Amber

Amber is a fossil of plant resin (pine tree) often also containing animals usually insects trapped in the resin flow. It is a question as to where to place this essence, as a mineral due to the fossilization, as a plant essence due to the resin, or as an animal essence due to the presence of ants caught in the flow of resin and then fossilised. I have decided to place it in the animal essences to acknowledge the most complex form of life. This essence is made with a piece of Amber with ants included.

The seeping of resin is a very active time in any forest. There is an active focus of insect life at the least. In Amber we have that moment fossilised, linking mineral, plant and insect. This essence communicates an acknowledgement of Life. In doing so it also draws attention to the electromagnetic or etheric energy, allowing one to be more aware. In communicating an acknowledgement of life the essence can also communicate a "spiritualizing of the intellect", as Gurudas has described. This process can give rise to a more neutral view of anything we are perceiving as causing agitation. Particularly mental agitation. This can be described by looking at the intense attraction the insects have for the resin, in its fluid state, where they are often caught struggling. Just as our minds are often caught in intense focus and agitation which is hard to release.

Through the new awareness of Life we often gain a more neutral view of those things which agitate our mind.