The Illustrated Directory of Healing Crystals: A Comprehensive Guide to 150 Crystals and Gemstones [Paperback]

Cassandra Eason (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 28, 2005

This is a fully comprehensive guide to 150 crystals and gems, exploring their magical, mystical, mythological, healing and divinatory significance. Each crystal is explored in detail and set in context with associated herbs, oils, incenses and astrological significance. The entries explain which crystals combine especially well in ritual and healing. In this way readers can not only identify individual crystals, but can also open a whole world of magical, divinatory and healing opportunities. The reader will learn to select crystals that are protective and empowering, how to use them in the work place, the home and with children, plants and animals. The Illustrated Directory of Healing Crystals also suggests ways of using crystals in the modern world: for decision making; for cleansing homes and workplaces of pollution, of the adverse affects of technology and of the negative earth energies. It demonstrates how crystals can be empowered and attuned to enable us to benefit ourselves and those we love.

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About the Author

Cassandra Eason originally trained in teaching, taking an honours psychology degree, whilst bringing up her five children, with the intention of training as an Educational Psychologist. However, a prophetic experience experienced by her son led her to write her first book, The Physic Power of Children in 1991; since then she has had more than 45 books published in UK and rest of the world, and has been translated into thirteen languages. Cassandra is also an expert on folk lore, Celtic wisdom, Wicca, sacred sites, earth energies, divinations of all kinds and natural magic. She is also a practising Druidess, and a tutor on the Traditional Medicine Ways Diploma.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Collins & Brown (June 28, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1843402467
• ISBN-13: 978-1843402466
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,103,534 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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77 of 77 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent crystal guide book, December 29, 2003

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Pauline S. Esposito - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Illustrated Directory of Healing Crystals: A Comprehensive Guide to 150 Crystals and Gemstones (Hardcover)

This crystal book is a must have for those who use cyrstals in a healing practice or just have them around the home or office for protection, cleansing, or prosperity, etc. Cassandra clearly and thoroughly introduces the basics and more of using crystals as they apply to the chakra system, the aura, psychic development, pendulum dowsing, etc. Everything you need to know about the world of crystals is in this book! She explains 150 different crystals for healing, environment, children, history of, divinatory significance, uses at work and home and more! Each crystal description is accompanied by a clear, color picture for identification purposes. The book is sectioned by color of the stone which makes finding information on a particular stone easy. You need to know only the color of a stone and if you do not know the color the easy to read index in the back of the book is complete. I highly recommend this book to beginners and advanced healers alike. As a reference book it is invaluable!

54 of 54 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars wonderful book, plenty of info, beautifully illustrated, January 24, 2006

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J. Malnar (Zagreb Croatia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Illustrated Directory of Healing Crystals: A Comprehensive Guide to 150 Crystals and Gemstones (Paperback)

Brief introduction covers choosing your crystals, basics on chakras, meaning of colors, crystal healing, divination, crystal magic, cleansing and empowering, crystals at work / travel / home.
Directory of crystals is organized according to color (white, purple, blue, green, pink, yellow, red, brown, black).
Each crystal is illustrated with high quality photographs, and descriptions cover mythology, divinatory significance, uses and recharging methods, as well as a small table (for each crystal) containing info n properties and symbolic associations (zodiac, planet, element, candle color, guardian angel, chakra, herbs/incenses/oils and associated crystals).
If it contained info on where best stones come from and where they can be acquired, the book would have been a ten star, PERFECT. e.g. - as illustration for selenite, book features picture of wonderful selenite wands (with beautifully crafted crystal tips), and for the last 2 hours I have been searching the net, fishing blindly for something even remotely similar (would love to own one just like the one on the photo). There are no references to photographs / photographers, or to sources of stones featured in photos or any other clues as to where one can find stones and objects like the ones in the pictures. Grrr :(((

44 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars it's ok...but not the best, October 21, 2006

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Jh (Seattle) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Illustrated Directory of Healing Crystals: A Comprehensive Guide to 150 Crystals and Gemstones (Paperback)

organizes by the primary color the crystals are found (some have different colrs/forms), so that's helpful; like that it give a brief historical description before telling you everything else.... tells you lots and almost every possible use of each crystal: divinatory, healing, around home/work, around kids, around animals/pets, protective function, psychic function, environmental, any special properties (if any), ways to recharge it, and even brief table of symbolic associations (plant/herb, zodiac, chakra, planet, element, etc) and a short table on the types there are and the colors that you can find
has good pictures
only problem is that it wasn't quite what i was hoping for....but luckily i bought two other crystal/gemstone books when i got this one just to have a better reference library; is good for a fast look up of something if your in a hurry; just a little too new age for my liking, but still a nice book to have.....only get this if you are really new age or you get it w/ another crystal/gemstone book (i'd go for either The Crystal Bible or Healing Crystals and Gemstones; i got these at same time and both are really nice; Crystal Bible is great size for if you want something when you travel and had a bit of everything... Healing Crystals has scientific info in it too: mohs hardness scale, composition, etc...)