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Are crystals magic?

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Violet.
Magic is the purposeful manipulation
of one's own subjective universe
through the gateway of the psyche.

If crystals somehow help you
to reach and accomplish inner trans'form'ation
through the gateway/s of your psyche,
then for you,
they are a magical tool.

Any'thing can become as a 'magical' catlyst.
(through the eyes of the see'r)

 
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shawn001

Well-Known Member
There was a scientist in physics working with quartz crystals to create a computer that uses atoms. He went to Sedona AZ where he met a guy in a bar having a beer and ask the guy what he did for a living. The guy told him he healed quartz crystals. They lose pwoer and he regenerate them.

The scientist told him what he did and that there was more energy in a peice of cheddar cheese then a quartz crystal.

I have worked with stones all my life and they don't have magical crystal powers anyone knows about. They are just cool and most of them very old.

Most of this fits under the placebo effect.

Some if you touch them and don't wash your hands and put them in your mouth, might actually make you to be sick. LOL They do have chemical properties, some poisonous.
 

outhouse

Atheistically
Some if you touch them and don't wash your hands and put them in your mouth, might actually make you to be sick. LOL They do have chemical properties, some poisonous.

links to prove that?
 

Erebus

Well-Known Member
Copper Sulfate is one of the more well known poisonous crystals. Very pretty blue crystals, but not a good idea to eat or rub into your eyes ;)

Off the top of my head I don't think Copper Sulfate is particularly dangerous, but it is toxic.
 

outhouse

Atheistically
I believe OP is asking about quartz crystals

which Ive never heard of being toxic in any way other then breathing the dust which is silicate and a no no in the lungs
 

nnmartin

Well-Known Member
If they have piezoelectricity in them then who put it there in the first place?

What is it doing in there and why not just be a lump of rock as most other stones?

Perhaps it was put there to capture some of the Spiritual Essence for us.

The Magic Divine Essence.
 
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Iti oj

Global warming is real and we need to act
Premium Member
If they have piezoelectricity in them then who put it there in the first place?

What is it doing in there and why not just be a lump of rock as most other stones?

Perhaps it was put there to capture some of the Spiritual Essence for us.
most of these questions seem meaningless.

i have a question though why do you think/feel they are magic or should be magic?>
 

nnmartin

Well-Known Member
That is just as hard to answer as my question.

They have always seemed magic to me - even the ones that don't look nice or are jagged etc..

I feel that they have condensed power of the Earth in them.
 

Iti oj

Global warming is real and we need to act
Premium Member
That is just as hard to answer as my question.

They have always seemed magic to me - even the ones that don't look nice or are jagged etc..

I feel that they have condensed power of the Earth in them.
do they resignate with you? speak? give energy? what magical abiolities do you attribute to them?
 

Hexavibrongal

Soulmaster
If they have piezoelectricity in them then who put it there in the first place?

What is it doing in there and why not just be a lump of rock as most other stones?

You could say the same thing about almost any energy effect in physics. It's just an effect related to electricity that is well-understood by science. Do you also think gravity and magnetism are magic?
 

outhouse

Atheistically
That is just as hard to answer as my question.

They have always seemed magic to me - even the ones that don't look nice or are jagged etc..

I feel that they have condensed power of the Earth in them.

:facepalm:

dude!

this is just a lack of knowledge on the subject in which you started, almost to the point of POE
 

nnmartin

Well-Known Member
It's just an effect related to electricity that is well-understood by science. Do you also think gravity and magnetism are magic?


No reason why not.

you could change the word magic to 'ordained by God' - still magic as far as science is concerned though.

This is in danger of turning into a science v. religion (or creationism v. evolution) type debate - where I would say that God created the Laws of Physics.

Let's not go there again!;)
 

Gjallarhorn

N'yog-Sothep
No reason why not.

you could change the word magic to 'ordained by God' - still magic as far as science is concerned though.

This is in danger of turning into a science v. religion (or creationism v. evolution) type debate - where I would say that God created the Laws of Physics.

Let's not go there again!;)
If you're calling for an objective reason why crystals above other substances are magic, you would be favoring a scientific viewpoint.
 

Kerr

Well-Known Member
they seem to give peace of mind and relaxation to some extent.
Sometimes when I swim, I just lay back and float in the water. It is... nice. Relaxing. Except when a wave come and I get a "short drink" or whatever its called (dont know the english word, used google translate) :p. Dont think water and the sea is magical, though. I guess crystals are the same, that they can affect us. Dont think its magic, though, but more about us humans.
 
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Hexavibrongal

Soulmaster
you could change the word magic to 'ordained by God' - still magic as far as science is concerned though.

Okay, I understand that philosophy. Then by that thinking, a crystal is just as magic as a "lump of rock" because both critically depend on the "God-ordained" electromagnetic force for their physical form and properties, including the piezoelectric effect.

What I am extremely skeptical of is the idea that someone with a wikipedia-level knowledge of the piezoelectric effect has discovered significant new uses that scientists have overlooked. Scientists all over the world are researching all the time trying to find new uses for this effect, with the motive of profit. They understand all the complex mathematics and physics behind it, and so far have made all kinds of real, working things with it from microphones to cigarette lighters to magnetometers that detect submarines from an airplane. I think your chances of winning the lottery are better than you stumbling upon an undiscovered use for the piezoelectric effect.

You may see the piezoelectric effect causing some weird things to happen, like how static electricity makes a balloon stick to your head, or how magnets attract and repel each other. But this doesn't mean you've discovered something magical that science doesn't know about, or that you've discovered something that has any use other than for a science demo.
 
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YmirGF

Bodhisattva in Recovery
No reason why not.

you could change the word magic to 'ordained by God' - still magic as far as science is concerned though.

This is in danger of turning into a science v. religion (or creationism v. evolution) type debate - where I would say that God created the Laws of Physics.

Let's not go there again!;)
It would appear that you are expressing the results of belief and the power of imagination. A deep seated need or desire to perceive "magic" in earthly things may well result in the perception of said magic from time to time. As long as you don't go too bonkers over this perception, I see no real harm in it.
 
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