OP's review on Goodreads of the book Growth Stones: Using Stones for Personal Transformation by John Baumann.
I am pleased with my review. This is what it says: This is basically a handbook that comes with a set of 34 stones, each one with its own quality of personal growth to aid. The basis for this is on how the vibrations of their crystalline structure resonates with a particular energy of the Inner Being, thereby strengthening that energy. Two pages are dedicated to each stone and its pairing (Black Tourmaline: Kindness; Hematite: Clarity of Thought; Rose Quartz: Intimacy; etc.), the bulk of which contains sensible self-help style advice about the quality in question. I don't have any of the relevant stones on hand, so this review is based solely on the book itself. It's fine. Two stars, it was okay. I was disappointed with the rigid gender binary the book presented, and I would have liked to know more about how the Inner Being works. The book says "It is subtle because it is hard to measure. Science hasn't figured out how to measure it yet, and what science can't measure, it doesn't believe in." I totally get that, but then I wonder how the knowledge of which personal qualities match with which stones came to be known.
@staiman_d – January 11, 2025