On the GH boards, there are posters who claim that rocks have some form of consciousness. I understand that quartz crystals are widely used, but do the rocks from which they come, or any rokcks have any measurable energy of any sort?
That rather depends on how you define 'energy', which is a term that gets co-opted and misused in a number of ways, and both deliberately and accidentally.
Ultimately, matter is energy concentrated into a particular framework (Einstein's E=mc
2 and all that) so it
is energy in one sense. Most crystalline structures also have a range of harmonic frequencies to which they react which is sometimes referred to as an 'energy', but in that sense there is no energy coming from the crystal itself, it's responding to whatever the source of the vibration is (this is essentially how early digital watches worked - quartz crystals vibrate at exactly 32,768 oscillations per second and can be vibrated by a very minor electrical charge).
In the broader sense any object with mass has various intrinsic forms of energy - gravitational potential energy from being at a particular point in a gravity well, kinetic energy from being in motion - but these are not intrinsic to the crystalline nature, nor are they unique to crystals.
In the conventional scientific thinking the 'spiritual energy' claims of crystals are not backed by any evidence I'm aware of. Some specific claims about effects purported to be of crystals' 'mystic' properties have been debunked, but there are always new claims and new provisos.
O.
