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JOHREI EFECTS ON WATER: A PILOT STUDY BY COUNTING DROPS
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Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Comunicação Celular. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil / Mokiti Okada Foundation. Research Center MOA. São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
Mokiti Okada Foundation. Research Center MOA. São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Comunicação Celular. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Comunicação Celular. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Mokiti Okada Foundation. Research Center MOA. São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Comunicação Celular. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Comunicação Celular. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Abstract
Background: Water is a key ingredient in the creation and
sustainment of life. Moreover, water may be a key vehicle in
the processes of energy healing, such as in the preparation of
homeopathic remedies and spiritual treatments. Given these
properties, the purpose of this study was to investigate
whether the application of Johrei to water could lead to
significant changes in the hydrodynamic behaviour of the
fluid.
Methods: Four regular Johrei practitioners (P1, P2, P3 and
P4) were selected for this study. Dripping water produced at
the tip of a capillary was used as the hydrodynamic behaviour
model. This behaviour was modelled mathematically, and
tuning parameters φ4 and τ were used to assess significant
differences in the dripping water samples that were subjected
to Johrei compared with the samples that were not so treated.
The tuning parameters were obtained using the LevenbergMarquardt
fitting algorithm. The data sets for each Johrei
practitioner and the control experiment were analysed using
ANOVA and a paired t-test.
Results: The mathematical model exhibited an excellent fit
to our data, generating correlation coefficients (r) greater than
or equal to 0.999. Significant differences were observed in
both τ (P1 and P2, P o 0.05 and P o 0.01, respectively) and
φ4 (P2, P o 0.01). As expected, no significant difference for
the control experiment (without Johrei) was observed.
Conclusions: Our results indicated a statistically significant
change in the hydrodynamic behaviour of water correlated with
Johrei treatment for 50% of the participating Johrei practitioners.
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