The Water of Life
People are already living this practice. Every day, they notice things — sometimes remarkable, sometimes ordinary, sometimes difficult, sometimes nothing at all. Most of those observations disappear.
The Water of Life is a place to leave them.
What did you do? What did you notice? What else was happening? That is the project. Not proving anything. Just stopping observations from disappearing.
Why this exists
Auto-urine practice has a long history across multiple traditions, but accounts of what contemporary practitioners actually do and observe have gone largely uncollected. The history and evidence landscape are documented more fully in the founding document. This archive has a simpler purpose: to preserve the observations that otherwise disappear.
My name is Ana. I am a practitioner myself, and I come from a family of record-keepers. My great-aunt kept journals everywhere she lived — from the coffee fincas of southern Mexico to the Arizona desert — and those journals are now primary historical sources in libraries and universities. This archive carries the same impulse: observations recorded carefully, by hand, so they last.
The Water of Life is a cooperative archive, maintained by Ana Seahawk with the support of Fiona Gardner and Megan Macdonald. Every account is read personally and held with care.
Share an account
What did you do? What did you notice? What else was changing? That is all an observation needs to be. Two minutes. A few sentences.
You can come back and add more over time. This is a field notebook, not a one-time survey.
- Share an account — a short, structured form. Takes two to three minutes.
- Book a conversation — for experiences that need depth, or if you just want to talk before contributing
Each account is retold for the archive with light editing. A name appears only when one is given: real name, pseudonym, or none.
Read the archive
- Observation 005 — 1 November 2026
- Observation 006 — Tanya — 6 September 2026
- Observation 004 — Angela R — 1 September 2026
- Observation 001 — 31 August 2026
- Observation 002 — Ana Seahawk — 31 August 2026
- Observation 003 — 31 August 2026
Keep this alive
This archive is independent — maintained by Ana Seahawk with the support of Fiona Gardner and Megan Macdonald, and open to everyone. There is no institution behind it, no grant, no sponsor. If you believe this collective record should exist, you can help keep the work going.
Methodology
Read the founding document for the full reasoning behind the archive's design — why observational framing, why no diagnostic labels, why concurrent factors are mandatory, and how the conversation that started all of this went.