I have created an index of the first two books in the Ringing Cedars book Series, Anastasia, and The Ringing Cedars of Russia. The index for the third book, The Space of Love, is in progress. I had originally planned to publish this index on-line, so I contacted Ringing Cedars Press to request permission to use a digital image of their books on my index website. 

In a conversation with two of the owners of Ringing Cedars Press I discovered several issues that had to be resolved.  One was the name of the url I had chosen for publishing the index.  That was easy enough to resolve.  Another potential issue, however, that is particularly disturbing to me is that it may be possible for someone who has not read the Ringing Cedars Books to read my index and decide something like, “I have the gist of those books now, and so I don’t need to read them.” 

That possible result is intolerable to me.  A solution to that must be found before I make my index available to others.  While that solution is being created, I’d like to talk a bit about creating the series index and reading the books. 

Reading the books gave me an astounding amount of very valuable information which is what I’ve referenced in the index.  However, the primary result of reading the books is what they made me FEEL, SEE, and UNDERSTAND ABOUT MYSELF, LIFE and OTHERS.  None of that can be captured in an index.

The creating of this index has been an astounding gift to myself and I hope it is a valuable gift to the many other readers of the English translation of the book series. If you haven’t read the books and would like to learn more about the series go to www.ringingcedars.com

I’ve described these books to many people and many have read them based on my recommendation and report. However, without exception, those people have reported back to me that it is impossible to do justice to the series by “telling about it.” I agree with that, so instead of telling you about the book, let me tell you about my feelings and responses from reading the series.

In the beginning, I read the first book, Anastasia, only because a very dear friend insisted that I MUST. I bought only the first book so that I could evaluate for myself whether it held value for me or not. I’m pretty cautious about what I read and I don’t read a lot anymore. I certainly am not drawn to the latest and greatest “Must Reads.”

After finishing book one, I immediately went on line and ordered the entire series of nine books.  As soon as I completed the order I called my friend to borrow book two so I would not have to wait until the order arrived to continue reading. As I read through the series I experienced a most amazing collection of experiences.

I cried and laughed as new awakenings and images of myself and all of creation spontaneously occurred. I caught my breath in amazement and joy as those images filled in with details. I paced around my house and yard to give myself time to assimilate, and then greedily returned to reading, finishing all 9 books in eleven days.

By the time I was finished I was living in a very different place in my inner AND outer world than where I was when I began. My priorities had completely re-arranged. My daily activities had shifted to an entirely new and magnificent focus. My self image as human had been healed at levels I hadn’t even known had existed before.  My relationship to the plants and animals living on my lot had become magical and supportive beyond anything I’d ever imagined possible. 

The stories and information in the books gradually but powerfully took me from unconscious “numbness” to vibrantly “seeing” so much richness and unfolding joy. During the course of reading, my conscious awareness of the entire Universe had expanded to breathtaking levels. 

It has been over eight weeks since I read the series and this new experience of life and self has not diminished but has continued to expand and unfold.  The books didn’t just give me information, they flipped invisible switches in my mind that began a contuing rapid and exciting restoring of innate awareness and abilities.

Reading these books has reconnected me to mySelf, the earth, to nature, to life, to humanity and even to the cosmos in a way that I never even conceived was possible or even desirable. That experience is still expanding.  I am filled with gratitude for the information and experiences brought to me through this series of books.

I thank Vladimir Megre for writing and publishing these books in Russia and for enduring the confusion and struggle he went through in acheiving his own transformations.

I thank Anastasia for conceiving the dream that made the series possible and turned Vladimir into a writer.

I thank every person who contributed to the process leading to making the books available to me in English, and there are thousands of them.

I also thank Leonid Sharashkin and Ringing Cedars Press for publishing the books in English, and John Woodsworth for his very excellent and speedy translations.

I have heard that a few people who read the books don’t like them.  I guess I understand how that can happen because the information in this series is life altering if you accept it.  I think it may be life altering even if you don’t accept it, but in a more subtle and indirect way.  You may not like that if you are attached to your current views of life around you.  However, at present, an astounding 60% of those who read the first book, read the remaining 8 books.

If you have read or will read this Ringing Cedars Series, congratulations! If you haven’t, you owe it to yourself to read at least the first book of this series that I and millions of others claim is the most important book we’ve read in our entire lives!

Wishing us all the very best we can imagine and speak,
JoyceM

If you’ve read at least the first book of the Ringing Cedars Series, you may have noticed on page 89, last paragraph (newest edition) that Anastasia tells us to…

“…take it upon yourself to gather some cereal grain, thresh it, grind it into flour and then use the flour to bake bread.  This is extremely important.  Anyone consuming this bread even once or twice a year will build up a store of energy capable of awakening his inner spiritual powers – not only calming his soul but also exerting a beneficial influence on his physical condition.  This bread can be shared with relatives and close friends.  If shared with sincerity and love, it will have quite a beneficial influence on them as well.”

I don’t know how it is in Russia but in this country the majority of readers will unconsciously ignore this paragraph entirely because we generally have no knowledge base that would allow us to gather, thresh and grind grain, even if we do know how to make a loaf of bread. 

In fact the majority of Americans wouldn’t even be able to identify grains growing wild (or cultivated) or know when the grain is ready to be gathered.  I just made two loaves of bread using flour I harvested, threshed and ground.  It’s easier than you may think.  Here are the steps.

First of all, what is a cereal grain plant?  It’s an annual grass, mostly, and it looks like grass.  Corn is the most un-grasslike of the grains and is rarely ever found growing in the wild. 

However, wheat, rye, oats, sorghum or varieties of triticale are growing wild in most meadows and fields.  If you find an area that isn’t mowed, the seed heads appear from mid to late summer, depending on the grain.  It will look like tall wild grass and will likely have lots of other weeds growing around it. 

You don’t have to worry about harvesting from a wrong plant because the seeds from any annual wild grass that is tall and sends up a tall stalk with seed heads (3-5 feet tall) are edible and nutritious.  You’ll know it’s an annual grass because it will be drying up when the seed heads are ripe.

In wild grain plants, the seed (also called a fruit) is much smaller than in cultivated grains. They are ready to harvest when the tops are dry and the grass plant is also drying – usually late summer into early fall.  If you wait too long, the wind will harvest the grain before you get a chance to. 

You can collect the grain a couple ways.  You can cut the stalk down with the seed heads attached or you can carry a bag to collect the grain.  Bend the stalk so the seed head is inside the bag then grab hold of the stalk below the seed head and run your hand up to the top of the seed head.  If the seeds are ripe they will drop into the bag easily.

For about a cup of flour you’ll need to collect about  5 or 6 cups of seed heads.

If you decided to cut the stalks down, you’ll need to beat them onto a hard surface to separate the seeds from the stalk.  It will simplify the process if you beat the stalks onto a large sheet to collect the loosened seed heads. 

Whichever way you gather your grain you’ll end up with a pile of grain and chaff (no stems).  The chaff is the straw-like cover that surrounds the grain and it must be separated from the grain by threshing.

One way to thresh a small amount of grain is to put the pile of grain and chaff into something like an old (but sturdy) pillow case or tie up the sheet mentioned above (with the grain and chaff inside it.) 

Threshing is essentially beating the grain to cause the grain and chaff to separate.  You can do that by repeatedly walking or stomping on it (with hard soled shoes), swinging the bag of grain and repeatedly smashing it on a hard surface, or beating it with a wooden club or a leather strap until the grain and chaff separates. 

After threshing you’ll need to winnow the grain which removes the loose chaff from the pile of grain.  Get two large and wide containers.  I used one large bowl and a platter with a good amount of depth.  Don’t do this on a windy day or you’ll lose your grain. 

Go outdoors and slowly pour the grain/chaff from one container to the other.  Hold the pouring container high over the receiving container.  A gentle breeze will blow the chaff away but the seeds or grain will fall straight into the container. 

Pour back and forth (slowly) many times until their is no more chaff in the grain.  You may need to thresh it a little more to release more of the chaff.  I rubbed the grains together that still had chaff, in order to loosen it.  A small amount of chaff ground into your flour will not ruin your bread (it will add fiber).

When the chaff is cleaned out of the grain, you’re ready to grind it into flour.  I used a hand turned flour grinder but I’ve also used other equipment.  You can use a blender, a food processor or even a clean electric coffee grinder (for small amounts at a time).

When you have turned your grain into flour, you’re ready to make bread.  Any good cookbook has bread recipes or you can easily find one on the internet.  You can use only the grain you harvested or you can mix it with purchased flour (preferably organic).  If you think you might have rye or sorgum, you will definitely want to mix it with wheat flour.

I spent about 20-30 minutes gathering grain from a small area of my wild growing back lot.  I spent about 15 or 20 minutes threshing it, and about 20 – 25 minutes winnowing the grain.  If you use a blender or food processor to grind the grain it will only take you a couple minutes.

It’s a good Saturday or Sunday project for once or twice per year.  I could have easily harvested enough for another batch of bread later in the year.  If you do save flour for later, be sure to freeze it as it will go rancid quickly once it is ground.

Hopefully, this will help a lot of Americans make the very special bread mentioned in the Ringing Cedars book, Anastasia.

Blessings to you and yours,

JoyceM

My most recent step toward creating a kin domain was to attend the Colorado Kin Domain group meeting last night (October 14). It was very nice to have a young man named Yuri, join us. He shared his experiences and suggestions which were very interesting and valuable.

He bought the first Ringing Cedars book in Russian while living in Kasakstan over ten years ago. The first book had just been published. Yuri spoke of the Russian kin domain settlements that have been established. In the beginning many people quit their jobs and moved onto a hectare of land to begin living the “good” life as described by Anastasia but it didn’t work for them.

As Yuri put it, “They took their problems with them onto the kin domain and continued creating the same kinds of problems they were having before.” Most of those early kin domain settlers returned to the city life because they didn’t know how to make it work.

That has been the experience of most (if not all) intentional communities established here in America as well. They aren’t very effective at accomplishing what they intended and many people leave and return to their previous lives.

I’ve thought a lot about this problem and applied my creative language skills to finding both understanding and a solution. Here’s what I’ve come up with so far.

When people move into new situations they take their problems with them, carried silently in their habitual thinking and language patterns. The solution is, of course, to change their thinking and language patterns to support the new life they envision. Easy to see. Perhaps, less easy to do.

What are these habitual thinking and language patterns? Well, first of all, the very concept of “going to a new life,” when it is based on “escaping” unwanted old life experiences, will carry the unwanted old life experiences into the new life. That’s because the images in the individual’s mind are substantially peppered with the old life experiences he wants to escape.

Mental images create - regardless of whether they are images of what you want or images of what you don’t want. Therefore, solution number one is to “make sure you are focused on the results you desire rather than the ones you want to escape.”

Next. The habitual thinking patterns that a pioneer takes with him will re-create what they created originally in his previous places of living, i.e., conflict, lack, emptiness, fear, anger, struggle, etc. In other words, all the negative thoughts we automatically and unconsciously allow into our minds and conversations can only create one thing – negative experiences we don’t want.

What makes these negative thoughts so difficult to identify, is our habit of automatically and even unconsciously assigning blame for our unwanted experiences. We blame other people, circumstances, nature, errors, etc. In order to find your inner activity that is creating your unwanted experiences you will have to accept that you are indeed the creator of all those experiences.

As long a one blames another, one can never find the true source – in the mind of self. Therefore, solution number two is “Accept the fundamental truth that you alone are the creator of ALL your experiences,” and then you will be able to find yourself creating them. That will free you to consciously and purposefully create a different thought with a different result.

Solution number three may be the most challenging of all. One cannot end blaming if one is determined to see some experiences as “mistakes, errors in judgment, lack of sufficient understanding, sin, etc.” Keeping in mind that images in the mind are the source of experiences in the outer life, then the images of “error” must be released unless one wishes to continue creating the experiences of “error.”

Most people, when deciding to end blaming of others, will then just begin blaming themselves instead. It makes no difference who or what you blame, the result of assigning blame can only be more experiences of “error,” because blame cannot exist with a judgment of “error.”

Therefore, solution number three is to “end the habit of seeing ANY events as “bad” in any way.” It seems nearly impossible to do at first but it is really just a matter of practice and determination to develop a new habitual pattern of thinking.

It begins with choosing to see every experience as fundamentally good and exactly what you wanted to happen, if only you’d been able to see the whole picture. Think about it. If you want your life to be exactly what you know you want it to be as if you had seen the whole picture, then you MUST begin accepting and creating only that image in your mind. Anything else creates…other than what you want.

So, for those of us creating kin domains or any other kind of good life in America or elsewhere, we must manage the images in our minds more effectively. Now is the time to begin doing that, before we actually move onto our kin domain. It’s not so much about deciding the specific experiences you want, as it is about deciding that all your experiences are ALREADY and ONLY the kinds of experiences you would choose for yourself if you could only see the big picture of your life.

And then begin calling every experience a gift that is given you by a loving Universe to create the very kinds of experiences you will most LOVE – no matter what your mind thinks is real apart from that!

Your mind is your tool to create with. It is not a power over you. It cannot dictate reality to you when you claim the full power of your creator nature. You insert the reality of your choosing into the mind, and then it will duplicate itself in your outer experience.

Practice, practice, practice.

In my own practice of those steps I often find myself face to face with my own “stuff.” My “stuff” is in reference to my alignment (or lack of) with my belief that I am the creator of my experience. I do choose to believe and create that, although I’m definitely not fully aligned with it yet because I don’t always choose to recognize that everyone and every event in my life is fulfilling me in Love and Joy.

But I have too much proof that I am indeed the creator of my experience. It’s too late for me to go back to that blissful state of ignorance. Besides, I don’t want to. I want to know myself as I really am. I want to develop the mental muscles to wield the creator power I and all humans are born with.

Wishing us all the fullest success in creating our personal versions of Heaven On Earth,
JoyceM

If you are a Ringing Cedars Reader you may want to know about some new related sites.  I have set up three new sites that relate to the series, and support readers.

The first is www.KinDomains.com where you will find a place to post and read stories about creating Kin Domains in America.  This is not a site for updates about current progress of kin domains, but rather it is for the kinds of stories Anastasia tells in the Ringing Cedars books. 

These stories are precisely what has fueled the rapid growth of the kin domain movement in Russia.  Anastasia even tells us about the tremendous power of creating images in the public’s mind (through stories and songs) in her story of her forefather who traveled to Egypt and taught the high priests.

In www.kindomains.com we are accomplishing a similar goal for America as Anastasia and Vladimir accomplished for Russia – the creating of powerful and nurturing images of kin domain settlements all over the country supported by Love, communities, local and government officials, and providence.

Anastasia gave us one beautiful American Kin Domain Story in book 8.1 chapter 7.  This site is for us to continue writing more of our own stories, building the collective image of flourishing kin domains all across America.  Doing so will generate fuel for the rapid establishment and growth of kin domains in the U.S. and other English speaking countries.

Please consider writing YOUR Story or A Story about love creating a kin domain or kin domain settlement.  Tell us a story of how the pieces came together in harmony and support of Love so pure and beautiful that it called a kin domain into being because nothing could deny love its manifestation of the perfect and nurturing Space Of Love.  I look forward to reading your stories.

The next site I wish to introduce is www.Colorado. RingingCedarsOfRussia.org where you will find a different kind of support for kin domain settlements in America.  This site is recording the progress of a group in Colorado (of which I am one) that is creating kin domain settlements in that state and beyond. 

This third site was born out of the first story posted on www.kindomains.com , mentioned above.  It is my story, and as I finished telling it the first time I “heard” in my mind that I was not finished at all.  I had not captured nearly as much of the “power of the image” to fulfill my dream as was possible. 

I had told a complete story about the creating of MY domain for MY family and decendents, but hadn’t touched anyone else with the process.  I retold my story, inserting elements of sharing my process with others in Colorado and the U.S. 

Immediately afterward I drew together a group of others who shared my vision and we have begun living the story.  On the website you will find the notes of our meetings, our plans and goals, our issues and researches, our active members, etc. 

It is our goal to fully and publicly share the process of creating a kin domain settlement in America in such a way that we…

• attract members who want to create their domains in Colorado,
• attract ideas and solutions from people all over the country,
• stimulate similar groups and websites in other areas throughout the U.S. and English speaking countries,
• establish a networking format of groups that enables everyone to shortcut the process and leap easily over barrers of resistance, fear and confusion.

In short, it is our goal to dramatically increase the speed and ease of creating kin domain settlements all across the U.S. and other English speaking countries.  The network of kin domain groups that we envision will melt barriers, dissolve fears, unite disparate energies, and develop beneficial ideas at warp speed. 

The image of kin domains sprouting easily into beautiful and nurturing spaces of love is exciting and energizing.  We, in our growing Colorado group are enriched by every part of the process and every step toward kin domain settlements around our state.

We anticipate joyfully, the joining of others and other groups into our process and network.

Wishing us all the best blessings we can imagine and speak,

JoyceM

Welcome to my blog that I’ve titled, Words Are Magic.  Of course, words really are our magic wand and this blog is about that.  I am Joyce Morris and I am an expert on the silent role of Language in our lives.  This silent role is much bigger than the common role of just communicating with each other.  

The explanation of this larger role of Language is neither simple nor short.  I’ve found the best way to explain it is with a 45 minute audio tape of a presentation I have been giving for several years now.  The presentation is called “The Eight Words That WILL Change Your Life,” and you can listen to it for free.  Click the link and you’ll be taken to a sign up page.  It’s well worth the effort and you will get VERY few emails from me as a result of leaving me your email address. 

Or you could also just go to my website and browse around at www.LanguageOfAttraction.com

This blogsite will primarily cover two topics

• The amazing silent role of Language in our lives and how to consciously manage that role
• The Ringing Cedars of Russia Series of books which presents a concept of kin domains and much more.  I’ll be reporting on my activities around creating my kin domain plus much more related to the information in this series of books.

These two topics are very closely related and very close to my heart.  I am commmited to creating a kin domain in a kin domain settlement in Colorado.  That settlement doesn’t yet physically exist as of October 2008 but I have organized a group of people who are commited, as I am, to creating not one, but several kin domain settlements in Colorado and perhaps beyond.

The Ringing Cedars book series is based on the experiences and teachings of a woman recluse in Siberia, Russia.  She goes by just one name, Anastasia.  Her teachings have changed the lives of millions of people across the world, mine included. 

The books have only been available in English since 2005 and so our kin domain movement in America is in its infancy (but growing).  In Russia there are several thriving kin domain settlements.

If you are interested in reading the series (which  I STRONGLY recommend) or learning more about it, you can review and purchase the books at www.ringingcedars.com

Who might be interested in reading the Ringing Cedars Series (9 books)?  Anyone who

• believes Heaven On Earth is possible or just wishes it could be.
• is tired of feeling helpless against the commercial and strugglesome way of life we’ve created in America (and beyond).
• has been searching for answers to the really tough questions in life.
• wants viable answers to the serious pollution problems on the planet
• is looking for or has found a soul mate.
• has or wants children.
• wants to improve his/her health easily, naturally and dramatically!
• thinks they already understand the benefits of natural foods.
• wants to understand a better way life can and perhaps should be lived.
• wants to know what life will look like at the “next level.”

Over 60% of those who read the first book go on to read the rest of the series.  That’s a very big percentage and keep in mind that a huge number of the readers of book one are given the book as a gift rather than choosing it.  It is typical for someone who reads the series to purchase one or several of the books to give to loved ones. 

I was no exception.  I, who am quite jaded about new books, bought my copy to read then quickly bought three more copies of book one as gifts, and plan to purchase 3-6 more as holiday gifts.

If the books are for you, they are compelling beyond just about anything you’ve read prior.  Even their distribution is amazing.  They have never been distributed by publishers or marketing campaigns but exclusively by word of mouth beginning on a street corner in Russia in 1996.  they are now in several languages and millions of copies have bee sold.

That’s enough for my intro blog.  I’ll be back with another soon.

Wishing us all the greatest blessings we can imagine and speak,

JoyceM