Definitely we've been hearing for years now from different people who form our popular ideas that crystals, which you can charge in the moonlight and hold in your hand or put on different parts of your body can somehow heal us and transfer their energy onto us.
But they're just rocks, aren't they?
So I think, yes, they are rocks, they don't get charged by the full moon. They do not work this sort of energy magic that is sold mainly to young women in order to trick them into thinking it is easy to overcome obstacles of life.
But crystals are parts of nature, beautiful like spring blossoms, mountains and sea shore, birds and butterflies and newborn babies. They are calm and predictable, cool and indifferent. They offer to soothe our pain through contemplating their origins, their stillness and their charm.
They do the same thing that all beautiful things - from puppies to works of art - do. They put us in a state of admiration that helps us distract from our aches and problems. Simultaneously they give as the pure pleasure that comes from experiencing true values. Because beauty is a true value. And by having true values in our lives, even only as spectators, our lives become more precious.
And this is how I think crystals work.
