Please scroll down to see photos of recent rock balancing sessions.
Some more from "One River" (Wade Davis) in a chapter referring to the incredible masonry feats of the Peoples of the Andes at the time of the Spanish conquest/genocide.
For the Runkana, the people of the Andes, matter is fluid. Bones are not death, but life crystallized, and thus potent sources of energy, like a stone charged by lightning or a plant brought into being by the sun...when an Inca mason placed his hands on rock, he did not feel cold granite, he sensed life, the power and resonance of the earth within the stone. Its transformation into a perfect ashlar or a block of polygonal masonry was service to the Inca and thus a gesture to the gods, and for such a task, time had no meaning.
If stones were dynamic, it was because they were part of the land...the earth is alive and every wrinkle on the landscape, every hill and outcrop, each mountain and stream has a name and is imbued with ritual significance.
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I'm Candy''s friend dropping in to say Hi.
I love your rock stuff. I love Wade's description.
I feel somehow justified now with having a lifetime attraction to bones and stones. Feathers and snakeskins too.
Eckhart Tolle says it is because they represent Transformation.
"In the case of a flower, a crystal, precious stone, or bird, however, even someone with little or no Presence can occasionally sense that there is more there that the mere physical existence of that form, without knowing that this is the reason why he or she is drawn toward it, feels an affinity with it. Because of its ethereal nature, its form obscures the indwelling spirit to a lesser degree that in the case with other life-forms."
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