If information is stored in crystals through vibrations, and vibration is indicative of an energy creating the vibration, then if "charged" crystals are ingested, even if the crystalline structure is broken down, there still has to be a conservation of that energy in some form. It seems like that energy could be playing a role somehow in possibly altering the experience.
"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind" - Albert Einstein
"The Mighty One appears, the horizon shines. Atum appears on the smell of his censing, the Sunshine- god has risen in the sky, the Mansion of the pyramidion is in joy and all its inmates are assembled, a voice calls out within the shrine, shouting reverberates around the Netherworld." - Egyptian Book of the Dead
"Man fears time, but time fears the Pyramids" - 9th century Arab proverb