Philip's Crystal Blog

I wrote this article a few years ago. It's since apeared in various guises in several magazines and many websites so I thought, just because it's Christmas, I'd share it with you again :-)
Christmas Crystals

All sorts of things happen when the festive season starts. Some wonderful, some interesting and some of them can appear absolutely disastrous

So what is it that causes a large part of the planet to go into a tiz? How is it that even those who plan their ...

Aura quartz crystals
Genuine aura quartz crystals are natural quartz crystals treated with rare metals in a special bonding process at high temperature and pressure in conditions that could be similar to a natural volcanic eruption, but on a much smaller scale. This is as close to a natural formation as is possible with many of these elements and it produces some of the most beautiful crystals on Earth.
Some crystals and minerals are difficult or impractical to work with because ...

I have just added the last of the current stock of smokey quartz to the website and as I was handling these wonderful crystal clusters I felt a strength surge through me. It reminds me of the protective energies associated with this crystal, but there's so much more that smokey quartz can help with that's sometimes overlooked. So here's some information.... But if you want your smokey quartz crystal cluster for protection then just cleanse it and pop it on a window sill, or by your bed or ...

I was reminded today of the simplicity of crystals. A lady came to the Unit in St Albans and as well as buying the crystals she had come for, and others discovered when she was here, I felt she needed something for the heart chakra to help heal loss. I suggested my favourite combination for this - eudialyte and morganite working as a pair and I just knew she'd love the morganite! Several things then happened... firstly she was drawn to unakite, the pink and green gem variety of epidote, th...

Social networking and The Crystal Healer
You may have noticed that we've added the "add this button" across the website. This is in line with the contiuing growth of social networking on sites such as Facebook and twitter. Everyone who touches the internet becomes part of  the wider web, and the way that many of our customers now use the internet involves social networks. We want you to be able to share and comment on the products and content we produce if you wish to, and these link...

Funny I mentioned this amazing crystal just the other day in my last blog post and today a shipment arrives from our colonial cousins in the good ol' US of A :-) Now, is this a coincidence or the power of my subconcious mind to tune into the customs department at Heathrow airport and be aware of them releasing the shipment? Or perhaps just luck? Or maybe I knew from experience all along that this shipment would probably turn up this week? I haven't got a clue. I'm a great believer that cus...

I'm finally writing this from my desk in the new Unit in St Albans. Someone asked me the other day, "What's a Unit?". And this is an intersting question that's probably worth expanding on. So the Unit is a space where I store my crystal stock. It's where customers, both retail and wholesale, can come to select the crystals they wish to buy. It's where I write surounded by the inspirational crystal energy. It's where I run the website from, and pick, pack and dispatch the internet orders. I...

My thought today is really that if we could all try and be receptive and aware of all the energies around us whether spirit or earth plane all the time - and act in harmony with them and our emotions, whether we like it or not, then life will be better for everyone. We are part of the whole energy mix, all of us and all of each of us, and we must all be involved in everything. if we try to hide, avoid the energies around us or "don't let them affect you" then that's affecting our/their ene...

Summer Solstice
Interesting facts about the Summer Solstice
1. The words come from the Latin words for ‘sun’ and ‘stand still’
2.  It’s the longest day of the year
3.  It is also the shortest night of the year (in case you hadn’t worked that bit out)
4.  It’s in June in the real bit of the world but for some bizarre reason our antipodean cousins celebrate this event in December – waltzing Matilda indeed!
5. People call it different things like St Johns Day – i...

Just a quick post to let you all know that the CDs from the healing rooms of iSiS are being cleared and are available for sale on eBay through our alter ego mineralman42 CLIKCK HERE FOR DETAILS We sometimes also have crystals that just don't fit the website model for various reasons. and these can appear as wonderful bargains on eBay too.

So have a look - you never qu...