Crystals and sacred sites : use crystals to access the power of sacred landscapes for personal and planetary transformation

195 Pages·2012·69.01 MB·English

by  Hall, Judy

“A nimportantandbeautifullyvisualaffirmationthatculturesthroughouttheancientworld
alwaysbuilttheirmostimpressivetemplesatlocationswhoselandscapesheldspecialsignificance
andhighenergy.Thesesacredsitesremainactive,andJudyHallofferstechniquestoconnect
theaspirant/pilgrimtotheiroriginalpurposes.”
—Robin Heath, landscaperesearcherandauthorofStonehenge (WoodenBooks)and
Bluestone Magic(BluestonePress)
“W hatasublimegifttogazeintothisbeautifullywrittenandpreparedbook.Iadorethemarriage
ofwritingandphotographsthatcelebratethemineralkingdomandsacredsites.Crystals and
Sacred SitesopensupawholenewfieldofcrystallinepossibilitiesthatIforonewillcarry
withmeonmytravels"
—Michael Eastwood, authorofthe Crystal Oversoul Attunements,
publishedbyFindhornPress,2011
“J udyHallisoneofmyfavoritemetaphysicalauthors.WhatIloveaboutJudyisthatsheis
alwaysdoingnewresearchandisneverwillingtositonherlaurels.Shebringsusnewinformation
thatisalwaysenlightening,helpful,andencouraging.Sheisoneofthetrulyhumblepeoplewriting
todaywhichisararetrait,indeed.Itisbecauseofthishumilitythathervastknowledgeofmeta-
physicalhealingcanspringforthfromhercauldronofexperience."
—John Van Rees, Snr., Ownerwww.exquisitecrystals.com
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© 2012 Fair Winds Press
Text © 2012 Judy Hall

First published in the USA in 2012 by Crystals
Fair Winds Press, a member of
Quayside Publishing Group
100 Cummings Center
Suite 406-L a n d
Beverly, MA 01915-6101
www.fairwindspress.com
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized, in any form or by any means,
electronic or mechanical, without prior permission in writing from the publisher.
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Digital edition published in 2012
eISBN-13: 978-1-61058-626-9

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hall, Judy, 1943-
Crystals and sacred sites: use crystals to access the power of sacred
landscapes for personal transformation / Judy Hall.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-59233-522-0
1. Crystals--Psychic aspects. 2. Sacred space. I. Title.
BF1442.C78H345 2012
133'.2548--dc23
2012020357
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Book design by Kathie Alexander A u t h o r o f t h e I n t e r n At I o n A l b e s t s e l l e r t h e C r y s t A l b I b l e
Developmental Editor: Skye Alexander
Cover image: Visuals Unlimited, Inc. / Victor Habbick
Crystals and stones photography by John Van Rees, Jnr., www.exquisitecrystals.com
Printed and bound in China
No medical claims are made for the stones in this book , and the information given is not intended to act as a
substitute for medical treatment. Healing means bringing mind, body, and spirit into balance and facilitating
evolution for the soul; it does not imply a cure.
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This one is for my daughter, Jeni, with love
and thanks for her magical photographic skills.
© 2012 Fair Winds Press
Text © 2012 Judy Hall

First published in the USA in 2012 by Crystals
Fair Winds Press, a member of
Quayside Publishing Group
100 Cummings Center
Suite 406-L a n d
Beverly, MA 01915-6101
www.fairwindspress.com
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized, in any form or by any means,
electronic or mechanical, without prior permission in writing from the publisher.
saCred sites
16 15 14 13 12 1 2 3 4 5
u s e C r y s t A l s t o A C C e s s t h e P o w e r o f s A C r e d l A n d s C A P e s
ISBN: 978-1-59233-522-0
f o r P e r s o n A l A n d P l A n e tA r y t r A n s f o r m At I o n
Digital edition published in 2012
eISBN-13: 978-1-61058-626-9

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hall, Judy, 1943-
Crystals and sacred sites: use crystals to access the power of sacred
landscapes for personal transformation / Judy Hall.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-59233-522-0
1. Crystals--Psychic aspects. 2. Sacred space. I. Title.
BF1442.C78H345 2012
133'.2548--dc23
2012020357
ju dy ha ll
Book design by Kathie Alexander A u t h o r o f t h e I n t e r n A t I o n A l b e s t s e l l e r t h e C r y s t A l b I b l e
Developmental Editor: Skye Alexander
Cover image: Visuals Unlimited, Inc. / Victor Habbick
Crystals and stones photography by John Van Rees, Jnr., www.exquisitecrystals.com
Printed and bound in China
No medical claims are made for the stones in this book , and the information given is not intended to act as a
substitute for medical treatment. Healing means bringing mind, body, and spirit into balance and facilitating
evolution for the soul; it does not imply a cure.
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introduction: Crystals and Sacred Landscapes ..................................................................................................... 6
Part One: Understanding Sacred Landscapes chapter 17: A Metaphysical Landscape: The Great Pyramid, Cairo, Egypt, and Aswan Granite ....... 108
chapter 1: How Landscapes Affect Us ......................................................................................................10 chapter 18: The Sanctuary of She Who Is Powerful: Sekhmet Sanctuary, Luxor, Egypt,
and Black Basalt . ..................................................................................................................... 116
chapter 2: Using Crystals to Connect with Sacred Sites ......................................................................... 15
chapter 19: Speaking with God: Mount Sinai, Egypt, and Smoky Quartz ............................................ 121
chapter 3: A Landscape Set in Stone ........................................................................................................ 19
chapter 20: Unity in Diversity: The Hanging Gardens of Haifa, Israel, and Marble .......................... 128
chapter 4: How to Use This Book ............................................................................................................ 22
chapter 21: The First House of God: Grand Mosque, Mecca, Saudi Arabia, and Tektite ................... 134
chapter 22: The Luminescent Crystal Mountain: Mount Kailash, Tibet, and Tibetan Quartz ........ 138
Part Two: Sacred Sites and Their Corresponding Crystals
chapter 23: Where Spirituality and Nature Meet: The Narmada River, Amarkantak, Madhya
chapter 5: The Home of the Stone People: Inuksuk at the Circumpolar Regions;
Pradesh, India, and Shiva Lingam ....................................................................................... 143
Sister Site: Kandahar, Afghanistan, and Serpentine ............................................................ 28
chapter 24: T he Impermanence of Being: Spring Temple Buddha, Lushan County, China,
chapter 6: The Diamond in the Wilderness: Lake Louise, Banff, Alberta,
and Chinese Red Quartz ....................................................................................................... 148
and Canadian Amethyst .......................................................................................................... 34
chapter 25: Home of the Sun Goddess: Ise Shrine, Honshu Peninsula, Japan, and
chapter 7: The Cosmic Portal: Mount Shasta, California, and Mount Shasta Blue Opal .................. 41
Chrysanthemum Stone ......................................................................................................... 152
chapter 8: Vortices of Awesome Beauty: Sedona, Arizona, and Sedona Stone .................................... 48
chapter 26: The Holy Stone of Mother Earth: Uluru and Kata Tjuta, Northern Territory,
Australia, and Alcheringa Stone .......................................................................................... 157
chapter 9: The Place of Peace: Pipestone National Monument, Minnesota, and Pipestone ............. 54
chapter 27: The Power of Place: Castle Hill Rocks, South Island, New Zealand, and
chapter 10: Standing Together: 9/11 Memorial, New York City;
Maori Greenstone [Pounamu] ............................................................................................. 162
Sister Site: Hiroshima Peace Memorial, Japan, and Herkimer Diamond ........................ 62
chapter 28: The Womb of Re-Creation: Kilauea Volcano, Big Island, Hawaii, and Lava Stone
chapter 11: A Megalithic Portal: Newgrange, Boyne Valley, Ireland, and Snow Quartz ....................... 68
with Olivine ........................................................................................................................... 168
chapter 12: The Heart Chakra of the World: Glastonbury, England, and Ammonite ............................ 75
chapter 29: A Mythological Landscape: Machu Picchu, Peru, and Machu Picchu Stone .................. 173
chapter 13: In the Footsteps of the Ancestors: Stonehenge, England, and the Preseli Mountains,
chapter 30: Holding the Balance of the Universe: Chichén Itzá, Yucatan Peninsula,
Wales, and Preseli Bluestone ...................................................................................................83
and Crystal Skulls .................................................................................................................. 178
chapter 14: Meeting the Mother of God: Medjugorje, Bosnia –Herzegovina, and Blue Quartz ......... 94
chapter 15: The Unity of Universe, God, and Humanity: Hajji Bektash Dervish Tekke, Hacibektas,
bibliography ...................................................................................................................................... 184
Turkey, and Diaspore (Zultanite) ........................................................................................... 98
resources ............................................................................................................................................ 185
about the author ............................................................................................................................. 185
chapter 16: Coming Home to Mother Africa: Gorée Island, Senegal, and Rutilated Quartz ............ 103
acknowledgments ............................................................................................................................ 186
photographer credits ..................................................................................................................... 187
index .................................................................................................................................................... 188
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introduction: Crystals and Sacred Landscapes ..................................................................................................... 6
Part One: Understanding Sacred Landscapes chapter 17: A Metaphysical Landscape: The Great Pyramid, Cairo, Egypt, and Aswan Granite ....... 108
chapter 1: How Landscapes Affect Us ......................................................................................................10 chapter 18: The Sanctuary of She Who Is Powerful: Sekhmet Sanctuary, Luxor, Egypt,
and Black Basalt . ..................................................................................................................... 116
chapter 2: Using Crystals to Connect with Sacred Sites ......................................................................... 15
chapter 19: Speaking with God: Mount Sinai, Egypt, and Smoky Quartz ............................................ 121
chapter 3: A Landscape Set in Stone ........................................................................................................ 19
chapter 20: Unity in Diversity: The Hanging Gardens of Haifa, Israel, and Marble .......................... 128
chapter 4: How to Use This Book ............................................................................................................ 22
chapter 21: The First House of God: Grand Mosque, Mecca, Saudi Arabia, and Tektite ................... 134
chapter 22: The Luminescent Crystal Mountain: Mount Kailash, Tibet, and Tibetan Quartz ........ 138
Part Two: Sacred Sites and Their Corresponding Crystals
chapter 23: Where Spirituality and Nature Meet: The Narmada River, Amarkantak, Madhya
chapter 5: The Home of the Stone People: Inuksuk at the Circumpolar Regions;
Pradesh, India, and Shiva Lingam ....................................................................................... 143
Sister Site: Kandahar, Afghanistan, and Serpentine ............................................................ 28
chapter 24: T he Impermanence of Being: Spring Temple Buddha, Lushan County, China,
chapter 6: The Diamond in the Wilderness: Lake Louise, Banff, Alberta,
and Chinese Red Quartz ....................................................................................................... 148
and Canadian Amethyst .......................................................................................................... 34
chapter 25: Home of the Sun Goddess: Ise Shrine, Honshu Peninsula, Japan, and
chapter 7: The Cosmic Portal: Mount Shasta, California, and Mount Shasta Blue Opal .................. 41
Chrysanthemum Stone ......................................................................................................... 152
chapter 8: Vortices of Awesome Beauty: Sedona, Arizona, and Sedona Stone .................................... 48
chapter 26: The Holy Stone of Mother Earth: Uluru and Kata Tjuta, Northern Territory,
Australia, and Alcheringa Stone .......................................................................................... 157
chapter 9: The Place of Peace: Pipestone National Monument, Minnesota, and Pipestone ............. 54
chapter 27: The Power of Place: Castle Hill Rocks, South Island, New Zealand, and
chapter 10: Standing Together: 9/11 Memorial, New York City;
Maori Greenstone [Pounamu] ............................................................................................. 162
Sister Site: Hiroshima Peace Memorial, Japan, and Herkimer Diamond ........................ 62
chapter 28: The Womb of Re-Creation: Kilauea Volcano, Big Island, Hawaii, and Lava Stone
chapter 11: A Megalithic Portal: Newgrange, Boyne Valley, Ireland, and Snow Quartz ....................... 68
with Olivine ........................................................................................................................... 168
chapter 12: The Heart Chakra of the World: Glastonbury, England, and Ammonite ............................ 75
chapter 29: A Mythological Landscape: Machu Picchu, Peru, and Machu Picchu Stone .................. 173
chapter 13: In the Footsteps of the Ancestors: Stonehenge, England, and the Preseli Mountains,
chapter 30: Holding the Balance of the Universe: Chichén Itzá, Yucatan Peninsula,
Wales, and Preseli Bluestone ...................................................................................................83
and Crystal Skulls .................................................................................................................. 178
chapter 14: Meeting the Mother of God: Medjugorje, Bosnia –Herzegovina, and Blue Quartz ......... 94
chapter 15: The Unity of Universe, God, and Humanity: Hajji Bektash Dervish Tekke, Hacibektas,
bibliography ...................................................................................................................................... 184
Turkey, and Diaspore (Zultanite) ........................................................................................... 98
resources ............................................................................................................................................ 185
about the author ............................................................................................................................. 185
chapter 16: Coming Home to Mother Africa: Gorée Island, Senegal, and Rutilated Quartz ............ 103
acknowledgments ............................................................................................................................ 186
photographer credits ..................................................................................................................... 187
index .................................................................................................................................................... 188
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Sacred tourism––traveling to sacred sites around whitewashed Tibetan houses, its thousand windows
the world––is becoming increasingly popular. seeming to watch over us. I will never forget, too, vis -
More than 300,000 tourists trek to Peru’s Machu iting the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem
Picchu each year, and 35,000 visit Stonehenge on two years ago and feeling, whether I wanted to or not,
the summer solstice alone. Not everyone, howev - all the prayers, hopes, and complications that people
er, can travel to locations that may be in inhospi - had brought to it. The place is as dark, irregular, and
table places. Fortunately, you don’t need to physi - everyday as the fghts it houses––as worldly and human
cally travel to a site to experience its benefits. as the Potala seems the opposite––and yet the very fact
You can journey there in your imagination, using that so many millions have come for centuries to pray
crystals to guide you. This book shows you how. and sob among its flickering candles ensures that many
more will do so, even if, like me, they’re not Christian
Crystals The energy present at sacred sites is incredibly
or Buddhist or anything. Places have charisma, in
alive and highly responsive to interaction. It lit -
and short, much as people do.”
erally plugs you into the numinous: an enormous
energy grid that encompasses your body and soul, Crystals serve as keys that open portals to numi -
the planet, and the cosmos. Once connected, this nous spots on our planet, allowing you to access
saCred
energy stays with you no matter where you go. their power. (I use the term crystals to mean
It expands your awareness and heightens your precious and semiprecious stones, rocks, and
sensitivity, providing healing and catalyzing your minerals that have a crystalline structure at their
laNdsCaPes
spirituality. In his foreword to 100 Journeys for the hearts and tektites or other stones, that don’t.)
Spirit, Pico Iyer, a close companion of the Dalai This book takes you on a journey around the
Lama for thirty years, expresses his experience globe, a sinuous path following the dragon lines
“’Tis, but I cannot name it, ’tis the sense
this way: and crystal bones that underpin our world. With
Of majesty, and beauty, and repose the assistance of crystal tools, you access this
“Certain places can so shock or humble us that they
numinous grid and open the limitless possibili -
A blended holiness of earth and sky.” take us to places inside ourselves, of terror or wonder
ties of your imagination.
or the confounding mixture of them both, that we
—William Wordsworth, poet
never see amidst the hourly distractions and clutter of I invite you to join me on this journey into
home. They slap us awake, and into a recognition of sanctity. Your “crystal travel agent,” along with
who we might be in our deepest moments. I will never the information in this book, assist you in your
forget walking out onto the terrace of my broken guest- journey of the imagination to the sacred sites
house in Lhasa, in 1985, and seeing the Potala Palace of your choice.
above what was then just a cluster of traditional
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Sacred tourism––traveling to sacred sites around whitewashed Tibetan houses, its thousand windows
the world––is becoming increasingly popular. seeming to watch over us. I will never forget, too, vis -
More than 300,000 tourists trek to Peru’s Machu iting the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem
Picchu each year, and 35,000 visit Stonehenge on two years ago and feeling, whether I wanted to or not,
the summer solstice alone. Not everyone, howev - all the prayers, hopes, and complications that people
er, can travel to locations that may be in inhospi - had brought to it. The place is as dark, irregular, and
table places. Fortunately, you don’t need to physi - everyday as the fghts it houses––as worldly and human
cally travel to a site to experience its benefits. as the Potala seems the opposite––and yet the very fact
You can journey there in your imagination, using that so many millions have come for centuries to pray
crystals to guide you. This book shows you how. and sob among its flickering candles ensures that many
more will do so, even if, like me, they’re not Christian
Crystals The energy present at sacred sites is incredibly
or Buddhist or anything. Places have charisma, in
alive and highly responsive to interaction. It lit -
and short, much as people do.”
erally plugs you into the numinous: an enormous
energy grid that encompasses your body and soul, Crystals serve as keys that open portals to numi -
the planet, and the cosmos. Once connected, this nous spots on our planet, allowing you to access
saCred
energy stays with you no matter where you go. their power. (I use the term crystals to mean
It expands your awareness and heightens your precious and semiprecious stones, rocks, and
sensitivity, providing healing and catalyzing your minerals that have a crystalline structure at their
laNdsCaPes
spirituality. In his foreword to 100 Journeys for the hearts and tektites or other stones, that don’t.)
Spirit, Pico Iyer, a close companion of the Dalai This book takes you on a journey around the
Lama for thirty years, expresses his experience globe, a sinuous path following the dragon lines
“’Tis, but I cannot name it, ’tis the sense
this way: and crystal bones that underpin our world. With
Of majesty, and beauty, and repose the assistance of crystal tools, you access this
“Certain places can so shock or humble us that they
numinous grid and open the limitless possibili -
A blended holiness of earth and sky.” take us to places inside ourselves, of terror or wonder
ties of your imagination.
or the confounding mixture of them both, that we
—William Wordsworth, poet
never see amidst the hourly distractions and clutter of I invite you to join me on this journey into
home. They slap us awake, and into a recognition of sanctity. Your “crystal travel agent,” along with
who we might be in our deepest moments. I will never the information in this book, assist you in your
forget walking out onto the terrace of my broken guest- journey of the imagination to the sacred sites
house in Lhasa, in 1985, and seeing the Potala Palace of your choice.
above what was then just a cluster of traditional
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