Stones
Alive! The Rituals of Manifestation Deck
Twintreess
52
cards, with daily guidance & illustrated with Stone Totem photographs.
Retail $22.00
One day while
listening to our Spirits, we heard, " In order to manifest
a tangible object from the ethers, you tend to travel through thirteen
basic steps. They are...."
Tohmas got
a piece of paper and wrote them down.
Our life changed
immediately. We didn't know that this information would land upon
us like this. It came quietly, calmly and insistently. We were asked
to transform these steps into Rituals and to focus on one a day,
proceeding through all of them in chronological order. On day one,
we listened to "Alchemy," looking for signs of
it in our life. We watched it move in our thoughts and our bodies.
Judging nothing, we wore "Alchemy" for a whole
day and night, letting it transform us, welcoming its magic with
open hearts. On day two, we entered "Time".........
and so on.
Our Spirits
said, "If any time during this process you forget to be
with one of these steps, stop. Go back to day number one and step
one and go all the way through 1-13 consciously and fully, even
if it takes you several tries.
In your lives, you already go through these stages in each of your
manifestations; however you often go through them without really
being present and your manifestations reflect that. They seem disconnected
and ostensibly, aren't what you really want, anyway.
By going through this process consciously, you welcome in creations
from the deepest part of your loving alignments with your spirit.
By making these steps, Rituals, you co-create everything- including
your life- with sacredness. That invites your most profound dreams
into your reality and continually reminds you that you know how
to do this. You have the power to turn your life into the sum of
your free choices and actions.
If you show respect to the process of creating, it will respect
you."
After practicing
these steps intentionally we turned them into a Rituals of Manifestation
Deck, where each card would depict a stage of manifestation through
words and have the support of Stone Totem photographs, in a way
that could connect people to the process of creation ever more deeply.
Each day of the process of producing the Rituals of Manifestation
created untold miracles over and over again. We had incredible story
after story, even before the Deck was completed!
After the Deck
went out into the world, other people would call us with their amazing
tales as well. It felt so exciting and so incredibly empowering.
We were all experiencing our lives as our own creations. At one
point, we got an inspiration: Let's do the Deck together at the
same time. This puts more focus and more freedom into the consciousness
for all of us to access.
So at carefully
selected times of the year, there are people all over the world
doing the Rituals of Manifestation Deck together. We celebrate our
miracles and our challenges and that affirms and increases our innate
capacities to live out our free, happy choices. In an age where
everything seems so out of control, it feels good to know that we
can support ourselves and each other in creating our own lives consciously
and joyfully...
(If you e-mail or call us, we can tell you when we are all doing
the Deck.)
52 cards (4
stages of the original 13) with beautiful color photos of a Stone
totem from our own family (we did not go out and take photos of
the most "beautiful" Stone we could find, rather we chose
to expose the beauty of each specific Stone that chose to be on
that card in its own right, by its own choice, presented by our
human hands and bodies) , on one side (as Stones support manifestation
wonderfully) and Spirit guidance and integrations on the other side.
It all complements
the "Stones Alive!" book quite nicely.
Upcoming
Please watch
for the "Rituals of Manifestation Miracle Playbook."
We want to share the stories of the miracles, as well as expanded
uses and rituals for the Deck. We intend to pass on ways to integrate
them so deeply into your life that they become a way of life.
Yes!
January 2, 2007, Tuesday, Alchemy
For those of you who are participating in our yearly cycle
of the Rituals of Manifestation Deck, we started anew with Alchemy
on Saturday, December 30th, 2006. This is our 3rd year in a cycle
of 4 years of doing the Deck one Card per week, 52 weeks in the
year. We invite you to continue on with us and the community of
others who are participating in the same way around the world with
the Deck in this fashion.
If you find this way of experiencing the Deck a bit too intense,
we welcome you to utilize the Deck in a cycle of one card a day,
52 days in a row and then repeating that cycle until you feel more
aligned with the one Card a week practice. If you choose to do the
Deck one Card a day instead of one Card a week with the rest of
us, we still invite you to participate in the one Card a week cycle.
You may simply want to focus less on that practice and more on your
concurrent one Card a day practice. Even just a simple Ritual of
connecting with the Cards as others are in the weekly cycle can
potentially supply you with a support system and a family far greater
than yourself, even if your main focus is on doing the Deck one
Card a day. If you do choose to do the Deck in this concurrent manner,
be clear about your process and keep it simple so that it is about
regeneration and clarity and does not engender confusion. Again,
if you are doing the Deck in the one Card a day cycle for 52 days,
we recommend starting over at the beginning again if you “miss”
or “forget” to do your practice one day. After all,
some of the most powerful tools you can embody in this practice
are focus, commitment and responsibility. (We assume that if you
are doing the Deck one Card a week for the full year, that you are
committed and responsible for maintaining that practice over the
full year.)
We are finally getting around to writing the Rituals of Manifestation
Workbook. It will go over in depth these various cycles and
alignments and link them all together in the myriad web of life.
We have been practicing the Deck all these years in these many cycles
as our own way to gain greater insights and open hearts about these
processes and we continue to use this tool to consciously evolve
and to ground our divinity ever more in and through our physical
bodies and actions. When the Workbook will appear in print is anybody’s
guess, but we look forward to it manifesting within the next year.
So as it is a New Year and a new cycle of the Rituals of Manifestation
Deck, we offer you these words below to welcome in all that
is new and to give thanks for life upon this glorious EarthStar.
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Do you know what happens when you become a Healed Shield? You are
here as a vessel of Great Spirit and Great Spirit lays out its hands
and creates. It creates others who will be creators. Surely you
have heard of Grandmother Spider spinning her web all around the
world and making the connections between all beings.
Healing your Shield means that you have been a cracked Shield and
have experienced the ways of death and then you come around the
circle of your own freedom to choose the ways of life. Now let me
be very clear about this. Many 2-leggeds will experience the ways
of life and death but do you know what they will not experience
most of the time in that? They will not experience death as a conscious
choice that they leaned into, that they dived into, so that they
could know the release of everything fully. Yes, they will experience
the gift of life but most of the time will they feel it consciously?
Will they feel it pass through all of their cells, one by one lighting
them up and affirming that they are a sacred vessel of life?
To heal your Shield does not mean that you are perfect. It does
not mean that you are done. It does not mean that there is not more
to heal. We are blessed by the Great Spirit who is a creator, ever
endlessly creating. To heal your Shield means that you choose to
consciously experience every level of creation including life and
death and more.
A Healed Shield is a being who has been through the most difficult
journeys that their body and soul could endure, and then, they used
that as sacred fuel to accept it all and to consciously experience
more of everything that Spirit offers. A Healed Shield is intimate
with all things because a Healed Shield chooses to be utterly intimate
with Great Spirit and all its ways, wonders and creations.
When you know what I have said, then you will not hesitate to walk
into the world as a Healed Shield for it is simply your fullest
choice; it is your intent in the Center Stillness and the motion
of the exponential waves of life and death.
In this cycle of “Alchemy,” you can realize that as
you realize yourself, as you realize your healed Shield you know
that you hold a vessel that shapes the patterns and the flows of
eternal lifeforce according to the intent of Great Spirit. In this
first ritual of the cycle of Rituals, we are being invited to consciously
welcome the birth of a new year, a new cycle and a new life. It
will not look like your expectations. It will not match your perfections
– it will surpass them. It will answer your needs and it will
release your desires.
Consciously welcome this birth. Make your body a ready home for
lifeforce. Freely choose to clear away distraction, confusion and
the subtle defenses of the old ways. Welcome these teacher friends.
Distraction and separation are part of the welcoming party of this
new cycle. Clearing them away does not mean sending them away or
burying them. That is not the way of a conscious being. That kind
of death is unconscious and it will siphon away lifeforce instead
of multiplying it.
To clear your fear and separation means to be utterly conscious
of them, to be clear with each other, to recognize them, to know
that it is there, to fully, freely see the reflection of all parts
of your self within them. You go to the welcoming party of life
and Alchemy, with all parts of yourself. If you cannot welcome all
that you are graciously, then how can you welcome life who bestows
all the gifts upon you including death and separation.
Today our ritual is to make way for the new Alchemy and the New
Year. Welcome it with our heart and body and soul. You are creator
vessels, children, of Creator Spirits. Make your bodies ready to
hold the space for more life as respectfully as possible. That means
give all of your creations as beautiful a road to walk as you can.