Expo/Festival madness – the view from across the table
What's it like for a vendor at the shows you go to? I thought you might like to know, since the minority of us are standing on "this side of the table." Most of you (readers) are on the other side of the table... browsing like bees - going from flower to flower -...
What’s Love got to do with it? Crystals and the Heart.
Crystal & Healing are two words that tend to go together all the time. And surely most of us carry around a broken heart, or at least a wounded heart - from failed & troubled relationships - including messed up childhoods. This creates all kind of mixed...
Crystal Healing Portal – “say a prayer for me!”
You're either gonna like this idea - or you're gonna hate it - but I'm opening up a new well in my practice...that of hearing people's prayers, and magnifying them through Crystal layouts and supplication...to try to have them answered, one way or another. I will...
Crystal Meditation vs. Crystal Workshop (why, and what’s the difference?)
What's the point of a Crystal Meditation (or a Workshop)? You might say: "I can do this all on my own, and I have everything I need - I know how to read - I bought the books!" Sure - have at it - but two things make doing an actual Crystal Meditation (or Workshop)...
What is a “Crystal Reading”?
I offered a venue-owner my services as a "Crystal Reader," which brought up - even for me, the next logical question - "what is a Crystal Reading?" Mention Psychic Readings - and people generally know what you're talking about - even if they haven't necessarily had...
Protection (and Crystals)
Protection. You want it. I want it! Who doesn't? But what is it...what does it really mean? That word - and the actions required to achieve that thing called "protection" - what's it all about? I hear a steady hum of requests and claims from people who are seeking,...
are Crystals un-Godly?
I was gonna name this Blog: "Are Crystals Godly?" and I know plenty of people I'm connected with (like on Facebook) who'd say "of course!" As mineral wonders of great beauty and energy (especially for those who go in for that sort of thing), how could you NOT think...
Crystal Pricing – it’s in all the eye of the beholder
PART ONE - the principal of it I joined the Boston Mineral Club recently, and overheard one of the elder gemologists say "unlike in most industries, there's no standardized system for pricing minerals." A lightbulb went off for me. Of course, I thought - that's so...
Facebook for Crystals
Facebook for Crystals You know how people say: "I'll Facebook you" - it's a turn of phrase, a language unto itself. My title is apt, then...it's like "French for hello!" In this case, I'm talking about how Crystals are "done" on Facebook. About this I'm no expert, but...
Thought-Provoking Gem Show Conversation
I found my favorite retailer at the Marlborough gem show this weekend - and of course went through all their cardboard ‘flats’ - the name of the industry standard 1.5 foot by 2 foot cardboard boxes replete with minerals. These folks are generally the only ones selling...
A Time to Give Back
QUICK UPDATE: I just got back from Italy and Canada - see more photos below - and I'm raring to go with a BUNCH of new plans and projects for the season. Stay tuned and/or be in touch at CrystalConcentrics@gmail.com. INTRO: My Blogs can be lengthy. I have things to...
Can you Heal Me?
I was at a casual gathering the other night, when a relatively new acquaintance came up to me and said: "I heard you're a 'Crystal Healer' - I have this condition - I'm wondering..." I had to waylay the conversation by saying that I don't really discuss these things...
Crystal image ‘debut’ on Flickr
SO thrilled to have gotten serious about posting my Crystal images on a proper photo archiving site: www.Flickr.com! And (surprise, surprise, for the Web) the default setting is to Copyright the images so people can't just grab them). Of course, not only Crystals are...
Return to Dust(?!)” or “back to the rock”
So after a year of having it on my list (of things to do), I've posted my 'availability' in the www.SpiritOfChange.org (a New Age magazine's site) Alternative Health Directory. Availability to do what (you may ask)? Here's how it reads (about Crystal Concentrics):...
What is Spirit Work?
Every time of the year's hectic, but holidays are particularly crammed full of day-to-day responsibilities; specific-to-the-season needs; and the usual background din of our own internal monologue about it all: what do I need to do, what have I not done, damn I'm...
Why Rock and Why Now?
Why Rock...and Why Now? To start with a Religious Tradition - since that's most people's "gateway drug" into (or away from!) Spirit - you might know (or want to know) that in Judaism, there is an annual celebration of The Trees. It's called Tu B’Shvat...and yes, I'm...
