How I Got Out For The First Time

[kurtykurt42]

Will doing normal energy work raise it enough, or is it something that will just have to come from continued projection (as I assume doing AP naturally raises energy).

You may have to spend a little more time raising your energy. It's tough to do without crystals and all the stuff I use. It used to take me about 60 minutes to raise my energy naturally. Now I just power up my generators and the energy flows like a river.

[Fresco]

You may have to spend a little more time raising your energy. It's tough to do without crystals and all the stuff I use. It used to take me about 60 minutes to raise my energy naturally. Now I just power up my generators and the energy flows like a river.

Where can I buy these crystals??

[kurtykurt42]

eBay

[Fresco]

eBay

Can you post a link to some of the better vendors??

[kurtykurt42]

There are a lot of good ones. Just look through a bunch and try and use your instincts to pick ones that you like.

[Anemani]

What do you do with these crystals? Do you have to have a special type or something?
I have a phosphate crystal and a clear crystal (I do not know what it is called) ^^ but I like like my phosphate, it is a pretty color. I had to get, so my momma bought it for me oh and I has some rocks to. I found some fools gold a while back and I also got this pretty rock looking thing called peacock copper. Oh and then I have one of those rock thingies that look like metal and are shiny and get really cold.

[kurtykurt42]

I just collect em cause they look perty. 

[Fresco]

There are a lot of good ones. Just look through a bunch and try and use your instincts to pick ones that you like.

And then what do you do with the crystal??  Place it in the room??  Wear it around your neck??

Sorry to ask so many questions Kurt, but us noobies are trying to pick your brain  
(I dont mean literally pick your brain in astral planes)  

[Anemani]

I started my collection of rocks when I was a little kid. I would pick my favorite one and carry it around with me off and on. I remember finding this one rock that was a red color. I hid it so I could come back to it later, but I could not find where I had hid it. I spent days looking for that rock, but never could find it, ^^ lol I thought I had imagined it all up and the rock was never there....

[kurtykurt42]

Lepricon's love to hide people's things, especially fancy rocks and crystals. Then you have to hide their lucky charms but that only makes them hide more of your stuff! 

[Anemani]

rotflma!!! XD looks like I am going to  go leprechaun hunting. (I will lure them out with some lucky charms I stole from them a while back).. I only hope I did not eat them all

[personalreality]

Anemani,

That's kind of what I do for a living (not hiding stones or hunting leprechauns, working in a metaphysical shop selling crystals).  I know a lot about crystals and what kinds you can use.  Kurt utilizes a fundamental principle of both magickal practice and crystals.  I'll explain briefly....

The way magick spellwork is achieved is through the implementation of emotional energy and this is done with crystals by programming them.  Kurt does this with his devices, and I don't even begin to pretend that I understand how his devices work.  But they utilize the characteristic of crystals being programmable.  So essentially what he does is amplifies the programming capabilities of crystals.  However, you can do achieve a similar effect (though slower I would assume) without the devices.  The goal is to create a memory of a physical/emotional state (how it actually feels) and then program that feeling into the crystal so that it can be used to amplify that feeling later.

This brings me to a definition of magickal practice that makes it easier to understand for people who are a bit skeptical or freaked out by that word.  Magick is simple really, it's a consciousness technology that takes advantage of natural laws not recognized by mainstream science.  So what Kurt does (while he may not call it this) technically falls into what I'm calling magick.  By the way, if you haven't looked at Kurt's website and seen what he does you should check it out, it's amazing stuff (look at his signature bar). 

If you utilize affirmations you are practicing a basic form of magick.  More advanced practices might put that affirmation to work on a candle of a particular color and combining it with essential oils, herbs, glitter of another color, etc.  or, as I posted in the Magick section, that affirmation might be formed into a Sigil.

To apply this to crystal work, when you get a new crystal you first cleanse it (i like sage smudging, but you can put it in salt water over night, or run it under water and put a few drops of citrus oil on it, OR the most effective way is by focusing your emotional energy on the crystal with the intention of cleaning it) to remove and clinging energy left by others who have touched it.  After you cleanse it, you dedicate it, just hold it and say that you're using it with benevolent intentions.  Finally, the part we're talking about, you program it.  This can be done by holding the crystal in your hands and bringing up the emotional feeling/memory and while feeling it (as intensely as possible) try to speak the energy into an intention.  For example, in this scenario, hold it and feel the sensations you associate with energy raising (which can be tough but if you learn the mental action that you do to generate the sensation during practice that's all you need to remember), when I do it, I actually use my attention to stimulate my hands (like RB teaches) and make my intention something like, "Assist me in intensifying, enhancing, and increasing the frequency of my energy system".  Then anytime you do energy work hold the crystal so it will help.

When I get to work today I'll give you a list of crystals and their properties that are useful in AP, energy work, and psychic development.  The main crystal you should get though is Quartz.  Quartz is like a blank slate, it's job is to amplify whatever you ask it too.  Every crystal or gemstone has properties that make it unique from it's brethren, but Quartz is the "most important" crystal one should have.  Everyone should have a piece.  I'll tell you more about it and others later.

Also, do a google search for metaphysical shops or crystal dealers in your city.  There is almost always a store in someone's city that has this kind of stuff.  You can of course order them online, but it's always better to get your crystals in person if you can.  Crystals have a consciousness of their own and some say they pick you.  So being there and touching them and looking at them can draw you to a particular one that may be more attuned with your energy.

More later.

[Fresco]

^^  Thanks AP, I'll look into that.

I almost exited last night.  Close but no cigar.  I'm getting closer though.
I also noticed there's a lot of magnetic gravity holding your exit back

[Fresco]

For those in the Toronto area, I found this place that sells crystals and other goodies: http://www.gemcapital.ca/quartz/quartzhealing.html

I'm gonna go check them out next week 

[Anemani]

^^ I am at my friends house and I was I was looking at what I already have before I came. I picked my quartz crystal out. I have had it for a few years now.  I do not know. ^^ I just have liked rocks and gems since I was a kid.