Because they can transmit a piezo-electric charge, they are also expressions of fire. They are related to water both in their molecular structure and their ice-like appearance. And just as air lets light pass through its clarity, so do crystals.

In relating to crystals, then we are relating to concrete embodiments of the four elements- the elements of ourselves and everything around us. So when you carry a crystal around with you, you're carrying all the elements of creation itself, in your pocket or hung around your neck.

Their beauty speaks to the child within each of us and invites us into the mystery or spirit realm that resonates in and through the elemental and etheric stuff of our world and ourselves.

One hundred years ago people did not know about the existence of radio waves (or any other electromagnetic wave forms such as cosmic waves); only a few scientists were aware that heat and light could be virtually the same thing.

Yet a short time later radio broadcasting and receiving started and the early radio sets contained a crystal of quartz galena, though nobody really understood how crystals were able to collect and focus radio waves.

Scientifically minded people who believe in the spiritual energy of gems and crystals, believe that spiritual energy moves in a similar way to electro-magnetic energy such as radio waves, light and heat; it obviously has different properties or we would be able to measure it on existing scientific instruments.

They simply believe that the instruments upon this spiritual energy could be detected, have not yet been invented (like radio waves 150 years ago). They believe that spiritual energy is present throughout the whole universe but that it is most concentrated upon planetary bodies such as Earth. Since silica is the commonest element in the Earth's crust and since quartz represents silica in its purest form when combined with oxygen.

Many of the healers I have spoken to believe that crystals can absorb more of their own spiritual energies, if they are in close contact with their bodies; also that some crystal energies are enhanced if it is set in a pure metal. Nine carat gold is very impure (37.5% gold, 62.5% copper) we therefore offer a range of quartz and other gems in the finest silver and designed to hang around the neck in contact with the skin.

Many people assume that interest in crystals and crystal lore has come about as a spin-off from human potential movement or New Age thinking and practice. In short they assume that crystals are just another middle-class diversion, another fad. No assumption could be more mistaken.

Primal and rural people all over the world have used crystal from before recorded time to heal themselves and their animals and to strengthen their spiritual abilities to enter psychic realms closed to everyday perception.

Fortunately, at least some of this wisdom gathered by shamans and healers and seers has come down to us through countless generations and is being renewed among us today.

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