#28 A Conversation About Crystals With Lydia Majoli
Kelly speaks to Lydia the Crystal Healer in Ibiza about all things CRYSTALS. From where to place them in the home, to how to deal with sceptics, to what happens on her end when she’s giving a crystal healing session. At around the 30 minute mark, Lydia answers listener questions. How do crystals work? How does a beginner get started? Recommended crystals for children? Plus some fascinating ways to clean crystals and recharge them - and why it's important to do so. She also shares her view on the ethics of crystal mining and where to buy responsibly sourced crystals.
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Episode 28 of the project me podcast.
Hi, I'm Kelly Pietrangeli, the creator of myprojectme. com. This podcast is designed to be an entertaining, lighthearted, inspirational, personal growth journey. Each episode goes in a mostly chronological order as I piece together the books, modalities, people, and experiences that have fallen onto my life path exactly when I needed them.
And how often I resisted the very things I needed the most, or didn't see the gifts contained in the challenges until later. By sharing my stories, I hope to inspire you to reflect on your life path. What are the seeming coincidences that have led you to where you are today? What are the hidden gifts within your challenges?
And what magic is out there waiting for you as you let go of resistance and follow your own breadcrumb trail? At the end of each short episode, there's an opportunity. For you to reflect on how my story relates to your own life. You'll also find a PDF of journal prompts in the show notes.
Hi guys, welcome back. I'm heading off to Ibiza this Saturday for my long anticipated kundalini yoga retreat. It was back in December, 2019. I remember Christmas was approaching and my husband said, I have no idea what to get you for Christmas. And in my back pocket I had, I have an idea because I'd seen online that there was a one week yoga retreat in Ibiza called, ready for this.
Vibrate at your highest frequency. It had my name written all over it. I absolutely long to go. So as soon as he said, he didn't know what to get me. I was like, I've got an idea. So I have run retreats in Ibiza, but I've never actually been on a retreat in Ibiza. And this was Kundalini yoga, which is my favorite kind of yoga.
I'm actually going to do a whole podcast about how I fell into Kundalini and why I love it so much. So this retreat he got me for Christmas was scheduled to happen in April of 2020. But as we all know now, that was not meant to be. It was postponed again until October of 2020. And again, travel was banned from the UK to Spain at that period.
And then it was rescheduled to May of 2021. And that clashed with my move to Madrid. So I'm looking at it this time, like fourth time lucky. Trish Whelan is the teacher and she is all about running soul adventures and My God, my soul is so ready for this adventure. I have just literally finished a recorded conversation with Lydia, the crystal healer in Ibiza, who I shared about in episode 26.
That episode has had such a hugely positive reaction. And so it sparked all kinds of curiosity around crystals and how and why they work. And I decided to just jump on a call and have a deep conversation about crystals with Lydia. This is only the second episode where I haven't gone solo. I told her we'd probably do about a 20 or 30 minute chat about crystals.
And once we got going, we just didn't stop. So I think this is probably going to end up being the longest episode I've ever done. I took a lot of listener questions from how to get started with crystals, to which ones are good for children, to whether polished or raw crystals are more powerful. And then we got into the ethics of crystals and buying ones that are responsibly sourced.
She also shared some great resources for learning more about crystals and buying them and whether charging them under a full moon is really a thing. I'm always putting my crystals out under a full moon and I'm like, is this real? And whether or not we need to clean them. So I didn't want to cut her off.
I found the entire conversation so fascinating and I'm pretty sure you will too. So here we go. Episode 28.
Hello, Lydia. Hello, Kelly. Thank you for being my second ever guest on the Project Me podcast. Thank you so much for this invitation. I'm so excited. Good. I know. And I've been, I asked, you know, my community to start sending in crystal questions. And so I've got loads of questions and I just really looking forward to having this discussion.
Um, so I thought at the beginning, just if you could just introduce yourself just a bit about you, where are you from? I know you're living in Ibiza now. I'd love to know how long you've been living there. Cause you know, I'm dreaming of living there full time myself soon. Um, and who's in your family. Just, just a little bit about yourself.
First of all. Okay. Thank you. Um, so my name is Lydia Majoli. I, um, well, I was born in Australia, um, but I grew up in the UK in London, South West London. And, um, I come from a beautiful family, um, from all around the world, actually. So, um, I have, um, Dutch, German, Venezuelan, Italian family. And um, I moved to Ibiza coming on to seven years, um, in 2022.
So I've had seven years of being on this incredibly magnetic, beautiful Island. And I live here with my husband who was from Mexico, my mother and my gorgeous little son who is, um, going to be six very soon. Oh, amazing. I'm just thinking of how lucky your son is to have a crystal healer as a mother. Are crystals just a way of life in your home?
Like I'm imagining just a crystal palace. Yeah. Well, I, I have my specific guardian pieces that I have at home. So, you know, most people think that I have, You know, thousands or hundreds of crystals, but really I have specific pieces that I work with. So I don't have too many, but I do have some really incredible, um, pieces here at home.
And yeah, for my son, he is, um, he's very used to the crystals. It's, um, It's the way of life for him. I love that. Um, yeah, I did imagine that there would probably just be crystals on every surface, but now I'm remembering that when you came to my house and I told you that I'm going to be refurbishing the house in Ibiza and you said that you can do Like crystal placements and things like that in the, in the home.
Tell me more about that. How does, how does it work to put crystals in certain areas of the home? Yeah. So for me, I work with the art of placement and, um, I guess best spoke crystal buying. So, um, I find it extremely important when we, um, Um, in that process of creating sacred space at home to be able to choose vibrationally stones that are going to be, um, in resonance with our intentions and, um, by using different, um, modalities, one of them being the bagua from the feng shui modalities, um, We get this opportunity to place the crystal in areas of the home that are able to harmonize the space.
And I really love doing this because I feel it's super important that whatever we have in our home or in our spaces that we truly deeply honor and love our, um, our art, our, um, objects, our, um, the colors that are emitted in our space. So for me, it's, um, it's an important thing to create sacred space in the home.
Oh, I love that. I don't know if you heard the episode after the one where I shared about our session about the sacred geometry in my house in Ibiza. Yes. Yeah. You heard that one? So incredibly. To think that when you came over that Early August is when we had the session at home in my bedroom, and it was after that that I discovered that my house was built using sacred geometry, and it just really, I just began to see the house and feel the house in like a completely different way, which is absolutely incredible, because I feel the combination of, of using crystals in a home that is based on, on sacred geometry.
It's even more powerful because, um, within the crystalline structure, there are these incredible, um, crystal systems, geometric systems that are formed within the crystal. So, you know, uh, the combination of sacred geometry and crystals as the crystal structure already holds sacred geometry formation inside, it's, uh, yeah.
Extremely harmonizing to place the two together. So that's wonderful. Oh, wow. I'm definitely going to take you up when you said that you could come into my house and help me with all of this. Like I'm taking you on that and looking forward to that. I've always been the type that you have a bunch of different kind of random crystals and I sort of put it, put them on my bedside table in this pretty little display.
And then after you started telling me that I was like, maybe I shouldn't have some of these crystals next to my head at night. Like, I don't even know what they're, you know, which different ones are for. Yeah, definitely. Sometimes depending on the stone and, um, and especially where we are vibrationally, they can have different effects on us.
So I, I do recommend specific crystals for the bedroom because our bedrooms are that place of deep intimacy and relaxation. Um, so vibrationally, um, that should match with, um, with the crystal as well. You don't want Wow. Can you have any specific crystals for the bedroom? Yes, of course. Um, one of my favorites to, well, two of my favorites are, um, well, of course, rose quartz, because it has a very soft nurturing energy, um, which allows us to have that, um, peaceful state of being within the bedroom.
And, um, also amethyst because amethyst is, um, a very astral, um, Stone. So it assists us within our dream process of remembering or recording the dreams that are needed to assist us in our waking life. So, um, Oh my goodness. Can I tell you something? I have a rose quartz and an amethyst on my bedside table.
And I just, maybe it was just intuitive, maybe it was just intuitively that I knew to put those there. I don't know. But, um, before I had like a lot of different ones and then after I met with you, I was like, Oh, maybe all these shouldn't be there. And I just decided to keep those two there. Incredible. Yeah.
I love that. I love that. I wanted to ask you, is your husband supportive of what you do? I mean, being a crystal healer. He really is. It's amazing. Um, when we first met. Each other in Mexico. He, um, I, I bought my crystal tools with me as I bring them everywhere I go. And, um, he was fascinated by them and he ended up introducing me to many different beautiful minds in Mexico, where I got the opportunity to connect with some wonderful people who carve from the crystal, especially from the volcanic glass.
Crystal of obsidian, as there are many, um, mines there near the volcanoes of, of this incredible, um, crystal of obsidian. So he has been, uh, another wonderful light on my journey towards, uh, connecting deeper with the stones. Amazing. Does he do this kind of work himself? Is he into the woo woo? Into the woo woo.
Well, he's very grounded. So he, um, you know, he has to really deeply feel it himself, but he, he has a deep respect and, um, a deep love for, um, For spirit. So, um, and especially for his land in Mexico. And I really feel Mexico is very, um, alive with the essence of, of the word spirit. Amazing. My husband doesn't have a woo woo bone in his body.
And so there used to be a lot of resistance on his part to me delving into all this stuff. But I have to say that ever since I started this podcast, he sees that people are actually really interested in my experiences of trying out these different modalities. And so. And he's really beginning to open up, like, you no longer kind of rolls his eyes.
If I'm going to like you, you came over to our house, he was there when we were in the bedroom and we were doing the crystal healing that in the past, I would have never done something like that. If he was home, you know, or I would have gone somewhere else. Cause he just, it just, I would have felt his kind of.
Judgment or, and that would have kind of spoiled it for me, like his, his vibes would have kind of affected mine, but like he now knows a side of my business is now doing intuitive tarot sessions and now I'm doing soul plan readings. And it feels like at the more I'm just stepping into it, the more he's, his resistance is kind of subsiding or maybe all along it was my own worrying about what he was thinking.
I don't know. It's interesting. Yeah. It's interesting. Yeah. Yeah, there can definitely be, um, these moments where we, we can get challenged in our relationships of, uh, what we believe to be true in one's reality yet, um, I always find if there's respect there, uh, we have this wonderful space to grow. Oh, that's such a good point.
It's just respecting each other. We don't have to necessarily agree with each other or believe in what the other person believes, but it's just respecting each other's beliefs. I love that. That's reminding me of one of the questions that Louisa wrote in under my Instagram post where I asked her questions to ask and she said, how do you deal with the skeptics?
Um, and I think, I think what you're saying is kind of the answer, right? Yeah, totally. And, um, yeah, it's very interesting for those who, um, who challenge, um, the belief system of whether this is real. I mean, for me personally, it's, this has been a journey for me too. I've also questioned myself, you know, um, how do I know I am communicating with, uh, somebody's spirit or soul or higher self.
How do I know I'm connecting to the crystalline consciousness and not just my own mind? And I think that these questions are good to ask ourselves. And the more that we ask these questions and at the same time, um, bring our attention to our practice of communicating to the subtle energies, we get to, um, witness the most incredible synchronicities to show that nature is deeply talking to us and our true nature is deeply talking to us.
I love that. And that's exactly what I needed to hear right now, because, you know, I am still much earlier than you on my turning this into my work. And yeah, there is sometimes that, you know, is this real? Seems really real, but like, I'm still kind of questioning it sometimes, you know? Um, so I love that, you know, when I remember when you came into my bedroom in Ibiza, it was only last month.
It feels like I have grown and expanded so much. Since that session. Wow. It was only like a month and a half ago, and it feels like it was like at least six months ago, honestly. Um, but you saw on my bedside table, I had a book called Opening to Channel, and you just nonchalantly you were unpacking your beautiful box of crystals and you're like, oh, opening to channel.
I read that when I was 19 , and I was like, oh, I'm, I'm 55 and I'm just starting to read it now. And I'm like, you know, have you just always been like really spiritually open-minded, and into all this? Yeah, I, I started from a very young age. Um, at the age of six or seven was, I think the earliest memory I have of, uh, being fascinated by stones, by crystals.
And I started to collect, you know, the small little tumble stones, I think probably rose quartz, hematite, clear quartz, amethyst stones were in there. Um, and I didn't really have a conscious Of, uh, what they were, there was just a liking towards them and, um, then moving into my teenage years, those things weren't really cool.
So I kind of dropped all of that aside and was very much focused on my, um, social, personal life. Um, and coming into my early 20s, 1920, I, um, I started to have, I guess, my remembrance, my awakening again. And, um, I got deeply drawn, not just to crystals, but to connect with, um, higher aspects of myself, which are linked to what I choose to describe as soul extensions, which are our guides, because they are not beings that are outside of self, they are an extension of our soul.
And, um, I became very determined to be in communication with this aspect of myself. And, um, so I've been sitting in, in circle, uh, channeling for, I think, going on to 13 years now. And, um, I loved the question about, you know, people who, um, who ask, you know, is this true? Um, Give us proof because I was my my biggest critic.
I for many years Um asked myself, you know, how can I trust this information that's coming through? How do I know what and who i'm talking to? And throughout the years I get very specific Sensations and feelings to know when my guides are coming through and um You A deep trust and honor for these, this, this connection, I feel is, is very important, um, to, to see when you are communicating with something that is kind of beyond the mind's capacity to comprehend on a physical level.
In a physical form to, um, to bring humbleness to this space. Um, because we do not know everything and, um, we are living in a, in incredible mystery. So for me, I, I still have my questions today and these questions assist me in expanding even more because we're not here to, um, in my opinion, to completely become enlightened where we have the answers to everything we are in an unfolding.
Um, and within that unfolding, I feel for me personally, the thing that has, that has assisted me in connecting deeper with myself is to, um, remain humble in, um, the unknown. I absolutely love that, Lydia. Yeah. I think there in some spiritual circles, there's a lot of kind of, um, guru guru aspects where people like look outside of themselves into this other person and they will like follow everything they say.
And I can only imagine that. From when someone's, you've got, you know, hundreds of people, thousands of people, whatever, all listening to every word you say that the ego can get involved. And then suddenly it's your, it's the ego that is, um, is running the show rather than, you know, the, the, the humble heart.
And I just, I love what you said. I think I always want to remain, you know, humble and like, not that this is me. This is just something that's coming through me. And I'm a conduit. And it's not me as in, you know, Kelly Pietrangeli, my personality, it is just, you know, coming through me and I can be a vessel for that to come through.
But nothing more than that, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Um, I, I wanted to ask you when, when we had our session, um, the first one, um, what Um, you know, it was like, uh, for me lying there, you know, it just felt calm and relaxing and you were putting crystals on different points on my chakras and, and everything. But it was at the end when I sat up and you told me about everything on your end.
And I remember saying to you, how did. Do you remember the past hour, like everything that's happened? And I don't know, you just said, I wrote it down in my journal, what you said. And now I'm kind of forgetting, but you were, you said, um, to be, Oh, what was the word you said? Embodied, embodied. You said when you're really embodying this, then you don't have to think about what to say.
Yes. Totally. So what does it feel like on your end? Like what are you seeing and experiencing on your side and how do you remember to tell the client all of that at the end? So for me personally in my um, in my ability to, to, To hear, see, and feel I, um, I receive it as in, um, like waves of, of, of feelings.
And sometimes these feelings can bring through imagery, uh, visions. Sometimes these feelings can bring up, um, sound. Um, so I feel like I, I'm using all of my Claire's, you know, they, they speak about
And, um, during session, I, you know, like what you spoke about being the vessel, Lydia is put aside and I am, I have this, uh, direct channel to my higher self that is in direct communication with yours and there within that space, there are all of these incredible soul extensions of self and. I just allow whatever is, um, wants to communicate in that moment through the intention that I set in the beginning, which is to always work with what is the highest good of all.
And, um, I, as I let go, it's like we, we also become, um, a crystalline structure. So we are recording all of this information within us without having to. Think about anything. Um, just really allowing our intellect to expand and receive And and store this information. So naturally after the session it feels like um for me personally Everything starts to unfold during the conversation in a, in a divine synchronized way.
I don't start from the beginning to the end exactly of how I saw it, yet the most important things come up first and then through the conversation other things will start to, um, To manifest. Oh, yeah. That makes sense to me. I've like written down all these words. You said, trust, let go, allow deep intention and divine synchronicity.
And all of that is just Gold. Yeah, I love it. Um, well, I want to make sure that we actually get to talking about, um, crystals themselves because I've had so many questions that have been written in when I asked, what do people want to know about crystals? Um, my, if I don't, if I'm going to go first with such a basic and yet complicated question, but how do crystals actually work?
I mean, I know that they each carry a vibrational frequency and that each type of crystal has You know, different healing powers kind of attributed to it, but like how, why? Um, well, because they are, um, consciousness. So, you know, when we think about, um, crystals, this is, this is the mineral kingdom. This is the first kingdom to manifest on our planet of consciousness.
Um, so for me, crystals are a unified Um, being, which means that they carry all elements in perfect harmony. They carry the masculine feminine unified. And this for me shows us that they are a incredible, um, tool to be able to connect to, um, the all. Aspects that, that we are part of, they are not separate from the mother, uh, which is our mother, uh, and, um, you know, it's very interesting because when you look at the geometry of a crystal, uh, crystals, they form in crystal systems.
This can tell you also a lot about the properties or the, um, metaphysical. magic they hold. Um, for example, um, you can find cubic formed crystals. Um, and, uh, these are incredible stones for grounding such as pyrite, um, or hexagonal, uh, crystal systems, which are expansive, um, such as aquamarine. So for me, you can, um, you can tune into the vibrational form.
frequency of the crystal, also through its crystal geometric system, as well as the color, because color is also a vibration. So, you know, they, these colors are emitting a, um, a frequency as well. So for example, anything, uh, red, Or brown has a very earthy grounding energy, which, uh, directly links to our base, um, or anything yellow, um, is quite uplifting and joyous and connecting to the solar.
So for me, the crystal, um, geometric formation color, um, has a lot to do with the energies that they, uh, transmit that assist us on, on many different levels. Oh, wow. I never even thought about how the actual colors, of course, they have, they carry vibration as well. What about, um, polished crystals versus unpolished stones?
Is there, is there one that's better to work with? I mean, you can get the little, you know, the polished ones are all smooth and then you can get the other ones. I'm looking at my ones I have right now and I've got kind of a variety of different ones. Yeah. Yeah. Well, um, I mean, for me, both hold. immense power, um, and, uh, wisdom.
Yet it's very interesting because many people would think that the more polished or, um, you know, we don't want to say man made, but I guess man, uh, carved crystals, um, could be less effective than something that comes naturally from our earth. But actually it's the opposite, because when you polish a crystal or when you are carving a crystal, first of all, you are putting intention into the stone.
And secondly, depending on how the crystal is carved and with how much precision, you can actually create incredible light tools, um, from these minerals. And somebody who has done such a thing, um, has become one of the most important, um, scientists, um, of our time, uh, to experiment and, um, research the power of the crystal quartz.
And his name is Marcel Vogel. He, um, has a website, well, In the memory of Marcel Vogel, there has been a website made for him called marcelvogel. org. And uh, this is a wonderful place for those who want to delve into very deep research about, um, the Vogel wand, which he created, which is a carved crystal, um, that has, um, precision, um, to assist as a healing tool to eliminate, um, things on a mental, emotional, and, uh, physical basis.
So, my answer to that is that, uh, all crystals hold power, yet when, uh, crystals are carved, or, um, Use in a, in a way for, with the intention of healing, um, they can be even more potent in their power. Mm. Amazing. Good to know. Um, I'm going to read out some listener questions now and three, three points. Many people have wrote in with very similar questions.
So we've got Janice, who's in my new spiritually minded group in Madrid. I just met her last week. She asked, what are some ways for beginners to get started if they're looking to learn about crystals and the various properties of each type? And then Beatrice on Instagram, she's at the nourished bowl. She wrote a similar question for someone who knows nothing about crystals, where and how would be a good place to start.
And then one of my project, we members Marie asked for your resources that you recommend. So, in a nutshell, if I kind of combine all those questions together, where does a beginner begin? Oh, okay. Well, um, one, one book I would love to recommend or website that I'd love to work with, recommend is, um, where I actually studied my two year crystal healing diploma.
Um, It's a school called the Vibrational Healing Foundation and if you go onto the website vibrationalhealingfoundation. co. uk, there you can find some resources, um, of books and uh, one of them is written by my teacher and it's called the, uh, Crystals and Healing for Everyone. And this is a wonderful place to start because it gives you, uh, the.
basic on the science behind crystals and some very simple practices on how to be able to sense and feel subtle energies. Because I feel this is a very important place to start before you delve into crystals and what they feel like. It's so important to delve into self first, so to be able to sit with self and gently feel your own subtle energies and your own subtle bodies, your mind, your emotions, and um, eventually your spirit.
So, um, this is a wonderful place to start. I, I would say meditation is very important to be able to, um, connect in this way to self to be able to then communicate with another being in that way. Um, but for sure, um, this book is a wonderful way to, uh, open up to crystals and their magic. And also at the back, she has a wonderful description of the properties of stones.
And how to use them. And another, um, crystal healing teacher and author that I absolutely love is a lady called melody. She has now passed away, but she wrote an incredible book called lovers in the earth. And this is, uh, a wonderful deep dive into the world of crystals. Um, she, links the crystals to astrological signs, um, how they work on, um, a mental, physical and spiritual level.
And she has many, many years of, of bridging again, science and spirit together. So, um, That book is a wonderful place to to just get lost into the world of crystals those both of those sound amazing They're now on my list. Thank you. That's perfect on Instagram we have another question from Kyoto in July, and she says, which crystals can help children to be more peaceful and connected to their souls?
Oh, what a beautiful question. Um, well, I can recommend for that, um, there are some stones that are, uh, really wonderful to work with children because they are soft. In their vibrational frequency. And I think that's very important because children are still expanding in their energy field. So you don't want anything too invasive.
So stones such as blue lace agate, which is a beautiful, very light blue, um, stone. And this is a wonderful stone to cool down, um, any worries of the mind and to bring deep peace. Thanks. Um, uh, there's another stone called Orange Calcite, which is a wonderful, joyous stone. And this can assist in allowing, um, that feeling of creativity to flow through and also, um, brings in those joy codes and, um, And a classic one is amber.
You know, you see loads of mothers with the little amber necklaces. Oh, like the teething, the teething, um, necklaces. Yeah. And amber is, is much more than just for teething. Amber is a, it's, it's a tree resin. And, um, it assists us in bringing a very, uh, soft grounding energy. So, Your child can feel confident in the path that they're walking this lifetime, that they are here worthy of being on a, on a divine path.
Hmm. I love that. You know, I gave my son a tiger's eye when he was going through a tough time at school. I think he was maybe around six years old. It was really young and I quote, quote, sort of carried it in his pocket for protection and bravery, you know, and he's 21 now. And this summer I saw it on his bedside table and I'm like, Oh, you still have that?
And he's like, yes. And it just really warms my heart that he still treasures it that much. But thinking about it now that you're telling me this is Tiger's eye, quite a powerful stone to give a six year old. Oh, it's wonderful. I mean, Tiger's eye is really about confidence. Um, so Tiger's eye can be an amazing stone for those who find it, um, you know, school challenging or, um, for, for children who have.
Um, you know, who are maybe be getting bullied or who are feeling that competitive vibe in a social setting. And it can really bring deep peace into feeling confident in yourself. Um, being just who you are, your authentic self. So it's wonderful. It's a stone's throw. Okay. I've picked the right one for him all those years ago, but I really didn't know anything about crystals.
So that's amazing. I think maybe I, maybe I do have more of an intuitive, intuitive crystal sense than I'm giving myself credit for this next question comes in from one of my amazing project. We members, her name is Sophie joy and like her real name, her last name really is joy. I'm like, it's just gotta be like the best, the best search.
Um, she says, I would love to know if it's best to just surround yourself with the crystals you love and are drawn to, or whether you should read up and, you know, read about the crystals and find out what they do. This is a wonderful question. I really, um, feel that it is so important to surround yourself by what it is that you feel drawn to.
If you feel then that, um, that feeling to go deeper and learn more about what others have channeled from the crystal, um, that's wonderful. Yet the most important thing is about building that relationship between you and the stone yourself, because One thing that I'm learning about crystals is that they are an expansive consciousness.
So we are not going to know all about that stone. And at different moments in our life, they are going to reveal different things to us depending on what needs to be mirrored to us to expand ourselves. So for me, it's so important to intuitively feel, um, this is key. Okay. Brilliant. Thank you. Um, lady, who's also in my new Madrid group has asked me to ask you, what do you think about giving crystals to people who have no interest in them or don't understand their energy?
I also feel that it's a wonderful gift because, um, even if people don't understand the energy of the stone, when I've gifted crystals to people who, um, you know, they think they're pretty, but they're not really, um, you know, they don't really understand too much of what am I going to do with this? There is, um, a deep appreciation I feel happening within the other of being gifted something, um, precious from our mother earth.
And most of the time people who have gifted crystals to who had no interest in, in before they've always kept those stones and felt a sense of support and safety with them. So I feel that even on a conscious level, if somebody. is a little bit resistant or doesn't put too much importance. There is something happening, happening in the subconscious that, uh, allows them to feel this connection back to mother earth.
Okay. I've had a few people ask me where to buy authentic crystals. I had, um, on Instagram, Mrs. Janet Gleason, home shape style, also asked where, where do you buy crystals that have been joyfully mined and with deep care for the planet? She said, I never buy any because I don't know where they've come from.
And then also Jennifer Lopez, not that Jennifer Lopez, but one of my new friends. Friends here in Madrid, who assures me that Jennifer Lopez is actually a really common name. Um, she sent me this whole distressing article around the ethics of crystal harvesting. It just made my heart sink when I read this.
Um, so I guess the question, if I take all of them into one and just say, how do we know if crystals are being mined authentically? Do they carry the energy of how they were harvested? And yeah, how can we, how can we, um, buy our crystals, um, mindfully, authentically? Yeah, this is a really, um, great question and a very complex and deep question as well.
Um, because then the, the mining industry is a huge business. That's the reality of it. Um, yet it's very interesting when we work, we talk about the word ethics, because for me, um, feeling into this question, I feel that there's three things that we can look at when it comes to the mining. Um, and that's, you know, the human worth ethic.
How is the, how are the people being treated who are mining the crystal, um, our earth and resource ethics, you know, how much are we taking from our earth and, um, the ethics of our intention. Because you know, It's very, very interesting. Um, one of Marcel Vogel's experiments that he done during his time of, of wanting to understand consciousness and the mind, he done an experiment on plants where he was And being able to communicate with the plant and, um, and measure its response, um, before it was cut down.
And he had found out that the plant had responded first to the thought of being cut than the actual action. So for me, this is extremely profound because If consciousness responds first to thoughts and we see this, um, you know, when we, when we speak about the law of attraction or when we speak about manifestation that we are first communicating our, our intellect, our great mind food, visionary process, you know, it, It's the same when communicating with, with nature.
So, um, it's very difficult to know the intention of the person who was mining a crystal. Only that person knows. So, um, that's one aspect and when it comes to the earth resources and, um, and, and mining, you know, we have, um, I feel that we have been on one aspect deeply programmed to feel immense amount of guilt, um, of taking too much from our mother earth.
Now, I deeply feel that, um, when we look at ourselves as, as a society, we can see a lot of greed in the human, um, conditioning. And yes, uh, there are things that are happening, um, where the resources are being, um, manipulated and disrespected in many ways. Um, yet. I deeply believe Kelly that our earth is so abundant and that it is a little bit ignorant of us as humans to think that we have the capacity to dig so deep and dig everything up, um, and destroy her.
I feel that she, our, our mother earth, our planet, um, has been existing for millions of years before us and, um, will continue existing for millions of years to come. So I feel the most important thing when it comes to the ethics of crystals is to really feel that connection with the person that you are buying the stones from.
I have had the pleasure of sourcing crystals that have been hand mined, which is a, I have to say, you deeply feel the difference between a hand mined crystal and a, um, And a crystal that has been mined through, um, explosives, for example. And the difference for me is actually within the crystal itself, its consciousness.
One crystal has been traumatized and the other one has been taken with love. Now, as both of them have come out the earth, um, I feel if the crystal is, has been speaking to, to you, whether that's through you walking past a shop and there's a crystal in the shop and it seems to be calling you, it's, it, this is a conversation between you and, and, uh, Earth's consciousness where deep healing is wanting to be shared.
So sometimes I feel it's really wonderful to look at, uh, the crystals, not only as what they can do. For us, but what we can do also for them with the reactivation of their, um, original blueprint, which is of unity. Um, so for me, um, you know, there's many ways that you can source crystals. Um, you, if you were really, really deeply interested in only buying stones that have been hand mined, because for me, that's the only way that it's.
Truly ethical because you know that the person has mined it with love. They have a deep love for the, for the stones that they, uh, they use very small tools to mine. So no explosive, nothing heavy and that they're working for self. So there is no, uh, issue there with the human ethics. Um, this is a wonderful way to purchase crystals.
Um, and I can recommend, Uh, two wonderful people who, who do this, um, there is a man in Australia called Patrick Gunderson. Um, he travels around Australia and hand mines his crystals and there is a company called Himalayan Clarity. And um, I got The pleasure of purchasing, um, a few of their large pieces and, uh, I had them here in Ibiza and, uh, they've all sold now, um, but they hand mine their crystals in the Himalayas and they, um, their crystals are of optical A grade quality quartz and they are spectacular.
Um, and then, you know, there, if you're super, super interested in, in crystal, there's also that possibility of going and traveling and, um, and mining yourself. Um, That would be a dream of mine. Like I have this fantasy about going into a crystal cave. Like I see it when I do kind of journeys and things. I just see myself going into this crystal cave.
So I think this needs to be on my, uh, My list of things I do in my lifetime. Yeah, totally. I haven't yet been myself, um, because, um, I haven't had the, the time yet to go and, uh, spend a month, um, mining my own crystals, but that's also definitely something that I want to do. And, and there are places like that all over the world.
And then, of course, there are people like myself that have a deep love for crystals and my crystals, um, are sourced in different ways. And one of my favorite ways is to, um, is to go to the small mines where, uh, you see little family run businesses. This was my experience in Mexico where I got to see the family, uh, looking after.
The, the lands, they're taking the crystals, cleaning the crystals and also carving them into, um, sacred amulets, um, especially in Mexico with, uh, with the, the obsidian. So, um, yeah, I, I can also recommend for anybody who's looking to purchase crystals. I feel that the most important thing is to connect with the seller.
Um, the seller may not know exactly what mine, where it came from with all of the stones. But if that love is there, um, you know that you can trust that. Yeah. I've tended to buy my crystals when I've been to these kind of mind, body, spirit shows, you know, and in London you go by and they just be drawn to these stands.
And um, and I have kind of watched the, the women who run these stands and how they're They're, you know, kind of cleansing the crystals every day and bringing them out. They seem to be, you know, putting their energy into them and are sort of drawn to the ones that seem to be doing that, you know, Totally.
And there are so many, um, you know, crystal shops that feel this responsibility as they receive the crystals, wherever they've been, um, Um, hand mind or, um, coming from bigger minds, um, they have this responsibility to care and love for the crystal, which, um, science has proven that crystals respond very quickly to this essence of love, um, which restores their, their light again.
So, um, I think it's a very interesting subject because it's also about. How can we be in healing service, um, to, um, nature that has been traumatized? And that doesn't mean that we're here to save or to, uh, to, to put ourselves above, but to be able to recognize nature as consciousness and to have that loving conversation to restore harmony again between us and nature.
I love that, you know, ask not what your crystal can do for you, but what you can do for your crystal. It comes to mind. Yeah. I'm sorry that's my American in me. Um, but I, I feel like I, now I, there's like, not just holding a crystal in my hand and like you said, like, just, what are you going to do for me? But like this, especially if I get a new one, like building this relationship with it and you know, seeing what I can be doing towards healing the trauma that the crystal might have been through when it got mined.
And like, that's tough. something I'm going to be, I'm going to be leaning into for sure. Um, I am going to ask one more question because I'm just realizing how long we're going here. Um, so, um, Zandra Spencer is the EFT tapper I talked about in previous episodes, um, when I've had amazing emotional freedom technique sessions.
And she wrote to me this morning to say that she's going to Ibiza for her 40th birthday in a couple of weeks. And after hearing about my episode, about my session with you, she has booked in to see me. So if you did, you must've gotten a booking really recently from Xander Spencer. I did. Yeah. She's amazing.
Anyway, she wrote, how important is cleansing your crystals and what happens if you don't? And I thought, I'm so glad you answered that because I hear about putting them under the full moon to recharge them. And, you know, my husband's always laughing at me. It's like full moon. I've got to get my, my crystals all out on the windowsill under the full moon.
And I'm just, you know, if you could just talk on that a little bit, I know we're never really running over. If you could just say something about cleaning, re energizing and cleaning crystals. Of course. Um, yes, it is very important to do that. Um, especially when you have a new one, um, because it's important for you to cleanse all the energies, um, that it has stored because crystals, um, they, they store information.
Um, and the, and also when you are using crystals, whether you're using them for self healing or you're using them in your altar, or you, um, Or you just have them by your, by your room, they, um, they pick up on the energy that's all around. So it is very important to cleanse. And, um, some of my favorite ways of cleaning crystals, uh, by using sound, because sound is such a powerful, um, transmitter of vibration and sounds such as Tibetan bowls, crystal singing bowls, or even mantras can really have such a profound effect on the crystal And it's consciousness and clearing anything that is, um, that is of a lot of vibration within it.
And, um, another one is natural resins and incense. Um, and for me also, this is, um, again from nature. A, you know, plants. Trees and crystals. They just are like a marriage. They really together assist in a wonderful expansion. So for me, smudging your stones using natural incenses, such as, you know, pine resin, copal resin, frankincense, or myrrh.
These sacred resins really assist in uplifting any density in a stone. And Um, the last one for me is actually the power of our breath. We are incredible, um, healing beings and we have the power to through intention and through breath to be able to cleanse a crystal. So I would recommend if you wear any crystal jewelry that's been passed down to you or, uh, that you feel that has been picked up on any, um, any, uh, vibrations that have been dense, um, or any crystals in the home that are not too heavy to hold.
You can hold these crystals and just through the power of breath with the intention of purifying and bringing this crystal back into its original blueprint, you can send that intention by breathing in the intention and releasing it for your breath into the crystal and, uh, the crystal recedes straight away.
Wow. Okay. I'll be breathing into my crystals after this call. I love it. But what about the new moon? What about, I mean, the full moon? What about the full moon? So for me, um, the full moon, instead of cleansing, it charges. And, um, it's interesting because for me, um, The moon goes through its phases. Um, so really when you're charging, um, the, the crystals under the full moon, you are charging your crystals under the influence that the moon is holding in that moment and recharging it, which is wonderful because, uh, you're linking, uh, the crystals to a celestial body that has a big impact on our emotional body and the body of water on this planet.
And water, water is life, you know, water, we are water beings and, uh, crystals also, you know, contain water in, in their structure. So, um, it's, for me, the moon is a wonderful way to more so recharge with the collective celestial energy. energies that are happening in the moment. Amazing. Okay. So I'm not doing that for nothing.
No, great stuff. Oh, I could talk to you for ages and we have gotten, I remember telling you, we're going to keep this really short. And then it was like, well, I just, you know, love hearing everything you've had to say. Thank you so much. And, um, where can people find you? I mean, I know you live in Ibiza, but you know, on online, where can people find you?
Yes. Thank you. Well, first of all, I just want to, uh, thank you so much, Kelly, for this conversation. It really feels like it came in the right moment. And, um, for anybody who is interested in knowing more about crystals or having a crystal healing session or a space transformational session as well, um, I have a website, which is Etamunel.
com. E T A M A N E L. com. Uh, this is a Mayan word and it means wisdom. As for me, this is the foundation of the crystal. It's, it's to connect us with the infinite wisdom that exists within us. And, um, you can also find me on Instagram, which is etamunel underscore Ibiza. And, uh, there you can find, um, some information about stones, my channelings, and, um, anybody who would like a crystal healing in person, or also distantly, because, uh, crystals go beyond time and space, and so does our consciousness.
Brilliant. Well, I'm looking forward to seeing you again when I come back to Ibiza. And yeah, just thank you so much for taking the time to help us to understand crystals a bit more. Thank you. Thank you so much. And, um, I wish you all a beautiful journey on, um, discovering the crystalline kingdom. Um, because Really, ultimately, we are crystalline beings also.
We have an incredible crystalline structure within ourselves, and I, I deeply feel in these moments, uh, we are awakening to this crystalline Christ consciousness. So um, I just, Send so many blessings to all of you, wonderful souls and beings who have sent in all your questions and taking time to listen to this.
Um, yes, sending so much light upon your journey in this, in these moments of awakening. Thank you. Thank you.
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