Nest, Burrow & Swarm

Humans do pretty much what other animals do — they nest, burrow and swarm. Reproduction, food harvesting and warfare with other tribes are their main occupation, and in the end, they die without a trace, as if they’d never existed.

Gosh, doesn’t that sound familiar?

How about a t-shirt that reads “Believe it or not, this was once a living creature.”??? That kind of humor goes best on the gallows or in front of the concrete brick wall, which is why I included it in this little dissertation on the subject of Primal Rock Painting, something I sort of re-invented back in 1972, when I was working with Fritz at Cowichan in British Columbia, which I ran for a year following his passing.

“I’ve seen behind Maya,” he announced one day back in 1971, as a result of which, he decided to dismantle and rebuild Gestalt, which never happened, but some part of it survived in the form of “Play Therapy”, a term attributed to several prominent psychologists, all of whom might well have done so — the field was new and wide open to speculation and experiment, and people did.

With our therapy developed out much further, we would have ended up with what we today call “Primal Rock Painting”, about which I’ll endeavor to explain as best I can: Continue reading

ZOOMSHOP – Medicine Wheel Chokers

 

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Museum Reconstruction of a 4500 B.C. Sumerian Lapis necklace.

The necklace in the photo above looks deceptively easy to acquire, but it isn’t. You can’t buy this necklace at any price. It is a “School Artifact”.

Relics like these can be reconstructed from ancient materials. In this case, note that the maker of all the lapis beads is the same, from the same workshop. This is not the case with beads acquired through the ordinary marketplace. Matched sets of ancient beads is exceedingly rare. Continue reading

ZOOMSHOP – Hematite Grounding Jewelry

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HEMATITE has been used for many centuries as a GROUNDING device. It operates as a sort of AUTOMATIC GROUNDING MECHANISM. Grounding & Centering are two vital parts of your Work on Self. Look on the internet for more information about Grounding, and experience the power of HEMATITE yourself, by wearing your very own Jewels of Ancient Lands HEMATITE GROUNDING FORCE Earrings! Continue reading

ZOOMSHOP — Make Roman Glass Earrings

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Your GENUINE ANCIENT ROMAN GLASS BEADS are 2,000 years old, and were found in the Holyland, from a site not far from the city of Jerusalem. These beads could very well have been worn by one of the Apostles. Look on the internet for more information about Ancient Rome in the Holyland, and experience the Glory That Was Rome, by wearing your Jewels of Ancient Lands Holyland Roman Glass creations! Continue reading

ZOOMSHOP – Tibetan Earrings

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EJ Gold & Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche at Buddhist Meditation Center.

TIBETAN MAGIC BEADS have long been valued by Westerners for many centuries. So many occult powers can be attributed to Tibetan Magical Beads that merely listing them would take up the entire instruction sheet. Look on the internet for more information about Tibetan Buddhism, and experience the power of Tibetan Magic yourself, by wearing your very own Jewels of Ancient Lands Tibetan Magic Earrings! Continue reading

Z00MSHOP – Black Tourmaline Earrings

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BLACK TOURMALINE has long been valued as the most powerful Psychic Self-Defense Gemstone that can be found on Planet Earth. There are so many occult powers attributed to Black Tourmaline that merely listing them would take up the entire instruction sheet. Look on the internet for more information about Black Tourmaline, and experience the power of Tourmaline by wearing your Jewels of Ancient Lands Black Tourmaline creations! Continue reading

ZOOMSHOP – Sumerian Bead Earrings

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Toni sells jewelry at the group’s Copper & Silver Boutique in West Hollywood.

This is your most basic STERLING SILVER earring kit, the Sumerian Steatite Earring Set. Here’s what you should have received in your kit, each packaged in its own zip-lock baggie, tagged for quick identification — check each item off this list to make sure you have everything you’re supposed to have in the kit:

  1.  Four Whitish Sumerian Steatite beads. These came originally from the Susa at Uruk, the main city of ancient Sumer, and were legally and openly brought into the United States prior to 1964, the year when I obtained them from Joe Rose at Superior Stamp & Coin in New York City. Joe was a longtime friend and a very responsible and honest antiquity dealer — that’s not at all rare in the profession — these are amazing and magical beads; almost all of them were intact, and among the steatite beads, I found Carnelian, Jasper, Hematite and Lodestone, among other variants. The white steatite stone-carved beads were made around 4500 B.C. out of flat-cut stone, hand-rubbed and rolled on flat rocks to burnish them down into flattish rounds after drilling the hole in the center with a bow-drill, which is still used in some parts of the world today. Absolutely Guaranteed Authentic 6,000 year-old ancient beads.
  2. Four 3mm modern factory-made .925 sterling silver “spacer” beads.
  3. Four 6mm handmade modern .999 fine silver Bali style fancy spacer beads.
  4. One labeled package containing 12 modern .925 sterling silver wires, about 1″-1.5″ (30mm – 40mm) long, ready for clipping & bending.
  5. One labeled package containing 2 modern .925 sterling silver .22 gauge wires, about 4″, or 100mm long, to form the Core Wires.
  6. One labeled package containing 2 modern .925 sterling silver .20 gauge silver wires, about 4″, or 100 mm long, from which you’ll make the hand-made ear-wires, the crowning touch of a fine set of ancient style earrings.

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ZOOMSHOP – Byzantine Drop

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Start with 4″ of straight wire.

You’ll need to start with a good generous piece of straight .22 gauge wire, at least 4″ in length, until you get the “feel” of what length is good to work with. Don’t forget that almost all your scrap can be employed somewhere, somehow or another, mangled or not.

Ideal scrap length for .22 gauge is around 2″, or about 50mm, so as ye cut, so also shall ye reap. Continue reading