YDM42 said:
Wonderful post crystalwoman.
I wondered: Does removing these stones from the earth harm the environment, the earths balance or its polarity? In other words do the stones serve another important purpose to the ecosystem?
Thank you!
I don't believe that removing stones from the ground can harm the earth's environment - all minerals are constantly pushing their way up to the surface anyway. But I do believe that if we started removing minerals and sending them away to some other place in outer space that would cause some ecological harm through depletion, and I do believe that all minerals and alloys serve a vital purpose to the ecosystem. All minerals possess a vital energy and if we didn't access that energy we would die. Harvesting minerals from the earth is a topic that concerns many people because of the potential damage done to Mother Earth through various harvesting methods. There are many methods of harvesting that we see as harmful and there are many methods that are considered harmless. But the greatest damage we have done to our earth is not from mining and making things out of minerals, it's with what we have used for fuels from the minerals and oils after they have been mined. Our worst offense has been during the past 300 years with the massive burning of coals and processed oils which has sent carbon dioxide pollution into the air and the waters thereby creating our global warming. The next worst offense has been the clear-cut logging of our forests which absorb carbon dioxide and breathe out vital oxygen and create what is called a carbon sink (carbon sinks are essential to our existence). But earth has done exactly the same thing with her volcanoes, earthquakes and forest-fires from the beginning of time. There is a long list of offenses that we have committed against Earth but harvesting minerals is not the worst of them. And wearing stones and using them for medicine is the very best thing we have done for ourselves and for the ecosystem.
Someone asked me a similar question on another forum a while back, and what I did was channel some stones to try to come up with an explanation from Mother Earth's point of view. Part of the answers I got back was "explain it as the minerals representing renewed health and new life, new hope and new consciousness, and as mother-love trying to teach a child". It's not always easy to put abstract channelled information into words but I'll try here and I hope it makes some sense within the context of the question you've asked.
It's my understanding that the new minerals and crystals that earth is giving birth to these days is her gift to us to help us to heal ourselves and adapt to earth as she continues to grow and change. The earth IS growing you know, we have scientific evidence of that. At one time there was only one continent, we have named it Pangea. As the earth grew Pangea split apart into different continents, and those continents are still spreading apart as earth continues to grow. Our own growth and continuing population increases contributes to the growth of the planet as well.
Mother Earth is a living, breathing, heart-beating, thinking, seeing, growing Being. She is one big organism made up of neural pathways throughout her whole body. It's not human but in human terms the heart is the electromagnetic molten iron at it's core, it's life blood is the magma mixed with minerals and metals that are constantly being moved from the core to the surface, its' growing bones are the granite mountains and tectonic plates beneath the surface crust, it's thickening skin is the soil and every living thing on the surface. Everything on the surface - even the living things such as humans, animals, plants - we all break down into minerals, water and gasses. The planet is alive, it breathes, it has consciousness, it takes it's energy-food from the sun and stars just the way plants do, and it converts that energy into new mineral growth. The minerals and crystals all contain the consciousness of the whole, and the NEW minerals contain a new, increased consciousness of a higher order.
Mother Earth is continuously growing and healing herself in her own way and she tries to communicate to us deaf and blind humans by gifting us with the minerals and crystals so that they can teach us how to be physically and spiritually healthy. Because we are made up of minerals ourselves our bodies respond to the energies of crystals through electromagnetism and through spirit. As the vibratory rate of the earth is increasing so is our own vibration increasing. And because we are thinking beings with a consciousness, if we listen carefully we tune into the consciousness of earth and her crystals and we start to understand what she is telling us.
Mother Earth is the one who is trying to give US information and healing, she is trying to teach us how to grow with her by giving us new crystals of a higher vibratory rate. The crystals are her children, and they are our teachers. She doesn't need our help, she's already way ahead of us and we have no way to change or 'heal' Earth. If this civilization we are in cannot come to a proper understanding of how earth functions, if we cannot work WITH her growth instead of exploiting it - she will just do the same thing again that she has done in the past with previous civilizations. Like Atlantis. She will slowly cover the continents with deeper waters, create more hurricanes, more volcanoes, more droughts in high places, wipe out over-populated areas - until only the fittest and most consciously perceptive of humans, plants and animals remain. And then we will just start all over again.
Mother earth is billions of years old and she knows what she's doing. She doesn't need us to exist and she doesn't need our help. We are only guests and She only asks for our co-operation if we expect her to be our hostess and nurturer. She tries to teach us how to co-operate by giving us her new minerals that will speak to us and teach us to be as one heart and soul with the Earth.
In the past 20 years alone there have been discovered hundreds of new minerals, crystals and gemstones that mankind has never seen before in the entire known history of Earth. They are all coming up to the surface now, and there are many more to come as earth continues to evolve and grow.
Below are 2 links to pictures of Ametrine crystal caves in South America, look for the little man's face and hard-hat in the lower-right middle of the first picture. He is so small compared to the crystals it is hard to see him. In the second picture the other man's face is bigger. This is a very SMALL cave that these men are in, and look how huge the crystals are, and look at the expressions on the faces of these men. You can see from their expressions that they KNOW they are in the presence of an all-mighty power that is greater than humankind:
http://minerals.gps.caltech.edu/AMETRINE/P_Rico_1_pocket.jpg
http://minerals.gps.caltech.edu/AMETRINE/P_Rico_3_pocket.jpg