[meteorite-list] Meteorites are very powerful stones!

From: Matson, Robert D. <ROBERT.D.MATSON_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 11:03:41 -0700
Message-ID: <7C640E28081AEE4B952F008D1E913F1703D81405_at_0461-its-exmb04.us.saic.com>

Hi All,

Unless you're from the UK, you probably haven't heard of Mitchell and
Webb.
They do a funny skit on homeopathic remedies (to include crystals):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMGIbOGu8q0

Look closely for humo(u)rous signs on the walls of the "hospital".
And be sure to keep a supply of aquamarine quartz on hand in case
you're ever in a car accident... ;-) --Rob

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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
Received on Tue 06 Jul 2010 02:03:41 PM PDT


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