As he was drawing near—already on the way down the Mount of Olives—the whole multitude of his disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen, saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!” And some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples.” He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.”
Luke 19:37–40
Why do the rocks sing? The sing because the Lord is a Rock, and the source of all rocks. The Lord is substance and Being, all who have being are dependent on the Lord for their being. All that is, received from the Lord, through the Cascade of Being, an I-ness. Every particle whirring through the void is experiencing I-ness, like a child running through a field. This is what ALL of the ancient traditions tell us. What you think of as consciousness or spirit is not a side-effect of some chemical processes in certain systems, it is a fundamental property of the universe, it is everywhere, and it arises and interacts with emergent potentialities of the universe so that whenever a system achieves a certain kind of metabolic closure, like a cell or organism, a temporary node of closed, ported subjectivity is created. Even weather patterns are beings and flocks of beings.
For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. ~ Isaiah 55:12
True Christianity is animistic. Merriam Webster defines animism:
- 1: a doctrine that the vital principle of organic development is immaterial spirit
- 2: attribution of conscious life to objects in and phenomena of nature or to inanimate objects
- 3: belief in the existence of spirits separable from bodies
To the materialist victorian mind, these concepts sounded ludicrous, however, the late 20th century and early 21st century science has not disputed these things and has not been able to offer another explanation.
The rock means the ground of Being and the source of consciousness, and indeed rocks are conscious – in their own way. Many humans can speak to rocks in their own language, which is quite drone-like as you might expect. The point is that rocks exhibit rock mind. Primitive cultures have long known that rocks and minerals and especially crystals house certain kinds of information and potentiality. They are part of Earth’s ecology and indeed, a rock can be a friend. Its hard to explain to someone who’s never been friends with a rock.
Praise Him, sun and moon; Praise Him, all stars of light! Praise Him, highest heavens, And the waters that are above the heavens! psalm 148