Shamanic Rock Divination
The lessons of quantum physics and its new kid on the block, holographic theory, are that all things are intimately connected through the energy that infuses the universe and all it contains. According to our scientists, in fact, 90% of the universe is unknown, in that we typically only see 10% of the reality we subscribe to, while 9/10ths of it remains invisible to us. Science calls it ‘dark matter’, but actually this ‘silent majority’ of the universe – this missing 90% – is ‘dark’ (i.e. immeasurable) energy, not matter at all. It is this, the vast ghostly echoes of primal energy, sweeping through the cosmos into the world of humankind, that unites us, not the material things around us.
Quantum theory tells us that time and space do not exist – everything is taking place here, now. Giving space-time coordinates to events is a human conceit to try and establish scientific order over a universe that is mostly unseen and presumed to be out of our control. If everything takes place in the here and now, however, then all things can be changed and even the future reversed through an act of power taken in the present to alter the energy that surrounds the events of our lives. In scientific terminology, this is known as the ‘observer affect’. It means that in the quantum universe, even the act of giving your attention to something changes its nature at a subatomic level.
What has this got to do with rock divination? Quite a lot actually. Because, if our scientists are right, then the answers to the secrets of the universe are inherent in all things – even a rock – and nature will reveal herself in an infinite number of ways if we only look to her for answers.