“The reason the stone fell was exactly for heaven’s sake.”

The arrivals of meteorites are messages from the heavens, and yet are totally by chance. The meaning that gets assigned to them are totally human, as they just might as well be walked over if humans did not find meaning in the arrival.

Meanings range somewhat from holy and sacred with the kitschy, in what must have been the most incredible world travel itinerary.

The holy include Kandimalal (Wolfe Creek in Western Australia). So incredible to watch the artist Katie Darkie trace her painting of the sacred crater site, and she explains that she camps with her family there every week to connect with her ancestors. A tantric temple devoted to Shiva and Parvati, where destruction seeds creation in a cycle of regeneration. The Maya temples and observatory, the abode of a rain God in a cenote, a portal to the underworld that exist as impact sites of the smaller meteorites.

The kitschy includes the Ensesheim meteor museum in Alsace, France, where a holographic miner, an amis de le meteorite. The world’s largest impact site, Chicxuiub crater, the meteorite that killed the dinosaurs and generated Geiger 11 earthquakes and 100-foot tsunamis.

The holy and kitschy seem to meet in the existence of quasicrystals. At first it seems like we are seeing a children’s puzzle, but we are shown something incredibly complex, in non-repetitive symmetry. These quasicrystals exist naturally in meteorites, and seem to be the origin for the creation of new minerals, signaling the origins of minerals on this planet.

A very interesting visit is to the Vatican’s observatory. The Jesuit priest speaks of the matter of belief and faith, what gives you awe in order to prepare to encounter a god. “You can’t believe in a god without experiencing wonder at creation.”