"In 1989, I went to the Bodhi Tree, the largest metaphysical bookstore in the world, to get some reading material. While walking through an aisle, a book literally fell out of a shelf and hit me on the head. It was The Green Stone by those British boys, you know who. Of course, I didn't know who they were at the time. I bought the book and thought, 'Wow, these guys are very mistaken,' as I read it. But when I saw the photos of their stone, I freaked. That was MY stone. Even in black and white, I could tell it was the same color and gradiations as my stone. For awhile I thought I would have to find a way to meet those boys and get them to part with it, but I ultimately realized that there were more than one and they were all somehow related."

"I knew I had to find this stone. I became obsessed with it. I dreamed about it during my pregnancy and tried to figure out the best way to quest for it. I gave up, and decided that it would be revealed to me when the time was right. Shortly after my child was born, the stone began to haunt me again. My best friend and questing partner at the time (we are no longer friends, alas - another story) Mychal, was becoming equally obsessed. We started having the same dreams. I started sketching the setting that I now saw it in (when first had the visions, I saw the stone by itself. The setting came later.)"

"One day Mychal called me at work and said: I know where it is!!! You're never going to believe this, but I just was meditating and I had a vision of the Westchester Antique Mart. The stone is there. I'm going now."

"Well, this is a huge place with hundreds of antique dealers. But Mychal was good. Damn good. (I miss her even though she was such a bee sometimes.) It didn't take her long. She found a case that had OUR stone. When she asked the dealer to see it, the woman looked very puzzled. She picked it up and said: How odd. I've never seen this piece before. I have no idea where it came from. She was pretty upset, actually. She was a sole proprietor and did all of her own buying and this piece literally just showed up in her case."

"Now this was problematic, because she refused to sell it. It's not mine, so how can I sell it? So, Mychal decided that honesty was the best policy. She told this poor, sweet little old lady that she and a friend had been dreaming about this piece for years and we were sent there to obtain it. She was so freaked out that she gave Mychal the piece and basically told her that she'd be happy to never see her or her weird stone again, thank you very much!!"

"Mychal gave the stone to me, saying that she knew it was mine and she was happy to have had the adventure of getting it. She was good like that."

"The first time I held the stone was an amazing, emotional experience. And even though I anticipated it would be powerful, I had no way to prepare for what it was. The stone has a very tangible pulse and it heats up tangibly when held."

"The visions before were nothing compared to what happened after - although I still didn't know what the stone was. I didn't find out until I took it to Egypt for the 11:11 (January of 1992) There, I was given 70 pages of information about the stone. I was told that the Emerald Tablets would be revealed to me in stages when the time was right. I was told that an Avatar would leave me the first set of translations - that turned out to be our Mary Alice, of course. I was told that a trip to my 'homeland' would reveal much about the provenance of the stone. I thought - mistakenly - that was Ireland. I hadn't fully accepted all I knew about my French lineage for various personal reasons."

"But Bealtainne of 1995 took me to France - and to my Paschal 'homeland' of the Languedoc. And it all came together. Almost. Back in 1992 during the 11:11, I was told that my information would not be complete until I completed tasks in the Holy land and ended up back in Egypt. That happened on the Autumnal Equinox in Giza and the full lunar eclipse in Qumran in 1997. That was where Seshat (as the Hebrew 'Sashar') came to me, and finally Sekhmet gave me HER version of the Tablets."

"That's the outline, anyway. You can guess how much magic there was along the way. A mutual friend was with me on those last few journeys and can account for all of this as well. And for the power of the stone."

"Oh yes - and I've put it in the hands of terminally ill people. They aren't terminally ill anymore."

"I'm wearing it now. I felt like I needed it today."

- Marie Negre, aka 22, your Auntie Em









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