I have an experience once I like to share, and wonder if something the this or similar has happen to anyone else.
As most know in the craft almost every object has a energy/vibration or in other term "life" as for example crystals.
There is a crystal shop close to us that we frequently visit. A stunning store the owner is a collector of Crystal/gems/stones even fossil, and they have from the smallest stone to he most majestic Crystal balls. Well the experience start when visit the store. I was browsing the store looking a what I find and I randomly pick up a white tektite/Libyan tektite. Once contact was mad with the beautiful little gem, I felt a very quick shock through my body.
In my beginner stages I taught myself how to protect myself using a energy/aura wall from attacks.
Once I felt the shock it was like my energy wall explode outward at such a speed and distance around me that I was so taken aback it took me a few moments to relished what happen.
Basically the gem increase my energy wall so far out that even my partner could not sense me from the other side of the shopping center " my partner and I are very strong connected with our energies". It's was like I drop off the map completely. And all of this happen for a good reason, the store was rather busy as one of the customers was a descendent from a very old entity/magical user. The moment the burst happen the customer look directly at to see where the source or the energy came from.
Here the weird part although he look directly at me, it felt like he was looking right through me like I was invisible or not there, as if he was just staring a blank space.
So in conclusion the gem gave up his "life" in order to protect me form harm, I was able to use the power wall/shield afterward with effort but like anything else the energy diminishes over time, I can still you the shield but the distance and force is now limited.
Just through the act something people call a 'stone", I learned a lot about energy shields and a new higher respect for crystals. I like to know if the are others where a crystal did something similar or was this just 1 in a lifetime experience