The Secret Language of Stone

The Secret Language of Stone

By Patrick Marsolek

I walk in the mountains and feel the pull of the peaks around me, large rock boulder outcrops draw me in the same way, I desire to reach out and touch them. I walk into an ancient stone ring embedded in the ground and feel the same sense of fascination. A magnetism pulls at me and draws me in. Is there a language hidden in stone, inviting me to listen? I wonder this often when I walk around this silent stone circle set into the ground. This circle, composed of over a hundred 10 to 20 pound stones, is but one of many silent artifacts left throughout the western landscape. From Canada to Colorado along the western front of the Rocky Mountains out into the Plains, they number in the millions. What are they? Why have they been left as silent signposts? I look deeper into the ring and yearn to draw out this information. It feels as if I'm conjuring the mysteries of a crystal ball. Is this crystal ball a connecting thread leading me to the language of stone?

I often encounter the image of the crystal ball where hidden information or knowledge of the future can be obtained. My own personal image is of a fortune teller garbed in silk and beads and mystery looking deeply into the shadowy orb in front of her and pulling out information. Like the sword from the stone, its a power which only the rightful possessor can withdraw. What is this mysterious source of hidden information? Is there some basis to this strange phenomena?

There are some interesting leads into this hidden world. In India one of the principal Hindu gods, Shiva, is worshipped in the form of the egg shaped lingam. These phallic stones are supposed to contain the Shakti or energy of Shiva. Also, the history of the Arikara Indians of North Dakota tells of a Tunkan or Oracle Stone located at the mouth of the Turtle River. This smooth egg-shaped boulder could transmit knowledge of the future to those who could interpret its movements.

I recently had the opportunity to hold a similar football shaped stone that was pulled from the mud below the Great Falls of the Missouri. This dull gray-brown colored rock weighing fifteen pounds, and measuring fifteen inches in both circumference and length has been identified by the Smithsonian Institution as a Siberian Phallic Oracle Stone. On several occasions after bringing this rock home the owner heard a 'singing' or 'wailing' sound coming from its location on the rock pile outside. This continued until it was brought inside. Numerous times since, this stone has had effect on people handling it. Women generally have positive feelings associated with it and at one time the stone spun in a circle while on a thick carpet between two young girls.

The Arikara speak of a mysterious force called wakan that pervades the universe and was present in their oracle stone as well as in special topographic features like vision quest sites and other sacred mountains. It was also marked by medicine wheels, zoomorphic stone figures, and pictographs recording the sites of supernatural events. This wakan, like the shakti of the Hindus, seems to suggest an occult energy silently driving the secret language that may be in the depths of my crystal ball and the silent stone rings.

There is some scientific backing to these beliefs. The solid state chemist Don Robbins in his book, "The Secret Language of Stone," looks at the crystal structures of the most common minerals in our planet, like quartz, and draws special attention to defects that are ubiquitous in their crystal structures at the molecular level. He says that "there was a rogue energy in the heart of the crystal, and there were reservoirs within the defects where incoming energy could be trapped, stored and transmuted." This transmutation capability at the heart of the crystal can transform heat and magnetic energy into electricity and light and sometimes further into sound waves. This transformed energy could act as stored information. Perhaps the singing of our oracle stone is not a freak of the supernatural but the calculated emergence of an indigenous science. Modern scientists, in their search for superconductors, are only beginning to understand this pulsing web of energy present in almost every stone .

Holding the oracle stone, I felt how the energy from my touch could be transformed or transduced into something new. This power of touch has long been one of the foundations of the sacredness of stone. The crowning of of Saxon Kings on the sacred stones of England gave them, like Arthur, the power to heal. Through history there have been precious talismans that one wore close to the body to confer protection and act as a source of magic power; and the medieval trade in holy relics and shrines depended on the power of touch. This power was and still is felt as the urge to reach out and touch these objects. The sacred shrines in England, the lingam of the Hindus and precious stones and minerals all have the ability to cause an excitation inside of us, a stirring that causes a transmutation of energy, much like that in the heart of the crystal.

This excitation may be the key. It is often drawn in the pictographs of ancient man showing the shaman figure with an erection tilted back and traveling into other realms, and it is present in the phallic worship of the Hindus with the lingam of Shiva that is said to symbolize the shakti or divine energy. This excitation is also visible in the artwork of some ancient Egyptian temples that show their kings standing with erections; and it is embedded in the folklore of the megalithic monuments in England that from time immemorial have been worshipped for fertility. This is not a mundane form of sexual excitement but a suffusive form of arousal, that extends outward and connects to something beyond the physical dimension. This form of energy could be used to access the flow of hidden information. We know this kind of excitation transforms our own experience. Blood pressure changes, the eyes dilate, heart rate increases, there are changes in body chemistry as well as changes in the electromagnetic fields in the body. Most important there is a perceived shift in awareness and the world becomes brighter and clearer, and we move into a different state of consciousness.

Perhaps this is the key to the secret language of stone. If the excitation of the human body, with its sound, heat and electromagnetic output, is enough to excite the rogue energy at the heart of the crystals in these stones, then the stones can be made to speak, or sing like the Oracle Stone, and divulge the information contained within. Globally this "spirit of the rocks" may be a part of what we call Gaea, a colossal dynamic system memory, akin to a goddess, a part of the mind of god. As I walk around these silent stone circles again, I think of the mysterious 'wakan' of the Arikara that is sometimes marked by rings of stone. Perhaps its presence is here in this one and will allow me to look into the whole circle as a crystal ball and understand the mystery.