by Maggi Lindsay

A slight departure on the crystal theme – here is a question I get asked quite often: “Does this stuff actually work?”

Oh, my, my, my, my...there I am, sitting in my little shop filled with crystals – how to answer? There are so many possible ways.

So my answer is usually to say simply, “Yes, for me these rocks and minerals are not only Earth’s beauty manifested (which is a good start), they also benefit my health and soul.”

Another concept worth debating – one’s soul. Mind – body – soul – spirit – work. On what do crystals “work”? As soon as we being to assign roles to crystals we need to agree on some definitions. Perhaps the question could be turned around – to you, out in reader-land.

You could share some of your crystal experiences. I already know all my stories. Like the day I was buying crystals from the Crystal Man (that is what he calls himself) out of the back of his old red pick-up truck in the rain in the parking lot of the Courtney ferry. He hands me a large smokey quartz crystal from Russia – the third time I burst into tears. So he hands me a box of Kleenex and quietly goes off for a smoke. When I come back to myself after twenty minutes or several lifetimes I have had a life-altering epiphany. He, of course, had seen it before.

I have only experienced such a profound shift upon touching a crystal once before – but that is another story.

So here is my invitation. I call upon you all to bring me (Maggi, Stoneowl Earthworks) your stories.

Let them be soul-changing, scientific, anecdotal, incidental, hearsay – they will all be of interest and with your permission I will begin to include them herein.

Perhaps it is not a story, but a question. Ask – someone may have an answer.