Crystal Power, Crystal Healing: The Complete Handbook [Paperback]

Michael Gienger (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 31, 1998

It's crystal clear--these shining minerals, reflecting a rainbow of colors, have the power to heal body and mind, and develop our potential. How did they became endowed with so many magic properties, and how can you reap their restorative qualities and spiritual values most effectively? Knowing the answers to these questions may change your life and attitude forever. Look closely at the details of each crystal in dazzling color photographs, focusing on its shape and its facets. Diagrams illustrate a variety of cubic, hexagonal, trigonal, orthorombic, and triclinic systems, and you can determine which will work best for your lifestyle. An easy-to-understand, precise guide shows you how to find the most helpful healing stones for your needs (including size, form, quality, roughness, and color) and how to apply them. Think about whether they should be polished, in a pendant or pierced form and worn as jewelry. Place a crystal directly on the area of the body you want to affect; arrange a "stone circle" and lie within it for subtle spiritual, mental, and emotional changes; meditate with stones resting against your skin; and take gem essences internally. By positioning them properly in a room, crystals can affect the entire environment! Try amethyst for encouraging spiritual wakefulness and sobriety, relieving grief, and releasing pain and tension--particularly headaches. Citrine fosters individuality and self-confidence, overcomes depression, stimulates digestion, and alleviates diabetes and stomach ailments. Other crystals will spur you to enhance your dreamwork. After you experience what crystals can do, you'll never be without them again! 416 pages (200 in color), 6 x 8.

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Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

About the Author

Michael Gienger is one of the world's most respected experts on crystals and their uses. He lives in Germany.

Product Details

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Sterling (December 31, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0713726776
• ISBN-13: 978-0713726770
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #186,845 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #50 in Books > Religion & Spirituality > New Age > Divination > Crystals

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117 of 117 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars an intelligent not very fussy approach to crystals, February 24, 2000

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Michael tells first off that this book is based on personal experience; he is not simply compiling information from other written sources. His reverence and study of where the crystals come from is profound. He dispels the "magic" of crystal effect by helping a reader to understand what a crystal is/what its nature is/what its relation the the whole of earth is so that respectful use of its healing properties can be used conscientiously, specifically, and subtly. He encourages empowering healing responsibility of the reader by asking them to listen primarily to what they hear from the stones; not just to take what he says about them. And best of all he honors the power of all stones be they chips, polished, faceted, untouched crystals, small, large or mountains; he does not require fussy rituals or very specific forms of crystals for them to be effective though he does acknowledge how these may enhance a desired effect - again do what's right for you. I find most of these aspects to learning how to use crystals frustratingly absent in all of the many other books on the subject that I have come across. His explanation of what is actually taking place in our material existence is eloquent and empassioned and reveals the true mindblowing magic of crstals.

67 of 67 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Outstanding Reference Book, June 4, 2000

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This review is from: Crystal Power, Crystal Healing: The Complete Handbook (Paperback)

This book is very complete, written in an intelligent and graceful style, and logically indexed for ease of use. Mr. Gienger presents a well balanced mix of minerology, mythology and spiritual/healing properties for more than 90 crystals and gemstones, ranging from the formation of crystals to suggestions for various healing uses. The outstanding crystal photographs are themselves worth the price of the book. It's not only a wonderful reference book, it's a great read. The section on "Discovering the connection between crystalline structures and lifestyles" is fascinating and unique. Without question, this is the one book on crystals that I will use most often.

99 of 102 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars AT LAST - An Incredibly Wonderful Guide to Crystals!, August 26, 2001

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This review is from: Crystal Power, Crystal Healing: The Complete Handbook (Paperback)

After working with crystals and stones for nearly a decade and either owning or reading newly every crystal book around, I nearly fell out of my seat when I read this brilliant work. Finally, someone has come up with original information that is both pragmatic and accurate. It is not yet another warmed over text with the same information on the same topics, over and over and over again. This book explains the energies of the various scientific elements - something I have *never* seem before, as well as detailing the energies of the different crystalline structures and their chemical classifications. Aside from that, he provides wonderful information on the way each stone forms which can give us even deeper insights into the stones. I consider myself extremely knowledgable on the subject, but this work is a brilliant addition to the body of knowledge we have on stones. I give the greatest thanks to this author for such a powerful and useful contribution! May you always find the light within you so you may see the light around you.