Blue Sapphire

Excerpted from Wisdom of the Gemstone Guardians, by Michael Katz. Order the book here.

Chapter 11

Blue Sapphire: Healing the Mental Body

A gentle whirlpool of energy lifted Michael and me to a place filled with mist. The mist quickly dissipated to reveal a lush and grassy valley surrounded by towering mountains. I looked around. There appeared to be no easy way to leave this narrow valley on foot. 

Several others had gathered with us. As we waited for the Guardian of Sapphire, we enjoyed the music of the many brooks and streams flowing into the valley. We stood in a circle, silently feeling each other's presence. We seemed to be forming a group consciousness, a shared energy more identifiable with every passing moment. This consciousness then took on a life of its own and became a dome of love and protection that settled over and around us. 

The sound of the valley streams suddenly grew louder. It was then that we noticed a man walking briskly down a mountain path. He was dressed in layers of robes and carried a tall wooden staff. He had an air of determination. 

We knew he was the Guardian of Sapphire. Even through his many layers of clothing, he radiated the blue ray. When he reached our circle, the Guardian looked at each of us. Then he removed his outermost, hooded cape. The man who stood before us seemed to be in his forties or fifties. His hair was dark and his face lined. The lines were not simply those of age but also told of great experiences.  

Because he radiated so much energy, I was unsure how I would enter his aura. So I walked up to him, bowed my head, and inwardly asked for assistance. He understood and telepathically asked me to close my eyes. I had already left my physical body to come to this valley. Now I left another body behind. I met Sapphire in a radiant world where our forms appeared to be almost transparent and made of pure energy. We embraced, and the next thing I knew I was looking at the listeners through Sapphire's eyes.  

When the physical, emotional, and mental forms are transcended, any individual from any planet looks about the same as anyone else, the Guardian began. You are all Soul. You are all masses of spiritual energy. Yet you are also individuals, personified by your experiences.  

The time has now come for the people of Earth to know the truth about Blue Sapphire--about its mission, its effects, and what it can do for the human being. 

My purpose is to nourish the mind. Even the most brilliant mind needs to be fed or it will lose its vitality. I also balance the mind. This means that I put thoughts in order and perspective. When people's thoughts are in order and they are thinking clearly, their lives also fall into order. This is because the state of the mind is always reflected in the emotional and physical areas.  

Once there is order, doors will open and opportunities will be presented. If taken, these opportunities will lead to even greater order as well as experiences of greater spirituality in daily life. 

For the human wearer, I have two missions: one that is directly related to being the bearer of the blue ray and one that is the result of my vibratory rate. From one point of view, my two missions are parallel. From another viewpoint, they intertwine like grape vines.  

Learning Mental Discrimination 

Before I talk more specifically about Blue Sapphire's properties and effects, it will be good for you to understand something about the nature of the mind, since it is on the mind that I have my greatest effects.  

The mind is complex and comprised of many levels or areas. Thoughts are formed at the border of the highest level of the mind, the area closest to the purely spiritual aspect of the individual. They are generated continually; indeed, a new thought is born every moment.  

As Soul, you are the owner of your mind and have the power to discriminate and choose which thoughts you wish to have. This is an important choice, since your thoughts act as food for and otherwise profoundly affect your emotions and physical body.  

Consequently, mental discrimination is a good quality to learn. This is the ability to choose which thoughts you would like to put your attention on, express, and give power to. It is also the ability to choose which thoughts you would like to ignore so that they will flow out into the ethers and never manifest or affect anything.  

Mental discrimination may be difficult to learn. However, it does not take much thought to realize its potential benefits. Because mental discrimination gives great power, it also carries great responsibility--for, when one possesses such discrimination, mastery over physical and emotional conditions is an easy next step. And I mean all the implications of that statement.  

Blue Sapphire can effectively teach mental discrimination.  

Mastering the Mind 

Blue Sapphire can also be used as a tool to help one gain self-mastery. By self-mastery, I mean mastery of the mind, the emotions, and the physical body. To achieve this, the part of you that is bound and a slave to your body, emotions, and mind must be able to communicate with the part of you that is free. This part of you is Soul, your true essence.  

When you use the tool of Blue Sapphire, the first step I take is to bring some orderliness to the mind and thoughts. The way I do this can be compared to the way cowboys round up horses. Imagine that your mind is thousands of square miles of open range and your thoughts are the horses that roam it. Sapphire is like the cowboys who round up these horses and put them in a corral. Once this is done, the horses are no longer scattered and some order is introduced. 

When our thoughts are in order, our thinking becomes clearer and memory improves. Also, we give greater attention to genuinely important thoughts. The number of useless thoughts one has during the day is astounding. Sapphire promotes useful thoughts and useful thinking. When thoughts are in order, it is also easier to distinguish between true and untrue thoughts, complete and incomplete thoughts, and balanced and imbalanced thoughts--both in oneself and in others.  

Your mind has a profound effect on every aspect of your life. Indeed, one of the mind's functions is to control the emotional and physical bodies. Thus, when the mind is more orderly, this orderliness is also reflected in those bodies. Conversely, when there is a dysfunction in the mind, without a doubt a dysfunction will occur somewhere in the emotional or physical bodies. 

Your thoughts, attitudes, and concepts shape your physical body and all within it. They also strongly influence your emotions and emotional expressions, perhaps even more than they do your physical body. For example, if you think a certain situation will make you afraid, you will feel fear; or if it makes sense to your mind that a certain situation should make you feel loving, you will feel love. Consequently, when Sapphire puts the mind in order, the emotions naturally become more organized, more orderly, and more easily understood. It also becomes easier to express the emotions you want to express.  

You have heard that thoughts can cure. This is no tale; it is grounded in truth. The key lies in being able to determine which thoughts will act as medicine for a certain condition and which ones will feed the condition with disharmonious energy. You must also know which thoughts you must generate in order to cancel out and stop the flow of disharmonious thoughts. And you must know which thoughts will resolve the condition and raise you to the next level of understanding or health. 

When a physical body dies, in most cases the individual's emotional and mental bodies remain alive. My work is rooted in the understanding that life does not cease when the physical body ceases to exist. Therefore, and perhaps unfortunately, my work is not always directly related to preserving the physical body. As I open your understanding, you, as Soul, may conclude that the physical body has become too great a burden and that the lessons you must learn don't have to be learned in the physical arena. On the other hand, you may realize that you can retain the physical body and learn your lessons on an inner level. Indeed, you may even consciously come to understand why you have a particular illness and what is needed to heal the physical body.  

Blue Sapphire can open up all these levels of understanding--and these can cause fundamental changes in one's consciousness, attitudes, and outlook on life. 

Blue Sapphire and the Blue Ray 

Now I wish to clarify my mission regarding the blue ray and the way it nourishes the mind. 

Today, with all the "garbage" thoughts that people have, it's a wonder they are not sicker than they already are. By garbage thoughts, I mean nonconstructive and negative thoughts, as well as negative attitudes, opinions, and prejudices. I call these thoughts garbage, because they offer no upliftment. The impulses they create only contribute to a downward spiral. 

When an individual is on a downward spiral, he or she is heading toward physical death. Death may not happen immediately. However, as one spirals downward, one experiences more and more unhealthy conditions and becomes farther and farther removed from the fountainhead of truth, the life force, and the healing force. 

On the other hand, one can be very ill and be on an upward spiral. On that upward spiral the individual will be moving closer to the life force and, therefore, to a healing. Unfortunately, a complete healing may not occur in the individual's current physical body. Nevertheless, that person will be progressing toward a healing, and that is ultimately what is important.  

When an individual allows mental garbage to flow through the mind, it often collects in the head, causing the physical brain and all the head's functions to become malnourished, strained, and stressed. It is no wonder that, in general, people's eyesight and hearing are deteriorating. Although this is not a direct effect of garbage thoughts, it is the effect of the congestion and malnutrition caused by the garbage. Too many garbage thoughts clutter the physical head and inhibit the flow of life force. 

I keep using the word "garbage," because it is such a good analogy. When you have too much garbage down your sink, your sink gets clogged. When too much garbage piles up in your trash can, it overflows, smells, and attracts disease.   

The blue ray I carry is nourishment for the head and the mind. It also acts as a disintegrating ray on any negativity or disharmony--in other words, garbage--existing in the head. This is parallel to the way Emerald's green ray disintegrates physical-body disharmony. 

The blue ray helps bring one's attention to the mind. The blue ray enters the physical body through the throat; then it rises and fills the head, nourishing the brain and the mind. The mind usually uses all the blue ray "food" it is given; whatever small amount the mind does not use flows out of the brow chakra. The more food it receives, the more the mind grows and expands in self-awareness. And the more expanded the mind becomes, the more food it requires.  

Blue Sapphire will also work on anything that is inhibiting the physical brain from working properly. I am not aware of all the names you have given to such conditions. 

"Tumors, nervous conditions, blocked arteries, strokes," offered Michael. 

These words mean little to me. Think of garbage and polluted waters. Think of the fluids in your brain and what diseases affect them; or think how the fluids flow and what diseases result from pollution in these waterways of the brain. 

"Basically, when the brain is polluted, there is pollution throughout the entire body as well," said Michael. 

Yes, but my concern is with the cause of the pollution. Gemstones work on causes. What caused the individual's brain or body to become polluted? 

"Mental garbage?" suggested Michael. 

Mental garbage, indeed. The person's negative thoughts, attitudes, and concepts have polluted the physiology. Every time you think thoughts such as, "Oh, I am so ugly, I am so fat, I can't do this, I'm so sick, I have this terrible disease, I'll never get well," you are throwing garbage into your system. You are perpetuating your disease and further removing yourself from the healing force. 

This also applies to negative thoughts about someone else. Every time you think anything negative about anyone, you yourself are affected, because that negative thought must flow through you from your mind to your physical brain. As it flows through you, it carries with it all the negativity, and that negativity is garbage. It collects first in your head and then circulates throughout your physical body. It collects there first because your brain is the transmitter of thoughts to your physical body, just as the heart is the transmitter of emotions. 

"How long does it take Blue Sapphire therapy to be completed?" asked Michael. 

With Blue Sapphire therapy, one never reaches a point where it can be said that the therapy is finished. There is always another step to take toward greater health and visual acuity. As your brain becomes more efficient and clearer, you will find that it can do more and more. Your brain has an enormous capacity, which people today have not even touched upon. And, of course, there is always room for more mental order. Mastery of the physical body, the emotions, and the mind is not a single achievement that occurs like graduating from school. Rather, it is an ongoing process.  

Faceted Gemstones 

"Many Sapphires are faceted. Are their effects different from those of rounded Sapphire?" Michael asked.  

The ways that faceted and rounded gemstones express their energies differ in several respects. A faceted gemstone radiates nearly all its energy out through its top, or "table." Also, most of the energy radiated by a faceted gemstone is that which is already contained within the gem. Very little life force is drawn in through the base, transmuted into gemstone energy, and radiated out through the table.  

A gemstone sphere radiates its energy in a very different way. As the Guardian of Quartz has explained, a gemstone sphere continually draws in life force from its entire surface, transforms it into gemstone energy, and then radiates this energy out of the sphere in all directions. A sphere also draws other energies from the aura back to the sphere. In this way, a strand of spherical gemstones not only fills the entire aura with gemstone energy, but also draws to itself information from the entire aura. This allows the gemstone to gain a more complete picture of what the individual requires for healing. A faceted gemstone cannot do this; it can only touch parts of the aura, and information from the aura is not drawn back to the gemstone.  

When a spherical gemstone is not being worn, it emits a very low amount of energy. When the gemstone is brought into a person's aura, it enters an environment which contains much more life force than the general atmosphere. Therefore, in the human aura, much more life force is available to flow into the gemstone and be converted into gemstone energy. The gemstone, in turn, can radiate a much greater quantity of its energy. 

Unlike gemstone spheres, faceted gemstones are not fueled by the human aura. They continually radiate their energy into the atmosphere, regardless of whether or not they are being worn. They are compelled to do so because of the way they have been shaped by the stone cutter. Furthermore, to wear a faceted gemstone, it must be mounted in metal. Metal confines the energy of gemstones. Because rounded Sapphires can be strung into necklaces which contain, at most, a metal clasp, the Sapphires' energy can be expressed without the limitations imposed by the energy of metal. 

Easing the Coming Transitions 

The Guardians of Amethyst and Purple Rainbow Fluorite spoke of the many transitions that people today are experiencing. Blue Sapphire can help people make these transitions. One way I do this is by increasing mental flexibility. I loosen concepts and attitudes that are hardened, crusty, and stone-like. Because they are so ingrained, such concepts can keep an individual stuck in a certain state of consciousness. When these concepts are made more flexible, change of any kind becomes less traumatic.  

Another way Sapphire can help people make these great transitions is through the nourishment it brings the mind. This nourishment will help people comprehend these transitions and thus make them with more ease. Of course, these changes will occur whether or not any given individual is ready, for destiny has ordained them. 

Making these shifts will require a great deal of energy and clarity, and I can provide much of this. Actually, the word "shift" is not strong enough. The transitions of which Purple Rainbow Fluorite spoke--and the transition between the metal and gem consciousness that Amethyst described--are a total reconditioning or transformation of the vibratory rate of the planet.  

When these transitions are fully completed and society is on its feet, I will be replaced by another carrier of the blue ray. Then I will no longer carry the blue ray into the physical world. I will have relinquished this responsibility. However, I will have gained a greater understanding of the whole, and Sapphire will become a source of stability. 

Do not expect the new carrier of the blue ray for thousands of years. However, the transfer to the new carrier does have significance today. Because of the transitions that are now occurring, the time is right for the race of beings who plant gemstones to come and assist in the implantation of the seed of the blue ray's new carrier. The carrier itself will be needed in perhaps three to five thousand years. I am not sure exactly when the implantation will occur, since this is not under my control. However, the time is right for it to happen within this decade or the next or the next. Those of you who are interested may want to open your awareness to the possibility of witnessing it. 

Chances are good that the implantation will not hit the newspapers. Those who want to watch and who have earned the right and have the ability to travel in consciousness beyond the Earth's atmosphere will be invited to look down upon the ceremony.  

The process will not just happen in a moment. It will take several of your Earth's weeks, because this race of people must first research the planet. They must gather data and study the Earth's channels and power points. They will do this by circling the Earth in their spacecraft and by scanning the planet with special instruments. 

Then they will implant the vibratory rate of the new gemstone. I do not know whether they will implant this vibratory rate in an existing gemstone or whether they will plant a new mother crystal. In the latter case, a mysterious meteor may hit the Earth and become implanted beneath the surface. 

Regardless of how the implantation occurs, the Earth will respond in some way. It must respond in order to balance the powerful new energy that will be introduced. The Earth's response will probably be unique. It will not be an ordinary volcanic eruption, hurricane, or other weather pattern. 

My function and purpose is simple and basic. In fact, it could probably be covered in one page. Yet, I felt that to impart a better understanding of my mission and my effects on human beings, I had to share some knowledge of the mind as well.  

"It has been an honor," said Michael.  

There is someone I wish to introduce to you. You will have to follow me farther down into the valley, for he is playing with the other children.  

Although I am sure he is aware of his mission, I do not know what he will say. He is currently enjoying his boyhood as any boy would. You will know him as the Guardian of Indigo. 

Of course, if you call him across the field by that name, he will not answer you. He answers to a common name. It is a name which perhaps sounds foreign to you, but one common in the country of his ancestors. 

I easily returned to full awareness of the lush valley and my fellow listeners. Then the Guardian motioned for us all to follow him. 

© 1997 Michael Katz. All rights reserved.