Today we’d like to introduce you to Jeffrey Segal.
Hi Jeffrey, we’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
I am the founder and owner of Mystic Journey Bookstore and Mystic Journey Crystals, located in Santa Monica, California. Before opening my stores, I practiced law for over 25 years, beginning in 1986. After ten years of practice, I realized the legal profession was not for me, but the “golden handcuffs” of law’s financial rewards kept me practicing until 2006 when I “gave myself” cancer to finally force me out of the field of law. Intuitively rejecting chemotherapy, I chose a “natural” path of healing. I put together a team of healers, including an acupuncturist, a bodyworker, an energy worker, and a therapist. After six months of working with my team, the cancer had disappeared. It has never returned.
During my healing process, I decided to follow my passion, and in 2008, I opened Mystic Journey Bookstore, one of the largest spiritual book and gift stores in Los Angeles. Nine years later, I expanded the bookstore’s offerings and opened Mystic Journey Crystal Gallery, retailing some of the highest quality and largest crystals and geodes found anywhere in Southern California.
In 2022, I became both a life coach and author. My book, The Tiny Book of Big Manifestation, offers its readers both techniques and a Code of Life to assist them in creating the life they want. Just recently, I took the next step on my mystic journey, launching The Mystic Journey Podcast, which can be heard on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, and becoming a consultant for those looking to open a retail store in the mind, body and spirit field.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
No road, whether it be in one’s business life, personal life, or even spiritual life is “smooth” at all times. Nor is it supposed to be. Challenges, in all aspects of life, are given to us as opportunities, and chances to grow and evolve. I’ve had those in both of my businesses, including being forced to unexpectedly needing to change the bookstore’s location because of a city order to my landlord, losing a lease for the bookstore after I had signed it and paid the deposit, seeing rents skyrocket, seeing business falter, and experiencing Covid and being closed for months.
But we have navigated it all and the bookstore will celebrate its 15th anniversary this October and the Crystal Gallery recently celebrated its 5th anniversary.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about Mystic Journey Bookstore and Mystic Journey Crystals?
Mystic Journey Bookstore is a one-stop spiritual shop unlike any other store in the Los Angeles area. Whatever one’s spiritual need, we have it. From the most classic spiritual and self-help books to those books that are more esoteric, Mystic Journey carries it. From the widest variety of tarot and oracle cards to dozens of scents of incense, or sage, Mystic Journey offers it. From amethyst to citrine to clear quartz to crystals and stones one has never heard of, Mystic Journeys presents the highest quality crystals and geodes of all shapes and sizes that one can find anywhere in Southern California. While many stores now carry some crystals, or some books, or some incense, or some oracle decks, no store can offer you the depth and variety of spiritual items that Mystic Journey Bookstore can. So instead of one having to go from one place to another, one store to another, driving and looking and shopping all over, one can come to Mystic Journey to find everything they need.
Beyond this, what Mystic Journey is undoubtedly best known for is the quality and the sourcing of its crystals. Every crystal and stone, both the smaller ones in our bookstore and larger ones (up to thousands of pounds and 5-6 feet tall) in our crystal gallery are personally sourced and selected by the founder, Jeffrey Segal me. Jeffrey travels I travel around the world to Brazil, Uruguay, Madagascar, and more, and go to the mines and the workshops where the crystals are brought from and worked on. I work directly with and even stays with the families who do all this work so that I know the process of how the crystals and stones are brought out of the earth and made ready to be placed in people’s homes and businesses. I do this so that I know all work is done is done ethically and all the people who do the work are treated fairly and with care. Anyone who acquires a crystal or stone from Mystic Journey can do so with the trust and confidence that I have been directly involved with bringing the piece to them. Finally, people know that if they are looking for a specific type of crystal or stone or a specific size or shape of stone or crystal, they can reach out to me and I can source that crystal or stone for them.
Do you have any advice for those just starting out?
Have faith and trust that the Universe will provide. One saying that I always like to share with others is: “Leap and the net will appear”. Fear and doubt hold so many back from traveling the path they were meant to travel, the path of their true life purpose. This was true for me – until I finally made myself so sick with cancer that I finally felt I had to take the leap, and get out of the law and start a new path.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.mysticjourneyla.com
- Instagram: @mysticjourneyla
- Facebook: @mysticjourneyla
- Other: TikTok – @mysticjourneyla
