Full Description
A full-color illustrated guide to co-creative alchemy with crystals and stones for personal and planetary healing and enlightenment
• 2021 Coalition of Visionary Resources Gold Award
• Reveals that those who love and work with crystals and stones have been intuitively following the path of spiritual alchemy
• Provides meditative practices with specific stones to go with each stage of the alchemical transformation process as well as other tools and techniques
• Includes an illustrated dictionary summarizing the spiritual qualities of more than 375 different minerals, crystals, and gemstones
The Alchemy of Stones presents an inspired breakthrough in Robert Simmons' thirty-five year career of exploring and revealing the spiritual qualities and potentials of minerals, crystals, and gemstones. This holistic, Earth-based framework for understanding stones and their energies initiates readers into an alchemical worldview that leads to spiritual healing, transformation, and transcendence.
Engaging readers step by step, Simmons provides guidance on discovering and harnessing the three human powers of intention, attention, and imagination, each a crucial component for meeting and working in harmony with the energies of the Stone Beings. Simmons also introduces us to the Divine Feminine intelligence known as Sophia, or Wisdom. The Stone Beings are her emissaries, and through relating and co-creating with them, the healing and redemption of ourselves and the Earth becomes a reality.
Offering an illustrated dictionary of the spiritual qualities of more than 375 different minerals, crystals, and gemstones, Simmons also explores in depth what he calls the Four Cornerstones of the Alchemy of Stones: Moldavite, Phenacite, Azeztulite, and Rosophia. He discusses the stages of alchemical transformation and provides meditative practices with specific stones to go with each stage. He also explores how to work with stone mandalas, crystal body layouts, gemstone elixirs, and Orgonite energy devices and details powerful techniques for working with stones. Woven throughout are Simmons' personal stories of the pivotal mystical experiences that triggered his capacity to feel stone energies and led him to develop his relationship with the stones, revealing how this work can open minds and awaken hearts.
Lavishly illustrated, The Alchemy of Stones is an invitation to a journey of enlightenment, transformation, and spiritual metamorphosis aligned with the path of our living, conscious Earth.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Dedication to Daniel Deardorff
Introduction
Author's Foreword
1. The Golden Threads
2. Discovering the Alchemical Worldview
3. Panpsychism
4. Alchemy & True Imagination
5. The Psychoid-Imaginal Realm
6. Sophia
7. Sophia, the Deep Self & the Heart
8. Transformation Through Feedback: Alchemy, Sophia & the Oroborous 9. The Activity of Blessing
10. Transcendence Through the Alchemical Union of Opposites
11. Conjunction
12. Reunion
13. Forgiveness
14. Ascension of the Heart
15. Triality, Transcendence & Transformation
16. Stone Beings & the Imaginal Realm
17. The Subtle-Imaginal Body
18. The Subtle-Imaginal Body, Chinese Alchemy, & Immortality
19. Manifestations
20. Stone Mandalas: Synergies of Energy & Meaning
21. Working with Mandalas & the Stone Beings
22. Stone Body Layouts for Healing & Visionary Experience
23. Photonic Stone Layouts
24. Photonic Layouts for Earth Ascension and DNA Activation
25. Stone Elixirs & Crystal Waters
26. Orgone & Orgonite Stone Energy Devices
27. An Alchemist's Laboratory of Crystal Tools
28. Stone-Enhanced Body Mats Interlude: You Can Judge This Book by Its Cover
29. Moldavite: The First Cornerstone
30. Phenacite: The Second Cornerstone
31. Azeztulite: The Third Cornerstone
32. Rosophia: The Fourth Cornerstone
33. The Redemption of the Earth--Commitment to the Impossible Epilogue: The Alchemy of Stones in Daily Life
Appendix A:
Robert Simmons and Daniel Deardorff Discuss the Subtle Body
Appendix B:
Climate Change & Crystals Stone Dictionary
Stone Property Reference
Index
Suggested Reading
Resources
About the Author
