My Experience of The Alchemy of Stones (Part Three): The Massage!
So now comes Part Three of my Trilogy review - The Alchemy of Stones Experience - all about the heart of the matter: the philosophies expounded by Robert Simmons (that is to say: what I heard of them) and what they all meant to me. It's very intellectual - not so many...
Why Yoga? I’m a Crystal Guy!
So...every morning, with few exceptions - I devote 10 to 45 minutes to a semi-Yoga routine. I say "semi" because it's not exclusively Yoga, or borne out of a particular tradition. Rather, it's a hybrid, featuring some repetitions (sit-ups, push-ups, and toe-touches...
My Experience of The Alchemy of Stones (Part Two): The Shop & Market(ing)
This is a continuation - a follow up to my Part One blog - about My Experience of The Alchemy of Stones workshop, which I attended in June of 2016.THE FRENCH SAYING - "A REFAIRE" - SOMETHING TO BE DONE AGAIN Somebody said this might be Robert Simmons' last workshop -...
FAQ series: “Can I Get a Discount?” and “Do you sell Wholesale?” (aka Wholesale Respect)
QUESTION : "Do you sell Wholesale?" or "Do you only sell Retail?" What folks really mean is: "Can I get drastic discounts from you?" or "Can I not take your price tags seriously?" The ANSWERS are: Yes...and No. Why be so coy? Either you DO - and/or you will sell...
My Experience at The Alchemy of Stones (Part One): The Setting
This weekend - looong weekend: it was three full days, and the morning of a fourth - I traveled to Burlington, VT for Robert Simmons' first intensive workshop in 6 years! I filled 25 pages in my steno book with notes - including quotes, paraphrases, personal...
My (Fathers Day) Gift – from the Ages – to You…
In this Blog I explore a movie that made a huge impression on, indeed it’s informed my life path. It’s set in Sydney, Australia – where a supposedly vanished tribal presence leads to a mysterious death – but my goal is not to retell the tale. Rather, this piece explores The Dream Time; what it means to have “lost ones dreams;” the modern era in the context of our endless past; how we all are more than our veneer of color, class, or even creed. This experience reveals some of the key elements of my metaphysical understanding.
connecting Practitioners
How can we work together? There must be something we can do for one another! It’s time to stop thinking of ourselves as “an island” – when truly, we’re all connected – remember the story about the starving people with long spoons, who simply couldn’t feed themselves? Once they figured out they could use those same spoons to feed one another, things got much better. So read on, and Reply with your own insight as to what you think we could do to support the Alternative Practitioner scene.
the Big Apple: juicy (and sometimes rotten)…something for everyone!
I took a ground-breaking trip to NYC, bringing Crystal Readings & Wellness sessions to an Expo & a shop there, and got more than I bargained for – in a good way (the people, the shops I visited) – and in a bad way…with a “problem customer” who ended up teaching me about how to improve my own Service delivery. To read this entire Blog, click on the headline above. Also, please visit my other site (with For Sale items): PowerStoneCrystals.com
Anatomy of a Meditation, what is Real? The Power of Metaphor (from Microcosm to Macrocosm)
In scrutinizing how it is that I conceive, prepare, and deliver my group events, I grapple with topics such as the Concrete vs. the Ephemeral; the Medical vs. Metaphysical Model of healing; having a mission vs. playing it by ear (Improvisation). To read this entire Blog, click on the headline above. Also, please visit my other site (with For Sale items): PowerStoneCrystals.com
I’m sick, and I’m well (the Lessons and Gifts of Illness).
Although I work hard to live a healthy lifestyle – illness occasionally catches up to me – just like disease catches many of us off guard, and triggers a cascade of self-doubt and questioning. It’s hard to keep it all in perspective. I tackle a number of the issues presented by not being well, and intersperse pertinent Crystals into the conversation. To read this entire Blog, click on the headline above. Also, please visit my other site (with For Sale items): PowerStoneCrystals.com
How to Work with Crystals?
A compliment to my webinar of the same name. It explores the 6 primary ways I?ve discovered, for working with crystals: from presentations to meditations & workshops (live and online), sales, readings, individual work (in person and long distance), charity, and things you do with them on your own. To read this entire Blog, click on the headline above. Also, please visit my other site (with For Sale items): PowerStoneCrystals.com
The 3 Gateways – Mind, Heart, and Body
There are 3 gateways into ourselves: through the Mind, through the Heart, and through the Body. Crystals are experienced the same way - by touch (through the Body); how they make you feel (the Heart) - and via?what you think about them (the Mind). I have identified?3...
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...
