"All healing is a consequence of loving." ~ Marcel Vogel

Several years ago while shopping in one of the local metaphysical shops for a gift, a sparkling gem in the jewelry case caught my eye. I had never seen anything like it before. It was a striking emerald green in color and it had an oddly faceted triangular shape. When I asked the shop keeper what is was she smiled and said, "That's a Vogel crystal. It has very powerful healing qualities stronger than I've ever seen before. The man who created it was a genius." I bought that Vogel crystal and later one other. Real Vogels can be very rare and I've never regretted purchasing them. Here's their story...

Quotes in italic are from The Legacy of Marcel Vogel.

Vogel Crystal Symmetry Associated with the Tree of Life

''Marcel often held workshops for people in the medical profession. They would walk in as MD's, and walk out wearing feathers.  Marcel always said that Love is the glue of the universe … '' ~ Rumi Da

“I was one of a group of 16 physicians privileged to work with him over a number of years with body energies, especially the capacity to focus healing energies with crystals in the treatment of illness. All of us had an extensive background in acupuncture and appreciated the ability to manipulate body energies.” ~ Bernard McGinty MD

Marcel Vogel (1917-1991), was a research scientist for IBM’s San Jose facility for 27 years. Marcel had over 100 patents to his name. Among these was the magnetic coating for the 24” hard disc drive systems still in use. His areas of expertise were phosphor technology, liquid crystal systems, luminescence, and magnetics. He was granted an honorary PhD because of the absolute brilliance of his mind. Marcel's profound work with plant communication produced the best selling book The Secret Life of Plants. Seeking connections between man and nature eventually led him to the study of quartz crystals and the creation of a faceted crystal that is now known as the Vogel-cut® crystal. The Vogel-cut® crystal is an instrument that serves to store, amplify, convert, and cohere subtle energies. Marcel spent the last 17 years of his life doing pioneering research into the relationship between quartz crystals and water and of course human healing.

Marcel'slaboratory Psychic Research, Inc. was as you would suspect highly sophisticated. One room held an electron scanning microscope while another room held a Zeiss Ultraphot microscope (assembled by Marcel during his years at IBM) with over two hundred accompanying objectives and applications all attached to a camera and computer and video display system. The Zeiss could detect magnetic defects and errors. Another room held a Cry Model 15 spectrophotometer while another held a radionic instrument known as the Omega 5. The Omega 5 was used by Vogel to study "fields" undetectable by other scientific equipment.

The lab was dedicated to the study of subtle forces and energies that radiate from the body of living forms.

During his time at IBM Marcel worked with raw crystals. He witnessed and photographed the precipitation of Light into crystal in his IBM laboratory while growing liquid crystals. He was a highly spiritual man and always looking for healing "connections." The inevitable of course happened:

"One morning, at IBM, co-worker approached Marcel with complaints of back pain from a weekend of skiing. Prompted by intuition he took the crystal from his lab coat pocket, looked at it and pulsed his breath. This sent a charge through the crystal, a crystal that happened to be pointing at his friend Chuck. Immediately Mignosa’s head went back and he entered into an altered state of consciousness as he fell to he floor. As he helped his friend up, Marcel thought that this was total nonsense and wanted nothing to do with it. Chuck, however, was thankful that his back pain was gone."

17 years of research into the properties of raw quartz crystals ensued but Marcel was not satisfied because the properties of the quartz did not comply with his "faceting" ideas. Again fate intervened and one morning in 1974 he awoke with a specific pattern in his creative mind's eye - The Tree of Life from Kabbalistic teachings. He was actually unfamiliar with these teachings but the pattern of a rectangle with a triangle at each termination was imprinted upon his mind. For a year he spent his lunch hours trying to facet raw quartz into the shape he imagined and as he learned more about the geometry of the Tree of Life he was able to grind the shape into the quartz more specifically. He tried many shapes - single terminated, double terminated, four and six sided, six sided with four sided terminations, eight sided with four sided terminations ad continuum!

"From continual experimentation came the first fundamental instrument for storing, amplifying, transferring and cohering the energies of the bodymind of an individual: a four sided quartz crystal with pyramidal terminations. One tip was more acute than the other. The more acute termination is called the “firing tip” as this is the end of the crystal from which the coherent field is emitted. The faceted crystal was a three dimensional representation of the Tree of Life. These crystals have come to be known as Vogel-cut® crystals.The structural change in cutting quartz into the shape identified as Vogel-cut® is to tune it to be a coherent information transfer device. The form geometry of such a crystal creates a coherent field of energy that can act as a carrier wave of information, whereas raw quartz does not. "

According to Marcel this is important because:

“This ‘carrier wave’ must have a coherency to it so as not to mingle with the radiations emitted from the target material but act now as the differentiating transport vehicle. The quartz crystal cut in the dipyramidal shape provides such an instrument.”

"In the case of offering healing service to another individual, radiations emitted from the target material refers to the difficulty or distress experienced by the client. The coherent light emitted from the Vogel® crystal is able to  penetrate the often disparate radiant fields within and around a distressed individual. An incoherent energy is often dissipated if not completely absorbed by the chaotic field generated by the distress. Beyond this the most profound effect of the faceted crystal has to do with its relationship and resonance to water. Because more than 75% of the physical body is water, the Vogel® crystal, with its resonance with water, is the perfect delivery mechanism for the introduction of subtle energies to an individual. Marcel also felt that the various subtle energy bodies described in metaphysical literature are gradations of a field that is anchored to the physical body via the water molecule."

Hierarchical Healing Modality known as SAM which uses Vogel Crystals

"Marcel developed a protocol for removing unwanted vibrations or thoughtforms from an individual in distress. He found that the crystal could act almost as an energetic scalpel in what amounted to an energetic or etheric surgery. Over the years he developed various methods for proximate, remote, and self healing using the Vogel-cut® crystals.

The crystal is a quantum converter that is able to transmit energy in a form that has discreet biological effects. This is most likely a resonant effect. The human body, on an energetic level, is an array of oscillating points that are layered and have a definite symmetry and structure. This crystallinity is apparent on both a subtle energetic or quantum level as well as the macro level. The bones, tissues, cells, and fluids of the body have a definite crystallinity about them. The structure of the fluids, cells, and tissues of the body tends to become unstructured or incoherent when dis-ease or distress is present. The physical body is comprised of liquid crystal systems in the cell membranes, intercellular fluids, as well as larger structures such as the fatty tissues, muscular and nervous systems, lymph, blood, and so on. Through the use of an appropriately tuned crystal to which these structures are responsive, balance and coherence can be restored by delivering the necessary 'information' or energetic nutrients needed."

Vogel Crystal wand

13 sided smokey Vogel

Thank-you Marcel, you were Luc lucet in tenebris ... The light that shines in the darkness.