Working with Crystals at the Liminal Point of Consciousness
One of the many ways I’ve worked and experimented with crystals for years has been on the edge of sleep.
When I want to get deeper into a crystal, and experience its energetic effects on my body and psyche, I’ll hold it in my receptive (non-dominant) hand while I’m dozing off at night.
Most recently I did this with a Blue Tara, Japan Law Twin scalpel quartz (whoa!!), and the vibration was so incredibly fast and the frequency so high, that I swear you could see me from space!
I felt bright all over, and so jazzed, that after about 10 minutes I had to put it aside because I knew I’d otherwise never fall sleep.
(I’ll be doing a public channeling with that particular crystal on Instagram in the new year!).
This is just one of the many ways you can work with crystals at the liminal point.
Definition of liminal
1: of, relating to, or situated at a sensory threshold : barely perceptible or capable of eliciting a response
liminal visual stimuli
2: of, relating to, or being an intermediate state, phase, or condition : IN-BETWEEN, TRANSITIONAL
… in the liminal state between life and death.
- https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/liminal
Liminality
“Description in anthropology, liminality is the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of a rite of passage, when participants no longer hold their pre-ritual status but have not yet begun the transition to the status they will hold when the rite is complete”. - Wikipedia
Brighid, Celtic Goddess of Spring SOURCE
In Druid lore, the liminal point was sacred — a threshold between realms, time, space, and consciousness. Literal thresholds, such as doorsteps, gateways, standing stones and dolmens, circles and groves, as well as thresholds in time such as the midnight hour, dawn and twilight, and on the solstices and equinoxes. According to Celtic lore, the goddess Brighid was born at dawn in the doorway to her home, and it is said that if you stand in the doorway of your home at dawn on Imbolc (Feb. 1st - 2nd) and look out, you will see a sign that will foretell your future.
In our modern age, we’re more familiar with trance, hypnosis, psychedelics, and meditative states when it comes to working with the liminal point, but the value and boon of threshold magic has never left human experience. It’s how we’re able to step outside of ourselves, our daily reality and cares, and experience the “something more” that our world and Universe has to offer.
The Benefits of Working with Crystals and the Liminal Point
To be clear, when I work with crystals at the edge of sleep, it’s not the same as when I sleep with crystals all night for healing benefits. The latter is some of my fave crystal therapy that I will often recommend to people who are suffering from burnout, illness, or deep emotional wounding.
I work with crystals at the edge of sleep specifically to access that liminal point, to cross the threshold of realm and consciousness, and see what the crystal energy does and where it takes me.
The benefits are numerous: I’m able to more deeply understand the energetic function, spirit, and blueprint of a crystal. I activate and enhance psychic and spiritual abilities. Initiate deep and specific healing or releasing processes. Connect with hidden talents, gifts, or ideas I’m seeking to cultivate. Journey into different realms of reality or dream states. Connect with higher guides or dimensional beings. And of course, let’s not forget divination and past life work!
It sounds far out, and sometimes it definitely is, though I always do the work safely.
How You Do It
There are many ways to access the liminal point, but as I’ve shared, the easiest way is to try it while you’re falling asleep, or drifting into a deep meditative state.
You can sit comfortably or lie down, and either hold the crystal in your receptive hand or place it on your 3rd eye chakra. You need to do this when you can deeply relax, undisturbed, and surrender to the flow and effects of the crystal energy. You can do so with a specific intention in mind, or, let the journey take you where it takes you. You can always set a timer if that’s a concern, and for those of you who are particularly fearful or open to darker energies, you can do this within a sacred circle of salt, stone, or even dousing holy or Florida water around you prior to starting.
Crystals I Recommend Trying First
These crystals were suggested to me initially by my guides in the Akashic Records, and I’ve found all of these to be wonderful and astute recommendations for the reasons below!
Moonstone
Dream states (incl. lucid dreaming), intuition, moondust
Larimar
Water + emotional realms, clairvoyance + clairaudience
Ajoite
Divine feminine mysteries, psychic ability, transdimensional experience
Silversheen Obsidian
Astral realm, traveling through space/time, divination
Danburite
Higher realms, Akashic records, star people
Herkimer Diamond
Psychic ability, dream work, divination
Apophyllite
Higher realms, Akashic records, ascended masters
Astrophyllite
Past lives, akashic records, seeing the future
Ever notice a small window on the face of your quartz crystal?
If it’s a parallelogram (see pics below), it may very well be a time link, making your quartz crystal a very special portal quartz.