Sakai drove us from LA to San Diego. The cars on the highway of LA was flying by that I was determined to bring an international license with the next time I com to the US since I love driving. The venue for today’s seminar was at a beautiful and gorgeous room of University of San Diego that holds 250 people. There was a book signing and a reception from noon and then a water ceremony.

Dr. Emoto announced to the 100 or so people that gathered around, “today is my wife’s 38th? Birthday.” The crowd responded with a round of applause and a cheer. The ceremony turned into Birthday ceremony instead of water ceremony. At the seminar that started at two in the afternoon, Tomoko Miura that will be translating for the seminar day after came to hear Dr. Emoto talk with her sister.

I just want to put a side note about translation here. There is a very important lesson that I have learnt. We usually think that if one can speak both Japanese and English, then that person can be a translator. However, through attending some of Dr. Emoto’s seminars, I have learnt that that is not enough. First of all, the translator has to know special, technical words. For example, “shin zen bi (truth virtue and beauty)”, “ichigo ichie (the idea of treasuring every encounters with people that comes from the teaching of Japanese tea ceremony)”, “jyoubutu (Buddhist word for having the dead soul leave the earth and rest at peace.)”, and “kami (fire and water that has the same pronunciation as god in Japanese)”. And the translator also needs to know at least a basic idea about science, universe, and god. But the most important thing is to resonate with Dr. Emoto’s hado, or vibration. But then again, we can’t resonate too well either because we were born with our own identity. So we can understand the right translator to be the teaching of water and also the lesson of life. I understand this difficulty perfectly as one of the person that supports him.

That day’s seminar ended with a standing ovation as Mrs. Emoto got up on the stage as well.

She also received a beautiful bouquet of flowers as a birthday surprise from the staff in her office in Japan so I’m sure she had a good night sleep that night.

Hirotsugu Hazaka

Today was an off day finally. But we had to fly from Phoenix to LA to go to an ophthalmologist in downtown LA. Natsuko Sakai, the translator for “Message from Water” was our guide there.

Thanks to Dr. Emoto’s “let’s have ramen for lunch!” idea, we were all able to enjoy a delicious lunch. The surprising thing about this place’s ramen is that it is all “Mt. Fuji-like” meaning all the side food on the noodle is shaped like a mountain.

And we moved along to the ophthalmologist. I would like to let Natsuko who was there as a translator to tell us about the rest of the day.

＜Please wait a moment for Natsuko’s report＞

Dr. Emoto with the ophthalomologist	Natsuko, Mrs. Emoto, Dr. Emoto, and the ophthalomologist

The next day, we left Santa Fe and flew in to Phoenix. We met up with Ron Kato, our translator, and I could not help but the feel a great anticipation for great things to come. This is because the level of a translator at Dr. Emoto’s seminar greatly affects the level of the seminar itself. Of course, the previous translators have all studies and worked hard, but Ron is one of the translators that Dr. Emoto trusts the most. So this naturally creates a better atmosphere.

We also found Ruth Joy, a woman that came to participate in the November’s Water for Life Festival, with a great big smile waiting for us at the airport. Dr. Emoto calls her the No. 1 World follower of Dr. Emoto. He first met her when she came all the way to his office in Tokyo. Since then, he has found her in different parts of Europe and USA, always with a smile on her face. I would like to show our appreciation for her here with many of her photographs.

Ruth and Dr. Emoto	Ruth and Dr. and Mrs. Emoto

Ruth surrounded by Dr. and Mrs. Emoto At our hotel, Phoenix Resort.	Satisfied Dr. Emoto with the help of Ron as a translator during an interview.

The venue for today was a round stage that big stars like Paul McCartney, Harry Belafonte, and Paul Anka had performed as well. We were informed earlier that there will be about 700 to 800 people but it turned out to be 1400 people in total. We broke the record for the most audience!

Since the venue was a round stage, it was like a one-man-show. See the pictures for more details!

As you can see, Dr. Emoto was especially in a good mood at his favorite part of the lecture, singing songs.

Ron did a great job too.

Undeniable standing ovation in the end.	Ron did a great job too.

Just a little note on the back stage hassle though. Because the place’s equipment was not very new, and our computer did not work well together, Mrs. Emoto and I had been running around for a while to make this work. We tried copying the slides on to a CD but that did not work. The staff there just did not have the solution to this problem. So the big boss of the backstage was called to the rescue. Surprisingly, he took out a nipper and started to cut off the wires and hooked them up manually. 5 minutes to the seminar, the images came on. Now the audio. 1 minute to the seminar, audio got hooked up. During this whole time, Dr. Emoto just patiently waited to be introduced on to the stage.

That night’s beer tasted exceptional. On top of that, Ruth had made a key ring with Dr. and Mrs. Emoto’s grandson as a present for upcoming Mrs. Emoto’s birthday. Mrs. Emoto had a big smile that whole night.

Mrs. Emoto received a key ring of her grandson from Ruth.

Hirotsugu Hazaka

I started my travel with Dr. and Mrs Emoto yesterday as I met up with them in Denver. It had been about one month since we last saw each other but their warm hugs broke the ice right away. At Pheonix airport, a translator that lived in Kyoto for years named Mishler came to pick us up. Thanks for Dr. Emoto’s lost suitcase, we were all able to fit in one single car to move on to the city. Dr. Emoto said that the place reminded him of Barcelona with many low rise buildings and with Mexico not too far, it had that Gaudi influence as well.

For dinner, we went to a Mexican Japanese restaurant with Mishler and his girlfriend but we were very impressed by its authentic Japanese taste. Dr. Emoto was trying to be their cupid with a glass of shochu in his hand. I was thinking that Dr. Emoto always think of things in unity and oneness when Mrs. Emoto cut my thoughts off by pointing out that he’s just a nosy man.

from right, Kaoru Fujimura, Mishler, and his girlfriend

The next morning, we were invited by Kaoru Fujimura, the last year’s translator, to talk at Tutorial school. This school was run with free will of the children and universal view. They called it the democratic school and the children were free to learn about any theme they thought was interesting. In another words, these children were following the Benjamin Franklin’s 13 virtues without any effort.

A warm welcome sign	A big laughter erupted with a comment, “so many big kids!”

Dr. Emoto pointed out that Maria was the first in the world to be
able to express the principle of energy

The afternoon was the seminar at International Conference on Science and Consciousness. This conference is an annual thing at Santa Fe and is run for about a week. This year, Dr. Emoto was chosen as the main speaker.

Dr. Emoto asks, “you have grandchildren too right? Are we going to leave the earth the way it is?”	Crystal pictures never fail to convey a strong message.

Amazing Grace triggers tears.	emotional overflow!

Dr. Emoto’s seminar started out with a light joke as always, but I am always impressed by how that grasps the audience. He pulls them into his world right from the start.

Especially because it was a gathering of high conscious people (500 to 600 people), the seminar was full of excitement form the beginning. I have experienced Dr. Emoto’s seminar in the States a few times but this time, it was not only the sighs that I heard but many exclamation of awe and energetic cheering in between. The seminar ended with Dr. and Mrs. Emoto’s clips of history and a standing ovation. I’m sorry the pictures are blurred but I wanted to show the excitement and the energy in it.

Gracias.

Hirotsugu Hazaka

Today was the last seminar that I will be attending for this time traveling with Dr. Emoto. We left the Setos’ place early that day to arrive at Boise airport a little before noon. However, there was a little accident there. We had checked 6 bags in but only two came out from the baggage cart.

The seminar was set to start at 7 that night but we didn’t have Dr. Emoto’s clothes or his tuning fork that he always use as demonstration during the seminar. In the end, three out of the four missing bags arrived in our hotel before the seminar but the last suitcase with all Dr. Emoto’s clothes never made it.

Therefore, Dr. Emoto walked up on the stage in his shirt and sneaker instead of his usual leather shoes and blazer. But he did not miss this opportunity to make a little joke about his missing bad and his rough clothing style during the seminar.

I was convinced that a good speaker is a person that can make jokes and make people laugh from any accidents. The seminar ends in standing ovation because he is so good at providing the information that people are looking for as well as make it fun while they listen.

I am pretty confident that I can recall most of his lecture now that I have heard it few times, helped him put the slides together, and have helped in translating but I will never be able to grasp the audience as well as he does all the time.

On top of having interesting to say, he is such a great talker and the audience can feel that he is enjoying talking to them. That is probably why he is invited by so many people and appreciates him so much.

IHM secretary Ayano Furuya

In Seattle lives the Seto family that wrote and sings the song “Water Song”. The original words to this song were written by Dr. Emoto. On top of that, Hanayo, that daughter of that family is a friend of mine from middle school. She was actually the one that introduced this great job to me.

We were only able to stay a night at Seattle but Dr., Mrs. Emoto and I were lucky enough to stay at the Seto’s beautiful house. I was also happy to be able to have some time together with my old friend.

We arrived that day to the seminar venue around lunch time and found a delicious looking sushi lunch ready. It was prepared by Kumiko, a Japanese woman living in Seattle. Of course, Seattle was not an exception in the fact that we have been helped by many Japanese people, especially women, wherever we visited. We are so lucky to be able to meet so many helpful people that make us feel at home.

Lunch that Kumiko prepared for us was so good, we didn’t think about taking pictures until we finished them all up.

Of course the Seto family performed the Water Song for us at the seminar. Hanayo’s clear voice sounded so exceptional live.

Seto family performing the song

Later, they took us to their favorite Sushi bar for dinner. We all sat along the counter as we enjoyed the fresh sushi and good conversation. Amongst all the racket of the restaurant, one of the waitresses there realized that this man she is serving is that Dr. Emoto of Message from Water. It turned out that her and her coworkers were all big fans of his work so Dr. Emoto was like a rock star all of a sudden. All the women crowded around him to take pictures and autographs.

I realized that what Dr. Emoto is doing has been supported by so many different people. Thank you for all the support. And thank you for such great sushi.

IHM secretary Ayano Furuya

When I read through Dr. Emoto’s diary about the USA seminars, I always read about the Emoto boom. I have heard about the standing ovation that finishes off all the American seminars. I have always wanted to experience that American boom first hand and feel the difference of being in Japan and in USA.

And I was finally able to experience that American seminar today. It was held at a University hall in Ashland with about 300 people gathered there. What I have noticed the most at this seminar was the people’s laughter. Everyone was laughing out loud and did not hesitate at all to answer to his questions the whole time. They were all very straightforward with expressing their thoughts and feelings. It was so engaging and I personally had fun as well.

Unfortunately, the part about Benjamin Franklin’s 13 virtues that was supposed to be the main idea to be presented in this American seminar was reduced greatly because there was not enough time. It seemed like there were just way too much in Dr. Emoto’s head that two hours is just not enough for him.

By the way, we stopped by at a bar near by for some beer after the seminar. Kent from the day before was there with us as well. As we talked, I found out that he had had dinner with Jackie Chan in Hong Kong. I am a great fan of his and I got so excited that I forgot about translating for Dr. Emoto and just asked questions after questions about my idol. Apparently, Jackie is interested in spirituality and is concerned about peace and the world. Kent, any chance you might want to make a documentary film with Dr. Emoto and Jackie Chan someday? Will you invite me there when that ever happens?!

IHM secretary Ayano Furuya

We left Minnesota and got in to Ashland, Oregon. Ashland is a cute, small town with mountains surrounding the place and different small stores lined up along the main street.

As soon as we arrived at the hotel, a movie producer, Kent came in with his big camera and lightings to do an interview with Dr. Emoto. He is in the middle of filming a documentary on Indigo Children.

Dr. Emoto and I, father and daughter?

The interview was conducted at the hotel room but Dr. Emoto sat in a big comfortable chair that it looked like a typical TV interview scene where a scientist will be talking in his study.

And I was asked to be the translator for that interview. I will not be filmed but I had to sit next to the camera and put on a pin microphone to do the translation. I have done few translations at seminars and had gotten used to talking in front of 100 people or so but I found myself getting extra nervous to see a huge camera plopped up next to me. It was not like my image or even my voice will be in the documentary in the end, but just imagining how many people will watch this when it is finished made me nervous.

Unlike at a seminar, Dr. Emoto talks for a long period of time at once during an interview. So I personally thought it required more skills than seminar translation because I had to take quick notes while I listened.

at the interview

But overall, I think the one hour interview went pretty well especially because Kent had some interesting and good interview questions. I learnt about some of the similarities and ideas between Dr. Emoto and the Indigo children. Dr. Emoto called himself the Indigo Man and explained that everybody has the potential to be that Indigo but our environment often times suppresses that possibility.

This documentary is scheduled to be ready by the end of this year. I hope to see the finished product very soon.

IHM secretary Ayano Furuya

This is Ayano again from IHM. Since I had such a great experience when I traveled with Dr. and Mrs. Emoto to Thailand and India at the end of last month, I had happily accepted my next assignment to travel with Dr. and Mrs. Emoto in the States. I will be traveling with them for about ten days starting from this Minneapolis seminar. And I am scheduled to come back to travel in about a month again as well. Of course Dr. and Mrs. Emoto had been on the road ever since the Thai seminar and will not be back in Japan until the middle of June.

So, Minneapolis was the very first stop within the American tour this time. Dr. and Mrs. Emoto had arrived to the States from Europe a couple days earlier than I and had already finished a seminar there.

However, the seminar today was a little different from the other previous seminars that I had attended. This seminar (or workshop) was six hours long! We started at around 3 in the afternoon until 9 at night as well as about an hour of book signing afterwards.

6 hour seminar

What I was most surprised about was Dr. Emoto’s energy and the fact that he had so much more to say even after the 6 hours. Even with so much information in this seminar, it was a totally different content than the one day before. I was impressed by how much information was in his head and how much he wanted to share them with the people.

However, I was sorry to day that I had just arrived from Japan the day before and I was pretty much out of it with exhaustion and time difference that I was not able to help out with the translations. I hope I was a little better as a baggage carrier though.

IHM secretary Ayano Furuya

Today was the presentation at the resort hotel. We started it at nine in the morning at the newest hotel for that group, Congress. This Congress was built on a new part of Barcelona that is developing as a new business center. The hotel was fully equipped with high-tech business support technology along with designs of Asia. The presentation was conducted in front of hotel staffs and Rosa Maria’s friends, the total of 30 people. The presentation was more than just business and Dr. Emoto was surrounded by the people there afterwards.

After the successful presentation, there was a little surprise that night. Dr. Emoto was originally scheduled to be at Amsterdam to see his grandson during this time but because of this presentation, he had to come to Spain. However, his daughter brought her son and came to Spain to visit him all the way. Still, because Dr. Emoto was very busy he hardly had time to spend with his grandson. So for the last night, a special night of flamenco performance was planned.

It was flamenco from Spain town. The local people had told us that the flamenco for tourists is not real but I thought this one was an exception. It got us all very excited seeing that passionate dance. The one that was the most excited was Riku, Dr. Emoto’s grandson. It was way after his bed time but he was totally focused and finished off in an excited standing ovation. He looked like he would jump on the stage at any time!

Riku enjoying the performance

By the way, tsunami in Spanish is marremoto, earthquake is terremoto. Any connections with Emoto??

I met up with Dr. and Mrs. Emoto at Barcelona’s Prestige Hotel, Pase o de Gracia late last night. Dr. and Mrs. Emoto flew in from Italy, and I flew in from Japan. On the 14th, we will split again as Dr. and Mrs. Emoto will go on to the US and I go on to Liechtenstein through Switzerland.

The main object of visiting Spain was to do a presentation for a prominent resort hotel for the next two days. Before this presentation, we were visited by Rosa Maria and her group today. We met her when we were in Spain the last time.

With Rosa Maria

Rosa Maria was one of the people that was attracted to Message from Water from the early days. She is a 84 years old (she looks a lot younger than the age) that lives in the old city of Girona. She has vast connections with the local university, city hall, environmental groups, journalists and other groups. She was the organizer for Dr. Emoto’s seminar the other time. The last time I was in Spain, I had the privilege to visit her place as well. She claims that her youth comes from drinking a lot of water, but Dr. Emoto is convinced that it’s because she is always surrounded by young men (there are two young men working for her). It may be true that they are representing the H2O with the three of them.

We hear from Rosa Maria about a plan for the very first international water conference in Spain at Alubacete. Of course, the main guest will be Dr. Emoto for that conference. But other than that, we talked about a future plan for an event for 2008 international exhibition at Zaragoza, a plan for a water book published, a launch of an educational program, and a co-research with a laboratory at GironaUniversity.

In the evening, we went to visit Sagrada Familia and other famous Gaudi architectures. Barcelona is famous for its architecture and there was an international architectural conference then as well. I was impressed by all the interesting statues and monuments throughout the city.

We recieved a diary entry from Rasmus at Hado Life Europe (Web Master)

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On the 10th of April 05 Dr. Masaru Emoto gave a lecture during the ‘Convegno Internazionale di Parapsicologia’ in Bellaria. The event was organized by Dr. Nicola Cutolo.
Even though the lecture of Dr. Emoto started already at 9:00 on Sunday morning, the lecture hall was filled with people till the last seats. During the lecture Mr. Emoto tried to explain his theory about vibration and resonance by the help of the song ‘O sole mio’ which he performed perfectly in Italian. By the reaction of the audience to judge this succeeded also very well : ).

Lecture in Bellaria

We recieved a diary entry from Rasmus at Hado Life Europe (Web Master)

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On Thursday the 7th of April 05 Dr. Masaru Emoto gave a lecture in Zurich. The lecture was organized by Alexander Grob. Mr. Grob, who is very fascinated by Mr. Emoto’s work wanted to contribute with this lecture to spread Mr. Emoto knowledge about vibration and resonance.

To be able to contribute to Dr. Emoto’s research and projects Mr. Grob has started together with Mrs. Gabriella Roth to develop jewelry, based on the forms of nice crystals. Mrs. Roth, who has a children jewelry shop in Zurich (www.kinderschmuck.ch) made already with the crystals ‘Truth’, ‘Love for Humanity’, and ‘Happiness’ which were presented in the book ‚Message from Water – vol III’ nice arts.

Water crystal of ‚Truth’ and the jewelry based on this form.

We drove back to Hannover the day after the seminar. When Dr. Emoto saw the city of Detmold he said “I heard it’s a rural place, but it seems pretty developed to me”, but now that he has seen the green grass fields, the field of wheat, narrow winding roads, the woods and the smell of manure, he was convinced about the rural place idea of the area. Fortunately, for the days that Dr. and Mrs. Emoto visited, the weather stayed pleasant to enjoy the view of Detmold.

We returned the water that we gave prayers to yesterday back into the brook behind my house. I prayed that the prayer will move through the Weser River, to North Sea, and to water all over the world. The next day, the river seemed to have been shining and flowing prettier than ever.

Returning the water with prayers to the river.

I would like to express my deepest gratitude to Dr. and Mrs. Emoto, to god of water, and to everyone that supported us as I hand over the next report to the representative of Hado Life Europe, Rasmus.

Love and thanks.

Seminar for the students in the morning.

At this Steiner school, there are students from 1st to 13th grade. Because the seminar will be through a translator and will require concentration, the teachers at the school suggested the seminar for about 100 students of 10th to 13th graders.

At the auditorium

I was more nervous at this seminar than the ones for adults because the audience will all be teenagers that gathered there not with their free will but because the school said so. I was worried if the students will be attentive at the seminar. But I was very impressed by how the students responded with laughs at Dr. Emoto’s jokes, or how they all concentrated very hard at different crystals on the screen. They came with great open hearts and willingness to listen. It seemed like the message from water had seeped into the students without any effort. There were countless questions from the students during the Q and A session as well. I was very thankful for the students who had warmly taken in the words even with my non sufficient translation skill.

The students at Steiner school's auditorium

I witness some groups of students discussing the content of the seminar afterwards. I was full of hope and expectations for the young generation that will build the future.

Later, we had lunch with the children, the local Japanese residents, Yayoi, Kiyoko, Mamiko, as well as a German fluent Japanese speaker, Armin. They have all been spreading the message of Dr. Emoto and are regularly giving love and thanks to water. With the hope that Dr. and Mrs. Emoto can feel at home during their long trip on the road, Kiyoko and Mamiko were kind enough to set a Japanese lunch. The menu was chirashi-zushi with salmon, chawan mushi, kinpira carrot, miso soup, and shiratama with sweet beans. The meal was like being in a Japanese restaurant.

A beautiful Japanese lunch made by the local residents

We moved on to a theater within the city from the afternoon to continue with the school program. With the theme, “Let’s Learn More about Water”, there were exhibitions about water by students. There was an exhibition about the effects of water disasters that students spent half a year researching on, or an exhibition about global organizations that provide technical support on water treatment, or a workshop on making an instrument that makes raining sounds. Also, a 10th grader, Govinda, created a beautiful leaflet with crystal pictures and a program with water wave frame for this occasion.

On the stage, many students and teachers were performing things that had the common theme of water. After an eurythmy (a educational tool particular to Steiner schools) where the students moved along with music and poetry while dressed in loose, naturally dyed clothes, Dr. Emoto lead a prayer for the water disaster affected people and the water itself. Even the first graders put their hands together for a minute of prayer to the spring water in a pet bottle that I had collected from a spring at the back of my house.

After that, there was an interview by a local newspaper. The reporter was still young but we can tell that she did a lot of research on Dr. Emoto and his work so Dr. Emoto was pleased. The interview was printed two days ago and took up half a page. Through reading the article, I was confident that there will be more people that will be interested in water and Dr. Emoto’s work. My sister in law, for example was skeptical about Dr. Emoto’s work when we tried to explain it to her, but now that it is featured in a newspaper, I think she is taking more interest in it.

A leaflet that Govinda made

As a pre-show to Dr. Emoto’s seminar, there was a Quartet performance, a reading of poem, “Fluttropfen” (a made-up word by the students that means a drop in a big wave) and a musical performance by the students. These students had all prepared their piece with the common theme of water. I especially liked a piece called “Element” by a 19 years old Joss. He uses a big gong and starts with a soft bang and gradually gets bigger and bigger as the sound becomes a big wave that resonates with the whole room and we can physically feel the vibration. It was like a tsunami of sound waves reaching towards us. Just as when the audience thinks that they will be swallowed up by the wave, a deep silence hits the room. Then a softer, calmer sound is produced with percussion and bottles and containers with water in it. Joss wanted to express the fierce and dangerous side of water as well as its calm and soothing side through this musical piece. I think Dr. and Mrs. Emoto was moved by the performance as well. Joss may be able to come to the Liechtenstein ceremony on July 24th and present his piece there as well.

And finally, Dr. Emoto’s seminar,

The place became packed with about 300 people as the seminar started. As always, the seminar was full of laughter and sigh of admiration. We decided to sing Amazing Grace as Mamiko who teaches at the local music college volunteered to accompany it with piano at the last moment. At the end of the seminar, a slide with Dr. Emoto’s history was shown. Right before the slide was to be shown, Christel, a former Gymnasium teacher, volunteered to translate the English slide into German.

By the end, Mrs. Emoto’s allergy had been acting up and she could not let the tissue paper go. I was feeling tired as well and has some mistake on translations but with the help from the audience, things ended with a gradual wave of standing ovation from the front part of the venue. We said our final thank you to the audience with Dr. Emoto holding hands with Mrs. Emoto and myself on either side. “This is the real H2O”, Dr. Emoto said.

Standing Ovation

While Dr. Emoto autographed books and cards, there were many people that said “thank you”. There were many children there as well. I am confident that each person there had received some kind of message within themselves. There were many people that supported me by letting me know that I did well even with my insufficient translation skills.

There really were countless many people that helped out for this event. There were Albrecht and Susanne from the school’s culture center, as well as my husband that worked hard to make this a reality. Yayoi helped me with preparing for my translation as well as giving prayers that all the audience will open their hearts to Dr. Emoto’s message. Everyone, thank you very much. There had been many events planned at this school but there never were so many people that helped to organize a single event. I directly felt the power of Dr. Emoto and water’s message.

Since this was a very first event at such a big venue for not only Dr. Emoto’s seminar, and the lack of appropriate time management, sound system troubles, and meal plan oddities may have caused some inconveniences for Dr. and Mrs. Emoto. In the midst of that however, thank you so much for being there for one whole day.

My name is Yukiko and I have been working for Dr. Emoto in Europe. I would like to report on Dr. Emoto’s Detmold seminar that I have organized and acted as a translator.

Dr. Emoto and his wife flew in to Hannover on the night of the 5th after having three interviews in England. Because of the construction around the airport, we were actually late for their pickup but they seemed to have had no problem waiting for us while they enjoyed the German sausage and beer. With the help of Mrs. Emoto, who seemed to be used to this, we packed their two huge suitcases, luggage for a projector, and a couple of hand luggage in the car and drove off to Detmold.

The first time I had suggested for this seminar at a Shteiner school in Detmold where my children attend was four years ago. I heard the affirmative reply through Mrs. Emoto not too long after that. And finally, that plan had been realized now. The seminar is organized by the cultural center of the school.

The city of Detmold is about 100km southeast of Hannover with the population of about 70,000. The city was the state capital of Lippe city and a place where the Mission of Iwakura Gmi visited. There is a famous music college within in the city with numerous students from Japan as well. This is why the city emblem is the combination o f G clef and Lippe’s state emblem, rose.

The Steiner school itself was originally a beer factory. Parents of the pupils slowly reconstructed the building to make a school there. Therefore, a beer maker can still be found in the basement of the building. The venue must be a perfect place for Dr. Emoto who loves both music and beer.

The ten pound seminar held every Monday at St. James church had been organized by a group called Alternative for over twenty years. The seminars are like a school for the new age thoughts.

We stayed at Amsterdam for a couple of days visiting my daughter and grandson. We were planned to take KLM to return to London after that but the scheduled flight was canceled so had to take the one in the evening. We took KLM when we came in to Amsterdam from Liverpool on the 2nd when they lost our baggage on the way. We had to go and pick up our bags the next day. It just seems like I have bad luck with KLM all the time. There was a similar incident of lost baggage about four years ago with KLM as well.

So, we finally arrived at St. James church at 6:10, 50 minutes before the start of the seminar. As I came closer to the church, I noticed a lot of people lined up. That church is located in the heart of Piccadilly so I thought there were other events going on around the area as well. However, the line was starting from St. James church.

Wow! Even when the seminar was not to start for another 50 minutes, the line was already about 300 meters long and getting longer. I was told earlier that they expected about 400 people to attend. However, they do not sale any advance tickets so the real turnout cannot be determined until when the seminar starts. In the end, there were about 700 participants.

The line of people did not disappear even at 7 when the seminar was scheduled to start. We had to start 20 minutes late to wait for everybody to settle. There, we decided to dedicate a special prayer service for the Pope that had just passed away two days ago. Three big candles were placed on the altar. One stood for “love”, the other for “respect” and the last one was left for me to name the meaning. Of course, without hesitation, I replied, “thanks”. We dedicated five minutes of silence to the Pope. I thought there was a very big meaning in being able to share that moment at the famous St. James church with 1000 English people together.

In that atmosphere, I conducted my hour and a half seminar while I promised the Pope in heaven that I will keep up his work for peace by continuing to spread the message from water to the rest of the world. In the end, we all sang the Amazing Grace together. It was a very moving moment. The seminar itself went well with a great round of applause and a standing ovation.

I can’t stop now!

After depart with my secretary , Ayano, after Chennai, we flew to London with an overnight stopover at Singapore. The flight was very long, with 13 hours in the sky that I was pretty tired by the time I arrived but since we already had a hotel booked close to the airport, we went straight to the hotel and took rest. I was able to wakeup refreshed this morning.

However, by 11am, I had a visitor to meet. After that we went straight to LondoncityAirport, which takes about an hour and a half by car. We were to catch a plane at 2:30 but there was a little trouble on the way and missed that plane. Through my long experience doing seminars overseas, this was the very first time that I missed my flight. We had to take the 5:15 flight instead. I got in to the seminar venue right before eight, when the seminar was scheduled to start. I didn’t even have a chance to change before talking to 350 people there.

On top of that, I had to speak in my broken English in front of all the English people. The translator was English but he was not very confident on the listening part of Japanese. So spoke in English and he supported it. I was very worried how the seminar will turn out since there were a lot of trouble until I got here. However, it all ended up in a standing ovation. I was very glad about the way it ended.

The standing ovation at SEAL symposium

Still, it was not because my English was superb. It was that the audience was superb. The three day symposium was organized by an international educational group with a headquarter at London called SEAL (Society for Effective Affective Learning) with a history of 23 years. There are members in different parts of the world. This particular seminar was attended by 350 people from 18 different countries with prominent lecturer like Dr. Rupert Sheldrake. The people there were all familiar with the idea of Hado, they were able to understand me even with my poor English.

At Liverpool John Lennon Airport, with his statue

Many things happened throughout today but in the end, it all turned out very well.