A closer look
It turns out that your overpriced chunk of amethyst is functionally identical to a piece of plastic from a dollar store. In rigorous clinical trials, participants holding completely fake resin crystals experienced the exact same warm, tingling healing sensations as those holding genuine quartz, provided they were told what to expect beforehand. The mystical power of crystal healing is purely powered by the placebo effect and the sheer financial sunk-cost fallacy of having spent half your paycheck on shiny gravel.
