Dear Sister,
Hope what I'm about to say doesn't sound terribly disingenuous, but what makes (made) Stone an Ascended Master? The only indicator I ever saw/read was from within his own organization. Now as a supposed systems-buster myself, I guess I would be well-advised to use caution in this respect as to what signifies that achievement. However, I don't "get" that Stone progressed to that level (whatever that level may have happened to be) at the time of his transition. I will agree that he was working on mastery more than quite a number of others, and he wrote extensively about it, but his truth didn't align and resonate with other Truths that I have experienced. For instance, his apparent attraction/distraction to what Chogyam Trungpa would have in the 1970's characterized as "spiritual materialism" left me fairly cool towards Stone's writings and consequently many of his other efforts. Therefore, I would welcome input and evidence, as it were, to clearly demonstrate. I have to also caution you that any pronouncements by his partner Wistancia in this respect will be regarded by Yers Trooly with considerable reservation, as I was never convinced by what I took to be something akin to a metaphysical "parlor trick" which she used in most of her readings and writings . . . "Wistancia is weeping." On at least two occasions, when faced with her signature declaration/qualification, I wanted to aver, "Kindly dispense with the distraction of tears, and cut straight to more 'subtantial' discourse, Dear Lady."
Rolling in the years (and the end of the Mercury Retrograde),
Markyth