The Crystals and Beyond Podcast
by crystalsandbeyond
An explorations of the world of metaphysics and life energy. The series examines a range of topics including crystal lore, herbal remedies, astrological timing, the occult, spells, magic, aromatherapy, alchemy, divination, and more. offering their audience insights into the world of ”crystals and beyond”.
Episodes
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How Magic Works: The Law of Contagion
The Law of Contagion is one of the oldest and most human ideas in magic: once something has been part of you — or truly yours — a thread stays between you and it, even after it leaves your hands. This episode lays the law out in plain language, starting with a feeling everyone already knows — the...
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How Magic Works - The Law of Similarity
The Law of Similarity is the oldest idea in magic: things that resemble each other are magically connected. This episode lays it out in plain language — the three ways it works (a thing’s shape or color shows what it’s for, a likeness can stand in for the real thing, and acting a thing out in…
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How Magic Works - The Law of Sympathy
The hosts discuss the Law of Sympathy, a foundational principle of magic explaining how a spell can influence someone over a great distance without physical proximity. They illustrates this concept using common folk practices like honey jars, freezer spells, and poppets, alongside the ancient...
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The Far Note - A Tale from Crosshollow
The Crosshollow story discussion today illustrates how everyday human interactions create profound, unseen ripple effects. The narrative demonstrates emotional contagion as a kindhearted blacksmith named Bryn relieves a young apprentice's anxiety, which subsequently lightens the mood of a weary...
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How Magic Works - Law of Correspondence
Want to really understand magic? Join use: The discussion explores the Law of Correspondence,the foundational principle that the universe mirrors itself through shared intrinsic natures across different realms. It explains that unrelated objects, such as the sun, gold, and the human heart, are...
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Finding Spell casting services - don't get played
Spell casting blew up online over the last year or so — and it can be confusing. We discuss: What really happened to the "Etsy witches," where they went, and offer a simple checklist that tells a real spell caster from a scam. Here is our tguide to a messy corner of the internet, so you can find...
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The Doorway - A Tale from Crosshollow
A man says good morning to a neighbor in a doorway and is walked past without a word. Over the days that follow he builds a whole grievance on it — certain he's been snubbed, certain there's a reason — until he learns the truth: the other man was a frightened father who'd barely slept in a...
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Wonder is Actually Good for You
We're often told that staying open to wonder is a nice idea for people with time on their hands. It turns out to be one of the healthiest things you can do — and there's twenty years of science to prove it. In this episode we dig into the research of UC Berkeley's Dacher Keltner on awe: the…
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No Time for Wonder? Really?
We spend a great deal of energy arguing about whether the world is enchanted — and almost none simply looking at it. In this episode we bring together two companion letters: one on why wonder is a stance rather than a belief (you cannot find what you have ruled out in advance), and one that stops...
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The Exchange - A Tale from Crosshollow
Everyone Cael asked told him the same thing: be patient. They weren't being unhelpful — within what they knew, there was nothing else to say. This episode looks at why the answer to a problem you're stuck on so rarely comes from the people closest to you. Mark Granovetter's 1973 study found…
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Repairing a Relationship
A spell can open the door to reconnection — but someone still has to walk through it. This episode is about the walking through: the real, practical work of mending a relationship you're still in, and it's grounded in the decades of research by Dr. John Gottman, who actually watched thousands of...
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The Winter that Didn't Come _ A Tale of Crosshollow
A cooper loses the account his whole year rested on, and he can see the ruin coming: the empty larder, the hard winter, his family going without. He braces for the worst. And the worst never comes — the winter is lean and tiring, but survivable — and it's his twelve-year-old son who says the…
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Repairing Relationships Magic
This podcast explores the concept and application of relationship repair magic, which is specifically designed for couples who are still together but experiencing emotional distance or conflict. Unlike spells intended to return an ex-partner, these rituals focus on clearing energetic blockages…
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The Quite Genius of the Tarot Deck
TYou've almost certainly seen it — the most famous tarot deck in the world, the one nearly every reading uses and nearly every other deck imitates. Most people think of it as just "the tarot cards." It's actually a work of deliberate genius, a little over a century old, and the story of who…
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Interview coming up? Two Keys to Improve Your Chances
This discussion provides a guide on using Tiger's Eye and Carnelian to improve performance during job interviews. The hosts explain that Tiger's Eye is used to manage physical anxiety by conditioning the body to remain calm through breathing exercises and tactile association. Conversely…
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The Lights - A tale from Crosshollow
This story podcast presents a fable from Crosshollow, a fictional medieval setting where ordinary human experiences are examined through the lens of timeless wisdom. The narrative focuses on a young woman named Liss, who becomes so consumed by her increasing responsibilities that she views time…
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Can Tarot Predict the Future?
This podcast clarifies that tarot cards function as a mirror and a compass for self-reflection rather than a crystal ball for predicting the future. The hosts argue that while readings cannot provide specific dates or reveal the private intentions of others, they are highly effective at…
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The Power of the star Regulus
Regulus is the star of fame — but of the earned kind, the recognition that follows real work rather than the empty spotlight. In this episode we get practical: how to bring the Little King's energy into your own life with what you already have. The free timing (a Jupiter hour on Thursday, the...
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The Window - A Tale From Crosshollow
This discussioin of a fable from Crosshollow narrates the recovery of an elderly man named Coll, who falls into a deep, listless illness during a harsh winter. While his family provides physical necessities like warmth and broth, he remains stagnant until a young woman suggests moving his bed to…
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Aldebaran - Star of Victory and Courage
THigh in the winter sky, at the point of the Bull's face, one star burns a deep orange-red — Aldebaran, the Eye of Taurus, one of the four Royal Stars of ancient Persia and the sky's great Star of Victory. In this episode we explore its lore and its Mars-natured fire: what "victory" really means…
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Career Growth Spells that Work
Rising in your work — whatever your work is — comes down to three things: believing in yourself enough to do the work, being seen by the people who can lift you, and the door opening. We dig into the science of the first: self-belief predicts performance better than goal-setting (across 21,000+...
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Job Security Spell: Protecting your Job
Protecting the job you have isn't one thing but four: steadying your own fear, shifting how decision-makers see you, turning timing your way, and shielding against anything aimed at you — strongest when used together. We dig into the science of the first front: the fear of job loss is itself a...
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The Good Year - A Tale from Crosshollow
t's the best year of Seb's life — a full barn, a fine calf, money put by at last — and he can't enjoy a moment of it, because a man who has known the thin years knows that everything good can be taken. So he braces. In this episode we use the tale "The Good Year" to explore a genuinely surprising...
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Good Weather Spells for Wedding Days
You've planned everything but the one thing you can't control: the sky. In this warm, honest episode we talk about wedding weather spells — what they really are (a respectful request, not a command), why so many couples cast one, and the real reason it brings comfort. It isn't a promise of...
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Can Magic Really Change Your Luck?
Can a spell really change your luck — your timing, your odds, the outcome you can't control? In this episode we take the skeptic's question seriously and give the honest, three-part answer. We start where everyone agrees: pure wishing doesn't work — and the research shows it can even make things...
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The Bakery - Magic And A Warm Room
There's a man Liss won't speak to. There's a little girl whose dog has gone off by himself and won't come when she calls. And there's a baker who has watched the whole quiet business from behind her counter and said nothing. In this episode we sit with the Crosshollow tale "The Bakery" and the...
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What is Magic? And What Makes it White?
Almost everyone gets magic wrong in one of two ways: they think it's make-believe, or they think it's some far-off supernatural force with nothing to do with them. In this episode we take the question seriously — what is magic, really? — and find an answer that's stranger and more grounded than...
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The Dogs - A tale from Crosshollow
Every village remembers the dog that turned. Years later, when a new pack of half-grown dogs runs the field edges, the old fear wakes up and settles on them — and the village decides, quietly, that something ought to be done. But the dogs have harmed no one. And the night a real danger comes out…
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Algol, Demon Star - Powerful Protector
The discussion examines Algol, a distinctive star in the Perseus constellation historically renowned for its rhythmic dimming and brightening. This celestial body, frequently dubbed the "Demon Star," has been associated with misfortune and danger by diverse civilisations throughout history.…
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The Mill - A Tale From Crosshollow
This narrative from the Crosshollow series tells the story of a young man named Tam who seeks to establish his own identity by securing a position at a local grain mill. During his trial under the seasoned miller Garrick, Tam initially fails because his anxiety and overthinking disrupt his…
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Job Interview Success with Magic
The discussion today focuses on the use of professional spell casting to enhance performance and confidence during job interviews. Rather than providing a magical shortcut to skip preparation, these rituals are designed to calm the nervous system and foster a positive first impression with...
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Job Spells That Work
This discussion explores how professional job spells can be used as a practical tool for employment seekers. The hosts argue that these rituals function by enhancing self-confidence, improving first impressions, and aligning favourable timing rather than creating results through thin air. They...
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The Seeds - A Tale From Crosshollow
The discussion continues to explore modern fables set in the fictional medieval village of Crosshollow, where everyday encounters illustrate profound life lessons. In the featured story, a struggling farmer named Seb attempts to buy a diminished amount of grain after a poor harvest, only to be...
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Can Magic Help Me Get out of Debt?
The podcast argues that financial debt creates a psychological "scarcity loop" that severely impairs cognitive function and decision-making. By referencing academic research, the hosts suggest that the mental strain of owing money reduces problem-solving capacity, making it difficult for...
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Prosperity and Wealth Spells - How they work
The discussion today looks at a professional guide to prosperity magic, It outlines how specific rituals can address urgent financial needs. The hosts categorises these spells into four distinct pathways, ranging from clearing energetic blockages and shifting subconscious mindsets to influencing...
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The Pen - A Tale from Crosshollow
This discussion introduces a fable from Crosshollow, a fictional medieval setting where everyday life serves as a medium for exploring profound human truths. The discussion focuses on a farmer named Tomas who repeatedly summons a blacksmith's daughter to inspect a flawless livestock pen…
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Cursed? They are real; so is the cure.
This podcast explores the psychological and physiological mechanics behind negative intentions, such as curses and hexes, through the lens of the nocebo effect. It argues that when individuals believe they are being targeted by malice, their bodies react with chronic stress and confirmation bias,...
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The Puppy - A Tale from Crosshollow
Set within a fictional medieval village, this narrative explores how profound life lessons are discovered through the simplicity of daily routine. The story centers on a local bakery where a grieving girl and a heartbroken woman both confront the pain of loss. Through the wise observations of the...
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Protection Spell that Work
This discussion explores the mechanics and benefits of professional protection spells, categorizing them as "Type 0" magic that acts directly on energetic reality. Unlike other rituals that rely on human psychology, these spells create a structural barrier around an individual that functions...
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The River - A Tale from Crosshollow
We are back in Crosshollow with another modern fable set in this fictional medieval village where we explore deep human truths through the lens of ordinary life. The featured story today follows two lifelong friends, Coll and Seb, during a morning of fishing where one man is distracted by a quiet...
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What to Do While Waiting for a Love Spell to Work
This discussion provides professional guidance on how to behave effectively after commissioning a love spell to ensure the best possible outcome. The hosts emphasize that success requires active participation rather than passive waiting, encouraging individuals to focus on personal growth,...
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How Attraction Spells Work
This episode explains that attraction spells function by primarily transforming the practitioner's internal state rather than manipulating external figures. By enhancing personal magnetism and subconscious openness, these rituals aim to shift an individual’s energetic signature to make them more...
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The Foal - A Tale from Crosshollow
This story today belongs to a series of fables set in the fictional medieval village of Crosshollow, where everyday interactions illustrate profound life lessons. The discussioin follows a young man named Cael who seeks advice from a shopkeeper, Eda, regarding his frustration with a young horse...
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The Forge - A Tale of Crosshollow
The discussion is explores one of the metaphorical fables set in the fictional medieval village of Crosshollow, where everyday challenges reflect deeper life truths. This specific story follows Bryn, a young blacksmith who inherits her father's forge but must struggle to earn the community's…
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Does White Magic Have Side Effects?
The discussion explores the nature and safety of white magic, specifically as practiced by Crystal Conjure Magic. It clarifies that this discipline is structurally benevolent, as it relies on natural elements and celestial timing rather than coercion or the invocation of spirits. The source...
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Can a Spell Bring Back My Ex?
This podcast explores the effectiveness and limitations of reconciliation magic, specifically focusing on whether spells can reunite former partners. The hosts explain that these rituals function as interpersonal magic that influences the subconscious to clear emotional blockages and strengthen...
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Love Spells That Work
The discussion is a comprehensive guide to professional love magic, It categorizes magical workings into four distinct types, ranging from energetic clearing and personal magnetism to influencing interpersonal connections. A significant portion of the discussion is dedicated to ethical standards,...
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The Beekeeper - A tale from Crosshollow
The hosts today explore the intersection of tradition and belief through a story about a novice beekeeper named Dael and his experienced aunt, Nessa. It illustrates how presence and mindset are as vital as physical technique, demonstrating that communicating with bees is a way to achieve the...
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Is Magic Just a Placebo?
This podcast explores the neurobiological and psychological foundations of magic, arguing that the placebo effect is a sophisticated biological reality rather than a mere illusion. The hosts highlights how ritualistic practices trigger the same chemical pathways in the brain as medical…
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Is Magic a Fraud, A Scam, A Fake, or A Hoax?
This discussion focuses on a paper authored by a professional practitioner at Crystal Conjure Magic, that presents a systematic defence of spell casting against accusations of being a scam or hoax. The author argues that fraud in an industry does not invalidate the entire practice, drawing...
About this show
An explorations of the world of metaphysics and life energy. The series examines a range of topics including crystal lore, herbal remedies, astrological timing, the occult, spells, magic, aromatherapy, alchemy, divination, and more. offering their audience insights into the world of ”crystals and beyond”.
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