French scientists made a sensational discovery: stones are living beings, albeit with a very slow process of life. Is this a step towards the unknown or a statement that can only cause a smile? We asked Stanislav Nikolaev, candidate of geological and mineralogical sciences, an employee of the Research Institute of Geology, Geophysics and Mineralogy, SB RAS, to comment on this sensation.
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French scientists made a sensational discovery: stones are living beings, albeit with a very slow process of life. Is this a step towards the unknown or a statement that can only cause a smile?
Soulless stones? Or living beings capable of liking and disliking?
“It takes between three days and two weeks for the stones to inhale,” says Dr. Demon, a biologist from Lyon, France. - It is possible to detect the pulse of a stone only with the help of very sensitive equipment. Each heartbeat lasts about a day, and therefore it cannot be felt or heard without special devices."
It all started when Dr. Demon accidentally discovered a pulsation in a stone, which he used instead of a press in his laboratory. The shocked scientist laid a stone in the electrocardiograph, and the device recorded a weak but regular pulsation. Together with fellow biologist Bertrand Escolier, the Demon conducted hundreds of experiments, during which it turned out that the most ordinary stones breathe and even move, only very slowly. Photographing one of the "subjects" with long time intervals, scientists found that in two weeks the stone itself moved by 2.5 mm. In general, stones are living things with a very slow life process. As you might expect, the scientific world reacted to this sensation with irony. But the Demon and Escolier are confident in the accuracy of their research and invite other scientists to repeat their experiments.
We asked Stanislav Nikolaev, Candidate of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, an employee of the Research Institute of Geology, Geophysics and Mineralogy of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, to comment on the sensational message of French scientists posted on the Internet.
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- I deeply doubt that stones can move independently. Put the stone on a level place, and it will lie there for a year. In nature, stones move, but not by themselves. In permafrost conditions, the soil, as it were, pushes stones upward, creating a heaving effect. As for the pulsation, it is (very weak), in principle, possible due to the ion exchange of stone with air. Can stones breathe? In our traditional understanding, it is unlikely. If the stone is closed in a hermetic shell, the composition of the air there will not change, but the pores of the stone still absorb water, air and carbon dioxide contained in the air. If desired, this can probably be likened to breathing.
Nevertheless, Stanislav Mikhailovich admitted that stones are born, live and die in their own way.
“It's just a different life form from ours. I can cite the following fact as proof. Shooting using the Kirlian method showed that stones have their own aura, like any living creature. In ancient times, it was even believed that a stone could multiply, and a diamond was buried in the ground so that it would give "offspring." The color of the stone was of particular importance. During the wars, red stones (the color of the god of war) were held in high esteem, in peacetime, green (the color of life) and blue stones were more appreciated.
People have long noticed that stones have the properties of living beings. They, for example, are characterized by likes and dislikes. Turquoise is very sensitive and cannot stand constant exposure to washing powder and other detergents. From them it fades, changes color. This stone behaves the same if its owner is seriously ill. Ivan the Terrible generally believed that turquoise predicted the death of its owner. But the formidable autocrat was not afraid of silver, although it “predicts death” in the same way, blackening on the body of a sick person. The explanation is simple. A sick body releases hydrogen sulfide, which, reacting with silver molecules, causes it to turn black.
Quartz, on the other hand, is a life-giving stone. Experiments with plants have been carried out in America. Scientists took two drying flowers and, placing quartz crystals in one of the pots, watered them equally. The flower with quartz "support" blossomed, while the other, on the contrary, withered. Today, quartz crystals are treated, put on sore spots and, they say, helps. And the hematite stone (as evidenced by the experiments of Gay-Lussac and other famous scientists) reduces pressure, and not only. It is believed that hematite helps with blood diseases, it is no coincidence that people call it simply "bloodstone". Vasari, author of the lives of Renaissance painters, describes an incident he saw with his own eyes. One famous artist had a nosebleed, so much so that he began to lose consciousness. The maestro was rubbed between the shoulder blades with hematite, and the blood stopped flowing. Before everythingthose who worked at heights carried this stone with them. It was believed that if you rub a person with hematite immediately after a fall, the victim would remain alive. Amber was also a "healing" stone, it was used to treat headaches, Graves' disease and many other ailments. Today, by the way, 50 components of the composition of amber are used in medicine. Do you know why wealthy citizens lived in marble palaces? Because marble was considered a health stone. Why did wealthy citizens live in marble palaces? Because marble was considered a health stone. Why did wealthy citizens live in marble palaces? Because marble was considered a health stone.
Wear carnelian rings, keep an emerald in your mouth and be afraid to anger the spirit of the stone
The stones were credited not only with medicinal, but also with "protective" properties. It was believed, for example, that a pearl, diamond or bezar thrown into a bowl of poison (there is such a stone) would change the color of the drink. It is now known that, at least regarding the bezar, the ancestors were not mistaken. This stone absorbs arsenic (which was preferred by medieval poisoners), drawing it out of the drink.
Diamond also possessed protective properties, but our ancestors especially loved carnelian. The Prophet Muhammad is credited with the words: "Whoever wears a ring with a carnelian lives in prosperity and does not know poverty." Carnelian was a favorite stone of Pushkin, who, they say, drew inspiration from his contemplation.
Special properties were also attributed to emerald. Girolamo Cardano, a famous mechanic (the cardan shaft is named after him) and a doctor, said that for a long time he could not recover after the death of his only son. Whatever he did, the son always stood before his eyes. One night Cardano suddenly heard a voice - keep an emerald in your mouth. In the morning, the scientist did so, and immediately the vision of his son, which haunted him, disappeared. For a year and a half, he did not let the emerald out of his mouth. As soon as he removed the stone, the dead son immediately stood before his eyes.
The healing, protective and other properties of the stone depend on the spirit dwelling in it. They believed that if the spirit takes offense at the owner of the stone, he will leave him. For this reason, the mediator paid for the stones. After all, if the spirit is offended, then it will take revenge not on the owner, but on the one who bought it. In order not to anger the spirit of the stone, the warrior never took amulets and amulets of the slain, but buried them in the ground.
Sensitive people
At all times there have been people with heightened sensitivity (sensitives) who felt stones like living beings. In the 19th century, an experiment was conducted with a sensitive woman. Samples were laid out behind her, and the subject, blindfolded, told what emotions the stone, which the experimenter had pointed to, evoked in her. And the emotions were very different. One stone made her laugh, the other, on the contrary, drove into melancholy. The experimenter, complicating the task, touched the same samples several times, but the subject's response to them did not change. Even the color of the stone can have a beneficial effect on a person. In one of the experiments, a woman with a blindfold was brought a stone of her favorite color, and … the devices registered a decrease in pressure, even the composition of the blood changed.
Stanislav Nikolaev himself does not really believe in the magical properties of stones, but he still carries jade plates in his jacket pocket. Not for treatment, but just to watch.
- You will look at the world through the green jade "window" and you will immediately remember about summer. Each month has its own stone. Turquoise, for example, is a December stone, because only in December is the sky so turquoise. The hot red ruby is the "stone of passion" and the hottest month of July. Emerald is considered a May stone, “transparent water” aquamarine is a March stone, and a yellowish-green chrysolite, reminiscent of yellowed September grass, is an autumn, September one. Malachite has always been a "child" stone. It was believed that if a woman wears this stone, she will have many children. Malachite jewelry also served as amulets for children.
But Stanislav Mikhailovich does not consider synthetic minerals alive, although their chemical formula is the same as that of natural stones. Artificial emerald or ruby and are valued much (by an order of magnitude) cheaper than real minerals. Maybe because synthetic products do not have the magical properties of living stones, and people feel it?
Our correspondent was convinced of the strange properties of stones from his own experience when he tried to photograph a decent size charoite in the museum of the institute. And what? In the photo, the purple stone turned blue!
Sacred stones - a special hypostasis
Sacred stones have long been worshiped by different nations. Each of them has its own legend. For example, the world famous Muslim shrine of the Kaaba was once considered white, but turned black due to human sins. According to legend, the conquerors pulled the kaaba out of its place and threw the sacred stone into the water, but to the amazement of the robbers, the kaaba did not drown, but … floated on the surface of the water.
And what about "God" from Lake Pleshcheevo? This huge stone surfaced from the bottom in the spring, and after a year or two, it moved several tens of meters from the water! Scientists have not found anything special in the stone, except that after the rain the gray stone turns blue. The people called him the Xin-stone. Above it, the inscription: The blue stone - the embodiment of the god Yarila - was drowned in 1778 and ended up on the shore 70 years later. Even with the advent of Christianity, this stone was revered by the local population for many centuries, which caused considerable anxiety among the authorities and the church authorities, who considered the presence of a pagan deity near an Orthodox monastery incompatible. By order of Tsar Vasily Shuisky, the stone was buried in a specially dug hole, where it lay for about two centuries. In 1788, they wanted to use the former "God" for the foundation of a church under construction. The blue-stone was hoisted on a large sleigh and driven across the ice of Pleshcheyevo Lake. But the ice could not bear the enormous weight, cracked, and the stone went under the ice.
“The earth gives birth to them,” people said about such stones. Scientists say that the blue stone is pushed out of the lake as it freezes. But if this is even so, then why does only this stone come out, while others remain at the bottom of the lake? Probably, it was not by chance that the pagans idolized this particular stone.
Sacred stones are still in Altai. The author of these lines was told how a bulldozer driver paid with his life because of such a stone. It was back in Soviet times. The bulldozer driver decided to show the Altaians all the "stupidity" of their faith. He rammed the sacred stone with his bulldozer, so much so that it split. After that, his bulldozer drove another 250 meters and stopped because a healthy, full of strength bulldozer suddenly died.
Are we all a little stones?
According to one of the theories of evolution, very popular in the 18th century, stones, or rather minerals, are nothing more than a transitional link to plants. According to this theory, minerals evolve into plants, for those, in turn, animals are the highest form of evolution, and the latter, moving up the evolutionary ladder, "grow" to humans. Oddly enough, this theory is proved by nature itself, in which there are many transitional forms of life. For example, corals, in fact, are sea plants, but devoid of their native elements, they immediately turn (“degrade”?) Into stones. Among plants there is a transitional form in animals (carnivorous plants), and, finally, what is a monkey, if not a "younger brother" of man?
According to the above theory, minerals, like any living creature, have consciousness, but it "sleeps" until the stone begins to develop. Its development, by the way, largely depends on us people. Previously, a person, living in nature, communicated very closely with a stone, now we live practically in an artificial world, but communication is possible in our time.
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In a word, you picked up a beautiful pebble somewhere on the shore of the lake and brought it home. Don't throw it far. Let it stand on your desk and remind you of the journey. This will be communication, useful both for you and for the stone, which (according to esotericists) is able to harmonize the surrounding space.
