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.
By:
Robert Simmons
Imprint: Destiny Books,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 276mm,
Width: 178mm,
Spine: 28mm
Weight: 1.309kg
ISBN: 9781644113097
ISBN 10: 1644113090
Pages: 496
Publication Date: 18 November 2020
Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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
Robert Simmons has been working with crystals and stones for over 35 years. He is the cofounder of Heaven and Earth, a company offering gem and jewelry creations for self-healing and spiritual and emotional development. The author of several books, including The Book of Stones and Stones of the New Consciousness, he lives in New Zealand.
Reviews for The Alchemy of Stones: Co-creating with Crystals, Minerals, and Gemstones for Healing and Transformation
The book has lots of information, all of it interesting and easy to read. Throughout, there is a sense of an amazed inner child seeing the mysteries of the world for the first time. Simmons' sense of wonder is infectious and healing in its own right. If, like me, you've got crystals around the house that you enjoy looking at and holding, this book will help you bring them into your world fully so that they can work up to their potential. * Anna Jedrziewski, InannaWorks * The Alchemy of Stones: Co-creating with Crystals, Minerals, and Gemstones for Healing and Transformation is a must-have guide for those being introduced to stone alchemy, a deeper understanding for those looking to go further, and various practices that everyone can try. * Elizabeth Konkel, San Francisco Book Review * ...just like his earlier book, this one is large, beautiful, and bursting with information and inspiration. There's so much here that it is very difficult to even attempt a review. If you are a stone person you will know you have to have this book. If you feel drawn to stones and want to work with them, you know you have to have this book. * New Spirit Journal * If The Alchemy of Stones were a diamond, it would be graded at the highest level of quality. This most recent book by best-selling author Robert Simmons certainly captures the four C's of gemstone book excellence for its clarity, completeness, colorfulness, and class. The Alchemy of Stones is beautifully written and organized to showcase and share a lifetime of accumulated wisdom and knowledge about crystals and stones. Highly recommended! * Cynthia Sue Larson, author of Quantum Jumps and Reality Shifts *
