Crystal Connections E-Book

Philip Permutt

• Herausgeber: CICO Books
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

Seitenzahl: 211

Beschreibung

Bestselling author and crystal expert Philip Permutt offers the essential guide on how to take advantage of the powerful properties of crystals and how to apply their healing energies.Crystals not only heal but also affect how we feel and influence our responses to the wider world. They can support us when we feel down and help to boost our natural abilities when we're doing well or need a helping hand. Crystals improve the quality of our lives. If simply by adding beauty, they make us feel better. Crystal Connections is a detailed, accessible and fully illustrated guide to harnessing the magic of crystals, written by one of the world's leading crystal healers. While there are many books on crystals, this one is directed at communicating and understanding the messages within them. Learn how to recognise and connect with the energy of your crystals, work with them in dowsing, divination and healing practices, how they relate to chakras, how to cleanse and look after them and much more. Also included is a full-colour crystal finder section featuring 101 of the most common crystals.

Leseprobe

CRYSTAL

Connections

CRYSTAL

Connections

understand the messages of 101 essential crystalsand how to connect with their wisdom

PHILIP PERMUTT

From the best-selling author ofThe Crystal Healer: Volume 1and Volume 2

Published in 2023 by CICO Books

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Text © Philip Permutt 2023

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ISBN: 978-1-80065-209-5

E-ISBN: 978-1-80065-244-6

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SAFETY NOTE

Please note that while the descriptions of the properties of crystals refer to healing benefits, they are not intended to replace diagnosis of illness or ailments, or healing or medicine. Always consult your doctor or other health professional in the case of illness.

Contents

Introduction

Chapter One

STONE PEOPLE

Crystals are Living Beings

Crystal Energy

Tuning in to Living Crystals

Crystal Colors

Chapter Two

YOUR CRYSTAL FRIENDS

Am I Crazy to Talk to My Crystals?

Cleansing Crystals

Do You Choose Crystals—Or Do They Choose You?

What Makes Some Crystals Special to Me?

Chapter Three

WORKING WITH CRYSTALS

Where Are Crystals Found?

Welcoming New Crystals into Your Home

How to Work with Crystals

Chapter Four

THE HUMAN ENERGY SYSTEM

What Is the Human Energy System?

Chakras and Meridians

Chapter Five

CRYSTAL DIVINATION

What is Divination?

Chapter Six

THE CRYSTAL FINDER

Crystal Index

General Index

Acknowledgments

Introduction:When the Stone People Spoke to Me

It was the year 1991…I had suffered from Crohn’s disease for a decade and had had a couple of bowel re-sections. That’s when a surgeon removes part of your gut and then sticks the rest back together with a giant staple gun! This year it was different. I had another bowel re-section, but this time the sciatic nerve going to my right leg was stuck to my small bowel in multiple places, causing excruciating and continuous pain. The surgeons didn’t think they could separate the nerve from the bowel cleanly. The options were:

(1) hopefully, but very unlikely, the nerve and bowel could be separated;

(2) remove the bowel: side-effect, colostomy bag for the rest of my life; or

(3) sever the sciatic nerve to stop the pain—the side effect of this being that I wouldn’t be able to walk again.

At the age of 31, this is a hell of a decision to have to make.

Anyway, following the operation the doctor said, “The operation was a great success, but I’m sorry, you can’t walk.” And this was the moment in time that I suddenly became interested in alternative therapies!

Over the next few weeks, I tried many different energy therapies, including a lot of crystal healing. One day, I wanted to have a cigarette (yes, back then, like so many other people, I smoked). You were allowed to smoke in one place inside the hospital (yes, back then, you were allowed to smoke in hospitals!). This area was in a corridor by an open window. I was in a room off the corridor, in a bed, with lots of tubes running into me, and I couldn’t walk. I had this drip going into my left arm and that was on a wheelie stand. On the other side of the bed was a big contraption pumping pre-digested food into my heart. Fascinating…I always wondered who digested the food for me! Anyway, I recall somehow managing to maneuver the two wheeled stands to the edge of the bed, into the corridor, and toward the open window in the corridor. And finally, there I was, peacefully minding my own business and having a quiet smoke when a nurse appeared and said: “What are you doing here?” And I thought to myself, here we go, the smoking lecture. Then she said, “You can’t walk, get back to bed!” And that was the moment of realization that, firstly, I could walk again and, secondly, these weird energy treatments I’d been having really worked!

With the aid of my two now-trusted wheeled contraptions, I “walked” back to my room. The first thing I saw was a quartz crystal next to my bed and he said, “So, now you get it.” That was the first time I ever heard a crystal speak. I didn’t imagine it; I felt it through my being. Wow!

Six weeks and two days later, I walked out of the hospital, albeit slowly, without the aid of crutches or walking sticks.

The next 12 months were spent convalescing, acquiring crystals, and learning to listen to their messages. Over the next 30 years, I learned about the amazing Stone People, listening to them and learning their language, healing myself and healing others, and teaching crystal healing and writing books about it.

Crystal Connections sets out to show you my methods for tapping into and understanding these amazing Stone People and the messages they bring us. In my opinion, if crystals can talk, then they must be living…let’s connect with them.

Chapter One

STONE PEOPLE

Are crystals alive? Well, we’re going to delve into the concept of crystals as living beings and how they might be the original source of DNA and complex life as we know it.

Then we’ll explore crystal energy and some of the ways it affects us. You will discover practical exercises to show you how you can tune in to crystal energy and listen to the messages your crystals hold for you.

Crystals Are Living Beings

Many moons ago, I did a degree in Applied Biology. The question always asked during my studies was what is the borderline of life? In other words, what is the lowest evolutionary level at which something can be described as alive? Biologists agree that for an organism to be considered as living, then it or its species must be able to eat, grow, and reproduce. About half of all biologists will tell you that the lowest organism on the evolutionary scale is a bacterium, which is a single-celled organism that has a cell wall but no central nucleus, whereas the other half say it is a virus, a core of RNA or DNA genetic material surrounded by a protective coat of protein.

Bacteria

So, let’s explore the difference between bacteria and viruses. Imagine an experiment in which you take some bacteria and put them in a petri dish. This is a plastic dish, often used in laboratories, with a tight-fitting cover and half-filled with a growth medium, which is a liquid or gel that contains everything the bacteria need to survive. If you leave the dish in the corner of a lab, when you come back the following week, there will be lots and lots of bacteria because they have eaten the growth medium, grown slightly, and reproduced massively.

You cannot do this with viruses because they are only able to replicate inside the living cells of a specific host. In fact, viruses are highly specialized and must be in a very specific host environment in order to thrive. However, if you kept them in the specific environment for that species of virus, then you would find they had eaten their environment, grown a little, and reproduced a lot.

Virus

The only difference between bacteria and viruses is that the latter need to be in their own specific growing medium. In general, a virus that affects your lungs cannot infect those of your cat; the virus that makes your budgie’s feathers fall out cannot affect you; and the virus that infects your skin cannot infect your kidneys—viruses are usually that specific. Interestingly, this is also why on the very rare occasion that a virus jumps species, we have a pandemic, just like the one caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.

Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2

ARE CRYSTALS ALIVE TOO?

Now let’s explore whether crystals are also living organisms, using the definitions used by biologists for all life forms—that they can eat, grow, and reproduce:

Crystals can eat Crystals eat the environment in which they are growing, as this contains readily available building blocks of the mineral from which they are made. Quartz crystals, for example, “eat” oxygen and silicon from their surroundings, while selenite requires oxygen, hydrogen, calcium, and sulfur to grow.

Crystals can grow Crystals grow, which is why you find small ones and large ones! The larger ones were once little crystals too.

Crystals can reproduce Crystals reproduce in two ways: through separation and seeding. Separation occurs if a crystal breaks away from its crystal family while it is growing, which can be caused by earthquakes, the Earth’s tectonic movements, or even lightning strikes. When this happens, the crystal sometimes starts to produce “babies” at the broken end. These are often called self-healed crystals.

Self-healed crystal

In seeding, small pieces of crystal break off and act as a “seed” for a new crystal. Dust particles in the growing medium can also act as a seed to start the crystal-growing process (see Cairns-Smith, A. G., Seven Clues to the Origin of Life, CUP, 1985). To understand the seeding reproduction method, we must consider the age of a crystal and the age of the planet, and recognize that we as human beings cannot begin to comprehend these huge expanses of time. Crystals exist on a different time scale to us, with many being millions, hundreds of millions, or even billions of years old. For example, although quartz and selenite crystals can be ancient, some are still growing and even the younger ones may have started growing when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, and the youngest may have been seeded today. The oldest crystals, such as zircon, formed when the Earth first became solid around four billion years ago.

Zircon

If you destroy a quartz crystal, smashing it into a million pieces and scattering them, each small piece of crystal that ends up in the perfect growing environment for quartz crystals will act as a seed crystal and grow into a new crystal. Quartz crystals are found all over the world because over the last four billion years every part of the Earth’s surface has, at one time or another, provided the perfect growing environment for quartz crystals. Then, over the next 11 billion years—before we disappear into the Sun—it is likely that every area of the planet’s surface will, at different times, continue to provide the perfect growing environment for quartz.

Therefore, we can perhaps class crystals as living beings because, just like viruses, they need a specific growing environment in which to flourish. If we regard viruses as living, then surely the same applies to crystals?

Crystals have an intelligence different to ours. When you are drawn to a crystal, are you choosing the crystal or is it choosing you?

SACRED PIPESTONE

Fascinatingly, the sacred pipestone, which is used to make the ceremonial pipes of America’s First Nation peoples, is catlinite (or kaolinite), one of the very crystals purported to be the first form of life.

Catlinite rough rock

THE SOURCE OF LIFE?

Crystals are likely to be the source of life on Earth, possibly creating the genetic code of life—the RNA/DNA polymers containing the genetic instructions that allow complex organisms to replicate (see Cairns-Smith, A. G. and H. Hartman (eds), Clay Minerals and the Origin of Life, CUP, 1987). In fact, some scientists believe crystals could even be our oldest ancestors (see Cairns-Smith, A. G., Oliver and Boyd, The Life Puzzle, University of Toronto Press, 1971)! Although this may seem improbable, I like to remember the following lines from Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: “It is an old maxim of mine that when you exclude the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”

Catlinite

Crystal Energy

Crystals are all around us every day. Most people think of crystals as the pretty items you can buy in crystal stores and gift stores, but I like to include the whole mineral kingdom in my colloquial use of the word “crystal.” So, this includes crystals, gems, jewelry gemstones, rocks, pebbles on the beach or in your backyard, sacred monoliths and stone circles, and even a mountain made of crystals, rocks, and minerals. Just as individual crystals can “talk” to you, so the land speaks to you too. You will also find crystals inside today’s modern gadgets and technology, such as quartz and tourmaline crystals with their solid state electric field in electrical circuits and rubies in laser technology. In fact, our entire 21st-century lifestyle is based on crystal technology.

Ruby in laser technology

Cradle of Humankind, Republic of South Africa

The Cradle of Humankind lies about 50km (31 miles) northwest of Johannesburg, in the Republic of South Africa. Declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1999, the area is home to the world’s largest number of fossils of our human ancestors. There is a series of caves in the region that contain the earliest human remains found so far. These include some species of hominid, primates (including humans), and their ancient, bipedal, upright-walking relatives who evolved into you and me, as well as several that disappeared along the evolutionary ladder. They were found at different levels in the caves as archeologists excavated the sites over many years. Connecting all these different species is the use of crystals in the form of stone tools, which have been found at every level of the caves. This means that around 3.3 million years ago, our ancestors invented a primitive form of crystal technology—and we’re still using crystals in technology today.

Ancient human remains

CONNECTING WITH CRYSTAL ENERGY

In this book, I am more interested in the subtle energies of crystals, as it is these that influence people. You may have noticed this when you go into a crystal store or visit a friend with an abundance of crystals in their home. The place just feels different, and it is this sense of difference that we are going to explore.

To help you feel and experience crystal energy for yourself, using each of your five senses—hearing, sight, smell, taste, and touch—I’m going to show you a practical meditation exercise. Some people talk about also having a special sense, although I’m not sure we need this at all because our five natural senses are enough for us to connect with crystals. However, we do need to stretch our five senses as much as we can to sense subtle energies. Everyone can do this, although some people find it easier and are sometimes described as having a sixth sense. But this is essentially just one or more of their five well-trained senses. So, you don’t need an extra-special sixth sense to connect with crystals, but simply to turn your “ordinary” five senses into extraordinary ones.

exercise:SENSING CRYSTAL ENERGY

You can do this exercise with any type of crystal, but I find a natural quartz crystal is the easiest to start with. Once you have a little experience, try the exercise with each crystal in your collection. Rest assured that the size of your collection doesn’t matter—as soon as you have two crystals, you have a collection!

Sometimes it can be helpful to play some relaxing music during this exercise (and the many others throughout the book). It enables you to get “into the zone,” focus your senses, and hide any small, distracting noises around you. I always play my album Walking the Walk for this, but you can listen to anything that helps you relax and focus.

Blue Mist Lemurian quartz

1PrepareTreat the exercise like a meditation and do the Meditation Preparation (see box, page 18) before you start.

2See the crystal Hold a quartz crystal in your hand and look at it. Examine the crystal closely with your eyes. Take your time with this and allow yourself to notice all the details of the crystal’s surface: the flat parts, the uneven areas, and any shapes or patterns that catch your eye. Make sure you do this for each of the six sides, the termination, and the base of the crystal.

3Feel the crystal Now close your eyes and repeat the process with your fingertips, exploring the crystal with your sense of touch. Feel the smooth elements and the rough sections, the pointy bits, the sharp edges and point, and the regions that feel hard or soft in your hand. It’s strange, but when you’re sensing energy, some areas of a solid rock can feel “soft.”

4Hear the crystal Next, hold one of the sides of the crystal close to your ear (about 5–10mm/¼–½in. away) and listen. As you listen, you will start to notice a gentle sound emanating from the crystal, which is its physical vibration. Many people say this is like the sound you hear when you hold a seashell to your ear, but not quite the same. This is because of how the sound is generated. With a seashell the air flows into the closed spiral of the shell and you hear it rushing out again, whereas with a crystal you are listening to the physical vibration of the crystal. If you have difficulty hearing this crystal vibration, try holding different sides of the crystal, or one end or the other, close to your ear. In the same way that you can see and touch the crystal, you can also quite naturally hear the crystal vibrations.

5Smell the crystal Then go through the same process with your nose, holding the crystal under your nose and sniffing it. Yes, crystals have an individual smell.

6Taste the crystal First make sure the crystal is physically clean, washing it thoroughly in dishwashing liquid—the better brands are gentler on crystals as well as your hands—and rinsing it under running water from the tap, or a bottle or stream if you prefer (see page 40). Then place the crystal on the end of your tongue, so you can taste it. You’ll find that each type of crystal has a different taste.

7Keep practicing As you explore your crystal collection, you will notice more and more subtle differences between how your crystal friends look, feel, sound, smell, and taste. This exercise will also increase the range of your senses and you will become more aware of energies and sensations in your everyday world.

Safety Note: Please do not perform the last part of this exercise—the tasting—with any crystal that has a “No Elixir” warning in the Crystal Finder (see pages 102–39). For more on washing and cleansing crystals, and why this should be avoided in some cases, see page 39. Please also note that some crystals, such as selenite and celestite, may be damaged by water, so omit the tasting part of this exercise if you cannot safely wash your crystal.

MEDITATION PREPARATION

You should do this preparation before all the meditations in the book. Find a quiet, comfortable place where you will not be disturbed. If you live with other people, ask not to be disturbed or perhaps put a “Do Not Disturb” sign on your door. If you have children or pets, make sure they are occupied and won’t need anything from you for a while. Unplug your telephone and turn off your cell phone. Wear comfortable clothes; if you are wearing anything tight-fitting like a belt or tie, take it off or loosen it, so you are not restricted. Make yourself comfortable and sit upright, with your feet on the floor or your legs crossed. Take three slow, deep breaths, breathing in through your nose and out through your mouth. In your mind, imagine tree roots growing from your feet into the earth beneath you. See them go deeper and deeper into the earth, grounding you before you begin to meditate.

CRYSTAL ENERGY—WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS

Once you realize that you can sense crystal energy, it becomes very easy to apply crystals to most situations in your everyday life—if you’re feeling sad or low, for example, or when a little inspiration would help you. You start to sense when you need a specific crystal and hear when one is calling you. You begin listening to your crystal friends. And, yes, they do become friends! Like human friends, some crystals will come and go in your life, while others will become lifelong companions. As a result, I always avoid the word “use” in my crystal books because I really do treat all my crystals as friends—you wouldn’t “use” a friend, would you? I work with crystals, carry and hold them, talk to them, and listen to them. Sometimes I play with them, and I always listen to their wisdom. Remember, crystals have been around for millions and sometimes billions of years, so they potentially carry a great deal of wisdom.

Calcite

Keep some tumble polished stones in each room of your home, so you always have a variety of crystals handy whenever you need them—by filling your home with crystals, you’ll be filling it with love!

GETTING STARTED—HOW CRYSTALS CAN HELP

Here are some thoughts on how you can simply and easily call on crystals every day to enhance your life and help you deal with various issues. For more on this, see the Crystal Finder, pages 102–39.

Restore tranquility Bring peace to your home with Himalayan salt lamps. These are made from halite (rock salt) and produce negative ions that will freshen a room. You can also place large calcite crystals or rocks all around the home.

Calcite

Combat negative energy Selenite lamps and crystals will help cleanse your home or office of unhelpful energies.

Selenite

Transform negativity Crystals such as amethyst and clear quartz clusters and crystal balls can absorb negativity from people and transform that energy into something positive and helpful. They can make your home feel much better after an argument.

Quartz

Relax and unwind Amethyst brings a deep sense of relaxation and so is welcome in any space where you like to chill out, such as your living room or bedroom. Amethyst geodes are super powerful for this and bring a feeling of spirituality and spiritual love to your home. Adding rose quartz to your bath can also help you relax and promotes soft skin too.

Amethyst

Provide protectionTourmaline crystals can create a bubble of energetic protection around your home, or anywhere or anyone you like. Carry a tourmaline crystal with you and give one to someone you love! You can also wear tourmaline crystals in pieces of jewelry or carry them in a pocket or small neck bag, or even pop one in your bra (if you wear one). Place larger ones in your home, office, or workplace and car.

Rose quartz

Tourmaline

Be inspired Place pyrite and citrine where you work to bring sparks of inspiration and abundance to your endeavors.

Pyrite

Increase sensitivity Wear or carry lapis lazuli to make you more aware of the energies around you. With a little practice, this crystal will tell you how other people are really feeling.

Lapis lazuli

Increase loving energy A bedroom recipe might include rose quartz for both loving yourself and creating or reinforcing a loving relationship. Rhodochrosite brings passion to any relationship; malachite aids sleep and helps to restore broken sleep patterns.

Rhodochrosite

Deal with worry If you’re worrying about anything, hold tourmaline or sugilite to help ease your mind.

Malachite

Calm and release Blue calcite is good for calming babies and children, while orange calcite can help you release trapped emotions and turn them into laughter.

Sugilite

Heal and restore Quartz crystal will help with any healing. Although there may be a better crystal for a specific issue, quartz is good for everything, whether this is a physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual problem.

Calcite

Treat indoor plants Add brecciated jasper, clear quartz, and agate to your indoor plant pots to promote healthy growth.

Jasper

Crazy lace agate

CRYSTAL POWER—A QUICK EXPERIMENT

If you already have a few crystals, you can try a little experiment. Move them all into one room, then observe the reaction of visitors as they go from room to room and enter the one with the crystals. This room will feel different to all the others in your home, and everyone will notice the difference, even if they don’t know what it is or understand what they are are feeling.

Tuning in to Living Crystals

When I receive a new crystal, I like to get to know it. There’s no right or wrong way to do this, in the same way that there’s no right or wrong way to get to know a new friend or work colleague. Personally, I like to keep my new crystal nearby. If it’s small enough, I’ll keep it in my pocket, then take it out, hold it, feel its energy, and listen to anything that it has to say.