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Has Anyone read Mary Summer Rain book? if so what did you think. little excerp from the book: "Spirit Song" (No Eyes Series) ... As she quotes No-Eyes on page 61: "Now, in old days Peoples love all stuff. They love trees, mountains, grass, animals, all stuff. Sacred powers were nature forces: wind, water, fire, lightning. Peoples know Father Sky and Earth Mother parents of all life. Every creature have spirit. All nature be People's church. It be bad stuff to force Great Spirit to crouch down into one building. Great Spirit everywhere! It forever duty of Peoples to every day give prayers to Great Mystery, to be thankful. These prayers more important to Peoples than food even. All Peoples see Great Spirit in black rain clouds, hear Him in thundering waterfalls. Peoples make all acts in life a sacred act. Peoples know sacred silence is voice of Great Spirit. This silence be ultimate balance of mind, body, and spirit. Peoples give away all one's stuff! They know stuff not where Great Spirit be. Stuff not important! Summer, that true love. That pure love!"

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2. Having grown up around Native Americans my whole life (Omaha on the Macy Reservation, and the Lakota Sioux at Pineridge Reservation), I can assure you that they do not speak like that. Furthermore, they are all, to a man, sick and tired of the New Age takeover of their spirituality, of which this set of books is a part. Do you know what they call white people who do this? "Apples". Red on the outside, white on the inside. And they absolutely despise them. The Lakota have recently attempted to take back their country, and have nullified all treaties with the USA: http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iVC1KMTOgwiSoMQyT2LwZc9HyAgA If you really want to do something to help them, get involved in programs to end the rampant alcoholism and poverty that they live in. I have personally seen on numerous occassions, Indian children pulling large worms out of their rear ends, and eating raw meat because their parents are either in jail or too drunk to care. Reality is quite a bit different than the New Agey fluffy bunny "native american spirituality".
3. I haven't read it. I think what you shared is very beautiful and moving. I believe in the Great Mystery of nature, which is the force that produces all life. I believe in the Earth's elements, air, water, fire, earth, spirit. I am a scientific pantheist. These things are both real and mysterious, because they are all around us, and indeed ARE us, since everything is made of the same star stuff. Thank you for sharing this.