Spirits of Stone: A Lightworker’s Guide to Crystals for Healing and Meditation
by Curtis Lang
Quartz Crystals: Spiritual Tools of Ancient Civilizations
The English word crystal comes from the Greek word "krystallos", meaning ice, from “kruos”, meaning cold. The Greeks found quartz crystals high in the frigid Alpine mountains, and as the historian and naturalist Pliny the Elder explains, ancient Roman scholars believed that quartz crystal was ice that had frozen so hard it would never thaw.
In
his encyclopedic work “Naturalis Historia”, Pliny, also known as Gaius
Plinius Secundus (c. 23–79 A.D.), says that quartz crystal is “a substance
which assumes a concrete form from excessive congelation. At all events, crystal
is only to be found in places where the winter snow freezes with the greatest
intensity; and it is from the certainty that it is a kind of ice, that it has
received the name which it bears in Greek. . .”[i]
The Romans of Pliny’s age – the age of Nero -- valued quartz crystals immensely, for their beauty and for their healing properties, which Roman physicians found to be enhanced when the crystals were exposed to sunlight.
Pliny says, “I find it stated by medical men that the very best cautery for the human body is a ball of crystal acted upon by the rays of the sun. This substance, too, has been made the object of a mania; for, not many years ago, a mistress of a family, who was by no means very rich, gave one hundred and fifty thousand sesterces for a single basin made of crystal.”[ii]
This health conscious Roman matron must have been serving her family water which had been stored in this very expensive crystal basin. Such water was believed to have restorative properties.
Nor are the Romans alone in viewing quartz crystals as coagulated water with extremely rare and valuable properties.
Crystals were originally heaven’s holy water, poured out by God into the aethers at the dawn of creation, according to one legend reported by art restorer and New Age crystal expert Frank Dorland. “As the water fell through the frigid air of outer space, it became frozen into solid ice,” Dorland says in his book, Holy Ice. “Guardian angels, witnessing God’s gift, feared that the frozen holy water would melt and sink into the earth. They promptly petrified the water so it would forever remain solid and be available to mankind as a permanent blessing – a solid link with heaven. Since crystal does not oxidize, change with age or decay, it is truly a permanent gemstone.”
In this Twentieth Century retelling of an ancient legend, the spiritual properties of quartz crystal are emphasized, and crystals are seen as a bridge uniting heaven and earth, a natural communications device enabling humanity to better communicate with spiritual worlds, and with the Divine Source of all creation.
“Quartz
crystal is the emerging symbol for the next great period of human history –
the Age of Aquarius,” Dorland explains. “One might imagine that the
portrayal of the statuesque Aquarian water bearer pouring sacred water out of an
ever-flowing jug is a symbol of the energy that continuously flows from
electronic crystals.”
The Goddess of the Night Sky, Queen of Infinite Space, known to the Egyptians as Nuit, is depicted in Aleister Crowley's version of the Tarot card known as "The Star", which is associated with the Aquarian Age, as shown at the left. Nuit gave birth to the Sun each day in the East, and swallowed the Sun each evening in the West. Her body is the starry sky, and she is the deliverer of souls and helper of those who have passed to the Other Side after death. Nuit gives and fulfills the promise of resurrection for Initiates who have attained the knowledge and practice of the Great Mysteries.
In Crowley’s Tarot card, the Goddess kneels at
the intersection between spiritual worlds and material creation, her feet
resting upon a mound of crystalline formations, depicting the spiritual
templates upon which all organic and inorganic substances are based, the sacred
geometry of Divine inspiration.
The Sky Goddess continuously transfers Universal Life Force Energy from the
realms of Spirit into material creation, and continuously renews the balance of
energy in spiritual realms through her dance of Divine Love. That Universal Life
Force Energy flows from her ethereal cups into the Stars of her Realm -- the sparkling
night sky that symbolizes the Space-Time Continuum is filled with her light,
which the Stars transmit throughout the Universe.
Her Love sustains the Universe, and she holds the keys to the kingdom, the
knowledge of the sacred geometry that sustains all life and all structure in the
material worlds. Thus the crystal is considered to be sacred to the Sky Goddess,
and her devotees utilize quartz crystals for meditation, for healing, and for
divination.
The Star is considered to represent the path of Meditation in the Qabbalistic Mysteries of the Tarot. The Path of the Star involves meditation upon the forms of nature, and the attainment of a consciousness that merges with the Universal Life Force energy that sustains all creation – union with the unveiled Goddess herself, as figured in the Tarot Trump pictured above.
It is certainly no coincidence that in this Tarot card depicting the mysteries found on the pathway of deep meditation, Crowley emphasizes the large cluster of crystalline formations in the foreground of the picture of Nuit, the Star Goddess.
Crystals have been used to enhance meditation practices for hundreds of thousands of years in shamanic traditions around the world, for healing, to assist in astral travel, creative visualizations, and to communicate with angels, devas, deities, saints, and ancestors inhabiting spiritual realms.
Quartz crystals are the most readily available power stones across the planet, so it is no surprise these amazing spiritual allies have been highly prized by those treading the path of Spirit in all cultures since the dawn of human civilization. Quartz is composed of Silicon Dioxide, which is the most abundant mineral in the Earth’s crust, and quartz crystals in their various colors and forms, such as clear and smoky quartz, silver and golden rutile, purple amethyst and orange citrine can be found on every continent.
Sedona
based Mongolian-Native American Shaman Jade Wah’oo Grigori has been a good
teacher for my wife Jane and me. Jade has a spiritual and healing practice
rooted in the ancient traditions of both Mongolian and Native American
practitioners.
Jade teaches that in the shamanic healing traditions of both East and West, quartz crystals are considered to be the nervous system and brain of Grandmother Earth.
Jade teaches that quartz crystals should only be used for spiritual purposes, and never for adornment or merely displayed as collector’s items. Jade recommends giving an offering to Grandmother Earth when one obtains a quartz crystal ally, and that the recipient of the spirit stone give back energy and love to Grandmother Earth from time to time thereafter to help balance the energy exchange that is taking place between the human and the planetary realms.
New Age metaphysicians constantly refer to the crystal-powered civilization of Atlantis, and it is thought that many crystal healers and Lightworkers alive today, especially in America, are reincarnated souls who experienced life in Atlantis untold millennia ago.
The Atlantean civilization was said to utilize
quartz crystals for healing, for spiritual purposes, and to communicate over
long distances.
Today’s semiconductor revolution, which depends upon the use of quartz
crystals, a primary component in computer chips, coincides with the dawning of
the Age of Aquarius, and the achievements of both the physical sciences and the
spiritual sciences of the 20th and 21st centuries rely heavily upon the
properties and the power of quartz crystals.
Today’s global human civilization utilizes quartz crystals to power the planetary communication system known as the Internet, which far surpasses the ancient Atlantean system of crystal communication devices in geographcial extent and technological sophistication.
As we shall see in subsequent chapters, sonar, radios, television, cigarette lighters, stereo amplifiers, transistors, computer chips, liquid crystal displays, digital watches, cars, satellites, cell phones, oscilloscopes, and many other technological pillars of today’s global society utilize quartz crystals in their manufacture.
The use of crystals in the dawning Aquarian Age
is as much spiritual as technological. Lightworkers and crystal healers are
building upon the groundbreaking work of such visionary scientists as Marcel
Vogel, the IBM luminary who invented the method used to create and store memory
in today’s computer hard drives.
Vogel
used quartz crystals for healing and developed a unique awareness of the sacred
geometry of quartz wands that has led to the creation of industrial-strength
power tools for Aquarian Age shamanic healers, meditators and Lightworkers, such
as the remarkable 88-sided Vogel wand pictured here.
The use of intricately cut Vogel wands and of many varieties of natural quartz crystals and healing gemstones has become immensely popular in the last thirty years. Collectors of art objects and gemstones have turned their attention to the formerly humble “semi-precious” mineral specimens. Demand is so great for tourmaline, aquamarine, and other highly desirable stones that there is currently a shortage of high-end collectible mineral specimens. The highest quality mineral specimens have skyrocketed in value – over 1,000% in the last five years according to the November 2006 edition of the Forbes Collector investment newsletter -- and even more since that time!
Shortages of high-quality Lemurian quartz crystals, citrine and the highly prized and difficult to fabricate Vogel wands have led to increasing competition among Lightworkers and collectors in America, Europe, and the emerging new rich economies of China and India for the finest specimens – a competition that the American market often loses. The finest specimens of these healing stones are increasingly sold in European and Asian markets because these highly prized quartz crystals command much higher prices in those countries.
We currently stand at a crossroads in human history, confronting an increasingly interconnected global village, global marketplace, and global environment. We are becoming increasingly aware of our increasingly intimate connections to individuals in other parts of the world, and of how our actions impact their lives, while their actions shape our possibilities. There is no doubt that the use of quartz crystals in digital technology, healing and meditation will continue and increase as we attempt to address the social, economic and environmental concerns of the 21st century.
It is hoped that this book can provide an introduction to and an overview of the use of quartz crystals throughout human history which will open new doorways of consciousness and perhaps even demonstrate some of the common spiritual principles taught for millennia in both East and West.
In addition, there will be practical information concerning the sacred geometry of healing stones, the correspondences between the chakra system and the various types of healing crystals and gemstones, and specific techniques for using Vogel wands and a large variety of crystals and healing gems for meditation and healing.
I hope you will enjoy reading this as much as I have enjoyed researching and writing it, because I have made many friends in the mineral kingdom the last few years, and those crystalline allies have acted as my keys to a new consciousness, as well as acting as magnets, attracting a large number of very dear new friends – rockhounds, healers, Lightworkers, spiritual seekers, and lovers of beauty -- into my orbit.I hope you will also find your own crystalline allies and that your work with them will prove empowering. My prayer is that you receive the grace and guidance to achieve your loftiest spiritual goals, and that you receive some help along your path from my friends, the Spirits of Stone.
The Crystal Wisdom of Lemuria and Atlantis
Over the last hundred years, many books have been written about the healing
powers of quartz crystals. These authors have described a variety of methods for
using quartz crystals for healing – and some of these books provide a vast,
speculative history of the ancient civilizations of Atlantis and Lemuria, which
were said to utilize quartz crystals as communication devices, as sources of
energy comparable to modern fossil fuels in their ubiquity, and in sacred
temples, where priests and priestesses employed crystalline tools in meditation,
for prognostication, and in the healing arts.
These histories build upon the work of such early Twentieth Century mystics as Theosophists H.P. Blavatsky and Alice Bailey and German mystic Rudolf Steiner, the founder of Anthroposophy, biodynamic agriculture and today’s Waldorf schools.
All of these incredibly prolific Western European spiritual teachers wrote elaborate occult histories of mankind, which included extensive accounts of ancient Lemurian and Atlantean cultures, thought to have existed ten thousand years ago, or more.
In the occult histories of these clairvoyant early Twentieth Century spiritual pioneers, the Atlantean and Lemurian cultures were depicted as the ancient ancestors of all the Mystery School teachings of the Hindu, Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Western European civilizations.
In
the early 1990s, crystal healers discovered a variety of quartz crystal from
Brazil that was believed to have been implanted into the Earth by Lemurian
Lightoworkers, aeons ago.
The exact time frame of the Lemurian civilization is open to question, as is the exact nature of their civilization, although crystal healers and Lightworkers have identified the Lemurians who are said to have planted the crystals as Earthkeepers -- exalted beings whose primary purpose was to act as guardians of the ecosystem ecoysystem.
The most prominent source of information about Lemurian civilization comes from wisdom teachers of the now-legendary Theosophical School of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, which included such luminaries as J. Krishnamurti, Madame Blavatsky, Alice Bailey, Rudolf Steiner and Charles Leadbeater. These spiritual teachers claimed to have had clairvoyant insights into the history and origins of the human race that transcended all existing scholarship and historical records. These clairvoyant mystics relied upon a direct experience of the Akashic Records to formulate their own timeline of human development.
The Akashic Records are said to constitute a vast, ethereal library containing all of humanity's thoughts, words and deeds which has been impressed upon the substance of the vast Universal Field of Life Force Energy filling all time and space. In fact, the information in the Akashic Records is considered Universal in nature, and transcends human history. Scholars of the Hindu Vedas, the oldest written sacred scriptures on our planet, say that the wisdom in the Vedas was transcribed by ancient seers and sages, known as "rishis", who read the Akashic records and recorded what they saw.
According to mystic, clairvoyant, author and scholar Rudolf Steiner, who broke with the Theosophical Society and founded the Waldorf Schools and biodynamic agriculture, the Lemurian civilization existed prior to Atlantis, and existed in South Asia and Africa, extending from Ceylon to Madagascar.
According
to Steiner, the Lemurians derived immense powers of will and strength from a
direct connection to the energy bodies of plants and animals around them. The
Lemurian was, says Steiner, "a born magician in all fields of lower human
activities." Steiner discusses the Lemurian civilization extensively in his
book "Cosmic Memory" and in many other publications and lectures.
According to Steiner, Lemurian institutions of higher learning focused on teaching initiates secret techniques enabling them to control the forces of nature by direct contemplation. Steiner said these Lemurian mystery schools "stood far above what mankind has since acquired in the way of arts and sciences." He called them "colleges of will power and of the clairvoyant power of the imagination. From them emerged men who became, in every respect, rulers of the others."
Steiner says that life on Earth was vastly different then. The "air was much thicker", the "water much thinner." The ground was thin and broken apart continually by the action of convulsive volcanic forces. The Earth in this period was shaped by the primal element of Fire. What we know as small ferns existed as giants of the plant world. Only amphibians, birds and lower animals existed. The vast majority of humanity lived a very primitive life, which can only be described as animalistic in nature.
Yet for those in the Lemurian mystery schools, life was exalted beyond what we know today. "The uninitiated, of course, stood under the magical influence of the initiated," says Steiner. "It was also natural that the latter considered themselves sanctified personages. . . They looked into the creative workshop of nature. They experienced a communion with the beings who built the world itself. One can call this communion an association with the gods."
Steiner says that in the later periods of the more highly developed Lemurian civilization, the role of female initiates was paramount, and that these female initiates were responsible for planting the seeds of the knowledge of good and evil in the soul of mankind, as well as for developing the first human awareness of beauty, and for cultivating the first human language, a kind of song.
Thus all subsequent human civilizations owe a
huge debt of gratitude to the Lemurian priestesses, who created the first
Mystery Schools teaching enlightenment through direct experience of nature, the
firsthuman system of ethics, the first art and highly developed system of
aesthetics and the first, prototypical human language.
Over the last thirty years, rockhounds,
Lightworkers and crystal healers have discovered a unique variety of quartz
crystal found only in one remote region of Brazil which are said to resonate
with the energy signature of the ancient Lemurian civilization, and which are
highly prized for their unique metaphysical properties.
Given this description of the ancient Lemurian civilization, it is not at all
surprising that crystal healers and Lightworkers from the Nineties to the
present have consistently described the energy of the Lemurian seed crystals as
warm, nurturing, feminine, healing, and closely connected to the Source of
Shakti, the weaver of the web of life on Earth, the Divine Mother.
All Lemurians have a very powerful & unique
energy signature.
The Contemporary Origins and Mining of
Lemurian Seed Crystals
Lemurian Seed Crystals that come from mines in the region of Minas Gerais,
Brazil, near the town of Joaquin Felicio. Some of these mines are being operated
by a miner who was one of the family members who originally mined Lemurian seed
crystals in the Nineteen Nineties, and one of the mines, a new one, is operated
by an enterprising Brazilian miner who is a newcomer to the wonderful world of
Lemurian seed crystals.
All of these mines have uncovered new Lemurian
Seed Crystals that come from a line of crystal beds along the same mountain top
ridge system known as the Serro do Cobral. All the Lemurian mines are located
within a 20 kilometer radius of the original mine where Lemurian Seed Crystals
were first discovered and categorized in the early Nineties. (See map below.)
The
origins of the Lemurian seed crystals make an interesting story, which we have
pieced together from accounts provided by our source for Lemurian crystals, an
international dealer in minerals and crystals, who has dealt directly with the
owners of the Lemurian mines in this area for many years.
Enterprising American miners in the 1940s, working land owned by Brazilians, opened up two mines in the mountains of the Serra do Cabral mountain range near the town of Joaquin Felicio, in the state of Minas Gerais. In the picture below, Brazilian rockhound Marlon Ferreira stands atop a ridge overlooking the main working pit where Lemurians are being mined in 2007, visible in the upper right hand of the photograph.
"After World War II, the Americans left", explains our source. "The mines reverted to the control of the Brazilian families who originally owned the land. Five relatives from these families reopened mining operations in the early 1990s, at the larger mine of the two that had been opened up by the Americans," our source continues.
An American, mineral dealer David Geiger, was intrigued by the unusual formations of the crystals in the mine, and forwarded some samples to a colleague, Kristina Raphaell. Raphaell designated the crystals as "Lemurian seed crystals", and offered the world a wealth of channeled information about the origin of these unique crystals.
According to our Lemurian source, the Lemurian crystals were found in the mine shafts being dug in the original Lemurian mine, embedded in a matrix surrounded by loose sandy soil, from which it was relatively easy to extract them.
Individuals who have direct experience removing crystals from the Lemurian mines say that they have found many long wands deposited in loose, sandy soil, points directed outward, as if someone standing at the location had placed them there. Above is a picture of Lemurian crystals in a cliffside in a Lemurian mine in Brazil, taken by Marlon Ferreira in 2007 with permission of the owners.
These
Lemurian crystals often appeared in clusters of long shafts and as individual
wands, as in the picture shown here. Individual Lemurian wands range in size
from a few inches to two feet or more in length, and weigh anywhere from a few
grams to 50 kilograms or more. Clusters weighing up to 600 kilos have been
extracted from time to time.
Because of their appearance, and because they were found in cliffsides and in shallow digs, they were relatively easy to extract, and it seemed to some that they had been “planted” in the soil by an intelligent agent.
Based upon channeled information received in meditation, many metaphysical rock hounds came to believe that these crystals were implanted directly in loose sandy soil in the mountains of the Serra do Cabral by the wise men and women of the ancient Lemurian civilization, aeons prior to all currently known historical records. Other crystal healers said that these Lemurian crystals grew from tiny "seed" crystals implanted in the sandy soil of the Brazilian mountains by the Lemurian high priests and priestesses in the mists of pre-history.
Early accounts of Lemurian crystal “mining” suggested that the Lemurians were virtually lying around on top of the ground, or their tops visible to the naked eye, and that it was more a matter of “harvesting” them than of mining.
First hand accounts of contemporary mining practices in the Lemurian mines of the Sera do Cobral paint a slightly different picture. Brazilian rockhound Marlon Ferreira, a friend of the owner of the Lemurian mine, showed us videos he took on a 2007 trip to the mine.
Once the miners delineate an area they want to explore, they will detonate explosive charges that break up the ground. Then large chunks of matrix, full of Lemurians, which appear similar to the cliff wall in the picture above, are washed with high pressure water jets. The high pressure water jets break up the loose sandstone, and dissolve it. Then the Lemurians fall out of the liquefying sandstone matrix.
Crystal lovers may have noticed that it is very difficult to find rough Lemurian crystal wands without any dings or chips. That is because this method of mining Lemurians usually damages the crystals as they fall during the water jet mining process. To alleviate this problem, crystal dealers often polish one or more shafts and faces of Lemurian wands to create a smooth surface.
Crystal healers such as Katrina Raphaell believe that only rough unpolished Lemurian wands are useful for healing purposes, but our experience has been that both polished and unpolished Lemurian wands exhibit a unique energy signature that is very powerful. We have had good success with clients using both types of crystals and we love them all!
Once a pond of silt and fallen Lemurians has been created by the water jet mining process, silt and crystals are removed from the pond, placed on drying tables, and the Lemurians are separated from the silty matrix and the water.
In
this picture, Brazilian rockhound Marlon Ferreira is picking Lemurian crystals
from the dissolved matrix recovered from the large recovery pond created by high
pressure water jet mining operations at the primary Lemurian mine in the Sero do
Cobral.
This water mining process creates a growing pond of very silty water, as you can see from the picture above, which, over time, can begin to filter out into nearby streams. Concern over adverse environmental impacts of Lemurian mining is one of the main reasons why the Brazilian government shuts down the Lemurian mining operations periodically. The Lemurian mines are located within a region renowned for a very large State Park in an area that the Brazilian government is doing its best to maintain as an environmental preserve, so there is substantial governmental pressure on Lemurian miners to mine responsibly.
The periodic shutdowns tend to create fluctuating supplies, so there are times when Lemurians are easy to get and other times when it is more difficult to obtain these highly prized Brazilian crystals.
Lemurians occur naturally with multiple striations, and Katrina Raphaell and some other crystal healers consider the crystals more valuable when these striations have been left intact & not polished off of the crystals, although our experience is that both polished and unpolished Lemurian crystals have immensely powerful energies useful in healing, meditation and spiritual practice of all kinds.
The multiple striations on Lemurian
crystals have been said by Katrina Raphaell and others to contain information
from the ancient civilization of Lemuria. Lemurian crystals are said to be tuned
to energies of unity, and to help us to balance the spiritual and physical
aspects of our lives.
According to the mineralogist and crystal dealer who provides us with Lemurian
crystals, Lemurian seed crystals are perfect examples of a crystalline structure
created by what is known as the "Muzo crystal growth habit".
This
picture features a Lemurian with clearly visible striations which is a perfect
example of the Muzo growth habit.
This habit was first described by Rykart, commenting on crystals from Muzo in Colombia. A similar crystal "habit" or structure has also been found on rock crystals from pegmatites in Minas Gerais, Brazil, and from alpinotype vugs in Switzerland.
Many Lemurian seed crystals, commonly known as "Laser wands", display the defining characteristics of the "Muzo habit". Muzo habit crystals display horizontal striations up and down the shaft, and can form very steep termination tips, such that a cross section of the upper end of the shaft appears triangular, although the lower body of the shaft remains hexagonal in shape.
"I believe that the Lemurian crystals' shape, the surface etchings, the overall structure, evokes Lemurian consciousness in the people who handle them," says our Lemurian source. "People meditated with these crystals and the crystals evoked a consciousness we call Lemurian consciousness -- a connection to the archetypes and wisdom, if you will, we associate with Lemuria."
This explains why Lemurian crystals are
found in Brazil, in Russia, and in other locations, none of which map closely
onto the locations identified with Lemuria by the Theosophical seers who
originally envisioned this ancient civilization in their clairvoyant
meditations.
The Sacred Geometry of Lemurian
Seed Crystals
The sacred geometry of the Lemurian Seed Crystal Laser Wand provides some keys
to its nature that provide extremely helpful guidance to crystal healers,
Lightworkers and meditators working with these unique crystals.
The shaft of the Lemurian Laser wand is hexagonal.
The hexagon occurs in both organic and inorganic forms in nature, and thus represents the bridge between living and non-living realms of material creation in the sacred science of sacred geometry.
Six-angled, six-sided and six-pointed forms of nature include: quartz crystals; the benzene ring, a basic structure in organic chemistry, and one of the basic building blocks of organic structures of nature, composed of a hexagonal configuration of six hydrogen and six carbon atoms; the hexagonal web of cellulose found in plant tissue; the hexagonal net of cells that form the tissue in the human lung; snowflakes; slices of carrot and green pepper; and honeycombs.
The Lemurian Laser Wand'ssacred geometry, incorporating the hexagon and the triangle, marks these uinque crystals as nature’s own “magic wands”.
Slice the hexagonal shaft of any Lemurian
Laser wand, and a Star of David appears. Quartz crystal wands are three
dimensional Star of David mandalas.
The
Star of David the ideal container for Universal Life Force Energy. This photo
shows a lily flower, which exhibits a star of david which can be seen in the
unfolding of its petals.
The Star of David implicit within the hexagon expresses the interrelationship of matter and spirit. The upward pointing triangle of the Star of David represents spirit, and the downward pointing triangle represents material reality. The Star of David also symbolizes the interpenetration and balance of male and female energies, the upward and downward pointing triangles respectively. The Star of David represents the manifestation of Divine proportions in an ideal and harmonious, stable and orderly material structure.
The hexagonal shaft of the Lemurian Laser Wand narrows to form a more angular, triangular termination tip in accordance with the Muzo crystal growth habit. The transition from the hexagon to the triangle represents the aspiration of matter toward spirit, and is another indication that the Lemurian Laser Wand is the ideal vehicle for transmitting Universal Life Force energy directly from Source.
Lemurian Laser Wands deliver a highly concentrated beam of life force energy. Energy enters the crystal through the hexagonal base, and is amplified as it travels through the shaft, bouncing from face to face in a spiral of light. As the energy travels through the increasingly narrow end of the shaft and enters the triangular termination tip, the energy is concentrated, focused and amplified, so that when it is delivered it has many of the characteristics of a laser beam.
There are also other varieties of Lemurian Seed Crystal with highly desirable and unique properties conferred by their structure, crystal habit and sacred geometry.
Many
Lemurian Seed Crystals exhibit what is known as trigonal symmetry, and are found
with highly developed termination tips that often exhibit large three five-sided
or six-sided or seven-sided faces opposed by tiny triangular faces.
The Lemurian Seed Crystals with five-sided faces opposed by a triangular face are said to be "Isis Crystals", with a special affinity for the Divine Mother in her aspect as Isis, Queen of the Stars.
Lemurian Seed Crystals with a seven-sided face opposed by a triangular face are said to be "Channeling Crystals", and are believed to enhance our connection to inner spiritual guidance, and to facilitate communication with angelic presences, Master Guides and Spiritual Teachers in higher dimensions, who inhabit spiritual worlds.
Yet other Lemurian Seed Crystals exhibit termination tips with greatly enlarged rhombohedral faces, often seven-sided, opposed by small triangular faces. These crystals have formed according to what is known as the Dauphiné habit. They are often Channeling crystals or Isis Crystals, such as the one pictured below.
This
crystal structure, or habit, is named after the Dauphiné, the old name for the
French Alps around Grenoble. The large rhombohedral faces of these Lemurian Seed
crystals are formed because the crystal grew unevenly, due to geologic
conditions in the area, and the characteristic rhombohedral faces simply grew
more slowly than the rest of the crystal.
These Dauphiné habit crystals are extremely powerful transmitters of energy, and they tend to transmit large beams of energy rather than the very highly concentrated streams of energy chracteristic of the Lemurian Laser Wand.Dauphiné habit Lemurian Seed crystals are highly prized for their ability to send energy to large areas, and across long distances, especially when they exhibit the seven-sided faces characteristic of Chaneling Crystals or the five-sided faces characteristic of Isis Crystals.
All crystal healers, Lightworkers and metaphysical researchers agree that direct experience of the Lemurian energy signature is what is important, and that the energy signature of the Lemurian seed crystals must be experienced to be understood completely.
For those who would like to experience that energy firsthand, a number of exercises can be beneficial.
You can place the striations on the third eye or simply hold the crystal in your left hand, the receiving hand, and place your finger on the striations while meditating, or just place the crystal on your meditation cushion or altar nearby you.
You can backlight these Lemurian crystals and scan them with a jeweler's loupe to observe the finely etched hieroglyphics that become visible when the striations are magnified. They are said to resemble Sanskrit lettering and to contain the records of each crystal's experiences and of the Lemurian civilization. Lemurian crystals are said to be tuned to energies of unity, and to help us to balance the spiritual and physical aspects of our lives.
The Lemurians were said to be Earthkeepers, connected to the energies of those Divine Beings who structured the physical manifestation of Mother Earth and who provided the energetic templates for the web of life on this planet, which remain today in the etheric plane, where the Akashic Records reside.
The Lemurian quartz crystals have been identified as tools of the present era's Lightworkers whose task is to preserve the environment -- those known as Protectors of Mother Earth.
These Protectors, modern day Earthkeepers, often use Lemurian crystals to unify their energies with lightworkers throughout the world and beyond, to perform collective meditations for the benefit of the environment and all the beings who dwell on our Blue-Green Planet.
Healers we have spoken to about the Lemurian crystals say that these stones have a warmth and power and a deep, nurturing, feminine energy that they have not seen in other quartz crystals. And we can say from personal experience using Lemurians in a clinical setting with people with chronic and life threatening illness, that these stones can open and soothe the heart chakra and the emotional body, bringing comfort and deep relaxation. They are ideal for use by vibrational healers, Reiki therapists, and other energy workers.
Because Lemurian seed crystals are associated with the Divine Mother and with the Protectors of the Earth, these crystals can be used effectively in meditation to transmit healing energy to large groups of people, to Lightworkers connected to the Christ consciousness grid surrounding the planet, and to large geographic areas where turbulent weather or degraded environmental conditions, conflicted political situations, and war and oppression, prevail.
Pink Lemurians, Dream Lemurians and Goddess Lemurians from The New Lemurian Mine
As Lemurian lovers no doubt know, the original Lemurian mine suspended operations a couple of years ago, and the remaining Lemurians in the stockpiles of the family operating the mine, and in the warehouses of dealers around the world, constituted the total global supply of these highly desirable crystals.
In the last couple of years, one of the miners who was part of the group of family members who operated the original Brazilian Lemurian mine in the mountains of Serro de Cobral has reopened operations in the smaller of the two original locations, and that operaton is known as The New Lemurian Mine. (See map above.)
New varieties of Lemurian crystals have been discovered by this experienced Lemurian miner, who is further exploring the area that produced the original Lemurian seed crystals.
The New Lemurian Mine is producing a quantity of very pink Lemurian Seed Crystals similar to those originally extracted in the Nineteen Nineties, a new variety of Lemurian called Goddess Lemurians, and a new variety known as Dream Lemurians.
Lemurian
Goddess crystals are clear to slightly smoky, and many have either white or
earth tone phantom layers on one or more faces. Crystal healers who have worked
with them say that they work to bring the body and mind into balance, and to
harmonize the balanced human being with the forces of nature.
This effect is in keeping with the Ancient Wisdom of the original Lemurian priestesses, whose training helped them establish clairvoyant communication with the devas and nature spirits and highly evolved spiritual beings overseeing Creation on planet Earth on behalf of the Great Mother, and to exercise their will forces in harmony with these great beings of light in order to equilibrate and optimize the evolution of the many Creations of the Divine Mother found in the mineral, plant and animal kingdoms.
Crystal healers familiar with the Goddess Lemurians say that they can aid the bearer in establishing contact with the sacred wisdom of the Great Mother, and to the ancient wisdom teachings of the Lemurian high priestesses.
Lemurian Dream Quartz contains phantoms ranging in color from creamy white to pale green. Dream Lemurians come in both polished and unpolished specimens.
The unpolished Dream Lemurian pieces have the deep striations typical of Lemurians, with colors ranging from blue-green to creamy-white & ochre, ranging in clarity from translucent to opaque.
Crystal healers working with the Dream Lemurians report that even small specimens are very powerful, and can alter the energy in a room, an office, or a treatment room, imparting a warm, nurturing, feminine, and "dream-like" quality to the space. These Dream Lemurians create a space for dreams -- they are not dream like in a spacey way, but rather dream-like meaning creating a feeling of openness and expansive creativity, so that those in the environment feel empowered to fulfill their own Higher Purpose through the functioning of Higher Mind, for the best and highest good of all involved.
Needless to say, Dream Lemurians are wonderful companions on an altar or night table, and can be comfortably used under the pillow or in the hand when it's time for sleep.
Some
pieces of Lemurian Dream Quartz also contain sparkling anatase, a form of
titanium dioxide sprinkled here & there on the surface & within. You can
see the antase on the surface of a Dream Lemurian where it appears as tiny
flecks of silver or gold in what appear to be tiny pockmarks, as in the specimen
to the right.
Anatase is better known as a dipyramidal form of rutile. Rutile is a titanium ore. Titanium is used in high tech and aerospace alloys because it’s lightweight, exhibits great strength, is super-conductive and resists corrosion.
Rutilated quartz crystals are known to be super conductors -- powerful amplifiers of Universal Life Force Energy, making them particularly effective in releasing energy blockages. Rutilated Lemurian quartz has an enhanced ability to help dissolve any energy congestion found in the physical, etheric or astral bodies.
Rutilated quartz acts as a stimulant to the nervous system and the etheric body. Rutile excels at repelling negative energy and ending unwanted interference. Rutile promotes and strengthens stability in relationships and marriage, and works to eliminate emotional and physical imbalances.
Jane and I have used the new Dream Lemurian crystals in meditation and in our Reiki practice, and we are amazed by their complex and powerful energy. During meditation and in Reiki sessions, we found that the Dream Lemurians impart a deep, nurturing warmth, most noticeable first in the “hara” center, the storehouse ofUniversal Life Force Energy, or “chi”, located two fingers width below the belly button. This warm glow expanded throughout our bodies, then extended out into the aura, enlivening and brightening body, heart, and spirit.
We have found Phantom Dream Lemurians to be very helpful companions during sleep cycles, triggering profound dream experiences, helping us recall meaningful dream experiences, and gently triggering needed catharsis of negative emotional baggage.
Reiki clients report that Dream Lemurians provide a warm, nurturing, yet energizing effect on the body and mind, noticeable for periods of time up to several days after treatment.
Some Lemurian Dream Quartz wands also contains phantoms which range in color from creamy white-ochre to pale blue-green. These Dream Lemurian Phantoms are said to assist one with integrating spiritual awareness with daily life. The colors of the phantoms in the piece in the pictures appearing to the left and below are an opaque creamy pale ochre flecked with deeper ochres.
The phantom was created when a faceted tip formed at one point in the crystal's growth, but the crystal's growth was interrupted for some reason, and then the quartz crystal resumed its crystallization, enclosing the phantom crystal outline within itself. One possibility is that a pocket inside the earth surrounding the crystal dried out, stopping the crystal's growth, and the pocket was later resaturated, triggering another stage of crystal growth. The final result was the formation of a phantom crystal displaying the termination faces, as is found in this crystal.
Each phantom represents a different stage in the crystal's growth -- and each stage can last for hundreds of thousands of years! Each phantom crystal reveals its own evolutionary pattern -- it is as though we can see the record of the transmigrations of the crystal's soul.
It should come as no surprise that phantom crystals help us to unearth our own histories, and to come to terms with unresolved issues from our past. Phantoms help us to see our own messy histories and our painful karmic issues as part of a beautiful spiritual evolution. In this way, they help to restore a sense of inner balance, unity and an aura of magic where there had been pain and struggle.
Phantom Lemurian wands can help you connect with inner spiritual guidance.They can also be used to access the "akashic records" to help you observe your own spiritual evolution, stimulating recollection of your progression through past-lives.
The Lemurian Rutile Mine and the Rutilated Lemurians
The Lemurian Rutile Mine is a new mine on the mountaintop in the Serra de Cobral where Lemurians were originally extracted. It is now being operated by a miner who was one of the family members operating the original Lemurian mine in the Nineteen Nineties. This Lemurian Rutile Mine has produced a fine yield of extremely powerful angel hair rutile Lemurian crystals.
These
new Rutilated Lemurian crystals have fine angel hair golden rutile needles &
often contains hematite, or iron oxide, giving it a distinctive tangerine hue
and a distinctive metaphysical connection with Archangel Michael.
Esoteric Christianity makes a link between hematite and Archangel Michael, and a quartz crystal containing hematite can provide the bearer with a powerful connection to Michael, providing access to the Archangel's loving wisdom and power to dissolve illusion through the activity of his famous sword, the sword of Ultimate Truth.
During the Libran month, on October 8, in the northern hemisphere, the Draconid meteor showers will be visible. At this time of year, when sensational meteor showers, largely composed of iron, traditionally streak across the night sky, Esoteric Christian philosopher Rudolph Steiner’s clairvoyant vision saw the traditional flashing iron sword of Michael. The meteoric sword of Michael was thought to cleanse the Earth’s atmosphere of summer's sulfurous influences, allowing the Higher Self to emerge and guide the initiate along the path of Spirit toward the birth of the Inner Christ Light, an event which takes place in December, during the festival of Christmas.
Rutile Lemurians, like all Lemurians, are tuned to energies of unity, and help us to balance the spiritual and physical aspects of our lives in their own unique ways. The hematite found in abundance in rutile Lemurians assists us to release negativity, transforming the negativity into the clarity of purified Universal Life Force Energy. Hematite is also associated with the attainment of inner peace, equilibrium, and self-control, and is said to assist us in maintaining a centered, grounded approach to life.
We have used the New Lemurian Rutile crystals in meditation and in our Reiki practice, and we are amazed by their complex and powerful energy. During meditation and in Reiki sessions, we found that the New Rutile Lemurians impart a deep, energizing & nurturing warmth, most noticeable first in the “hara” center, the storehouse of Universal Life Force Energy, or “chi”, located two fingers width below the belly button. This warm glow expanded throughout our bodies, then extended out into the aura, enlivening and brightening body, heart, and spirit.
Although many forms of rutile accelerate intellectual activity, the Rutilated New Lemurians stimulate the Higher Mind, quieting the stream of conscious mind chatter and connecting consciousness to the wisdom found in a realm of a more universal wisdom, clarity and enlightenment.
We also found these unusual New Rutile Lemurians to be very helpful companions in order to restore vitality and gently triggering needed catharsis of negative emotional baggage.
Reiki clients report that the New Rutile Lemurians provide a warm, nurturing, yet energizing effect on the body and mind, noticeable for periods of time up to several days after treatment.
The New Lemurian Mine and New Clear Lemurians
A Brazilian individual bought a farm property a few years ago on the mountaintop in Brazil near the location of the original Lemurian mine, and was mystified to discover a huge hole in the ground on his land. Investigating more closely he found a smaller hole inside the large cavity in the earth, and began to explore it.
In that cavity, he found a large deposit of Lemurian seed crystals, now known as New Clear Lemurians. His mine is known as the New Lemurian mine.
The
New Clear Lemurian crystals are much less pink than original Lemurians, much
more clear, and exhibit the traditional "Muzo habit", with the
characteristic horizontal striations we have come to associate with Lemurian
seed crystals. The New Clear Lemurians have a perfect feel in the hand and are
marvelous tools for doing any kind of energy work, meditation or healing work.
New Clear Lemurian crystals also sometimes exhibit a striking peach color, and some of them also have a thick coating of white to ochre colored material on their surface, which adds to their warmth and seems to amplify their nurturing energy. All these New Clear Lemurians retain the power of the original Lemurians, and their connection to the ancient Lemurian civilization's energy signature.
These crystals can assist in any evolutionary or spiritual work. Each type of New Clear Lemurian has its own specific strengths and characteristics.
The extremely clear New Clear Lemurians are very powerful, very energetic, stimulating the entire chakra system, and especially the crown chakra. These New Clear Lemurians facilitate connection with Higher Mind, enhance powers of concentration, and create feelings of empowerment because they enable us to achieve higher levels of clarity and focused intention.
This is all congruent with the original Theosophical insights into the nature of the wisdom school teachings of the ancient Lemurian culture, which sought to impart in initiates the ability to work directly with highly developed will forces to assist the natural world in manifesting perfected exemplars of naturally occurring elements, minerals, and plants in accordance with the evolutionary pathways of these Earthly creations. These initiates used the same techniques to create tools, dwellings, artwork, and ritual objects of tremendous power and efficacy for the advancement of humanity's spiritual evolution.
We have discovered that the New Clear Lemurians with the colored material coating their surface work in much the same way as Dream Lemurians to transform the energy within their environment, giving those within that space a feeling of expansive permission to access their own Higher Purpose and to pursue their dreams and their loftiest goals, without fear and with great vigor.
The Crystal Culture of Atlantis and the Blue Stone of Healing
The Theosophists and Anthroposophists did not focus on the use of quartz crystals in Atlantis, but other modern clairvoyants offered extensive information about the use of quartz crystals, especially in the ancient, lost civilization of Atlantis.
American
clairvoyant and healer Edgar Cayce devoted large parts of many of his psychic
readings during the early and mid Twentieth Century to a discussion of the
civilization in Atlantis. It is believed that large crystals were used to
generate power used to focus laser-like beams of energy that traveled between
pyramids, obelisks, temples, stone monuments and other points on a network of
grids established throughout Atlantis.
This power grid was used to generate power locally in every area of Atlantis. Crystal power was said to be used for powering aircraft, lighting cities, for long-distance communications, for healing, to rejuvenate aging Atlanteans, and to stimulate the growth of crops.
Many of Edgar Cayce’s psychic readings refer to the use of crystals in Atlantis, both for positive and negative uses.
According to Phyllis Galde, writing in the Llewellyn Encyclopedia of Mind and Spirit, “Crystals were used to light the inner tunnels and chambers [in Atlantis] while the pyramids and Mystery Temples were under construction. . .Crystals were used to control weather, to attune initiates, and in radio waves for communicating with home bases in space (the orbiting Mother ships).”[i]
“Crystals were used to generate energy, which was focused in various ways, not all of which were positive,” continues Galde. “The Atlanteans used an advanced form of hypnosis in which complex detailed visuals were projected into a person's brain, either knowingly or not. By doing this, thoughts could be influenced, as could memory banks. Near the decline of Atlantis, the dark priesthood was involved in control over others. They used crystal power to create pestilences and diseases to kill people by projecting holographically the images, fears, concepts, etc., they wanted to impress on people. They experimented on the populace. Scientists manipulated embryos to create subhuman forms to be used as slaves. . .Crystal generators were built which Edgar Cayce called the ‘terrible crystals.’ . . . .[According to Edgar Cayce it was] the abuse of these energies that eventually caused the destruction of this great civilization. Edgar Cayce stated that the largest crystal generator is buried under the Atlantic Ocean near the Devil's Triangle, and this massive shift of unfocused electromagnetic energy is what causes ships and planes to go astray.”[ii]
As
we have seen, Cayce believed that part of Atlantis could be found in the
Caribbean. He also predicted that in the future a powerful “blue stone”
first used in Atlantis would surface on "an island in the Caribbean"
and would be of tremendous value in healing. [iii]
In 1974, the world gemstone market was introduced to a blue form of pectolite, a gemstone with a hard, white mineral with a vitreous luster, found in hydrothermal pockets, and associated with metamorphic rock formations. This picture shows a beautiful blue pectolite (or Larimar) pendant with an aquamarine trillium gemstone on top. Blue pectolite is of volcanic origin and is found only in a mountainous, relatively inaccessible region of the Dominican Republic overlooking the Caribbean Sea. “The most important outcrop of blue pectolite is located . . .about 10 kilometers southwest of the city of Barahona, in the south-western region of the Dominican Republic,” according sources at the Larimar Museum.[iv]
“In the year 1974, Norman Rilling, a member of the Peace Corps of the United States, and the Miguel Méndez, a Dominican found [blue pectolite] on the seashore,” says the Larimar Museum source. “Following the vestige upstream the Bahoruco river, they got to ‘Los Checheses’, in the town ‘Los Chupaderos’ about 10 kilometers into the montains from the city of Barahona, the place at which at present the most abundant outcropping is found.”
These two rockhounds gave the stone the name “Larimar”, which came from Méndez’ daughter’s name, “Larissa” and the Spanish word “Mar” for sea.
Because of its blue color, which is associated with the fifth, or throat chakra in Western Mystery School traditions, Larimar is widely believed to equilibrate and harmonize the energies of the throat chakra. The throat chakra governs the mouth, the throat and the thyroid gland and stimulates the thymus region. A balanced third chakra stimulates creative communication, and facilitates all forms of work in the mass media. An imbalanced throat chakra often indicates that the individual has important life issues that have been repressed because of fear, feelings of impotence, and suppressed rage. So wearing a Larimar pendant on or near the thymus is thought to help the individual resolve issues relating to failed communication, to open up to others, and to realize their full creative potential. (See picture above of Larmimar pendant with aquamarine).
Since the 1980s, Larimar has been known among metaphysical rockhounds as the Stone of Atlantis, thanks to Edgar Cayce’s predictions.
Since the time of Edgar Cayce, the use of quartz crystals and gemstones for healing and meditation has become a central theme in New Age thought and practice, and is a continuation of humanity’s ageless fascination with these spiritual stones, which certainly predates all historical records.
Shamanism and
the Technology of Sacred Stones
The human fascination with quartz crystals is ancient – predating the earliest
archeological remains left by modern humanity, the species of hominid known as Homo
Sapiens Sapiens, which first emerged on this planet approximately
200,000 years ago.[i]
In the 1920s scientists uncovered the remains of Peking Man, a distant ancestor of modern humanity also known as “homo erectus”, near Beijing, China. Peking Man appeared some 250,000-400,000 years ago, and Peking Man collected quartz crystals.
According to Chinese anthropologist W.C. Pei, "Almost all varieties of quartz occur in this [time] horizon. Of quartz crystals about twenty pieces of different size were found together with one perfect crystal (Cat. No. Q2:25) 6 cm. length. This crystal is smoky in color and all the crystalline faces are complete." [ii]
Other digs within the last fifteen years have also uncovered the use of quartz crystals by humanity’s ancestors, at much earlier time frames than had previously been thought likely – long before Homo Sapiens vanquished the other branches of the human family and became the dominant hominid species on Earth.
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Chinese Enhydrous Smoky Scepter |
But what can we make of the fact that these crystal artifacts have been uncovered in sites once inhabited by hominids predating Homo Sapiens, in the very early dawn of the age of proto-humanity? Did these ancient pre-human ancestors of ours simply like the beautiful transparent crystals and hematite pebbles for aesthetic reasons?
"One could argue that these habits might have been the hominid equivalent of the behavior of certain birds, notably the bower birds of Australia, who collect brilliantly colored or reflective objects. But this is not a very convincing argument,” says Bednarik, “and is in any case hardly relevant to the issue at hand. Firstly, the bower bird produces no stone tools or polished wooden planks and does not use hematite crayons or fire, nor is it likely to develop its present skills to those attributed to Middle and Upper Paleolithic humans." [iv]
Why these pre-human beings gathered crystals is still a mystery to modern science, but it is certainly possible to deduce that the crystals had some intrinsic value for these people, and that if they were making cave drawings, that they had a spiritual life, and that if they had a spiritual life, and if they gathered crystals too small for use as tools for manipulating objects, then the crystals may well have had a spiritual or energetic value to them.
As Homo Sapiens came to dominate the human evolutionary lifestream, the human propensity to gather crystals and gemstones and store them in human habitations continued.
“About 80,000 years ago, just as modern people
were emerging in the Middle East, our Neolithic ancestors buried rock-quartz
crystals with their dead,” reports New Scientist magazine. “At the same
time, shamans also used crystal amulets in primitive religious rituals.”[v]
Human beings have prized a variety of precious crystals and gemstones since they
first created rudimentary tools, cave dwellings and art objects aeons ago.
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Natural Moldavite Crystalline Formation |
In some prehistoric sites, quartz crystal has
been used as a major component of sacred architecture. One of the most famous of
all Irish prehistoric sacred sites in which quartz crystal was used as a
building material is the Newgrange tomb complex in County Meath.
Newgrange was built around 3000 BC, and predates Stonehenge by about 1000 years.
Newgrange “consists of a vast man-made stone and turf mound retained within a
circle of 97 large kerbstones topped by a high inward-leaning wall of white
quartz and granite,” according to the Wikipedia.[vii]
“Most of the stones were sourced locally (within a radius of 20km or so) but
the quartz and granite stones of the facade must have been sourced further
afield, most probably in Wicklow and Dundalk bay respectively.”
There is a special passageway built into
Newgrange aligned so that sunlight fills the rear end of the passage at sunrise
on the winter solstice, and at no other time.
The accuracy of the Newgrange solstice passageway is quite remarkable, and
indicates that the entire structure had major spiritual significance extending
far beyond the site’s use as a burial site.
There is no doubt at all that human beings around the world have used crystals and other glittering precious and semi-precious stones as power objects, spiritual tools, and components of sacred architecture for as long as humans have roamed the Earth. The shamanic lineages of East and West, North and South are united in affirming this ancient tradition.
The Metaphysical Basis of Shamanic Practice with Crystals
Animistic indigenous cultures around the world have always had an intuitive, holistic view of nature and of spiritual worlds, and that wisdom has been expressed in shamanic traditions. In shamanic traditions worldwide, quartz crystals are considered Beings of Light, Spiritual Allies from Higher Worlds composed of solidified high-frequency lightwaves.
Shamanic wisdom traditions grasped the modern holistic Gaia Theory of Earth as biosystem tens of thousands of years ago -- or more -- and venerated the natural world as a Goddess.
Nature’s multitudinous manifestations, elemental, mineral, vegetable, and animal, were recognized as a congregation of living, spiritual beings, and treated with appropriate respect.
Chief Seattle, in his famous 1852 letter to the white men who were to buy Indian lands said, “This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. One thing we know: our god is also your god. The earth is precious to Him and to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator. . . .As we are part of the land, you too are part of the land. This earth is precious to us. It is also precious to you. One thing we know: there is only one God. No Man, be he Red Man or White Man, can be apart. We are all brothers after all."
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Many of us simply see crystals and gemstones as adornment or collector’s items. Forbes Collector recently devoted an entire article to the art of investing in semi-precious stones and minerals, pointing out that over the last five years the best specimens have increased 1000% in value – “and some people even swear they have healing powers.”[ix]
However, we must remember that to the spiritually aware, each stone has a consciousness, a purpose, a connection to Mother Earth, a connection to the ancestors, and a connection to Higher Worlds, including the potent Beings of Light with whom the crystal resonates here in the material world.
According to shamanic traditions, when we accept a Sacred Stone into our lives, it is our duty to give thanks to the Divine Light, to the Great Mother, and to our ancestors who teach us how to live with these Beings of Light, and to raise our consciousness so we can act as Caretakers of the Ways of Spirit.
So it has been for more generations than we have fingers and toes.
Native American shamanistic practitioners like Jade Wah’oo Grigori revere quartz crystals as the brain cells of Grandmother Earth. Viewing the Earth as a living organism, primitive stones such as granite and sandstone comprise the skeleton of the organism, the Earth’s crust is the skin. Vegetation and water channels make up the lifeblood of Earth’s body, and metals and minerals function as glands, nerves and sensory organs.
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Jade Wah'oo Grigori Conducts Healing |
Quartz crystals, in the shamanic worldview, act as the Earth’s brain-mind, through which Spirit, the Universal Mind, maintains communication with all parts of Earth’s organism, equilibrating the earth’s temperature, moisture levels, and other important variables.
In addition, quartz crystals and other gemstones collectively create and modulate an electromagnetic field around the Earth, which is a vital component of the Earth organism’s auric field, or Soul, and clear quartz crystals, identified with white light, represent the unifying vibrational frequency that harmonizes the seven rainbow rays of Earth’s many varieties of gems and minerals, within that auric field.
In the Native American shamanic tradition, any human being who can attune to the power of the quartz crystal is in tune with Grandmother Earth, and obtains the ability to communicate directly with Spiritual worlds.
Shamanism and the Technology of Sacred Stones
In animistic cultures, shamans and priestesses have always been the scientists of the sacred, entering into ecstatic trance states to venture into the world of Spirit and return with visions, messages, and healing energies. In the realm of Spirit these custodians of humanity’s spiritual spark enact rituals of discovery, propitiation, cure and salvation.
These spiritual guardians of the community retrieve lost souls, healing the mind, the body and the soul of the afflicted. They operate as guides of the souls of the dead into the manifold worlds of Spirit, and communicate directly with the elementals, devas, angels, gods and goddesses whose activities affected earthly life, health and fertility.
Extending far into pre-historical times, in these ways, these practitioners of Sacred Science were the first Light Workers, spiritual warriors defending humanity against spiritual affliction, disease, death, and disasters.
Crystals have traditionally been among the preferred power tools of shamanic practitioners.
Shamans see crystals as solidified Light, originating in the realms of Spirit and manifesting on Earth to operate as a bridge to the powers that create, vivify, equilibrate and ultimately destroy this world and all its inhabitants. Crystals are more than quintessential shamanic power objects. Crystals are perceived by initiates to be living beings who operate as their allies in the realm of Spirit.
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Crystals serve the shaman, working to cleanse and enliven power objects used in ceremonies and medicine bags. In medicine bags, or on altars, crystals emanate Light, infusing all the power objects in the medicine bag with spiritual power.
Crystals amplify the will and intent and power of the shaman, acting as transmitters of Universal Life Force energy used to heal body, mind and soul, and catalytic converters that can transmute negative energies, emotions and thoughtforms into positive and healthy polarities.
These spirit stones are given to shamans and priestesses in many traditions on all continents of this world upon their initiation into the mysteries of Spirit, to empower them and facilitate performance of their many necessary community functions.
The shamanic initiatory process has often been described as the “death” of the egoistic self and a rebirth into a “body of light”, and during this process, crystals have often been abraded, swallowed, or inserted into the initiate’s body.
The anthropologist Mircea Eliade observes that in some shamanic initiation rituals “. . .[The initiator] throws the candidate into the sky, ‘killing him’. Once they are in the sky, the master inserts small rainbow serpents. . .and quartz crystals (which have the same name as the mythical Rainbow Serpent)[x]. . .The candidate must silently submit to an operation performed by two old medicine men. They rub his body with rock crystal to the point of abrading the skin, press rock crystals into his scalp, pierce a hole under a fingernail of his right hand, and make an incision into his tongue.[xi]”
Other traditions involve “singing” a piece of crystal into the initiate’s forehead or pouring “liquefied quartz” over the candidate’s body.
Indigenous Australian shamans are self-selected members of the tribe, according to the master of comparative mythology, Joseph Campbell, who describes the shamanic initiation rites of various cultures in his book “Primitive Mythology”.
Campbell describes how in Australia would-be shamans enter a sacred cave, and go to sleep. While they sleep, a spirit comes, and pierces the candidate with an invisible lance, which passes through the back of the neck, piercing the tongue, and leaving a hole big enough to pass the little finger through. A second spirit lance pierces the candidate’s head from ear to ear. The candidate falls dead and is carried into the depths of the cave, where spirits live. The spirits remove his intestines and replace them with a new set of intestines, composed of quartz crystals.
The new shaman returns to the tribe, in a state of virtual insanity, poised between his old personality and the new, more powerful, more responsible individuality he is asked by Spirit to assume. He must stay apart from the rest of the community while the intense experiences he has undergone are integrated into his nervous system, and his newly reoriented mind, body and spirit attain a new equilibrium.
Eventually, he “graduates”, and attains the powers of the medicine man. Then he is able to project quartz crystals into other people, and the crystals will effect the people for good or ill, depending upon the shaman’s intention.
Here the archetypal theme is the same. The
candidate dies to his egoistic self, and his dead body is refashioned into a
“body of light” by the incorporation of the solidified Light of quartz
crystals into his own body. This new body of light is the initiate’s Higher
Self, the rainbow bridge that connects the initiate to Higher Worlds and enables
the initiate to see, feel, hear and speak in the worlds of Spirit.
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"Parthenogenesis" by Jane Sherry |
Obvious parallels exist between shamanic initiation rituals, and the ancient Hindu yogic system of spiritual advancement, which involves the use of breathing exercises, vegetarian diet, meditation, visualization, prayer, and ceremonial offerings to attain a highly purified state of body, mind and heart, resulting in the arousal of the kundalini energy, which is normally resting quietly at the base of the spine.
In the yogic system, there is almost always a living spiritual Master involved in the training of the aspirant. This Master is known as a Guru. The Guru provides a rigorous program of spiritual development for each disciple, and provides guidance and energetic supports which insure safe passage through the intense process of self-transformation.
Generally the yogic path requires sustained practice over a period of many years – and can require diligent work over many lifetimes to achieve the final goal. Over time, the successful yogic disciple experiences an ego-death comparable to that experienced by Gautama Buddha, similar to that which the shamanic initiate experienced in the dawn of prehistory after having his intestines replaced with quartz crystals. The limited and limiting personality of the disciple is no longer the Master of the mind, the heart and spirit.
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Shri Anandi Ma |
Shri Anandi Ma, pictured here, is considered one of a mere handful of modern SatGurus teaching today.[xii] She teaches kundalini maha yoga at ashrams in California, and India.
The Master of Yoga is thought to be liberated from the Great Wheel of Reincarnation, and can choose to unite with the Absolute Source of creation in Bliss forevermore, to take up residence in Higher Worlds in order to direct the spiritual development of generations of new disciples to come, to reincarnate in a new body, often with memories of past lives more or less intact, and even to appear in the material world clad in a Body of Light, as Jesus Christ did on Easter Sunday.
In the Hindu traditions of yoga, clear quartz crystal and precious gems are normally used to accelerate spiritual development, to ward off malefic astrological influences, and to transmute negative thoughts, emotions and energies. However, most yogis traditionally do not have access to very expensive gemstones, nor are they considered a necessary part of the spiritual path. The most expensive stones are for the Brahmin class, and are tools of the social and economic elite.
Both the ancient shamanic initiation rites and the Wisdom Teachings of the Path of Yoga have many correspondences to the modern metaphysical journey of “Ascension” which is a part of New Age philosophy.
Like shamanic candidates and disciples of yoga, New Age spiritual aspirants are also self-selected members of the larger community. In the Ascension process, the candidate works to purify the body, mind and heart, and to elevate the vibrational frequency of the various chakras governing the aura or energy body.
In pursuit of the final goal, the New Age aspirant may engage in a variety of practices including but not limited to prayer, meditation, chanting of mantras, fasting, a restricted diet, sexual restraint, dance, drumming and elaborate rituals involving offerings to the Divine.
Crystals and semi-precious stones are used by New Age spiritual aspirants as an integral part of the Ascension path to Higher Worlds – to enhance meditation, heal old wounds and accelerate the purification process.
Much of the spiritual work done by New Age practitioners is shaped by the guidance of Ascended Masters who inhabit Higher Worlds, and the aspirant may not receive schooling by a single living spiritual teacher who has attained the final goal and can guide and protect the aspirant at every step on the spiritual path.
This obviously increases the risks involved with this intense process of spiritual self-transformation, and also means that the New Age Ascension process more gentle and slow in the early stages than more traditional shamanic or yogic spiritual disciplines, which require the guidance and supervision of a living teacher.
On the other hand, the New Age Ascension process rests upon an eclectic metaphysics, combining the Wisdom School Teachings of both East and West, and so the aspirant is allowed to work on various occasions with a variety of teachers, from different spiritual schools, religions, and traditions. Thus elements of yoga, Buddhism, mystical Christianity, Native American traditions, and other spiritual practices can be combined over time.
In the end, the New Age aspirant is responsible for his or her own spiritual progress and for the difficult task of integrating the many intense experiences that will undoubtedly be encountered on the path of Spirit. This is believed to increase self-reliance, develop the will forces, and train the aspirant in crucial practices such as discernment which are vital for success on the spiritual path.
Eventually, no matter what pathways he or she chooses to travel, the New Age spiritual aspirant must raise the kundalini energy lying dormant at the base of the spine into the crown chakra. When this life-altering goal has been achieved, the power of the kundalini energy triggers a transformational event in which the aura of the new initiate is transformed into an immortal rainbow colored body of light.
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Count St. Germain |
