Just going to repeat this: Please be kind to each other, and continue to seek the truth. 🧠🙏 Thank you for watching! I had a lot of fun making this video, I hope that it shows 🙃 Seriously: what should I try next?

@said_ms7438

3 жыл бұрын

hello there

@pdthorn

3 жыл бұрын

The effects of misinformation and conspiracies? A related topic

@alexanderjohnson2309

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this video.

@happywesley

3 жыл бұрын

For your next video you should do something about what Isolation does to a person. This could be helpfull for people who do not understand what the pandemic does to lonely isolated people.

@edulf85

3 жыл бұрын

Please, Vanessa, make a video about "Microphysiotherapy", a manual technique that might be placebo based, or not. I'm not sure yet, until your video is done. =]

"what does the crystal industry say about human nature." That we are all apes that like shinny rock

@bigtee2000

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! lol, I say this all the time. I mean, this is the only reason I can explain why we collect the most ridiculous stuff. It's cool to just be dumb apes or at least recognize that we are and still like dumb shiny shit, just own it and don't attribute it to some supernatural thing.

@heyselice

3 жыл бұрын

reject humanity return to monke

@EuropeanQoheleth

3 жыл бұрын

BUUUUUUURN

@lahaza6515

3 жыл бұрын

Probably that we are so desperately seeking understanding that we will suspend disbelief on a continual basis to engage in magical, hopeful thinking. It's like a teddy bear or a blanket; if you think it makes you feel better it does for a moment, but it's scientifically proven not to heal anything.

@KostaParadise

3 жыл бұрын

This made me laugh so hard thank you

I find crystals relaxing. But it's nothing mystical. I just find holding them comforting and helps me relax when I'm mediating. It gives me something to focus on and keeps me from getting distracted

@Ofdensen

2 жыл бұрын

That's reasonable. Believing each one has different healing benefits like "removing self doubt" and other stuff...not so much lol I think everyone would love to believe there is an easy way to achieve these things just by buying something aesthetic.

@OHOE1

2 жыл бұрын

All can be explained by the placebo

@SulthanLazuardy

Жыл бұрын

@@OHOE1 what "cannot" be explained is how U r so judgemental..

@Verotica

Жыл бұрын

@@OHOE1 funny how the placebo as you use it is also just a band wagon to bash other people’s beliefs.

@ChronicPainInTheAss

7 ай бұрын

​@@Verotica I'm always amused when I hear opinionated people bashing things they don't believe but those same people defend their favorite athlete who has intense rituals or lucky objects. It's pretty narcissistic.

You have such a romantic way of making science videos and saying "This stuff is such bullshit! But...". Science without ignoring the human factor.

@IceSpoon

3 жыл бұрын

"I think it's horseshit, but I'll shut up and let you explain me your point of view, and I'll try to be as respectful as possible" is such a healthy mindset. And she didn't use crystals for that!

@thewildcardperson

2 жыл бұрын

@@IceSpoon I hope your being sarcastic

I have a mug I like. I feel happy when I have a cup of tea in the mug because I like the mug. Does this give the mug healing powers?

@IceSpoon

3 жыл бұрын

We could argue that the tea (ie: water) is essential for your life, so the ritual of pouring water into your body in a vase that you like is good for your mental health. I dunno.

@AMannAmongMen

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@rubymimosa

3 жыл бұрын

Actually, it does! A placebo calming effect...

@jonathanclark7444

3 жыл бұрын

@@rubymimosa not necessarily it goes beyond placebo. It’s not placebo because your brain doesn’t believe that the mug has the ability to make you happier or calmer it just does.

@kcinkg

3 жыл бұрын

No

I think the whole "trigger item" idea is key here. on its own they are useless yes, but many people could use them to sort of convince their brain to focus in on something specific. Often when meditating its hard to pinpoint a specific event or feeling (at first) and I can see how assigning different rocks to different feelings could help simplify complex thoughts and emotions

@ngaiosbrain

3 жыл бұрын

This makes so much sense to me! I often struggle with meditation because I feel there are too many disperate feelings to experience simultaneously - this might really help

@BeastMaster-64

3 жыл бұрын

This actually makes so much sense, reaching mental clarity or focus during meditation is actually difficult, not to mention that associating the crystal with the process of meditation makes the crystal a symbol of the calmness you felt during the meditation, the same way a gift from a loved one holds more value because it reminds you of said person.

@rdizzy1

3 жыл бұрын

The thing is that the people that push these types of alternative healing methods are not thinking this, they really and truly think they have mystical or magical powers, most of them will not admit it is simply placebo.

@talkingcrow

10 ай бұрын

I welcome my placebo overlords

Crystals enhance my life everyday. Don’t you use salt and sugar when cooking

@jackielinde7568

3 жыл бұрын

My doctor told me to stop doing that.

@crownedcurrent

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly

@DezMarivette

3 жыл бұрын

Thank 👏🏼 You 👏🏼 Crystals in our food and people don’t notice 😏

@drkstr7

2 жыл бұрын

Yup, ive seen some people use sugar to season their nose too. Definitely seems to effect them

Vanessa: Gets a sponsor Vanessa 2 seconds later: So I spent all of that money on a crystal bed

@selenem3384

2 жыл бұрын

hahahaha omg this so funny

You can’t deny it tho: shiny rock look nice

It's the same way I can be scientifically minded and still use tarot cards. They're functionally a random topic generator that brings up fixed ideas for me to consider in a given situation. It's not magic, it's a psychological tool wrapped in mysticism.

@hairproducts7637

3 жыл бұрын

Great Point

@Hellooo134

3 жыл бұрын

I’m the exact same way

@helenamcginty4920

2 жыл бұрын

I used to look at Tarot cards. I found occasions when I told people things they understood but I didnt. After a minute or 2 my mind would clear, like coming out of a fog that I had not even been aware of and could tell them no more. Nothing to do with the cards but like they were an on switch to some other level. A few times what I said would happen did. I found it almost creapy. I can only think that they enable a sort of telepathy. But I neither believe in the cards and am aware that there is no empirical evidence for telepathy though I am open minded about that having experienced what could be described as telepathy several times.

@Dimysam

2 жыл бұрын

YES YES YES

@duality4y

2 жыл бұрын

@@helenamcginty4920 If you make statements some are bound to happen. nothing to do with telepathy it's just statistics.

Ive just has a rock collection... Goblin like shiny things.

Crystals as a “health” commodity is a concerning grey market for self-care. Crystals as a physical object pursuant to better living reminds me of other religions objects really.

@Kowzorz

3 жыл бұрын

Like prayer beads

@Eric14492

3 жыл бұрын

@@Kowzorz Crystals as pretty physical objects include nearly all semi-precious and precious gems.

@IceSpoon

3 жыл бұрын

@@Eric14492 Or nearly everything, really. My mom likes stumps because she thinks they're pretty and has a few on our garden, my sister like cactus, and so on. You could argue that living beings are different, but they're just a bunch of Carbon and water, just like rocks are...well, rocks.

@harrytsang1501

3 жыл бұрын

Shiny pet rocks are pretty nice

@selenem3384

2 жыл бұрын

@@harrytsang1501 yeah just don't abuse them as part of a paraphilias

I was pretty skeptical about crystals, I love them but never thought they did anything. That is, until I was vacationing in New Orleans and we were in this store that had crystals and whatnot. My friend just said, “hold this,” and nothing else. It was a rainbow quartz. I felt the energy of that thing, okay. I actually felt it grounding me before I really knew what grounding was. and outside of that a lot of new age stores have fake crystals that are lab created and not from the ground so they don’t have the same energy as genuine crystals, though technically their makeup is the same. do I think crystals can cure cancer? Not necessarily, however I think there is something special about them and our ancestors did too but they were more in tune with the earth than we are now to understand. I definitely believe in science but then again there are things science can’t explain either so it’s a hit or miss🤷🏽‍♀️

@canadiangemstones7636

2 жыл бұрын

Utter nonsense.

@muchtooseriousdude7045

2 жыл бұрын

If you understood science better you wouldn't need to believe in it. And if you think crystals generate "energy," or channel it through you, or whatever non-disprovable and esoteric misuse of scientific terminology you prefer, you don't "believe" in science either. There also can't be "fake" crystals, not in the sense you mean here. The belief otherwise is essentialism, (the man-made crystal lacks some essential crystalness only found naturally) which has only ever been shown to be false. The structure is the thing, whether man-made or geologically-made; if the structure is the same, it is the same. Appealing to ancient wisdom on a scientific topic is also nonsensical; we used to think psychological disorders and disease were caused by demons or imbalanced humors. Not understanding a natural phenomenon and fabricating a satisfying or ego-fortifying explanation is not wisdom, and it is the antithesis of science. The most important question that cannot be answered on these topics is always, what is the proposed mechanism of action? How did it work? And if your answer contradicts our incontrovertible knowledge of physics and chemistry, why do you think you've tapped into secret knowledge that science "ignores"? I'm also curious what you think "science can't explain." Most people with magical beliefs either refer to things science DOES explain and they refuse to accept or don't understand, or things science is actively searching answers to (E.g., The Big Bang). If you think science can't explain life-after-death, for example, you're wrong in that from a strictly scientific perspective it must be regarded as nonexistent due to a total absence of supporting evidence. Same with psychics, or astrology, or homeopathy, or reiki, and etc.

It's not the video we meet on, all pewdiepie fans go to their newest video not this one

@supertron6039

2 жыл бұрын

Think again.

Crystals seem to have an effect. After watching the video i went out on the street and asked a guy where i can buy some crystal. He sold me some (for a lot less than $10,000!) and yeah, i feel fine now :D

@salima1777

Жыл бұрын

Lol 🤣

@TripleD303

3 ай бұрын

I guess after half an hour you wanted more crystals

You cant explain away thousands of years of spiritual knowledge practice and experience in one video where your conclusion is the same one that every skeptic comes up with in about five seconds.

@selenem3384

2 жыл бұрын

what happens if people sexually abuse crystals as part of paraphilias? do crystals get sick of the abuse and may zap people with some retributive energy or what?🤔

@reggiecactus2810

Жыл бұрын

Thousands of years of “spiritual knowledge” can be explained by the placebo effect

@dn7096_

Жыл бұрын

@@reggiecactus2810 maybe .01% of it could be. There’s way more than your privy to.

Hearing the crystal healer speak it dawned on me, that the benefit probably comes from being able to meet your feelings. An object like crystal helps you to concentrate and confront what lies deep within you. And the more you use it the easier it gets. The bed sound as fake as it gets, because then it's not about you, it's about the bed.

@ThePsychicStylist

10 ай бұрын

It actually worked for me. I felt it dramatically and it did work to help me get over a traumatic experience within 10 minutes. For real. I was a skeptic and I was shocked. I had no intention of healing anything.

There is a saying in germany: *who heals is right* - but seriously this is just a placebo treatment!

@solidwater4020

3 жыл бұрын

Vsauce had a grate video about placebo effects and how strong it can be in some cases (on of the mind field episodes)

@maroo747

3 жыл бұрын

How do you know for sure that it’s a placebo? Nothing you can see or measure so it’s automatically placebo.

@DomAviationChannel

3 жыл бұрын

@@maroo747 You know the great thing is I don´t have to prove it ... the merchands selling those crystals / treatments have to proove it, or they are limited to the small market of buyers.

@DomAviationChannel

3 жыл бұрын

@@solidwater4020 Yeah Vsauce and In a Nutshell are great sources as well ...

@maroo747

3 жыл бұрын

@@DomAviationChannel yeah fair, what’s also fair is the claim that it is not factual shouldn’t exist. You can say that there’s no scientific evidence or a study that supports it but you can’t call it factually incorrect.

Me a geology buff having to have that awkward conversation about why I love crystals and my childhood collection: I like to look at them and think about how they formed. Crystal healing is so ubiquitous no one thinks that. On a unrelated note I need that Go Science banner!

@BeCurieUs

3 жыл бұрын

Sympathize with all my mineral and crystal dice for DND, which do signify magic abilities in the game, but fake magic :D

@IceSpoon

3 жыл бұрын

As a palaeontology nerd, I also have a soft spot for pretty rocks. I can see one of these crystals and think "oh, cool...people actually polished these rocks to make them even prettier! I might even buy one because they're pretty" and nothing else.

@els1f

3 жыл бұрын

Tbh, there's a lot of cool things out there that get ruined by a subset of their fans😋

@ambermarshall2922

Жыл бұрын

I have a vast collection of geologic specimens. Been collecting since 7 years old, studied goldsmithing and gemmology post secondary. It sucks now having to explain I'm not a "witch", I am a rock nerd that loves the lore and history. 😞

I didn't know I wanted to know this, but I did. The psycology of pseudoscience is a really interesting subjet. I would like more videos on other expressions of pseudoscience. like also why people choose to ingest actually dangerous chemicals that have no scientific support in the belief that it will heal everything. i think it's called mma or sth like that...

@carter5548

3 жыл бұрын

Yes yes yes!!!

@BrendanBeckett

3 жыл бұрын

MMS, miracle something solution - AKA bleach

@Competitive_Antagonist

3 жыл бұрын

Magical mineral solution I think. Sodium chlorite if I remember correctly. I think it's basically salt with an extra oxygen atom or something, but I just about got away with a C in GCSE science. Myles Power has a lot of videos on this dangerous craze.

@vanilla5245

2 жыл бұрын

I believe in science but also a lot of stuff indigenous people knew is made fun of until its proven by science. So its a bit iffy to find that balance of being a racist/colonizer/a**hole to being careful/common sense and respecting that we may not know everything

@Rdott82

Жыл бұрын

Its called big pharma

POV: you are a Pewdiepie fan

This is really neat! Love to see more series like this :)

@shinyray6927

3 жыл бұрын

Hiiii :D

@princesssoosiemonster2319

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah! So cool seeing big channels watching / supporting other channels, big or small!! I love it!

@jaswantrajput3383

3 жыл бұрын

Hey psych2goers😊😊😊

@raynetalks405

2 жыл бұрын

Lol you know when P comments something like this it means that they are trustable!

@supertron6039

2 жыл бұрын

Wasn't expecting u to show up :D

Everyone needs to have something to believe in. What ever works for an individual should be accepted and not judged.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait... So you're telling me I could built something out of a few shiny stones plus a few LEDs and an Arduino that people would buy for over 10.000 bucks!? Interesting...

@ikocheratcr

3 жыл бұрын

This is why I think pseudoscience and other scams exists, so fool pay more than a premium for some smoke and mirrors, in this case LED+arduino and some nice rocks.

@LucasBurrell

3 жыл бұрын

As someone who likes this shit, its just like my god why would someone do that. It feels like a scam. I use crystals to focus on myself, they aren't necessary and they dont do much but i like them. I feel like an 10000 charge is stupid for something that takes about twenty minutes and is absolutely free if you live in the right place (which i do)

@DezMarivette

3 жыл бұрын

Build that crystal bed!

@yesand5536

3 жыл бұрын

Yes TMZwom, this is a thing, and you can do it exactly as you said. Those are all the component parts that you need. I want that 'bed' up by next Friday! (no sleeping on the job)

Crystals are great for keeping track of time in the form of quartz crystal oscillators. You'll find them in any computing device and anything else with a processor, since they need a clock to tell when to do the next step of running an instruction. Such devices are all over modern hospitals. It turns out crystals are used for healing after all, but for running electronic tools.

I feel the draw to crystals like I feel the draw to music. I know they're not for everyone (like some instruments aren't for everyone) but for me, I can actually feel a difference when I hold some stones and crystals. Part of it is wonder, like wow Earth really grew this gorgeous specimen, I am in awe! And another part is symbolism. I'm an artist who enjoys working with color therapy and the meaning we assign things. I agree, they are tools, not replacements for other medicines we have access to. But dangerous? Maybe if you're bludgeoning someone to death with one yea!

@ChronicPainInTheAss

7 ай бұрын

In my opinion, some people are more sensitive to certain things. Just like I'm sensitive to guided meditation and hypnosis. Because I have ADHD, it took me years of practice to really fully experience the deepest levels, but it's definitely made a big difference in my life.

Something I saw the other day was a meme that was Scientist: you know it’s not real right. It’s just the placebo effect! Witch: believing in something so much that it has actual physical effects? Sounds pretty magical to me

@kyliepiccone481

Жыл бұрын

I love this!

I like when science based content isn't bashing the believers. Thanks for keeping it civil and nice

@brucele2056

Жыл бұрын

Lolhahaha

@slowdiver5732

Жыл бұрын

Seriously so tired of always feeling on the defense about things I love just when I see someone is talking about the subject. Really sick of it.

Skeptic: I don't feel any different. Whatsoever. Crystal people: It wasn't effective because you didn't believe in it.

@glekozip

3 жыл бұрын

Look up nocibo effect, works for medicine too

@canadiangemstones7636

2 жыл бұрын

Just like... prayer. Another silly religion.

Kinda was digging Shannon honestly. She seemed very real.

@mmmmmmolly

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, i don't mind people using crystals as a tool to relax. Just like a stress ball. She seems to be giving this message and that's ok as long as people understand that the crystal helps them relax because it's a habit.

I was using my Tiger Eye and Amethyst worry stones while I watched this and I couldn't help relate it to someone who smokes for the tactile sensation of it. For me, the physical action focuses my brain. Not everyone has the same connection to crystals. I don't choose crystals for what they are said to do, I choose them based on the energy they feed me. When my hand tingles, I know the energy is right and I'll buy it if I'm looking for one. It's not just crystals. I'm also sensitive to other people's energy. Sometimes to the border of being empathic (no, I don't really want to relive the way someone's husband beat them last night). Not everyone is. People have gifts. I do astrology, tarot, Reiki, work with crystals, love crystal singing bowls but I don't do them as a profession. It's a friends and family thing and only when they ask. We all have different tools we use for everyday things in life. I've seen documentaries of people getting their brain activity mapped when they use their psychic gifts. Somethings happening there, it shows. What it is we don't yet know. I don't go to gem shows any more due to financial constraints, but even if I did I doubt there's a machine that can scientifically register what I'm feeling from a crystal. Especially since I will take a crystal out of a box of crystals and be able to tell the energy difference between them. The same way you didn't feel anything from the crystal bed, it's quite likely I wouldn't either if it wasn't for me to do. There is no blanket generalization when it comes to such things. I don't need to know why anything does anything. It's nice when science can explain it and I search such proof out, but it's not going to change my mind about the tools I use in my life. My experiences change my mind. I knew my son didn't have the same gifts I did so I didn't share my use of crystals or tarot or Reiki with him. He's a scientist. He loves proving things. He graduated with an EP degree and it suits him well. As a parent it was my responsibility to help him realize his gifts and find a way to use them as a career. Bottom line, just because one thing didn't work for one person, doesn't mean it doesn't work at all just because others can't feel it. If I could wish for science to prove something it would be that. Why do some people notice the energy of things that exist and others do not and why do those things make their energy noticeable to begin with? I suspect there's something we may find about the nature of spirituality (not religion, spirituality) when we evolve in the future. After all, we called Star Trek communicators props until we made cell phones. Now everyone has them. =)

@arum_lily4433

2 жыл бұрын

You took the words right out of my mouth. Well said!

@guinellstanley6968

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for explaining this so beautifully….Ppl who are spiritually attuned have a much different connection to the earth and all things natural.

I am a skeptic but A therapist asked me to hold my phone to my stomach then tested the strength of my arm. He then asked me to hold the phone AND a quartz crystal wrapped in copper wire. My strength was then much greater. That to me seems like an empirical test, and it was positive. And as a skeptic expecting things like this not to work, I wouldn't have thought I'd be vulnerable to the placebo effect in this case. So maybe there's some science there that we just have no way of measuring. I don't attach any spiritual belief whatsoever to crystals, and neither did the therapist, who was quite transparent about admitting that he had no idea how it worked.

"We tolerate too much pseudo science" is such a good point to make. A reflective mind is such a huge skill but should not be in reality. Why is it so hard for so many people to be scientific but still believe?

The problem I've found with crystals and other forms of pseudoscience is not the ideas, but the people themselves. These kind of ideas are often fine in a vacuum, placebo affect is a thing and if it helps you then, what's wrong with it, right? But I've found the type of people who belive these things can often be extremely ignorant and toxic, willing to twist or believe anything to suit their own agenda and to ignore and reject any science or logic that disagrees with them. It breeds distrust in "mainstream science" and I routinely hear these people talk about being anti vax or my housemate for example that only believes in Covid when it suits her and thinks that lockdown is wrong because she can't go to her psytrance parties. That is just my (fairly extensive, I know a lot of hippies) experience. I think it's important to acknowledge that alternative therapies can be beneficial for some people, but more needs to be done to make the facts around these things clear. Also I live with a crystal healer and I can say that emotional benefits of crystal healing are definitely superficial and can be reached by doing anything else theraputic. I think people turn to crystals for the same reason they turn to god. It's faith, it's an unknown quantity that you use as a cognitive tool to help you deal with life. I think the fact that it isn't very well researched makes it more alluring, like you have found some sort of secret life hack. All of this builds over time to make people anti science. That's my opinion based on my experience and I'll make it clear, I had no clue about all of this till I lived with a crystal healer, and I tried it with an open mind when going through bad periods with my mental health. Ultimately i decided it had 0 affect on me.

Your blend of skepticism and empathy is incredibly refreshing. Keep doing what you're doing!

After covid 19 hitting our business so hard, I start meditation and using crystals and meteorite stone for healing. Now I feel more calm when facing problems, firm than before if I need to make decisions. Many positive impact for me after using crystal and meditation.

Definetly more research needs to be done on Placebo and Nocebo effect. One of the things I find most outstanding is that even when patients are told that they are being given a placebo, they still experience a positive effect that its high enough (outside) of the margin of error. that's mind blowing!

@eagleseye6576

Жыл бұрын

I could see the chakra energy when we hold a crystal when doing aura photograph. That itself is proof. The energy flowing through crystal. The whole world use electricity and it is created from magnetic field. So is crystal.

Well I found a 40 lb cluster of quartz and brought it home, left it by the rocks on the side of the house. The next day there were animals coming to it. I saw toads hide under it, a rabbit sat next to it and later saw a robin sitting on top of it. Not only that, but if you point a terminated quartz at your body, you can feel a tingling sensation. Well the cluster I picked up was a druzy quartz

@canadiangemstones7636

2 жыл бұрын

Utter silliness.

Me thinking about Starcraft: "You must construct additional crystal pylons"

@missamber29

3 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha as a nay-sayer hater and a gamer...you win.

To paraphrase Miss Jean Brodie's blatant tautology: "For those who believe that sort of thing, that is the sort of thing they believe."

You look like wonder women in thumbnail

@braincraft

3 жыл бұрын

This is possibly the greatest compliment I have ever received

@dynlenoir

3 жыл бұрын

She is one of the Wonder Women!

I've liked to collect cool rocks and crystals since I was a kid since I think they're really neat. They make me happy. Definitely no rock magic or crystal healing going on, but I'm simple human. Pretty rocks make me smile.

This video is phenomenal! 🙌🏼 it’s basically a whole thesis in science communication. I have a little hypothesis: I’m currently doing some mindfulness-based meditation and one of the early lessons has been naming the feeling so we can acknowledge it and let it go rather than let our amygdala run with it on overdrive... made me think that perhaps the act of figuring out which crystal you “need” is a way to guide identifying the feelings so that you can then meditate on it and move on. I’ve always thought of astrology as a similar tool: it’s a starting point for reflection, so even if the astrology isn’t evidence-based, the importance of that reflection that follows is! Super neat to see you take us through that so beautifully - at the end of the day crystals are so pretty so I’m in 😂

@heysciencesam

3 жыл бұрын

(Also interesting preliminary findings! Might’ve even expected the crystal group to report more anxiety because they’d perhaps be more aware of feelings, and that maybe crystal practise reduces positive illusory bias?).... ok I’m done now I just really enjoyed this video and thinking about science that isn’t about Covid for once 😭 thank you for this gift !

@sarahbayla

3 жыл бұрын

I like your hypothesis, Sam! It's how I feel about things like astrology and tarot. I don't necessarily believe in the spiritual aspects (although I have heard of evidence-based benefits to spirituality even if the beliefs themselves aren't evidence-based!), but I do think they can be useful tools that guide self-reflection! One thing that the video doesn't mention however is that there is a lot of human/environmental exploitation in crystal mining, so that's one reason I personally go for tools that have less impact. (PS I came to this video from your story on IG, thanks for sharing!)

Why can’t I just be a crystal cluster lover collector without all the mumbo-jumbo!! -Gonzalez

Interesting topic and I thought it was fun that the sponsor was for a music video. Then I was thinking how interesting it was that music is able to effect us and influence our operating emotional state. And then I was thinking how weird it was some abstract construct such as music had such power over people. And then I realized that it didn't seem so weird people would let a physical object have that kind of impact on their feelings and beliefs.

@canadiangemstones7636

2 жыл бұрын

Can the “vibrations” of music cure every known malady? Crystal power nuts think crystals can.

Also, when they talk about placebo effect, when it came to my Moldavite, I didn’t even know it was going to happen to me. I just knew that it was a really powerful tektite and that it was supposed to help with making your life goals happen faster that problem was the sickness. I had no idea it was gonna happen. I didn’t even Google it first or check into it. I just knew what it was supposed to. Do you know like one of those little descriptions But I didn’t realize how powerful it was until I had it on the first week headaches heaviness in my chest I felt warm. I mean everything that you could imagine. I saw stars when I would take it off. It is very powerful and just recently I heard of someone getting the sweats from wearing it, you have to get used to Moldivite because it is the one tektite/Crystal as people might call it that you will feel something and if you don’t somethings wrong meaning your Moldavite is not real

Thank you for this video, it is nice that you were friendly this whole video.

I like crystals because they make rainbows in my house.

@annad1527

3 жыл бұрын

That sounds really nice, however just be careful cause I believe that crystals can be a fire hazard when left in sunlight

@virgiltaylor2733

2 жыл бұрын

Really??? That’s sooo kool!!

Loved your honest, open and humble approach. Thanks for this video!

luigis mansionnnn

@braincraft

3 жыл бұрын

An absolute gem

@IceSpoon

3 жыл бұрын

@@braincraft I was expecting a reference to Pokémon Crystal, my favourite Pokémon game. Luigi's was an almost good enough second place.

POV: You came looking for Pewdiepie comments.

Damn thought she was gonna smoke 10k in crystal meth.

After I was meditating with crystals I went to the my church and I wasn't expecting anything but I saw a ghost/ person in spirit who brushed past me then disappeared. This was a real surprise. I had never had this experience before. It just seemed really funny that it happened after I had been deep in meditation with quartz crystals.

People don't believe they have the power to change or improve. So placing this power on something else is how the brain gets around of it. Crystals are not at all the only objects used for it.

This was fascinating! When we were talking about you going to Sedona this is the EXACT VIDEO I wanted you to make

I am prone to being skeptical about all this hocus pocus, but I swear, every time I grab my quartz crystal, I feel a surge of energy running from it and up my arm. It’s the craziest thing and never fails. It’s mostly with quartz though. There’s so much we don’t know yet.

@FreeSpirit1111

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly. The key for humanity is to stop thinking we know everything. Even science improves upon itself as more information is learned. I can't even wear my tiger's eye pendant because the energy is too much, it creates almost an anxious feeling for me. I didn't even know what tiger's eye did so, therefore, I didn't mentally attribute anything to it. There's no ignoring that.

@canadiangemstones7636

2 жыл бұрын

@@FreeSpirit1111 Utter nonsense. You do not feel any energy. It is not giving off any energy.. Just utter nonsense.

@muchtooseriousdude7045

2 жыл бұрын

@@FreeSpirit1111 Umm, we don't think we know everything? That is the point and drive of science. "Even science improves itself" is a nonsense statement; you don't actually understand what science is or what it means. Literally all of science is the process of improving knowledge through rigorous experimentation and observation, that is just the scientific process full-stop. There are "superseded theories" dating back centuries, like geocentrism, the humoral model of disease, or Newtonian Physics. If we knew everything, we could stop doing science. If anything, it is the spiritual who think they know everything (or that there must exist unknowable things because it feels to you like there should be) and that science searching for actionable explanations for phenomena is "crass materialism." Your Tiger's Eye anecdote is also just an anecdote. For making broad claims it is literally meaningless. There's nothing to ignore, personal subjective perceptual experiences (qualia) are so monumentally prone to error they typically can't be considered evidence in a court of law, let alone in science.

Came here straight from Tom Scott's channel and I love it! Also, as a psych majors who has a professor stating crystal therapist on their LinkedIn, very interesting video!!

It actually worked for me. I felt it dramatically and it did work to help me get over a traumatic experience within 10 minutes. For real. I was a skeptic and I was shocked. I had no intention of healing anything.

Did anyone else get sent here by Tom Scott?

@StudlyStudmuffin

3 жыл бұрын

Who is this guy?

Great video! It's great seeing people explore beliefs outside of their own. And always be kind and respectful when discussing beliefs with others.

3:20 no benefits?? Ok you take a look at my $700 bismuth crystal and tell me you aren't healed by the pure aesthetic~

Opal is a healing gem I know I mine it here in Australia and it heals the bills ,true story

@KK-we8si

2 жыл бұрын

Lol

I think its dope that the placebo effect can help people so much .. Although , how much $$$ that goes into buying all these crystals and sessions to know how to use them , ETC Pretty damn shady

Wow I love your channel. I can’t even describe all the great aspects you manage to encapsulate

Hope no big youtuber flam on you but much loves.

This is why i hate being skeptical. I wish this type of stuff worked for me.

@AdelaTomankova

3 жыл бұрын

Me too. When i was younger i 100% believed they would help and they seriously did, but now that I've gotten older I've started thinking more skeptically and... Now things like this don't work as powerfully anymore :(

I happen to know a little bit about this stuff. The foundation is: pretty rock = special. After that it's mostly confirmation bias and placebo effect but what I want to draw attention to is that, while they're all just rocks the boring looking ones are somehow never magic, they have to be pretty to be magical. I am curious to know how they figured out which rocks have which effect.

i love your humor (at the end)! love your videos, thank you

To me it only becomes concerning when it comes to, as you said, leaning away from science. But also can be concerning when individuals spend an outrageous amount of money on this stuff when they can't afford it.

@nectarina3891

3 жыл бұрын

This is a great point.

@rdizzy1

3 жыл бұрын

The latter half is most of the people using this stuff, many of them are being taken advantage of and are actually sick people with no current definitive diagnosis or maybe very few treatment options or the medical options are too expensive. You'll find far more woo woo practitioners in the US for this reason, as a comparison to population. The issue I have is that they are selling "nothing", as you could buy most of these crystals for pretty much the same price as gravel rock if this didn't exist, they simply inflate the value of normal worthless crystal rocks by adding the "mystical power" to them. Wouldn't be surprised if you could trace this back to some guy who owned a mine full of worthless crystals for any other purpose.

@Tockrellman

3 жыл бұрын

@@rdizzy1 I agree, pseudoscience can be a money making scheme. I think there's a lot of that at play here.

@rdizzy1

3 жыл бұрын

@@Tockrellman I think the PRIMARY reason for almost all pseudoscience is money making. Fake viral marketing to convince people they were cured by X product or people being paid to lie end up brainwashing normal people and they buy the product and then suffer from sunken cost fallacies and will not admit they were duped, so they get sucked even further into conspiracy and pseudoscience.

I absolutely, positively felt a dranatic emotional healing for myself within 10 minutes on one of these beds in Deland, Florida about 8 years ago. I went back and the woman's store had closed. :(

I LOVE this video! It's a great exploration into the human psyche in relation to crystals. I've collected mineral specimens since I was 4 years old. In my teens, I found the "metaphysical" side of minerals. As an adult, I've melded the "woo woo" stuff with the science. I use the metaphysical representations of the minerals as physical reminders of my personal goals in relation to whatever they represent. For instance, I have a snowflake Obsidian keychain as a reminder to drive safely ans stay alert because it's a stone for safe travels. It's been a fun way to incorporate my collection into my daily life by using it to be more mindful.

Jesus Christ, Marie! They're Minerals!

Wow, I came in thinking how insane this whole thing is but interested in the people who believe, but hearing Shannon talk about it, I think there might be something here. Not physically, but as a therapy technique. When I was little, a therapist gave me a magic rock to help me feel strong through tough things. And it worked! It was just a painted rock but it made me feel better. I think this whole “use this pretty, significant-feeling object as a stand in for emotions and other abstract things in your life” might be really effective in some circumstances :) Thank you for making this video and helping me be less judgmental towards others

This was excellent! Amazing job

@braincraft

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

Really like this video; the scientific approach and the perspectives from both sides of the tape. I'm very much a skeptic and have definitely reacted in a patronising way towards those that respond to these sorts of things in the past. I took away several points from this video that'll help me react in a more thoughtful way in future. There is definitely a limit as people start straying away from fact but for the average crystal/spiritual healing user, I now see we can all be a bit more open and understanding of the psychological benefits they may getting.

Hey! Came from Tom's channel. I need to know where you got that rain coat/jacket that you wore in that video. It's sooo cool!

2:48 Damn it Marie, they are not rocks, they are Minerals!

10:32 This made me laugh so much it probably did more to make me feel good than an entire life of crystal therapy would have

@erikziak1249

3 жыл бұрын

Actual horseshit might have the same effects as the crystals. If you convince yourself that it does. And you cannot reason anyone out of a position they fooled themselves into.

I really dislike when they bring up scientific measurements for determining if something has energy. No one doubts people have varying amounts of sexual energy. So how would you scientifically measure the sexual energy within someone? We can’t… at least not yet. It’s something you feel it’s something you perceive it’s something you observe and something you know. Trust yourself to observe energy instead of putting all your trust into an inanimate object/machine.

I love this kind of content from you! The trope would be "investigator gets involved", and you are very genuine while doing it. Let's compare two of my favorite Engineering YT channels (I'm an engineer too): Real Engineering (RE) and Tech Ingredients (TI). RE does exhaustive research, elaborate visuals, and careful script development. TI describes a thing, makes or does the thing, then reviews the thing, where the "thing" is a stunning engineering or science project. TI projects are thoroughly prepared, though the presentation is mentally organized, but otherwise seems improvised. I doubt TI does too many retakes. Many of your videos have been RE-like, and enormously informative and engaging. This video is more like TI, where you not just say, but also do. A very welcome addition to your channel!

Very cool video, loved Timothy Caufields cameo! Very respectful and positive thoughts on the subject matter.

breaking news: person who makes a living with X says X works

It is fascinating to still see people that do not understand the power of placebo effect. And they just attribute it to magic.

Loved this video, very well balanced presentation. It's important to remember we can be open to magical thinking (I am) and still know science is a bedrock to build on.

@selenem3384

2 жыл бұрын

crystals is a different field of psychology

What a lovely and positive video, thank you for showing me I have much more to learn about different views on life!

people who refer to themselves as a "scientist" usually consider science a dogma not a process. They are devotees to the "religion of science".

Crystals are fascinating. Just think how the natural facetting is a direct reflection of the arrangement of atoms in the lattice. As to the healing properties...yeah, whatever makes your placebo.

It's Crystal Clear to me that Vanessa Hill is a Jewel, the Gem with the highest value

The Placebo Effect is a hell of a thing

Used to live in Sedona and loved it there. Hope you enjoy(ed)!

"rejuvenate my soul" , did you feel any rejuvenatig in your pineal gland ? 🙃

Whatever helps one reach a meditative state. As long as it's not overpriced, of course! P. S. That powerful Vanessa Hill + Tom Scott Upload Combo.

@braincraft

3 жыл бұрын

You mean the Vanessa Hill + Vanessa Hill Upload Combo 💁🏻‍♀️

@GeorgeNoiseless

3 жыл бұрын

@@braincraft True! :)

@StudlyStudmuffin

3 жыл бұрын

Who the hell is this Tom Scott guy?

As a practicing witch I use crystals, candles, and other objects as focusing tools. I've come to the conclusion, as I am a total science nerd too, that the power to heal or change things isn't in the object at all but in the mind. We know that the placebo effect is real and can effect real measurable changes in the body. Like everything else I use in my practice it's a tool, but as a screwdriver doesn't do the work for you but helps you focus the energy of your muscles to turn a screw so do crystals help one focus other types of energy to perform a task. However I am infuriated by those who attempt to mislead others in this type of practice for profit. Yes pretty crystals are easier for us to focus on and thus through, but any object can be used just as easily. There's absolutely no reason to pay a ton of money for something you only need a bit of knowledge to do.

Thank you for holding rocks to your head for science !! ❤️😄

its just an feeling of attachment, just like how other religion can give it, or an waiting loved one far away, things that keep you going, sometimes it doesnt matter what it is or if its even true, aslong as it gets you through the day?

@skbbk98

2 жыл бұрын

I like how you put it! Tbh it shows that religion isn’t true if it’s just feelings involved. Feelings isn’t a criteria for something to being true or superstitions and conjecture

@hirudasanguinen4073

2 жыл бұрын

​@@skbbk98 Truth can be found in religion, but each idea is interpreted by each person in a slight different angle. if someone says: "dont kill" a common person hears "dont commit murder", and i hear "let energy do its thing"(dont stop the river). Each of us have our own responsibility to pick up on the truths that FEEL right, the hardest part is to detect the LIE in each idea. Its easy to agree, its hard to disagree. All things in the universe want to follow the path of the least resistance, the challenge is to separate yourself from the universe at just the right moment(not always), like a rocket leaving the atmosphere (i belive in logic and reasoning, and there is plenty to be found inside the bible, but i expect that half of it is a lie..... just to keep myself alert)

@skbbk98

2 жыл бұрын

@@hirudasanguinen4073 same here. In order for me too believe in something there has to be sound reasoning and logic. Tangible proofs no conjectures no contradictions etc. I agree its like there's truth in its but now its mix with falsehood..

excellent video! very informative

Having never used a crystal I'm using pure guesswork, I would assume its is a form of meditation using the crystal as a grounding object. Having a natural object that has no real links to whatever is going on in life so that you don't find your thought straying back to what is causing anxiety may be helpful for some people. And as you said it only becomes a problem if they then reject scientific medical rather than combining.

@BrainCraft I think it is really cool that you implemented a questionaire, admitably with some methological limitations. In the future I'd love to see visualizations of the data you collect. These could be easily-understood histograms, or sophisticated plots like multidimensional scaling (MDS) plots. There are advantages and disadvantages to either approach, but the histograms might make sense to a wider audience. Hopefully that is useful feedback. Keep up the good work.

It's a crystal practice. Like yoga and meditation the more you practice the more you feel it working. But I don't know anyone who doesn't go to the doctor because they do yoga. At what point do people cross the line from hobby to dilution?

On a more sientefic note, crystals could very well have an effect on us. Take the color of the crystals for example, we know that different colors effect us in different ways and the same can be said for crystals as well. Also the structures of the crystals could be putting off a certain frequency that could effect us as well. It could very well be the color frequency and the structural frequency either combined or independently working to affect us in a certain way. And the shape of the crystal could also play a part in how it affects us as well.