Crystaliscious Perspective on White Moldavite or Elestial Calcite

Spring 2007 ~ I rushed out of work and traveled 32 miles at break-neck speed to get home and grab my newest stone I was crazy about. I knew it only by the name of White moldavite at that time. I had just purchased it from my favorite vendor in another state and felt a powerful impulse that I must have it with me for the evening activities. Juelle was doing a group channeling at the local metaphysical store, Cosmic Connection's and I had already confirmed my presence there.
As I arrived at the store and sat and waited for the show to begin, Juelle asked us how we were doing, I mentioned the stone I had in my hand and felt that it had to be there with me and that the work I was doing with it was teaching me about our DNA, how it is changing and how we can help to heal it. Juelle showed some interest in the stone and held it for a moment, gave it back to me and I felt the excitement in the stone that only a stone enthusiast can understand.
A few minutes into her talk she mentioned the stone that I had brought to the group, she even mentioned the work I had been doing with it. I squirmed in my seat, I wasn't ready to 'come out of the closest' with the activities I secretly did with my stones. I worked in a professional medical setting and still had some discomfort with people knowing how I really felt about stones.
At the break a young man came up to me and asked if he could see the stone, I handed it to him and he introduced himself, his name was Joshua. He asked if we could talk about the stone and I told him that my preference would be to speak outside where I could smoke, I again squirmed, smoking isn't something that goes over well. None the less he followed me to the porch and asked if he could hold the stone for the rest of the evening, he offered to let me hold his new treasure which he said he had just purchased as malachite on cuprite.
As we were returning to the group channeling I was stopped by someone, Joshua continued up the steps and I called out 'Josh, will you wait a minute?", he turned around ever so slowly and said ' It's Joshua to you."
Fast forward to 2009, Tucson Arizona, Late January, I had just arrived at the largest gem show in the world. Many things had changed since that day in 2007, I had only seen Joshua once more, I sold him a few stones, and gave him a gift stone of a very small white moldavite. A few days after he received the stones he called me and told me he didn't want to see me again, I wasn't really sure why but I knew that one day we would bump into each other again.
The job I had raced from went away and I was on my way to being a metaphysical store owner with a focus on the crystals. I cashed out all the resources I had and took the money to the gem show to stock my new investment. I had never seen anything like it, everywhere I looked there were tables and tents with glorious stones laying on the tables, on the ground even the hoods of cars. As I walked through the hotel lobbies, being directed into hotel rooms, I had a sense of the industry for the first time. I came to Tucson with a GIA diploma and 25 years in the medical industry, I left Tucson with an understanding of how huge the mineral industry actually is.
I had met friends in Tucson, who promised to show me around, they took to me one room in which I found the famed white moldavite. I stood there looking at it, not believing how inexpensive it was compared to what I had paid for the small piece I had. I bought up all that was on the table, only to watch them refill the table. I knew I would be the only one in the area with this material, I couldn't wait to show others what this material was and how it worked. I listened to the lady who told me the story of how this stone is found in the Mohave desert, by one single man who doesn't do anything to is other than scrub it with a brush. I was totally in awe of the stone and what I knew it had to offer to those of us who worked with crystals. Although I felt what I perceived about the stone was different than what others had written about it, I listened to them intently and made sure to memorize their interpretations of the energy of this stone as well.
I returned to Middle Tennessee and sold all the white moldavite that I had purchased in Tucson. All but one piece sold before I opened my store and that one piece that remained found it's new home during my grand opening sale, so I was on the look out for more material. Joshua just happened to walk through the door during the open house as well, funny how things happen, we are still together. I found  a supply of this material in 2010 at a vendors open house after he returned from his quest to the Tucson Gem Show. I purchased all I could afford to bring back to the middle Tennessee area. I no longer had a brick and mortar store, although I did still deal in stones, classes and sessions. I returned home, set my boxes on the shelves. The next day something very strange happened. The shelves fell. All of the shelves that held all of the specimens I had left for sale and the boxes I had just purchased just fell over, out of the blue. The mess that I walked into was surreal. Tumbled stones had been in bowls that crashed, specimens were laying under specimens, wood shelving was under that, dirt from some plants that had been on the shelves covered everything. I took this as the sign I had been looking for that I was not a stone dealer, I had other things to do. I cleaned up the mess, had a garage sale and continued in my classes and sessions finding other avenues for my customers to purchase their stones from. The white moldavite was not forgotten though.
I had decided I no longer would put my energy into stocking and selling stones, it had to go somewhere, right? I started doing research on the energy of the stones and how that energy interacted with our energetic fields as humans. I used white moldavite extensively in this research with very dramatic results. I kept finding that this stone worked on the physical layer of our etheric body on the level of our DNA, that is where we find the beliefs about what we are as humans and what we are capable of as a human being. These are beliefs that we come into the reality with, we do not have to be taught these beliefs. One day during my research I was holding a clear calcite in my hand, I noticed it reacted much the same way as the white moldavite. It made sense, after all white moldavite is really elestial calcite, right? I made a note of it continued on to the next 'experiment' without spending too much time on this observation. Until I ran across an article on the Internet. This article claimed that the material sold as white moldavite was a fake. It is simply clear calcite. I didn't pay too much attention at the time but the words stayed in the back of my head. I see many articles about stones being fake. It isn't that they are fake, the stones undergo treatments that most individuals aren't aware of, treatments such as acid baths, heating to various temperatures and sometimes even being soaked in oils or dyes. I don't agree with the treatments but they have been done historically for thousands of years and I believe I just expect them.
I didn't think too much about this anymore, I continued with the work that I was doing, making notes, writing classes and working on a book about the etheric body. Then one day a vendor comes through town with handfuls of white moldavite. I felt edgy about the white moldavite now, even though I had worked with it and had very impressive results, I didn't want to look at it, or buy any. I also didn't feel confident in telling others to buy it. Joshua my partner sat down and meditated with it and he felt that he  received the message that this stone is the premiere DNA stone, whether it is fake or not. I still didn't feel that we could honestly promote this stone until we knew for sure where it came from and how it was treated.
We decided to pull out our limited chemistry knowledge and play with some of the white calcite I had and see what we came up with. After about one hour of research we were able to pin down which acid should produce the desired effect on the white calcite. We went on our search to purchase hydrochloric acid, which we found out was the same as muratic acid that is available at pool supply stores. A friend of ours gave us a pint jar of this smoky pool chemical and labeled it because we wouldn't have time to do much with it for a few days. However as soon as we dropped the calcite into the muratic acid it bubbled and smoked and started to smell like sulphur, we then realized we should not have done this inside. We managed to get the bubbly concoction outside and added a few more stones, it started to fizz over the jar and out into the yard. As soon as the mixture stabilized we removed the stones and sure enough the ridging that the white moldavite is well known for had started to appear, a few more fizzy baths and we would have our very own home made white moldavite.
I couldn't decide if I was angry, disappointed, embarrassed, or all of the above. I thought of the people that I had sold this stone to in good conscious and now felt guilty. I thought of the work I had done in the healing room and now questioned it. I thought of the integrity that I try so hard to keep in the business I do with people and I felt shame. I thought of the trust I had in the people that sold me this stone and I felt humiliation for being duped. I thought of the stones in my healing room that I had paid enormous amounts of money for that were actually very inexpensive stones with an acid wash gone bad. I wondered how I could face the people that I had told this was an amazing stone to add to your healing room, that I had encouraged to spend their hard earned money on it, that I had promoted the qualities of this stone to. I added this to the list of 'snake oil' that 2012 seems to have been devoted to showing me.
All I can say about 'white moldavite' now is that it is a stone that actually does have properties, these properties as I have interpreted them work on the DNA level, possibly because it may be the DNA level of the stone that is damaged in the acid bath, I don't know for sure. I can let the people know that I sold this stone to that I am sorry, I will make sure in the future I know more about the origins of a stone prior to promoting it and encouraging others to use or buy it. I can also say that I would save my money that I would otherwise spend on this stone and buy a white calcite, the energy is similar, if you don't like it than dip it in muratic acid a few times, you will get your white moldavite at a fraction of the cost.
This won't make me stop loving stones, or stone people, but it will make me more wary. It also shows me that it is time for honest dealers, vendors and practitioners to step up to the plate and be more responsible about what we are selling to our clients. As someone who wants to continue to work in this industry I don't think we should overlook the dishonesty that we see with these modified stones. This doesn't mean we go on a witch hunt, it just means we educate our client base so they are not tricked by the dishonest people out there who are trying to make a quick buck. I for one will much more diligent in making sure I know what is passing through my hands or I am promoting to others, I hope others follow suit. If we educate our clients, those that are spending thier money on the stones, then we can be assured that these types of false advertising are no longer effective in an industry that seems thick with dishonesty and 'snake oil'.