You can't help but feel calmed and soothed and healed when you hold a sleek, smooth and heavy piece of jade in your hand.
For millennia, jade has been prized as a symbol of longevity, prosperity and peace.
A protective stone, Jade keeps the wearer from harm and brings harmony. Jade attracts good luck and friendship. It stabilizes the personality and promotes self-sufficiency. Soothes the mind, releasing negative thoughts. Stimulates ideas. A “dream stone”, Jade brings insightful dreams. It aids emotional release, especially of irritability. Jade encourages you to become who you really are. Source.
Living here in Asia, Jade is prized in temples, for amulets and given as a token of prosperity for house blessings and as a wedding gift.
In the commercial business of spiritual healing, jade is big business for amulets, bracelets, feng shui items, pendula, so-called sacred jewelry, Buddha & Kuan Yin images and all manner of zodiac charms, crystal balls and yoni eggs.
Perhaps the most famous Jade item ever is the Jade Buddha For Universal Peace - is is the largest known jade item ever created.
Crafted here in Thailand, not far from my home, from a HUGE piece of Canadian jade, it was made in 2006-2008 and has been touring the world to promote Buddhism, harmony and world peace.
Jade is incredible. Healing & transformational, bringing beautiful energy, no? Only if you close down your mind and your heart to the stories it has to tell.
Today, Thursday July 2nd, 2020, at least 113 people have been killed in yet another landslide at the jade mines in Myanmar - it is already being described as one of the worst jade mining "accidents" ever. Myanmar (Burma) produces 90% of the world's jade in what is estimated to be a 30+ Billion USD business each year - more than half of Myanmar's GDP.
Please note the terrible environmental destruction depicted in this image of today's "rescue" effort - jade may be calming or healing for us, but Mother Earth is certainly not feeling it as the prized commodity is torn from her Being.
Jade mining has long been connected with slavery, the heroin trade and people trafficking. If you USE or OWN something jade, please invest 6 minutes in watching the short video in the link which follows to understand the true energy of what you are holding in your hand.
Channel News Asia: Blood Jade - The Dark Side of Myanmar's Trade With China
Fatal landslides in the area are common, and the victims are often from impoverished ethnic communities that are looking for scraps left behind by big firms. Watchdog Global Witness estimated that the industry was worth some $31 billion in 2014, although very little reaches state coffers. Northern Myanmar's abundant natural resources, including jade, timber, gold and amber, help finance both sides of a decades-long civil war between ethnic Kachin insurgents and the military. The fight to control the mines and the revenues they bring frequently traps local civilians in the middle. Source.
I'm guessing this story didn't make global news headlines today.
In a self-absorbed world where everything is about what healing energies things give to us, we NEED to stop and ask about the other healing energies in the equation.
- Was Mother Earth healed in the process of the jade mining?
- Were the workers healed?
- Are the families of the killed workers being healed?
I felt such a sense of outrage today, since after I read this story online, socila media while I work has been using its algorithms and serving up targeted ads to me. For healing stones and trinkets. Jade in particular.
I no longer buy crystals for healing at all, despite believing they have incredible powers. I believe they were placed in Mother Earth for HER healing and power. Many of my crystals have been donated to the Crystal Healing Cave here in San Kamphaeng, Thailand (another post for another day) and the remaining few I have kept are always in contact with the soil and I use them for plant healing.
Our true healing comes when we KNOW we are one with the Crystal Energy and its healing vibration without needing to own it or hold it in our hand, and without destroying Mother Earth in the name of so-called healing energy. We are liberated when we understand that the greatest healing power Jade has for us is deep inside Mother Earth, where it belongs. We can reach and channel it anytime with our Eternal Disembodied Selves.
"Reading the labels" needs to extend beyond the kitchen.
EDIT: as at 4th July, 2020, the death toll had risen to 172. Mass burial for scores killed in jade mine disaster.
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Wow thanks for this very informative post. I didn't know too much about this topic with jade.
I agree that our crystalline and rocky friends must remain in the ground, or with plants. Before, in my house in Venezuela, I used to put several stones in my garden. In addition to being a beautiful decoration, it contributes to a good flow of energy between plants, earth, sun, moon, starlight, sky and the stones themselves.
And I think that if we should have stones, the same earth will be the one who gives them to us, and put them on our way, considering being in the right hands. And so it will be something nice for everyone.
I hope soon to return to my home and put my stones in contact with the earth again.
Interestingly there are tiny jade deposits also in central america - used by the aztecs and the mayans for ritual.
I also hope you will be home soon, and starting work on your beautiful retreat center. Nice to see your Hive efforts working better for you. x
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Wow.. thanks for this enlightening post. It's such a shame that when there is a demand for anything, more often than not, exploitation is involved.
Very sad to hear about the tragic incident, my heart goes out to the victims' families and loved ones. As you said, "Reading the labels" really needs to extend beyond the kitchen. We really need to do better, it's time to change our old "destructive" ways
We so need to STOP with this insane idea that humans are top of the pile and everything is simply "there" for our careless use and convenience, even when it is for so-called healing.
Appreciating your support @redrica. 😊
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ENGAGEtokens.This sad tragedy has been reported while many others have never been mentioned. So much bad karmic consequences of human’s actions everywhere on earth. The cycles of birth and death and suffering continues almost forever.
I don’t think changes among most people, with big or small power, will happen. They don’t want to change nor improve their karmic repercussion. Too much greed, fear and insecurity fill their systems. Only a tiny fraction of people will change for the better; many will perish along the way. Looking at what’s happening in China now send me a shiver of fear of what will happen in this country in the near future.
The picture is not pretty at all.
Brace yourself and have some contingency planning.
Take care.
You are so right on so many levels - sadly. I just happened to see this report, and it is one of hundreds of "accidents" and tragedies in the quest for selling so-called "healing" crystals things - let's not even start on things like wildlife poaching for Chinese medicine.
Bracing oneself is mandatory, as is some contingency planning. How very right you are. The only "bright spot" is that China needs Thailand's food production far too much to destroy it. But freedom? Look at Hong Kong. Thinking.
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Luckily, the elites still see Thailand’s usefulness. Some know these facts for ages. The country confronted several onslaughts but managed to survive in a nick of time because we still have benevolent people quietly looking after the country since hundreds of years ago. But the insurgents are getting much stronger! Love to go behind the curtain one day!
ENGAGEtokens.This is something worth knowing. It is ironic that people acquire a stone to balance their energies without thinking about the energy and environmental damage that the exploitation of the same stone generates on the planet.
It IS ironic, no? There is so much we simply don't want to know about. We prefer the soft, feel good narratives, most of the time.
Appreciate your support and your stopping by.
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There's a REASON monks and holy people have meditated in certain caves for millennia - for the ENERGY deep in the rocks. No need to pull it out and destroy for our convenience. We have so many natural mineral baths and springs here in Northern Thailand - and yes, so healing. ***You suddenly give me an idea for a weekend trip and a Hive post. 😆
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