Paolo Consigli - The Hidden Secrets of Water

Paolo Consigli (born 1962) is a doctor, psychologist, acupuncturist and practitioner of holistic medicine, and has taught at the Medical Association of Chinese Medicine in Europe. He is the author of a very successful book on acupuncture (Agopuntura, la pi antica medicina ufficiale) and has written essays and lectured on diverse subjects including humour, postnatal depression, Jewish Thought, Walter Benjamin and Franz Kafka. He lives in Milan with his wife and five sons.

The
Hidden
Secrets
of Water

Discovering the powers of the magical molecule of life

Paolo Consigli, MD

First published in 2008.

This edition published in the UK 2017 by

Watkins, an imprint of Watkins Media Ltd

19 Cecil Court, London WC2N 4EZ

First published in Italy under the title LAcqua pura e semplice: Linfinita sapienza di una molecola straordinaria by Tecniche Nuove, Milan

Translated from the Italian by Jeffrey Jennings

Text Copyright Paolo Consigli 2008, 2017

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For Alexandra, Natan, Joshua, Dan, Ghidon and Lev

you will be like a well-watered garden,
like an ever flowing spring
I SAIAH 58. V. 11

Heartfelt thanks to Fiona Brown and Shelagh Boyd for their excellent editing work, to Massimo Guastini for the title of the first edition of this book, and to Tuvia Fogel, agent extraordinaire. My deep appreciation goes to Penny Stopa who kept a patient eye on me to guarantee a happy ending for the book.

I am also indebted to Aldo Bolognini and Ruggero Menegon for their invaluable suggestions, Nadav Crivelli and Haim Baharier for showing me how to delve into the hidden secrets of the Bible.

Thanks to Manuel Manfredi for providing documentation on Louis Turenne, to Rosi Coerezza, Aviad Davidovich, Roberto Germano, Mara Ramploud, Paolo Bellavite and Gianfranco Peroncini for having unearthed helpful source texts on water, and to all those, too many to name, who contributed a drop of their knowledge, insight or counsel to this project.

The publisher would like to thank the following people, publishers and institutions for permission to reproduce their material. Every care has been taken to trace copyright holders. However, if we have omitted anyone we apologize and will, if informed, make corrections to any future edition.

From Living Water: Viktor Schauberger and the Secrets of Natural Energy by Olof Alexandersson/Gateway Books, Bath: Figures

Tecniche Nuove Designers, Milan: Figures

Watkins: Figures

Institut fr Strmungswissenschaften: Figures

NASA, USA: Figures

Stefan Muller, Theo Plesser and Benno Hess, Dortmund, Germany:

James Yorke, University of Maryland, USA:

From The Elegant Universe Superstring, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene/Jonathan Cape, London:

Office National dtudes et de Recherches Arospatiales: Figures

From Das Sensible Chaos by Theodor Schwenk/Verlag Freies Geistesleben, Germany: Figures

Homer Smith:

Netter Collection of Medical Illustrations, Ciba-Geigy:

From The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis by E Morgan/Souvenir Press, London:

From Upon the Face of Waters by Donald Tipton and Graeme Gourlay/Circle Publishing, London:

From Traditional Chinese Acupuncture by JR Worsley/Element Books:

From The Divining Hand: The 500 year-old Mystery of Dowsing by Christopher Bird/Whitford Press:

From La Science et Les Sourciers by Y Rocard/Bordas, Paris:

Faustin Bray, website

Photograph courtesy of Vittorio Elias son:

Gerard Bruneau (Grazia Neri):

From Communication between Man and Dolphin by John C. Lilly/ Crown Publishers Inc., New York:

W e are greatly fascinated by water: its a unique and extraordinary element. Still, we are not completely aware of the water world that exists inside and outside of us. We ourselves are more water than we think: surprisingly, 99 per cent of the molecules of our body are water molecules. You and I are human water reservoirs: a cluster of 99 per cent unstable, restless water molecules, always vibrating.

The water molecule is made of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. If you imagine the nucleus of the hydrogen atom of the water molecule to be as big as a basketball, you would see its electron revolving around the nucleus in an empty area wide 4km wide. From a physical point of view, at the atomic and subatomic level, that 99 per cent of water our body is 99.99 per cent empty space existing in a whirl and buzz of subatomic particles that can travel at light speed. Water in its essence is movement in empty space. Water is a highly unstable molecule: the electrons of the hydrogen links between molecules vibrate in empty space at breathtaking speed. At the atomic and molecular level, all life that thrives on planet Earth is constant whirling, dizzying movement in empty space.

How does water appear to our eyes? Through ripples and whirls, spiral waves, bending streams. The main movements of water are drawn in curves and spirals. Fractals are self-similar mathematical model patterns that echo the natural forms and movements we find in the mineral, vegetable and animal world, from the sub-microscopic scales of particles to the immense dimensions of galaxies. The first digital fractal sets were discovered 40 years ago, while computing difficult non-linear mathematical equations, and many reveal spiral shapes. Natural spiral fractals are our digital prints, the shapes of our sense organs and viscera, the triple helix of collagen and its lattice in bones and muscles, DNA and all the proteins, just to mention a few.

Typically, a spiral line curves towards an infinite, wider line. In the spiral movement something deep is accomplished: in a spiral line the infinite tends to expand continuously, endlessly, without limit. Here the infinite is present in a finite form and the finite meets the infinite. The spiral is one of the favourite movements of water because its a simple way to make the infinite and the finite interact: its a visual symbol of energy. The locus of change and creation is where two opposites meet, but also where two likes meet, where uncertainty, contradiction and paradox meet, where infinite and finite coexist: thats the water universe we live in, the universe where we have to find our own place between heaven and earth, between the finite and the infinite.

The meaning of our life lies hidden in the depths of water. If we want to know our body and our mind and use them in the best way, we have to understand it, observe its whirling and foaming movements, its waves and their effects on us. Lets choose water as our teacher and lets try to learn how to move wisely, in order to evolve and to grow harmoniously as physical, emotional and spiritual beings.

Everybody knows that we can find water in three basic phases or states: liquid, solid and vapour. But recent scientific research conducted by the bioengineer Gerald Pollack and his team at the University of Washington has established that there is a fourth phase of water.