You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!

[Mercutio]

Kittery (ME) woman heals with stones... (http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050515/SPNEWS05/105130011&SearchID=73208964345253) Just my usual gripe about stuff in the news where I live. Every night Catherine Amsden brings a few stones to bed. She may place one on her forehead, another on her throat. Sometimes seven stones rest on her body. As the hours go by and the stones fall off she arranges them on her pillow. Her husband is used to the routine.

The stones work like the synchronized heartbeat between a mother and her newborn child, said Amsden. Slowly the energy levels of the stones and the body begin to vibrate at the same frequency.

People from all walks of life come to her healing center in Kittery, searching for that perfect harmony. They drive down Spruce Point Road until the majestic pines give way to a new Victorian home in yellow. A gravel walkway leads to the entrance of Spiral Touch at the side of the house.
Yup, it is pretty much a free ad for her service.


Beats working.

[wahrheit]

(from the linked article)
A chief executive officer with back pain has entered the tranquil center; a woman afraid of life has climbed onto the massage table in the lavender colored room; and a cancer patient has found strength in the stones that rest in two ornate cases when they are not being used.
The well known anecdotal blah about all kinds of people just loving it, the big shots (here: a CEO, wow!) and normal housewifes alike being lured into this scam, and topped off with a cancer patient.

What's the reason for all these people so desperately looking for "harmony" in "vibrations" and "energy levels" of their body? What's wrong with them? I guess it is difficult to include the cancer patient here, I'm more talking about the bored, looking for "harmony" guys here, not the desperate one being tricked by this fraud. Do they need lessons in philosophy or whatever to teach them being either happy with their life the way it is or teach them how to really improve it when they are unhappy?

[Mercutio]

I just hope the cancer patient is not finding strength there instead of seeking mainstream treatment.

[Jeff Corey]

"... you worse than senseless things."

Little did I know back in 1956, in Miss O'Brien's English class, that memorizing speeches from Julius Caesar and the Scottish play would serve such a vital purpose all these years later.

[Rob Lister]

Originally posted by Mercutio
Kittery (ME) woman heals with stones... (http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050515/SPNEWS05/105130011&SearchID=73208964345253) Just my usual gripe about stuff in the news where I live. Yup, it is pretty much a free ad for her service.


Beats working.

Promotion is very hard work.

[Ceinwyn]

Your post made me wonder: was any of this going on (by this I mean seeking vibrations, harmony, etc) before the advent of modern technology?

I wonder, did people seek the correct vibrations before they even knew what vibrations were?

Obviously music is one theory and that would explain primitive dance and music rituals, but what I'm trying to get at is the recent "new age" attempt at, say, "quantum" vibrations, or etheric vibrations, or whatever they're hawking this week.

[Zep]

Every night Catherine Amsden brings a few stones to bed. She may place one on her forehead, another on her throat. Sometimes seven stones rest on her body. As the hours go by and the stones fall off she arranges them on her pillow. Her husband is used to the routine.He's obviously lost his stones...

[Soapy Sam]

Aside from all the jokes about getting one's rocks off, I suspect wakening to find you have slept face down on a quartz crystal might well affect your karma.