This piece has been a long time coming! It started as a bother and a tip and then an assignment with Playboy that spanned crystal-digging in the salt flats, a reporting trip to New Orleans, a medium in a Tulsa hotel, and morphed into this essay - in The Believer! - on the luxury healing crystal industry and our various searches for meaning. Grateful to everyone who spent time talking and guiding me through this exploration.
An excerpt:
