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Love Is in the Earth: Kaleidoscopic Pictorial Supplement Z

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I ordered this book thinking it was the "pictorial supplement" to Melody's challenging (read: "pictureless") five-star original sensitive-gal **Love is in the Earth** encyclopedic guide. This is a thin book of leftovers on glossy paper with one small and really lame picture on each two page spread. NOT WHAT I HAD IN MIND. In truth I wanted the much larger, similarly named: **Love Is in the Earth - Mineralogical Pictorial : Treasures of the Earth.** Gee -- is it me? That's minus one for stupid title breeding, -1 for using a scanner to take pictures of the rocks, and -1 for for not coming out with a new edition of **Love Is in the Earth: A Kaleidoscope of Crystals,** instead.

FANTASTIC! As expected, Melody packs this supplement with detail, detail, detail! Not only does she give descriptions, families, and metaphysical properties, but pictorials to compare your specimines to! Excellent! I can't live without Melody's books, they are my Bibles. I gave my copy to my cousin and now I'm back on Amazon buying another one for myself.

A must for all healers, enthusiasts and anyone with an interest. Really informative and covers just about everything you'll ever need to know. I refer to this book all the time, if you have an interest in healing then you MUST have this book.

This book was very informative as well as interesting. Well written and the pictorials were excellent. If you'e interested in this subject,I highly recommend it.

This is a fine follow up on Melody's other books. I did find that the pictures left a little to be desired, but still there were pictures which do not feature in her original book (a pity I thought). Again I feel that if you are interested in Crystals then you can learn from this book as well. I would recommend that you add this book to your collection I have.

This book and the similar one, supplement A, have additional mineral photographs and discussions of the minerals that were not in her earlier, larger book with a similar title (Mineralogical Pictorial). The photographs in these two supplements are of lower quality than in her main book but are still useful, along with brief descriptions of the mnerals. There is far more text describing the Nonsense attributes of minerals. For example, "Friedelite has been used to assist in the study of the French language (to expedite studying and comprehension of details) and in managing situations with the French populace when one does not speak the same language (to increase knowledge associated with aesthetics)." It is not clear to me how close to the mineral you have to be to get the best French learning effect. Do you eat the stuff? If the mineral effect is good for several hundred yards distance then it might be useful in schools. Also, "In addition, it has been used by many soccer players to advance agility, gain, and acumen during the game, It tends to act as guidance in instinctual actions, providing 'the edge'." "Vibrates to the number 3." ????? There are plenty of medical uses claimed but there are NO references to actual uses. For example, "The mineral [Fossil Algae] has been used to transmute of disordered energy into healing energy. It has been used in the treatment of infection, scleroderma, and high cholesterol, to assist in spinal alignment and assimilation of iron and Vitamin A, and in the elimination of toxicity from the body." Consider buying the book only for the mineral pictures. If you buy only one in the series buy the "Love Is in the Earth-Mineralogical Pictorial. Howard McPherson

I purchased this book primarily not only for the metaphysical properties, but the pictures and identification. I consider the scanned pictures worthless for use in identification, they are for the most part, flat (no depth of field), dull (poor color rendition),and appear slightly blurry and lifeless. In looking up minerals I had a working knowledge off, either through lapidary, collecting myself, or dealing directly with miners, or mine owners, I found several inconsistencies which lead me to doubt the information of minerals I am looking up and have no knowledge of. The glossy paper the book is printed on, is another negative, through past experience skin oils and field use will decrease its readability greatly over time. Metaphysically, I can make no comments as it is still a subject beyond my ken, but I am learning.