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Wisdom Of The Gemstone Guardians

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Over the course of many years, I have read and reread and read again the first few incarnations of this book. With love and compassion for all that we go through on our healing journeys, the Gemstone Guardians present the "mission" (for both humans and the earth) of each gemstone discussed. The information is nourishing and enlightening, yet practical, simple, and clear. I am grateful for the beacon that Michael Katz and the Gemstone Guardians provide, as they offer us valuable assistance through our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual challenges.

What a powerful book. I have always been drawn to rocks, crystals and gemstones but until Wisdom of the Gemstone Guardians, I did not understand their profound abilities as medicine for us and our planet. I personally know the Gemisphere system to be one of the most effective healing tools available today. The information presented in this book is remarkable in it's scope and depth and as with all of Michael Katz work, impeccably done.

I learned alot about gemstones. The colors and types of gems represent different aspects of ourselves and our life. It helps me to realize why sometimes I pick out certain colors on some days to work w/my challenges. This book is an eye-opener if you are interested why we make our choices as we do. I hope this review helps someone to see if this book is for their eyes.

Katz's works truly are special in the world of healing with members from the Mineral Kingdom. They focus only on the aspects of working with spherical gemstones. While they attempt to deny the validity of working with minerals in their natural forms, there are many useful lessons to be learned from this book.

Each Gemstone Guardian is met in his or her own vignette, and the reader really does begin to feel the excitement of the stories presented. However, there are many names invented for the use of this book and all of Katz's successive works. Gemsiphere Institute only works with a limited number of stones, although that number is growing. While they have greatly helped the crystal healing communities by providing concise, updated information in an original format, as well as stressing the importance of safety measures and the necesity for a certain standard in healing, I feel that they have also done a slight disservice to the community.

Natural crystals are thought to be sub-par, despite the fact that their uses and energetic blueprints are being very well mapped out. Physical alteration of a minerals outer form, such as shaping it into a sphere, in no way changes the inner morphologies and symmetries presented by the internal arrangements of chemical elements and mineral bases. While the symbology of gemstone spheres runs deep, the energy emitted by them is not necessarily any different from that of any other piece of a given mineral. The inner lattice creates a very precise arrangement of the energy transmitted by a crystal, whether or not the external form is visible.

Aside from that, this book truly is an exciting read, which is the main reason that it received 4, rather than 3, stars.

This book provides a very detailed and compelling account of how a number of gemstones' healing missions were revealed to the author, and what those missions are. It is highly fascinating, and quite inspirational! The writing is fluid and evocative. This book succeeds on both an imaginative and a practical level--serving as an inspiration for both meditation and more specific healing methods, with gemstones as a foundation.

I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in spirituality, personal growth and healing, or gemstone energy medicine. It's a great read, and really brings the gemstones to life vividly!

This author has something to sell. I work with crystals for all kinds of purposes and they most certainly are not all spherical and gem-perfect as required of the "Gem***** Guardians"...not sure if I can write the entire name, (hence the *****), because this term is trademarked by the author. Cha-Ching. Please Mr. Katz, lend some credibility to true healing and the New Age Movement and leave out the flowing gowns, long beards, & mist!

I highly enjoyed this book. I read some of the other reviews and I understand how opinions can differ about it. It is true, it is probably not a book for beginners unless they are very openminded about certain things. I also understand how the author's emphasis on the spherical form of crystals can be a matter of controversy. However, it does make sense to me that the energy emanated from spheres would be different than from any other form. The guardians he interviews emphasise actually that the consciousness of mankind is now ready for the use of gemstones in spherical form. That means it is a development that humankind is growing into right now, so there still naturally is a transition period and it doesn't mean that crystals in other form are not valid or working. The sphere works differently, more potent for todays consciousness, that's how I understand it. I personally don't work with crystals, but read this book more for interest in the background information about our planet, history, and the subtle bodies (astral, causal, mental bodies and so on). As for the mentioning of extraterrestrials planting certain crystals, or trading for crystals, well it depends how openminded one is. I have been around these ideas for a while so they are not 'weird' or foreign to me (I grew up in a household where it was common to discuss that extraterrestrias really had helped mankind along in their development, such as helped build the pyramids, offered knowledge about agriculture and so on; so why would it be strange to think they also help the development of crystals along. With that being said, as the author also says in the book, keep some discrimination as not all extraterrestrials are of good intention!). It helps to remember that the universe might be far more fantastic than what we commonly assume, and this book is a good reminder for that.

I bought this book since it has a chapter on building a crystal pharmacy. Little did I know that the author was referring to himself and reveals nothing to the reader as to how he/she should go about it with the exception of 'buy my line of presumably overpriced, crystal necklaces'. The author has written this book as a pretense to sell you his product line of necklaces and I RESENT IT. Here are two examples: the book comes with a postcard inserted in it to order the author's catalog and on pg 287 (I paraphrase) 'Anyone fortunate enough to own a strand of Lapis Lazuli spheres are really lucky to own such a wonderful tool.' The author 'talks' to the 'guardians of each crystal and they have explained to him what their powers are and how to construct these special necklaces that only he knows now how to do properly. But lucky for the reader, he can sell them to you...Blah, blah, blah, This book will end up in the next garage sale. If I had seen the Larry King endorsement on the front cover I would have known to stay away, far, far away but I didn't. Oh, well. Unfortunately, I bought Michael Katz's Energy Medicine book too. I haven't looked or read it yet but I wouldn't be surprised if it were written to sell me on necklaces or something else too since it came with the catalog postcard in it as well. I recommend people stay away from Katz books. He can't be trusted -- he has an agenda.

This one one of the best written books of this subject that I have ever read and that is all that needs to be said.

When I read this book a few years ago, it changed my entire way of thinking about and using gemstones. Until I read it, gemstone therapy never resonated with me, even though I'm an energy healer (Reiki Master / Polarity Therapist) and actively used crystals in my practice. All the other books on gemstones just didn't seem right to me, or to resonate, until I this one. The interviews with each Gemstone Guardian kept me glued to this book until the last page. I highly recommend it to anyone wanting to take their use of gems to a higher level.