Okenite

Okenite is a white, fibrous calcium silicate that usually grows alongside zeolites, most often as small cotton-ball clusters inside basalt geodes. Wikipedia describes the fibres as bendable and fragile, and says the mineral was first described in 1828 from Disko Island in Greenland and named for the German naturalist Lorenz Oken. Hall gives India as the source of the specimens he describes, and Wikipedia says it is found mainly in the Indian state of Maharashtra. Hall adds that people tend to want to stroke it, which mats or breaks the fibres. Hall associates okenite with the higher self, with clearing obstacles from the path, and with deep karmic healing. Hall also calls it a stone of truth that brings self-forgiveness, says it helps prepare a person for channelling, and says it helps to change old mental patterns. For the body, Hall says it aids the circulation of blood and milk, lowers fevers and eases nervous disorders, and that an elixir treats skin eruptions. These are the claims of that author.