josev said:
When I saw the crystals for the first time, I was little scared and disappointed, my glass for house protection has scratches and stains, and what looks like a wound, and the glass for personal protection some blows, but then I started to accept them, there is some relationship between the form and the person for whom was chosen? :)
[...] Regarding my disappointment, what happens too is that I saw some of the stones before being sent to the Chateau and they were beautiful, I didn't know the colorful stones were only the dream stones and I waiting all like that, the first thing I thought when I saw the first transparent crystal with scratches and a point that seems oxidation was, this means there is something wrong with me? :D
Maybe it means that you need to learn to see beauty in life and things, even when it doesn't conform to your programmed standards? And think of the process (like Lainey explained), instead of sticking only to what's in the outside?
The instructions that recommend performing the readings daily make me a little uncomfortable, I think it reminded me of when I had to pray obligatorily as a child, I was never very spiritual and I develop an aversion to rituals and objects. Trying to get out of all these programs, I realize that it is the same as with diet and breathing, I think I understand a little more the phrase life is religion, although I see the crystals more as an experiment, with the diet and supplementation I understand that I have and want to eat well every day and take the supplements to be healthy and develop in the best way possible, however with EE I'm still a bit lazy, to participate here as well. I need a little more faith I think :)
For me at least, the crystals symbolize TRUE religion, not what we were told if we grew up in religious countries like yours, or mine. If you think about it, when you were forced to pray, you were praying to a God you weren't supposed to question, and who would punish you if you didn't behave according to the church's rules. That's not good, of course. But not everything in religion is so bad! The real sense it should have, IMO, is what the word means:
re-ligare (Latin), reunite. Well, we are experimenting with creating new connections (re-uniting with others in this group). We also experiment with something "higher than ourselves" (not a mean bearded God, but higher densities, our higher selves, Truth, Love, Knowledge and Light, or however you wish to call it). It is not a passive endeavor to take care of the crystals (as it would be for going to Church or praying passively), because each individual is responsible for their crystals, reading to them, singing to them, etc. So, it's an active practice, and there is no "punishment/reward" (Heaven or Hell) attached, and notice that nowhere in this project are there orders, only suggestions. You are the one who has to work hard to anchor a frequency, to Grow, and connect to others here if that's what you want.
We cannot know for sure what the effects are, but as "religious practices" go, I think that this gets close to what religion should be about. Not a blind belief and following, but a conscientious, responsible connection to others in the same path, and to a higher source.
Then I relate it to something similar of what you say, in broad terms I think I always accepted the world as it is (mixed with indifference maybe), and made the exercise of thinking that it could always happen anything bad to me, but sometimes is still hard for me to accept that people don't want to wake up or see what happens in the world, especially the close one, or I have expectations and it bothers me when people are not considerate in simple things or don't act in the way I would do in a specific case, that is something to work with.
See above. Maybe it is precisely because you are missing some connection (which can develop little by little), that you get upset at the outside world for not conforming to your expectations (like the beauty of the crystals). Maybe if you try to see things as they are, a bit more, without moral judgments, then you can actually connect better with others who are on your path, and leave those who aren't to do their thing, without it bothering you so much. Just accepting it as it is. The Work is not easy, so we can't expect many people to suddenly "wake up" (when you know how hard it is to "wake up" AND
stay awake, you know that it's not for everyone!). That's pretty unrealistic given the evidence. Not to say that it might not happen, but we shouldn't expect it, I think. That said, we CAN do our best, and see. So, the best you can do is, before criticizing others (and even the crystals, symbolically speaking), is to look
inside. Are YOU really aware? Are YOU really doing your best in life? That's more productive than the rest and can get you somewhere, IMO.
, and the other two like paladins, each with their own specialty 
. Dreaming stone still requires grooving, but we will get there eventually. 
It can be a hard work to cut through all the wi-fi smog we have here. 
