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This book was a shocker!An absolute must read.I can say with complete honesty,this book rocked my world.Mary brings to light some personal issues that blew me away(because I never expected it)I felt bad(not intention of authoress)because to me this was a friend going through some real tragedy,and I had no way of offering suppport ect...This book taught me so much,ecspeically after reflecting on it.I learned How just because someone is a completed soul or enlightened person doesnt mean life is grand.They have personal problems too.These people ARE your people next door! Just like Summer Rain always said.It took this book to make me understand what she was trying to convey.And I believe there are still many people out there that think they are not SIRITUAL or capable of becoming enlightened beause they have personal problems,or financial.Somehow we have the misdirected mindset that when we are spiritual evrything goes our way.not!This book should reach out to people on a quest for truth,who may be having a problems.(thats not to suggest misery loves company)Just,your not alone....and spiritual people suffer too.they realy are no differant then you.

Mary Summer Rain has written a very enlightening book on her personal life. To me, that takes courage; to lay yourself bare like that. Nowhere in this book did I find any hate.

As an author of several books on shamanism and energy healing, Seeing in the Dark: Claim Your Own Shamanic Power Now and in the Coming Age, Energy for Life: Connect with the Source (Next Step), and Inner Power: Six Techniques for Increased Energy & Self-Healing I have a deep appreciation for vivid, well organized writing. Mary Summer Rain is an outstanding storyteller and vision weaver. I love reading every one of her books over and over again!

This book was true to its title. I enjoyed this book as it was written more in story form and so was more easily readable than Mary Summer Rain's first written journal Soul Sounds. I have enjoyed keeping up with her story and feel it was important for her readership to help them understand the kind of life she actually lived.

...MARY SUMMER RAIN, IS THE MOST VALUABLE SOURCE, I HAVE FOUND,FOR INNER PEACE, AND FINDING A SENSE OF PURPOSE, IN THIS SENSELESSWORLD.

I had not read any previous Mary Summer Rain books, and her constant referral to No Eyes with absolutely no explanation what she was talking about seems like a rookie mistake. I personally find the name No Eyes rather creepy, but according to her, No Eyes was very spiritual even though it is a character.(?) This is what I mean about providing no context to readers.

Initially, she did a better job than I expected of having the book move along. I also knew nothing of who she was, other than a writer, and the book gradually gives hints later that she considers herself an "adept".

Having lived in Colorado Springs for many years during childhood and after college, I know lots of "hippie chicks" like her. But I was at once shocked by her naivete and her willingness to carry and threaten attorneys during depositions with guns, even though she had no permits. It's a culture thing, but letting your attorney know you have a loaded gun in your purse during a deposition in order to have them take you seriously--is pretty wharped, IMO.

As I read her description of her husband (a) deciding she, Mary, would die soon and (b) that he needed to find a spiritual companion outside the family, and (c) he proceeded to find one, spend time with her "counseling" she and her husband and (d) being despondent, angry, violent and suicidal because he couldn't have her---I couldn't believe this woman's naivete. Even though at one point, years on, she finally let the thoughts filter in "He doesn't love me." she still didn't seem to feel that she had been taken for granted while her husband fooled around (at least mentally) in plain sight. And once she got the confession that he still wasn't over this GoodHeart he wanted to bring home like a lost puppy--she still didn't seem to grasp the consequences or to pursue whether or not her husband did still love her. Is this woman for real? There is a kind of ditziness that one is tempted to write off to a pure spirit. But as another reviewer commented, she also demonstrated great violence later.

I do somehow have to admire the tree hugging naivete--but souls, even evolved ones, also need to have a balance and I'm not sure she does.

I have met people like her husband--who so want to exercise their spirituality that they glom onto whomever will accept their "skills". And in her husband's case, he had his own issues to attend to first. I have gone to the homes of people like this, with the Z-bricked kitchens and pine wainscotting with branded horsies and woodstoves on them. [Tacky alert.]

The naivete applies to the horse as well, their simple-mindedness thinking that "loving" a horse would provide the direction and exercise a horse must have to live well. They said they read many books, but I can't help but feel sorry for the horse--and feel sorry for whomever inherits his vices once they've gotten through with him.

I suppose I will continue the book but I guess I am just surprised the book has made it to the public market. I'm still not sure if I should admire this woman or feel sorry for her, but this definitely seems like vanity press publishing.

It is totally beyond my comprehension how or why ANYONE could want this woman as a source of spiritual enlightment, information, or admiration after reading this book! I was so totally disgusted, shocked and angry. Her justification of guns and giving hate back at unkind people made my mouth fly open! Where is LOVE? Where is compassion? Where is insight? AND, where is "what goes around comes around". I think Mary Summer Rain is a disgrace as any kind of teacher or role model in any type of spiritual capacity. She, and her entire family, came off as angry, bitter, mean spirited lowlife's to me.