Mustika Pearls

Mustika Pearls and Bezoar Stones have long been prized for their numinous properties. They have been used by Shamans throughout the ancient and modern world in spellcasting and many other ritualistic rites and supernatural practices. But they are perhaps most closely related to and most famed for their innate healing abilities. References to the Mustika and their abilities to counteract poisons and cure sickness proliferate through the history of Eastern and even Western Cultures.

Ancient Roman texts reference a stone called an alectorious. Roughly the size of a small bean, it is found within the gizzards of gamecock. Among its other mysterious properties, it was said to have the capacity to make its wearer invisible. The use of Mustika to actually render someone literally invisible may be false. However more likely “invisibility in this case refers to the ability of the Mustika to provide it’s user with a kind of “psychic invisibility,” or protection from psychic attack, mental, or physical disease. The folklore of Medieval Europe also talk about a Raven Stone, formed within the gut of the aforementioned bird, that is claimed to posses similar properties to the Alectorious.  References to Mustika or stones with restorative properties from the bodies of birds thrive in historical literature. The swallow, it is said produces two such stones, one of which is a red one that can cure insanity and mental illness. Even the Bard himself, William Shakespeare speaks of a stone that resonates very much like Mustika, who in “As You Like It”  wrote, “Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.”

What exactly is Psychic Healing? Like any feature of the metaphysical, there are many disciplines or doctrines of “Psychic Healing”. These would include Reiki, Chakra Balancing, even the more normally accepted Massage Therapy and Reflexology which have some level of psychic or energy transference for healing. The bottom-line is that at the end of the day there really is only one power to heal. And that is you, yourself. The body which the divine powers of the universe have given to accommodate your soul has the remarkable ability to heal itself. All forms of healing, including so-called “modern” medicine is only a way to improve or aid your body in healing itself. If you break your arm and see a doctor who sets in a cast, the cast helps your bone to mend, but ultimately it is your body that heals the break. Similarly Mustika stones and other forms of Psychic healing really are only ways to stimulate or empower you bodies own natural healing processes.

Can stones and pearls actually cure disease or is this really a far-fetched notion? Would you say it is a preposterous claim that tree bark can cure disease? Quinine derived from seemingly useless tree bark can treat malaria and there are countless other examples in modern pharmacology. And yet indigenous people knew about the healing properties of many plants long before western doctors. What was once called “voodoo” is now called “science.”  Who is to say that the same will not one day prove to be true of Mustika Pearls and Bezoar Stones?