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Crystal Balls & Crystal Bowls: Tools for Ancient Scrying & Modern Seership (Crystals and New Age)

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If Llewellen had better editors, this would be a better book. There's a lot of useful information, techniques, and ideas for using crystal balls and bowls. This may also be the first occult book ever to include a maze with a rabbit chasing after a carrot. (There's a reason for it. The mazes are intended to train your psychic perceptions.) However, the book is poorly organized and edited. There are multiple redundancies of phrase such as "free choice". Sections which appear to depend on certain techniques being mastered are included before the techniques are explained. For instance, it seems common sense to put sections on attuning with the energy of a crystal ball before trance techniques intended to contact an anthropormorphized version of the ball's "angel". If you reverse the process, you'll just be projecting your ideas of what the "angel" is like. The second section is just plain garbled. I found myself having to read paragraphs two or three times just to figure out what Andrews was trying to say. It looks like he was trying to pack information into the section, and couldn't quite figure out where it fit. This is, of course, part of an editor's job. If something doesn't fit where it is, suggest a way to move it or create another subsection where it might find a home. It's a shame that such useful information has to be put together so poorly. But it IS useful, and I recommend the book to anyone interested in crytsal gazing, so long as they're patient and willing to seperate the wheat from the chaff.

This book has wonderful exercises for the beginner and gives helpful hints to the experienced scryer also. The book not only discusses crystal balls and crystal bowls, but also touches on water divination and mirror gazing as well. I'd recommend it to anyone.

I enjoyed this book as much as possible. Ted Andrews can explain anything in lamens terms so that you can understand it. Aside from crystal balls and bowls it contains several good meditation and pendulum exercises.

There has got to be a better resource on scrying. Some of the material is good (such as clearing and energizing the crystal ball, and contacting the spirit of the sphere), but other times it just gets goofy (like the rabbit and the carrot maze).

The book has a bit of a haphazard feel to it, and the illustrations just seem a bit amateurish. Lots of stuff gets thrown in here - from lunar breathing to picking the right candle color, mixed in with a teeny bit of kabbala and sigil magic.

The book is also missing elements -- such as using the crystal ball as a gateway to the astral plane, and internalizing the energy of the crystal ball into one's inner consciousness.

Note that I just read through the first part on Crystal Balls, so I can't really comment on the crystal bowl section...

Now I feel more prepared to use a crystal sphere. Excellent source of information. But have to admit that I skipped the entire section on crystal bowls as that doesn't "call" to me.

This book is good...no problem at all understanding it. It clear and concise...lots of useful info. Its a bit on the Greeko-roman-male theme as the beginning or foundation of things. I especially found it so that he mentions Eastern..including India, Africa, Asia...etc as if on the bottom of the list culture contributions...or as "other cultures"...as if they were some little footnote to the history or humanity or something. However, pass this by and you can still have usefull things to learn and keep the book around on your bookcase or list.

If you have bought a crystal ball, this book is very helpful, it takes time for things to appear, You must learn, and here you will learn.