Orgonite
Turning Negatives into Positives By Cheré Coen | Photography courtesy of Kristyn Key and Adam Mitchell
The science may not be exact but crystals and orgonite are helping Kristyn Key’s customers find healing and calming benefits. Kristyn Key was only three classes shy of a degree in graphic arts when she realized where her true passion lie. “I told my teacher I was going to make something that people wanted and she said, ‘O-kay,’” Key remembers with a laugh. She began the online business, which offered her artwork as downloads to customers. But then she visited a metaphysical store in her hometown of Memphis and asked the owners if they carried orgonite products, objects consisting of resin, metal shavings, and quartz that are believed to convert negative energy into positive. The owner said they didn’t, so
Key offered to bring in some to sell. “I took the only $500 I had at the time and bought the material I needed,” she recalls. “I made a huge shift and started making orgonite and it took off. It really took a life of its own in the best way possible.” Orgonite has been used as a spiritual tool to deflect negative energy into positive. Many people use orgonite products on cell phones, for instance, to disrupt negative energy produced from the phone’s radiation. Key’s orgonite cell phone backings are her number one product. “It transforms the energy,” Key explains. “People DeSoto 19