Welcome to the Basic Crystal Users Course. You are joining tens of thousands of your fellow crystal enthusiasts in your journey and we are here to ensure you succeed.

The Basic Crystal Users Course is designed to allow anyone to learn how to buy, prepare, and use crystals for many purposes. It is a foundation course - a place to begin. It assumes you have no knowledge of crystals and are curious about how they can help you.

If you want to understand the use of crystals or control your life's destiny, you're in the right place. If the world of crystals confuses you, we're here to offer clarity.

I am Hank Mason, a Graduate Gemologist, author, and founder of Crystal Vaults and the Crystal Inner Circle, your guides on this enlightening journey. With our diverse crystal library and the 12 million annual visitors to our Crystal Encyclopedia and Reference Guides, we recognize the need for helpful information about crystals.

Our course simplifies the understanding and use of crystals. We'll illustrate the long history of crystals in our civilization and their metaphysical uses by ancient healers, shamans, and others. Knowledge about crystal healing is proven and ancient.

No prior knowledge is needed to take this course, which will give you control over your life, happiness, and destiny. You'll understand how to use crystals, grids, and other metaphysical elements to improve your life.

Three tools will assist us on this journey: The Crystal Vaults' library, the MINDAT website, and blogs and forums from the Crystal Inner Circle's experts. Let's dive in and discover how crystals can better your life.

Let’s get started! In the next lesson, we shall set the stage for everything that follows and define a few things so we make sure we share a common understanding of words such as crystal, rock, stone, and mineral that we will use extensively as we proceed on this journey of discovering how to use crystals to better our lives.