C’s comment on “Small potatoes.” - Session 950304

[Pythagorass]

About a year ago approx, I walked into a store called the Crystal Gardens. As I was talking to the owner about crystals and the properties of different stones, she says, “Wait a minute, I have something for you.” She hands me a weird looking stone that I wasn’t familiar with at the time. She says she is skilled at placing stones with their proper owners, which I thought was cool, but really never fully understood the concept. I bought the stone she had handed me, which was called a Shiva Lingam stone. I took it home and gave it a place on the shelf and forgot all about it.

A few months later, I was browsing the C’s transcripts and did a search for the word “crystal”, for whatever reason I can’t remember. As I browsed through each area of the transcripts with the word crystal in it, I found this:

Session 950304
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Q: (T) Can you give him a weapons design? (L) Oh god! (T) Humor, mirth! (L) You did tell us at one point that we could achieve a certain level of protection with stones, crystals, and so forth, is that correct?

A: Yes but crystals are "small potatoes."
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Well, the Shiva Lingam stone is cryptocrystalline quartz, brownish in color, and shaped like a potato! Most of them are really small, about an inch long, and only around 5 to 10 dollars. When I read this I was like “H-O-L-Y %$!@, I figured something out!!! All by myself!!!”. I started carrying it around with me and it totally balances me.

I grabbed a pic off the web and posted it below.

After pondering whether this is what the C’s meant or not, I finally mustered up the courage to post something on it. Does anyone, with a little more background, think this is what the C’s meant when they said “small potatoes” or do I have a screw loose in my brain?

 

[EdgeofDawn]

I just assumed that it meant that crystals offered a certain level of protection but were small potatoes when compared to the level of protection that knowledge and awareness brings.

 

[shijing]

I just assumed that it meant that crystals offered a certain level of protection but were small potatoes when compared to the level of protection that knowledge and awareness brings.

I tend to think that it was something like that too -- "small potatoes" meaning 'insignificant' in comparison with other things.

 

[Masamune]

I just assumed that it meant that crystals offered a certain level of protection but were small potatoes when compared to the level of protection that knowledge and awareness brings.

I agree with John. I think they meant that crystals only provide a small level of protection compared to increasing knowledge, networking, etc.

 

[Pythagorass]

Thanks John!, I agree with you 100%, and also pondered it, but I think the question would have been answered like this:

A: Yes but crystals are small potatoes.

Instead of:

A: Yes but crystals are "small potatoes."

Why were quotes used? To explain to us that they really didn’t mean a physical small potato? I don’t think that we would need to be given a clue, about a common figure of speech, but maybe.

I won’t dwell on this anymore, I just had to post, as it was on my mind for a while.

The important point is that I do agree that knowledge and awareness is more important than any crystal could provide. We have the ability to walk to the gas station or store, yet, most of us, choose to use this tool we call a car or truck to get us there because it’s more convenient and much quicker. My thought was that maybe that cryptocrystalline quartz, that is shaped like a potato is maybe a beneficial tool.

 

[Beau]

Why were quotes used? To explain to us that they really didn’t mean a physical small potato? I don’t think that we would need to be given a clue, about a common figure of speech, but maybe.

Since the colloquial use of small potatoes isn't the literal term, the use of quotes to designate it as such makes sense. Not everyone reading the transcripts understand colloquial use of language, hence the quotes. Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar.

 

[Laura]

Why were quotes used? To explain to us that they really didn’t mean a physical small potato? I don’t think that we would need to be given a clue, about a common figure of speech, but maybe.

Since the colloquial use of small potatoes isn't the literal term, the use of quotes to designate it as such makes sense. Not everyone reading the transcripts understand colloquial use of language, hence the quotes. Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar.

Exactly.

But I'm glad you are getting benefits from your stone! It's cool looking!

 

[un chien anadolu]

I just assumed that it meant that crystals offered a certain level of protection but were small potatoes when compared to the level of protection that knowledge and awareness brings.

I also agree with you. Last week a friend of mine asked me to translate (from English to Turkish) a 11 page document about properties and usage purposes of several crystals from different levels. I have no interest in crystals or such tools but since she asked I couldn't say "No" so I translated it.They were notes from an advanced level reiki course.

While I was translating it I realized that the properties and purposes of the most crystals corresponds to the main themes of the "Work" given here on the forum and SOTT and EE and even Detox issues. The only difference is : here you yourself "work" for your body, mind, soul and psychology and when you use crystals you hope (or wish) that crystals to the job for you.

Examples :

-This mineral is known as the stone of courage. It enhances ones ability for rapid intellectual response. It accelerates the intellectual processes.
-Clear Calcite is excellent for amplifying energy. It is a great stone for students as it helps sharpen learning and retention of lessons learned. It enhances decision making by letting the holder see more clearly into situations leading to happiness and good fortune.
-CARNELIAN is excellent for providing perceptiveness. It is a stone that will enhance the home energy, and will spread love, encouraging one to learn how to give and receive love. It is a great protector against envy, fear, and rage. It brings energy and fire, enhancing physical energy and personal power and invoking joy, laughter and warmth as it opens the heart. It is a stone used to enhance the relationship between parents and children. It can be used to dispel apathy, indolence, and passivity.
-ROSE QUARTZ is excellent for facilitating emotional clearing and healing. It helps a person to be more receptive to beauty and to feel loved. A lovers stone and is known as the stone of love and balance.
-Bloodstone strengthens your immune system and keeps it alert and responsive to your body’s needs. Bloodstone’s energy empowers certain microorganisms in your bloodstream that are vital to optimal immune function. This empowerment uplifts the overall quality of your body’s energy, making your body an incompatible environment for infections of all kinds. Bloodstone also removes burdens from your immune system as it facilitates the removal of toxins from your body and enhances your cell's absorption of nutrients.

and so on...

There are also things of more STS nature

-Citrine is an excellent healing stone, also known as a healers stone. This stone is a powerful healing stone, which absorbs negativity and never has to be cleansed. This stone is said to bring business if put in the cash box of a shop or money if carried on your person.
-MALACHITE is excellent for bringing money to the holder of this stone. It is one of the oldest known healing stones as it draws out very powerfully on all levels. It is also used for healing the heart of negative relationship attachments.
-Ruby has been used to introduce stability in ones economic status; it has been said that as long as one retains a bit of ruby, wealth will never part.It is also said to have been used to protect the wearer/carrier against unhappiness, distressing dreams, and lightening.
etc.

Of course there are properties regarding health and healing issues too. I don't know if this is the common understanding of crystal usage but it seemed very STS to me, or maybe I am wrong. But still I wonder if there is a STO way for using crystals.

 

[MusicMan]

Small potatoes indeed!
Like potatoes, crystals are capable of growth, even if they are only 1D.
The "Shiva Lingam stone"is certainly potato like, and I had the thought that because it is cryptocrystalline quartz, that there must be some hidden quality about it. (crypto = hidden)
Unfortunately the words shiva lingam represent the phallus of the god shiva, so maybe there are other connotations to that.
Considering that some minerals can be radioactive, or toxic, it might be relevant to ask the C's if it is suitable for this stone to be carried on the person.

 

[whitecoast]

Small potatoes indeed!
Like potatoes, crystals are capable of growth, even if they are only 1D.
The "Shiva Lingam stone"is certainly potato like, and I had the thought that because it is cryptocrystalline quartz, that there must be some hidden quality about it. (crypto = hidden)
Unfortunately the words shiva lingam represent the phallus of the god shiva, so maybe there are other connotations to that.
Considering that some minerals can be radioactive, or toxic, it might be relevant to ask the C's if it is suitable for this stone to be carried on the person.

That seems like a question that could be answered by looking into mineral chemistry online or at a library. No need to use a GPS to locate the sun when you can just go outside and have a look. ;)

 

[kinyash]

Hi Pythagoras,

Many years ago (actually in 1990), I happened to be in Washington DC and wandered into some kind of New Age street fair. I was very much a new age airhead in those days ( :P), and for some reason I was drawn to a stand with a lady selling crystals. She had a whole variety of pretty looking crystals but when she saw me she picked out a very strange looking crystal and gave it to me. I held it in my hand and then asked her what I should do with it. She told me to carry it around and see how I felt. It was really cheap, like $2 so I bought it and carried it around for a month or two. It did seem to sort of keep me calm and spaced out After a couple of months I misplaced the crystal but I felt it had done its job whatever that was.

 

[Fluffy]

I'm wondering if lots of potatoes, ie. crystals, meditation, diet, exercise etc combined together add up to a big helpful bag of potatoes when knowledge is lacking or for someone like me where memory fails me so the knowledge is forgotten.. ??

 

[Fluffy]

Of course there are properties regarding health and healing issues too. I don't know if this is the common understanding of crystal usage but it seemed very STS to me, or maybe I am wrong. But still I wonder if there is a STO way for using crystals.

This is just a personal experience. I recently encountered a lady who told me I had holes in the lower part of my aura. A few months later I felt the urge to visit a local new age shop and was drawn to a crystal so I bought it and took it home to cleanse and research it. Interestingly I discovered the crystal called a faden quartz helps heal holes in the aura!!!
I placed the crystal at my bed head and that night I dreamed and recalled my dream. I hadn't really been able to do this since my daughter was born.. Ever since then I have had steady dream recollection, made some huge dietary changes, noticed and begun working on attachment issues, been stronger with battling my addiction problem, been more motivated and less depressed and feel like I'm growing toward becoming a more productive member of this forum... Sts or not it seems to be working to make me more whole and less lazy.

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[Minas Tirith]

I placed the crystal at my bed head and that night I dreamed and recalled my dream. I hadn't really been able to do this since my daughter was born.. Ever since then I have had steady dream recollection

This is interesting. About a month ago I bought a rose quartz, but more because it looked so pretty (rose colored, nice shape and size of fist). I put it on my bed-table and since then had the most amazing clear dreams. Usually I don't dream at all, or don't remember ... I also get up much earlier than usual without any difficulty. Maybe crystals now, in these times, have more strength?

There is def. something about quartzes, see also this thread:
http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,35943.0.html

M.T.

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[Fluffy]

I placed the crystal at my bed head and that night I dreamed and recalled my dream. I hadn't really been able to do this since my daughter was born.. Ever since then I have had steady dream recollection

This is interesting. About a month ago I bought a rose quartz, but more because it looked so pretty (rose colored, nice shape and size of fist). I put it on my bed-table and since then had the most amazing clear dreams. Usually I don't dream at all, or don't remember ... I also get up much earlier than usual without any difficulty. Maybe crystals now, in these times, have more strength?

There is def. something about quartzes, see also this thread:
http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,35943.0.html

M.T.

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Interesting.. I might do a little bit of experimenting, I have a fair few different types of quartz, I used to be right into crystals and pretty stones and gems and could feel them doing things, so I thought, but then decided I might be delusional so stopped playing with them... I also have a phi crystal that isn't on display with the others because it vibrates when I hold it and because I didn't know what I was doing I decided it should be kept in a box in a drawer and I should not touch it..

I don't know how to quote from a web page but here is something interesting from website http://www.earth-keeper.com/vogel-phi-crystals/

"Beyond this, the most profound effect of the faceted crystal has to do with its relationship and resonance to water. A crystal that is faceted and tuned to the water molecule will hold a charge or information that, when transferred to the body of a person, will link to the H2O molecule. This charge is stored within the inter lattice space of the crystal. Because more than 75% of the physical body is water, the Vogel-Phi® crystal, with its resonance with water, is the perfect delivery mechanism for the introduction of subtle energies to an individual. It was also thought that the various subtle energy bodies described in metaphysical literature are gradations of a field that is anchored to the physical body via the water molecule.

The crystal is a quantum converter that is able to store and transmit energy in a form that has discreet biological effects. Our speculation is that, because of the cohering capability of the Vogel-cut® crystal, it can be used to affect “reality” at the quantum or subatomic level. The imprint of thought forms or coding is stored on and within the particles or wave packets at the quantum level. This is most likely a resonant effect. The human body, on an energetic level, is an array of oscillating points that are layered and have a definite symmetry and structure at both the macro and micro dimensions.

The bones, tissues, cells, and fluids of the body have a definite crystallinity about them. The structure of the fluids, cells, and tissues of the body tend to become unstructured or incoherent when dis-ease or distress is present. The physical body is comprised of liquid crystal systems in the cell membranes, intercellular fluids as well as the larger structures such as the fatty tissues, muscular and nervous systems, lymph, blood, and so on.

Through the use of an appropriately tuned crystal, to which these structures are responsive, balance and coherence can be restored by delivering the necessary “information” or energetic nutrients. This is the beginning of healing. This is the story of PHI Crystals, They are precision instruments that can be manifested when the seeker is ready. "

There might be something going on with polywater and quartz they don't want us to know about?? :)