Introducing the Chintamani

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by Johndennis Govert and Hapi Hara, authors of The Chintamani Crystal Matrix

What would you wish for if you were certain your most heartfelt wish would unfold in front of you now? What would you wish for if you had in your hands the certain means to manifest your wish on Earth? The chintamani is the wish-fulfilling gem known in a variety of legends from around the world. Its power can transform the Earth negatively or positively depending on the character of whoever directs it by intention. Possessing the chintamani has inspired soldiers-of-fortune, despots, and kings to search the ends of the Earth for it through the annals of history. Wielding the power of the chintamani has driven gods, titans, and men to risk everything for the promise of securing their own supremacy. Diminishing injustice and suffering to benefit all beings has inspired heroes, saints, and sages to engage in the battle of good versus evil, even at their own extreme peril. What discourages most people from seeking the chintamani is doubt that its mythical origins describe something useful, let alone tangible, or doubt that it might function on a global scale. Perhaps most incapacitating is doubt that any of us personally should enter the fierce competition to shape the future of the Earth.

At first, folklore seems to suggest that there has been just one, single chintamani. As we untangle mythology, history, and philosophy through time, we discover that there have been multiple chintamanis from prehistory into the present. The image of one great earth gem expands to include a number of other dizzying possibilities:

The chintamani is from outer space and either randomly or purpose[1]fully landed on Earth as a meteorite or tektite.
There are an indefinite number of chintamani-like gems that appear and disappear through the course of time.
The chintamani is the Philosopher’s Stone.
The chintamani is a system or grid of gems with particular qualities and focused energy.
The chintamani is a technology embedded in crystals, not an item.
The chintamani transcends time and is multidimensional.
The chintamani activates by the power of intention.
The chintamani is a primal archetype.
The chintamani is a tool for spiritually realized beings to guide humans and Earth herself along a more positive evolutionary trajectory.
The chintamani is inherently a subtle essence embedded in the root of consciousness itself.
The chintamani is a means to transform limited awareness into the realization of supreme enlightenment.
The chintamani is a quantum expression of great compassion, wisdom, and skill.

In our book, The Chintamani Crystal Matrix, we explore myth and history to understand who has quested for the chintamani across space and time and what they intended and accomplished with the wish-fulfilling gem. We consider the physical and metaphysical basis and use of gems along with a deeper exploration of crystals and gems used as the chintamani. We present chintamani spiritual practices based not just on our research, but on our direct experiences as well. We invite you to follow the skein of investigative threads over space and time and sort the evidence with us. There is a very practical value to the chintamani path. We aim to inspire and encourage you to experiment with chintamani practice to accelerate, manifest, and evolve your heart’s desire.

The Roerich Chintamani

The chintamani is as much a quest as it is a destination. It is as much a key to resolve life’s mysteries as it is a precious prize to guard. In our book, we introduce you to Helena and Nicholas Roerich and their two sons George (Yuri) and Svetoslav. Together, from the 1890s into the 1950s, this family embarked on a number of spiritual quests through India, the Gobi Desert, the Altai and Kunlun Mountains, Mongolia, and Tibet, crisscrossing the Himalayan Mountains many times before they settled in Kullu, India, in the shadows of the great mountain range. They were an immensely talented family involved in the fine arts, particularly oil painting, archaeology, cultural anthropology, and the comparative study of languages and religions. They were world adventurers who had left their native Russia just months before the Russian Revolution in 1917. They were involved in international politics, especially in efforts to preserve cultural sites worldwide, as well as to promote peace on the planet in the era of both world wars and their chaotic aftermath.

We present the story of the Roerichs in the first chapter because of their quest using the chintamani to discover the kingdom of Shambhala. Although many consider Shambhala a myth, it is noteworthy that the United States government was a contributing sponsor of one of the Roerichs’ Asian treks. In fact, Franklin D. Roosevelt called his presidential retreat “Shambhala” during that era. Later, Dwight D. Eisenhower renamed it “Camp David.” The Roerich quests were tracked by Russian and Nazi spies and complicated by tense interactions with local warlords who they encountered in the thousands of miles of hard travel across environmentally and politically harsh terrains.

We present the Roerich story not because we want to chronicle their fascinating adventures, but rather because the chintamani was central to their quest. In treks across decades and continents, the Roerichs experienced the chintamani in the full range of possibilities, from worldly power stone to true mystical key.

Wish-Fulfilling Power

Chintamani in English is most often called the wish-fulfilling gem. This translation, however, misses the heart of the meaning. A more apt and succinct translation is “thought gem.” The second part of the word is easy as mani means jewel, gem, or precious treasure. It is the first half of the word phrase that requires clarification. Chinta, or its root, chint-, has a range of usages:

Chint, verbal root: to think, to have a thought or idea, to reflect, to consider, to direct thoughts toward, to care for, to take into consideration

Chinta, noun: thought, consideration, care, anxiety, anxious thought

These meanings suggest not a whimsical wish, but rather a thoughtful, more thorough exploration of intention.

To properly use a chintamani then, the holder’s intention should be well-considered and invoked not merely to indulge a momentary urge or advantage for the ego. If we power our intentions with a chintamani, our intentions need to make sense and offer benefit in many directions simultaneously, like waves rippling in the total ocean of being. This implies the chintamani holder should be a very knowledgeable and wise person who has attained higher spiritual realization.

Themes within The Chintamani Crystal Matrix

In chapters 2 and 3 we explore the myths, legends, and history of the chintamani in the Vedic and Buddhist traditions which interconnect to form a more extensive and deeper understanding of the wish-fulfilling gem. We learn about those who have worked the most harmoniously with a chintamani versus those who have been the actual chintamani bearers through history. There is a stark contrast between these groups, which we also explore in our book.

In chapter 4, we reexamine the theme of the chintamani in relation to the quest for Shambhala. This sets the Roerichs’ unique and modern adventures into a longer historical perspective and describes the axis of the physical and spiritual dimensions that cross in Shambhala. In chapters 5 and 6, we look at how power crystals have been used in the global scale battle for world dominance and review some of the most notorious gems in the world.

In chapter 7 we look at crystal science: where it began and how it has developed at an accelerated pace in the last century. We explore the scientific qualities inherent in crystals and gems as well as crystal spiritual technology. We consider, among other topics, how DNA itself is an aperiodic crystal and what that means for conscious human evolution.

In chapter 8, we consider astrological qualities of birthstones. We look at the related phenomena of grids of jewels assembled in crowns, breastplates, and arrays to increase the aggregate power of gems. We extend this discussion to include the enigmatic field arrays of ancient stone circles.

As evident through our book’s title, The Chintamani Crystal Matrix, we are suggesting that there is not a single gem, but that in fact, there is a matrix of gems that are chintamani in nature. These gems, as they are dispersed around the Earth, and perhaps the whole galaxy, interact with one another, as well as with conscious beings. All the intentions, gems, and conscious beings interact together in a great cloud of mind and energy to cocreate the Chintamani Crystal Matrix. As each one of us is a node in the Chintamani Crystal Matrix, we will describe ways to access chintamani gems and how to practice with them to produce great benefit for self and others simultaneously.

The chintamani highlights the journey that proves to be an endless knot that leads to your heart energy and out into the world again, folding ever in and ever out. The chintamani is the core of an extremely ancient and yet very advanced future technology simultaneously. It operates faster than the speed of light at the speed of thought. We are just beginning to explore the scientific evidence to explain the nature of quantum entanglement. Are there faster than light subatomic particles, the hypothetical tachyons? If so, the chintamani is tachyolithic, the stone that can move energy faster than light. Or, does quantum entanglement create instantaneous connections in time and space through intention? If this is the case, the chintmani coupled with intention can open access to an infinite set of potential alternate realities.

It is not enough to know about the incredible promise that chintamani crystals and gems encode if we do not use their energy to unlock our own potential. The last four chapters of our book deliver a more urgent message about why and how you can work more successfully for your own and others’ benefit with tangible and intangible crystals. We consider alchemical systems, Western and Eastern, in which gems, minerals, and elements form an integral part of many methods for self-transformation. We offer methods of using crystals for personal practice, including the basics of working with crystals and selecting, purifying, and programming intention. We also describe crystal meditations for personal transformation, as well as how to assemble crystals in grids. Our final chapter provides details about more advanced chintamani yoga practices with which you can experiment to bring about spiritual development and personal altruistic intentions.

In writing our book and offering it to the world, it is our intention to help shine the reflected and refracted light rays from the chintamani realm on the hero’s quest, which is the central quest of each and every one of us. May the chintamani shine brightly upon you!