A closer look
The reason your friend thinks a chunk of amethyst can cure her anxiety can be traced back to a guy who helped invent magnetic disk drives. Marcel Vogel, an IBM researcher in the 1970s, shifted his focus from computer science to cutting quartz crystals, claiming they could receive, amplify, and transmit human consciousness just like a hard drive stores data. He effectively gave a pseudo-technological veneer to standard magical rock-worship. He proved that being a certified tech genius doesn’t stop you from projecting sci-fi fantasy logic onto literal minerals.
