That the guiding hand of our ancestors is with us is beyond question.
Here in the dense tropical canyons an ancient face is revealed.
Carved into the rock in immemorial times by cunning hands, this was a totem and symbol of the transience of life.
Through the millennia it has sat here, a squat troll like effigy in stone.
Yet, its power remains.
In these quick and circumscribed times it carries a message from the childhood of our humanity.
It whispers, become like me, like the living rock and just be in this moment.
Sit with me, feel the transmission of that accumulated wisdom from less disconnected times
To the aboriginal people of the world, such rocks are guides and mentors. They understand the whispered language of stone.
There is depth to be found here, if we could but listen.
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