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Dear Ross,
You are such a special spirit! – Man and healer. I love your work! Howard and I thank you…
Love, Camilla
Dear Ross,
Well, it’s is a bit after but thanks for the journeys you did with me last November. I hope the New Year’s started well for you. I’m in the thick of cosmic and more personal (or personally cosmic) Challenges.
The journey with you was really great!
Bill
Dear Ross,
Thanks for the guidance and your kindness. I look forward to our next journey- in the meantime I wish you much success on your impending journey next month and hope your holidays are happy, healthy and blessed.
Alex – Chicago
Dear Ross,
I just want to let you know how much we enjoyed being with you last Saturday and just how meaningful we felt the morning had been for us. It was wonderful for Peter and me to be able to take part in our own journeying and then be able to share this together. And I know you will be interested to know about a postscript to Peters journey. He had seen his mother in the meditation when told to find someone in his family that needed healing. When we returned to Huston on Sunday, he got a call from his sister saying that his mother had been diagnosed with lung cancer. Needless to say, he was in awe of what he had seen and he’s already been of great help to his mother. So we are both grateful for your wonderful work and grateful for the "coincidences" that bring us all together. Spirit works in awesome ways. We will be back in Santa Fe after Christmas and hope we have a chance to see you again. Until then -
Love.
Carol
Ross,
Hope all is going well for you. On the day of my second journey with you, I found this turtle and brought it for you. You were wearing a shirt with a turtle on it that day. It was a "perfect" day.
I wrote three poems and wanted to share them with you.
Thank you for being a guide and a good friend.
Love,
Nancy
Dear Ross,
Hope the past year has been good for you. Marc loves his digital studio, continues to do men’s work, and painting still makes my heart sing. I thought you might like to see a photo of the painting I did right after our soul retrieval work. One of the ages I met was an 11 year old who had been discouraged by my mother around my painting. Amazingly the flower is similar to the flowers I painted that she hated, and images came out of spirit guides, animal totems, etc in the flower. It also has an island look, I think. I thought it might give you a smile –
Blessed Be,
Virginia
Dear Ross,
I’m sure you don’t remember me. You spent a long time with me near the fish department in Wild Oats explaining soul retrieval and your work with me.
I just wanted to thank you again. Until I left the store I had not realized how long I had kept you and how late it was- and I know you had been planning to enjoy your evening at home outside with a bon fire.
When I feel the time is right for me for a soul retrieval I will contact you to see if you are willing. Meanwhile, I enjoyed talking with you very much.
Thank you again,
Rebecca
Dear Ross,
I am grateful for the soul retrieval. As Ken may have told you many changes are happening in our lives. I’m sure having our soul parts back has helped with the shift. The follow up work is just not happening here. Perhaps we can do the other sessions when I get back there…?
Hope your having a delightful summer.
Love,
Chandra
Dear Ross,
This night finds me at home with no power in our little trailer house, the frogs singing outside after the storm that hit our area last night. It also finds me very very thankful to have endured the greatest trial of my life and to have come out the other end a changed woman, a woman who has gained in wisdom and beauty. So this comes to thank you for the support you so generously offered me during this time in need. The journey you led me into was a turning point on my path, and because of it I went into surgery totally confident that I had made all the right choices. Surgery went well and I am recovering very quickly. My surgeon feels I will never see a recurrence of my sarcoma. Soon I will hold a ceremony for the few close friends to honor the importance of this journey, my ally the owl, and all those who have been so supportive. Greeting and blessings to your friends on the healing network who knew about my situation. And big hugs to you, Ross, and looking forward to seeing you again.
Love,
Susanne
Ross,
I am deeply grateful for the warm welcome you have given me on this stage of my journey. I experienced a real peace that touched me deeply.
The journeying last night will be with me always and I look for signs of my power animal that will remind me that magic is present and I am being guided.
It is an honor to have met you and I hope to meet again.
Your brother,
Dave
Dear Ross,
I find it difficult to describe what happened to me on this last trip to Santa Fe. The magic of the country has always affected me but never as so profound as this time. I realize with the passing of the last two mornings that the significance of the experience only increases. Remember I told you I was a bit apprehensive about knowing the journey would cause me to seriously question my path? It has started. For years I have realized I was in “limbo” about work and relationship, never finding what I was seeking, yet knowing I was coming closer to the truth and peace within. Thank you for providing the doorway. I knew after our brief visit in the gallery on Thursday that a major change was going to take place. Not only was the journey profound but also the pleasure of talking with someone on the level we did, without pretense or judgment, also meant a great deal to me. Thank you for sharing. I feel I have found a new friend. I know you meet hundreds – thousands of people and they react similarly. But I would like to think we made a connection that hopefully may continue, and I want to return for more work.
Thank you again for giving of yourself and starting me on a wonderful new path. I wish you every happiness of the season, much love and enjoyment with your family, and continued success with your work.
Fondly,
Suzanne –Dallas, Texas
Ross-
I don’t know how to begin to thank you. I feel like I’m on the verge of a brand new journey. I have a powerful feeling inside and it’s all because of the special gifts that you have shared with me. Thank you.
All I can say is neat!
Thank you always,
Kristine
Hi Ross,
We are home now and the air is humid, leaves have yet to turn although they are yellowing and today it is raining like the dickens. Thank you for the guided journey last week. I am working on various projects last week.
I’m reading Soul Retrieval now and it speaks quite clearly as you suggested it would. I’ll be in touch later to perhaps gather names for some Hawaiian connections – there was an item in Talk of the Town (New Yorker) this week about a Kahuna blessing a house in NYC. Thanks again for making a safe space for me to continue the journey and wake up.
Best.
Polly
Greetings Brother Ross,
I am a sister to you from being in Antelopes "family". I live in Northern Minnesota. Gray Antelope and Gray Rabbit came here many times and held gatherings and taught us many things. He was a Loving caring sharing wetlips man of love. We too truly miss him and were honored to have known him. He would truly like your site. I did. I will pass it on to others from the family.
Thanks so much! Blessings to you my friend!
Cathy
Cindy Bellenger’s story in The Santa Fe New Mexican:
LewAllen Jewelry
Take a quick stroll through this small downtown shop and see for yourself. Something is different. Something about this jewelry can't be found anywhere in town, and probably nowhere else on earth.
"I dream them. I touch things and take the feelings into silver and gold," said Ross LewAllen. "Once I woke at four in the morning and thought 'What would happen if I made an earring that slipped on the ear.'"
He made six that morning and that day at lunch ran into Judy Margolis, the owner of Origins, and showed them to her. "She said 'This doesn't exist anywhere.'"
And in 1978 the Earcuff was born. It attaches to the rim of the outer ear and some come with dangling feathers and droplets of gems. He started an intensive marketing program and the Earcuff was a world-wide phenomenon, garnering him 650 accounts.
When it comes to jewelry, LewAllen is an innovator. His daughter Laura also designs jewelry and being a rock climber came up with what she calls "the next Earcuff."
"I took a piece of climbing rope and designed silver beads for it," she said. "Now people can design their own and use as many beads as they want." She calls her bracelets Ascents.
Charla Lee of Texas is a great fan of the Ascent bracelets and dog collars. "My husband and I just stumbled into their store in the mid '80s and just feel in love with the Climbing Rope jewelry. It's so clever," she said. "Everywhere we go people comment on them and they make perfect presents."
The store, LewAllen and LewAllen Jewelry is located on East Palace and teems with distinctive pieces, each one solid and with a substantial feel. No matter if it's a ring, earring, bracelet or necklace, LewAllen jewelry comes close to wearable sculpture.
Ross LewAllen opened his store 26 years ago. For 19 of those years it's been in the same location.
He began his art career in Chicago when he attended the art institute, majoring in painting and jewelry. While standing in the lunch line one day, he met a woman named Arlene. They eventually married and embarked on a life of art and travel. When Ross wanted to attend graduate school, he applied to three and Highlands University accepted him.
"In those days it was a great school. All the great working artists today went there," he said, citing Jerry West as one of many.
While living in Las Vegas, N.M., Arlene LewAllen taught school and when they finally moved to Santa Fe, they both taught. Then Ross opened his shop, and Arlene LewAllen became one of best-known art dealers and gallery owners. She died not long ago, and in a few week, Ross plans to display nine pieces of jewelry to commemorate her passing.
"I want people to know you can get divorced still loving each other," said LewAllen, who spends much of his time in San Diego on a sailboat named Friendship. "It's where I design and write."
LewAllen can remember opening shop with "300 bucks, a MA degree and a pair of pliers." He says it's never felt like a business, and doesn't see "bottom line" as being all that important.
"As Joseph Campbell says, just follow your bliss," LewAllen said, "and the money has followed."
Then 13 years ago he had what he calls a mid-life "evaluation" and began studying healing practices. He and Laura traveled and taught all over the world, including Africa, Egypt, Russia, Peru and the Galapagos Islands.
Ross LewAllen says he doesn't take vacations, he takes journeys and can now say he's studied core shamanism with indigenous healers all over the world.
"Those experiences are now in my jewelry," he said, showing a medallion of two whales. It had always been a childhood fantasy of his to touch a whale; and one time while following the gray whales from San Diego to the San Ignacio lagoon in Baja California, he actually got to touch one.
"It was like touching an ancestor, who millions of years ago chose the sea over the land and is now waiting for me to see how I might communicate that moment," he said.
One of his innovative jewelry designs is what he calls "Rule Changers." Each piece has some moveable part and is connected to an idea from the Huna-or Hawaiian shamanism-that says: To change some behavior, some kind of action needs to accompany the decision to imprint it in the mind.
Pendants of power animals such as whales, eagles, owls, horses and buffalo all have some kind of mechanism that slides or flips to help change inner rules.
Matt Davis, another customer from Texas says a friend took him over the store about three years ago. "I love the Rule Changers. I buy them for all my friends and family. The LewAllen work is the best I've ever seen. If you can't get it there, there's no use looking anywhere else," he said.
Another item Davis likes is the Ewop. Similar to the Climbing Rope bracelets, the Ewops are on thinner cordage with smaller beads. Ewop, coined by Ross LewAllen, is an acronym for "every thing's working out perfectly."
"There's no other way things can work out but perfectly," he said. And it looks like this is holding true on the business side of things, too.
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