Sunday, March 30, 2014

Petrified Wood -- Past Life Remembrance Helper

If you read my post “The Best Shamanic Journey Ever”  you know that I seem to have a special connection to petrified wood.  I started collecting rocks in Colorado when I was about six years old.  I’ll be 62 in a couple of weeks and I have never stopped appreciating and collecting rocks.  As the years have gone my focus has expanded.  When I started collecting rocks I was a six-year old fascinated by their colors and shapes.  A few years later I started reading geology books and my focus expanded from just appreciating their beauty to also being captivated by the history of the earth told in rocks.  While studying for my ND degree I started to understand vibrational medicine and the healing power (yes, its true) of rocks and minerals.  Finally, as practitioner of core shamanism I appreciate, thank and work with the spirits of rocks and minerals.


One of my favorite Petrified Wood helpers collected in North Dakota

Petrified wood is one of my favorites and the first rock that I remember finding.  Petrified wood, in its previous life, was a primeval tree.  Because its original roots were deep in the earth while its branches reached to the sky.  When the tree fell it was interned deep in the earth, so deep that aerobic bacteria could not cause its decomposition and the organic matter that made up the tree, under the effect of silicic acid, was gradually replaced with SiO2, the fancy name for quartz.  Other elements, typically iron and carbon, give it color.  This tree that had become a rock was eventually uncovered by erosion and earth movements until once again it saw the light of day; a wonderful journey of reincarnation.

Petrified wood is usually associated with the heart chakra but I feel that it also exerts significant influence on the root chakra.  Petrified wood began as a living tree, rooted to earth, and then was buried deep within the earth.  Petrified wood knows what it means to be rooted and can help us root or ground.

I use petrified wood to help other and myself journey to past lives.  Hold on to petrified wood when you enjoy a past-life regression session or a past-life shamanic journey.  Petrified wood lived before as a tree and is alive today as a rock.  It remembers what it is like to have a past life and can help you do the same.

Although you can purchase petrified wood online I think that it is best to find your own.  There are a number of states with large petrified wood deposits including Arizona, Mississippi, North Dakota, Utah, Washington, Wyoming State.   If you go looking for a petrified wood helper in areas where it is common be attentive to the stone that calls to you.  Of course, get permission if you go hunting for a helper on private property and please don't collect in National Parks.