amethyst for third eye?

Errr.... The Amethyst is more of a contact cork. I suggest the clear quarts...

The clearer the better.

Agreed :P

thanx guys i have a couple quartz stones, i lost my actual crystal but this should still work right? and there clear. also a good way of clearing them is to put under running water?

how can i tell if the chakra is open? i meditated with a quarts over my brow for a while but i cant really tell if it worked.

you should have like relaxed feeling or a tingling its a hard felling to understand

i have a lapis stone wich i hear is really good for the third eye. When i put it on my forhead i feel a slight throbbing pressure. Does that mean it is open?

a preasure or a throbbing pain usually means the third eye is open or it is opening

is there anything i can do to keep the chakra open and activated? i can usually only get it open for a couple minutes and then it closes and stops throbbing.

i think that you can hold it open beacuse your spiritual energy will exhaust. but there times which your third eye is open by itself like when you are relaxed (front of a tv or reading a book) this time your spiritual power is more beacuse you don't have to try to open it so all the energy end there..(i must ask something you want to open your thrid eye for astral projector , prothecy or to see more things?