ASBESTOS IS BEING USED IN REIKI/CRYSTAL HEALING - PSA MASTER POST

Worryingly Asbetos is being made into homepoathic wands and reki stones. Most worryingly claiming to cure CANCER, which Asbestos causes.

Being sold to many people under the intentions of “bring a bonding action between one and the subject of one’s desires“ and claiming that it’s the “etheric blueprint to correct imbalances and blockages that could manifest as physical disease and to heal cellular memory, one of the best stones for rousing the kundalini energies“  Chrysotile a type of Asbestos is quickly becoming one of the most requested minerals in reiki and crystal healing.  And it’s not the only type of Asbestos being sold as a healing crystal.

Above is Richterite, it’s known to be as dangerous as any of the other Asbestos in the six categories and is being sold to people promising ironic cures for liver, pancreas, kidney or breast cancer.

Above is Tigers Eye, everyone knows it looks cool but it is also Asbestos and although polished Health Protection Agency in the U.K., claim these are still dangerous. 

While some types of asbestos may be more hazardous than others, all are dangerous. Leading health agencies, including the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the EPA and the International Agency for Research on Cancer, classify all types of asbestos as cancer-causing substances.

The following are all a type of asbestos: chrysotile, amosite, crocidolite, tremolite, winchite, suglite, richterite, actinolite and anthophyllite.

All the identified forms of asbestos can cause asbestosis, malignant mesothelioma, lung cancer, ovarian cancer, laryngeal cancer and other serious diseases and will not cure any form of cancer. Some agencies, such as the Health Protection Agency in the U.K., claim amphibole varieties of asbestos are the most dangerous forms. The EPA has abandoned projects aiming to identify which asbestos fiber types are the most toxic, citing the overall regulation of asbestos and asbestiform minerals as a more pressing priority.

EXCUSE ME WTF

Literally my reaction too, for just $20 you can pay to have a lump of raw asbestos shipped to you to cure you of various forms of cancer.

I don’t know if this is true but kids do your research before you do anything with stones or minerals because some of them can kill.

Aaaand this is one of the reasons why the whole “place your crystal in water and drink the magic water” trend is a bad idea. Like, for any crystal, don’t do that. That’s how some kids got arsenic poisoning recently because the stones started fucking dissolving.

If you’re going to get into crystals for any sort of therapeutic (or even just for the shiny!) purposes, please do some basic research if you plan to be handling them a lot, or using them with clients.

Here’s a fairly comprehensive list of possibly toxic crystals:

https://sacredhealingnyc.com/toxic-crystal-list/

Have fun.

I’d like to add that things like this are EXACTLY why witchcraft and science need to walk hand in hand. The physical properties of items, especially crystals, far outweigh any metaphysical property they might have.

I took mineralogy, so I know that things like the above minerals are actually asbestos – and if I didn’t immediately remember, I’d know where to look and what to look for to find out. Here’s a good resource. Here’s another even better one, it’s called MinDat, scroll all the way down and read all the info on the page for a given mineral.

Cinnabar is similarly toxic. It’s Mercury (II) Sulfide. It is the most toxic mineral to handle on the face of the planet. I’ve seen it sold in stores as palm stones, which completely baffled me. When I tried to point it out, the shop owner didn’t believe me.

I’ve seen people try to sell DILDOS that are made of malachite, a water soluble mineral that releases toxins when wet, as well as selenite, a form of gypsum, which is ALSO water soluble as well as brittle. I was at a loss for words.

I’m sorry to get ranty. I’m just so sick of people doing dangerous stuff because they did not find out more about their tools and resources.

Guys. Please. Please please please I am begging you. Do your own fact-based, data-based research. Use sources that are not in the metaphysical community to do so. That way you KNOW the physical properties and risks of the stones you’re using.

Yes! Exactly. There’s a reason exactly 0% of what informs my craft came from the ‘occult’ section of the bookstore. Want to work with plants? Learn from botanists, herbalists, ethnobotanists and horticulturists. Want to learn stones? Learn from geologists. Want to work with your local environment? Learn from conservationists, ecologists and biologists.

I’m sure a lot of these people have good intentions, but some of this info doesn’t give the full truth or isn’t correct. Remember to always back up your claims with scientific sources such as journals and articles.

Tiger’s eye/hawk’s eye is safe to handle and i have not found any statements by the Health Protection Agency that state otherwise. It’s made up of two minerals, quartz and amphibole/asbestos. The amphibole metamorphoses into limonite, meaning it’s nonreactive. Traces of asbestos might remain, but they’re trapped in the quartz around it. (1 2) Unless you’re grinding it or chipping at it, and breathing/ingesting in the dust there’s very little danger with the stone itself. (3) Avoid chipping at it, heating it and ingesting it.

Sugilite does not contain asbestos, and I have not found anything indicating it’s toxic. I’ve seen a few articles state that sugilite cannot go in water because it contains aluminum, but these articles have no sources for this, regardless i’d avoid making crystal water with this anyways, to be on the safe side.

Chrysotile, ritchterite, eronite and taconite should not be used without proper protective equipment and should always be handled with care in a laboratory setting. Do not ingest malachite or put it anywhere else.

ppl don’t understand adhd/autistic cleaning processes. we think so far ahead it’s like,,, impossible to do shit. you want me to vaccuum my bedroom floor? okay. we need to pick up all the stuff thats on it first, though. and where are we going to put the stuff? well, theres a couple categories of Stuff- Clothes, Random Items, and Trash. Trash is easy, we just throw it away. Clothes have to be sorted into Clean, Not Clean- and then the not clean ones have to go in the laundry bag, but theres so many so i might have to start a load now- ugh, distracted. lets go back to the clean clothes. well, these go in my drawer but- my drawer is really disorganized, so i’ll have to organize the clothes first so that theyll fit and look neat. by the time i’m done with that, i’ve spent an hour and a half trying to do stuff in my room. i finally turn to random items, most of which can find a home on my desk, but others i dont really know what to do with. plus, my desk is dirty. so i have to organize my desk, figure out where everything goes, and the stuff that doesn’t have a place can go in… a box, i guess. (not like i don’t have three other boxes full of random stuff in my closet)  so i put all the items back up but now i have this box full of stuff i dont know if i need so i have to go through it, sorting it into donate and dont donate piles. i might as well throw in some clothes to, so i dig through my clothes drawer and get the clothes i dont want, throw them in there too. okay, back to the random items- the ones i dont want to donate are still here, so i have to put them somewhere. i dont have anywhere to put them- maybe i should get a shelf? i start googling shelves, figuring out which ones would be best for my room, debating prices, learning about installation, and eventually im like ‘well, already on my computer’ and i decide im going to ‘check’ social media and end up lost in it for an hour or so. you walk back in, and theres stuff all over the floor, albeit in bags and boxes, and it still hasnt been vacuumed. its been five hours since i started. how does it take five hours to clean your room? it just does. 

I know this is a fun tweet and all that but it absolutely is an instance of striaght privilege. Heterosexual people have up to seven years to explore their sexual and romantic attraction in an environment that is designed for them while many queer youth deligate their time in maneuvering their identity in response to themselves and their environment. It’s one of the reasons why dating as a queer adult is so hard: so many of us are romantically undersocialized when compared to our heterosexual peers, who are not only given social liscence to explore themselves, but who have the additional benefit of being able to see themselves in media.

There will always be exceptions to this, of course, but it’s so sad to see how the effects of childhood homophobia haunt us well into our adult years, to the point where it limits our opportunity to connect with other people around us.

ALTERNATE CONCLUSION

My cat Bishop sits outside my door every morning once she hears the alarm clock go off.

The morning murps

Someone has waited HOURS to tell you all the gossip.

this is like the cat version of the professor clip of him going “hello!” every morning the same way

ive never proofread a single thing ive written in my life as soon the words are outside my brain i no longer recognize them as mine and i want nothing more to do with them

prompt list

feel free to request away - 1. “Why are we at a strip club?” 2. “I’m sorry, you said what to your teacher?” 3. “Am I dead?” 4. “It’s always been you. You and only you.” 5. “If you loved me, you’d fight for it. If you loved me, you’d show it. If you loved me, you’d fight for me. Do you even know what love is?” 6. “Stay with me.” 7. “How about we put the gun down and talk about this?” 8. “I came here to kick ass and chew gum.. and I’m all out of gum.” 9. “Whatever it is I didn’t do it.” 10. “Don’t make me regret saving you.” 11. “Are you-are you flirting with me?” 12. “I’m proud of you. I’m proud of us.” 13. “I trusted you.” 14. “Am I supposed to be impressed?” 15. “Don’t tempt me.” 16. “I’m going to kiss you now.” 17. “Is that my shirt?” 18. “Would you quit moving around?” “It’s not my fault we’re tied up together!” 19. “Does your life revolve around embarrassing me?” 20. “I can’t do this anymore.” 21. “Do you smell burning?” 22. “Look at the sky.” 23. “I didn’t know you could do that.” 24. “I will not hesitate to murder you.” 25. “It’s simple really. Here let me show you.” 26. “I’m pretty sure that’s not how it works.” 27. “Hey have you seen my- Oh.” 28. “Go to hell.” “Already been but thanks for the invite.” 29. “Look at me.” 30. “Go away! I don’t ever want to see you again!” 31. “Don’t tell me how to calm down, you calm down!” 32. “Where did you get that?” 33. “Oh my gosh is that blood?” 34. “What are you doing here by yourself?” 35. “Here, take my hand. Everything is fine, just hold onto me and keep moving.” 36. “I don’t know who I am without you.” 37. “You don’t need to protect me.” 38. “Stop looking at me like that!” 39. “I can’t believe you talked me into this.” 40. “All I wanted was the truth.” 41. “I had a nightmare about you, and I wanted to make sure you were alright.” 42. “You make me feel like I’m not good enough.” 43. “I told you not to fall in love with me.” 44. “I forgive a lot, but I never forget what was said and done.” 45. “Again?” 46. “Please shut up. Just shut up.” 47. “I’m tired of being your secret.” 48. “You know, it’s okay to cry.” 49. “Go on, tell me. Tell me you don’t love me.” 50. “I just want to be alone right now.” 51. “Those things you said yesterday.. did you really mean them?” 52. “Just say it is okay. I just need to hear you say that.” 53. “I love you and I am terrified.” 54. “Promise me you’ll come back.. I need you to promise me.” 55. “That’s distracting.” 56. “I think I picked up your coffee by mistake.” 57. “Wait a second.. are you jealous?” 58. “This is by far the most stupid plan you’ve ever created. Of course I’m in.” 59. “You did this for me?” 60. “I’m afraid this conversation is going to end in goodbye.” 61. “Would you just hold still?” 62. “We’re running low on time here.” 63. “You’ve got something on your cheek.” 64. “I’m not bothering you, am I?” 65. “Really, right now?” 66. “Wait, you’re my soulmate?” 67. “I really wish you told me your mother was in town.” 68. “You’re wrong and I’ll prove it.” 69. “I can never say no to a picnic.” 70. “I could tell it was your favorite book from all the notes you wrote in the margins.” 71. “I never imagined myself in a wedding dress.” 72. “I’m yours, in every way possible.” 73. “We’re not just friends, and you know it.” 74. “Well. Yell, scream, say something, anything.” 75. “Where do you think you’re going?” 76. “Nobody thinks what I think.” 77. “Despite what you think, I am completely capable of taking care of myself.” 78. “Just please be my best friend right now, and not the person I confessed my love to.” 79. “I think you’re just afraid to be happy.” 80. “Make me.” 81. “Well if you insist.” 82. “We’ll get through this, I promise.” 83. “I can’t believe you don’t like Disney movies.” 84. “You’re lucky you’re cute.” 85. “Sometimes I really dislike you.” 86. “You’re getting crumbs all over my bed.” 87. “It’s too early for this.” 88. “But then I’d have to put pants on..” 89. “If my parents knew what I was doing they’d kill me.” 90. “Are you trying to make me to hate you? Because it’s working.” 91. “Don’t open those till later!” 92. “For some reason I’m attracted to you.” 93. “To be honest I could care less.” 94. “Go on then, tell me. Tell me you don’t love me.” 95. “Hold my hand, we have to make this look convincing!” 96. “I’ll make it right for you.” 97. “When you smile I fall apart.” 98. “I don’t know what I did to deserve you.” 99. “I really don’t know why I’m crying.” 100. “I won’t let you fall.” 101. “I’m like 20% sure this plan work. There’s an 80% chance we could die horribly and violently, but this plan is solid, I swear.” 102. “I’m not happy here.” 103. “I’m so stupid to make the mistake of falling in love with my best friend.” 104. “I’m tired of being your secret.” 105. “Well if you’re up for the challenge.” 106. “I’ve moved on.” 107. “I’ve seen the way you look at me when you don’t think I can see you.” 108. “If I die, I am coming back to haunt you.” 109. “If you don’t want to talk about it then say so. Don’t lie and pretend to be fine when you clearly aren’t.” 110. “If you walk out that door don’t you dare think about coming back.” 111. “Is that a challenge?” 112. “Is it supposed to look like that? Are you sure?” 113. “I made you cupcakes cause I knew you liked them.” 114. “Is there something you want to tell me?” 115. “I mean, it could be worse.” 116. “This wasn’t supposed to happen like this.” 117. “This was all a dream?” 118. “It’s not what it looks like.” 119. “It’s okay I’m here for you.” 120. “Wait, you did what again?” 121. “Just talk to me.” 122. “Just leave me alone!” 123. “Let him go! It’s me who you want!” 124. “My parents asked about you again.” 125. “Make a wish.” 126. “None of this makes sense.” 127. “None of that matters anymore.” 128. “Wait this is your handwriting? I thought this was hieroglyphics.” 129. “Not a day goes by that I don’t think of you.” 130. “Oh my god! You’re in love with her!” 131. “Please don’t give up on me.” 132. “Please listen to me.” 133. “Please don’t go.” 134. “Please.. I love you.” 135. “Please, take me instead!” 136. “Please don’t leave me.” 137. “Please don’t argue with me.” 138. “Promise me you’ll take care of her/him.” 139. “Promise me you’ll take better care of yourself.” 140. “Promise me you’ll stay.” 141. “Why are you taking so many photos?” 142. “I didn’t know you could play.” 143. “You can sing?” 144. “Teach me how to play?” 145. “Are you okay?” “Why do you ask?” “Because you’re wearing two different shoes.” 146. “Want to talk about it?” 147. “I just really miss talking with you.” 148. “Things don’t always turn out the way we want them to.” 149. “This isn’t just about you. It’s about what’s best for all of us.” 150. “You made me what?” 151. “Times up!” 152. “There’s something I need to tell you.” 153. “We could’ve had it all.” 154. “Are you sure you two aren’t married?” 155. “Well.. don’t keep me waiting.” 156. “Please look at me.” 157. “What have I ever done to you?” 158. “What are you doing here?” 159. “When are you going to realize I don’t care?” 160. “When you love someone, you just don’t stop. Ever. Even when people stop to roll their eyes or call you crazy.. even then. Especially then!” 161. “Where did that cat come from?” 162. “Where did you get this from?” 163. “Why are you up so early?” 164. “Why can’t they see they’re meant for each another?” 165. “Why did you choose me?” 166. “Why don’t you say it to my face?” 167. “Why couldn’t you come to me with your problems?” 168. “Would you stop for a second so I can say something to you for once!” 169. “You need to calm down.” 170. “I know you told me to stop thinking about you, but I can’t get you out of my mind.” 171. “You are nothing like them.” 172. “You were the greatest thing that ever happened to me.” 173. “I never believed in love till I met you.” 174. “I don’t need a Prince Charming saving me.” 175. “You can’t sit on the sidelines your entire life!” 176. “You deserve so much better.” 177. “You did all of this for me?” 178. “You take my love for granted.” 179. “You haven’t even touched your food.. what’s going on?” 180. “You know my name?” 181. “You need to wake up because I can’t do this on my own.” 182. “Stay the night. Please.” 183. “What did you say?” 184. “Why are you so annoying?” 185. “Don’t ask me that.” 186. “Don’t ever mention that again.” 187. “What’s with the box?” 188. “Say it!” 189. “Stop pinning this on me! You started it!” 190. “Did you do this on purpose?” 191. “Don’t give me that look! You started it!” 192. “It’s not fair!” 193. “I could kill you right now!” 194. “Don’t you dare give me that look!” 195. “Screw you!” 196. “Just shut up already.” 197. “You are so infuriating. 198. “Listen to me!” 199. “I dare you!” 200. “Please pretend to be my girlfriend/boyfriend.” 201. “You think I’m insensible enough to fall for that?” 202. “I’m not going to apologize. I can’t anymore.” 203. “Is this seat taken?” 204. “It’s midnight, what do you want?” 205. “You are strangely comfortable.” 206. “Imagine if it could always be this way, even in the city.” 207. “I don’t know how to feel any more.” 208. “At what point did you think that was a good idea?” 209. “Just marry me already.” 210. “Did I stutter?” 211. “Did I just say that out loud?” 212. “Did you hear that.” 213. “Don’t say you love me.” 214. “Don’t you ever do that again.” 215. “Everyone deserves a second chance.” 216. “I try so hard to forget you, but every single time it comes back to you.” 217. “H-How long have you been standing there?” 218. “Hey, I’m with you, okay? Always.” 219. “I didn’t ask for any of this! But do you know what I put up with it all? Because I love you!” 220. “I just need you here with me right now.” 221. “I love you. I’ve loved you since the moment I laid eyes on you and- Oh screw it!” 222. “We can’t lose each other, we just can’t.” 223. “I’ve never felt this way before and I’m terrified to be honest.” 224. “I never meant for anyone to get hurt.” 225. “I waited and waited, but you never came back!” 226. “I’m sick of feeling useless!” 227. “Is that what you call an apology?” 228. “Is there anything you want to tell me?” 229. “Somebody’s in love!” 230. “It’s not what it looks like.” 231. “Just hold me.” 232. “You’re the best part of me.” 233. “I don’t want to think about what I’d be like without you.” 234. “Can I hold your hand?” 235. “Let’s go get lost somewhere.” 236. “I just don’t know how to look forward anymore.”

this is simultaneously the most musically god-awful and the most batshit hilarious thing I’ve ever seen. the way none of the vocals line up. the discordant harmonies. how there’s way too many syllables per line. I’m fucking crying

Sing this to me so I know it’s real

Me and my cat both getting a burst of energy at 3am

I got drunk and I just want y’all to know. It is NEVER okay to like someone. Like Romantically

thanks man

Needed this

“Self-care is often a very unbeautiful thing.

It is making a spreadsheet of your debt and enforcing a morning routine and cooking yourself healthy meals and no longer just running from your problems and calling the distraction a solution.

It is often doing the ugliest thing that you have to do, like sweat through another workout or tell a toxic friend you don’t want to see them anymore or get a second job so you can have a savings account or figure out a way to accept yourself so that you’re not constantly exhausted from trying to be everything, all the time and then needing to take deliberate, mandated breaks from living to do basic things like drop some oil into a bath and read Marie Claire and turn your phone off for the day.

A world in which self-care has to be such a trendy topic is a world that is sick. Self-care should not be something we resort to because we are so absolutely exhausted that we need some reprieve from our own relentless internal pressure.

True self-care is not salt baths and chocolate cake, it is making the choice to build a life you don’t need to regularly escape from.

And that often takes doing the thing you least want to do.

It often means looking your failures and disappointments square in the eye and re-strategizing. It is not satiating your immediate desires. It is letting go. It is choosing new. It is disappointing some people. It is making sacrifices for others. It is living a way that other people won’t, so maybe you can live in a way that other people can’t.

It is letting yourself be normal. Regular. Unexceptional. It is sometimes having a dirty kitchen and deciding your ultimate goal in life isn’t going to be having abs and keeping up with your fake friends. It is deciding how much of your anxiety comes from not actualizing your latent potential, and how much comes from the way you were being trained to think before you even knew what was happening.

If you find yourself having to regularly indulge in consumer self-care, it’s because you are disconnected from actual self-care, which has very little to do with “treating yourself” and a whole lot do with parenting yourself and making choices for your long-term wellness.

It is no longer using your hectic and unreasonable life as justification for self-sabotage in the form of liquor and procrastination. It is learning how to stop trying to “fix yourself” and start trying to take care of yourself… and maybe finding that taking care lovingly attends to a lot of the problems you were trying to fix in the first place.

It means being the hero of your life, not the victim. It means rewiring what you have until your everyday life isn’t something you need therapy to recover from. It is no longer choosing a life that looks good over a life that feels good. It is giving the hell up on some goals so you can care about others. It is being honest even if that means you aren’t universally liked. It is meeting your own needs so you aren’t anxious and dependent on other people.

It is becoming the person you know you want and are meant to be. Someone who knows that salt baths and chocolate cake are ways to enjoy life – not escape from it.”

-Brianna Wiest, in Thought Catalog

You know what my favorite part of Bojack horseman season 6 episode 15 is, it's the fact that death isn't a big relief. It's scary and it's dark and Bojack desperately trying to escape it. You think you don't want to live, don't want the pain, the mistakes but death is so much worse. It's nothingness that you should be scared of. Never romanticise it for it is not something to want.

It's fucking darkness. And it's not kind. It's the end. And I'm really glad the show depicted it as the black slime.

S03E12  Bojack to Diane: “You can’t not be a part of my life”

S04E7  Diane to Bojack: “ I need you in my life”

S06E16   Bojack to Diane “Wouldn’t it be funny if this was the last time we ever talked to each other?”

they went through everything together, but sometimes some people are not meant to be with you forever, even if they mean a lot to you.

I think the last episode of Bojack was exactly what needed to happen. It was no way forgiving of Bojack, Bojack did terrible things he hit rock bottom but this time he didn’t come out unscathed. He went to prison, he lost Hollyhock, he most likely will never talk to Diane again, Todd is his own person and Princess Carolyn won’t be there for him. But there is still a glimmer of hope, his friends are in no way forgiving of him but some still want to see him around. He’s sober again and has some form of reason to keep living.

I know some wanted to see Bojack die or just lose everything but at the end of the day people relate to him. Whether or not they relate to his actions or the bad things he’s done they relate to his traumas and his addictions and his mental illnesses and the voice in his head that tells him he’s a stupid piece of shit. To have his suicide attempt work is to validate that some people who share similar issues to Bojack are better off dead. Yes Bojack is a terrible person and most people who relate to him aren’t nearly as bad as he is but at the same time to see a character you relate to kill themselves validates to a small part of you that death is an option. To have a character as bad a person as Bojack to have a small slither of hope after his attempt is to tell anyone who feels like life isn’t worth living that there’s hope because after all most people aren’t as bad as Bojack.

Bojack needed to lose a lot and lose a lot permanently but at the same time he needed to keep living just to show everyone that there’s always hope

oblivious

Ya truly love to see it!

She really thought she was doing something huh

Why does this white girl insist on continuously embarrassing herself lol

it's like she's incapable of finding problematic white dudes, which is...

*checks math*

literally impossible.