I just read something that bothered me last evening. A company that sells subscriptions
to a make-it-yourself notebook had sent me some of the pages to entice me. It didn't work, because there was nothing there I hadn't learned from years of study as a Wicce and a scientist. I was, however, struck by the dangerous level of half knowledge they printed in this thing and tried to pass off as complete. A LITTLE knowledge can be a dangerous thing, especially when one believes, due to ten minutes of reading, one is now an expert.
The particular subject was about using quartz crystals. The average user of electronic things is barely aware that slivers of quartz run better than half of the things we take for granted: watches, TVs, computers, telephones,the car's electronics, and the list goes on. They are not new to humankind, having been used for a wide variety of things, not merely what is incorrectly labeled as New Age stuff. There is nothing NEW about the uses made by those who are healers. Quartz is an amplifier; it heightens and intensifies the energy being used. It does not create it. It gives strength to the one trying to aid others.
Few know about the largest crystals, known as generators. There is a huge matrix of crystals lacing this planet that help create what are called ley lines. The ley lines are in turn a power grid over the planet that can be tapped into by people. The energy gathered and transmitted through the grid can be used for a variety of things, which would take more time to discuss that I wish to take here. And again, it comes down to that bit about a little knowledge. Some things should not be learned in this manner but under the tutelage of someone already knowledgeable about the subject.
Quartz can help balance your environment, your thinking, your emotional state, but it cannot do it alone. And the thing that worried me the most was encouragement to use it to open your chakras. The power centers of our bodies should not be opened without the person being ready for what this might mean. The possible changes, especially in the upper chakras, can be devastating if done too fast or before that person is ready to except it. As Ian Malcolm said, "Science is so busy asking if they can, they do not bother to ask if they should." It goes for psychic healing as well; too sudden a series of changes in a person's emotional, spiritual or physical reality can end up traumatizing. That is not what it is supposed to be about. Learn first, carefully and in depth. Then and only then can you be of aide to others.