More and more I am asked: how crystals work.
Or more specifically I’m frequently asked how they can quickly explain to others how crystals work.
(By the way, this blog post includes a video I filmed a bit ago but I didn’t get the attention it deserved. Every time I share with someone who asks me how crystals work they are so grateful for this explanation. So I’ve added some more info, updates, and info here to go along with it.)
Sorry, but I don’t have a quick explanation. I usually take an entire course to explain it. 😉 However, I could break it down into a couple of blog posts. I know that’s not quick. It’s not the elevator speech you were hoping for but it’s the best I can do.
Crystals have vibrations just like everything else does.
It’s important to keep in mind that our entire physical universe is made up of pure energy and vibration.
LINK: Unexpectedly, many of you wanted to know where you could get a copy of the poster I’m using in the video: here you go. Is that cuz you’re at-home schooling all your kiddos right now? TIP: you can also get it in white and use it as a dry-erase poster. 👩🏫
Einstein determined that energy and matter (technically “mass”) are actually the same thing:
E = mc2
That means energy equals mass (I accidentally said “matter” in the video), and vice versa mass equals energy.
“Mass” is a measure of how much matter there is in something. (
So, everything is made up of pure energy and vibration.
But the vibrations from crystals are very different.
Matter vibrates at different vibrational frequencies. Not just our crystals, all matter — my chair, my desk, you, me, the light… they all have this average resonant frequency. Think of the up and down wave that you used to see in math class that goes up and down, up and down.
Quite some time ago, I coined this the “dominant oscillary rate” and for ease of communication; DOR.
We’re talking vibration here – this sounds woo but this is straight-up physics here.
We as humans are a collection of DORs. So, we’re a collection of frequencies. Our heart has one DOR. Our kidneys have different DORs. Our eyes have a different DOR. Our brain has a different DOR. Each organ, so your heart, your brain, your liver, all the various cells, the DNA right down to the chromosomes and beyond even.
So, we have an average vibrational frequency made up of a collection of varying DORs, and it’s not very stable.
In fact, it’s quite easily influenced by all sorts of things in our environment including statements, thoughts, and emotions; emotions are simply energy, you know. Actually, since we’re all connected to and influenced by everything in our environment, including crystals and stones, our unstable vibrational nature makes it so that absolutely anything can interact with our energy field and leave its mark on us.
So, our frequency can get really out of whack when we experience any type of high amplitude energy; like stress.
Contrast that with a Crystal
A crystal, in contrast, has one DOR. It’s not a collection of different ones. It’s not made of varying organs. It has one DOR and it depends on several things: for instance, the crystal’s specific molecular composition and what elements make up that crystal, its size, and its thickness. Yes, the thickness or size of a crystal will affect the DOR.
Next, its specific color will affect the DOR.
I consider color to be very important because the visible color that we see is just specific light frequencies being reflected back to our eyes. If I’m looking at an amethyst crystal and I see that violet, okay, that’s a very specific vibrational frequency, a specific light frequency on the electromagnetic spectrum. Violet is a higher frequency than red. Red has a longer wavelength; a very specific energy that’s emanating from that crystal.
So, we’ve established that many variables affect the dominant oscillary rate of a crystal.
A crystal ALSO has a very precise fixed, repeating, molecular pattern.
That’s what makes a crystal a crystal. Unlike us, it’s geometrically perfect.

Sodium chloride molecule (salt crystal)…look at that precise crystal structure!
What actually makes a crystal a crystal is its molecular arrangement. If you were able to zoom down in with a scanning electron microscope (that’s the kind of microscope that can see the molecules really, really small) they’re arranged in this fixed regularly repeating geometric pattern.
Not random at all.
It’s the exact opposite of random.
On the other hand, we are not geometrically perfect. We don’t have that fixed, repeating, geometric, molecular pattern. We’re not crystals – although we do have some liquid crystal and some crystalline structures, we also have quite a bit of randomness. We don’t have this very precise precision to us –as crystals do.
So, since crystals are so geometrically perfect at the molecular level, they have the lowest possible state of disorganization because see, most things in our immediate universe tend towards disorganization. Remember that a crystal has one fixed, repeating, geometric, molecular pattern.
Because of that, crystals have the lowest state of entropy.
Entropy is just the tendency to go towards disorder. If someone wasn’t mowing the lawn here every week, I’m in south Florida, the grass would get crazy! If someone wasn’t putting work into the system of the lawn it would tend towards disorder. It would go straight towards chaos/disorder really fast. crazy and weedy. Right? After a few months, we would be absolutely overgrown by weeds, vines, and bushes. Things tend to rust and tend towards disorder if you don’t put work into the system to keep it maintained and organized. When you put work into a system entropy is not taking over.
Instead, you get the opposite; syntropy; organization, and coherence.
So, we’ve also established that since crystals are so geometrically perfect; crystals have a very low state of entropy. They actually resist disorder.
They have this low state of disorganization and they easily maintain their stability UNLIKE us. Here again – We’re very unstable.
So, these different things play into the stability; DOR, and vibrational frequency of that crystal.
Part 2 covers:
- How are the healing properties of a crystal determined?
- Why are we influenced by the energy of crystals?
- What about the programming of a crystal?
So what did you think of part 1 so far? Too boring? Too geeky or not GEEKY ENOUGH? Geek on Fleek? Please let me know in the comments below~!
And, of course, you can now check out Part 2 here. 🙂
Crystal Blessings,
Hello,
I found Part 1 to be very interesting. Feel free to get as “geeky” as possible.
Respectfully,
Nadine
Thanks for the permission to go full-on GEEK MODE, Nadine! 😀
Love the video! Heading to watch Part 2 💕
Love the detail! Helps me to “believe” and “trust” the vibrational impact of crystals. So geek on!!
So sounds like you’re into the GEEK-speak! 😉
Loved the first video. Ready for the second. Watched the sacred space video and would like to know where to get the diamond and lepidolite powder. Really like the GEEK-speak
Completely agree with Katie!
Wow!!! This video came right on time – I have been wondering this same thing you talked about in the video. You make the science easily understandable and really fun. Thank you for sharing your gift and your hard work. I am grateful.
Aww, thanks, Lana. Actually, teaching science + crystals is my fav thing to do!! ♥ Thank you for giving me an outlet to do so.
Very interesting and informative. Can’t wait for part 2 😸
This was great info! I am a geologist but it’s been a long time since I’ve heard many of those terms!
So informative and interesting. I’m excited to pass this information alomg to my children and read part 2 😄
I love your geeky approach ~❤️
I’m about to read up on a few things you mentioned, can’t wait for the second part!
You have a real talent for explaining crystals in a way that can be easily understood by skeptical left-brained people. Good video lengths, too. KEEP EM’ COMING!
Part 2 here I come. Moving toward syntropy
Loved this video! You make it so easy to understand about crystals and their vibrations.There are days when I feel a certain crystal calling me. If possible I put it in my pocket or purse because I’ve learned I will need it that day. Thank you!
TY soooo much, Susan. I was hoping that this all made sense. Thanks for the confirmation. 🙂
Helped me understand a lot. I’m looking forward to part two. Thank you.
Oh so happy to hear that Judy!!
This was really interesting! You addressed everything I’ve been wondering about, in easy to understand explanations. I’m looking forward to the second part.
Oh good, Gale. I love making science easy to grasp!! Plus throw in the crystals and that’s my idea of a PAR-TAY! 😉
Wow!!
I’ve always wondered how crystals work, and the article is very interesting. i will be waiting for the second part 🙂
TY Susana. I’m now really looking forward to whipping up Part 2 for you!
That was just the right amount of geeky. I know why a couple of them work because of what can be absorbed into the skin from them but I never understood the vibrational stuff. Thanks.
Not boring, not geeky! This is the best explanation on this topic I have seen. Most books on crystals gloss over this important information and the most simple questions of Why and How?
Thanks for this!
Oh good to hear, C! Thanks for your valuable input. I think they gloss over because they don’t have a strong background in science. That’s where I come in. 😉 Everyone has their strong suit!
OMG I am SO looking forward to this, I didn’t even realize I needed this in my life until now!!! Thank you!!
Hahaha, Danielle! You win.: BEST COMMENT! 😀
Incredibly interesting and informative. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I look forward to reading part 2. 🙏🏻
I love crystals and how they work. I saw part one and want see part two. Very interesting want to learn more.💚
LUHUVVING IT!!
N Not Geeky At All!!
Great Review for those “in the knowing” ..
Invaluable for “new to”/”curious”/etc ..
Thank You for All That You Are & All That You Do❣
Oh i love this, it makes me love my crystals even more they are so important.
This is what should be taught in schools they are very important and my son who is 7 and my little girl who is 4 i teach them all about them and oils too .
Excited for part 2 Xx
Thank you. Great info described well
This was marvellous info! It was easily understood and very informative. Liked the use of the frequency chart and colours. Can’t wait for part 2 .
Perfect..luved the scientific side of how..why and what crystals r all about..helps to better understand the pure energy and healing that they provide..
Thank you!!!💖🌻✨
CJ
You explain everything so well! Geeky or not I really enjoy the science part. So thank you for helping me understand energy. And not just in crystals but in all things.
I can never get enough of your teaching, always so informative and easy to understand. Can’t wait for part two!!!!💖
Thanks for the excellent video — very clear and helpful. I’m looking forward to Part 2!
Very informative. Looking forward to part 2
I really enjoyed your video, you put everything across in such a way that it is easily understandable for anyone who doesn’t have any sciencey experience. Although I do even if it’s self taught and admittedly not extensive. But there is always one element of working with all crystals that I find problematic, all the literature speaks of it, and you will be touching on it in your next video, and that’s “programming”. I would like to ask your thoughts, but I have never programmed any crystal. I have worked with crystals in my own way, and see each one as an individual being with its own mind and spirit and therefore it is more appropriate to ask for their help and to work collaboratively with them. Programming feels like I would be forcing the crystal to do what I want in the way I want, and in simply being human, I could get that very wrong. But in asking for help, guidance, protection etc, feels right and has led me to outcomes that didn’t expect, but which were exactly what was needed. I may be purely speaking from my own perspective, and there’s certainly more to the story than I have been able to describe here, but I’d love to hear your opinion on this approach.
Very good I love learning about and understand crystals and their vibrations. I never got into science, but you make it interesting! Thanks!! I’m looking forward to part 2.
Excellent info. I enjoy your videos and look forward to part 2 on this topic. Thanks so much for sharing.
I enjoy your passion on crystals very much.
Being a former geologist, I think your explanation is wonderful for the “layman/woman” to understand. I took your Crystal Healing course and LOVED it! I love science “geekiness” but I think you targeted your main audience perfectly! Can’t wait for Part 2!
Thank you soooo much! This explanation is incredibly clear, you answered a lot of the questions I had. Looking forward to Part 2
It was perfectly explained, I love your examples.. I have had a wonderful AHA! moment…Thank you.. I wish you had been my science teacher!
With kindest wishes and blessings x
Just the right amount of geeky!! I love to understand the science behind things, so this article was perfect for me. I can’t wait to take your class.
I loved this video….probably the best yet!! I love knowing the science behind crystals….after all they are used in many medical applications (lasers for skin, tattoo removal etc). Great explanation I can have my kids watch and understand why Crystals aren’t all “New Age’. And woo woo
I received a selenite crystal as a gift and first time I was using it , meditating while holding the selenite in my right hand. The crystal broke on half. What does it mean? Thank you.
Thank you, this is excellent. I still have some problems to understand difference between high vibes (which are good, right?) and high frequency (which might be harmful?). Please, please, please tell about it in part two if possible. I know what is amplitude and frequency, but how it is related to vibration? What exactly vibes are? Maybe my question sounds funny – but to understand it – it’s important to me. I think you are my last chance dear Hibiscus Moon.
And I have one more question – I do not like lab-made crystals – but if they are as solid as naural in their structure what makes them worse? I know that natural sleeps in Mother Eart for ages, but if structure is same and the power of crystal comes from structure which doesn’t care of entrophy – they should be powerful too? Thank you for everything, you are the best crystal teacher ever. Thank you!
Thank you Hibiscus Moon! I took the Crystal Healer Course and learned so much but your breakdown of how crystals work was truly outstanding! A perfect balance of geek and simple Crystal Science 101. Once again, I appreciate the simplistic clarity you use to present lessons. It makes learning the science of crystals so much easier to understand and explain. As I learn more and more about the science behind crystal energy, I feel more and more confident using crystals to help others and myself. Blessings.
Abso-fricken-lutely!! I Have Healed Several Conditions On Myself With Nothing More Than The Energy From Crystals And ESO’s. They Work, Without A Doubt.
I am an analyst by trade, so knowing the logic behind the crystals is fascinating. Can’t wait for part two.
Pretty amazing stuff, and being a guitarist/ musician I can truly appreciate your knowledge. And is it possible that frequencies have a message that can be decoded into words sentences etc, that give a command to other frequencies in order to perform certain function’s etc. I was applying frequencies within musical notes, “frequencies in the note/tonality of c for example” to gemattria and some of the translations were what I thought they might be.. the 7 tones contained in the major scale and their theoretical identifiers actually line up with 7 days of Creation and what was created on that given day example the 4 th tone placed in the context of harmony is called a suspension creating a sense of floating 4 th day of Creation planets stars etc were framed and or suspended in orbit etc.. 4 th mode of the major scale often refered to as lydian#4 is often refered to as Spacey and majestic.. coincidence? I believe it is, much like crystals have a frequency blueprint of resonance and everything else visible and not so visible absolutely have a Sonic footprint as well. I really believe that frequencies and frequency alignment will be very much the cutting edge of medicine soon.. I think we’re just at the infancy stage of it.. I also wonder if frequency cancellation can be applied to medicine and other uses as well.. p.s. I really appreciate your knowledge and intelligence in this field. Physics has been something I have been very interested in, but has always been something I don’t know if I’m capable of grasping, but have great admiration for those who can such as yourself… 3,6,9 frequencies in agreement of the harmony of Creation,nature, God, and humanity.. the sum of all things.. “blessings”
Love the Science behind use Crystals this is so important.
I have been waiting a long time for someone that can back it up with science.
Thank you
I am absolutely loving your presentation on Crystals. This is exactly what I have been searching for. I will see you in part 2