Learning to Hear Truth by Listening to the Stone People

Having surrendered to the sound of love emanating from and through all of the universe,

We are finally able to hear the vibration of our life force beating her resonance with Creator.

When still enough we sit with it and rustle up the courage to act upon the messages felt/heard on the breezes of the earth mother, in the songs of her creatures, in the pulse of the heart of every being…especially the heart of the stone person, a gift of the Mother, broken loose from the soil of her being and landing, seemingly hap-hazard in our hands.  We all have them.  These little stones that caught our eye, our fancy and we picked them up and brought them home with us.   For many of us this fascination with little stones (or not so little stones) begins when we are children, bringing home a pocketful of stones from the park or a trip to the beach. Perhaps the young ones know something we have forgotten.

Jamie Sams' book Thirteen Original Clan Mothers  the May Moon Cycle offered up the story of Listening Woman and her relationship with Hagehjih-Old Man, the Stone Person (pg. 113-116). The story tells of how Listening Woman learned to listen and hear the ancient, non-verbal language ‘spoken’ by Hagehjih-Old Man. How she came to honor the resonance of guidance coming to her through this humble, tiny stone.  How her discerning and listening pointed her always in the right direction and right timing.  Have we opened our awareness and released disbelief to hear in this way?

Self Reflection: Have I taken time to listen to the stone people hanging out in my own house?  If I were willing to take enough time to sit in stillness and silence and listen until I heard my Rock Person speak, what do I hear? 

Everything We Encounter Comes Through Touch

All our experiences, everything that comes to us through our senses, touches us.  Everything we learn in life comes to us through some form of touch.  We can taste the sweetness of a peach by the juices connecting with our taste buds.  We smell skunk because the acrid odor travels through the air touching our nasal passages as we breathe in and out. We hear the birdsong through sound-waves bouncing against our eardrums.  We have spent these two weeks of the waxing moon phase learning how touch is a primary informer for how we understand our life.
With the invitation to adopt (or be adopted by) a stone people companion, we receive a gift from Earth Mother’s first children, the stone people to practice staying conscious to being touched by the world outside of us, and to stay in connection with All Our Relations (all things).  In this way, we are learning to ‘talk’ with and to listen to what all manner of life can teach us about living our own life.

Self-Reflection:  In what ways have I been touched by the world around me in these past few weeks?  What learning of truth have I resisted receiving?  What learning of truth have a welcomed with an appreciative heart?

Learning Truth Through Our Kinship with ALL Beings

Twylah Nitsch, the Seneca elder who, at the encouragement of her Grandfather, Moses Shongo,   brought the Truth Cycles out to the world, shared her story of connecting with her Stone Person guide. In her journey learning to connect and communicate with this Ancient One, who Twylah relayed 'chose her', found his way into her life. This stone person offered a way for Twylah to listen for guidance in a new way. This way of learning took her beyond her known way of communicating with humans, animals, and even trees. She learned a new capacity for relating with ALL manner of Creation.  In the act of being with the stone people, Grandmother Twylah learned a deeper way of learning the truth of her world. This experience of learning truth through the stone people is easily available to everyone, to each of us.

Self Reflection: Find a stone that calls to you and make it your traveling companion as you move through your day. Hold this stone in the palm of your hand in your prayer, meditation and contemplation time. If you listen, stone-person will indeed share with you and be a steadfast partner on your journey.