The Stone Breath is the first book's practice, counted here with the creek. The eight weeks follow the disciplines of The Far Messengers. The readings for your work come out of The Council Fire. The books themselves live at Ancestral Watch.
Feel its grain. Its perfect shape. Its weight in your palm. It has outlasted everything soft that ever touched it, and it is not in a hurry, and it is not afraid.
From the front matter: The Stone Breath, the whole practice.
The Stone Breath is the first book's practice: in four, hold four, out six, hold four. Here it is counted with the creek, and week one is spoken over it.
Come. Sit at the fire. There is room. There is always room.
From the book's opening pages.
Twelve peoples, twelve tokens, one fire. The readings for goals, structure, meetings and governance come from here.
We kept the cargo and we lost the carry.
From A Final Word.
The eight weeks follow the disciplines the carriers trained: one training a week, in the order every tradition used.
The books tell the stories. The tools, the breathing techniques and the deeper stories live here. The books themselves are at Ancestral Watch.
In four. Hold four. Out six. Hold four. The count stays the same on every page, and the books are where it came from.