The Shungite Medium: Prologue

Chapter summary · from The Shungite Medium by Gary Fong

I have worked with this rock every day for the last five years. I drink the water it makes in the morning. I wear a piece of it against my chest, day and night. I built a small set of tools out of it for my home, for my pets and for my own body, and over those years I watched what happened — to me, to the animals in the house, and to people who walked into my life skeptical and walked out using it without anyone asking them to.

I kept the numbers out of the Prologue on purpose. The lab work, the dates and the witnesses belong in a later chapter, so none of that is here. What I did instead was name the one question I have been asked more times than any other in those five years: is it magic, or is it science.

My answer is both, and I said why the man walking through it has one foot in each world. I have a heavy medical, pharmacological and physical-science background, the kind of training that teaches you to distrust anything you cannot measure. I also have an eye into the metaphysical, into the part of human experience that the disciplines we have do not yet fully describe.

The object both of those ways of looking are pointed at is a black rock from a place in Russia almost no one outside that place has heard of. It does measurable, instrumented, peer-reviewed things to physiology. It also does things that do not yet fit cleanly inside the disciplines we have to describe them. I tried to honor both on every page that follows.

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I have been working with this rock, every day, for the last five years. I drink the water it makes in the morning. I wear a piece of it against my chest day and night. I have built a small set of tools out of it for my home, my pets, and my own body, and over those years I have watched what happens, to me, to the animals in my house, and to people who walked into my life skeptical and walked out using it without being asked to. I am not going to tell you in this Prologue what those changes look like in numbers. That is a later chapter, with the lab work and the dates and the witnesses, where the numbers belong. What I want to do here is name the question I have been asked more times than any other in those five years. Is it magic, or is it science? The answer is both. And the person walking you through how those two answers come to coexist has one foot in each world. I have a heavy medical, pharmacological, and physical-science background, the kind that teaches you to distrust anything you cannot measure. I also have an eye into the metaphysical, into the part of human experience the disciplines we have do not yet fully describe.

— Gary Fong, The Shungite Medium, Prologue

This is a summary of one chapter of The Shungite Medium: The Groundbreaking Exposé of History's Most Miraculous Stone by Gary Fong, LSH Publishing, first edition 2026, 259 pages. Three chapters are published here complete: What Is Shungite? · The Corporate Sticker · How to Tell Real Shungite from Fake. The reference apparatus is complete too: the studies, the glossary, the bibliography and the endnotes.