By Edward Esko
A crucial turning point in the rice cycle occurs in the middle of summer, during the plantâs flowering stage. That is when the forces of heaven and Earth, sky and sun, night and day coalesce. A miraculous process takes place under the summer sky. During the plantâs flowering stage, the grain milk is a thick liquid that is sensitive to vibrations. The energy of the night sky travels down through the awn, where it leaves a subtle imprint, not unlike a footprint in wet sand.
Water may hold the key to the transmission and storage of this information. According to researcher Masaru Emoto, author of The Hidden Messages in Water, âwater has the ability to copy and memorize information.â Emoto observed and photographed the structure of crystals formed in water exposed to positive thoughts, images, words, and beautiful harmonious music, and compared those to the crystals formed in water exposed to negative thoughts, images, words, and discordant, chaotic, and unpleasant sounds.
He found that positive vibrations produced well-formed crystals of incredible elegance, symmetry, and beauty, while negative or discordant vibrations resulted in âfragmented and malformed crystals at best.â Emoto goes on to state, âAnd I have found the most beautiful crystal of allâthe one created by âlove and gratitude.â This is supposedly what all the worldâs religions are founded on, and if that were true, there would be no need for laws. Love and gratitude are the words that must serve as the guide for the world.â
The sum total of vibration channeled at night through the awns and captured by the water in each developing grain can be summarized in the words âlove and gratitude.â That vibrational pattern influences the patterning of the carbohydrate and protein molecules in each grain, It then solidifies into a crystalline structure as the grains harden in the summer sun.
I asked Massachusetts rice farmer Christian Elwell about the timeframe in which this process takes place. Christian replied that the window was narrow; perhaps a ten-day period in July or August when the awns are viable and the rice milk soft and malleable. That window is of course variable. It depends on the type of grain, the latitude of the field, the amount of water available, weather, and other factors. Once the imprint has been received, the template is baked in the midday sun.
Like cuneiform script etched into clay tablets and placed in an oven to harden, the vibrational imprint is hardwired into each grain. The grains are like biologically active microchips that store information received from the cosmos, in addition to concentrating the energy received from the sun.
Awned, or âlong awnedâ rice, such as that grown at South River, is rare in the modern world, although the original species contained fully developed awns. The species grown at South River, known as âDuborskianâ rice, comes most recently from Ukraine and Russia, and before that, Italy and China. It is a dry land variety that also grows in a paddy and yields beautiful tall plants and long awns. It readily adapts to temperate climates such as those in North America. Other grains, such as wheat and barley, still retain long or developed awns.
Even though long awns are rare in modern rice, an awn stub or bud is nevertheless present in short-awned varieties. The abbreviated awn is able to serve as a conduit for cosmic energy, although not to the degree of a long awn. The longer the awn, the deeper into the universe the message of love and gratitude originates, with greater depth and power.
Edward Esko (1950-2021) was a leading macrobiotic teacher, counselor, author, and co-founder of Planetary Health and Amberwaves. For further information, please see his last book Lightfood: Eating for Consciousness and Enlightenment(IMI Press, 2021) from which this article is excerpted. He also appears in The Spirit of Rice, Planetary Healthâs documentary film on the rice growing cycle (click here to view).