The reality of healing crystals

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MtnDwellar said:
Sundiver makes an interesting point. We don’t know everything. Properties of crystals are the subjects of research.

God created a wonderful and complex world. Herbal remedies that 100 years ago were the purview of witches or other pagans are now the basis of some modern medicines.
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Agreed. 100 years ago we didn’t have the word “Antioxidant” for example. We are always discovering new properties of natural substances. That said, I definitely don’t own any “healing crystals” but they do have a lovely look.
 
Pretty sure Karl Keating, the founder of Catholic Answers, agrees that it is.

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Were specifically talking about placebos and how it relates to crystals and potential benefits from those placebos. This is different than arguing for/against new age ideas around crystals.
 
StudentMI said:
Catholicism is absolute truth. Crystals have no place in Catholic practice.
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No one is suggesting they have place in Catholic practice. Were debating their place in personal health care practice.
 
Meditation and prayer are known to aid in healing the physical body. We are holistic beings.
 
Sundiver said:
Here is the contradiction I see. Everyone says don’t use crystals because they are evil. However, you ask them if crystals have any influence on us and they say .“no crystals are just pretty stones to hold.” Or, “It’s a placebo effect.”
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Well I’m not entirely sure what it is. Right now I am thinking its a placebo. Placebo doesn’t mean it’s not real or not effective it just means it doesn’t work the way we thought it did. Placebos aren’t condemned in the church. Placebo is a natural ability the mind has, its like the “power of expectation” and “mind over matter”

You can practice and learn to use placebo effect to your advantage in terms of relieving pain and mental issues, being stones are just something to peg to your imagination as a reference point to cause the expecting of the results you want therefore triggering the placebo effect.

This way is purely using the your minds natural ability and nothing to do with new age or anything supernatural, so I don’t think anyone can really say there is something inherently wrong with it.

That being said this is just my current hypothesis. Maybe crystals do have an energetic quality that science doesn’t know about and has literal healing properties.

It doesn’t matter regardless because a placebo can be really powerful depending on what your doing.
 
Perhaps, think of and rely on the one Christ called the Rock, St. Peter and Christ’s Catholic Church. Stay in the barque of Christ and His Catholic Church and you’ll be fine.

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Thanks for your response! 🙂

Your comment is true but I fail to see how it relates to rocks and the placebo effect :confused:
 
Hedgehog1 said:
but rather from a scientific standpoint that they may have effects that we don’t know much about yet.
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Such as? Do you have personal experience of having been cured of some sickness or injury by using crystals? Have you ever tried it? If so, with what results?
 
But it is noticable that you in this thread mostly answer to replies which support your ideas or what you hope is true. You didn’t answer to any reply about crystals in context of Catholic teaching and you asked about that question in your first post.

Whenever I hope that I will see some healthy discussion about this or any simmilar topic I soon realise it is mostly OP trying to find justifycation of his ideas and not searching for truth.
 
There is no such thing as healing crystals, only unscrupulous people making money out of trying to convince people they work and gullible people who let themselves be convinced. Either way its fake.
 
Montrose said:
There is no such thing as healing crystals, only unscrupulous people making money out of trying to convince people they work and gullible people who let themselves be convinced. Either way its fake.
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That’s not completely true. A good number of people that are into these sort of practices and sell them are convinced that they have benefits and that they can help people. Same thing with stuff like homeopathy or other scientifically unsupported kinds of therapy. It’s oftentimes not liars leading blind people. More like blind people leading blind people.
 
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TK421 said:
That’s not completely true. A good number of people that are into these sort of practices and sell them are convinced that they have benefits and that they can help people. Same thing with stuff like homeopathy or other scientifically unsupported kinds of therapy. It’s oftentimes not liars leading blind people. More like blind people leading blind people.
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Okay. Third option are naive people who genuinely think crystals have healing powers but of course they don’t.
Bottom line remains the same. There are no such things as healing crystals.
 
Inbonum said:
But it is noticable that you in this thread mostly answer to replies which support your ideas
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I’ve been trying to reply to everyone, which everyone’s opinion is valuable. I understand that the idea of crystals having healing powers is not according to church teaching so no I’m not going to reply to the repeated comments that say what I already realize.
 
Montrose said:
Okay. Third option are naive people who genuinely think crystals have healing powers but of course they don’t.
Bottom line remains the same. There are no such things as healing crystals.
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Fourth option is just a placebo effect. Which placebo effect can have real results.
 
Hedgehog1 said:
Fourth option is just a placebo effect. Which placebo effect can have real results.
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However, that is just the mind. It’s not the crystals. You could use a slice of pizza instead of crystals.
My point is that there is no such thing as healing crystals.
 
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