The DCGMRC

I want to tell you a little about my book. First, though, ever since I wrote it I have cursed the title as I can never remember it. It is too long. Generally I refer to it as “The Definitive Crystal whatever”.

The Balaclava Mine:

The cover photo is of the Balaclava Mine at Whroo, now a ghost town, near Rushworth where I lived as a child. It is a massive and beautiful, awesome open cut mine. When I visited it as a child it was more open to go inside and there were shafts dropping straight down in the tunnels. They no longer mined it for gold but there was reputed to be a lot of crystal still there. Since then they have closed much of it off although I believe you can still walk through one of the tunnels. It is well worth a visit to this tourist attraction.

The Book:

I didn’t originally set out to write a book. Crystals are a passion for me and I wanted to learn more about them. So started the research. To keep it all sorted in my head I began to write down my notes, trying to put them into some type of order. Writing things down  helps me clarify what I am reading. From there it grew.

I began to buy up the many crystals and gems so I could hold them and meditate on them as I wrote about them. Probably my favourite crystal of all time is Amethyst. It has a beautiful colour and a wonderful vibration. This is a great all-purpose stone for anyone to keep close to them. The other two I recommend as a general rule are Clear Quartz and Rose Quartz. With these three you can achieve quite a bit as they encompass a lot of healing and magic.

But they are not the only ones. Around 300 crystals, gemstones and minerals are described in my book along with their references. There are reference tables for colours, chakras and usage. Practical and magical uses as well as metaphysical meanings are included. I use a special set of crystals to do my own crystal readings.

The book itself if A4 size with nearly 300 pages. Because of the colour photos throughout, to get it self printed was going to cost me too much. The cost would then have to be passed on to anyone wanting to purchase it, i.e. $50-$75 AUD which was too prohibitive. Therefore I converted it to a pdf which can be loaded onto a computer and read or referred to that way. I printed and bound a copy for my own use but find that generally I use the pdf version. It is available for purchase as a pdf file.

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Blessed Be!