The Power of Crystal

I like crystals, especially the magic power of crystal. Because I was captivated, I began to learn about the knowledge of crystal one year ago.  A crystal is a solid formed by the solidification of chemicals, has a regularly repeating internal arrangement of atoms and molecules, and is bounded by external plane faces. Crystal particles form a variety of geometrical shapes due to their internal compressions. Crystals have aesthetic properties that have long made them attractive in jewelry, but they also have some properties that make them very important to the electronics and optical industries. Today, crystals are used in just about every type of modern technology.

For centuries, crystals and other gems have been desired for their alleged magical healing and mystical paranormal powers. Even now the power of crystals among -occultists and healers, though it is based on nothing more than testimonials, the placebo effect, selective thinking,  wishful thinking, sympathetic magic, and communal reinforcement.

Today, crystal wands are used to heal auras in aura therapy. However, if arranged properly, they can provide protection against harmful electromagnetic forces such as those that are emitted from computer monitors, mobile phones, microwave ovens, hair dryers, power lines, and other people. By hanging a little piece of jewelry around the neck, however, you might be able to protect a small part of the throat. There is no scientific evidence that crystals are conduits of magical energies useful for healing and protection, or for telling the future.

The ideas that crystals can harness and direct energy seems to be based upon a misunderstanding of one of the more curious characteristics of certain crystals in which they produce an electrical charge when compressed. This is known as the piezoelectric effect and was discovered in 1880. Other technological developments occurred before the piezoelectric effect could be put to use, however, and it was not until the 1950s that the piezoelectric effect could be put to general use in record player needles and a variety of measuring devices.

When people wear crystals, it seems to give these people a feeling of protection.  Their aesthetic qualities seem to be the only virtues of crystal jewelry. Grinding crystals for fortune telling is more humane and sanitary than disembowelment of poor creatures who do not know yesterday from tomorrow. Do you agree with me?

References: http://polymer.bu.edu/images/crystal.gif

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