Am I Crazy If I Sense Rocks Talking to Me?

Have you ever felt a plant or a tree talking to you?

Or felt like there were unseen beings watching you?

Or felt like you needed to move a rock because it wanted to be somewhere else?

… And then, immediately doubted yourself for being crazy?

I saw a reel on IG last week where an Australian man was on a beach, considering throwing a rock into the water. But as he picked up the rock, he noticed all the other rocks around it. And he started to feel bad because he didn’t want the rock to leave its rock friends. So he put it back.

This would have been simply beautiful: him listening to subtle cues or knowings in his body that told him the rock wanted to stay where it was… except he started the reel by saying “you know when I realized I’ve got some serious issues?”

I felt heart-broken watching the video.

He was making fun of himself and thinking he was insane because, “it’s just a rock,” and why would rocks have feelings or desires? They're inanimate after all...

I watch this happen all the time in others. Folks doubting their experiences, thinking they're crazy, thinking they’re making up their profound and magical relationship with Earth.

And, I experienced that self-doubt intimately in my body for many years before I became confident enough in my experiences to legitimize them. So I know what it feels like to question my sanity.

People, especially us sensitive ones, feel and sense the aliveness of earth, but then feel crazy because we've been taught that it’s not alive.

Even if we “know” it’s alive, insidious voices of societal programming seep in and make us question if what we're experiencing is real.

Something I’m incredibly passionate about is helping people legitimize these experiences of communication with the earth, the plants, the rocks, the spiritual forces of life.

Because it’s real. And because in order to transition out of this harmful, destructive culture, we have to normalize these experiences again.

Practice listening to the Earth

In the Golden Stone immersion, we get versed at listening to our subtle knowing about how the Earth is in communication with us all the time. And, more importantly, we practice trusting in it.

In the 2nd half of the program, you intentionally befriend a rock that will stay with you through the remainder of the experience. You meet a rock that wants to be carried with you, to teach you, and to work with you in someway.

You practice listening for which rocks want to come with you, and who wants to stay where they are. (And in my experience, the majority of rocks, especially the ones in the natural world, want to stay where they are.)

A fun rock story:

Two years ago, one of the Golden Stone Immersion students had the experience of walking by a yard with a little stone in it that was jumping for her attention. So she picked it up and kept walking. A couple houses down, she felt the rock “jumping” for her attention again. She looked over and saw some landscaping rocks that looked identical to the rock she’d picked up. So she returned the stone to its place amongst its rock friends. We still joke about her being an “Uber driver” for the stones.

Another story:

Some friends of mine live on a small farm in Hawai’i. They moved a handful of large rocks to clear a space to build a tiny home. After they moved the rocks, they had a string of “bad luck,” where nothing went right in regards to the tiny home project.

My friend had an intuitive feeling that it was because the land was disturbed, so she called in a local Hawaiian medicine person who walked over to one of the larger rocks that had been moved, and let out a large moan of pain. It was a guardian rock, and it needed support to find peace in its new location after the disturbance of the move. Once that happened, all the obstacles stopped, and the project went smoothly.

Trust your inner knowing

The Earth is alive. Rocks have consciousness. Rivers and waterways have consciousness. Plants have consciousness. Mountains and landforms have consciousness.

And not only that, but they have their own desires and preferences and lives that are being lived.

We have been lied to. And it’s a very effective lie that we continue to perpetuate within our own bodies and minds. Because one of the worst things to feel is that we are crazy, or that we don’t belong in a society or community that thinks we’re crazy if we talk to rocks and plants and the Earth.

So let me tell you this:

You are so far from crazy. You are one of the most “sane” people on this earth because you hear the underlying truth that’s at the heart of this human existence. You are Earth. And you can feel her communicating with you.

Keep listening. Keep following through with your hunches and your knowings. The Earth thanks you a million times over.