Healing Crystals Newsletter - Healing with Lab Enhanced Crystals

[Guest guest]

I thought this was a nice article to pass on. I happen to agree with many

of Kristi's points and have even said them myself when folks have asked

about the energies of man-altered crystals.

 

Blessings to your weekend all.

ReNau

 

 

 

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FEBRUARY 2010 NEWSLETTER

 

 

Happy February! This month, we are going to discuss the effects of lab

enhancements on a crystal's healing energy. Does enhancing the aesthetics

of a crystal cause damage to its healing properties? Read on to find out.

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Lab Enhanced Crystals & Healing Energy

We feel that lab enhanced stones can be effective for transmitting healing

energy. Heat treating or enhancing a crystal does change the vibration,

but it does not eliminate or reduce the potential healing effect.

 

Crystals are a wonderful, amazing, joyous gifts from Mother Earth. They

are often selected for their beauty, colorful hues, sparkle, and clarity. In

the metaphysical realm, they are also chosen to assist with a variety of

issues, such as helping to ease a physical ailment or to enhance our own

energy for healing, meditation, communication with higher self, or dreaming

(just to name a few). Many prefer their crystals to be all natural, as they

were found in Mother Nature. Others may be drawn to the shimmer and sheen

of crystals that have been enhanced in some way, be it through tumbling,

heat treating, or even created in a lab.

 

So does enhancing the aesthetics of a crystal damage it in any way? Change

its energy vibration? Remove the healing power?

 

I can only speak for myself here, and my answer is no.

 

I offer this explanation for discussion.

 

Enhancement means:

1. To make greater, as in value, beauty, or effectiveness; augment.

2. To provide with improved, advanced, or sophisticated features

 

There are a number of ways in which crystals are enhanced. In fact, you

can bet that all of your crystals, every one, have been enhanced. Why? When

crystals are harvested out of the mines they are not carefully removed and

dusted off. That would take much time. They are, instead, usually blasted

out of the mines, shocking them into the light of day from their cozy caves.

But that is not the end of the enhancing. Most crystals are cleansed in

a solution bath of ocyllic acid in order that the dirt and impurities can

be washed away, making them more pleasing to the eye.

 

They are then shipped all over the world, where the wholesale dealers may

decide to tumble the stones into smaller, easy to carry pieces. They may

polish the crystals to smooth out dings or bring out the clarity of the

piece. Or they may heat treat the crystals in order to change/deepen the color.

These again, are all designed to help change the overall look and feel of

the crystal - to make it more aesthetically pleasing.

 

There are a number of ways to enhance a crystal. Some crystals are heated

to altar the color or clarity. _Tanzanite_

(http://www.healingcrystals.com/Listing_by_Stone_Type/Tanzanite/) , a gem

variety of Zoisite, is a perfect

example of this procedure. In its natural state, Tanzanite is more of a

brown tone - a blending of blue, purple, and green. Heat treating this

particular piece brings out the beautiful blue you see in tumbles, chips,

gemstones and beads.

Many stones are often masquerading as a different crystal entirely!

_Citrine_ (http://www.healingcrystals.com/Listing_by_Stone_Type/Citrine/) is

often heat treated; pieces that are dark, iced tea color are either originally

_Amethyst_ (http://www.healingcrystals.com/Listing_by_Stone_Type/Amethyst/)

or _Smoky Quartz_

(http://www.healingcrystals.com/Listing_by_Stone_Type/Smokey_Quartz) , heated to

high temperatures. _Prasiolite_

(http://www.healingcrystals.com/Listing_by_Stone_Type/Prasiolite/) from Brazil

or Arizona is

typically heat treated Amethyst; natural, and untreated, Prasiolite comes

from Poland.

 

Other crystals are irradiated to altar their color. _Blue Topaz_

(http://www.healingcrystals.com/Listing_by_Stone_Type/Blue_Topaz/) and dark,

almost

black Smoky Quartz can be irradiated.

 

_Goldstone_

(http://www.healingcrystals.com/Listing_by_Stone_Type/Goldstone/) is simply

glass enhanced with Copper flakes. Even at high temperatures,

the Copper does not break down, causing the beautiful sparkles found in

Goldstone.

 

Stones such as _Onyx_

(http://www.healingcrystals.com/Listing_by_Stone_Type/Onyx_-_Black_Onyx/) and

_Carnelian_

(http://www.healingcrystals.com/Listing_by_Stone_Type/Carnelian/) are often

dyed or stained, to bring out a

deeper and more even color.

 

Other stones, especially gemstones used in jewelry can be waxed or

filled, meaning that cracks or dings may be filled with oil, wax, paraffin or

colored glass, plastic or a similar substance to improve the appearance of the

gem.

 

While there are specific lists of these enhancements recognized by Gem

Dealers, it is less likely to be understood by those in the metaphysical

community since most operate on a spiritual/metaphysical plane as opposed to a

scientific one. Irregardless, these are all types of crystal enhancement.

 

As humans, we enhance ourselves constantly. We have our ears pierced, get

colorful tattoos, cut and style our hair, spray on fake tans, wear

jewelry, insert color contacts to enhance our eyes, and the list goes on and

on.

We dress to impress. We may have a fancy house or car. All of these things

and more enhance us. The question becomes, does this change our core energy,

our soul energy, our higher self energy? Aesthetically it may change us,

and momentarily we may have an increase (or decrease) in energy, but does

it affect us at our chemical/genetic make up? I don't think so.

 

So it is with this logic, that I say to you, while crystals may be lab

enhanced through heat, dyeing, bleaching and other such techniques, in my

opinion, it in no way changes the core energy - the divine

energy/vibration/frequency of a crystal.

 

You love your crystals. You work with your crystals in a variety of ways.

Your intuition draws you to what is needed. If you prefer not to work with

crystals that are enhanced...that is perfectly OK! The point I want to make

is that we are as varied as the crystals we love so much. Follow your

heart and use whatever makes you feel the most comfortable.

With love and crystal blessings,

Kristi Huggins

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