Seven-year-old children work in the cobalt and copper mines, where covetable ‘healing’ stones such as citrine and smoky quartz abound. International NGO Global Witness found that the TALIBAN earns up to $20m a year from Afghanistan’s lapis mines, lapis lazuli being, as crystal websites explain, one of the best stones for activating psychic abilities. It is impossible to know for sure if your crystal was obtained via an environmental and human rights horror show Http://www.theguardian.com/global/2019/jun/16/are-crystals-the-new-blood-diamonds-the-truth-about-muky-business-of-healing-stones
@Armchaircouch I have to wonder how a lot of new age folks reconcile this … probably don’t even know. I didn’t and I’m not a crystal type person, although I do appreciate fine specimens. Glad I don’t buy them. It’s the same reason I don’t wear gold, really. When you think of the many people who have died or have been slaves because of rocks or metals…
@Museek @Armchaircouch
I think most humans don’t lay attention. They are disconnected from their food and water sources. They are disconnected from the natural world around them….its a new weaponized incompetence.
But we all have our smart phones that have rare minerals in them to function.
I think about this, often, as well. The couple stones I have purchased were from a dealer who is very particular about which mines she would work with in Brazil or SA., she would visit them, and she knew them well. Others were handed down from grandmothers.
I wanted to start social media, kind of campaigns to get word out to these trend hoppers, I just haven’t made the time to do the current research and created the content. terrible what’s going on because of trends. @Thumprhare @Museek