The Ultimate Guide to Crystals & Stones by Uma Silbey

The Ultimate Guide to Crystals & Stones

A Practical Path to Personal Power, Self-Development, and Healing

By Uma Silbey

You bought the crystal because it was pretty. Now it’s sitting on your shelf waiting for you to figure out what the hell you’re supposed to do with it.

In The Ultimate Guide to Crystals & Stones, longtime crystal practitioner Uma Silbey takes you beyond simply collecting beautiful stones and into the practice of actually working with their energy. Drawing on decades of experience with crystals, gemstones, and energy work, Silbey offers techniques for selecting, connecting with, and using stones as tools for meditation, self-development, spiritual exploration, and traditional crystal-healing practices.

Rather than functioning solely as a crystal encyclopedia, the book explores how color, shape, and the individual properties of stones can influence the way you work with them. Silbey provides exercises for programming crystals with personal intentions, strengthening your sensitivity to their energy, incorporating them into meditation and visualization, and even exploring practices such as crystal gazing, dreamwork, and astral projection.

Inside You’ll Explore

• Choosing and programming crystals for personal intentions
• Colors, shapes, and properties of crystals and stones
• Wearing and carrying crystals
• Meditation and visualization techniques
• Developing greater sensitivity to crystal energy
• Crystal gazing and crystal ball practices
• Dreamwork and astral exploration
• Traditional crystal techniques for physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being

Hardcover • 344 pages • Published by Skyhorse Publishing

Perfect for curious beginners, experienced crystal workers, collectors, and anyone ready to graduate from “Ooh, pretty rock” to actually understanding why that pretty rock came home with them.

Choose the crystal. Set the intention. Learn its energy. Because your collection deserves to do more than look fabulous on a shelf.