I have looked into the effect that they radiate. One of these traits is wealth. I haven't read up on it in a while so I've forgotten a few others. I do remember that Quartz stimulates pregnancy. My rockhounding friend was trying to get his wife pregnant and I told him so he started collecting more quartz. They now have a baby. Hard to say if it worked, but they do have a baby now :P

You are right though, and I think the effect is more passive/natural then actually feeling anything. This idea also leads to orgone pyramids, which I have looked into having but I realized that we live on the largest orgone pyramid: earth. So to get those effects you just have to connect your skin to the earth (we're always wearing shoes and walking on manmade sidewalks). A lot of people do "barefoot walking" as a part of their health routine.