5 Script of "Scottish Stones" YouTube Video

Script of Scottish Stones
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Hello. My name is Tony, welcome to The Alternative Tour of the British Museum. Series 1, Part 5. Titled: Scottish Stones.

You cannot meet someone from the past you can only meet them in the Now. This says a lot about how we need to deal with each other and it also offers a way to get nearer to cultures in the past. Whenever they lived, for them it was their Now. So when we are looking at sometime from the past with the appreciation that it was their Now and we are in our Now then it can provide a bridge where to two Now’s can meet. This short video is an attempt to demonstrate how these two Nows can meet. I hope that your find the following of interest...

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There are something’s in this Museum that cannot really be explained these Scottish carved Stones are a good example of this. Very little is known about them. About 400 hundred have been found and they are about 4,000 to 5,000 years old and seem to have turned up individually in North East Scotland. They show a very high level of craftsmanship and seem to be designed to fit in the palm of the hand perhaps like an Orb the monarch holds on their coronation. Two of them seem to be based on the number six. In two dimensions only north east south and west are needed to locate a point but with three dimensions north east south  west with up and down would to needed for location. So perhaps they are to do with the arts of building, not necessary the construction of but in the fundamental ideas that underpinned construction in those times.

With any form of mastery, skill and learning are not enough one has to find a way of living in the bigger picture where the human is part of the picture but not the whole picture. In such a state, for a master stonemason there would be no difference them and the stone, and there would be no difference between them the stone and the laws that govern all things. In this state a craftsman could put something of those laws into the worked stone so that anybody looking at the stone could get a sense of one of the many facets to do with the flow of the living laws though life and all things. A contemporary example of this is can be found still in Japanese flower arranging.

For a person intent upon mastership they will either discover the way of it themselves or they would need to be shown the balances in themselves. Maybe they would be initiated into the mysteries. If initiation is to have any real meaning it would be in showing a person the place in themselves where, if they chose to, they could spend the rest of their lives growing into. So that in time they would become a master.

There is a sense that these stones, particularly the top one, have the ability to pass on the state of Finding Oneself In The Bigger Picture. If you wish to try it, replay this video with the sound off and imagine you are holding in one of the balls in the palm of your hand. It may take a few attempts and you might find it interesting. But please remember it’s not the stone, it’s what is connected to the stone and once you have got the connection you don’t need the stone.

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