[meteorite-list] Meteorites are very powerful stones!

From: Richard Kowalski <*damoclid_at_meteoritecentral.com*> Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 11:46:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <733106.20673.qm_at_web113609.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> · damoclid_at_meteoritecentral.com

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Richard Kowalski
Full Moon Photography
IMCA #1081
--- On Tue, 7/6/10, Matson, Robert D. <ROBERT.D.MATSON at saic.com> wrote:
> From: Matson, Robert D. <ROBERT.D.MATSON at saic.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorites are very powerful stones!
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Tuesday, July 6, 2010, 11:03 AM
> 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
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com
> [mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com]
> On Behalf Of dean
> bessey
> Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2010 4:28 PM
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorites are very powerful
> stones!
> 
> 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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