The Book of Stones

Explores 455 crystals, minerals, gemstones, and their metaphysical energies, including vivid color photographs for each stone

For each stone, shares its scientific information, its element and chakra correspondences, its history, and its physical, emotional, and spiritual benefits

Includes guidance on how to work with crystals and stones and also explores the concept of crystal resonance

Offering an illuminating alphabetical journey through the mineral kingdom, this comprehensive reference guide takes you deep into the world of crystals and their uses for spiritual awakening and self-healing. Exploring 455 gemstones and their metaphysical energies, the encyclopedia includes vivid color photographs for each stone to aid identification and showcase its beauty, as well as listing each gem's physical, emotional, and spiritual benefits.

The book begins with two introductory chapters by authors Naisha Ahsian and Robert Simmons detailing how to work with crystals and stones and exploring the concept of crystal resonance. Each stone entry includes the mineral name and photo, its elemental and chakra correspondences, keywords that indicate its properties, and a description of the crystal structure, hardness, history, and known locations of each mineral, plus any relevant legend or lore from the past. Each author then offers personal insights on the subtle energy properties and spiritual applications of the stone. The entries conclude with the spiritual, emotional, and physical healing qualities of the stone and an affirmation for evoking its potential benefits. This edition also includes an index of the stones' healing and energetic properties, making it easy to find the stone best suited to your needs.

“In this time of social fragmentation and isolation, many of us who work to reclaim remembrance and participation in the living world lament the scarcity of elders and initiators to guide our efforts. As if in answer to our need, The Book of Stones carries us outside the human world to a gathering of wise elders. Here the stone people speak to us, in many voices, of forgotten stories and unknown wisdoms that will sustain us on the path of soul.”

Autorentext

Robert Simmons has been working with crystals and stones for over 35 years. He is the cofounder of Heaven and Earth, a company offering gem and jewelry creations for self-healing and spiritual and emotional development. The author of several books, including The Alchemy of Stones, he lives in New Zealand. Naisha Ahsian, now known as Samaya K. Aster, is an author, teacher, and healer with an international practice. She is the creator of Crystal Resonance Therapy and Primus Activation Healing Technique and is the director of the Crystalis Institute for Personal and Planetary Evolution, an educational organization founded in 1994 offering training and certification for healers worldwide. She lives in Sedona, Arizona. Hazel Raven, former Vice Chairman of ACHO (Affiliation of Crystal Healing Organisations), is an international writer, teacher, and practitioner of complementary therapies. She has been teaching professional crystal programs since 1990 and is the author of Angel Healing and Healing Yourself with Crystals.

Zusammenfassung
Offering an illuminating alphabetical journey through the mineral kingdom, this comprehensive reference guide takes you deep into the world of crystals and their uses for spiritual awakening and self-healing. AVAILABLE NOW

Leseprobe
From “Getting Started”
What Do I Do with My Stones? A Few Suggestions

Millions of people all over the world collect gems and minerals for their metaphysical properties, and they use their stones in a multiplicity of ways. From the collector who simply places her crystals around the house to the inventor who designs complex stone energy tools, all are working to benefit themselves and others through stone energies. I’ll mention just a few of the most popular ways tap into what the mineral world has to offer.

A Crystalline Environment The simplest thing you can do is select some stones to which you feel drawn and place them around your home or work area. For instance, many people like to use Amethyst clusters to purify the energies of their home or office, creating a positive, healing vibration in the space. I know several doctors, counselors and health practitioners who do this, even though they do not actively employ crystals in their practices. Any number of other stones can be added to enhance the environmental energies further, depending on one’s needs and desires. Some individuals place protection stones at the openings of their homes, while others concentrate their collections in a meditation room or personal altar. People in difficult work environments often place a stone like Ajoite or Sugilite (which transmute negative energies) on their desks. When my wife Kathy and I built our home, we wanted the whole place to be infused with love energy, so we faced our hearth and chimney with polished slabs of Rose Quartz. When building a house, one might wish to embed beneficial stones and/or programmed crystals in the foundation. Outdoors, one can go even further, placing stones at the property boundaries or in a grid pattern around the house, garden or meditation area. All such arrangements can beneficially affect one’s day-to-day experience, and that of those who enter one’s space.

Holding and Carrying Most crystal lovers have a selection of ‘pocket stones’ from which they can select, according to the needs of the day. One of the best ways to choose a stone is to pick it up and hold it for a few moments, paying attention to the changes in one’s energies and feelings while doing so. At other times, one may choose to simply hold a particular stone for a few moments, or however long it takes to receive what one needs energetically. In my own case, I remember a particularly stressful time in my life when I found it extremely helpful to sit and hold a Danburite crystal in each hand when I came home from work. Within minutes, I could literally feel the tension flowing out of my body through my hands. Both holding and carrying stones has the effect of bringing their vibrational emanations into one’s auric field, allowing for the beneficial modification of one’s energies.

Wearing Stones in Pouches and Jewelry A natural extension of the practice of holding and carrying stones is to wear them in ‘medicine pouches’ or incorporate them into jewelry pieces. Both of these practices have gone on for many centuries. (For instance, the crowns of kings and queens, who were viewed as representatives of the gods, included gems which were intended to facilitate communication with the spiritual realms.) One advantage of pouches and jewelry pieces is that they allow one to incorporate combinations of stones which work together to produce the desired effects. One of the most popular jewelry designs I created was the ‘chakra pendant,’ which consisted of a vertically aligned array of seven stones, corresponding to the seven chakras, or energy centers, running from the base of the spine to the top of the head. I often wear one of them when I am engaged with the public at a trade show or lecture, and I feel that it helps keep me balanced, focused and energized, even through long hours that entail many interactions with different people. Other jewelry or pouch combinations might include ascension stones, protection stones, healing stones, love energy stones, prosperity stones and so forth. In many cases it seems not to matter whether one works with a pouch or a jewelry piece, although I prefer the vertical alignment a pendant can provide for chakra or ascension stones.

People frequently ask whether a ring works as well as a pendant, and I think…