Part 1: The Truth About Crystals: My Journey From Spirituality to God

The Truth About Crystals: My Journey From Spirituality to God

The first crystal I ever really connected with was a selenite sphere.

I never expected that one small experience would set me on a path that would completely change the way I understood crystals, spirituality, myself, and ultimately God.

I briefly share the story of how that happened on my About Me page, but the journey that followed was much bigger than I could have imagined.

Although I had already been exploring spirituality for 20 years, after my crystal journey began, life took me through an intense four-year spiritual journey. During that time, I explored many different forms of spirituality, trying to understand who I was, what was true, and what it really meant to live a spiritual life.

There were teachings I encountered that initially sounded beautiful. They spoke about love, healing, enlightenment, consciousness, personal growth and becoming a better version of yourself. Many of these ideas felt inspiring and, at the time, I accepted much of what I was being taught because it sounded loving and positive.

But over time, something began to change.

As my understanding of God deepened, I started to recognise that not everything that appears beautiful or spiritual is necessarily true.

Some teachings and teachers I had trusted were not what they first appeared to be. I began to understand that there can be a kind of false light—something that looks loving, enlightened and spiritually beautiful, while ultimately taking us further away from truth and from the true nature of God.

This was difficult to recognise because these things did not always look dark or harmful. Quite the opposite. They could feel peaceful, compassionate, empowering and deeply meaningful.

And that was one of the biggest lessons I had to learn: something can feel beautiful and still not be true.

What About the Crystals?

Interestingly, there was one thing I continued to feel strongly about throughout this entire journey:

The crystals themselves were good.

But I had certainly used them incorrectly.

I followed teachings about crystals because other people had written about them, taught them, or presented them as spiritual truth. I also genuinely felt different sensations when I held different crystals. Some felt loving, some peaceful, some protective and some joyful.

Because I could feel these things, I automatically assumed that what crystal healers and authors were saying about their powers must be true. I gave the power to the crystals.

How wrong I was.

After much fervent prayer asking for wisdom, I began to understand crystals differently. I came to see them as part of the beauty of God's creation—physical reminders of qualities that reflect the beauty of His Kingdom.

At the same time, I began to recognise that some of the spiritual practices surrounding crystals could open doors to the spiritual realm in ways that were not necessarily good for me. This distinction changed everything.

I no longer had to reject the crystals themselves. I had to question what I was believing about them and, more importantly, where I was placing my trust.

Learning to Question What Looks/Sounds Beautiful

One of the biggest lessons I took from my spiritual journey was that something can look beautiful and still lead us in the wrong direction.

When you are searching for truth, it is very easy to become attracted to teachings that sound loving, enlightened or profound. There is nothing wrong with being drawn to beauty, love or wisdom. The challenge is learning to discern whether what you are encountering is actually true.

For many years, I was searching.

I wanted answers about who I was, why I was here, what spirituality really meant, and how I could become more whole. Emotionally, I felt like I had been living in a prison my entire life, and I just wanted to be free. I explored different teachings and practices because I genuinely wanted to understand and to be liberated from myself.

I thought I had found the answer many times, but it always turned out that I hadn't. So I kept searching.

Eventually, my search led me somewhere I had not expected.

It led me back to God.

I don't even know how this happened. The revelation didn't come after some profound spiritual experience or anything fancy. I was simply shown a YouTube video, and suddenly, it clicked.

Why and how, I'm not really sure, but suddenly the God of the Old Testament—the God I had never been able to make sense of—just made sense. I just understood.

God works in mysterious ways. Perhaps it was simply my time. Perhaps God was like, “Okay, it's time for you to stop wandering in the wilderness.”

And POOF. Here I was, a new believer.

I came to understand God as love, truth, goodness, compassion and light. And as my understanding of God changed, so did my understanding of everything else I had been exploring—including crystals.

How I See Crystals Now

I realised that perhaps I had been looking at the wrong thing.

Instead of seeing a crystal as the source of healing, wisdom, peace, protection or transformation, I began to see its beauty as something that could simply remind me of the Creator and the qualities of His Kingdom.

That changed the way I looked at crystals.

I didn't need to throw them all away out of fear. I simply had to ask myself where I was placing my trust.

I no longer want to place my trust in creation instead of the Creator. I want the beauty of creation to point me back towards God.

And that is ultimately why I am writing this series.

There is a lot of fear, confusion and misinformation surrounding crystals. Some people believe they are inherently evil, while others believe they possess spiritual powers that can provide healing, protection, manifestation or guidance.

After everything I have experienced, I don't believe the answer is quite that simple.

I believe we need to look more carefully at what the Bible actually says about stones and precious materials, what Scripture does—and does not—teach about their power, and what happens when we place our trust in created things instead of God.

And that is what I want to explore in the next part of this series: What does the Bible actually say about crystals and stones?