PLEASEÂ always do your research before handling any crystal in any way. Some crystals contain trace amounts of potentially harmful elements if handled or ingested in excess amounts (and some not so excessively). For this reason, it is extremely important to be aware of what you are handling and how to appropriately handle it.Â
This is not meant to induce fear, but instead to educate. Most of the crystals here are listed to be cautious of internal use with a few being cautionary for external use.Â
Please pay close attention to this list when you are working with raw specimens. Tumbled/coated crystals arenât typically harmful, with a few exceptions such as Realgar.
NOTE: Before making any elixir or charging any water, it is a good idea to double check for any possible toxicity that may occur. Using several stones in combination can cause an elemental reaction between the stones that can potentially be dangerous.
When in doubt, do your research.
Actinolite
Fibrous form is a type of asbestos. Not recommended for elixirs.
Adamite
Contains Arsenic (Arsenate) and trace amounts of copper which is toxic.
Ajoite
Contains Aluminum, Copper.
Alexandrite
Contains Aluminum.
Amazonite
Trace amounts of Copper which is toxic.
Amblygonite
Contains Aluminum.
Andaluscite
Contains Aluminum.
Atacamite
Contains poisonous/toxic copper.
Auricalcite
Contains Zinc and Copper which is toxic.
Aventurine
Contains Aluminum.
Axinite
Contains Aluminum, Iron.
Azurite
Contains Copper, Toxic.
Bastnaesite
The chemical makeup of Bastnaesite does contain toxic elements which can react when combined with water.
Beryl Group (Aquamarine, Goshenite, Heliodor, Morganite)
Contains Aluminum.
Brazilianite
Contains Aluminum not recommended to use in its raw form.
Bronchantite
Copper Hydrated Sulphate, Toxic.
Boji Stones (Kansas Pop Rocks, aka Concretin)
Contains Sulfur, Pyrite and/or Marcasite which is toxic (*also could be a fire hazard).
Chalcopyrite AKA Peacock Ore
Contains copper and sulfur which can be toxic.
Chrysoberyl
Contains Aluminum.
Chrysocolla
Contains poisonous/toxic copper. Safe for handling but not for use in elixirs.
Cinnabar
Contains mercury which can be poisonous/toxic Wash hands after holding. Do not touch hands to eyes or mouth while holding.
Conichalcite
Contains poisonous/toxic copper.
Copper
Contains poisonous/toxic copper.
Crocoite
Contains poisonous/toxic levels of Chromium. Do not touch hands to eyes or mouth while holding. Do not ingest.
Cuprite
Contains poisonous/toxic copper. Wash hands after holding. Do not touch hands to eyes or mouth while holding.
Dalmatian Jasper
Contains Aluminum.
Dioptase
Contains poisonous/toxic copper. Safe for handling but not for use in elixirs.
Sunlight can cause certain crystals to fade. The following is a list of the some of the more common crystals that should avoid direct sunlight.Â
AmethystÂ
CitrineÂ
AmetrineÂ
Aquamarine
Celestite
Fluorite
Sapphire
Opal
Kunzite
TurquoiseÂ
Topaz
Quartz Varieties
đ§WATERđ§
The scientific truth is that water is corrosive to certain types of crystals. Water can change the color of certain minerals, cause rust and can also make cracks appear. Any porous or softer crystal should not be cleaned with water. Any crystal with an iron content should avoid water. Any crystal with a hardness less than 5 should not come in contact with water. The following is a list of some of the more common crystals that should avoid water.Â
Desert rose
Selenite (Gypsum)
Tourmaline
Pink HimalayanÂ
Calcite VarietiesÂ
Unpolished MalachiteÂ
AngeliteÂ
CelestiteÂ
Calcite
Mica
Opal
LepidoliteÂ
Muscovite
Unpolished Turquoise
Hematite
Lodestone
Pyrite
Dioptase
Lapus Lazuli
Magnetite
đSALTđ
Salt isnât for every stone. If salt gets humid, it can liquify and cause the same problems that immersing the stone in water would. So because of that, I would suggest not using the salt method for any stone with a water sensitivity (above), or any stone that could get a shard of salt trapped within it (geodes, etc). Any crystal with a hardness less than 7 should not be cleansed with salt.
đĽHEATđĽ
Some crystals are sensitive to heat, such as Malachite.
SUMMARY
When in doubt, avoid these methods of cleansing/charging or use the non-contact method. Do your research before cleansing/charging your crystal.Â
If you know of a specific crystal that should avoid any of these methods, please list them in the comments and I will add them to this post! Â
No one can yet say categorically how crystals work, although there have been many suggestions based on vibrational resonance and the water and crystalline content of the human body.
Michael Gienger postulates that the power of a crystal to generate light interacts with the cells of the physical body. What is clear is that crystals have an energy field that interacts with any other energy field near it. The interaction of the energy field of a crystal and a human being can, for example, be photographed with a Kirlian camera.
At the simplest level, many crystals contain traces of therapeutic minerals that pass across the skin barrier to bring about physiological changes. Kunzite, as already mentioned, contains lithium, which is used by doctors to medicate depression and bipolar disorders. Crystal users hold Kunzite or place it on their heart and feel uplifted.
Similarly the copper content in Malachite alleviates arthritic discomfort â although too much is toxic. Itâs a matter of maintaining the balance. However, as Michael Gienger puts it, crystals are actually an information system that radiates energy. Find the right information, and the correct crystal carrier, and the body will be brought back into balance.
As we have seen, crystals have an orderliness of structure at the molecular level, with each molecule vibrating at the same rate as all the others. Synchronization takes place so that all the units within the crystal â and every other crystal of the same type â vibrate in unison (a harmonic convergence). Each crystal type has its own fundamental frequency or harmonic note. This creates a coherent, resonant system with a stable frequency template.
Coherent systems are difficult to disrupt. Even if there is disharmony or discord nearby, their energy remains stable â and can restore equilibrium to the disrupted energy.
Crystal energy is shaped, amplified and discharged from a crystalâs termination and goes out rather like ripples in a pond, creating a rhythmic pattern that pulses in harmony. The basic template can be modified or directed by other energy, such as magnetism, color waves, intention or the power of thought, passing through it.
Scalar waves may well be the mechanism through which all energetic healing is effected. Weâll get to that in a moment.
EVERYTHING IS ENERGY
At the most basic level, everything is energy. How it manifests is simply a matter of vibrational frequency and the crystalline structure (organic or inorganic) that enfolds it. The human body is no exception. It is a conductive energy system with crystalline structures in and around the blood, lymph and cells and it is repaired and maintained by a complex electrochemical system.
In other words, it runs on vibrations.
This is not only with regard to physiological processes. Emotions and thoughts also have their own vibration (see the work of Bruce Lipton and Valerie Hunt), which go out of kilter during stress and can distort an internal crystal lattice in the body.
Through resonance and entrainment, crystals can restore equilibrium to us. But there is more to it than this. Crystal healing works at a distance. A subtle electromagnetic current passes between a crystal and a person whether or not they are in physical contact. What links and activates them is, I believe, consciousness and intention.
UNIFIED FIELD THEORY
Einstein coined the term âuniform field theoryâ when trying to find an overall system that would link all the known forces in the universe with fundamental particle physics. But thousands of years before that the Hindu text the Mundaka Upanishad declared:
âThe sparks, though of one nature with the fire, leap from it, uncounted beings leap from the Everlasting, but these, my son merge into It again. The Everlasting is shapeless, birthless, breathless, mindless, above everything, outside everything, inside everything.â
This description sounds exactly like the universe from the perspective of a quantum physicist or a modern mystic such as the systems theorist Ervin Laszlo, who says: âThe primary âstuffâ of the universe is energy and not matter, and space is neither empty nor passive â itâs filled with virtual energies and information.â This also describes crystal energy.
CONSCIOUSNESS: RIDING THE CREST OF A WAVE
Quantum physics suggests energy is not continuous but rather exists as packets of energy â energy that behaves like particles and yet acts like a wave.
Theoretical quantum physicist Dr. Fred Alan Wolf suggested that consciousness was a huge oceanic wave:
âConsciousness is a huge oceanic wave that washes through everything, and it has ripples and vibrations in it. When there are acts of consciousness, the wave turns into bubbles at that moment, it turns to froth.â
He pointed out that everything, human beings included, was composed of quantum âfrothâ and that under an electron microscope we would see:
âA rather bizarre-looking light show, of things popping on and off, vanishing and reappearing, matter created out of nothing and then vanishing. And in that vanishing and creation, an electromagnetic signal is piped from one point to another point.â
This perfectly describes how I perceive crystal energy moving from a crystal to a body, or going out into the future to bring back information (in quantum physics, particles of energy move forward and backward, see below), or entraining two energy fields.
ENTRAINMENT
Entrainment is an energetic interaction. It is defined as âthe synchronization of two or more rhythmic cyclesâ. In conventional entrainment, a smaller energetic field takes on the characteristics of a larger field, but this works both ways, and the larger field can take on the characteristics of the smaller, especially when directed by intention.
So, the crystalline structures in the body, especially its flowing tides of blood, lymph, intercellular and synovial fluid, can be entrained into a more perfect energy pattern.
Time and distance have no relevance here. Research has shown that the brainwaves of a healer and the recipient synchronize, or entrain, no matter what the distance. The same may well be true of crystals.
A crystalâs pulsing energy field has perfect equilibrium and its sympathetic resonance stabilizes a larger field through the energetic synchronization of two crystalline structures.
QUANTUM CRYSTALS
Quantum physics has demonstrated that simultaneous transfer of energy is possible. A particle can be in one place and in another at the same time and thought has an instantaneous effect over vast distances. So it seems feasible that crystal energy can travel from a crystal to the recipient.
It is my belief that what unifies and pervades the quantum and the crystal field is consciousness, which is present in and around everything in the universe. Although consciousness studies are increasing, research has not yet turned its attention to crystal consciousness.
BIOSCALARÂ WAVES
Research has, however, been conducted into bioscalar waves. A bioscalar wave is a standing energy field created when two fields interact from different angles and counteract each other so that the field reverts to a âstatic state of potentialityâ.
Research scientist and Professor Emeritus of Physiological Science at UCLA Dr. Valerie V. Hunt says that bioscalar waves are âalive with checked and balanced energies that cancel each other out so that they cannot be measured or evaluated by the instruments in current useâ. It is, she says, a âstrong, huge, and yet passive [force]⌠Only its effects tell us that it exists in space and has power.â
Laser therapy specialist Kalon Prensky describes a scalar wave as âa non-linear, non-Hertzian, standing wave capable of supporting significant effects including carrying information and inducing higher levels of cellular energy, which greatly enhances the performance and effectiveness of the body and immune system.
Additionally, it helps to clear cellular memory by shifting polarity, similar to erasing the memory of a cassette tape with a magnet.â He states that âScalar Waves travel faster than the speed of light and do not decay over time or distance.â This sounds very much like crystal energy, and depictions of scalar waves look incredibly similar to the crystal energy perceived by a Kirlian camera or the intuitive eye.
Many of the newer crystals such as Anandalite, Que Sera, Quantum Quattro and Rainbow Mayanite contain concentrated bioscalar energy. All healing crystals probably have this energy within their matrix and generate it through their crystalline structure.
If, as subtle energy researcher Lilli Botchis asserts, âWhen the human body enters a scalar wave field, the electromagnetic field of the individual becomes excited [and] this catalyzes the mind/body complex to return to a more optimal state that is representative of its original, natural, electrical matrix form,â we can see how a crystal with its optimal energy pattern might operate on the human â and planetary â energy body.
The more you understand about crystals, the more effective they are! Crystals were created as the earth formed and they have continued to metamorphose as the planet itself has changed. Crystals are the earthâs DNA, a chemical imprint for evolution. They are miniature storehouses, containing the records of the development of the earth over millions of years, and bearing the indelible memory of the powerful forces that shaped it. Some have been subjected to enormous pressure, others grew in chambers deep underground, some were laid down in layers, others dripped into beingâall of which affects their properties and the way they function. Whatever form they take, their crystalline structure can absorb, conserve, focus, and emit energy, especially on the electromagnetic waveband.Â
THE CRYSTAL LATTICE
Because of chemical impurities, radiation, earth and solar emissions, and the exact means of their formation, each type of crystal has its own specific ânote.â Formed out of an array of minerals, a crystal is defined by its internal structureâan orderly, repeating atomic lattice that is unique to its species. A large or small specimen of the same type of crystal will have exactly the same internal structure, which can be recognized under a microscope.
This unique geometric crystal lattice is how crystals are identified and means that some crystals, such as Aragonite, have several very different external forms and colors, which at first glance could not possibly be the same crystal. However, because the internal structure is identical, they are classified as the same crystal. It is this structure, rather than the mineral or minerals out of which it is formed, that is crucial to crystal classification. In some cases the mineral content differs slightly, creating the various colors in which a particular crystal can be found.Â
While a number of crystals may be formed out of the same mineral or combination of minerals, each type will crystallize out differently. A crystal is symmetrical along an axis. Its regular external planes are an outward expression of its internal order. Each matching pair of faces has exactly the same angles. The internal structure of any crystalline formation is constant and unchanging.Â
Crystals are built from one of the seven possible geometric forms: triangles, squares, rectangles, hexagons, rhomboids, parallelograms, or trapeziums. These forms lock together into a number of potential crystal shapes, which have generic names based on their internal geometry. As the name suggests, a hexagonal crystal is formed from hexagons built into a three-dimensional shape. A collection of squares forms a cubic crystal, triangles a trigonal, and rectangles a tetragonal crystal, while rhomboids form an orthorhombic crystal, trapeziums a triclinic, and parallelograms a monoclinic crystal. The outer forms of the crystal will not necessarily reflect its inner structure.Â
At the heart of a crystal is the atom and its component parts. An atom is dynamic, consisting of particles rotating around a center in constant motion. So, although a crystal may look outwardly serene, it is actually a seething molecular mass vibrating at a certain frequency. This is what gives a crystal its energy.Â
THE EARTHâS CRUST
The earth began as a whirling cloud of gas, out of which was created a dense dust bowl. This contracted into a white-hot, molten ball. Gradually, over eons, a thin layer of this molten material, magma, cooled into a crustâthe earthâs mantle. The crust is relatively about as thick as the skin on an apple. Inside that crust, the hot, mineral-rich, molten magma continues to boil and bubble and new crystals form.Â
Some crystals, such as Quartz, arise from the fiery gases and molten minerals in the earthâs center. Superheated, they rise toward the surface, propelled by stresses caused by movement of huge plates on the earthâs surface. As gases penetrate the crust and meet solid rock, they cool and solidifyâa process that may take eons or may be fast and furious. If the process has been relatively slow, or if the crystal grows in a gas bubble, then large crystals can grow. If the process is fast, then the crystals are small. If the process stops and starts, effects such as phantom or self-healed crystals are possible. If the process is exceptionally fast, a glass-like substance, such as Obsidian, is formed rather than crystals. Crystals such as Aventurine or Peridot are created at high temperature from liquid magma. Others, such as Topaz and Tourmaline, are formed when gases penetrate adjoining rocks.
Yet other forms arise when magma cools sufficiently for water vapor to condense into a liquid. The resulting mineral-rich solution lays down crystals such as Aragonite and Kunzite. When it penetrates fissures in surrounding rock, the solution is able to cool very slowly and lay down large crystals and geodes such as Chalcedony and Amethyst.
Crystals like Garnet are formed deep in the earth when minerals melt and recrystallize under intense pressure and enormous heat. These crystals are known as metamorphic because they have undergone a chemical change that has reorganized the original lattice.
Calcite and other sedimentary crystals form from an erosion process. Rocks at the surface break down and mineralized water dripping through rock or traveling as a river lays down weathered material as new crystals, or the minerals become cemented together. Such crystals are often laid down in layers of a âbedrockâ and tend to be softer in texture. Crystals are often found still attached to the bedrock on which they formed or cemented together as a conglomerate. This bedrock is known as the matrix.Â
The Fifth Pentacle of Mars.
â(âŚ)it is terrible unto the Demons, and at its sight and aspect they will obey thee, for they cannot resist its presence.â- the Greater Key of Solomon the King.
I wear this little amulet all the time, and while it isnât on the virgin parchment as described, I still consider it potent. And it looks cool.
Nothing is true, everything is permitted? Nothing is real, everything is possible.
This statement is usually taken at face value as the main ethos of chaos magick. From personal experience, the majority of chaos mages do not actually ascribe to the is way of thinking as universal. It is a way to feel âedgyâ and to get yourself in the right state of consciousness to perform magick when you are first starting out. The absurdity of it pushes consciousness past the psychic center and allows the user to shed to their ingrained moralism and logical materialism. It allows the beginner mage to exist in a state of consciousness where magick is always possible. That being said, from personal experience, a better understanding of this main principle would be restated as ânothing is real, everything is possibleâ. This reinterpretation allows the mage to discover their own, ever negotiable, code of ethics through experience, without being tied down to the moralism of concessious reality. It also sheds the immature edginess of the initial statement. NOTHING IS REAL. Reality is an ever changing flux of chaos for the mage. Through the practice of magick, we cast our will upon the universe and manipulate the probability of chaotic phenomena to fall in our favor. EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE. The mageâs understanding of the possibilities of the universe is ever changing. To believe we truly know and understand the workings of this absurd and chaotic existence, is to chain ourselves and our conciousness to a miserable and unchangable demiurgic reality. Our conception of the possibilities of reality is determined only by the unmeasurable variables of our magical experiences.
you can have done all the research you can have planned everything out you can have the best ingredients you can have done the perfect blessing you can know the spell off by heart
BUT IF YOU DONâT HOLD YOUR INTENT IN YOUR MINDâS EYE WHILE CASTINGâŚ. well⌠things are gonna get fucked upÂ
SO! Before casting anything – PAUSE to clear your mind, concentrate and FRAME your intent, then WORK your magic!
Alchemy has been called a âproto-chemistryâ, but it also had a spiritual nature. Scholars such as C.G. Jung made profound studies about alchemy, finding in it apowerful archetypal symbolism which could give people the possibility of transforming themselves in a deep way. The first step, as they say, itâs the hardest. Human beings reach their free will through self-discovery, but we donât try to self-discover ourselves until our situation has become so painful that we donât have any other way than to recreate ourselves. We donât accept that we must transform our life until we hit rock bottom. This is called the Dark Night of the Soul. This is a process describing a crisis of faith, or of meaning, in which every value in our life is questioned, losing its weight. One feels as if one was wandering in deep, dark labyrinths, without any exit on sight. This process is called in alchemy the nigredo, the black phase.
In alchemical treatises, this phase is represented with images of ravens, skulls, skeletons and dead bodies. The black phase represents the death of the ego, the limited personality of man, and allows for a deeper contact with oneâs personalityâs core, the self. Suffice to say, this is a process which not many people go through voluntarily, since it requires that oneâs ideas and preconceptions about the world are brought down. The Arcanum XVI of the tarot, The Tower, illustrates in a dramatic way this process. This is a symbolic and initiatorical death through which every person seeking to recreate themselves must pass. Historian of religion Mircea Eliade explores this theme extensively in his book âThe Forge and the Crucibleâ, where he writes about this kind of alchemical death is
âThe reduction of all substance to the prima materia [primal matter], to the masa confusa [confused mass], which corresponds âin a cosmological place- to the primordial situation, to chaos. Death represents a return to the formless, a reintegration of Chaos.â
This type of experiences are marked by a loss of meaning in life. Psychologically, a crises of the ego happens. The ego must then adapt to its new situation, or die. We witness this type of situations (either in our lives or in those around us) when a relationship breaks up, be it a romantic relationship, when someone is fired from their job, or we cut communication with a loved friend. The ego falls back to the original chaos, from which it must arise again by overcoming its catastrophe, or die in order to stop feeling pain. Ancient alchemists gave great importance to this phase, in which one can experience the deepest darkness related with the blackness of spiritual death. Eliade writes that
âThis kind of experiences translate into Saturnian symbolism, into melancholy. The figure of Chronos-Saturn represents the Great Destroyer that is Time and, thus, both death (putrefaction) and rebirthâ.
This death must be understood from a symbolic perspective. Because of its symbolic meaning, there is a possibility of a resurrection of the individual. From the fragments of the destroyed ego arises a new ego, renewed by its traumatic experience, and now closer to its core, the self. This is associated with the later phases of the alchemical process, of which Eliade writes that
âThe phase following the nigredo, the leukosis [or] the albedo, correspond to a âresurrectionâ which translates into the appropriation of certain states of consciousness which are inaccessible to the mundane condition. The two following phases, the citrinitas and the rubedo, which crown the alchemical opus and lead to the Philosopherâs Stone, further develop and fortify this new initiatorical consciousness.â
Excerpt from âRemain Faithful to Your Ideaâ in Five Lessons by Neville Goddard.
Man, by assuming the feeling of his wish fulfilled, and then living and acting on this conviction, alters the future in harmony with his assumption. Assumptions awaken what they affirm. As soon as man assumes the feeling of his wish fulfilled, his fourth-dimensional Self finds ways for the attainment of this end, discovers methods for its realization.
I know of no clearer definition of the means by which we realize our desires than to EXPERIENCE IN THE IMAGINATION WHAT WE WOULD EXPERIENCE IN THE FLESH WERE WE TO ACHIEVE OUR GOAL. This imaginary experience of the end with acceptance, wills the means. The fourth-dimensional Self then constructs with its larger outlook the means necessary to realize the accepted end.
The undisciplined mind finds it difficult to assume a state which is denied by the senses. But here is a technique that makes it easy to âcall things which are not seen as though they were,â that is, to encounter an event before it occurs. People have a habit of slighting the importance of simple things. But this simple formula for changing the future was discovered after years of searching and experimenting.
The first step in changing the future is DESIRE, that is, define your objective â know definitely what you want.
Secondly, construct an event which you believe you would encounter FOLLOWING the fulfillment of your desire â an event which implies fulfillment of your desire â something which will have the action of Self predominant.
Thirdly, immobilize the physical body, and induce a condition akin to sleep by imagining that you are sleepy. Lie on a bed, or relax in a chair. Then, with eyelids closed and your attention focused on the action you intend to experience in imagination, mentally feel yourself right into the proposed action; imagining all the while that you are actually performing the action here and now.
Sacred space is the fundamental practice of animism.
Opening sacred space creates a set apart space within a clear
boundary, within which you are present, clear and can be aware of the
spirits that you work with.
Being within sacred space keeps your formal animism work separate
from your daily life, which can be very helpful in the beginning. And as
you progress, sacred space provides support for more powerful, deep
work where you need to keep your intent and energy clear.
Without sacred space, your practice can suffer from distracted intent
and awareness. It can become confusing to practice divination or spirit
communication, and your energy can become open to interference.
Sacred space is important when youâre working any practice that involves clear intent.
This includes divination, spirit communication, energy work, altar work
and ceremony. Itâs also a great way to nourish and re-charge yourself,
simply through being within the space.
Opening sacred space can be as simply as a quick prayer to your
helping ancestors, to a full ceremony with candles and a physical
boundary like a ribbon or salt.
The only essential requirements are the intent to open sacred space
and a power greater than yourself that you can call on. The power can be
anything from your helping ancestors, to a deity, to the elements.