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How Magickal Pearls Are Acquired Part 2
One interesting myth related to cobra-pearls is that these
cobras employ the light of the pearl that they carry in their hoods to hunt at
night, as a means of brightening their pathway--this would certainly indicate a
property of the pearl itself or in accord with the argument above that a
symbiotic relationship is being alluded to here between the cobra and the
spirit-elemental of the pearl that the snake hosts. In cases where a pearl is
said to have glowing properties it is difficult to validate and affirm its
authenticity or to determine whether some form of a gimmick is employed to
working its magic because owners of such pearls invariably refuse testers closer
inspection. In regards to fakes, we know that there are synthetic
"stones" selling in Indonesia with an electronic component, the
Light-Emitting Diode embedded within them; this is coupled to a tiny battery and
a switch that closes the circuit and gives off light whenever the stones are
immersed in water or when pressure is applied to them--this novelty item could
probably be found in various countries as well--this stone is often appropriated
for deception. What confuses the glowing-pearl issue of the above is that in
ancient Vedic literature such as the Garuda Purana, the nature of the pearls
that are said to be "brilliant" are described in terms that are open
to interpretation and debate.
But to return to the subject of shamanic pearl-retrieval, there are times when
the ritual fails for one reason or another or it may require extra effort to be
channeled into it in which situation more ritual-sessions are repeated for
consecutive days and this entails the shaman spending more days/nights in the
mosquito-infested region. At times such prolonged struggles also fail and the
shaman has to return empty-handed for his efforts. Generally speaking, the more
difficult it is for the shaman to retrieve a pearl, the greater is its inherent
powers/magickal virtues. It is a rare occurrence, but shamans do occasionally
pay for their lives during psychic-struggles.
Shamans are often called to attention of unusual phenomena occurring in villages
such as strange hauntings, poltergeists, possessions, etc.--subsequent psychic
detection by these shamans may reveal that the haunting entities are guardians
of magickal pearls who often desire for these to be given to certain
individuals--rituals are then conducted to facilitate the transfer of these
treasures. In other cases, haunting spirits are not predisposed of giving away
pearls in their possessions but haunt as a result of the desecration or
disturbances of their territory by humans. When shamans detect that these
nature-spirits are protectors of pearls and wishes to acquire them, a psychic
"battle" would ensue with the shaman engaging in an inner-struggle for
victory over the spirit beings.
Haunting spirits such as the above are often the "siluman"
class-types--the sort of jinns (genies) that manifest themselves as etheric
creatures and sometimes even as physical animals that can be killed as ordinary
beings. Beasts such as tigers, crocodiles and wild-boars menacing villages and
killing humans are often regarded as siluman--they carry certain traits or have
features that indicate that they are no ordinary animals--there is always
something strange about them. To protect the community, the elders of a troubled
village would typically decide to set a trap for the beast somewhere in their
compound or to hunt them down. During the actual confrontation, these creatures
often display extraordinary qualities of invulnerability, strength,
fearlessness, and stamina; ordinary blades and weapons have almost no effect
upon them--when they are finally vanquished with the assistance of shamans who
casts an appropriate spell, they are found to contain pearls or stones in their
bodies and these are discovered to possess the same properties displayed by
their dead hosts. Normally the tribal chieftain or an elder would claim these
pearls as their own. Not only pearls but every part of these unusual beasts such
as their claws, fangs, teeth, horns, skin, etc., are likewise regarded as having
magickal properties.
The power of invulnerability against the blade is often displayed by domestic
life-stock as well, most of the time fowls--roosters, in particular; and even
after the prayers conducted by the butcher which results in a successful
slaughter, the decapitated chicken would still have the strength and the
nerve-energy within it to run amuck albeit headless for several minutes. These
roosters when later dressed and cut-open often reveal bezoar stones in their
organs--Albertus Magnus and other naturalists of past centuries refer to these
stones as Alectoria. At times, silumans are benevolent and they would
mysteriously appear in a village as an animal, most of the time as large snakes;
they find themselves an agreeable person to reach out to and who eventually
adopts them as pets. After being with their new keeper and family for several
months or years, these benign creatures would suddenly vanish as mysteriously as
they came but not before leaving behind a pearl or two. Sometimes the keeper
would notice a bulge on their pet's serpentine-head developing; this would grow
and develop into a snake-crown and is the object given to their keeper during
the creature's departure.
One interesting manner in which Nature offer pearls to individuals is through
dreams. Villagers living adjacent to forests and jungles often have lucid-dreams
in which a mysterious personage would visit them--most of the time such
encounters is of an elderly person that would make contact and explain to the
dreamer that a gift is being offered and that it may be found at a certain
place; the nature of the gift is not always described, though, neither is the
site where it is located in which case the dreamer would simply wake up before
sunrise and resume his or her normal daily-routine until later in the day the
gift is found unexpectedly. If the site is indicated in the dream, the dreamer
in his waking-state would investigate and conduct a search which almost always
yields the expected results. Sometimes dreams such as these precedes the
mysterious arrival of a creature wishing to be adopted as a pet as described
above.
Pawangs that sojourn in the wilds are close to Nature and are observant of the
creatures that live in their natural habitat. The behavioral patterns of these
animals, their place in the food-chain, their defence mechanisms, etc. are all
duly noted by the studious pawangs--the latter are the non-academic
"natural" naturalists who also observe the occult side of the flora
and fauna in a given region. As these pawangs specialize in animal and plant
pearl-acquisition it is understandable that they would mentally record the
characteristics of animals and plant-life harboring pearls. From the reports
that we have gathered creatures with pearls in them often have the following
characteristics and traits: an advanced age, invulnerability, unusual
gait/movements, immunity to venomous bites, human behaviour, etc. Serpents that
often have stones within them, for instance, are observed to swim and undulate
their bodies not horizontally but vertically--we can theorize that such a
movement is caused by the excess weight dragging their bodies downwards and the
effort of the creatures to keeping themselves afloat. In regards to tree-pearls,
it is noted that trees with crystallized sap or petrified pieces are often the
type that have holes in their trunk where rot has set in and where these pearls
are found.
As mentioned before animals are not hunted for pearls; nonetheless, these stones
on occasion do show-up in the carcasses of wild-animals slaughtered by villagers
for food; pearls are thus acquired incidentally in such situations. Shamans do
not employ the methods of hunting or killing animals as not only is this a
fruitless effort and a waste of time but it also severs their attunement with
Nature and the values and goals that they hold dearly. There is one rumour
circulating that animals are triggered to developing stones by the Dayaks of
Kalimantan (Borneo). The author of the online article "Bizarre Tales About
Bezoar Stones" (webguru.com) states that,
"The Dayaks of Borneo have a method for producing bezoars which they call
guligas. This is to shoot an animal with an unpoisoned arrow. When the wound
heals, there is often a hardening of the skin, which finally results in the
formation of a guliga. In some of these concretions the point of the arrow
still remains. The guligas of natural formation are frequently found between
the flesh and the skin of apes and porcupines."
However, the author does not mention how injured animals are supposed to have
survived such shots--do the Dayaks help them to recover? Arrow-shot wounds are
often fatal--especially to small animals--there would not be any opportunity for
injured creatures to recover and have their wounds healed--this rumour, based on
the accounts of travellers of past centuries has yet to be verified;
nevertheless, contemporary unwritten information regarding the retrieval of
bezoar stones, mustika, or guligas do not mention Dayaks forming pearls in such
a manner. After all, there are no stories of humans forming pearls after being
shot by arrows and recovering thereafter--it might be redundant to say that
shamans of our acquaintances and associates do not kill or acquire pearls in
such a manner.
Some mustika-pearls have the power to assist their keeper to acquire other
pearls that are equally exquisite and rare--this may result in varied ways. The
keeper may easily find suppliers or sources for these pearls or they would
approach him without much effort on his part of seeking them out. The magickal-pearl
owned would also enrich the keeper building up his finances so that other pearls
may be secured if desired. Another method which is not too common is for the
pearl(s) to be appropriated in magickal rites especially designed for the
manifestation of mustika-pearls--most of the pawangs that conduct
pearl-retrieval operations have their own special pearl to facilitate such work.
By possessing a good quality magickal pearl, especially a serpentine/dragon
pearl it is said that the keeper would eventually find the acquisition of other
pearls and gem stones much easier. The Garuda Purana states thusly,
"Only meritorious persons will have access to the cobra-pearl. Then they
can get other gems of great brilliance, wealth, kingdom and grow
brilliant."
Certain spirit-communications convey the idea that mustika-pearls when placed in
certain geometric-formations send out signals in the etheric realms which
attract the attention of the guardian-spirits of pearls making it possible for
further gifting to take place--we will not elaborate on this principle or
methodology here, suffice to say that it is a tried and tested method.
We have already described how ordinary individuals are gifted mustika-pearls
through lucid-dreams. Another possible manner whereby these pearls are entrusted
to fortunate individuals is within the frame-work of paranormal incidents that
would leave the individuals concerned dazed and amazed. Such phenomena would
normally transpire amidst natural surroundings, such as in forests, sacred
grounds, power-spots, etc. The external character of these incidents may vary
and have outward differences but they are essentially similar in specifics in
which the recipient of the pearl is approached by a mysterious person who offers
a gift or points to where it may be found. While still reflecting about the
matter and perhaps gazing elsewhere for a second or two, the recipient would
turn once again to the stranger who is found to be no longer there nor anywhere
else. The recipient would find in place of where the person was standing or in
the vicinity mustika-pearls or some other object as indicated by the bestower.
It is well-known that in the ocean lives a creature called the oyster that
produces pearls of various shades of color and sizes. It is not recognized,
however, that the sea offer more jewels than just oyster-pearls. There are other
pearls formed by the interacting forces of the elements or sea-creatures and
they can be just as exquisite and unusual as the pearls produced by the mollusk.
For a lack of a better word, we refer to them collectively as
"sea-pearls"--they are any natural jewel found in the sea and can be
of any size, shape and color. Sea-pearls are mostly in a spherical-form and may
have any sort of texture. Their mineral composition are not quite known to us as
there are many types to consider, though the common ones are composed of silica
or of a glass-material. How such sea-pearls are developed in the sea is a
mystery, though the fulgurite (Lat. Fulgur--"thunderbolt") formed out
of an environmental event may probably offer us a clue as to their origin. The
fulgurite, also called "petrified lightning" is a fused-quartz (Si02,
melting-point 2950°F) formed as a result of a lightning-strike upon sand or
rock. As a thunder-bolt hits the ground, it melts and fuses the material that it
comes into contact with and normally form a root-like structure buried beneath
the surface; this glass-like object is formed as the lightning traces its path
in the ground and it can have a length of several feet and several centimeters
in diameter. They are normally hollow and have rough outer surfaces; their inner
surfaces, though, are glassy and smooth; fine globules may be found within
fulgurites and the color of these objects vary in color with a greenish,
grayish, whitish, blackish, or brownish tinge--they might come in other colors
too depending on the composition of the material where they are formed.
Sea-pearls may be fragments of these fulgurites re-shaped and re-formed by the
forces of the sea.
Sea-pearls, generically, belong to the class of Lechatelierite, or
naturally-fused silica; one other possibility as to their origin is that they
are the matter ejected out of underwater volcanic craters; they may be crater
glass (Impactite)--created out of meteorite impact events in which case they are
related to tektites; these pearls are not shards or fragments of colored-bottles
fallen into the sea as believed by some theorists as the form in which they
appear make it quite improbable. Underwater volcanic craters are found in the
seas of the Indonesian archipelago and it is not illogical to assume that the
pearls may have their origin within the fiery-furnace existing deep within their
bowels. These colored sea-pearls are occasionally found lying on the ocean-bed
by divers and by those whose living depend very much on the sea; shamans acquire
them through their unique methods along the lines that we have explained
previously. After spending hundreds and thousands of years in the sea in a
natural environment, sea-pearls absorb a good deal of occult energies and
elemental-beings are attracted to them.
Pawangs have an uncanny knowledge related to mustika-pearls of plant-life such
as those found in coconuts and in bamboos; not only do they detect the stones
metaphysically, they are also familiar with the physical characteristics that
indicate whether or not a coconut or a segment of a bamboo-trunk has a
pearl--generally speaking, the knowledge that they possess afford them to detect
the presence of pearls in almost every-type of flora. Most coconuts that have
pearls within them are the "one-eyed" and "blind"
coconuts--knowledgeable pawangs prior to removing the husk of a coconut can
state with certainty whether it is one-eyed or the regular three-eyed types.
With such specialized knowledge it is a simple matter for pawangs to extract and
collect coconut or bamboo pearls without the unnecessary work of opening
thousands of coconuts just for their acquisition. Coconut plantation-workers and
those involved with the processing of coconuts would have lots of the pearls in
their possession as a result of handling them by the hundreds and thousands on a
daily basis. Probably none would admit of having them though, to avoid
confiscation by their superiors or employers.
We would like to conclude this article by saying that the methods of
pearl-acquisition explained herein only represent the "tip of an
ice-berg"--that there are probably more ways that mustika-pearls are
acquired that we have inadvertently overlooked or that we may be ignorant of.
Nature cannot be constrained in any way--if she decides to offer a gift to
someone she will find a way to do it--no one can prevent the giving from taking
place nor should anyone try to do so as this could have catastrophic
consequences. Forcing Nature to part with something which is not meant to be
also has its negative effects. It is fortunate to possess a magickal mustika-pearl
as one then has an object that connects oneself to Nature and her hidden
spiritual forces--this has inestimable value that cannot be described with
words.
Copyright © 2006 Luxamore
Bio:
Leonard Lee aka Luxamore: Metaphysical teacher, counseler, healer and merchant
of occult/magickal items of Indonesia. www.indotalisman.com
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