Shungite Power! Fullerenes Can Detox Water, Shield EMF & more

What’s all the hype about shungite?

Shungite stone is actually not a crystal, strictly speaking. A crystal is a solid that has a repeating internal structure, like tiling in a kitchen or a repeating pattern on fabric. Shungite has amorphous (disorderly) properties that are not regularly repeating on the microscopic scale. (But then again, so do turquoise and other materials that people refer to as crystals!) Just because the internal structure of shungite is not as regular as a ruby or quartz, doesn’t mean that it has no pattern to its molecules. Actually the disorderly nature of shungite bestow some pretty powerful properties!

Shungite stones were originally discovered in hot springs in secluded, high altitude regions of Russia. Since then, they’ve have gained a lot of attention recently in both the scientific and new age realms. I won’t dive too deep into the science here, but I throw in some citations for the curious where relevant. I want to make the point that there is a LOT of new, peer-reviewed research coming out studying the properties of shungite – most of it from Russia. To give you an idea, on Google Scholar, a resource for scientific papers, there’s over 1,000 articles about shungite from 2016 to May 2020. That’s over 200 articles a year! Every amazing use I found scientific validation for, you can bet there are dozens of other papers with similar results. Here is only a small fraction of the uses proposed for shungite stones:

• antioxidant creams [1]
• industrial and commericial water purification [2, 3, 4]
• cancer treatments [5]
• processing components for supercomputers [6, 7]
• corrosion-resistant metallurgy [2]
• environmental clean-up [2]
• antibacterial and antiviral [2, 4]

You may have also heard about shungite’s ability to offer EMF protection (like these stickers that people put on their phones). Perhaps you’ve have seen shungite incorporated into EMF shields. Some of the applications into new products are ahead of the research. Shungite stones is a good stone to begin studying and using to help bridge the gap between physics and metaphysics. These realms are converging to agreement about shungite’s abilities to interact with energy beneficially for the well-being of living things. Now on to the nitty gritty of this special stone’s protective and purifying properties!

What’s responsible for shungite’s properties?

Shungite is made of about 30% carbon and 57% silicon dioxide (glass), with a tiny amount of the carbon content being fullerenes. A fullerene is a special form of carbon also known as buckyballs. There are sometimes iron deposits in and on natural shungite, as well as a slew of other elements in small amounts (oxides of calcium, manganese, and potassium, to name a few [1]). Don’t worry if this means nothing to you now! Keep reading and you will understand why these elements make shungite a very special stone.

Carbon is the basis of all forms of life on earth. Whether bacteria, plant, fungi, or animal, the cell walls and other vital structures are made of carbon. Carbon is also special in that it can be transformed into many different forms. It can be pressed into sheets to make pencil lead (called graphite in bulk and graphene when in sheets). Carbon can also be rolled into tubes to make the carbon fibers of nearly-destructible surfboards. Or, carbon can be compressed at unthinkably high pressures to form a beautiful, light reflecting diamond. The presence of carbon in shungite is what gives it its ashy, silver tone. Soot and the remains of any burned organic matter is also made up of carbon! The different shapes of carbon are responsible for the interesting patterns you may notice when looking at shungite up close! Shungite’s carbon content, and, the special form of carbon it contains – called fullerenes or buckyballs – also give it the amazing ability to give structure to water, discussed below.

Silicon dioxide is pure glass. It’s also one of the main components of a lot of glassy looking gems, like any kind of quartz stone. Smoky quartz and rose quartz are silicon dioxide, with other chemical “defect” elements dispersed throughout, making these stones different colors. The silicon dioxide molecules in the carbon are what gives shungite its shiny look and light reflecting abilities.

The Inner Structure of Shungite

Fullerenes are a special form of carbon, in addition to the other forms. Below shows a big difference in two of carbon’s different forms, graphite and diamond super-zoomed in.

You might notice that the forms feature hexagons as a main shape. This has to do with the geometry of the carbon atom, which makes it easy to take on many forms. The lines in the picture just represent what the electrons are most likely to be doing, where they like to hang out most in between the dense nuclei. Have you ever played with legos? Some blocks have more options of where you can stick other blocks onto them, and others have less. You can think of carbon as being like a lego with lots of different options on how to build out from it!

The “sheets” of carbon, also known as graphite, or what is used as common pencil lead, are also a form of carbon in shungite stone. The sheets additionally have EXTRA electrons [8], which makes them capable of more electronic activity. Electrons flow between atoms and actually cause tiny currents, just like the current that comes out of an electrical socket! The sheets gain more electrons during the natural compression process – the way the Earth created the shungite and other stones. Over time and more compression, the electrons start to get in formation – a more and more sophisticated formation… and the fullerene, or buckyball, is born!

When you zoom in super close, the graphene sheets are 2-dimensional, like a piece of paper or the content on your computer screen. When the sheets are compressed enough, they can bundle together into the buckyball shape and – viola! – Earth has created fullerenes! Fullerenes form when carbon takes on a 32-sided shape. If you’ve ever played with a 32 sided die, you’re familiar with the buckyball’s shape – and a pretty intense round of dungeons & dragons. There are 12 pentagons surrounded each by 5 hexagons, and 20 hexagons total. The “sides” of the buckyball are not solid, they simply represent planes of energy enclosed by the most likely position of electrons.

But wait! Fullerenes and graphene are made of the same substance as soot. If shungite is only made from a tiny amount of fullerenes (less than 1%), how can buckyballs give shungite special properties?

The formation of fullerenes doesn’t happen in a flash. From 2D sheets to 3D buckyballs is not a black and white process. There are many structures on their way from becoming buckyballs from graphene. These structures are actually frozen in between the two dimensions. When something is on its way to becoming a 3D structure from a 2D structure, it is called a “fractional dimension,” because it is in between two whole numbers. For example, the fraction 3/2 is in between the number 1 and the number 2, so it is fractional. When a structure is neither 2D nor 3D, but something in between, it is called a fractal structure [8]. Fractal structures can enhance energetic properties by giving a material a high surface area. Like a sponge that can absorb way more water than a chunk of wood, shungite can absorb way more energy than a chunk of coal.

Energetic Interactions- It’s all about those PORES

The physical matter making up shungite stones exists in fractional dimensions, and this structure is known to be able to carry a higher number of states. Put simply, the electrons have a lot more freedom in what they can do and how they can move. In physics, electrons having more options of things they can do corresponds with more potential for information. Fractal structures pack a lot of information into a tiny package! Can you guess another substance with a lot of electrons? Water! Shungite was formed in hot springs, so shungite and water are basically BFFs.

We don’t yet really know all the uses and properties of shungite, but we do know that it’s foam or sponge-like structure – due to all the compressed forms of carbon suspended in, basically, glass – makes there super-hero like PORES. A lot of the research that is continually going deeper on shungite is focusing on its properties of absorption. I’m absolutely not going to claim to know everything about how it works, and any scientist or crystal healer that does is simply not being honest, but what we do know is that shungite has a selective absorption of molecules[1]. It tends to absorb things we generally think of as “pollutants”, heavy metals like lead and mercury, while leaving spring water minerals like magnesium and sodium behind. Ancient people would drink from the naturally occurring shungite pools. Shungite water is super clean water that would detoxify their organs as it moved through their stomachs and kidneys!

We don’t know all the possibilities, but there is a lot of agreement on the idea that shungite can change the structure of water. [1] If there wasn’t massive potential applications for this ashy-colored rock, you wouldn’t see 200+ scientific articles a year being published. Each article is the result of hundreds or thousands of hours of passion and study put into them! Besides that, many people are opting to wear beautiful jewelry with polished shungite stones, like this one – keeping it in contact with their skin for hope that it will absorb energies that do not serve them.

This article is part one of a series on shungite! If you’d like to learn more about how shungite interacts with water, and how it interacts with electromagnetic fields (EMFs), then stay tuned here at Abnormal Ways!

Citations:

[1]  https://www.hindawi.com/journals/omcl/2017/7340143/

[2]  http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.963.9009&rep=rep1&type=pdf

[3]  https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-22974-0_47

[4]  http://www.medicalbiophysics.bg/en/10829.html

[5]  https://www.scirp.org/html/10-8902681_81359.htm

[6]  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0020168512110209 (the ability of the iron in natural shungite to shift magnetic states makes it viable for a material in quantum computers.)

[7]  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063785011100221 (a property called “nonlinear refractive index” also makes shungite a good material for quantum computing!)

[8] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19475411.2014.885913