Understanding the Ocean and Pollution
“To understand water is to understand the cosmos, the marvels of nature and life itself.” Masaru Emoto wrote those words in his 2004 best selling book, The Hidden Messages in Water. The world’s oceans are being polluted everyday. Wildlife, plants and other forms of life are being destroyed by the toxins that humans dump in the oceans. Sewage dumping, oil spills, marine vessels, ignorant tourists and reckless divers kill animal and plant life and never think twice about it.
As Emoto reminds us water is just not water, the ocean is a form of
consciousness that has the ability to memorize and copy information.
Oceans have memories of the creatures and plants that call it home, just
like the earth has a memory of all forms of life. As fetuses we are 99%
water, at birth we’re 90% water and as adults our bodies are still over
70% water. Throughout our physical lives a part of us exist as water.
The oceans are a life source and a vital energy that supplies the planet
with the resources to grow and expand, as well as heal itself.
Ocean pollution has an impact on that expansion and healing process. Pollution can be put into three categories. There is agricultural, municipal and industrial pollution. In terms of damage they all play an equal role in destroying the ocean’s eco system in one way or another. Industrial pollution takes form in oil spills, waste run-off from factories and other industrial buildings and as acid rain, which always makes it to an ocean in one way or another. Pesticides and fertilizer from agriculture endeavors turn up in the water system and eventually find an ocean where they kill wildlife by the thousands. Cities and states freely dump waste and sewage into the water supply. Homeowners play a part in municipal pollution by putting trash, chemicals and other toxic materials into the sewage system. Eighty percent of all marine pollution comes from the everyday habits of humans. There are laws in place to protect our oceans, but laws are useless without understanding.
Understanding means recognizing that we are all connected through water. When we change our thoughts and beliefs about how oceans affect our daily lives and take responsibility for creating pollution, we begin to change old habits and create new ones. New habits also include imagining a world without pollution and the oceans will do the rest.