How many of you believe that stones and rocks have energy in them that can change your life?
I have researched this topic and cannot get a straight or credible answer from anywhere that this is actually possible.
If you believe in it, or have personal experience with it, please share with me. I want to believe that an inanimate object has power that can heal me, make me happy, keep me from harm, etc. I really do. But I’m too much of a skeptic.
I even bought some stones that were supposed to do something but they don’t work! However, I felt a tingling in my hand after a quartz was placed above it in a circular motion. :eek:
Orpiment and realgar together produce a “life changing” form of arsenic. Other than that I’d imagine most of the energy that comes from a stone actually originates in the holder’s mind.
I’m afraid it’s probably a willingness to believe thing.
A rock can have lots of kinetic energy when you throw it.
But seriously… I have some rocks that will heal any ailment. I normally sell them for $79.99 each. But for a limited time, I am willing to sell them for the astonishingly low price of just $49.99. Each comes with its own certificate of authenticity. Call now, operators are standing by.
Rocks and stones made a big difference in my life, just as soon as I learned to throw them accurately. Figuring out how to relocate them turned out to be pretty important too. My life became a lot more enjoyable once I learned how to get my rocks off.
Stones can have great powers in emotional well-being. My wife has found great solace in the crystalline carbon that she constantly wears. Such joy it brings her that she always feels the need for more - or perhaps the effect wears out slowly over time and needs to be renewed with new crystals. I’m not sure. I’ll have ask DeBeers on that one.
Further, large stones can be “charged” with energy. They actually absorb the radiant energy of some of the fundemental universal reactions, such as fusing Hydrogen, and convert it to deep thermal energy. They can then be placed against the small of the back or between the shoulderblades for tension relief.
The best stones for this, IMO, are large river pebbles.
I’m glad you’re a skeptic, purrtygirl. There is absolutely no credible evidence that rocks, especially crystals, have any healing powers. The only exception are radioactive compounds used in treatment of cancer, and similar diseases. But these are best left to the experts.
Oh, and I suppose chewing on a chunk of iron-rich rock could help with iron-deficiency anemia.
Ye cats, one of my college roommates had a serious thing for crystals. This was not merely a trivial personality quirk, but a genuinely ugly obsession. I don’t know what planet he was ordering them from, but the number of crystals gradually increased over the semester until practically the entire continent of Atlantis was relocated to our dorm room. Every crystal had a specific function, too, which he was only too eager to explain at great length. At that point of my life I was still trying to get along with other people, so I never expressed more than polite disinterest (not that he ever picked up on the hint). But by the end of the year the situation was truly alarming. Worse, the crystals started to migrate to my side of the dorm. One time while I was looking for a textbook, I happened to discover a large geode hidden under my bed. When confronted, he confessed that he had been trying to help me with my allergies. What do you say to something like that?
The final straw came when an acquaintance and I walked into the apartment one day, only to narrowly avoid tripping over a huge chunk of quartz sitting right smack in front of the door-- evidently placed there to improve the feng shui or some damn thing. When roommate guy showed up, I rather harshly outlined some new SOP’s for crystal use. Roomie was shocked; didn’t I realize exams were coming up? Didn’t I want the power of crystals to facilitate my studies? Didn’t I realize that quartz improved memory?
My smart-ass buddy, who had been listening silently to this whole exchange, picked up the quartz boulder at this point and made a show of examining it closely. “Nooo…” he said at last, shaking his head with an air of authority. “No, this isn’t a memory crystal you have here. See the number of facets along each side? What you have here is a bug stone.”
My roommate turned to look at him. “What?”
“A bug stone,” he repeated with great sincerity. “They appear very similar to memory quartz, but all they do is attract bugs. A lot of unscrupulous crystal dealers will try to pass off bug stones as memory crystal; I’m afraid you’ve been ripped off. You should demand your money back.”
The look on my roommate’s face was a wonder to behold. I have absolutely no doubt that wherever he and his crystals are now, every insect he sees is a fresh source of doubt and anxiety: "Oh no…do I have a bug stone in my collection?"
Quartz has a magic property, or so it seems–quartz is a piezoelectric material and is perfectly suited for the manufacture of piezoelectric quartz crystal units, which in turn are used as the frequency controlling element in crystal controlled oscillators. Betcha didn’t know that. These oscillators and crystal units are used in conjunction with microprocessors in such applications as computers, modern automobiles, sewing machines, microwave ovens and everywhere that a timing element is required. A tuning-fork shaped piece of quartz provides the timing base for electronic clocks and watches, for instance. Quartz is enantiomorphous and birefringent, as well. It melts at 1750 C and transforms from Alpha to Beta at 573 C. But, quartz crystals will not cure disease, improve your memory and they did not provide the power source for Atlantis. During WW II, the establishment of a piezoelectric quartz crystal industry held priority second only to the Manhattan Project. I like quartz, but it ain’t mystical.
For the most demanding frequency generation applications, the quartz crystal oscillator must be held at a very stable temperature. Jet fighters and other aircraft rely upon the exceptionally precise frequency standards which crystal oscillators provide for their communication systems. Operating at millions of cycles per second, even minute amounts of drift in their rate of oscillation can manifest as detuning of a broadcast transmitter’s center frequency. High altitude aircraft can undergo extreme changes of ambient temperature in a matter of minutes. To prevent this sort of perturbation, the quartz oscillators are contained in a small and extremely well voltage regulated heated enclosure known as a “cystal oven.”
Purrty