"Rocks are alive."
When I said this to one of my advanced students she looked at me rather strangely. I could see that she was processing this idea and trying to reconcile it with everything she had learned at the Mystery School and everything she "knew" from her "real world" programming.
"What are you talking about?" she asked, with laughter in her voice. Though my student had been using the Chumpi stones for over five years, she couldn't see how I'd taken what she saw as a huge leap. After all, rocks are the very definition of inanimate objects, right? Don't be so sure...
To understand that rocks are alive is a matter of changing perspectives. It's about considering things at the cellular level and seeing the space and energy that exists within all matter.
But first, let's roll this story back a few steps so I can bring you along the same path I brought my student.
Stones have witnessed every moment of history. They've paved our most ancient paths. They vibrate with the stories that humans and divine beings have lived and told across the ages. On my most recent Peru adventure, I stood before the heart stone at Machu Picchu. When bathed in the energy of that tremendous piece of living granite, one can hardly dispute the fact that stones are alive. But you don't necessarily have to stand at one of these power spots to understand this. Pick up a crystal that attracts you or hold a rock from a place that has special meaning to you.
When you stop and tune in, you sense that stones have both movement and space within them. They contain the life force of nature and the cosmos and are structured pieces of matter made of vibrating energy and well-contained space.
Don't just take my word about this idea that matter is mostly empty space - it's a fact that science has long since proven. As for the idea that matter is in motion... Molecular physicists have shown us that the protons and electrons of every atom are constantly moving too.
But I make the jump to say that rocks are actually alive. How?
Broadening our understanding of what it means to be "alive" so we understand it as something dynamic, wise, and vibrating with energy I believe it becomes simple to see stones as shimmering with life.
And what's the point of understanding that a rock is alive? In addition to gathering strength and guidance from the huge stones at places like Machu Picchu or by holding a Chumpi carved from river rocks from the mouth of the Urubumba River, you gain tremendous insight into the nature of being.
When you truly see space within matter and recognize the energy that dances in that emptiness and you accept this as a kind of "aliveness," you transcend the limited belief that stones and matter cannot be changed, altered, or transformed.
To transcend old, ingrained beliefs about "the way things are" - as my student did - then you're opening yourself to a Greater Reality of expanded perspective and attitudes. It's just this sort of thinking outside the box that enables you to reimagine and recreate your own psychological and physical health.
When you see the space in something like a stone it becomes so much easier to see the space and potential vibrancy that exists between your cells. How amazing it is to realize that your mind and body are not nearly as dense and unchangeable as you might have been led to think...
Munay,
Eleanora
P.S. The best way to connect to the potential of stones is to get to understand more about the Chumpis. Please join us for the three-session course on the Shamanic application of the Chumpis at the New York Open Center on August 5, 12, 19 at 6 PM.
