Many of you know I wrote a book about how ancient artificial stones were made, and those who’ve read it also know that the whole story begins with “scoop marks”—that strange phenomenon where it looks like a giant casually scooped chunks out of the hardest rocks with an ice cream spoon, without breaking a sweat.
Those same readers also know that, to this day, I hadn’t been able to properly reproduce scoop marks. Not a single one. Embarrassing!
There were all sorts of reasons—physical, chemical, and yes, plain laziness—but those obstacles have gradually disappeared. And now I can confidently say: I’m creating scoop marks in granite using chemical methods. Check this out!
What you see in this quick, improvised video is a granite block whose surface has been etched with lye. What kind of lye? At what temperature? How did I do it? Let me answer those one by one.
Let’s start with the fact that we know at least four everyday substances that, when melted, break down granite—the supposedly unbreakable rock. You heard that right, not one, but four!
Here they are: natron, potash, sodium hydroxide, and wood ash lye. There are more, but these four are key, because even prehistoric humans could access them, considering that two of them are present in all wood ash, and all four can be found, for example, in the ash of seaweed, mangrove, or quinoa.
Their melting points vary wildly, ranging from 851°C down to 360°C. Once you reach those temperatures, the given lye melts and extracts the quartz from granite (or sand), causing it to fall apart.
Our ancestors, working around fire, observed this completely on their own all across the globe, without any outside instruction or teachers with long beards from east. If you understand fire, you understand the chemical breakdown of stone.
Another crucial point: the useful end product of this chemical process is so-called waterglass—essentially an artificial stone-forming material, a kind of stone glue.
So if you understood fire, you understood how to break down stone—and if you understood that, you also understood how to create artificial stone. It’s that simple.
Of course, we no longer even understand fire, so we barely grasp the whole cycle. But for our ancestors, this may have been a natural, everyday process.
The full picture came together for me gradually. When I wrote my book, I already knew about these four substances that can break down stone—it’s all in there, page whatever, no secrets. Still, I kept the original title, “The Natron Theory,” even though I already knew natron was just one of several possible candidates.
As it later turned out, in some parts of the world natron is essential for this trick (like in ancient Egypt or the Barabar caves), while elsewhere it isn’t—because other sodium sources are available.
But back to scoop marks. Members of the CAST! cult know that about half a year ago, through “divine inspiration” (=Ralph Davidovits), I “realized” (Ralph told me) that if you mix two of these lyes, their melting point drops dramatically—down to kitchen-level temperatures.
Ralph himself just threw out the idea, but didn’t test whether it actually works, or whether at such low temperatures it would still dissolve granite. So it was a great idea—but an idea remains just that until you test it. Someone had to try etching stone on a regular electric stove. That task fell to me.
I’m happy to report: the news is true. The lye mix melts beautifully—and still eats through granite on kitchen temperatures.
In the simplest case—say, in Peru—if you boil down the liquid from quinoa ash, you get a mixture of potassium hydroxide and sodium hydroxide. This mixture has a melting point of just 168°C, and at that low temperature, it chews through granite like crazy.
I’ve already made a video about this before. But that still wasn’t a scoop mark. I had to move the “cooking” onto the surface of an actual rock and see what happens.
That blue patch you see here is etched granite. A consistent byproduct of the reaction is Egyptian blue pigment—and, of course, water glass.
You can probably already see that a depression has started forming in the rock, and with each etching cycle it will obviously get deeper and deeper.
Soon I’ll be able to show you a beautiful, regular scoop mark.
How did I do it? With a charcoal chimney starter. You can actually see it in the top right corner of the video.
I figured instead of heating the entire rock, I’d just build a fire above the lye. Sure, most of the hot air escapes upward through the chimney, but enough heat goes downward to reach 168°C at the surface.
I cut off the bottom of the chimney with an angle grinder so the embers would sit closer to the rock—and the reaction works perfectly.
Under the chimney, I sprinkled a dry mix of 10 g NaOH and 10 g KOH—straight as I bought them from a DIY soap shop. I didn’t even really need to mix them; they blend nicely on their own as they melt. And then they start eating the granite.
There’s just one thing left to do: make a step-by-step video of creating a scoop mark. I’m aiming for the end of April. And from then on, we’ll have yet another ancient technology that anyone can try and test anytime.
And then the naysayers will come again, confidently declaring that it’s all nonsense :-)
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On May 28, 2021, I ran for my life through the streets of downtown Portland, Ore.
Antifa had discovered me working undercover after one of their members, John Hacker, exposed me to the mob.
I screamed for help as I fled, but drivers and pedestrians looked away. The businesses were all shuttered, remnants of the ongoing destruction from the 2020 BLM-Antifa riots. There was nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.
They caught me. Antifa tackled me to the ground, tearing my knee tendon in the process as I slid across the pavement. They punched me over and over and tried to choke me out. I barely managed to stumble into @theNinesHotel, begging the staff to call 911. Instead, they tried to force me back outside and told me to wear a Covid mask. I dropped to the floor, refusing to move, pleading for them to call the police. They refused.
Outside, Antifa gathered. One of their ringleaders, Elizabeth Richter — the blonde woman — began rallying the crowd. She called on others on a livestream to come finish me off. She went inside the hotel and threatened me. Antifa also tried breaking their way into the hotel.
I escaped only by jumping into an elevator with a hotel guest. After that, I was taken by ambulance to the hospital with a police guard. I was soaked in my blood. On social media, Antifa immediately began trying to track which hospital I was in, hoping to finish the job.
As soon as I was discharged, I had to flee Portland. I moved between safe houses in different states. Antifa’s hunt for me was far from over.
@PortlandPolice closed the case a few weeks afterward, saying they couldn’t identify anyone. Nobody was ever arrested, just like in 2019 when I was beaten to the point that my brain bled.
The FBI is on the ground in York County, PA, providing assistance to our local and state partners after today’s tragic shooting.
Our prayers are with the officers, their families, and the entire York County community.
Keep York County law enforcement in your prayers tonight, especially the wounded, the fallen, and their families. This wasn’t just a tragedy. It was a reminder.
I back the Blue. Do you?💙🚔