Black Onyx

Certain crystals such as black onyx are valued in occult practices and esoteric religious orthodoxies for their capacity to both hold a lot of positive and negative cosmic energy and to efficiently circulate that energy. As station-to-station receivers enmeshed in a framework of both earthly toil and a higher quantum superposition, the crystals talk across time and with parallel worlds. As for the matter of ease of circulation: in certain animist and vitalist traditions, as in many religions in the New World descended from African ones (Voodoo, Santería, Candomblé, Orisha, Obeah), the stone is thought of as a much more 'pure' soul than that of any living thing; being smooth, easy to manipulate/circulate, highly democratic for purposes of independent ritual, the stone is almost the equivalent of 21st century electronic capital in opposition to outdated economic models whose security and collective establishment were based on reserves of cash or gold, which in this context become the equivalent of the inaccessible and obdurate souls of living things.