During the 1940's at an Australian Aboriginal outback reservation arrived a small group of geologists. The geologists had spent several weeks further out in the arid desert collecting rock and mineral samples. Their expedition completed, they now spent several days cataloging their findings at the reservation. The collected rocks were laid out in rows according to type, size, and quality, and the scientists began identifying and classifying them.After a time, a group of elderly Aboriginal men came over. Upon viewing the rocks they quickly became highly disturbed and animated, crying, and wailing. Their mournful displays drew the geologists' attention who enquired about the elders' distress. The unwitting intruders were astounded by what they heard.
The Aboriginal men recognized the stones and rocks before them as individuals they personally knew. They had names for some of them. They also accurately identified the precise locations from where individual rocks had been taken. Many of these rocks were associated with precious stories and tribal myths. These rocks were keepers and guardians of the balance of life in that region, and of the peoples' sacred culture.
Viewing the stolen rocks reconnected them to their ancient lands, re-awakening their concerns for the safety of those places and for the doubtful continuation of their spiritual culture. The sacred lands where these people had lived peacefully for millennia were no longer the same. First disturbed when these tribal caretakers were forcibly removed the land was now further thrown out of balance with the theft of the rocks. The elders were inconsolable for days. Their world was destroyed.
-- Stuart Camps
Adi Da Samraj: From the magical, shamanistic point of view everything is alive. The cosmos is a living process. From the magical point of view, so-called inanimate objects are also conceived as being alive and participating in a living, magical cosmos. And this is certainly true. The more psychically awake you become, the more you are aware of the psycho-physical nature of what you call the objective world. Once you see that the world is psycho-physical in nature, you begin to appreciate the living condition of everything that arises in the field of experience -- not living, perhaps, in the sense that a chair can get up and walk out of the room, but living in a magical sense. Your association with so-called inanimate objects can go through many changes. Association with an inanimate place, even just a room, can change. There are feelings associated with it, a sense of energies, emotions, moods, influences, all kinds of factors to which you become sensitive relative to so-called inanimate things, just as you can be sensitive relative to moving and living things. . .(c) 2008 The Avataric Samrajya of Adidam Pty Ltd, . All rights reserved.
