[meteorite-list] Meteorites are very powerful stones!

From: dean bessey <deanbessey_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2010 16:27:54 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <87210.61977.qm_at_web56104.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

As somebody who has had a Rock and crystal shop for two years (before I closed it a couple months ago to move to Australia) I have had a lot of contact with "New Age" and "Power" aspects of rocks and Crystals. There are many practitioners of "Crystal healing" and medicinal effects of crystals in New Zealand and they all congregated to my shop because I had what was easily New Zealand largest selection of Rocks and Crystals and by far the cheapest as I was pricing my crystals based on their rock value and not overpriced with their spiritual properties intact like the "new age" shops do. My prices were in line with ebays lowest prices without the shipping cost.
I sort of had to learn as I went as I had no interest in this topic before but had to pick up the basics so as to advice customers what they wanted.
Anyway, in talking to hundreds of "believers" I guess you could call it I can say that not one considered their belief to have any religious aspects at all. There is a cosmic energy that flows through the universe that the scientists havent yet figured out what causes it but the new age people have figured out how to harvest it.
But what these "believers" have done is figure out what crystals do which things. Amethyst (Up to 200 years ago the worlds most valuable gem - the favored gem by the likes of cleopatra, Queen Elizabeth and cartherine the great, the main stone in the british coronation crown and carried to battle for luck by ancient Egyptian soldiers) is the most important stone and helps cure some of your head ailments, and each part of the body has a different crystal that helps that certain thing.
There are crystals that helps one contact the "spritual realm" or angels and stuff but it could be some christian spirit that it helps contact (Christianity certainly has a lot of these angels and stuff and I guess that the pope shouldent have a monopoly on talking to them anyway).
Many crystals might be ground up into medicine (We dont consider chinese herbal cures to be part of a religion). These chinese cures may or may not work and some might be dangerous (Like the Romans belief that you could ground up Mercury solfide - Cinnabar, to help alleviate gout).
The crystals are considered medicine or some way harvesting some power that science will figure out one day. It is not considered a religious experience (By most believers anyway. I believe that aspirin cured headaches. It is not a religious thought to think it does. If somebody believed that you ground up a tigers penis and ate it that it would make you satisify your wife better in bed it is not a religion (Even if it works - which most mainstream scientists say it doesnt)
It is no more of a religion than when in 1900 some German scientist (I cant remember his name) said that he "believed" that he found some "power" rocks that could be harvested to make energy that could power our houses. He was loudly ridiculed at the time for the stupid thought that one could harvest energy from rocks lying around on the ground. I suppose I guess that you could say that he was a nutjob with a new religion. Today nobody considers the power of his rocks (Uranium) to have any religious aspects to it or the guy to be considered some spiritual leader.
The last few months for the first time I have seen meteorites being touted as having these special properties. I suspect that meteorites will become one of the "healing crystals" in the next few years. Given the scarcity of meteorites and the millions of crystal "believers" consider what effect that might have on values.
Cheers
DEAN












  


      
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