Kac Young - Crystal Power: 12 Essential Crystals for Health & Healing

Llewellyn Publications

Woodbury, Minnesota

Dedication

To Frank Alper and the healers and masters in the world
who believe in the natural healing power of crystals,
with gratitude and a desire to pass along
what I have learned.

Contents

List of

: The Art of Healing with Crystals

: My Top 12 Healing Crystals and Their Pairings

: The Chakras, Color, and Healing Through Opposites

: Pairing Crystals with Essential Oils

: Combining Crystals with the Laws of Karma

: Combining Crystals with Archetypes

: Connecting Crystals with Astrological Signs

: Using Crystals and Goddess Energy

: Step-by-Step Crystal Healing Session

: Potentially Toxic Minerals

Illustrations

(The Smell Brain)

Tables

Special Mentions
and Appreciation

Going back to my roots of crystal knowledge, I want to thank my first teacher, Frank Alper, without whom there would be no life with crystals to write about.

To my crystal specialists Betty Greenberg, Tak and Ginny Matsuda, and Fayez Barakat and all of the wonderful crystal miners and shopkeepers who have sold me my treasured crystal healers and friends. Special thanks to Angela Wix for her input, organization, and editorial guidance.

Super special thanks to Patricia Mischell, Jacklyn Zeman, Keith Bednarczuk, Terah Kathryn Collins, Brian Collins, Marlene Morris, Lisa Tenzin-Dolma, Lisa Hagan, and Beth Wareham for being part of my life story and writing about it. I cannot mention my clients by name, but I thank them for being open and willing to change and follow the path the crystals took them on.

Other acknowledgments include J. Randy Taraborrelli, Spencer Douglas Taraborrelli, Tracy Abbott Cook, Hadley Fitzgerald, Dr. Paula Joyce, Keith Anthony Blanchard, Aurora Heinemann, Maegan Day, Monique Chapman, and Judy Aron.

Foreword

I had the delight to meet Dr. Kac Young twenty years ago. I was teaching a course on archetypal healing and she was a student. As a teacher, you always appreciate the one student in every class who asks questions that challenge your own understanding of your own material. Even then, Kac was clearly a great healer in the process of unfolding and finding the right tools. She brought depth, questioning, and a hunger for truth to our classes and helped me to better organize my own teaching processa true gift.

If you are already familiar with her numerous other books, you can hear the sweet song of her soul in her words. Kac exudes unconditional love. She has an enormous heart chakra, I suspect.

Kac is also a big-picture person who can hold incredible details at hand while stepping back to take in a broader reality. This is the best kind of author for a book about crystal healing. As a reader, you want to know exactly how to best use which crystals to achieve specific results, and you want an understanding of the concepts so that you can apply the techniques to any healing scenario. She delivers this and more. This is an ultimate compendium, with everything you need to know not just about these healing crystals but about using them with other energetic partners, such as essential oils.

Archetypal healing is based on the premise that life is all there is. Life pervades all space and all realities. It is the creator expressed in every possible way. Everything is alive. Accept this principle and healing happens.

Happiness also happens. There is a lot more connection available to you than what can be found with people, animals, and trees. New dimensions open up to you and suddenly you have friends in the form of crystals, candle flames, wind currents, lakes, and streams. Answers come from staring at treetops waving against the sky, stars twinkling in outer space, and waves lapping onto the shore. Spend a quiet week in nature and youll know what Im talking about.