Quartz, or rock crystal, has been considered one of the best magic stones since antiquity.
The fact that with the help of crystals, mirrors, crystal spheres and other transparent or reflective devices it is possible to cause visual hallucinations is said in the legends and written sources of many peoples: in ancient Peru, Madagascar, Siberia, the American Indians, in Ancient Greece and Rome, India and Egypt. Everywhere and everywhere it was believed that with the help of a crystal ball it was possible to see both the past and the future …
And according to the facts, there is a lot of truth in these legends. Many of the famous clairvoyants of the past, with the help of a crystal ball, were able to see the future, separated from them by tens of years or even hundreds of years.
On this score, the Arab scholar of the 13th century Ibn Kaldoun wrote: “Some people look into mirrors or vessels filled with water … They stare intently until they begin to see images. The contemplated object disappears, and then a veil similar to fog is drawn between the observer and the mirror. Against this background, images emerge that he wishes to perceive, and then describes what he sees …"
There is an assumption that the famous Michel Nostradamus saw in his crystal ball pictures of future catastrophes, and the great Paracelsus, with the help of a magic crystal, maintained contact with astral entities. Crystal balls were also used by other mystics and magicians.
For example, the outstanding philosopher and scientist John Dee, with the help of a magic ball, very accurately predicted Mary Tudor, who became the queen of England in her prime, that her reign would be short-lived. At the same time, in his crystal ball, he saw that her half-sister Elizabeth, who was in disgrace at that time, would soon inherit the throne. And just 2 years later, Dee's prediction came true.
By the way, some historians believe that England owes much to the expansion of trade ties and geographical discoveries to John Dee and his forecasts.
It should be noted that with the help of a crystal ball, Dee allegedly wrote down the language of angels, which has its own alphabet and grammar, completely different from all existing dialects and dialects of the Earth. This unknown language, according to John Dee, was shown to him in a magic ball by an elf named Madina and two angels who named Ave and Raphael …
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And here is a case, also associated with the prediction of future events with the help of mountain quartz, which took place in Russian history. VF Odoevsky told about him in his "Notes of the Fatherland" in his article "Witchcraft in the 19th century." It told about one rather mysterious incident that happened to the guard officer Yurlov, who was on friendly terms with the author of the article. From his words, Odoevsky recorded the story. It is shown below with some abbreviations.
• “This guardsman once met 96-year-old Anton Markovich Gomuletsky. He was still a cheerful old man with an enviable memory and a reputation as a sorcerer. Gomuletsky liked Yurlov, often visited him, sometimes sitting up after midnight. Once Yurlov asked Gomuletsky to show him his future bride. The old man at first denied, but then nevertheless condescended to the entreaties of the guest.
They (together with Yurlov's friend Tsedilin) went into a small room, where a crystal vase of water stood on a table, and a smooth dark stone lay next to it. The owner explained that there is nothing wonderful about these items. The tourmaline stone is "saturated with the sun's rays" and, if placed in a vase, will illuminate the water from the inside. If the image of Yurlov's bride appears, then only as a result of the will of the owner, without any spells.
When Yurlov asked about the reasons for the possible failure, the magician explained that it was in his power to cause reflection only of those events that would occur during his life. And he is already 96 years old …
The guests silently looked at the water glowing with a mysterious light. After about 10 minutes, an image of a room in which a girl of remarkable beauty was sitting at the piano appeared clearly and with all the details. Nearby stood a man with a pale face and long hair, showing her something in notes.
The vision was forever imprinted in Yurlov's brain. For about 5 minutes he and Tsedilin admired the painting. Then a strange crack was heard in the vase - and the vision disappeared.
Sitting opposite the guests, Gomuletsky was staring intently at the vase all the time. When they got up, Anton Markovich said: "So, my dear, you saw your bride, but do not rejoice, she will not be your wife!"
Six months later, Yurlov met a girl whose image he saw in a vase at Gomuletsky's apartment. There was an engagement. But the wedding was postponed due to the Hungarian campaign. And when the campaign was over, the bride was already married to someone else”…
But how plausible are all these examples of clairvoyance with a crystal ball? At least while investigating this problem, scientists often came across very interesting facts related to this mineral.
As early as the 1870s, one study of a quartz ball noted the following: “The resulting image on a glass ball can be amazingly accurate and true. Sometimes the “beholder” even moves away from the ball and takes a magnifying glass. When he returns, he finds the old picture, which he examines through a magnifying glass. The picture unfolds in front of him wider and wider, the details become clearer and clearer."
But for the most part scientists treated such statements of mystics with obvious distrust. The only thing they agreed with was that the bright shine of the crystal ball tires certain parts of the brain, which makes it possible for hypnotists, who, by the way, most often used it during the sessions, to more easily lead a person into a hypnotic trance.
• And only the story with the crystal ball, which played a decisive role in the fate of the famous 20th century soothsayer, Englishwoman Neil Montague, attracted a new surge of interest in this stone, not only from professional clairvoyants, but also from serious scientists.
As for Neil herself, it turns out that in her childhood she most of all loved to play with a crystal ball, which was presented to her by an Indian nanny. And it was thanks to this ball that the girl somehow saved her mother's life.
Over time, the soothsayer described this incident in her memoirs: “Before going to sleep, I usually looked at the ball for a long time, admiring the overflow of light and darkness inside it. And then one evening an amazing thing happened: the ball in my hand began to change shape! It seemed to me that instead of him I was holding a thick dark cloud: it began to grow in size, enveloping the surrounding space in darkness. Then vague images appeared in the blackness - and I suddenly recognized the setting of mother's bedroom!
My eye was attracted by the bed, or rather, a blue silk robe lying on top of the bedspread: I suddenly saw some movement in it. With my peripheral vision, I saw the silhouette of my mother, who stretched out her hand for the robe, and with horror noticed in its folds the king cobra, preparing to throw … A wild cry escaped my chest, I dropped the ball and lost consciousness for a moment.
To calm me down, my mother called the soldier guarding the house, and we went up to her bedroom together. Mother cautiously moved to the bed: the sentry issued a warning exclamation, pushed her aside and rushed forward, and the hood of an angry cobra emerged from the folds of the robe, she arched menacingly, hissed, and then the soldier began to shoot …"
This incident made Neil believe in the special power of the crystal ball, and from that time he was almost always with her.
In the late 19th - early 20th centuries, the use of crystal balls by European mystics began to be especially widely practiced. At the same time, some of them successfully used this tool in their clairvoyant practices to such an extent that they gained considerable fame.
• One of such celebrities at the beginning of the 20th century was the Englishman Von Burg. He became famous for the fact that, using an egg made of rock crystal, he solved several very complicated cases.
The most impressive story, in which Burg played the main role, was the disappearance of the London businessman Foxwell. It was believed that he left for the United States. But because for a long time there was no news from the businessman, his wife went to the police. But there she heard nothing comforting. Therefore, the woman went to a famous clairvoyant.
Von Burg looked at the famous crystal egg for a while, and then in a mournful voice announced that the businessman had not left anywhere. He was cunningly killed, and his body was thrown into the Thames. At the same time, Burg very accurately named not only the time when Foxwell's body would be found, but also the place where he would be found. And the clairvoyant was not mistaken in his predictions …
• Famous American clairvoyant Jean Dixon also impressed with her ability to see the future in a crystal ball. Unusual abilities she showed already in early childhood. The girl could predict what will be given to her for her birthday, what events should soon happen …
Seeing that the child is endowed with an amazing talent, the mother went with her 8-year-old daughter to the famous gypsy fortune-teller, who asked the girl to show her her palm. Finally, after a short silence, she said: "The lines on her hand indicate that this girl will become a great fortuneteller in the future." Then she gave her a crystal ball and asked to describe what she would see in it.
When Jean started talking about the rocky coast, about the foaming ocean waves, the gypsy stopped her and then said: “This is my homeland. I give you a ball …
Since that time, using a gift from a gypsy woman, Jean predicted many different events: the attempt on the life of the Pope and the death of American astronauts in the fire on Apollo 1, named the time of death of F. Roosevelt and D. Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe and Martin Luther King, as well as some other famous people.
The clarity of the images in time and space that Jean could see in the crystal ball literally amazed everyone who was present at her clairvoyance sessions.
So, “watching” from the other end of the country President Eisenhower and the famous comedian Bob Hope playing golf, she very accurately described all the nuances of the game, while the veracity of her words was immediately checked by phone …
All these facts, finally, led to the fact that in recent decades, official science began to show interest in visions in a crystal ball.
• Many studies of this phenomenon were carried out by the famous American psychotherapist Raymond Moody. “I have established,” he noted, “that visions in a crystal ball are not fiction, but fact. They were clearly projected in the ball, while they were colored and three-dimensional, like in a holographic movie."
Experiments of scientists, their conclusions
Psychologists from West Georgia have also studied the amazing features of crystal balls. Of the several dozen volunteers who participated in the experiment, more than half were able to see the faces of familiar and unknown people, visions from childhood and adolescence in transparent spheres.
Moreover, the scientists found that, watching an episode from their past, the subjects could stop the flow of events at any moment and examine the frozen picture in detail …
To explain such amazing effects of crystal balls, scientists have put forward the following hypothesis.
The rays passing through the transparent sphere introduce the human psyche into a hypnotic state, in which the activity of some parts of the brain weakens, while others, on the contrary, increase. As a result of such "switching" the consciousness of people gazing intently at the ball changes, and their brain begins to perceive waves, which contain encoded information from a single information field of the Earth.
Then the images received by the brain through the eyeballs and pineal gland fall on the crystals of the quartz ball, are reflected from them and return back to the brain. As a result, a person “sees” the images that have arisen in the crystal sphere.
A. Bernatsky