを紹介している、江本勝氏著作の本。テーマとなる水は、私たちの生活に欠かせない最も身近にあるものの一つであると同時に、多くの神秘的な領域を残しているといえる。これは擬似科学的で道徳・倫理観に関するものだから、科学的に証明されている話ではないけれど、その水の神聖性というか、可能性の部分への想像を掻き立てられる、一読の価値ありな1冊だと思う。
さらにめっちゃ雑にまとめると、素敵な美しい言葉を使ってコミュニケーションを取りましょう、というファンタジーのストーリーを、水の結晶という被写体を使って説明している。というか、なんで結晶とかって美しく見えるのでしょうか。目を凝らして見ないと、目に見えないものだから？もしそうならば結晶に関していえば、神聖さは神や霊と同じ類のものなのかもしれない。水という観点からみると、さっきも言ったように神秘的な領域を常に感じるもの。私たち生き物になくてはならない存在であると同時に、計り知れない。海の広大さとか、ミネラルとかの成分とか、雪や氷と形を変えるカメレオンであるところとか…。

この間アンドレイタルコフスキーの「ソラリス」を観た。 雲と海におおわれた惑星ソラリスは、帰還した探索乗組員によると、表面が複雑に変化し、街や赤ん坊の形になるという。調査のため送り込まれた心理学者ケルヴィンは、「この惑星を覆う海そのものが知性を持つ巨大な有機体であり、その海がステーションにいる人間の心の奥にあるものを読み取って、あたかも本物の人間であるかのような実体をもつものとしてステーションに送り込んでくるらしい」と発見するんだけど、 この海の不気味さ・果てしなさを切りとれば、それは水のそれからのインスピレーションかもしれないと容易に想像できる。実際のところは勿論亡き監督に話を聴いてみないと分からないが。と同時に、「ソラリス」は内容や映像も面白かった。(「ストーカー」も見た。この映画の裏話の何が凄まじいって、映画のキャスト・監督も含め、本当に空気が汚染されている場所をロケーションに選んだんだけど、現実での彼らの死因はそれだということだ。)

そしてこの本の水の話は、根本はよくある「引き寄せの法則」と同じ話だと思っている。この法則は、言葉や考え(脳波というべきか？)にも波長があって、それは目には見えないけど、それに共鳴して周りの物事が起こったり、同じ波長のものが引き寄せられたりすると言うもの。簡単に言うと、ポジティブなことを言ったり思ったりすると自分自身も自分の周りもそういうものに満ち溢れるし、逆も然り。それだけ世界は簡単で、流動的で、でも繊細で、美しく、儚い。のかもしれない。
動植物皆、生きているから、流れ、変化する。コンクリートに同じような実験をしたら、変わるのかしら？量子力学の世界だと、変わったりするのかもわからない。

最近本当に雨が多いけど、たまにの秋晴れに暖かな感謝を感じる。季節の変わり目で体調を崩しやすい季節だと思うけど(本人は風邪を引いている)、自然や動植物の変化を楽しみながら、心身共に健康に過ごしてね.•'
2022/11/12

The more places you live, the more you know about the fact there are literally so many kinds of people in this world. Food you have never met, drinks you have never met, values you have never met… it never ends. It's easy to say 'there is nothing you take for granted', but people are fixed on their stereotypes that are varied. They are also beyond your expectations depending on their values, cities, and environments. Biologically speaking, it's quite natural for animals including human beings to look for places that fit their lifestyles, and they're just so varied combined with environmental factors.
Of course, you know that everyone is different from each other, but at the same time, it's hard not to forget that at all times unless you remind yourself of it every time you encounter something. I guess that's why you might feel uncomfortable with an old guy who's just standing behind you in an overcrowded train or might make fun of random people on the street who dress differently. Even if it's your friend or your family, sometimes it's hard to get along well with them just because of tiny problems. I'm not saying it's the only reason why that happens though.
This time, it's about the book written by Masaru Emoto which introduces that crystal changes depending on whether you say something nice or bad to it. Water, which is the theme of this book, is one of the closest things that are essential for our lives, but at the same time, it still has plenty of spiritual space that hasn't been discovered yet. All the stories of this book aren't proven scientifically because they're more about pseudoscientific morality, which makes this book worthy in a way that the possibilities and sanctity that this book has stimulate your imagination.
To make it short roughly again, this fantasy story suggests you communicate using positive and nice words. How beautiful crystal is by the way. Is it because it's not visible unless you try to gaze at it? If so, the sacredness of crystal might be the same as that of Gods and spirits. When it comes to water itself, you always feel something mysterious of some kind in it. It's something not only necessary but also beyond your expectations, for instance, the wildness of the sea, the components such as minerals, and being a chameleon that changes its form to snow and ice…

I watched “Solaris” by Andrew Tarkovsky the other day.
The planet Solaris is fully covered with clouds and the sea, and the surface of the sea changes its form intricately to the figures such as a baby and a city, according to the crew who came back from there. The psychologist Kelvin, who was sent there for investigation, discovered that the sea covering Solaris itself is an intelligent and huge organism that understands human beings' feelings deeply and sends objects accordingly that look like humans. It's easy to imagine that the ominousness and the endlessness of water inspired the director and made him that of Solaris's sea though it's still unclear unless you ask him about it. I was fully impressed by the story and the scenes of this film. (I also watched the film “Stalker” by the same director. What is crazy about the background of this is most of the people involved in this film including himself and his wife lost their lives because the shooting was located in contaminated areas as he wanted to create the film in those kinds of moods.)

Also, in my opinion, the story about the water in this book is fundamentally almost the same as the theory called ‘Law of attraction’. This is the theory that wave motions attract each other and that makes everything surrounding happen as long as those waves are the same. It regards the fact that every word and notion has its specific wave motion. Simply put, you can attract positive things if you keep saying or thinking about something positive, and vice versa. In a way, this world might be that simple and unsettled, but at the same time sensitive, beautiful, and ephemeral.

Plants and animals are all alive. That is why they always float and change biologically, mentally and historically. What if I do the same thing to a chunk of concrete as the author did to frozen water crystals? It might answer me in a quantum-mechanical way.

I'm warmly grateful for being able to feel a sense of autumn when it's a sunny day although it's literally been rainy most of the time these days. It should be easy to catch a cold under this kind of weather (I had a cold a week ago in fact), but I hope you guys stay healthy mentally and physically and enjoy the changes in nature such as plants and animals including yourselves.
12/11/2022