about "inner light crystals"
"Inner Light Crystals" is part of the "Inner Light" partnership, and is to be found in Bournemouth in Dorset on the South coast of the UK. This page will tell you about the meaning behind our website design and our logo, and how we (Hilary and Mark, who run "Inner Light") came to get involved (in this lifetime!) with all these wonderful crystals. Over a period of time it is our intention to load many more photographs and descriptions of all we sell, and also to set up our own "Crystal Uses" directory to help those who would like to know more about the metaphysical properties of many of the crystals that we can offer.
the design of our websites:
The design behind our web pages and logos contains much symbolism. The main
colours we have chosen to use throughout are turquoise and navy. Both are
shades of blue - the colour related to the throat chakra and communication,
with hints of green (the heart / love) and indigo (the 3rd eye / intuition).
We have chosen to put any channelled information in violet - the colour of the
crown chakra and our connection to our Higher Selves.
The background wallpaper for each page is composed of many silver spirals,
silver being the energy of the soul. Somewhere in all our logos
"*stars*" feature. Michael Schneider in "A Beginners Guide to
Constructing the Universe" (ISBN 0-06-092671-6) had some very relevant
things to say concerning the meanings behind stars and spirals, which I quote
here:
"When we see stars and spirals we know that there is life and
excellence, motion and transformation..... The lesson of the spiral is that
every "thing" is a process - a dynamic "energy
event".....With its inherent harmony the spiral is a metaphor for our
inevitable transformation within..... beckoning us as a symbol of
consciousness and the way we live. Our own inner spiral process whirls us into
the mystery of the infinite within us..... In the spirals principles of
self-replication, self-accumulation, self-recurrence and self-similarity.....
the recurring key is the word "self". The message of the spiral is
growth and the transformation of our Self."
He goes on to say, concerning the purpose of the spiral:
"The centre within us is the truth of our Higher Self, the reality
deepest within, which each of us calls "I"..... The rhythmic
interplay between the impulse to divide ourselves from our centre and the
yearning that is expressed in our longing to return is found in the experience
of constantly searching for and finding meaning in our lives. The interplay
between these two forces manifests itself in the world as a curve. That is why
the transformative path is characterised by a spiral..... When we grow we
arrive at the same place we were before, but we arrive more experienced,
higher on the circle..... "
We see this path of self-discovery as being one of the purposes that crystals
and their energy (and knowledge) can support.
What our logo and name is about:
We have recently devised a logo for our Crystals site, pictured at the head of this page and throughout this website. When you look at it you will see an amethyst cluster sitting in a cavern filled with Golden Light, all set within a six-pointed star. Amethyst is a favourite crystal of mine - in fact the very first crystal I ever bought was an amethyst point! The design is based on a piece of stained glass that Mark designed and made, which represented the Element of Earth. The Golden Light is the Light of Christ Consciousness, connected with the anchoring of our Lightbodies and with the Ascension of our planet. The six-pointed star has several names, including the Star of David and Solomon's Seal. It represents the point of balance where the downward pointing triangle (Heaven coming down to Earth) meets the upward pointing one (mankind reaching up to Heaven), illustrating the saying "as above, so below". The six-pointed star is also to be found within the centre of the symbol for the heart chakra, where together they represent the sacred marriage or union where male and female are held in perfect balance. In numerology the name "Inner Light Crystals" equates to the number 8, the number of infinity and the never-ending repeating loop of Energy that joins one to All, and All to one - a symbol we have presented to us frequently in our work with the Archaeon.
"Spirit of the Falls" Photo © Mark Brittain 2006
ABOUT HILARY AND MARK:
All "Inner Light" experiences are developed and overseen by soul partners and twin flames Hilary Hargreaves and Mark Brittain. Both of us are experienced workshop leaders and therapists who together have worked with subtle energies and crystals for many years. Along with our shared love and sense of humour we enjoy "time off" when we can, including getting outside in nature and walking in the beautiful New Forest or down by the beach. We are very lucky to be living and working in such a beautiful part of the country - although our true spiritual home is to be found in central Wales, where we try to have an annual period of Spiritual renewal and rejuvenation.
Mark has a natural affinity for working with crystals and with energies of all sorts, and his innate clairvoyance enables him to "see" energies, colours and Beings in other dimensions (including personal Guides, animal totems and Light Beings). In past lives he has worked with crystals and sacred geometry, and he brings this knowledge forwards to help with his work in composing energy grids for our crystal workshops, books and courses. He is a trance channel, conscious channel and proficient out-of-body traveller and his work includes healing, scanning and accessing information, as well as rescue and other clearance work whilst in his soul body.
Hilary is a graduate of the Institute
of Crystals and Gem Therapists and has been studying and working in the field
of complementary therapies since 1993. She is a clairaudient, clairsentient
and conscious channel who has worked with crystals and Energy in many
lifetimes. She is currently researching new workshops and courses and
composing several books about working with crystals and crystal energy grids
to experience Celestial, Angelic, Ascended Master and other Archetypal
Energies. She is also the creator of decks of Cards, which may be used for
conveying Messages from the Archetypal realms, and is always working on
different ways of showing how crystals can help with personal spiritual growth
and transformation.........
I (Hilary) discovered the wonderful world of crystals in the early 1990s,
when learning aromatherapy in Gloucestershire. The training centre "just
happened" to be situated above a "New Age" shop, and I spent
many a wet lunch break inside the shop, looking at and handling some of the
lovely stones and crystals they had there. Mark and I were pretty hard up then
(it was the era of 15% interest mortgages!) and he lived in dread of me coming
home with yet another crystal, instead of food for dinner......... But life
went on, and my connection with the stones and excitement with their energies
and potential for transformation on many levels grew rapidly. Of course, being
the person I am, I wanted to know and understand more, and so at the end of
the 1990s I travelled to Exeter to study Crystal Therapy with Sue and Simon
Lilly, and my own collection of crystals just kept on growing!
Then in 2001 Mark and I were asked to run our first workshops, which were of
course to be based around working with crystal energies - usually in
conjunction with Archetypal energies like Ascended Masters, Angels or
Celestial Beings. This led to us setting up our own School to offer workshops
and later professional training in Crystal Healing and Energy Work, which of
course meant we needed to be able to supply and sell crystals to our students.
From there things simply snowballed, and from keeping just a few tumble stones
for sale, I gradually located some really good suppliers throughout the UK
(and farther afield) and began to supply a much wider range of crystals
throughout a huge range of prices and sizes. Today we have customers who spend
50p on just one simple tumbled stone, and others who are prepared to outlay
closer to £1000 for a fabulous rare or large crystal, often weighing tens of
kilograms.
how we prefer to sell:
We do not own a shop or sell from shop premises and although we are working to set up a more efficient way for people to select and buy items from this site over the internet (UK customers only at present) we much prefer people to visit us and see and feel the crystals before buying. So if you live in the Bournemouth area or can travel to us (some people combine a weekend away on the South coast with a visit to us) we are always willing to book you into our diary and offer a cup of tea and have a personal chat with you about our crystals and what you want. Choosing and buying crystals should be relaxed and fun, as well as allowing you to find out what you really need and we feel that we can offer you a friendly atmosphere with our personal one-to-one attention, so that you may take full advantage of our in-depth knowledge, which isn't always available in many New Age / Crystal shops!
ABOUT THE CRYSTALS:
The crystals photographed on the pages of this website are just some of the healing crystals that we have for sale - we simply cannot photograph everything that passes through our hands, but can post additional pictures if there is something special you want to look at, or show them to you live via our webcam! We sell mainly to students of crystal healing, collectors and other healing practitioners who are interested in obtaining top quality crystals for their homes, healing rooms or therapy centres. We are able to source and obtain many of the rarer and more unusual crystals you may be looking for as well as larger specimen pieces - including many natural and polished crystals that are suitable for larger spaces or healing centres. If there is something special you need that you cannot find here, simply get in touch and we will see what we can source for you.
In addition to the larger pieces and specimens shown on their individual pages, we hold around 120 different types of tumbled stones, smaller specimens and many terminated crystals (including clear, natural citrine and natural smoky quartz) all for sale at competitive prices. Separate pages are devoted to these in alphabetical list form, with current prices, which are updated annually, or as new stock is acquired. Many of the crystals listed are well-known, but there are also plenty of lesser known stones that we find to have a special energy and be worth stocking for the healers, psychics and crystal-ophiles. These include covellite, stilbite, scolecite, creedite, Owyhee blue opal, Macedonian green opal, shattuckite, sphalerite, Vera Cruz amethyst, phenacite, brookite, Libyan Gold tektite and moldavite. Of course you will also find well-known stones or unusual combination stones such as amber, aquamarine, amethyst with goethite, prehnite with epidot, labradorite, charoite, seraphinite, angelite, sugilite, Arizona turquoise and Herkimer diamonds.
Many of the crystals written about by Robert Simmons and Naisha Ahsian in
"The Book of Stones" (our current favourite crystal reference book)
are amongst those we stock. Being into the "crystal healing" side of
things, as well as being reasonably expert about stones, means that we look
out for and try to stock some of the more unusual and High Vibration stones
that are on the market today. Unfortunately these also tend to be expensive!
For those of you interested in working with different formations of quartz we
have in stock a wide variety of forms of smaller Brazilian quartz points
including record keepers, channelers, Isis, Dows, manifestation, elestial,
cathedral and self-healed. These vary in price according to size and rarity of
form. Most are from 2 to 4" long. We also have / can obtain quartz from
Russia (including a few rare "shift" crystals), China, Wales,
Madagascar, Tibet and the U.S.A. for those of you who appreciate the
variations in quartz energies from different areas of the world!
We also have (or can source) a range of cut and polished items, including wands (all working tools, ranging from simple "massage" wands through to genuine "Vogel" ones) spheres, pyramids, Buddhas, Angels, fetishes (nothing to do with kinky boots!) and crystal skulls. If you want something specific cut, or are trying to source something unusual, we will ask around and see if we can get it for you.
