The Philosophy of Water With Information From Founder of New Zealand's Living Water Institute

Kevin: Someone who's hearing this call, they have angreat." Okay, would you like the mountain stream to be
interest in water and the different aspects of water,artistic, sound beautiful, relaxing and, hey we'll throw a
what it can do, how does someone embrace this kindheart pulse in as well just as added measure. So
of philosophy and use it for - there's a higherpeople have these. They get five, seven Flow Forms
consciousness, I guess.set up by their swimming pool and suddenly the
Iain: Well, I think the world definitely needs a higherwater's soft and silky and sparkly and feels fresh and
consciousness. That's self evident. So how we findthere's just the need to put the same amount of
that is a marvelous dynamic drama and it's verychlorine in it. Of course, we tell people to test it and do
important, central. But we've worked our group in oureverything and watch their health and all the legal
very simple companies and their research institutesissues.
have worked mostly privately and we got to a pointKevin: Sure.
and then our government did help us occasionally,Iain: Some folk have natural swimming pools so it looks
private corporations would help us if there waslike a mountain pond. They've got trees it and filtration
someone in there who understood what we wereand it gets run through a biological filter, reeds and
talking about and appreciated what we were doing.rushes and Flow Forms.. So that's fun. We can do that.
So turning around in the last five or six years, Kevin,It's another one of our 40 niche markets. And so we're
maybe a bit more, that suddenly thinking in the West issetting up also our business Nature Intelligence
changing so rapidly in a positive manner, thankInternational. My company, Design for Life, with my
goodness, and folk are not just giving us sick grinsteams in New Zealand, we're joining forces
when we start talking about what we're doing.commercially with John Wilkes and his company in
Kevin: Right.England created a company called Nature Intelligence
Iain: That's how it used to be. "Oh, go hug a tree." Youand we're just starting that company now in America
know, you're just talking about fairies but now they'reand have interest from 7 or 8 different countries to
going "Oh, wow, really?" and "Tell me more," or "howstart business there and there have been inquiries
can I find out more?" So we're in the process offrom 53 countries now for Flow Forms over the last
setting up internet websites and ways of becoming30 years. Two and half thousand, two thousand four
part of databases and being on the map soon.hundred or so projects have been completed in that
Kevin: Right.time.
Iain: So one way that folks could associate themselvesKevin: Wow.
with us is to go to Healing Wateri Institute on theIain: We ready now with means of mass production
Internet and just a bit down the left, the sign up formwhich we've developed ceramics in Vietnam with
there and you get free autoresponder emails on thewonderful colleagues there and also a method of
creative secrets of water I send to you over a 10-12rotational composite stone crafting, so we're ready to
week period, just explaining more on the sort of thingsmass produce and just got ourselves to this point with
that you and I have been discussing today.regard to the business and also our Healing Water
Kevin: Okay.Institutes in New Zealand and Britain and we're setting
Iain: So we were planning to develop that as a groupone up in America.
of people who can find ways of helping around theKevin: Okay and where do you see this in the future,
world in different ways.say 10, 15, 20 years.
Kevin: Now, what is your own practice with water?Iain: Well, I think we have a realistic approach. We
Are you experimenting with the Flow Forms for yourestimate that - we are planning to sell hundreds of
own drinking consumption?thousands, if not millions of Flow Forms in the next
Iain: Oh, yes, I do. I also use them for my garden and15-20 years and we've got a number of folk, some of
for treatment of catalytic materials to empower thethem high-level international water consultants, coming
garden.to us saying "You're going to need hundreds of millions
Kevin: Let's talk about that a little bit.of dollars to gear up with the world need for Flow
Iain: Sorry, what's that?Forms once people realize what you're doing" and so
Kevin: Talk about that a little bit.we're happy with a few million to get that up and
Iain: That's the bionamics agriculture.going. But that was his point. He's saying "How about
Kevin: Okay.eco-villages?" You've got thirty thousand houses..
Iain: And Rudolf Steiner gave a number of veryThey're being built all over the place now. When I'm
interesting recipes for developing extra life supportinggoing around, for instance, to places like this or spas or
capacity in the soil and one of them, in particular, ishotel chains, I've had someone else tell me also that
cow manure which gets placed into a cow horn whicheco-villages, an engineer who's working in London. So
has a spiral and you leave it in the ground over wintersay there's a town of thirty thousand houses all being
and in the spring, it has a remarkable quality where ifbuilt, everything's perfect, top level sustainability, and
you mix it rhythmically with water and spray thatthey go, "Well, of course, we've got to have Flow
water out over your property, the living organisms inForms in there to enliven the water."
the soil respond in a truly remarkable way which isKevin: Right, like if it's captured rain water?
now being scientifically proven and annotated over anIain: Captured rain water, tap water, once the science
80-year period. For instance, in India, it was thegets a bit clearer, we're just collating with a couple of
scientists at the agricultural colleges who first got mostour top Ph.D. guys who are working with us collecting
excited about bionamics when it was introduced tomore scientific research and more modern theoretical
them by Peter Proctor in New Zealand and who'sbasis for the way we work. We're up to 80 pages. It's
now in his 80's. And it spread from their scientificgoing to turn into 100 and we'll publish that. And this is
research into the villages and cooperatives. So we usescientific work that Ph.D. guys from top level
Flow Forms as part of that because of the increasinguniversities are prepared to put their name to.
capacity to support life.Kevin: Right.
Kevin: You use Flow Forms to mix?Iain: So when these sort of things are published, we
Iain: To stir the cow manure. We do drink - we run ourbring all the marketing and the knowledge and the
tap water through Flow Forms to drink at home, butpropensity to produce, all of that together. So our hope
primarily what's happened to me is, I've been a teacheris it's conceivable we get an engineering building group
over many years, but at the same time did Flowwho says "Okay, we need three Flow Forms for each
Forms. I've worked with Flow Forms; I've beenof the thirty thousand houses, when can you deliver?"
personally involved in 400-450 projects around theKevin: Right.
Pacific. I've lived in New Zealand most of that time.Iain: So we get an order for ninety thousand Flow
Major projects are city centers, kindergartens,Forms and I think that's only a year or two away.
hospitals, therapeuticoms, many home gardens, pondsKevin: That's great, that's great.
- it's remarkable what they do for a pond becauseIain: We've been preparing for this for seven years
many people dig ponds and of course in nature, anow, Kevin. Our group down in New Zealand and
pond, unless it's a monsoon or been captured by flashJohn's excited about us and it's an exciting
flooding, has a stream.entrepreneurial venture combined with our research
Kevin: Right.and design.
Iain: And the stream keeps the pond alive. The pondKevin: And how do you see it changing the people
can't move properly or have moving water comingwho are living in those environments?
through it. Of course, it becomes stagnant and all sortsIain: Sorry, I'm missing that.
of creatures like mosquitoes and malaria and whatKevin: How do you see it changing or affecting the
have you, so also algae. So we've got remarkablepeople who are living in those environments?
stories of introducing Flow Form-treated water toIain: Well, it's very interesting. Again, this is anecdotal, but
ponds.we get people telling us "Hey, we can sleep better.
Kevin: And how does that happen?We're not just so stressed. We're just relaxing.." We
Iain: Even ponds that have had running water going intohave already set them up in kindergartens, for
them then we just put a Flow Form into the runninginstance, and the kids just love them. Because you're
water and even then there's a remarkable change.feeling life is in your rhythmic system, in your heart and
Kevin: And how does --in your chest, when - we live in such an arrhythmic out
Iain: There's been scientific research from Holland,of touch world, often, don't we, in cities and when
Sweden and many other situations.people consciously or unconsciously are in an
Kevin: You put it into the water source? How doesenvironment which has a rhythmic sound, soft and
that happen?relaxing sort of environment, the airs change, the earth.
Iain: The Flow Form?Something pretty fundamental changes in them. I've
Kevin: Yeah.had some extraordinary statements from folk and
Iain: For instance, take swimming pools. We've got fivekindergartens we get children who are a bit
or six swimming pools in New Zealand which have nooveractive, they tend to calm down and focus on
chlorine use at all. Basically, your swimming pool is awhat's happening in their marvelous little stream. And
captured body of water that gets taken out through athe kids who are a bit shy, come along and start to
filter and sort of pumped and whacked back into thetalk and people cooperate. It's remarkable. It's just
pools. So it's not really helping the water a lot exceptsimply remarkable.
chemically cleaning it and then, because of theKevin: Well, I think that's probably a great way to end
pathogens that can develop in this water that doesn'tthis interview here.
support life, we throw in a ton of chlorine which kills offIain: Well, indeed, there's - it's a huge topic and it's a
stuff and that also impacts the water quality. So thevery exciting one. Water is the big issue, as you know,
water's basically an unhappy chappy in there. So I'vewith regards to your project putting all these things
never had anyone, if I say to them, "Would you liketogether. There are two billion people at the moment
water to go through a mountain stream." Andwho have daily problems getting fresh water for
everyone goes "Well, yeah, of course, that would bedrinking, washing and cooking.