Is it bell-bottoms or jeans? Is it mini or maxi? Let us find out through the help of these stories.

A story is told in “Review of Reviews” about Mr. Stead from United Kingdom, who in 1910 was selling beautiful Persian rugs woven by Zarathushti women. One day, Mr. Stead sold one of his rugs to an Englishman who had a small daughter.

Now, whenever this little girl would relax on the carpet, she would start singing in a strange language. She said that she sang what she heard from the carpet. Whenever she was picked off from the carpet she would stop singing.

This intrigued her parents, so they conferred with eminent doctors who concluded that the girl was sound in body and mind.

One day, the father asked Mr. Stead to call an Iranian and tell him to quietly jot down the song verbatim.

After a careful investigation, they discovered that the words and the tune of the song were exactly the same, which the Zarathushti ladies would customarily sing while weaving the carpet. These were songs of praise traditionally sung by Zarathushtis.

The girl through her power of clairaudience not only could hear the song but was also blessed with the innate ability to reproduce the song.

The woolen threads, from which a carpet is woven, possess excellent property of absorbing colors produced by the vibrations of the sound, and when the carpet comes in friction with the wind, it reproduces those vibrations in the form of sound.

To be able to listen to these specific vibrations requires the power of clairaudience.

Like wise, the Kushti, which is also made of wool, absorbs sound as well as all vibrations – the physical and the ultra-physical.

I want you to hold that thought as you read the next story.

• Ahura Mazda and Asho Zarathushtra
  
• My Grandparents, Parents and Family
  
• Ervad K. N. Dastoor from India for his reflections and interactions through personal discussions and audio cassette programs
  
• Navjote and Sudreh Kushti -- the golden gifts -Siloo Mehta, Cypress, California, USA.
  
• An 'Alat' of the Zarathushti Religion- Sudreh & Kushti -Pervin Mistry, FEZANA Journal, Winter 1997, USA.
  
• Hands of Light -Barbara Brennan, Ph.D.
  
• Anatomy of the Spirit - Caroline Myss, Ph.D.
  
• The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying -Sogyal Rincpoh
  
• Rare photos about the construction of the Kushti from root to fruit -Homai & Late Maneck Vyarawalla, India.
  
• Amesha Spentas & Chakras– Shahriar Shahriari, Los Angeles, California, USA, http://www.zarathushtra.com/z/article/chakras.htm