by Robert Simmons, Naisha Ahsian
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The Book of Stones is a new edition of the best-selling guide to some of Earth’s most beautiful natural objects. Two introductory chapters detail the authors’ theories about how to work with crystals and stones—including the concept of crystal resonance and the scientific observation that living organisms (such as ourselves) are liquid crystalline structures. An illuminating alphabetical journey through the mineral kingdom, stone by stone, follows.
Each entry begins with the stone name and photo, plus its elemental and chakra correspondences, as well as keywords that indicate its properties. Next comes a description of the crystal structure, hardness, history, and known locations of each mineral, plus any relevant legend or lore from the past. Each author then offers an essay on the subtle energy properties and spiritual applications of the stone. The entries conclude with summaries of the spiritual, emotional, and physical healing qualities of the stone, and an affirmation for evoking its potential benefits. The book’s presentation is straightforward enough to make it an excellent introduction for beginners, yet the level of detail and the depth of research make it an invaluable resource for the most experienced stone practitioners.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Great Book!, 2008-08-29
Easy to read, good pictures, lots of good imformation. This was a good choice for me as a resource book on healing stones.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
THE BOOK OF STONES, 2008-08-18
The Book of Stones: Who They Are & What They Teach
I bought this book because I already have the first printing of it. This is the updated on. There is a lot more information in this book than the first one. I use it all the time with my stones for a lot of reasons. I cross refreces this one with other ones that I have. Since it is written by two people with basicly very different write ups on each stone. You get two conpleat different look at the stone. There are still a few stones in this book that I don't have. This book is a great one to have, I have quite a few books on stones written for different reasons this is one of those must have books for those who love stones of any kind. The book have wonderful pictures of all the stones, great deal of work when into putting this book together. I enjoy it very much.
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Book Of Stones, 2008-08-01
Very informative. Great crystal book & recommended for those wanting to learn about crystals. So much to learn from reading it.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
 Exquisitely done. A treasure., 2008-07-23
The Book of Stones: Who They Are & What They Teach
This is a beautiful book that gives descriptions, healing, metaphysical and physical properties and folklore about more than 300 stones. Color photographs accompany each entry. A brief forward and two equally brief chapters on Getting Started with Stones and Elemental Energies in the Mineral Kingdom provide additional information to the crystal enthusiast.
The book is very well done. I would have given it five stars had it not been for the brevity of physical description and mineral data given and the fact that some of the entries appear to be proprietary to the author/publisher, Heaven and Earth Publishing.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Stone Info + Photos, 2008-06-30
Excellent book, copyright shown as 2005, 2007, so it is recent. Very useful for those who would like to know the metaphysical meanings of stones/minerals. this book includes some stones that were not in my other books, such as Spirit Crystal, The Nebula Stone, and Shiva Lingam, among others. There are 465 pages of information, which include color pictures of the stones. There is a 4-page table of content listing, covering approximately 331 stones/minerals. This book also provides an extended write-up on Moldavite (one of my favorites). There are also about 15 pages of introductory material on the authors' perspectives of stones, the classifications used in the book, consciousness with stones, stone layouts, meditating with stones, stone elements (fire/storm/wind/earth/water), chakras, etc. I like to read about the stones and their properties.
To give you an example, let's take The Nebula Stone. There is a picture, which in this case looks exactly like mine.
The key words are: "bringing spiritual Light into matter, attuning to probable futures, fulfilling one's highest aspirations, feeling at home in the body and on Earth".
The element is "Storm" (used when massive transformation, cleansing, and radical dynamic balancing are called for, etc.)
The chakras are: All, especially Root (1st) and Crown (7th).
A brief paragraph follows, explaining the stone was found in the desert of the American Southwest, that its appearance is reminiscent of the nebulas in space, and its composition is alkalis volcanic rock composed almost exclusively of the 4 minerals Quartz, Anorthoclase, Riebeckite, and Aegirine.
Arthur Robert Simmons follows with 4 paragraphs on his insights on the stone and its metaphysical properties. Author Naisha Ahsian follows with her comments in 3 paragraphs followed by one or more sentences on the stone's spiritual, emotional, and physical uses and concludes with an affirmation related to the stone.
There is also quite a bit of info on Azeztulite, a variety of quartz, found in North Carolina and later in Vermont. It sounds like a very interesting stone and very interesting reading.
I used think that people who played with crystals were a little nuts and I deeply apologize for my ignorance, for I truly did not understand what they already knew. In fact, I was drawn to stones as a child, but dismissed the attraction as I turned into a teen. Later, I collected jewelry pieces, not realizing these pieces were the same as the unpolished stones. About 5 years ago or so, my interest in all stones returned. One of my awakening stones was Moldavite. I had a piece made for me with a Herkimer Diamond by some newly acquired friends at the time. The energy was so strong, it took me about 2 weeks of wearing it in intervals before I could wear it all day. Then I wore it 24/7 for about a year or more. Currently, I have a piece of Covellite with Petalite that I have been wearing 24/7 for the last 2 years. I tell you all this only to say that I am sold on the realization that stones have energies that they pass on to us, if we allow it and many of these "passed on" energies can greatly impact us in positive ways that we would never have dreamed of if we had not opened our mind to the possibilities. Many people say that the stone(s) that you need will sort of "call" you. They may appear beautiful or sparkly to you, or for some reason, you can't stop thinking about them. I like to let them call me, buy them, then come home and look them up in my books to find out WHY they "called" me.
I am very pleased with this book and it is a welcome addition to my reference library. Other useful books on stones are those by author Melody and those by author Katrina Rafael. (See my other reviews for info on these books.)
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