Guns & Railroads & Hematite

All night I dreamed of guns and railroads. In the dream, I am a man time traveling back toward the history of these inventions, trying to undo the karmic consequences they unleashed.

It’s important to note: I slept wearing a piece of raw hematite around my neck for the first time, and when I woke, I knew—without knowing why—that the hematite had given me these dreams.

I looked it up and found that, unsurprisingly, hematite was instrumental in both technologies, being the key source of iron for guns and railroads.