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A Brief Introductory Note Regarding EM and PNSB
The generic terms "EM" and "effective microorganisms" are used worldwide to denote a consortium of about 20 to 30 beneficial microbes which exhibits marked antioxidative and syntropic (aka anti-entropic or negentropic) properties, and which is employed in a variety of fields across the world, including:

• human and animal nutrition
• odor management and odor neutralization
• agricultural applications, including treatment of soil, compost and ag waste
• treatment and remediation of industrial and municipal waste
• treatment and remediation of industrial and municipal wastewater, aka sewage
• environmental toxic waste remediation
• remediation of polluted waterways

While the EM microbial consortium includes a number of lactic acid bacteria and some beneficial yeast, the microbes which form the "heart" of EM, and which lend it many of its antioxidative and syntropic properties (and subtle energy properties as well, as we shall see later) are a cluster of microbes which are purple-red microbes which are facultative phototrophes; this means that they can use light as an energy source when it is present, but do not require light for growth. These purple-red microbes, usually members of genera Rhodobacter, Rhodospirillum and Rhodospirillum, are often known collectively in the world of microbiology as "purple non-sulfur bacteria", or PNSB. The basic and core technologies for EM lie in the public domain; they were originally developed by a Japanese horticulture professor named Dr. Teruo Higa while working at a public/state-supported university named University of Ryukus in Okinawa, Japan in the 1970s and early 1980s.

EM and Subtle Energies
First, a View of the Early Japanese History of its Subtle Energy Properties
In the 1980s and early 1990s, when EM was primarily well-known largely in Japan and a few other Asian countries, many persons (including academic researchers) who worked with EM products sensed the powerful subtle energy properties of many EM products. At first, they referenced this property by various names such as chi (aka ki or qi), and then later, in an effort to sound more "scientific", Dr. Higa started to call this powerful subtle energy property by the name "wave resonance". Unfortunately, his use of this term and similar terms, simply resulted in his being estranged even further from most of the scientific and academic community in Japan, because this term was very imprecise and was not a scientific term, and worse (from the viewpoint of the academicians) it reeked of "subtle energies", that is, energies or fields claimed to lie outside the classical Hertzian realm. In a quest for at least a modicum of recognition and acceptance by the scientific community, Dr. Higa eventually dropped the use of the term "wave resonance" and instead -- after meeting Dr. Shinichi Seike, who was then director of the Gravity Wave Laboratory in Japan and learning of Dr.Seike's bleeding-edge theories on gravity waves -- switched to using the terms "gravity waves" and "gravity wave resonance" to describe the subtle energy properties of EM. Unfortunately, this shift in terminology did little to improve Dr. Higa's standing in the academic and scientific communities, because Dr. Seike's theories were considered by mainstream Japanese scientists to be nearly heretical and too bleeding-edge.  

Incidentally, while on the topic of Seike, I must mention that by the advent of the early 1990s another somewhat on-the-fringes Japanese scientist, also a self-styled "gravity wave" researcher who called such subtle energy phenomena by the name "gravitonics" -- and, oddly enough, bearing a surname quite similar to Seike's -- appeared on the scene and, upon handling EM, reportedly declared that it was loaded with "graviton energy". His name was Dr. Hideo Seki (now deceased; he died around the year 2004), and his work -- in a vein similar to that of Seike -- was focused on what he called "gravitons" and "gravitational energy", and as mentioned earlier, he claimed that EM products emitted copious amounts of a subtle energy that he called "graviton" energy. It may also be worth noting that Dr. Hideo Seki and his work seem to have been rather eagerly embraced by the Hado movement in Japan and by the ubiquitous Dr. Emoto who publishes photographs of ice crystals from various types of water. (Incidentally, many persons mistake these Emoto/Hado photographs for "scientific research" and further mistake the photos for proof that certain types of water have "better" subtle energy properties than other types of water, when the reality is that even Dr. Emoto admits that the photographs are carefully culled from hundreds or thousands of samples, and are therefore, at best, carefully manipulated marketing images.) Since then, a similar assertion about EM products emitting copious amounts of graviton energy has been made by Seki's student Masakazu Karita, a Japanese university professor who has become rather famous of late in the subtle energy field and the "free energy" realm for his rather esoteric claims regarding magnets and subtle energy (and free energy!)

Lastly, before moving on to an overview of ormus-like effects attributed to EM, I want to say that most of us in the EM field are agreed that most, if not all, of the ormus-like subtle energy effects of EM seem to be due to the aforementioned PNSB microbes which are the heart of the culture. In fact, Dr. Higa, the original developer of EM, has stated many times that he feels that the vast majority of the "gravity wave resonance" energy coming from EM is due to the presence of the PNSB microbes. 

An Overview of EM Products and Subtle Energy/Ormus-like Effects
I have worked with the PNSB and EM technology since 2002, and have worked with Dr. Shinichi Seike's ideas of gravity fields since the late 1970s. As for the ormus or ormus-like appellation for some of the subtle energy effects of EM products, if my memory serves me right, there was quite a buzz on several of the ormus list groups in the early 2000s to the effect that several ormus researchers had stumbled upon EM and had become quite impressed with what they felt were its ormus properties. And then, again if my memory serves me right, within a year or two after that initial "buzz", Sharon Rose started a list group at Yahoo Groups called EM-WG. Sharon Rose and Barry Carter appear to have been some of the early adopters of the term "ormus" and "m-state" in relation to the subtle energy effects of EM, but they were hardly the only ones, and, among others, a number of West Coast ormus researchers seemed to have jumped on the same terminology bandwagon at about the same time, judging from the emails and phone calls which I received at the time from some of them.

Some Reasons Why Many Feel that EM Products Exhibit Ormus-like Properties
The reasons why many folks, myself included, feel that many EM products exhibit ormus-like properties are manifold, and include:

• for starters, there are the impressions of early users of EM in Japan, who consistently noticed strong subtle energy effects from EM products. Not having words such as "ormus" or "subtle energies" in their vocabulary, they started borrowing terms from various subtle-energy-related "scientific" fields, first calling the effect "wave resonance", and later using the terms "gravity waves" and "gravity wave resonance". The prolific use of these terms by EM promoters (and Dr. Higa himself) not only earned EM and its academic promoters quite a bit of ridicule in the Japanese academic and scientific communities, but also resulted in quite a bit of wariness and skepticism in the agricultural and scientific communities in the West as EM started moving into the Western hemisphere.

• while we are talking about Japan, I have a funny anecdote to share with you: I was contacted around the year 2003 by an American who was living in a small city in Japan and working as a university professor at a local university; he had a bit of experience with Chi Kung and with martial arts, and thus was somewhat familiar with the concept of qi (aka "chi".) One morning while waiting on a city side street for a bus in front of a non-descript shop, he noticed that there seemed to be a very powerful qi-type energy radiating from some bottles of brownish liquid sitting in the window. Curious, he read the sign above the shop, and discovered that it sold gardening supplies. He walked into the shop and put his hands near a bottle, and reported that he could feel strong chi emanating from the liquid. He then asked the clerk what the liquid was, and the clerk explained to him that it was a microbial culture known as "EM". My acquaintance ended up purchasing a handful of bottles of EM culture, and from that moment on, he was hooked. He started drinking the liquid as a nutritional supplement, and reported that he was able to notice an infusion of energy each time he sipped the liquid.

• The reports across over twenty years from Japan of subtle energy effects are not isolated to Japan nor to Asian countries, and rather, the reports of subtle energy properties have followed EM as it has spread across the Western world.

• I have been working intensively with EM for about 5 years, and I often brew large quantities of EM-fermented liquids, both for animal use (i.e., my chickens) and for human use here. I have, over the years, been visited by a number of alternative healthcare practitioners, such a chiropractors, acupuncturists and naturopaths, and also by some raw food (raw vegan) dietary gurus as well. Many of these people are also meditators or intuitives, and so it is natural to expect that they would be more sensitive to subtle energies than "regular" people. Each had contacted me because they had heard of EM, but had never tried it, and explained that they lived within an hour or two of my home and lab, and asked if they could visit me sometime and learn a bit more about EM and also perhaps get a chance to sample some of the EM liquid. In each case, when my visitor arrived and took his/her first sip of EM, almost every one of them reported that an immediate flush of energy seemed to spread throughout their bodies as soon as the EM liquid hit their lips. All of them contacted me later to report that they had continued to ingest EM as a nutritional supplement, and that they noticed that their meditations became deeper and deeper -- and easier -- as a result of drinking EM; several also reported a major opening of their heart and belly chakras in the first three days after initially starting to drink EM, and, as one practitioner (a chiropractor and raw food guru) said to me: "I had always thought, for the past six years, that my heart and belly centers were already very open, and I would not have believed that those energy centers could open further, but both opened within two days and became more than twice their original, and I just feel healthier and more loving, and "larger" in an energy/love sense!"

• The effects reported immediately above by "sensitive" meditators and healthcare practitioners are not unusual, and many "normal" or "mainstream" people who have ingested EM as a nutritional supplement have reported not only steady improvements in health, and also in gum and dental health, but have also reported interesting beneficial inner shifts on the energetic, emotional and spiritual level which they have attributed to their ingestion of EM.

• We often hear reports that some of the more effective ormus products, when fed to livestock such as chickens, will result in a significant decrease in morbidity and mortality from all causes, an increase in feed conversion efficiency, more rapid growth and weight gain, and improved overall health. The same effects have been observed worldwide for years when using EM as a nutritional supplement with chickens and other livestock, and, while I would hardly try to claim that all of this effect is due to the ormus-like effects of EM (rather, I believe that at least part of the effect is simply due to the massive amount of live raw-food-form antioxidants in EM and to its probiotic properties, thus making the animal's GI tract more efficient), my sense is that part of the effect is due to the subtle energy properties of EM.

• Many farmers, even factory farmers raising perhaps 10,000 birds in one crowded "factory barn", have reported that when they started their birds (or, in one case, pigs) on EM as a nutritional supplement, aside from noticing the health benefits mentioned above, the animals immediately became far less stressed and acted much "happier." I see this effect as largely due to the EM ormus-like properties.

• In addition to brewing various types of EM products here, I also brew, at times, relatively pure cultures of PNSB microbes. Whenever I have visitors here who are very "sensitive" or intuitive, they always, upon handling various bottles in my lab of EM and of PNSB microbes, report that the PNSB cultures tend to have an even much stronger subtle energy or "ormus" feel than does the EM culture. In fact, a few sensitives have claimed to have received a significant "ormus" energy infusion simply from holding a bottle of the PNSB microbes for a minute.

• EM has been observed many times in many settings to exhibit syntropic (aka anti-entropic) properties; they are almost entirely linked to the PNSB microbes in the microbial consortium. While credit for some of these syntropic properties may lie with the antioxidants and related "energy compounds" produced by EM (particularly by the PNSB), I feel, as do many others, that the majority of these negentropic effects are due to the subtle energy ormus-like properties of the PNSB and EM.

• As you are likely aware, some subtle-energy related methods and technologies ranging from raw foods diets (high in bioavailable ormus content) to complex homeopathy to acupuncture -- particularly in the early stages -- produce what are known as "cleansing crises" or "healing crises", where the person briefly re-experiences, as if in fast video replay various old injuries, illnesses and other dis-ease patterns from a physical, energetic, emotional, mental or etheric level as that whole nexus heals at a deeper level. And, as you are likely aware, many of the more powerful ormus products often produce such results as well, when ingested as nutritional supplements. Many EM products have been well-known across the world for years not only for their ability to facilitate healing when ingested as a nutritional supplement, but also for their ability to "provoke" healing crises (aka "tissue detoxication" or "cleansing crises".) A number of persons in the field, myself included, feel that a vast majority of this deep healing/regenerative ability of these EM products is due to the ormus-like subtle energy properties which they exhibit.
  

• Lastly, as mentioned earlier, a core group in the ormus world in the US "discovered" the ormus-like subtle energy properties of EM in 2000, 2001 and 2002, and it became a topic of discussion on some ormus list groups, and eventually at least one list group (as mentioned above) on the topic of "EM and white gold" was started by a long-term ormus world insider.

Some Strong Caveats About Experimenting with EM and Ormus-like Properties
If you plan to experiment with EM to explore its ormus-like properties, I have several important caveats for you, all related to the fact that the vast majority of the subtle energy ormus-like effects are due to the PNSB microbes which are the heart of EM, else you will almost surely find little evidence of subtle energy activity; here goes with a short list:

• first, do yourself a favor, and, if you are starting with an EM inoculant culture that you plan to consume directly or that you wish to use as an inoculant culture for growing your own experimental EM liquid brew, I suggest that you might wish to start with a high-PNSB version of an EM culture. The only one currently produced in the world, to my knowledge, is SCD EM Plus inoculant culture, produced and marketed by Sustainable Community Development (SCD) in Kansas City, MO USA (their website may be found at www.scdworld.com). SCD is, in my opinion, a premier producer and distributor of EM culture worldwide. BTW, if you are ordering anything from SCD, please feel free to use my private discount code of VP2004 for a 7% discount on product prices.

• Next, if you choose to brew from the EM culture some of the EM product known around the world as "activated EM", aka AEM, please be advised that, at least for subtle energy/ormus-like purposes, the stuff is next to useless, because, for these purposes, AEM, after brewing is done, is little more than lactic acid vinegar or lactic acid beer, and is largely lacking in the all-critical PNSB microbes which generate the subtle energy effects (what many in Japan call by the name "gravitational wave energy".) Rather, you will need, if you wish to accentuate subtle energy properties, to use more advanced and sophisticated formulas and processes to brew either a customized EM brew or to brew what I tend to call "Super Activated EM", aka "Super AEM", which, while it bears some vague resemblance to AEM, is brewed with far more ingredients and with far more sophisticated brewing techniques (and also for a far longer fermentation time) than is "traditional" AEM. In fact, I wrote a technical book a number of years ago which is devoted largely to advanced methods for brewing high-quality batches of customized SAEM (this version is not called SAEM in the book, but rather is referenced as "high-quality, high-phototrophe AEM") and sophisticated EM brews, including some which exhibit rather powerful ormus-like effects. The book is entitled something like "Fermentation with Syntropic Antioxidative Microbes", and is distributed by SCD (website listed above.)

By the way, I regularly hear from persons in the ormus world who tell me that they briefly played with EM back in 2001 and 2002 when it had become a fad in the ormus world, but who report that they eventually dropped their experiments because they noticed little in the way of ormus-like effects from the liquid EM products which they had attempted to brew. When I asked if they had brewed simply the basic plain-vanilla activated EM (AEM) formula, their answer was invariably "yes", and that explains their lack of observed effects -- their final product was largely not EM anymore, but rather a cheap lactic acid beer or vinegar, largely lacking in the all-critical PNSB microbes and in some other essential microbes as well.

Off-the-Shelf EM Products Which Exhibit Ormus-Like Effects
The off-the-shelf EM products, readily available from EM vendors around the world, which exhibit the strongest ormus-like effects are as follows:

Liquids
Products are listed in ranked hierarchical order, with those with the most powerful effects listed at top, and those with lesser effects below.

• Custom-formulated and custom-brewed batches of EM nutritional supplement brews or of SAEM (see above). As mentioned above, there are formulas as well as suggestions in my EM fermentation book on how to maximize ormus-like content and effects.
  
  
• High phototrophe (high-PNSB) EM inoculant culture; the only such culture commercially available at this time is SCD EM Plus™, from SCD (and from EM-World Germany in Europe)
  
  
• Traditional EM inoculant cultures, such as SCD Efficient Microbes(EM)™ Traditional or SCD Efficient Microbes(EM)™ Food Grade culture.
  
  
• The pale liquid EM products known as Extra(EM)™ and EM-X; these liquids, meant for human consumption as a nutritional supplement are not cultures, and rather are simply sold as dietary supplements. These liquids are brewed in a multi-stage and unique fermentation process which is very different from that employed for almost all other EM products. While these unique liquids tend to exhibit a somewhat lower overall subtle energy effect than the EM cultures listed above, the subtle energy ormus-like properties which they do exhibit seem to have very strong regenerative and healing effects, rather than the effects seen with the EM products listed above, which are more syntropic and which also lie more in the emotional, energetic and spiritual realm.

EM Ceramic Products
Most EM ceramic products, whether they be small formed shapes or EM ceramic powders, tend to exhibit very strong subtle energy ormus-like effects, often more so than the liquids listed above. These effects, much like those seen with some minerals (i.e., laminar crystals), gems and ores, are not only strong but also exhibit what I call an ormus-like "field effect", where the ormus-like subtle energy field radiated by the substance can exert long-lasting influence liquids or objects at a modest distance, even if they are not in direct contact with that liquid or object.


An EM and Ormus List Group
I have owned and operated for several years an email list group devoted to EM and ormus effects; it is named EM-Ormus and is located at Yahoo Groups. You may subscribe by sending an email to EM-ormus-subscribe@yahoogroups.com or by visiting the list group home page at Yahoo Groups and using the button provided there to join.


If You Wish to Learn More About EM and PNSB
If you wish to learn more about EM and its uses, you may wish to check out my two free informational websites on EM. I have not had the time to update either site in years, and thus I apologize in advance for any sloppiness or old material still present on the sites! Here goes....

For basic and general information on EM as it is used in a wide range of fields across the world, please see my EM Info website at http://www.eminfo.info

For more advanced information on EM and its use as a nutritional supplement in humans, along with some reports of scientific testing for antioxidant properties, please see my Antiox Brew website, at http://www.antioxbrew.com

Enjoy!