Stone Riley's Spirit Hill Free Downloads

Spirit Hill Studio is a fine artist's home
production workshop located in
Massachusetts, U.S.A.

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If you'd like widely selected writings, humorous, serious, short or longer, assorted styles
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Army Stories Performance Script

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» Army Stories Performance Script

Longer Synopsis...  Blog Post

Brief Synopsis: Contains many remembrances of an old Chaplain from Vietnam War on through Occupy, quite unique, with sorely grieving conscience, with artful bold Acts Of Resistance usefully described, and love for one another, all children of Earth, and balm for grief. The death of Living Earth is discussed throughout.

The Paperback is 225 pages 6 x 9 inches; you buy on-line then receive by mail.

The Pdf file is best for reading on large screens or printing excerpts; it downloads immediately.


Alphabeticon In Brief Image

Book Pdf - 68 Pages The Web Page

» Comfort For The Bereaved

Here is a companion book for Army Stories Performance Script.  This is a work in process, this book's new 2nd Edition.
A little book of paintings and philosophy about death and grief.  An artist offers encouraging contemplations and ideas about death and grief, all drawn from the experience of creativity.
It's very hard to say goodbye.  We feel deserted.  We feel afraid.  The world is changing and has changed, or perhaps the world we love is ending.  Here in the new edition, material has been added on our sorrow for the death of Living Earth..
So what do we do now?


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» Tales Of Men And Women

Synopsis: Five hundred pages of illuminating and inspiring poetry, prose and pictures by a life-long activist: We can awake; we can rejoice amid life's pain and darkness, and treasure light. We can learn and teach. We can build foundations for the Good New Age; it is now as though the hallways of Lascaux stand empty waiting for your brush

The Paperback is 500 pages 6 x 9 inches; you buy on-line then receive by mail.

The Pdf file is best for reading on large screens or printing excerpts; it downloads immediately.

The Epub file is best for small screens like phones and book reader devices; it downloads immediately.


Tales Of Men And Women Preview Image

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» Tales Of Men And Women - Preview Booklet

Synopsis: Here is the official preview for Tales Of Men And Women. Riley here presents 31 representative excerpts from the big red book.

The Paperback is 70 pages 6 x 9 inches; you buy on-line then receive by mail.

The Pdf file is excellent for reading on large screen devices or printing excerpts; it downloads immediately.

The Epub file is best for small screens like phones and book reader devices; it downloads immediately.


Impressions Of Malcolm X Image

3 letter size pages - Free Pdf On my blog

» Impressions Of Malcolm X

This is also a chapter in my "Army Stories" book.
I am a younger contemporary of Malcolm X.
• It was long ago but, like me, some years before me, the young Malcolm stepped out to a manhood full of warring sides.  And yet he soon voiced a cry for Peace that rose in him from the universal human heart, and I admired that greatly.
• He has been a hero to me ever since the two days when I gulped down his Autobiography, two days following the murder of Dr. King and I ran to Malcolm seeking something like a soldier's understanding.  I was a soldier then.
• But how to understand the utterly strange trans-human, still clear admiration where I hold him? How to understand this profound emotion that I know only toward this hero of my life?


Poems For Our Struggle Image

35 letter size pages - Free Pdf The paperback book

» Poems For Our Struggle

This material is specially selected from my book "Tales Of Men And Women".
From the Precis: The purpose I would love to serve: To put a basket full of beauty in your hands, to feed your heart and soul when they need strength.


Drone Strike Flyer Image

Handout Poster - Free Pdf Story Transcript - Free Pdf The Web Page
 
Big Poster - Free Jpg

» Drone Strike In North Waziristan

The Handout Poster is a Pdf file containing one letter size page, showing this electrifying anti-war painting and its deeply stirring poem.  This painting is often displayed at Riley's anti-war poetry and storytelling performances.
The Big Poster is a jpg file that you can download and take to a printing company.  This file is 27 x 14 inches (= 69 x 36 cm) but printing techs can change the size.
The story transcript is a Pdf file of five letter size pages, recording a performance at an art gallery where the painting was shown, telling the story from his youth of how the artist became an activist.


Alphabeticon Scatterboards Image

Free Pdf Sheets:
Elemental Altar Earth Dragons In The Beginning Brave Heart Sun In Her Hair
 
Overview - The Web Page

» Alphabeticon Scatterboards

These are fine art paintings related to Tarot cards.  The five paintings symbolically portray five kinds of situations that we find ourselves in as we go through life.
Essentially These are scenes symbolically typical of human life, from fine art paintings, for you to print on heavy ledger paper, and with adequate instructions for fortune telling at the bottom.
Alphabeticon is a divination method where letters of the alphabet are given meanings from Tarot cards. If you are familiar with divination by Runes, you will see the many possibilities this opens.
These Scatterboards are big ledger size sheets (11 x 17 inches) showing a beautiful painting about life and giving instructions for how to use the picture in Alphabeticon divination. Each sheet is in its own Pdf file which you must open separately.


The Fig Tree Image

4 letter size pages - Free Pdf On my blog

» The Fig Tree - Where The Paintings Came From

This is also a chapter in several of my books.

When you read  a well constructed story book, like with a novel, you find basic themes of human life and nature dancing with each other all through the book from its opening on to final resolution.  If it's a lengthy book you even find dances weaving through the dances.

Ever since  it leaped from my fingertips onto the page, this piece has found its indispensable place at crucial nexus points in three of my well constructed story books.  It is a factually accurate memoir poem of erotic love perfecting lives.

A reviewer of  the first book where it appeared said this...  "The tale of meeting the love of his life is a celebration of the union of two souls long destined for each other; the love we all dream to have but never dare to speak for fear the gods deny us."


Alphabeticon In Brief Image

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» Alphabeticon In Brief Instruction Sheet

Alphabeticon is a divination method where letters of the alphabet are given meanings from Tarot cards. If you are familiar with divination by Runes, you will see the many possibilities this opens.
This Instruction Sheet is a Pdf file of one letter size page, explaining the basics and emphasizing the way Riley likes to use Alphabeticon, as a purely mental tool for divinatory conversation.


Poems For The Reader Image

Four letter size pages - Free Pdf

» Poems For The Reader

Here is the Major Arcana, the most ancient and central section of a Tarot deck, explained for you in deep memorable short poems.  Here also is the spiritual profession of a Tarot reader in other vivid verses, shining light on the challenges and soul-deep rewards of this work.
For one thing, this is a psychological instruction sheet for doing Tarot divination, for both experienced and skeptical readers.  Those poems here are paths of thinking along which you can move your thoughts while interacting with Tarot cards, or Tarot pictures, or etc.  Paths leading you to insights, information, visions.  It helps to have the classic symbols decoded into apt sharp little poems.  The first three pages are that.
But the fourth page is about the Tarot Reader's spiritual profession.  I chose those poems carefully, trying to foresee the dilemmas of this work and offer aid and comfort for them. Trying to reveal the great and deep rewards of love and understanding that are found through your brave efforts.
Note... This material is also in my larger book, "Documents For The Reader".
Thank you for your interest.


Boo Postcards Image

3 Sheets - Free Pdf

» Boo Postcards For Trump

A Pdf file of three letter size pages containing a dozen fine art picture postcards with scary faces.  Download and print the bits you want.  Then cut them out, add your message on the back and mail.  Send them to Mr. Trump or some one else you want to scare away.


Dark Of Light Image

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» Dark Of Light

Synopsis: Text from the book's back cover: How would life be in a civilization with very high expertise at crafting spiritual experience? We find that place amid the fierce wild tumult of Pagan Greece in late antiquity on the world famous pilgrimage to holy Eleusis. A priestess and conqueror fall in love, go seeking healing of grievous wounds, and find joy twenty-three centuries later. Each has their own utterly demanding work to do - their own sacred duty, power, suffering, hopes, fears - so their meeting on this mystic journey is a union of worlds.

The Paperback is 245 pages 6 x 9 inches; you buy on-line then receive by mail.

The Pdf file is best for reading on large screen devices or printing excerpts; it downloads immediately.

The Epub file is best for small screens like phones and book reader devices; it downloads immediately.


Dancing Ground Image

4 sheets - Free Pdf On The Blog

» Also The Dancing Ground Again

This is a chapter from my historical romance novel "Dark Of Light".

A little village in the Classic Age of Ancient Greece, a culture with very high skills at crafting spiritual experience.
The opening paragraph: There was a moment when she knew her marriage bed and all of that would never be.  Or rather when she knew that if all that were never done then still her priesthood would be worth the lack of it.  Or rather when she first with conscious judgment chose her priesthood absolutely past all that, regardless what might be.  It was so hard for boys to take a girl like her but by that time, that afternoon of choice, her dearest childhood chum already had a husband and a newborn.


Uther Book Image

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» The Passing Of Uther Pendragon

Synopsis: This book is a big full color fine art graphic novel. Text from the book's back cover: A new true tale of the death of King Arthur's father in poetry and prose and two hundred pictures. Timeless myth manifested at the far leading edge of modern aesthetic.

The Paperback is 207 pages, 6 x 9 inches in landscape orientation, most pages being full color modern art pictues. You buy on-line then receive by mail.

The Pdf file: This is a big file (195mb) containing 207 pages, 6 x 9 inches, most pages being full color modern art pictues. This file is excellent for viewing on large screen devices or printing excerpts. It downloads immediately.

Play Script: This is the text from the graphic novel arranged as a one-act play for informal amateur performance. This is a Pdf file of 24 letter size pages, excellent for viewing on large screen devices or printing. It downloads immediaely.

Play Reading: The author performs a 40 minute dramatic reading of the text from the graphic novel. The download gives you a zipped folder containing the Mp3 file.


Bright Jewels Image

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» Bright Jewels

Synopsis: Beautiful moments in a strange life. An illustrated memoir by Stone Riley. A leading Pagan artist explores his life and work in twenty-eight episodes, powerful tales and poems illustrated by a unique variety of black and white pictures.

The Paperback is 154 pages 6 x 9 inches; you buy on-line then receive by mail.

The Pdf file is best for reading on large screen devices or printing excerpts; it downloads immediately.

The Epub file is best for small screens like phones and book reader devices; it downloads immediately.


Bright Jewels Image

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» Documents For The Reader

Synopsis: This is the companion book for all of Stone Riley's Tarot decks.  This book will first teach you Stone Riley's personal method for counseling with Tarot cards.  You help your fellow human beings through the difficulties of our lives by means of passionately sympathetic and intensely conscious conversation.  And no prior experience with Tarot cards is required.  From there you are invited to a journey of aching suspense and breath-stopping beauty that travels into one person's past and into the future of our human race.  Along the way there's lots of strong poetry and pictures.  Includes 41 black and white illustrations and 33 poems by the author / artist.

The Paperback is 122 pages 6 x 9 inches; you buy on-line then receive by mail.

The Pdf file is 38 letter size pages. It is excellent for reading on large screen devices or printing excerpts; it downloads immediately.


New Recruiting Posters Flyer Image

Handout Flyer - Free Pdf The Web Page

» New Recruiting Posters

The Flyer is a Pdf file containing two letter size pages, showing three anti-war pictures and three pro-peace pictures, with concise poetic commentary.  The first page should be printed on the front side of each sheet, with the second page on the back.
Quote from the flyer: "I made this art thing here at the end of September 2014 previous to which, thirteen years before, two vast New York City skyscrapers were exploded into dust and in response to which America's rulers declared a never ending War Of Terror against whoever in the world they might forever for whatever reason wish to crush."


Not Afraid Black & White Flyer Image

Handout Flyer - Free Pdf

» Not Afraid Black & White Flyer

A mantra: We are not alone and we are not afraid; we stand by Mother Earth now in her time of need The download is a Pdf file containing two letter size pages. Note: The first page should be printed on the front side of each sheet, with the second page on the back.


My Dear Child Image

Poem - Free Pdf

» My Dear Child

An illustrated poem about life in the coming collapse. The download is a Pdf file containing an illustrated poem of 5 letter size pages.


Past Present Future Image

Poem - Free Pdf

» Past Present Future

A Pagan modernist painter sees mighty story in the world today. The download is a Pdf file containing an illustrated poem of 15 letter size pages.


Loves Duty Lived Image

Poems - Free Pdf

» Loves Duty Lived: A Sextet Of Pictures And Poems

True strong activism must be a magic work of transcending love. The download is a Pdf file containing six illustrated poems in 11 letter size pages.


Election Campaign Video Image

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» Election Campaign Video

Synopsis: During the Occupy movement: An anarchist artist is seriously running for something.  This is a short film containing a poetry reading plus a brief discussion of political philosophy.

The Download: This is a small Mp4 file (size 55mb) inside a zipped folder. The zipped folder is to prevent the video from playing immediately.


Views Of Camp Image

  Occupy Pamphlets
Flyers are a letter size sheet
you can fold and hand out.
Simple form is 3 to 5 letter
size pages.
Flyer Simple Form ..What Is Money?
Flyer Simple Form ..My Multi-Flyer File
Flyer Simple Form ..Letter To City Council
Flyer Simple Form ..Strategic Outlook
The web page

»Views Of Camp

A pamphlet series from the original Occupy Movement.

Created and handed out on the street in 2011 and 2012.  Remarkably pertinent still today.  From a poem on the web page...

I hope you're standing at the "Information Table" when you pick this up.
You know, the table that's covered with free flyers and pamphlets and newspapers,
each untidy paper stack held safe from the breeze by a pebble or a bit of stick
– and if the weather looks like rain I guess there's a plastic sheet laid carefully
over the whole anarchic lot – and I hope there's one or two of these little
pamphlets on it somewhere.


Simple Tarot Sample Book Image

Free Pdfs: Sheet 1 Sheet 2 Sheet 3 Sheet 4 Sheet 5 Sheet 6 Sheet 7 Sheet 8
 
Sheet 9 Sheet 10 Sheet 11 Sheet 12 Sheet 13 Sheet 14
 
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» The Simple Tarot Sample Book

This large format book, showing all of the deck's cards plus some explanatory and related material, is intended for display in stores where the Simple Tarot deck is sold. The book is printed in black and white on 14 sheets of big ledger size paper (11 x 17 inches). Each sheet is in its own pdf file which you must open separately.


Spirit Hill Tarot Sample Book Image

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Sheet 9 Sheet 10
 
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» The Spirit Hill Tarot Sample Book

This large format book, showing all of the deck's cards plus some explanatory and related material, is intended for display in stores where the Spirit Hill Tarot deck is sold. The book is printed in full color on 10 sheets of big ledger size paper (11 x 17 inches). Each sheet is in its own pdf file which you must open separately.


Banner Prints Sample Book Image

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Sheet 8 Sheet 9 Sheet 10 Sheet 11 Sheet 12 The Web Page

» The Banner Prints Sample Book

This large format book, showing the full array of banners plus some explanatory and related material, is intended for display in stores where Banner Prints are sold. The book is printed in full color on 12 sheets of big ledger size paper (11 x 17 inches). Each sheet is in its own pdf file which you must open separately.


Who Is Riley Image

Sheet - Free Pdf

» Who Is Riley?

A Pdf file containing one letter size page of information about his life, work and ideals through half a century as an activist artist. Downloads immediately


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