pugdog
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Jun 18, 2003, 7:38 AM
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First rule of picking crystals and healing stones...
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Rule #1: THERE ARE NO RULES!
Rule #2: In all other cases, situations and eventualities, adhere to Rule #1
Ok, it's cliche. It's trite. But is True!
One person's crystal jewel, is another's chunk of quartz. And that is how it is.
I think I was forever changed by Penn and Tellers "B*S" show. The show on Feng Shui. Lke Allan Funt's Candid Camera, they set up a room, and had 3 different Feng Shui practitioners (at *GREAT* cost) come in and examine the room. All felt it was sick, and had to be rearranged (even after the other 2 had just rearranged it!). The last guy forgot to turn his microphone off, and left the room saying "It still looks like sh*t"!
The point? The point is that if there are rules, people break them.
If something makes you feel good, why should you let ANYONE ELSE -- no matter who they are -- tell you it's bad? (Of course, there are some exceptions to that, but we are talking about crystals, furniture and rocks here.)
If you pay someone, they need to justify the payment, so they make up things, and do things, that may be unnecessary. Then again, they may just be trying to get your payment, with absolutely no intention of truly providing the services you contracted for. (But then, go ahead and prove it!).
How would you feel if you paid out $2000 (the going big-city average it seems) for a Feng Shui consultation, and the person asked "Are you happy here?" and you said "Yes." and they said "Good, nothing needs to be changed." You'd be pretty p*ssed off, right? So, they change things. When they leave, you feel you paid for something, but as you look around the room, the "joy" you had before is gone, and now you have a heavy feeling. You then go and find another practitioner to "fix" this, and so on. You have been caught in the analogous situation to the psychotherapy trap. Sad thing is, there was nothing wrong, or broken to begin with.
Let's go back to Rule #1.
You find a crystal. It feels good. It makes you feel good. You like it. That's *all* that matters. Your energy, and the energy of that particular crystal are in sync. No one else can "find" that for you -- especially by mail. No one else can "charge" it up for you -- no matter what cost. It's YOUR crystal.
Let's look at Rule #2.
You go to a crystal shop, metaphysical place of wishwash, or $1200 retreat. The "host" has a selection of items he's trying to sell, to pad his pockets. He touches your hand. You feel a shock (after all, he's sitting on carpet). He now picks a crystal and says "this is yours." You pick it up. Nothing. No good feelings. No happiness. And now, a wave of guilt comes over you, because *HE* said it was YOUR crystal! You feel something is wrong with you. You open your wallet, and buy the crystal, as well as $200 more of things you don't need, didn't need, and don't really want, but you want to know why you are not feeling what *HE* is feeling about this crystal.
Well, what *HE* is feeling is very happy and content, since *HE* just bilked you of $200+ of stuff.
Yep. I use the term BILKED. As in fraud. As in charlatan. As in swindled.
If not on a crimial level as defined by our judicial system, then on a moral (and metaphysical level).
Ok.
I've gotten that out of my system.
But you say, "I really did learn to feel what *HE* saw in that crystal for me."
Good. You deserved to pay $1200 + $200+ for something you could have found out on your own for $40 or so.
Besides, most of the crystals I've seen pawned off this way are sub-grade crystals, bought bulk from Brazil. They are not even the high-grade, super-clear Arkansas crystals that can be had for as little as $60 PER POUND for high grade stuff, or $120 a pound or so for stuff that will mesmerize you. CRYSTALS have that power, no one "gives" it to them.
That is the point.
If you do your own leg work, use your own eyes, or engage your own brain, you will learn more in a few minutes of handling crystals and talking with a knowledgable miner or sales person than you can be "taught" in any metaphysical money mill.
In closing, you must be wondering, "Are all such things bad? I like my local magick shop." No, not everyone is bad. Not all practitioners are in it for the big bucks. But, as Henry Kissinger said many years ago, about politicians,
"It's a shame a mere 90% of all [fill in the blank] have to ruin it for the other 10%."
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