Crystals [Paperback]

Jennie Harding (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 23, 2007

Crystals divides the most significant crystals into color bands and explores the meaning of each color ray alongside the meaning of the stones. Each crystal is printed on a black background and in 5 colors in order to capture their luminescent brilliance.

As well as exploring color healing this book can be used as a stunning crystal identifier, describing the color, shape, source and rarity of 120 examples.

The full spectrum of crystal information is covered, including expert guidance, and insight into the history of crystals, crystal placements, the use of crystals in your life and the importance of crystals to children. Crystals also features a magnificent gallery of all the stones in miniature, illustrating the full spectrum of those extraordinary hued works of nature.

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About the Author

Jennie Harding has written a large number of mind, body and spirit titles. She trained at the Tisserand Institute, and works with crystals in colour healing. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Walking Stick Press (November 23, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1600610412
• ISBN-13: 978-1600610417
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 4.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #116,589 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #39 in Books > Religion & Spirituality > New Age > Divination > Crystals
  • #42 in Books > Professional & Technical > Professional Science > Earth Sciences > Rocks & Minerals

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Amazing Book for Crystal Identification, January 19, 2010

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Sean Paradis (New Hampshire, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Crystals (Paperback)

Crystals, by Jennie Harding is a fabulous book on crystal identification, and is packed with useful information on every page. A nice feature on the side of the book, is that there are colors on the ends of the pages to make finding stones in the book easier. The stones are sorted into color groups, including brown, red, orange, yellow and gold, golden green, pale green, green, dark green, blue green and other shades. However, if you already know the name of the stone, the index in the back will tell you what page you can find it on.

Once you have identified a stone, the stone's page is filled with useful information. Each stone has two pages. The page on the left describes the stones color and history. The page on the right has a picture of the stone, and lists the stone's form a structure, color, geographical information, rarity, hardness, healing effects, personal uses, and the physical and emotional uses.

The author goes a step further to describe methods of using crystals for healing, meditating, chakra layouts, and stones to use based on your birth month, astrological sign, and various health issues like treating back and neck aches, asthma, etc. this is a fantastic book filled with useful information on every page. I give this book 5 out of 5 stars

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very informative and lovely illustrations, January 25, 2008

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Moanakai (Roanoke, VA United States) - See all my reviews

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Nice reference book on gems. I would have rated it 5 stars, but there were several minerals not included that I wanted to know about. The glossy photos are truly beautiful, descriptive and clear. I highly recommend this book ,both for reference and for the healing aspects of gems.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Crystals Love This Book one of the Best, September 26, 2008

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Colleen CM "Colleen" (California, United States) - See all my reviews

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This is one of the best complete crystal and stone books we have read (and we have read almost all of them)! Not only does it make it easy to look up stones by color. It has easy to understand scientific information, as well as all the metaphysical, and healing information. The photos are just gorgeous. The author lists crystal suppliers and we have purchased from Mountain Gems & Healing Crystals recommended on page 315 and they are just as wonderful as this book!