Black crystal advice?
A friend of mine with a rather dark past recently asked me for advice on a crystal but I don't know how exactly to help him. I'm attaching the exact texts that he sent me.
"I want to know why I was given this odd black crystal thing when I was losing my mind to the darkness and it helped me regain control. It was this pyramid shaped crystalline rock with red symbols on the side that both matched the shade and smell of old blood."
I ask him if he has pictures or could send me a picture.
"Sadly, no. A friend of mine, I suppose you could call him a practitioner of natural Magick or more savage blood Magick a shaman of whatever I don't know but I wasn't able to harm him for whatever reason, gave me one and told me to carry it at all times. It kinda felt like a chain holding me to the ground inside a hurricane. It helped a lot."
I responded asking if he still has it, is it still protecting him.
"Idk if protection is the ideal terminology to use. In a way it did but at the same time no. It worked more like a catalyst for myself. Or one of those floatation devices you throw to drowning people. Gave me the ability to stand on my own."
In my experience, black has been used as protection & pyramid shaped crystals are used to focus energies, so I told him that & he says...
"Well whatever it was straight exploded the day I woke up being strangled by something."
I asked him to elaborate on strangled.
"Yeah. Just some kind of... figure was strangling me and holding me down around 3-4 am one night/morning. Couldn't move. Couldn't breathe. Just started back accepting death. Crystal was on my nightstand my bed. It exploded. Roommate ran in there thinking a gun went off, lights came on, the entity vanished, and I've been on constant alert since."
More info on dark past includes abuse as a child that caused a very high pain tolerance which led sketchy family members to, essentially, use him as a guard dog by getting him addicted to drugs like meth which made him unstable and very violent to the point he couldn't feel pain. Sketchy family member also has him trained in fighting to make him a very effective weapon, but he's about six years removed from that life. At some point, in order to cope, he began dabbling in the darker magick, making deals with demons (Ambriel, Blisdon, & Adnachiel), near death encounters, and similar experiences until he witnessed what he can only describe as angels above his friends who he pulled from a bad wreck, this led to him removing himself from those beings & pursuing a different life. Now it's just the nightmares, still very strong, incredibly fast recovery time (like a decent sized cut healed in just a few hours where it should have been days), and shockingly quick reflexes/ability to absorb intense situations in seconds but he's a great guy and I want to help him.
Any advice?