Crystal Balls & Crystal Bowls: Tools for Ancient Scrying & Modern Seership (Crystals and New Age) (Paperback)

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Quartz crystal balls and crystal bowls are popular magical tools. Yet, not everyone understands the extent of their power and multipurpose potential. Ted Andrews reveals how these dynamic instruments can be used for divination, astral projection, spirit communication,  healing, and reaching higher states of consciousness.
Readers will learn many methods of crystal gazing, along with ways to enhance this practice with candles, fragrances, and elixirs. Also included are techniques for divining with water, communicating with angels and spirit guides, developing clairvoyance, and activating creativity. This updated edition also contains new illustrations.

From the Publisher

Divination. Oracles. Seership. Alchemy. Magic. These words have provoked scoffing and fear for centuries. But today, the growing partnership between ancient mysticism and modern science brings validity and acceptance to many divinatory tools and techniques. In no area is this more evident than in crystal technology.

Crystals are at the heart of computers and communications devices. Traditionally, people have used crystal balls, and now crystal bowls, as multi-purpose instruments of transformation. And nowhere will you find the secrets of these tools better explained than in Crystal Balls & Crystal Bowls by Ted Andrews.

You'll learn how to prepare yourself and your crystal ball for use. You'll meet the angel of the crystal and learn rituals.  The book describes the secrets of the body's energy systems and how the sounds of the bowls can affect them to bring healing, astral projection, and spiritual development.

It seems as though nearly every shop has some crystal balls or bowls these days. But there has been very little written about either. Now all of the secrets of the balls and bowls are shared in Crystal Balls & Crystal Bowls. If you have either a bowl or a ball, you simply must get this book to take full advantage of its power. And if you're thinking of getting either a bowl or a ball, you need this book too.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Llewellyn Publications; 1st edition (September 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1567180264
• ISBN-13: 978-1567180268
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #172,570 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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34 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Useful, December 30, 2000

By	J. French "93 93/93" (Oakland, California United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

If Llewellen had better editors, this would be a better book. There's a lot of useful information, techniques, and ideas for using crystal balls and bowls. This may also be the first occult book ever to include a maze with a rabbit chasing after a carrot. (There's a reason for it. The mazes are intended to train your psychic perceptions.) However, the book is poorly organized and edited. There are multiple redundancies of phrase such as "free choice". Sections which appear to depend on certain techniques being mastered are included before the techniques are explained. For instance, it seems common sense to put sections on attuning with the energy of a crystal ball before trance techniques intended to contact an anthropormorphized version of the ball's "angel". If you reverse the process, you'll just be projecting your ideas of what the "angel" is like. The second section is just plain garbled. I found myself having to read paragraphs two or three times just to figure out what Andrews was trying to say. It looks like he was trying to pack information into the section, and couldn't quite figure out where it fit. This is, of course, part of an editor's job. If something doesn't fit where it is, suggest a way to move it or create another subsection where it might find a home. It's a shame that such useful information has to be put together so poorly. But it IS useful, and I recommend the book to anyone interested in crytsal gazing, so long as they're patient and willing to seperate the wheat from the chaff.

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very interesting and informative-Perfect for the beginner, April 3, 1998

By A Customer

This book has wonderful exercises for the beginner and gives helpful hints to the experienced scryer also. The book not only discusses crystal balls and crystal bowls, but also touches on water divination and mirror gazing as well. I'd recommend it to anyone.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Is there better?, June 19, 2006

By	James H. Lee "Advisor" (Wilmington, DE USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

There has got to be a better resource on scrying. Some of the material is good (such as clearing and energizing the crystal ball, and contacting the spirit of the sphere), but other times it just gets goofy (like the rabbit and the carrot maze).

The book has a bit of a haphazard feel to it, and the illustrations just seem a bit amateurish. Lots of stuff gets thrown in here - from lunar breathing to picking the right candle color, mixed in with a teeny bit of kabbala and sigil magic.

The book is also missing elements -- such as using the crystal ball as a gateway to the astral plane, and internalizing the energy of the crystal ball into one's inner consciousness.

Note that I just read through the first part on Crystal Balls, so I can't really comment on the crystal bowl section...