August 6, 2007

• Amethyst visions

   

   

  Amethyst visions

  

   

   

  Howard and I faced a classic situation at the mine

   A situation that is virtually the same one 

  each of us faces in every moment of our lives,  that being

  Our conscious ability to choose a direction in which to focus our attention.

  You can select and direct your attention to whatever

  you wish to bring into your life

  and by doing so

  It will manifest

   your presence is all that is required.

    

   

   At the mine…

   time seems to exerted it’s pull

  we had to choose

  where to look inside?

  Not really knowing what is just beneath the surface..

  where do we put the shovel to the dirt? 

   

   

  There we were …right smack in the middle of a huge up welling of earth energy.. 

  A real life dream come true ..A rock hounds paradise..

  beautiful purple veins more than a foot across

   threaded into the pink rhyolite granite walls

  

  crystals lying on the ground …

   

  every where you looked …or if you closed your eyes..

  You could feel the living crystalline power flowing through and enhancing the environment..

   

  

  It was overwhelming…there was so much energy and so many places that were drawing our attention that the choice of where exactly to dig was blowing my mind…

   

  Fortunately Howard is gifted in that regard

  His intuitional ability to sniff out the powerful crystals is amazing

  And we need all of that

  There were beautiful crystals waiting on the granite walls to be extracted but the rock was so hard and solid that to get them out we would have had to use explosives… And we both agreed that damaging the earth formation in such a way was out of the question.

  so we did it the hard way..

  we dug in the dirt….hoping there was terminated crystal underneath

  We did so the most efficient way possible given our resources.. 

  by using a compact track hoe that was totally awesome 

   

  and this was the amazing thing to watch…

  Now as a lad I worked with many back hoe operators

  I have seen good ones and bad ones..

  but I have never seen anyone use such a powerful machine

  with the graceful skill that Howard demonstrated.

    

  The machine seemed to become an extension of his own hands..

  I saw Howard scoop a crystal out of the wall without damaging it

  He cradled it in the paw of the bucket .. like a mother would hold her baby…

  and in violent contrast he dug threw solid seeming granite…

  by literally tearing it apart

   

  Now at first this kinda freaked me out,

  for I have been know to take hours carefully digging out one baby crystal

  but after a while I relaxed

  He knew exactly what he was doing 

   

  So the big question then was how to utilize Howards skills with the track hoe

  and that breaks down to a simple matter of where to dig?

     

  There are thousands of veins of beautiful amethyst that run through the mine

  but only in special areas does that amethyst grow into terminated crystals..

  In the evenings of the first days Howard pointed out a subtle feature in the rock

  A place where he felt the crystals were..

  And from what little I could see

   I agreed with him totally, 

  it was in line with the direction of this huge rich vein purple

  

  This is a 25 foot wall here!

   

  but special in that the spot he was suggesting  

  was just below a cluster of uncommonly thriving trees

   

  As you looked around the area

  it became apparent that the trees love to sink their roots

  into the water filled cavities of big vugs of crystal.

  So a thriving tree is a big hint!

  so after much consideration ..

   

                                            this is the spot.. ^^  right below the cluster of trees with the exposed roots!

                                                                where we choose to direct our attention..

                        In our quest for the amethyst crystals with power

   

   

  Digging into a granite formation, even with a powerful machine 

   is more of an art that anything else

  If you don’t understand the properties of the rock formation and your machine

  you will spend all day just bouncing the bucket off of the solid rock and get no where!

  Using brutal forces with precision …the buckets teeth must carefully wedge into and un peal the rock, one inch at a time…

  To say the least this is very dramatic to watch.

   

  As Howard worked his prospect with the digger  

  I slowly worked a nearby small pocket of deep purple smokey points

   

  and it was just what i needed to practice on 

    a wooden stick was my preferred tool

  

   

  some how I managed to pull out some beautiful clusters and points

  

  without damaging them too much..

   

   

  it took Howard a few days to dig through some of the rough spots

   In brief moments the obstacles appeared insurmountable…

  but he never faltered in his persistence 

   

  Howard found the crystal pocket he intended to find 

  He hit the big one…It was amazing when

  After many hours of digging …he stopped the machine…

  and there it was ….a red tip in the sun

  

   

  We didn’t know it at the time

  but he hit the big one dead on

  right where he felt it to be

  

  “Howard’s Pocket” was everything we had hoped to find…

  and something we had not imagined

  Huge red tipped Amethyst points! 

  

   

  For the the next few days we pulled out red tipped crystals and clusters by the pound.

  

  The green layers with in the amethyst are fantastic!

   

  Getting the crystals free of the rock matrix 

  without taking hours on each crystals is a learned skill…

   

   

  

   

  Fortunately Howard has it ……

  and  I was able to learn tons from watching him…but wow..

   

   

   

   

   

  

   

  I watched him use his hands and simple tools to apply just the right touch

  and saw before my eyes… the crystals peel away

  into his hands like flower petals unfolding.

   

  The sound the crystals make when they come apart …

  I can’t describe it  

  ..but its almost like ..no its not

  its not like anything else I can think of…

  a kinda ringing.. crackling metal on glass .. baby being born ..screech 

  ?

  Removing the new born crystals is so dramatic

  every time you apply a force you…

  and you have to do that a lot

   If you don’t understand  what is really there

  with one unconscious stroke

  you can damage forever!

   the precious form that has been present

  within that crystal for millions of years

   

   

  For that reason I was mostly overcautious

  and Howard was very patient with me about that.

  because above all things

  we wanted to get the crystals out safely

  that was paramount

  As we dug deeper into the pocket we were finding larger crystals ..

   

  

  Little did we know this huge cluster was just the tip of the ice berg…

  but that tale is for another next post

   

   

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  Website to check out the crystals for sale!

  http://www.dosmangoes.net/ 

   

   

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