The Ultimate Guide to Crystals & Stones: A Practical Path to Personal Power, Self-Development, and Healing - Uma Silbey 2016

Conclusion

Crystal, stone, and rock work will bring us much more than the ability to heal and be healed, to empower ourselves and others, and to function within the higher planes of existence. These abilities, though helpful and wonderful, are merely the outward manifestations of something much deeper and much more incredible. Through diligent practice of the techniques in this book, whether it takes days, months, years, or a lifetime, we will eventually feel connected with all of the rock in this planet so that we, too, become one of the Stone People.

Held within the arms of stone on the cavern's floor, looking upward into the light, I find my way home.

With this connection, we will be able to effortlessly feel the energies of all stones, not only crystals and gems, and not only at special times, but during every moment of our everyday life. As one of the Stone People we will be able to feel their energies at all times and with all parts of our bodies and hear their subtle voices within our inner mind. We will feel them beneath our feet as we walk, feel them against our skin even from a distance, and feel their whispered sensations within our subtle bodies. No longer will we be limited in our work with stones, as every stone, rock, mineral, gem, and crystal will speak to us as soon as we turn our attention to it.

Through rocks and crystals we can become attuned to the entire cosmos, from the deepest depths of the earth and inner space to the heights of the farthest universe and highest subtle planes. Not only may we become healers of people, but also planetary healers, helping to bring our planet and all the people and other beings on it back into balance with the entire universe, an essential harmony that is completely and immediately necessary.

To work with stones is to walk the path of the heart, to cultivate a total acceptance of all that is, and to gain the ears to hear the infinite wisdom that resounds within. Through this work, we can grow to know a quiet peace, and like a rock, a sturdy steadfastness that endures forever as a slow and steady yielding to the interactions of both elements and time. Attuned to the most high, we can know ourselves as pure beingness, inseparable from all other people, animals, plants, rocks, subtle beings, teachers, saints and sages, thoughts, feelings, and all other appearances, both in form and beyond all form. An inexplicable knowingness beyond all words will silently voice its presence within our deepest inner being. Knowing ourselves to be forever present in the here and now we will at last be home.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Iwish to thank all of my friends and family, as well as my agent, Peter Beren, who offered me the encouragement to keep on writing when I thought I wouldn’t be able to finish. I also want to thank Leah Reeves (soon Francisco), who posed for the photographs and then showed me technical things with my computer that I didn’t know. I wish to thank all of my teachers who showed me crystal, meditation, and other spiritual practices, all of which I use in my work with crystals and stones.