As a tradition, limnosophy descends from the metaphoric and natural relationship between pools of water and human wisdom ~ the meaning of pools and lakes in human settlements. Healthy pools require periodic flow. Standing water becomes stagnant, freezes, evaporates, or percolates into the ground. So also consciousness can depart from stagnant lives and institutions, leaving behind arid, meaningless habits, rituals and superstitions. As water-based life forms, human bodies also thrive on a periodic flow, passing through, settling briefly in cells and organs ~ each drop of fluid, each cell, each organ a little pool, borrowing water and nutrients from the local water cycle. Just as human bodies and human settlements are enlivened by the periodic flow of clean, pure, fresh water, Human awar