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| Home | Experiential methods for exploring and understanding human interaction with life, the Earth and mineral worlds through energy work, meditation, and intuitive science. |
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Meditation |
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| Part One: What Is Meditation? |
Meditation is defined as our bid to consciously and purposefully bring newness into our daily life on an ongoing basis. In doing meditation we seek to be responsible to ourselves for our own inner sense of well-being. |
Part Two: What Is Meditation? |
Meditation starts with the glimpse that as a living being you are capable of being self-determining. This means you are ultimately responsible for your decisions, because there is no other source for them. You can always change your mind. |
Part Three: What Is Meditation? |
We have an inner core that is independent of the outer world and that can change it. Meditation can be expressed in two ways, as contemplation, or as openness of mind. Contemplation reveals the content while openness allows for new experiences. |
Part One: Why Meditate? |
We meditate to overcome confusions about reality and ourselves. If we find ourselves already experiencing confusion we need to exert ourselves to change this. What we change isn’t our inner self but our self-reflections. |
Part Two: Why Meditate? |
Through meditation we discover how our seemingly unified experience of the world is actually a composite perspective made from different levels of reality with differing laws. Doing meditation we learn how to not confuse the inner and outer worlds. |
Part Three: Why Meditate? |
The idea the world is a done deal completely independent from us chokes our active participation in it. If instead it’s seen as a feedback mechanism it becomes possible for us to learn to creatively work with it to know ourselves and others. |
Part Four: Why Meditate? |
Meditation helps us discover the store house of our inner treasures and how we can learn to pursue our goals in the physical world in clear consciousness. We do meditation to realign our outer sense of self with our inner feelings. |
| Meditation with minerals is completely optional. It however, can also be very helpful and revealing at times. Some beginners may find holding the minerals helps them to focus on their tasks. | |
| General tips for doing safe meditations, defining meditation goals, a beginning dedication. Includes tips for using crystals to help focus meditation. | |
| Mineral Meditations | Here you will find mineral meditations meant to explore our inner connections to the outside world and to become familiar with meditating with minerals. |
| This meditation for Amethyst called Expanding Space is a meditation for expanding and contracting boundaries. | |
| This meditation for Angelite. | |
| This meditation for Aquamarine called A Dip into Water is a relaxing meditation done in the bath. | |
| This meditation for Blue Lace Agate called New Interactions is a meditation that helps us sense possibilities in our interactions with other people. | |
| This meditation for Bloodstone called - I know where I'm going / I don't know where I'm going - is a walking meditation that strengthens both decision making and letting go. | |
| This meditation for Carnelian called Warming Up works with a gentle energetic flame that moves up to the heart. | |
| This meditation for Celestine called Sparkling Lights works on breaking up tension. | |
| This meditation for Fluorite called Concentration is a meditation that works with focusing at will on one thought. | |
| This meditation for Hematite called Grounding is a meditation that works with quiet focusing and conscious grounding. | |
| This meditation for Jade called Listening with your Hands is a meditation that uses our experience with the sense of hearing to become more sensitive to touch. | |
| This meditation for Jasper called Taking Apart Perception is a meditation that works with perception, the forming of concepts and the sense of wonder or new discovery. | |
| This meditation is for Labradorite. | |
| This meditation for Lapis Lazuli called Deep Inner Silence and Inner Cosmic Spaces is a meditation that quiets the mind. | |
| This meditation for Malachite called Sitting up Straight helps to balance and center the mind and body through focusing on a naturally balanced upright body position. | |
| This meditation for Moonstone called A Light Touch is a meditation that engenders feelings of trust, comfort and reassurance through touch. | |
| This meditation is for Optical Calcite. | |
| This meditation for Peach Quartz called Holding and Releasing is a meditation that helps with decision making processes and letting go. | |
| This meditation for Prehnite called Simultaneity is a meditation that focuses on transformation and the ability to allow different experiences unfold simultaneously. | |
| This meditation for Quartz called Electric Lines is a meditation that uses the electrical qualities of Quartz to break up tension. | |
| This meditation for Rose Quartz called - The Secret of the Heart is in the Present - helps explore the differences between the head and the heart and helps resolve issues having to do with the past. | |
| This meditation for Serpentine called Connect with the Earth is a walking meditation that establishes rhythm and connection to the Earth. | |
| This meditation for Snowflake Obsidian called Part of It All is a meditation that focuses on uniting with the larger forces in creation. | |
Science |
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Intuitive Science |
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| Current science misapplies the laws of the non-living world onto the living. Doing so generates many misconceptions and disconnects the sciences from human experience. Recognizing life has many inherently different powers can overcome this abyss. | |
| If life is so fundamentally different than other non-living matter, what exactly is it? One thing is clear life isn’t simply atoms of matter, since that definition of matter doesn’t cover life. Life manifests a self-determination not found in dead matter. | |
| Life differs from the non-living because it is self-transformative and self-directing, often in un-programmed ways. Living matter has the power to cross over the line to the non-living, but non-living matter can't cross that line. | |
| Life in transforming its matter also sheds that matter which may in part become hardened remains. In fact much of the world human’s use comes from once living matter. The ability of living creatures to transform the non-living world is very great. | |
| Could the “dead rocks” of the world have originated from once living matter? Could there actually be life on planet Earth? Could planet Earth be alive? Since we live here and are completely supported by the Earth the answer is self-evident. | |
| Where is the Earth being that gave rise to the now dead rocks of the Earth? The echoes of that being are the forests and algae of the oceans. The example of the diamond shows how living matter may become the hardest substance. | |
| Besides being self-directing life differs from non-living matter in terms of levels of constraint. We can in fact view matter on a scale going from the self-directing movement and growth or locomotion of life to the complete inertness of lead. | |
| When we study the remains of life an antelope horn for example, we learn about the creature it came from. But our connection with the creature isn’t limited only to measurements. We can experience its reality in many ways in our own lives. | |
| Contrary to general opinion, so-called “dead rocks” affect life in multitudes of ways. Many of the ways rocks affect us aren’t understood by current science. But fortunately, if we investigate with open minds we can form our own direct impressions. | |
| There is a profound potential in intuitive scientific thinking due to discriminating the activity of life from the non-living. By recognizing the true differences between the living and non-living, life’s nature and powers can finally be explored. | |
Mysteries |
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| A surprising flash animation showing the relationship of the Earth's deepest hole to the whole Earth. | |
| Although the earth may seem solid and unmovable constant activity takes place inside the earth. Lava eruptions bring liquid rock to the surface of the earth. Geologists have identified over 3500 unique minerals. | |
| Earthquakes and seismic activity help scientists learn about the makeup of the core of the Earth using measurements of vibrational waves. | |
| A flash animation of rock formation showing volcanic action producing intrusive and extrusive rocks. | |
| Igneous Rock forms in the interior of the earth where slower cooling of magma produces visible crystals. Photographs on this page show the examples of Quartz Crystal, Apophyllite Crystals and microcrystalline Blue Lace Agate. | |
| Certain environmental conditions cause one mineral to transform into another. The examples here are Barite to Celestine, and Chalcopyrite to Malachite. | |
| Changes in color and structure of minerals can occur by exposure to light, chemical substance, water, dehydration. | |
| Groups of minerals are frequently found layered together. The photos here of Schist, Kyanite, Staurolite and Garnet are one example of this association. | |
| Silicates comprise 90% of the earth's crust and are made up of tetrahedral silicon molecules bonded with oxygen molecules. You can see the tetrahedral basis of a quartz crystal with the naked eye. | |
| The tetrahedron shape is widespread in the submicroscopic structure of not only minerals, but of living cells in humans, animals and plants. 3-d illustrations show the arrangement of tetrahedral molecules. | |
| Mineralogy uses seven crystal systems (isometric, tetragonal, orthorhombic, hexagonal, trigonal, monoclinic and triclinic) to describe how a crystal will grow. | |
| One of the mysteries of geology is the effect of water and wind on the erosion of rocks. | |
| Petrified wood and fossils are examples of forms left behind by life. Over time, anaerobic conditions create an environment where mineral substance fills in the forms originally created. | |
Minerals and Food |
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| Interactions between minerals and food and the role they play in maintaining our bodies. | |
| The roles of Calcium, Phosphorus, Magnesium, Iron, Iodine, Zinc, Copper, Manganese, Fluoride, Chromium, Selenium, Molybdenum, Potassium and Sodium in our diet and body maintenance. | |
Minerals |
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| Facts about individual minerals including crystal structure, chemical name and an interactive JApplet allowing virtual views and animation of crystallography. | |
Rock Collecting |
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| Rock collecting can be an adventurous treasure hunt. Check the internet and bookstores to find interesting places to rock hunt in your area. | |
| Old mines which are safe to enter, or the dumps around them can be good places to gather interesting minerals. | |
| Rock and Mineral shows are a good way to get a close up look at many different mineral specimens. The Tucson Gem show is a noteworthy one. | |
Insight |
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| Examples of art created by nature and humans with minerals from Sedona, Arizona - Wild Rivers, New Mexico - Moon Rock, California and Rio Grande Gorge, New Mexico. | |
| Examples of art created by humans with minerals - petroglyphs from Santa Fe, New Mexico. | |
| Photographs of interesting geological features including hoodoos, lichen, petrified wood, and sandstone formations from Bisti Badlands, NM , Abiquiu, NM and Taos, NM , Canyonlands in Moab, UT and Great Sand Dunes in Southern Colorado | |
Resources |
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| Interesting quotes offering a wide variety of viewpoints. | |
| The dynamics, tones and rhythms of music can create an environment where new thoughts and feelings are more freely experienced. | |
| Here are suggestions for books which further explore the topics of this web site: Meditation, Science, Intuitive Science and Rock Collecting. | |
| Link Resources on Meditation, Science, Intuitive Science, Geology and Rock Collecting. | |
Shopping |
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