crystalwoman
Last night one of the forum members posted a question asking me where I'd gotten all of my crystal information, http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=72767
and I realized belatedly that I had not introduced myself properly here on the Crystals & Herbs forum, so that's what this post is about. I'll try to make this as brief as possible and hopefully this will clear up any questions or doubts some of you may have about some of the things I write about.
So ..... Professionally I'm a life skills instructor working mostly with handicapped people and seniors and I also do part-time work in a crystal store. I'm 55 years old, I'm an empath and I've been studying cultural shamanism since I was 9 years old and I refer to myself as a shamanic practitioner, not as a shaman. I come from a north-country farming environment, I've been an animal/plant/crystal communicator since infancy, I've been reading Tarot professionally for over 30 years and been collecting and working with crystals since I was around 3 years old. I started doing crystal healings on myself when I was 5 y.o. and for other people when I was 17. That was back in the late 1960's and several years before people like Melody and Katarina Raphael started writing books about crystal healing. I know a lot about traditional and herbal medicine but I'm not a medical practitioner, and I know a lot about mineralogy/geology but I'm not a mineralogist/geologist.
I've read pretty much all of the books about crystal healing that have been written in the past 40 years but I channel information from the stones themselves and rely mostly on what the stones tell me, not on what other people have written in books. I'm in the process now of putting together a book of my own. My main interest in writing about crystals is not so much in teaching about their spiritual virtues (there's an abundance of writers already doing that now anyway, and internet is full of it - a lot of which is plagiarized), I'm more focused on teaching about how crystals can be safely used for treating physical and mental illnesses, and how they can be used for practising shamanic magic or applied to use with the Tarot. Most of my written information is based on personal experience and the case histories of my clients and my students but a lot of my information is also channelled directly from the stones. Most recently (for the past 3 years) I've been teaching about crystals on a Green Witch forum called Susun Weed's Wise Woman Forum and also sometimes on Lynn Andrews Sacred Forum.
As to the question of whether or not I'm a so-called "certified" crystallogist - the answer is no, I'm not certified and I would ask the question "who had the qualifications to certify the crystal gurus and nu-age people that run Crystal Healing schools and hand out certificates to crystal students, and from whom did those certifiers get their own certificates?".
I personally believe that crystals are living, sapient entities, I believe that there is no problem or illness that cannot be treated appropriately with crystals and I welcome all questions that people care to ask about crystal healing and crystal consciousness.
and I realized belatedly that I had not introduced myself properly here on the Crystals & Herbs forum, so that's what this post is about. I'll try to make this as brief as possible and hopefully this will clear up any questions or doubts some of you may have about some of the things I write about.
So ..... Professionally I'm a life skills instructor working mostly with handicapped people and seniors and I also do part-time work in a crystal store. I'm 55 years old, I'm an empath and I've been studying cultural shamanism since I was 9 years old and I refer to myself as a shamanic practitioner, not as a shaman. I come from a north-country farming environment, I've been an animal/plant/crystal communicator since infancy, I've been reading Tarot professionally for over 30 years and been collecting and working with crystals since I was around 3 years old. I started doing crystal healings on myself when I was 5 y.o. and for other people when I was 17. That was back in the late 1960's and several years before people like Melody and Katarina Raphael started writing books about crystal healing. I know a lot about traditional and herbal medicine but I'm not a medical practitioner, and I know a lot about mineralogy/geology but I'm not a mineralogist/geologist.
I've read pretty much all of the books about crystal healing that have been written in the past 40 years but I channel information from the stones themselves and rely mostly on what the stones tell me, not on what other people have written in books. I'm in the process now of putting together a book of my own. My main interest in writing about crystals is not so much in teaching about their spiritual virtues (there's an abundance of writers already doing that now anyway, and internet is full of it - a lot of which is plagiarized), I'm more focused on teaching about how crystals can be safely used for treating physical and mental illnesses, and how they can be used for practising shamanic magic or applied to use with the Tarot. Most of my written information is based on personal experience and the case histories of my clients and my students but a lot of my information is also channelled directly from the stones. Most recently (for the past 3 years) I've been teaching about crystals on a Green Witch forum called Susun Weed's Wise Woman Forum and also sometimes on Lynn Andrews Sacred Forum.
As to the question of whether or not I'm a so-called "certified" crystallogist - the answer is no, I'm not certified and I would ask the question "who had the qualifications to certify the crystal gurus and nu-age people that run Crystal Healing schools and hand out certificates to crystal students, and from whom did those certifiers get their own certificates?".
I personally believe that crystals are living, sapient entities, I believe that there is no problem or illness that cannot be treated appropriately with crystals and I welcome all questions that people care to ask about crystal healing and crystal consciousness.
