The memory of stones is infinite. Thus In Memoriam is engraved on the polished granite of the cemetery. Who better than stones remembers the distant past? Fire stones, cut stones, polished stones … Plain or precious, any stone can teach us the depths of time.

Within its intimate material, stone stores gigabytes of RAM and terabytes of ROM. Indeed, stone stores a very large quantity of information in its molecular structure. This information has been collected over time by its bedrock or by itself. Any stone keeps forever the memory of where it was born, the fulcrum of incandescent material into a whirlwind of energy, where it acquired once its intimate structure. Its first memories ever.

And the living stone has cooled down, it froze for years, a part of eternity. Immutable and strong, it lasts. Every stone is witnessing an abyss of millennia. This is the life of stones, extremely slow, devoid of rough edges. While the powerless seasons break on its thick skin, the stone is structure and the structure is memory. Anyone looking for one magical stone forgot that they all are. We must relearn how to read them. To touch them. To feel them.

The stone has many secrets to share with us. This is not book knowledge, this is intimate knowledge. The flesh of the stones. Their mouth sticking to our ears. It first talks of its origin. Coming from a wall or from a road, megalith or pebble, every stone remembers forever its original quarry, and the precise position it had. This is its orientation. Each stone has a zenith and a nadir, its positive and negative poles, and four cardinal points.

Learning to read the memory of stones, this means first learning to read this first information layer, regarding the stone itself: its original orientation, its nature, age, etc.. Then we can reach a second layer of information, containing the geological memories, floods, furnaces, earthquakes, and the accidents occurring to the stone itself, bursting, peeling, polishing, hammering, burying, etc.. But the stone contains other memorial strata.

High-tech uses constantly these memorial properties of the stones, including the most noble of them, the crystals. No need to dwell on that physical property of quartz crystals that animate our watches and our computers. But we still ignore that all the stones have this ability. They reveal our past, or more precisely their past . They recorded all the fully emotional scenes they silently witnessed through the millenia. This is the third layer of information accessible to humans.

The first images we will capture in this deep strata are especially violent scenes, murders, blazes , lootings and gunfires. The fortresses' rubbles have stored images of heroism and cowardice, of costumes and manners, which are laughs and songs that get lost in our inner ear. Listen to these images it half offers you, this little faded message we first decipher, then identify and whose contours gradually become clearer. Read the stones.

This cold cyberworld gives us a quantitative picture of happiness and this is its mistake. Challenge from hell or naive sinecure, this quantified world fades on our hands. We are imprisoned in the coldness and nothingness of informatics while luscious mermaids get drown before our tired eyes. The stone who knows, it will speak. If you ask, it will tell you. Forget the past. But whether it is made of stone or wood,Go to Parole d'arbre whatever she saw, the table will tell you. Through its pictures, the past will be alive.

The Ancients knew this property of the stones, and used mirrors of polished obsidian to view images from elsewhere. All stones can do that.Go to page But as we do not all have the ability to read directly in their memory, some ingenious scholars manufactured stone tools that made their message become clearer. As the smoking mirror of TezcatlipocaGo to page or the crystals of our computer memories.

In the Aztec mythology, Tezcatlipoca the Smoking Mirror was the God of memory and caves. He read the future in his obsidian mirror or in the rock of the Heart of the Mountain. What Tezcatlipoca did, everyone can do it. Many feats that were once reserved for gods and heroes are today accessible to us.Go to page If we fail to do them, it is often because we were not programmed correctly. Once again, the stones can help us enormously, and for a long time. Love the stones.

Some researchers have assumed that the crystal skullsGo to page of Maya were recordings of our distant past. But, they added, if these skulls are kind of DVD, we don't possess the proper drive. The error of these researchers was to believe that the pre-flood technology was identical to ours. Important differences distinguish our science to that of Atlanteans.Go to page If these skulls are records indeed, no device is neededLire A petit feu to read the images. We simply need to connect.

"Every man carries within him,
unconsciously,
the memory of ancient civilizations.
Similarly, the rock is a fragment
of the World's memory. "

Carl Gustav JungSwiss thinker and psychoanalyst