Temptations

[Shin'Ar]

For several months I took the stone with me to every stone merchant I visited. I finally found out that it is a piece of rutilated hematite, is quite rare, and I was very lucky to snag it for ten dollars. The man who sold it to me seemed a bit miffed when I told him. He'd had something of value in his hands, and had given it away because he couldn't get past his pre-programmed ideas as to what constituted value in a crystal.

Yes, and in those stores you will see very clearly that the larger the stone the more highly it is priced, as though the power and energy of it is dependent on its size.

That is precisely the 'system' thinking, self gratuitous addiction feeding, and advantageous marketing I spoke of in the post above.

The wise among us who know the stones' 'connections' also know that the smallest of gems can offer far more power and energy than their larger kinds.

I hear others speak of larger stones having greater power all the time and snicker at their folly. In their effort to appease their addiction to having something bigger and better, they belittle their true opportunity to have something more powerful than anything they can imagine.

It is never the size of their material, but the size of their field. And that field cannot be measured by the material.

And when you apply that understanding to the human field, you can begin to understand the dynamics of self identity.

My most powerful emitter is a small arrowhead made of mahogany obsidian and I wear it everywhere I go.