Philip Permutt - The Modern Guide to Crystal Healing

the modern guide to

Crystal

Healing

the modern guide to

Crystal

Healing

includes over 400 crystals to transform your life

philip permutt

Published in 2021 by CICO Books

An imprint of Ryland Peters & Small Ltd

www.rylandpeters.com

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Text Philip Permutt 2021

Design, illustration, and photography CICO Books 2021

Text in this book has previously appeared in The Crystal Healer: Volume 1 and The Crystal Healer: Volume 2.

The authors moral rights have been asserted. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher.

A CIP catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress and the British Library.

ISBN: 978-1-80065-009-1

E-ISBN: 978-1-80065-045-9

Printed in China

Editors: Kesta Diamond and Marion Paull

Design concept: Emily Breen

Photographers: Roy Palmer and Geoff Dann

Illustrators: Trina Dalziel and Tiffany Lynch

Commissioning editor: Kristine Pidkameny

Senior editor: Carmel Edmonds

In-house designer: Paul Stradling

Art director: Sally Powell

Head of production: Patricia Harrington

Publishing manager: Penny Craig

Publisher: Cindy Richards

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

Crystals have been worked with by medicine people and shamen around the world for thousands of years. Their recorded use dates back over 5,000 years in Chinese texts on traditional medicine, Ayurvedic texts from India, and the Bible, which has over 200 references to crystals and their powers and associations. Crystals have been found around the world in prehistoric graves of different cultures, from the Olmec civilization in Central America to the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt. The Greek philosopher Theophrastus (372287 BCE) wrote a text titled Peri Lithon (On Stones), which is the basis of todays modern scientific classification of gemstones. Theophrastus presented a taxonomy of known gems, including their origin, physical properties, and magical and healing powers.

Today, people across the world have a natural affinity for and knowledge of crystals and their healing powers. Many of my students say that crystal work feels such a natural way of working, or they say I feel like I have always done it. The healing properties of crystals are universal.

What are crystals?

Crystals are natural solids made from minerals. They are formed in the earths surface. Although there are many different shapes, colors, and sizes of crystal, each type of crystal has a precise atomic arrangement.

Crystals can be identified by their color (although there may be significant variation within one type of crystal), mineral composition, crystal habit, and degree of hardness. The degree of hardness of a crystal is described by the Mohs Scale of Mineral Hardness. This scale is named after its developer, the German scientist Friedrich Mohs, and it indicates how hard minerals are in relation to each other.

How crystals work

There are many explanationsmystical, magical, scientific, and pseudo-scientificfor the healing effects of crystals. It is now understood that crystals work through the human energy systemthat is the chakras (see ) and auraand not through the physical body. By their influence on the energy system, crystals can effect healing within the physical body. The results of using crystals are reported throughout history and science and their healing abilities are attested to by an ever-growing bank of anecdotal evidence.

Scientific evidence

To date, although science has failed to prove a direct effect of crystals on any disease or condition, it has shown that crystals do indeed vibrate and they exhibit both piezoelectric and pyroelectric effects. Crystals have also been shown to hold both heat and electricity and to focus light energy. These special properties of crystals have numerous practical applications, from the use of quartz crystals in watches to the development of lasersand crystals can even store data, seen in five-dimensional quartz crystal computer chips.

What else happens? Well, we know that crystals enhance the placebo effect (where something has a healing effect because it changes chemicals in the brain which make us feel better). This always occurs in any type of healing process, including the prescribing of pharmaceutical drugs. Finally, the explanation that crystals work by magic also has some validity, if magic is defined as that which is beyond our understanding at this point in time.

The scientific research into the properties of crystals is ongoing. Recent research into quartz crystals has shown that crystals increase the frequency of light passed through them. New scientific studies into dark matter and dark energy (scientific fields of study which are just being opened up), along with quantum mechanics (a branch of physics that looks at the motion and interaction of sub-atomic particles), will contribute to our understanding of how crystals work.