The Energy of Crystals

[darknesslight]

I've always been a bit confused about this...

First: Do crystals each have their own energy source or are they empty receptacles that have specific properties that come into effect when power is channeled into the crystals?

Second: Does anyone know specifically *why* some crystals have some properties and others have different? Where they discovered or something else?

Third: This might not necessarily belong here. Do you think that if you understand the physical structure of crystals as well as the growth and other aspects of the physical part of crystals, you would be able to use crystals with more efficiency or with greater ability? I've been wondering about this, and wondered also if it could apply to Reiki. If you understood the physics of energy and understood the physical biology of human beings or the physical structure of whatever you were directing the reiki energy to, would it be easier?

[effie]

Hmmmmm. Those are toughies. These are my thoughts on this.

Crystals not only have their own energy source (Channelled from The Source, no doubt.) but they also have personalities. A lot of sites and books that talk about what a crystal is supposed to mean are guidlines. A big thing about Crystal work, is you have to listen to the crystal. You have to make a connection with it, and listen to what it has to say. It will tell you what it will do for you, it will tell you what it prefers (sunlight or moonlight, lying out in the open or in cloth, being worn or not. Male or female, how it likes to be held. ) If you are, in a way their best friend (you get to know them, meditate with them, place them so you are near them a lot) then they will help you for as long as you need it. they will do what They, individually, can do for you without asking. Also, a lot of properties have been assigned by very intuitive people, and they are told by spirit and crystal what properties they have.

Crystals just are. A lot of attributes are, lets say, Traditional. Traditional as in first peoples who found them and assigned properties to them. Religious belief, meanings of colour, and basically what the crystal said to them. from there it was passed on and more was added. I doubt where they were discovered has any effect, but many believe that they hold the wisdom and stories of the soil that held them. I could agree, since the earth is made up of so many energies, that crystals would absorb what She knows.
I guess its safe to say that the colour and structure (and stuff its made of) effects the frequency, so it's more suited to one property than the other.

I think the last bit does belong here, because im not sure it belongs anywhere else.
I don't think that scientific understanding will effect it much, except in the way of faith. if you BELIEVE that knowing biology, the physics of energy and about the formation/structure of the crystal makes you able to use them more efficiently, then it will, simply because you believe. Its amazing what belief will do.

So someone who doesnt know much about biology, formation/structure of the crystal, or the physics of energy will still have the same healing abilities as one who is very knowledgable about it. (Unless the knowledgable one shoots down the other person, making them think their abilities are lower. Again, it all has to do with FAITH.)

Hope i was helpful and didnt confuse you. I tend to ramble a bit.

Much Love,
~effie

PS. I think i remember you saying you were interested in EC, and for anyone else interested in EC, sites and books talking about properties are good guidlines for EC's. EC is really just a concentration of energy formed by intention to mimic healing properties of crystals.

[darknesslight]

So, if you were an EC user, would the personality of the crystal you're using the ethereal form of have any effect? Here, every physical manifestation of crystals has its own personality. When you use an EC, as you said, you're using the energy that would reside in a normal crystal. So, when you're using ECs, how would you "get to know" the crystal better? Would the crystals still be affected by things such as sunlight or moonlight?

Also, do you mean the ECs are energy mimicking the properties of actual crystals, or are ECs the energy *of* the actual crystals?

[effie]

Sorry that I wasnt very clear about the EC part. Let me think here, I'll try to re-word it so it makes more sense.

Okay. To keep me from sounding like a broken record, I'll stick with relatively short answers. I have a longer version typed out if you REEEEEAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLY wanna read it.

EC's don't really have personalities. It's just manipulated energy to do what a physical crystal would do according to generalized and 'traditional' meanings.
Ethereal crystals you can only get to know better, by learning the generalized and traditional meanings, along with using your intuition to decide which ones are better for what you want to do. I doubt it will be affected by light, because light is what adds to a physical crystals energy (it's good to 'refresh' physicals whenever they need it) where EC's are purely energy and they dont have to worry about depletion because it stays as long as neccessary. The preferences of physical crystals have to do with their frequencies (affected by shade of colour and structure), where EC's are just energy set with the intention to do a specific thing.

IE. Amethyst comes in different shades of purple. light to dark. It also can be cloudy to clear. and sometimes there could be lines through it that catch the light a certain way. Sometimes there's white parts, or colourless patches. All those affect the frequency of a peice of amethyst, giving it it's own unique frequency which for a crystal is its personality. The same applies to all crystals.

This bit is my personal opinion but yes, i believe that EC is energy made to mimic the properties of physical crystals. I'll leave it here so i dont confuse the heck out of anyone anymore @_@

I sincerely hope I was some help this time as well. If i was a broken record, I really didnt mean to be.

Blessed Be,
~effie