Post by 1dave on Aug 28, 2017 19:17:03 GMT -5
blogs.agu.org/georneys/2011/10/03/geology-word-of-the-week-r-is-for-rutile/
As I discovered this evening when I was googleing rutilated quartz, there are many woo-woo pseudoscientific “properties” associated with rutilated quartz. In my google search, I was hoping to learn about the geologic properties of rutilated quartz. Unfortunately, many of the websites I found on google informed me about some other “properties” of rutilated quartz. For instance, one of these websites “informed me” that rutilated quartz:
Brings forth each person’s strengths, originality, aids sleep, relate to others.
Rutile is said to intensify the metaphysical properties of its host crystal and to enhance one’s understanding of difficult situations. It is also said to enhance creativity and to relieve depression and loneliness.
Rutilated quartz is said to slow down the aging process and is said to be a strong healer.
Source of the above quotation.
Well, I’m no doctor, but I have a feeling that placing rutilated quartz around my house is not going to help me sleep (I’ve had insomnia for years, and I mange it fine without woo-woo crystals) or prevent wrinkles. I suppose that placing rutilated quartz all over my house could help relieve depression. I do love pretty crystals.
My friend Dana Hunter agrees that the woo-woo properties of rutilated quartz are nonsense. When she sent me the two beautiful pictures of her piece of rutilated quartz, she also sent this delightful story:
I know you sometimes like to laugh at woo in these Word of the Week posts, and there’s definitely woo involved with rutilated quartz. This little piece was purchased at a crystal shop in Sedona, AZ, back when I was a wooful middleschooler. What you did was tie a string round its middle, dangle it like a pendulum, and ask it yes-or-no questions. It would swing in a circle or from side-to-side to answer (you had to ask first “What is yes?” and “What is no?” to determine which was which). Supposedly, then, it could predict the future. Freaky, watching something you were holding perfectly still start to move! I didn’t know then about the extremely subtle muscle movements that would set it in motion. I did try to test it by tying it to bits of furniture and seeing if it would move without a human touching the string (it would, but erratically, and probably had something to do with the air movements created as I shouted at it). Even back then, deep in the clutches of woo, there was apparently a scientific bit of my mind screaming to get out. It’s all a bunch of rubbish, of course – if it wasn’t, I would’ve died in July of 2008, according to it. So much for the stone’s power of prediction! But it’s gorgeous stuff, and its true nature is far more interesting than the woo we attached to it.
Thanks for the story, Dana!
Brings forth each person’s strengths, originality, aids sleep, relate to others.
Rutile is said to intensify the metaphysical properties of its host crystal and to enhance one’s understanding of difficult situations. It is also said to enhance creativity and to relieve depression and loneliness.
Rutilated quartz is said to slow down the aging process and is said to be a strong healer.
Source of the above quotation.
Well, I’m no doctor, but I have a feeling that placing rutilated quartz around my house is not going to help me sleep (I’ve had insomnia for years, and I mange it fine without woo-woo crystals) or prevent wrinkles. I suppose that placing rutilated quartz all over my house could help relieve depression. I do love pretty crystals.
My friend Dana Hunter agrees that the woo-woo properties of rutilated quartz are nonsense. When she sent me the two beautiful pictures of her piece of rutilated quartz, she also sent this delightful story:
I know you sometimes like to laugh at woo in these Word of the Week posts, and there’s definitely woo involved with rutilated quartz. This little piece was purchased at a crystal shop in Sedona, AZ, back when I was a wooful middleschooler. What you did was tie a string round its middle, dangle it like a pendulum, and ask it yes-or-no questions. It would swing in a circle or from side-to-side to answer (you had to ask first “What is yes?” and “What is no?” to determine which was which). Supposedly, then, it could predict the future. Freaky, watching something you were holding perfectly still start to move! I didn’t know then about the extremely subtle muscle movements that would set it in motion. I did try to test it by tying it to bits of furniture and seeing if it would move without a human touching the string (it would, but erratically, and probably had something to do with the air movements created as I shouted at it). Even back then, deep in the clutches of woo, there was apparently a scientific bit of my mind screaming to get out. It’s all a bunch of rubbish, of course – if it wasn’t, I would’ve died in July of 2008, according to it. So much for the stone’s power of prediction! But it’s gorgeous stuff, and its true nature is far more interesting than the woo we attached to it.
Thanks for the story, Dana!
