Crystal ball
Hello - I haven't posted before so please bear with me, but something quite strange has happened and I'd like your thoughts.
I recently acquired a crystal ball from an antiques shop. Not knowing anything very much about them I read the thread on this website and [img]thought I'd have a go at scrying. Oh dear, this does sound naive of me!
As I'm only alone during the day, I scuttled around the house trying to find a suitable place, without too much reflection, and settled on a little table in the living room, where I could sit in front of it on the floor(having already tried at various other places)
No sooner had I started than the dog came over and started to shy away from the ball - it was really disturbed, and ended up behind another table, still looking at the ball and growling. Nothing I could do would calm her down, so I tried to take the ball to her, but she ran away, growling.
Having put the ball away, feeling quite shaken, I took it out again about ten mins later and held it next to the dog - she woke and seemed unconcerned this time, and hasn't had a problem with it since.
Now, does this mean she could sense something bad in the ball the first time, which has subsequently disappeared? Has anyone else had any bad vibes from their crystal balls? Are animals especially attuned ?
I can't say I'm terribly enthusiastic about trying again, but I do know I'll be keeping my dog very close if I do
I'd love some feedback on this
Love C
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Hi Lazyhoss, Welcome to HP, sorry i don't know much about crystal balls but my intuition tells me because it is from a second hand shop ie antiques and not new it could have some negative energies in it and i would have thought it would be a good idea to cleanse it first , there is a way to do this i am sure but dont know how it is done , But i am sure someone else with more knowledge than me will be along soon to help you hun.
Take care.
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Thanks Hawkwind
- I'm keeping it wrapped in black velvet away from the family and their prying little hands!
I've already done the obvious ie washed the ball and allowed to dry naturally - I haven't done anything further though. I've read that it should be bathed in moonlight, but that's rarer than hen's teeth in Kent at the moment.
Hopefully someone can suggest something further
Thanks
Lazyhossxx
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Hi C,
There could be a million and one answers to this situation. However, the most significant thing is the ball itself – what mineral is it? There are a lot of ‘crystal balls’ found on the market these days that are not really ‘crystal’ at all – many are glass, others are man made lead crystal – some with the tell tale ‘AB’ colour coating. However, it might well be that you happened upon a Quartz ball – the traditional one used for scrying. You can tell this by whether or not it has any ‘inclusions’ inside it – or patterns of gaseous micro – bubbles giving a sheen inside the sphere. Quartz is always ‘cold’ to the touch, whereas a more rarer calcite sphere will be warmer.
None the less, let’s assume it is a quartz ball. Firstly – completely ignore your dogs’ reaction to it. Don’t allow any fears or worries or ‘negative thoughts’ to influence you in any way. It is important when you work with Quartz to only maintain a positive conscious attitude, as it is especially susceptible to thoughts – and any you have about the ball will attach to it. Over time – these thoughts can accumulate – and if they are biased in a particular direction (+ or -) this can have an effect on whatever work you might do with the ball.
As much as my recent posts have emphasised that IMHO there seems to be an awful lot of nonsense believed about cleansing of crystals – in this situation I do recommend you cleanse the ball. It doesn’t really matter how you do it – or what method you employ – but the principle is to do it with conviction or power of belief in what you are doing. If it were me – I’d perform the following exercise…
Be alone. Ensure that you have no distractions at all. Place the ball on a flat table where you can concentrate on the ball and nothing else will grab your attention. Sit comfortably and clear all thoughts from your mind. Now concentrate on one thought only:
All previous thoughts attached to this ball will now leave it.
Hold this single thought with as much concentration as you can for a few minutes – or for as long as you can while staring fixedly at the ball. Imagine that this powerful thought you are thinking is going to the ball.
Leave the ball for 24 hours and it will become completely cleansed.
As much as many folk will perceive that you are trying to remove any ‘bad energies’ or ‘vibes’ from the ball – essentially these are simply the vibrations of thoughtforms that may have been attached to it in the past by anyone.
There is a subtle law of such that plays out in this instance – a thoughtform will only be removed from such an object if another thoughtform is used that is of greater strength than the first thoughtform. For this reason you have to concentrate with specific intention. Any physical items you might use while cleansing the ball are purely and only used to help you facilitate the process of thought. Therefore salt, salted water, water, sage, incense, essential oils –all of these only serve to help you think more about what you are intending at the time of their use. These physical items themselves do nothing in terms of energetic action of removing thoughtforms.
I wouldn’t worry who may have previously owned it – it wouldn’t matter if you cleanse it. – The key is the power with which you cleanse it…
Having done this – you may now wish to begin using it… I recommend that you keep it personal and don’t allow anyone else to either see it or touch it. The reason for this – is again about thoughtforms – anyone that thinks any thought about it – whether good or bad immediately sends that thought to the ball. Such thoughts can influence and interfere with any scrying work you might later perform with it.
Enjoy the use of your ball and do post your findings – there’s a lot of people that would like to hear about whatever experiences you might have while using it – so do post and tell! Oh – and welcome to HP!
Best wishes
Sol.
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Hi Sol
Thank you ever so much for taking the time to give me such a detailed answer.
It's funny, but since I've bought the crystal ball I've not wanted to share it with anyone - my husband and kids don't even know I've got one. Just as well too, as i don't think the other half would necessarily approve - so at least I've amanged to avoid contaminating it with any further negative thoughts.
From your description the crystal ball might be quartz, though it might equally be lead crystal. I know that I haven't been able to warm it up, no matter how long I've held it - I'll progress with it as though it is quartz and follow your advice, which is so much more positive than expected.(I even talked with my best friend today about selling it on ebay - talk about falling at the first hurdle!)
I am so reassured by your answer and shall wait until tomorrow when I'm alone to tackle the task of cleansing it - I'm really looking forward to it now!
I'll let you know in the coming weeks if I'm able to get anything tangible from it - keep your fingers crossed!
C xoxo
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That's our Sol for you[sm=hug.gif]
I didn't respond to your posting when I first saw it...due to the fact that I have a very limited knowledge of Crystal Balls...so I look forward to hearing your progress with it:)
luv & peace
stormdeva x
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I haen't yet had the chance to clease it, much less use it, but is there anyone else out there who has experiences with crystal balls/
I'd love to know - and if you have any tips on scrying I'd be very grateful!
C xoxox
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Hi Lazyhoss
You may be interested in the following it is one of the old threads on scrying
luv & peace
stormdeva x
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Thanks Stormdeva -
as it happens I've already found this old thread and have been using this advise already - not to much avail yet though
But from experience doing auras I know that patience is the key, so I'll have another go( and another, and another!) once the house is empty- not till next week, I'm afraid
By the way, what are you dong here again - I was on HP earlier and you'd logged in - could it be the football perhaps?
C xoxo
PS I don't know why I knew you'd reply earlier - just knew you would! Spooky!!
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[color=#0066FF]The belief of scrying with a crystal ball allows you to see images appear inside the ball is false. The images that appear – (of significance) do so in your ‘minds eye’ – the ball acts to focus the mind and generate the activation of the faculty of clairvoyance. There are lots of superstitions surrounding the practice, ignore them all.
As long as you – and you only work with your one Quartz ball – and no-one else gets to touch it (and ideally they don’t even get to see it), then you should get results.
Sit alone with your ball, ideally place the ball on a dark cloth – perhaps supported underneath on a little stand – but you want to achieve a situation where no ‘surface light reflections’ are visible on the ball – so no lightbulbs, no window panes – nothing – just the balls’ surface. This is not as easy as it sounds.
Focus your mind on the ball – at its centre, still your mind, shut down all thought processes and then just concentrate your attention to the centre of the ball. Continue to ‘blink’ as you would do normally, concentrate with no thoughts, allow your vision to be locked at the core of the sphere. The more you concentrate the better.
After a while, you should find that your ‘physical vision’ of the ball image begins to become distorted, you might find that ‘clouds’ seem to drift in from around the ball, these ‘clouds’ can be any colour, but would usually be a dull white to grey colour. Interspersed between the clouds will be ‘patches of nothingness’ (not black clouds). So it appears as though one second you see the ball, and then the next second you see this cloud moving in – almost as though from behind you, or from the sides. These clouds might briefly obscure the ball, but they always move and never stop still. What is actually happening is that your consciousness is engaging with brief inner (astral) vision, and the movement is your ‘focus of inner vision’ moving into and back out from the inner realm. Do not worry – this is all perfectly normal.
At this stage you can determine a thought – a subject you want information about – your friend, your job, your partner – your health – whatever… Be specific – (I want to see the realities surrounding xxxxx) Keep this single thought and concentrate.
You will begin to either perceive images that will seem as though they are in the area of the ball and clouds in front of you – or the images will distinctly present themselves inside ‘you’ – as though in your head – but not really. It is impossible to really describe the feeling and experience. Some might feel as though the image sits right in the centre of their head; it doesn’t matter – you are getting the images – and that is what the objective was all along. How they appear isn’t relevant.
In this ‘trance’ – like state, you are open to experience how fast your thoughts really are, you think – you see… and you will also notice how the images do not stop and then disappear and get replaced by another… Instead they seem to meld from one image into another; it can be an interesting experience to observe this process.
This condition of consciousness is as close to being asleep as it is possible to be while remaining awake – and you can often find that you will indeed ‘fall asleep’ during your experiments; there’s no harm in that. However – to get the best visions – try to perform your exercise at a time of day when you are as awake as you can be. For some this might be noon, for others perhaps 10am… but as much as it can often be convenient – it’s rarely productive to do such work in the evening.
Experiment, try, try and try again and keep trying, vision comes with practice and you will probably get very little on the first few attempts – but persist… keep going and you will get somewhere. You might sometimes find you can see writing in a language that you can’t understand – perhaps a newspaper – here’s a little trick that can help sometimes… Images can frequently appear as though in a reverse reality – and the strange written language is
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Thanks so much for your help Sol - I can't wait to get started.
I've just finished cleansing the ball- though I found I had to have it on a white background in order to focus fully on it.
As I was concentratng, I experienced the clouds you spoke of, though they appeared golden, much in the way I've seen when reading a friends aura. I also had little ripples that I associate with my angels - maybe I'm getting a little help here!
It was tempting to progress and try to read the ball in the way you've suggested, but I thought it better to focus on the job at hand and kept reiterating my intention of clearing the ball of any earlier thoughts.
I managed to keep this up for around ten minutes, and now feel I've found a friend! It actually feels like it belongs to me at last.
I'll be alone again next week so I'll start properly then, and report back, as you say, in a couple of months.
Thanks for your encouragement and kind words Sol - I'm so lucky to have found just the right person just when I needed help!
Take care
Carolyn xoxo
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Found this link for you Carolyn whilst browsing for something else...hope it helps
http://www.solarraven.com/f-32-scrying.html
luv & peace
J x
I recently acquired a crystal ball from an antiques shop. Not knowing anything very much about them I read the thread on this website and [img]thought I'd have a go at scrying. Oh dear, this does sound naive of me!
As I'm only alone during the day, I scuttled around the house trying to find a suitable place, without too much reflection, and settled on a little table in the living room, where I could sit in front of it on the floor(having already tried at various other places)
No sooner had I started than the dog came over and started to shy away from the ball - it was really disturbed, and ended up behind another table, still looking at the ball and growling. Nothing I could do would calm her down, so I tried to take the ball to her, but she ran away, growling.
Having put the ball away, feeling quite shaken, I took it out again about ten mins later and held it next to the dog - she woke and seemed unconcerned this time, and hasn't had a problem with it since.
Now, does this mean she could sense something bad in the ball the first time, which has subsequently disappeared? Has anyone else had any bad vibes from their crystal balls? Are animals especially attuned ?
I can't say I'm terribly enthusiastic about trying again, but I do know I'll be keeping my dog very close if I do
I'd love some feedback on this
Love C
Answers:
Hi Lazyhoss, Welcome to HP, sorry i don't know much about crystal balls but my intuition tells me because it is from a second hand shop ie antiques and not new it could have some negative energies in it and i would have thought it would be a good idea to cleanse it first , there is a way to do this i am sure but dont know how it is done , But i am sure someone else with more knowledge than me will be along soon to help you hun.
Take care.
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Thanks Hawkwind
- I'm keeping it wrapped in black velvet away from the family and their prying little hands!
I've already done the obvious ie washed the ball and allowed to dry naturally - I haven't done anything further though. I've read that it should be bathed in moonlight, but that's rarer than hen's teeth in Kent at the moment.
Hopefully someone can suggest something further
Thanks
Lazyhossxx
Answers:
Hi C,
There could be a million and one answers to this situation. However, the most significant thing is the ball itself – what mineral is it? There are a lot of ‘crystal balls’ found on the market these days that are not really ‘crystal’ at all – many are glass, others are man made lead crystal – some with the tell tale ‘AB’ colour coating. However, it might well be that you happened upon a Quartz ball – the traditional one used for scrying. You can tell this by whether or not it has any ‘inclusions’ inside it – or patterns of gaseous micro – bubbles giving a sheen inside the sphere. Quartz is always ‘cold’ to the touch, whereas a more rarer calcite sphere will be warmer.
None the less, let’s assume it is a quartz ball. Firstly – completely ignore your dogs’ reaction to it. Don’t allow any fears or worries or ‘negative thoughts’ to influence you in any way. It is important when you work with Quartz to only maintain a positive conscious attitude, as it is especially susceptible to thoughts – and any you have about the ball will attach to it. Over time – these thoughts can accumulate – and if they are biased in a particular direction (+ or -) this can have an effect on whatever work you might do with the ball.
As much as my recent posts have emphasised that IMHO there seems to be an awful lot of nonsense believed about cleansing of crystals – in this situation I do recommend you cleanse the ball. It doesn’t really matter how you do it – or what method you employ – but the principle is to do it with conviction or power of belief in what you are doing. If it were me – I’d perform the following exercise…
Be alone. Ensure that you have no distractions at all. Place the ball on a flat table where you can concentrate on the ball and nothing else will grab your attention. Sit comfortably and clear all thoughts from your mind. Now concentrate on one thought only:
All previous thoughts attached to this ball will now leave it.
Hold this single thought with as much concentration as you can for a few minutes – or for as long as you can while staring fixedly at the ball. Imagine that this powerful thought you are thinking is going to the ball.
Leave the ball for 24 hours and it will become completely cleansed.
As much as many folk will perceive that you are trying to remove any ‘bad energies’ or ‘vibes’ from the ball – essentially these are simply the vibrations of thoughtforms that may have been attached to it in the past by anyone.
There is a subtle law of such that plays out in this instance – a thoughtform will only be removed from such an object if another thoughtform is used that is of greater strength than the first thoughtform. For this reason you have to concentrate with specific intention. Any physical items you might use while cleansing the ball are purely and only used to help you facilitate the process of thought. Therefore salt, salted water, water, sage, incense, essential oils –all of these only serve to help you think more about what you are intending at the time of their use. These physical items themselves do nothing in terms of energetic action of removing thoughtforms.
I wouldn’t worry who may have previously owned it – it wouldn’t matter if you cleanse it. – The key is the power with which you cleanse it…
Having done this – you may now wish to begin using it… I recommend that you keep it personal and don’t allow anyone else to either see it or touch it. The reason for this – is again about thoughtforms – anyone that thinks any thought about it – whether good or bad immediately sends that thought to the ball. Such thoughts can influence and interfere with any scrying work you might later perform with it.
Enjoy the use of your ball and do post your findings – there’s a lot of people that would like to hear about whatever experiences you might have while using it – so do post and tell! Oh – and welcome to HP!
Best wishes
Sol.
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Hi Sol
Thank you ever so much for taking the time to give me such a detailed answer.
It's funny, but since I've bought the crystal ball I've not wanted to share it with anyone - my husband and kids don't even know I've got one. Just as well too, as i don't think the other half would necessarily approve - so at least I've amanged to avoid contaminating it with any further negative thoughts.
From your description the crystal ball might be quartz, though it might equally be lead crystal. I know that I haven't been able to warm it up, no matter how long I've held it - I'll progress with it as though it is quartz and follow your advice, which is so much more positive than expected.(I even talked with my best friend today about selling it on ebay - talk about falling at the first hurdle!)
I am so reassured by your answer and shall wait until tomorrow when I'm alone to tackle the task of cleansing it - I'm really looking forward to it now!
I'll let you know in the coming weeks if I'm able to get anything tangible from it - keep your fingers crossed!
C xoxo
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That's our Sol for you[sm=hug.gif]
I didn't respond to your posting when I first saw it...due to the fact that I have a very limited knowledge of Crystal Balls...so I look forward to hearing your progress with it:)
luv & peace
stormdeva x
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I haen't yet had the chance to clease it, much less use it, but is there anyone else out there who has experiences with crystal balls/
I'd love to know - and if you have any tips on scrying I'd be very grateful!
C xoxox
Answers:
Hi Lazyhoss
You may be interested in the following it is one of the old threads on scrying
luv & peace
stormdeva x
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Thanks Stormdeva -
as it happens I've already found this old thread and have been using this advise already - not to much avail yet though
But from experience doing auras I know that patience is the key, so I'll have another go( and another, and another!) once the house is empty- not till next week, I'm afraid
By the way, what are you dong here again - I was on HP earlier and you'd logged in - could it be the football perhaps?
C xoxo
PS I don't know why I knew you'd reply earlier - just knew you would! Spooky!!
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[color=#0066FF]The belief of scrying with a crystal ball allows you to see images appear inside the ball is false. The images that appear – (of significance) do so in your ‘minds eye’ – the ball acts to focus the mind and generate the activation of the faculty of clairvoyance. There are lots of superstitions surrounding the practice, ignore them all.
As long as you – and you only work with your one Quartz ball – and no-one else gets to touch it (and ideally they don’t even get to see it), then you should get results.
Sit alone with your ball, ideally place the ball on a dark cloth – perhaps supported underneath on a little stand – but you want to achieve a situation where no ‘surface light reflections’ are visible on the ball – so no lightbulbs, no window panes – nothing – just the balls’ surface. This is not as easy as it sounds.
Focus your mind on the ball – at its centre, still your mind, shut down all thought processes and then just concentrate your attention to the centre of the ball. Continue to ‘blink’ as you would do normally, concentrate with no thoughts, allow your vision to be locked at the core of the sphere. The more you concentrate the better.
After a while, you should find that your ‘physical vision’ of the ball image begins to become distorted, you might find that ‘clouds’ seem to drift in from around the ball, these ‘clouds’ can be any colour, but would usually be a dull white to grey colour. Interspersed between the clouds will be ‘patches of nothingness’ (not black clouds). So it appears as though one second you see the ball, and then the next second you see this cloud moving in – almost as though from behind you, or from the sides. These clouds might briefly obscure the ball, but they always move and never stop still. What is actually happening is that your consciousness is engaging with brief inner (astral) vision, and the movement is your ‘focus of inner vision’ moving into and back out from the inner realm. Do not worry – this is all perfectly normal.
At this stage you can determine a thought – a subject you want information about – your friend, your job, your partner – your health – whatever… Be specific – (I want to see the realities surrounding xxxxx) Keep this single thought and concentrate.
You will begin to either perceive images that will seem as though they are in the area of the ball and clouds in front of you – or the images will distinctly present themselves inside ‘you’ – as though in your head – but not really. It is impossible to really describe the feeling and experience. Some might feel as though the image sits right in the centre of their head; it doesn’t matter – you are getting the images – and that is what the objective was all along. How they appear isn’t relevant.
In this ‘trance’ – like state, you are open to experience how fast your thoughts really are, you think – you see… and you will also notice how the images do not stop and then disappear and get replaced by another… Instead they seem to meld from one image into another; it can be an interesting experience to observe this process.
This condition of consciousness is as close to being asleep as it is possible to be while remaining awake – and you can often find that you will indeed ‘fall asleep’ during your experiments; there’s no harm in that. However – to get the best visions – try to perform your exercise at a time of day when you are as awake as you can be. For some this might be noon, for others perhaps 10am… but as much as it can often be convenient – it’s rarely productive to do such work in the evening.
Experiment, try, try and try again and keep trying, vision comes with practice and you will probably get very little on the first few attempts – but persist… keep going and you will get somewhere. You might sometimes find you can see writing in a language that you can’t understand – perhaps a newspaper – here’s a little trick that can help sometimes… Images can frequently appear as though in a reverse reality – and the strange written language is
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Thanks so much for your help Sol - I can't wait to get started.
I've just finished cleansing the ball- though I found I had to have it on a white background in order to focus fully on it.
As I was concentratng, I experienced the clouds you spoke of, though they appeared golden, much in the way I've seen when reading a friends aura. I also had little ripples that I associate with my angels - maybe I'm getting a little help here!
It was tempting to progress and try to read the ball in the way you've suggested, but I thought it better to focus on the job at hand and kept reiterating my intention of clearing the ball of any earlier thoughts.
I managed to keep this up for around ten minutes, and now feel I've found a friend! It actually feels like it belongs to me at last.
I'll be alone again next week so I'll start properly then, and report back, as you say, in a couple of months.
Thanks for your encouragement and kind words Sol - I'm so lucky to have found just the right person just when I needed help!
Take care
Carolyn xoxo
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Found this link for you Carolyn whilst browsing for something else...hope it helps
http://www.solarraven.com/f-32-scrying.html
luv & peace
J x