Quartz crystals seem to be in vogue again, after some years of relative silence. You see them now being sold in various malls, in Chinatown and even in Quiapo stalls. The most common use of crystals is for personal decoration and beauty, but there is more to crystals than meets the eye.

Physically or chemically, crystals are composed of silicon and oxide, two of the most abundant elements on earth. They are formed under the earth after hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years, through the combination of heat and pressure.

Quartz typically has a hexagonal shape and is pointed on top. According to Dan Campbell, “Crystals mirror the wholeness of creation, the universal matrices expressed as an orderly structuring and bonding of atomic particles in distinct patterns.” And I may add, colors.

During its formation, according to the same author, “vibrations are instilled in crystals and each type of crystal system has particular energy patterns as inherent qualities that determine the way it receives, processes and transmits energy.”

My introduction to the world of crystals had its origin way back in 1983, when I was given my first quartz crystal as a gift from Andrea Cagan, an American former ballet dancer and commercial model who was into crystal healing. Now she is an accomplished and best-selling author who wrote, among other things, the biography of famous singer Diana Ross and “Awakening the Healer Within.”

As she handed me that piece of rock crystal, it seemed to vibrate in my hands. I thought then it was only my imagination playing tricks on me. I discovered later that I related to crystals in a much deeper way, in a relationship dating as far back as 3,000 years in ancient Egypt.

It boggled my imagination considering that at the time, I was very skeptical about these “nonscientific” things. It took more than 10 years before I accepted that I had lived more than once on planet earth, and that crystals had played a significant part in my several existences as attested to by knowledgeable friends, such as Dr. James Hurtak of the Academy for Future Science, and my own incredible experiences with crystals.

Trance

Once, when I held a big clear quartz crystal owned by a psychic, Cynthia Hart, in Sedona, Arizona, I fell into trance, my hands shaking wildly for a few minutes. When I opened my hands that held the crystal, which Cynthia said came from Atlantis, it had developed some cloudiness or what they call “inclusions” not there before.

Cynthia told the other four men with us, “Look, you have opened a window on the crystal.” We all saw it, but I couldn’t believe it. One of those who witnessed this event was Richard Whiteley, Business Management graduate of Harvard University and member of the prestigious Young Presidents Organization. He even wrote his testimonial of what he witnessed there.

When I told this story to Dr. James Hurtak as we met a few days later in San Bruno, California, he said he was not at all surprised that I would affect a crystal that way. When I asked why, he said to me matter-of-factly, “Because you were once a member of the priesthood of crystals in ancient Egypt.”

I didn’t know at the time whether to laugh at this or to believe it. I decided to suspend my judgment, until later events validated the words of Dr. Hurtak. I have since affected several crystals the same way, the latest of which happened only a few months ago in the Philippines.

The most practical use for crystals, as far as I am concerned, is in healing. Crystals have the power to heal all sorts of illness, but not everybody reacts the same way to crystals. Those who are sensitive to their vibrations can experience healing, but others may feel nothing at all. This is the same with all things that involve psychic or subtle energy. They are not like medicines that work for most people. This is the reason some people believe the effect of crystals is purely psychological. But is it? I don’t think so.

Where does the healing property of crystals come from? No one knows exactly. What is known is that crystals can store, magnify, direct and transfer energy.

Crystal healing, according to Campbell, “involves an arrangement of crystals directing vibrations to the body that are resonant with healthy energies to restore balance.” I know one lady who had arrhythmia or irregular heartbeat. When she wore a Vogel crystal, her heart rhythm normalized.

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