What are you currently reading?

[Historybuff83]

Just started Gates of Fire by Stephen Pressfield.  It's a historical fiction novel based off the battle of Thermopylae, during the Persian Wars

[NakedKiwi]

The Hidden Science of Lost Civilisations by David Wilcock

[Stuart]

Just started Gates of Fire by Stephen Pressfield.  It's a historical fiction novel based off the battle of Thermopylae, during the Persian Wars

That's a good book.

[Archaewok1]

"Home School Heroes" by Christopher Klicka. It talks about the tons of legal battles that homeschooling families have had to go through to gain the right to educate their kids at home. It is by a Christian author, and is very "in your face" with the Christianity aspect, but the non-religious side of the book is pretty interesting.

[Historybuff83]

Just started Gates of Fire by Stephen Pressfield.  It's a historical fiction novel based off the battle of Thermopylae, during the Persian Wars

That's a good book.

Agreed, just finished it tonight, very well researched for a work of fiction.  Definitely brought history to life.  Now to find another book to read

[Nature Boy]

I'm reading the book, Healing Crystals by Amy Zerner and Monte Farber. It's about well how to use crystals to heal and how the powers of crystals are being acknowledged by modern science among other spirt-sciency topics.

[mzissner]

I just started Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.  I hope to finish it by this time next year... ;)

[Dan]

I'm reading the book, Healing Crystals by Amy Zerner and Monte Farber. It's about well how to use crystals to heal and how the powers of crystals are being acknowledged by modern science among other spirt-sciency topics.

Sorry but they haven't been.

[Nature Boy]

Sorry but they haven't been.
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Actually we owe the fact that we can even communicate electronically to crystals, they are a key component in computers, lasers, and cell phones.

[goosy87]

Dürrenmatt- Das Versprechen
but im only on the first pages

[Dan]

Actually we owe the fact that we can even communicate electronically to crystals, they are a key component in computers, lasers, and cell phones.

And watches. It still doesn't give them any kind of magical healing powers.

[Delta]

I did not want to get in on this, but now that the ball has been passed:
Crystals are a cool thing. First you need to know what a crystal is. It is a solid where the atoms/molecules/ions or whatever the smallest chemical unit is are ordered in a fixed lattice over long distances. Diamonds are crystals, quartz resonators are, and silicon chips. But what makes them cool for technical use? It is not some magical power, it is the fact that the large-scale order makes them extremely hard (for diamonds) and very predictable in their electrical behavior (for chips and resonators). But chemically, crystals are not that different from their polycrystalline or amorphous counterparts. Diamonds burn like coal, silicon and quartz crystals are as hard to etch as glass. And chemistry is what is behind every kind of medicine that works. So yeah, there are "healing crystals", but their healing properties do not come from a crystal structure, but from the chemicals, whether biogenic or synthetic, that are crystalized in the first place. It is from ingesting chemicals, not from waving around sparkly things, that we get medical healing.

[gj83]

I suppose that technically, the answer to this question is always "this forum."  But somehow, I don't think that's what is intended.

[Stuart]

I did not want to get in on this, but now that the ball has been passed:
Crystals are a cool thing. First you need to know what a crystal is. It is a solid where the atoms/molecules/ions or whatever the smallest chemical unit is are ordered in a fixed lattice over long distances. Diamonds are crystals, quartz resonators are, and silicon chips. But what makes them cool for technical use? It is not some magical power, it is the fact that the large-scale order makes them extremely hard (for diamonds) and very predictable in their electrical behavior (for chips and resonators). But chemically, crystals are not that different from their polycrystalline or amorphous counterparts. Diamonds burn like coal, silicon and quartz crystals are as hard to etch as glass. And chemistry is what is behind every kind of medicine that works. So yeah, there are "healing crystals", but their healing properties do not come from a crystal structure, but from the chemicals, whether biogenic or synthetic, that are crystalized in the first place. It is from ingesting chemicals, not from waving around sparkly things, that we get medical healing.

As a qualified geologist, don't get me started on "crystal healing"! I always wondered, given the hundreds of dull and unnattractive crystals there are out there, why its only ever the pretty ones that seem to have these powers.

[Nature Boy]

Not Magic but Science, the book is describing how their vibrations can effect ours, (atoms and such), everything has a vibrational frequency and science has proven it with basic chemistry, (everything is made of atoms and these atoms don't just clump up in a mass, there is space between them and they are always in motion).