What is a crystal essence?

Essences are essentially nutrients for the soul.

– Mary Wutz

Nutrients for the soul. An excellent way to describe the subtle vibrational healing properties of crystal essences and gem waters. They offer balm and solace to the soul and abundant well-being to the body, psyche and environment. As we will see, they are a form of holistic healing that has been in use since time began and which calls on correspondences established with astrology and astral-magic since its inception.

Modern essences

Crystal essences are an excellent way to use the healing power of crystals, particularly for chakra balancing and higher chakra activation, protection, mental and emotional rebalancing, stress release and space clearing. In this context, it must be remembered that energy healing is defined as 'bringing back into balance' and does not imply a cure. Crystals assist your body, or your psyche and soul, to heal itself. However, essences are versatile and may also assist in manifesting your aspirations and outcomes, supported by the crystals chosen, or take you journeying through the multidimensions of consciousness and the multiverses that surround us. They can also facilitate bringing out the innate potential in your birthchart and assist you to be all that you may be. The possibilities are literally limitless.

At its most basic, a crystal essence is the vibrational frequency given off by a crystal, its 'energy signature', transferred into water. This is achieved either by immersing the crystal in water (the direct method) or by standing the crystal in a container within the water (the indirect method). Or, placed alongside the water if the crystal is large. Essences can also be made by using sound to transfer the vibration to the water – some powerful essences have been made in Tibetan bowls for instance. The water stores the crystal energy-pattern-vibrations and transfers them to the physical or subtle bodies in a similar way to that in which a homoeopathic essence works.

As Simon Lilly explains, "Matter is what our biology experiences as holding patterns, temporarily localised in time and space." 'Dis-ease', in whatever form, arises from an imbalance or disturbance in that holding pattern. An essence restores equilibrium to the core energy pattern. Crystals have a fixed, coherent energy lattice that holds constant. The human body, and the environment, do not. Our vibrations and those that surround us are easily 'thrown out' of balance. By 'entraining' the energies, the coherent lattice of the crystal restores the disturbed energy pattern to equilibrium. As the memory held in the water is short term, it is stabilised by adding a preservative such as brandy. Essences are holistic, that is they treat the whole person and the issues that underlie or surround a situation or condition, bringing all levels of being into harmony.

Everything on Earth resonates at a vibrational frequency. Frequency basically means the rate at which the molecules, or atoms, of matter rotate around one another, creating an energetic wave or vibration. The human vibrational field operates in harmony with all other beings – animals, plants, minerals and the planet itself – and has to be maintained at a specific level to ensure optimal health and well-being. This synergistic bioenergy, including our auric and physiological structure, can be disturbed by disorganised and disharmonious frequencies. Modern technologies and communication devices rely on electro-magnetic waves in order to carry out their function. The frequencies these generate can affect human vibrations, leading to the disturbance of our inner biological clock, compromised immunity and a drop in overall well-being ... fortunately crystals return the body to a state of equilibrium.

– Crystal Prescriptions volume 3

Crystal essences gently facilitate letting go of layers of buried emotions and past-their-sell-by-date thought patterns that no longer serve. These patterns unconsciously create who you are and how you react to situations and people in your life. They can be changed. However, as with a computer, when new programmes are inputted into our energy field through our thoughts, emotions or experiences; when old patterns are overwritten, or the system defragged, remnants of an old programme may remain that distort or clog up the subtle energy field. This may be in the form of a psychosomatic ailment of the body, an imprint or distortion on one of the etheric bodies, or an engram – emotional memory. In other words, a toxic residue can occur on several levels that may require more than one essence to release it. You could look on crystal essences as the means by which your energy bodies are deprogrammed and a totally new operating system inputted as appropriate (see Deprogramming crystal essence page 45 and specific directory entries).

The rare and rather wonderful Rainbow Mayanite is an example of a crystal that repatterns the energy field to its optimum functioning and highest frequency. If even a tiny scrap of toxic or inappropriate energy has been left in the energy bodies, Rainbow Mayanite highlights the last remnant of transmutational work required. Having brought such scraps to your attention, it dissolves them, de-energizes the memory structure...