(Wearily) Carol, what you say about what you said (Gawd!) is quite correct. But you forget that my initial comment was directed at Little Hawk's assertions about the motivations of 'scoffers', and actually was nothing to do with your later accretions at all.
As for whether your bizarre and unlikely experiences with crystals are any of my business or not, it is clear that you have not been reading MY postings very accurately. Again: if it's an internal, subjective faith thing, fair enough - but if you are claiming objective effects, then be prepared to be asked for proof, or evidence. If not how do we know you are not simply making it up? And it's rather bizarre to write about these experiences in a public forum like this, and then complain that it's no-one else's business!!

Liitle Hawk, please refer me to a New Age book which you consider rational/not bullshit. I've yet to see one - the only half-good ones pinch legitimate techniques from other cultures (meditation etc) and apply what I call 'the airbrushed unicorn effect'.

I would like to agree strongly to Tia and others about the wonders of the natural world, and the comment that science is simply an instrument for understanding it, not an end in itself.