Marisa Galvez, associate professor of French and Italian, is working on a comprehensive history of the relationship between people and crystals through the centuries. Image credit: Studio SeventyTwo. Galvez, an associate professor of French and Italian, is working on a comprehensive history of the relationship between people and crystals through the centuries.
Galvez found that some poets and authors during the Middle Ages used imagery of crystals in their writing in an unexpected manner.
Aside from being commonly viewed as an embodiment of purity and perfection, crystals were also used by some medieval poets as a way to examine desire and the uncertainty of love, Galvez said. It happened sort of randomly. I was talking to a friend who is now an architect in New York.
She asked me if I knew anything about the history of crystals because she noticed that many 20th-century architects and writers, such as Paul Scheerbart, Bruno Taut and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, were fascinated with crystals. They were inspired by medieval stories about crystal and fantasized about transparent crystal skyscrapers and utopian cities made of glass.
We already know from other scholarship that crystal symbolized spiritual purity and perfection and was often used in religious contexts, especially in Christian churches where it was used to decorate Gospel books and other important religious items.
The most ancient writings that mention crystal include the accounts of the Roman historian Pliny the Elder, who described different precious stones, their origins and physical qualities. In Western Christianity, crystal was often mentioned in writings and used to decorate important religious objects, as it was thought that crystal manifested transcendence and the light of the heavens.
For the religious, the stone symbolized purity, faith and perfection. For example, it was used to described the purity of the Virgin Mary. In my current focus on the writing in the 12th and 13th centuries, I find something even more interesting. Medieval troubadours played around with the symbolism of crystal. But they also used crystal to describe different aspects of carnal desire and love. As an example, one piece of writing I found draws a parallel between the uncertainty one can feel when falling in love and the uncertainty one experiences when looking through a transparent but cloudy crystal, unsure what he or she is seeing.
Science has proven that matter is And what makes up this empty space: energy. Energy is everything, and everything is energy. This is not philosophy. This is physics. Just like everything else in the universe, we each have our own unique vibrational frequency. People with higher vibrations radiate kindness, love, peace, and compassion, whereas people with lower vibrations experience more low-vibe emotions like jealousy, anxiety, anger, or fear.
And they maintain their perfect stability with no effort. Exactly the opposite of our constantly changing, non-stable human nature.
So why does the stability of a crystal matter? And powerful energy can influence the energies around it. This is why crystals can so profoundly influence our unstable less powerful energy. Every crystal, just like every human, has a different energetic frequency. It depends on a few different factors like the size, the composition, and most helpfully, the color.
Why does crystal color matter? The colors we see are specific light frequencies. Red, for example, has a much lower frequency than purple. The same goes for our own bodies. If you look at a chakra diagram, the lowest chakra the root chakra is shown in red, which aligns with the low vibrational frequency of that chakra.
Image: cosmiccollage. Because of this vibrational match between like colors, you can usually choose your crystal to match the chakra you want to balance. For example, blue sapphires are good for your throat chakra - which is shown in blue. Just like amber and yellow topaz crystals align with your yellow solar plexus chakra.
The experience was transformative. Demand for crystals has surged in recent years, fueled by celebrity endorsements and a New Age resurgence in major cities and the fashion and beauty industries.
Last December, international trend forecaster J. Though crystals first became a hot item during the s, the new target consumers for crystal purveyors are in their twenties and thirties. According to some experts, younger generations are opting for spiritual practices like crystal healing because it allows them to mix elements from multiple faiths and ancient traditions into an individualized spiritual practice.
Healing crystals date back thousands of years, according to crystal folklore. The Ancient Egyptians are believed to have used lapis lazuli, turquoise, quartz, and topaz to anoint the tombs of the dead and to wear as jewelry and protective amulets. Ancient Greek soldiers used hematite as protection before battle and amethyst to fend off hangovers, some lore claims ; in other practices like Ayurveda, gems like sapphires and rubies are allegedly linked to righteousness and vitality.
Baby Boomers approaching middle age were almost exclusively attracted to the New Age movement.
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