The Dynamic Nature of Water - Part I
“Before we mechanized water via
industrialization, all water was alive.”
recognition. One lesson learned on any humble investigation
into the fundamentals of life is that the subtle aspects are often
times more profound than the measurable ones. In effect, we
cannot know anything until we realize that we cannot know
the answers to everything, such as what happens inside of a
worms gut or how to reverse engineer ocean water. Nature
is the original alchemist.
Think about it in this way. Before we mechanized water
via industrialization, all water was alive. There were
no forces working on water, or anything for that
matter, other than the raw faculties of nature.
Our industrial age is a literal drop in the
bucket of time, so it is too early to draw
any conclusions in this grand experiment of
ours, but it is obvious that our bodies have not
developed a mechanism to discern whether water
is good or bad for us relative to these industrial
curve balls that we have thrown ourselves.
In other words, we cannot feel when we
are dehydrated, only when we are thirsty, and the myriad of
physiological systems that rely on water in our bodies require
water well before our parched mouths garner a response. It is
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easier to follow this mental exercise by considering food. One
can eat fast food and satisfy their caloric needs, but would not
realize their cells are being malnourished until falling ill.
Biological life forms have trouble utilizing materials that are
not generated by natural systems. This is a central tenet of
natural farming movements or holistic health practitioners. The
point here is that water’s ability to hydrate cells is dependent on
the relative state of the water being ingested; this has actually
been clinically proven. We can be drinking the recommended
half of our weight in ounces daily and still be dehydrated, with
the water merely irrigating our kidneys rather than hydrating
our cells. Imagine the implications of this for plant growth?
Since the dawn of industrialization the subtle nature of water
has been continually disrespected by humanity at the expense of
its materialistic functionality. Rather than view water through the
prism of its desire, we collectively choose to use it to cultivate our
own. These sorts of anthropocentric tendencies at the expense of
natural systems are principally involved in the modern problems
affecting us that ap V"F