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Is there any Scientific Proof that crystal healing actually works ?
This very short and concise question, actually has a quite long and complicated answer !
Firstly, what do we know about how crystal healing works. Crystals help us with healing physical/mental/emotional/spiritual problems by "balancing" our energies or by removing "negative" energies that may surround us.
They do this by being placed in a persons Aura (the energy field that surrounds us all) or by being placed on or close by a persons chakra points (points on our bodies where we experience the outside world internally).
Crystal therapy is thousands of years old and has been used by many of the worlds ancient cultures and is still practised by tens of thousands of folk today. Of course, a belief in the fact that your body does indeed have an Aura and does indeed have chakra points is beneficial.
If you simply believe that your body is your body and does not form part of a "whole energy person" then crystal healing may not be for you.
There are many texts, some sacred, dating back to over 3,000 years ago about how man is not just a body but is part of a "universal energy" and susceptible to energetic changes within his own personal energy field.
However, to get back to the question in the way that is was phrased, Is there any Scientific Proof that crystal healing actually works. Clearly, the emphasis here is on the existence of "scientific proof" or perhaps even "scientific evidence", i.e. where absolute proof exists that a certain crystal works on this emotion but not on that emotion, on this illness or on that illness, and that it can be shown scientifically to do so.
I guess the answer to that has to be No.
When one applies the usual rules of "scientific evidence" to a particular issue, (for example, air passing over and under a wing shape in order to keep an aeroplane aloft) evidence has to be produced to substantiate that issue, and then on top of that, it must be shown to be repeatable over and over again and still produce the same results. If this is the absolute type of evidence that you are searching for, then I guess you won't find it.
There have been some scientific studies done in America, one particular chap in California whose name I now can't recall to mind, who was working in a hospital with people who had bone fractures that just wouldn't heal. He was experimenting on electrical impulses to help heal such fractures. He discovered that the amplified impulses given out by Hematite and Blue Lace Agate, (both good for helping to mend broken bones) were exactly the same frequency as those he was using to treat the healing of fractures in his own experiments. However, apart from the odd one or two experiments like this, there is no great body of clinical evidence.
This is the reason why reputable websites (including ours) have a disclaimer which is easily readable and which advises people to accept that crystal healing is a "complementary therapy" and should not be thought of as one which can replace conventional medicine.
However, having said that, when we are dealing with crystal healing we are working on many levels, spiritual, emotional, physical and mental, and different folk experience things in a variety of different ways.
For example, when we say a particular crystal can "help you overcome feelings of fear" we are all as individuals, starting from a different point in our understanding of what feelings of fear are. Whilst maybe for one person, a crystal may give them a 5% "improvement" in overcoming their feelings of fear, for another, that "improvement" may be 80%.
That of course rather leads us into the area that one crystal may work for one person but not for another and in fact many crystal healers prefer their clients to select their own crystals that they feel may help them, from a selection that the crystal healer puts before them. This works on the basis that we are drawn to those crystals, which we feel we have some understanding with, and which may therefore resonate with us more readily, therefore helping our own healing to progress.
However, to return to the question, the above process is probably not quantifiable and in any event doesn't quite address the question of what is the evidence for crystal healing.
Most of the evidence for healing with crystals is either,
A) Experiential (i.e. someone has experienced a good result with, for example, Rose Quartz and encouraged others to try it to see if they experience the same thing)
B) Channelled, (i.e. someone has channelled from their contact with spirit, information that this particular crystal is good for that particular thing)
C) Anecdotal (i.e. the properties of a crystal have been handed down over generations and folk today still use that particular crystal for that particular thing)
D) Study Based (i.e. groups of people are asked to work with particular crystals and to observe their feeling, emotions etc)
Lets have a look at these in some more detail,
A) Experiential - A lot of crystal healing is based upon this. Over 4,000 years of practice with crystals has taught us that some crystals can help with this, but not with that. Is there a civilisation on the planet (either in existence or now extinct) that at some time or another has not imbued crystals with healing properties - I doubt it.
We could probably quote chapter and verse here, but lets just say that in ancient India, Sapphires were a stone of health. Some Native American tribes used Turquoise to help them pass into the next world. Ancient Egyptians revered the royal blue of Lapis Lazuli. Crystals are mentioned over 200 times in the Christian Bible, the "Pearly Gates" of Heaven, cities whose walls were made of crystal, Aaron the high priest who wore a breastplate with 27 precious stones set in it, etc etc.
In addition, there were tribal healers, medicine men, shamans, who used crystals in their healing kit. All of these 1,000's of years of knowledge have been passed on and added to as new crystals have been discovered.
B) Channelled - There are many folk out there who are in regular contact with the spirit world and who, from time to time receive information (perhaps in the old days, this would have been called revelation) that certain crystals can help with different things. This information is added to the general store of workable knowledge on crystals.
C) Anecdotal - The one thing here that, for me at least, transcends all other examples is Turquoise mined in Iraq, Iran, Turkey and the Middle East. This bright blue stone has been thought of for centuries, probably millennia, to ward of evil and still today, you can go to those countries and buy amulets and bracelets and rings, all made from Turquoise and often fashioned into the shape of an eye to watch over you. I'm sure there are many other examples around the world that you can think of. Why do we give engagement rings that always contain Diamonds ? Why not Rubies or Emeralds etc ?
D) Study Based - Here the work of Michael Gienger comes to mind (his book Crystal Power, Crystal Healing, is excellent) where he set up groups of people in Stuttgart, Germany, to carry and experience minerals and crystals and to write down and describe their findings. Other large study groups have probably also been organised elsewhere.
So, where does all this leave us ?
More and more doctors in practices and in hospitals are nowadays allowing complementary therapists in to augment their own work. We personally know a lady who does crystal healing and Reiki healing in a vets practice. Obviously, not every doctor feels this helps and some are outspoken against complementary therapies.
Regulation is coming to the UK and Europe through European Community laws, and there are now governing bodies overseeing crystal healing as a practice.
For some folk, they are willing to try crystals as an addition to their armament against disease, emotional problems, spiritual worries etc on the basis of a vast (and growing) body of experiential and anecdotal evidence.
However, when the chips are down, when our backs are to the wall, - there is simply not a body of absolute scientific evidence, such as exists in conventional medicine, that crystal healers can turn to.
You either chose to believe it, or you don't.
Pretty much like a religion perhaps - who can "prove" the existence of the after life offered by many of the worlds religions ?
Perhaps like Love - who can "prove" that love exists, yet it is something that nearly all of us have personally experienced.
Who would deny hope, who would deny love.
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