The Metaphysical Book of Gems and Crystals - by Florence Mégemont (Paperback)

About the Book

Gemstones have been used for therapeutic and spiritual purposes since antiquity in all traditions. This book examines the "life" energy of stones, their basic vibratory patterns, and how this energy is used to treat various disorders. The physical, healing, and astrological properties of over 70 stones are detailed, along with instructions for maintaining and recharging their powers.

Book Synopsis

Details the powerful effects of gems as an alternative therapy for physical, psychological, and spiritual healing

- Reveals the physical, healing, and astrological properties of over 70 minerals, along with instructions for maintaining and recharging their powers

- Examines the "life" energy of stones, their basic vibratory patterns, and how this energy is used therapeutically to treat various disorders

- Shows how to use gems in color therapy and to harmonize the chakras

Gemstones have been used for both therapeutic and spiritual purposes since the beginning of time and in all traditions. Used properly, they can contribute to and accelerate healing through the practice of lithotherapy, which uses gems and minerals to restore enzymatic functions, and they can energize spiritual development. Alternative medicines such as homeopathy have given prominence to the therapeutic character of certain minerals, but the use of gemstones in expanding awareness or establishing a holistic, energetic connection with the stone itself have scarcely been brought forward. In this reclaiming of ancient wisdom, Florence Mégemont explores the many potent and beneficial dimensions of the mineral world.

Over 70 precious and semiprecious stones are inventoried as to their principal deposits, therapeutic applications, and zodiac correspondences. Readers will discover which physical and emotional disorders can be relieved by using which minerals and--with the application of chakra therapy--which gemstones are indispensable to their spiritual health. While not proposing that lithotherapy is a substitute for traditional allopathic treatment, Mégemont shows that it can be a powerful complement to it. Additionally, stones can act preventively, energizing both our health and spiritual resources to a state of balance and attunement.

From the Back Cover

NEW AGE / CRYSTALS "Florence Megemont's explorations of the spiritual and therapeutic applications of over seventy different minerals and gemstones are vivid and lively, and they convey a strong sense of the stones as 'beings' rather than objects. This book gives strong emphasis to the therapeutic capacities of stones, and this is appropriate because the stones' agenda is to facilitate human evolution into wholeness and spiritual realization."--Robert Simmons, author of The Book of Stones and Moldavite: Starborn Stone of TransformationGemstones have been used for both therapeutic and spiritual purposes since the earliest days, in all traditions. Used properly, they can contribute to and accelerate healing through the practice of lithotherapy, which uses gems and minerals to restore enzymatic functions, and they can energize spiritual development. Alternative medicines such as homeopathy have given prominence to the therapeutic character of certain minerals, but the use of gemstones in expanding awareness or establishing a holistic, energetic connection with the stone itself has scarcely been brought forward. In this reclaiming of ancient wisdom, Florence Megemont explores the many potent and beneficial dimensions of the mineral world.Over seventy precious and semiprecious stones are inventoried as to their principal deposits, therapeutic applications, and zodiac correspondences. Readers will discover which minerals can relieve specific physical and emotional disorders and which gemstones are indispensable to their spiritual health. The author also explains how to apply the stones to the chakras. Additionally, Megemont shows how the stones can act preventively, energizing both our health and spiritual resources to a state of balance and attunement. FLORENCE MEGEMONT has been practicing lithotherapy since 1995, and she gives lectures and workshops throughout Europe. She is the author in French of two other books on the power of gems and minerals. She lives in southern France.

Review Quotes

" . . . a unique, seminal, and thoroughly 'user friendly' instructional reference, making it a very highly recommended addition to personal, academic, and community library Metaphysical Studies and Alternative Medicine reference collections and supplemental reading lists."-- "The Midwest Book Review, Mar 2008"

"Not only is this book a handy reference guide to gems, crystals and how to use them, but it is interesting as the author provides us with quite a bit of background on the use of stones around the world."-- "Joe Napolitano, Facing North, April 08"

"The vivid, gorgeous photos of each gem and crystal turn these minerals into . . . well, I can only call them rock stars! Just looking at these celebrity portraits gives you a sense of their inherent characteristics--through shape, texture, and color--and clues about how to work with them."-- "Eva Yaa Asantewaa, Jan 2008"

"This book is an excellent addition to any gemstone library. The colored photographs make identifying the stones much easier and the author includes such details as hardness as well as metaphysical aspects of the gemstones."-- "Veritas Newsletter, July 2008"

"Florence Mégemont's explorations of the spiritual and therapeutic applications of over seventy different minerals and gemstones are vivid and lively, and they convey a strong sense of the stones as 'beings' rather than objects. This book gives strong emphasis to the therapeutic capacities of stones, and this is appropriate because the stones' agenda is to facilitate human evolution into wholeness and spiritual realization."-- "Robert Simmons, author of The Book of Stones and Moldavite: Starborn Stone of Transformation"

About the Author

Florence Mégemont has been practicing lithotherapy since 1995, and she gives lectures and workshops throughout Europe. She is the author in French of two other books on the power of gems and minerals. She lives in southern France.