Mary Summer Rain and "Phoenix Rising" (Page 1 of 2)

Okay, it's high time we have a Mary Summer Rain thread going!    Her book "Phoenix Rising" deserves special attention in particular, although this thread isn't meant to be solely devoted to just that book.  I've mentioned it in several threads recently and realize that most people here probably haven't read it yet.  I only recently read it myself, and think it's worthy of recommending.   http://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Rising-No … amp;sr=1-2
It could be of great use to people for trying to decipher what in the frickity frack is going on nowadays.  Most everything we see happening around us was already prophesized by Summer's Chippewa shaman mentor, No-Eyes, almost 25 years ago.   

One of the reviews you'll see in the above Amazon link gave it 2 stars out of 5 because he/she found Mary's writing style annoying, and her interactions with No-Eyes to be annoying as well.  Admittedly, I'm with the reviewer on that. I may be starting a thread about Mary Summer Rain but it's because I like No-Eyes and her message and I want to bring attention to that aspect of these books, not because I'm a huge fan of Mary.  Mary's personality gets on my nerves a lot, to the point where I also find myself having to put her books down and give it a break, just like the 2 star reviewer said.  BUT....many people really like Mary and her style, so don't take my word for it.  To each his own!

The quick background on these books - Mary Summer Rain is half Native American, married with kids and living in Colorado.  She crossed paths one day in the woods with No-Eyes, the old blind Chippewa shaman woman who lived alone in a secluded log cabin.   No-Eyes had Native friends who took care of her and made the trip up from Pueblo twice a month to keep her stocked up on food and other supplies.  No-Eyes had mentored other people over the years, and Mary would wind up being her last.   Mary's written a bunch of books, but the gist of the ones centering on No-Eyes involve No-Eyes' teachings and their time together.  If you like the Carlos Castaneda books about Carlos and his Yagui Indian Toltec sorcerer teacher don Juan, then these are complimentary.  It's the female-female balance to the male-male Carlos books.   

So with that established, I'd like to re-print the chronological list of events from "Phoenix Rising" that are supposed to be taking place in this time period.  As noted in the other thread where I mentioned this, some items on the list may happen before ones at the beginning, and vice versa, because the future isn't set in stone and things do change around.  Also, each section is given a metaphorical title according to the stages of the phoenix's birth from the mother planet.   Contractions, Emerging, Eyes Searching, Listening, Breath Heaving, Wings Flexing, The Wailing, Talons Tensing, Crouching, Flying Free.   

The bolded items are ones that seem to have happened or are currently happening.

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The Phoenix Chronicles

Contractions/Economics Aspects

-Massive blue collar strikes
-Relocation of key factories overseas
-Computerization of factories
-Extended import/export embargoes/taxations
-Increased unemployment
-Widespread factory shutdowns
-Excessive taxation
-Small business failures
-Insolvency of many banks
-Stock Market misdealings/decline
-Drastic construction decline
-Devaluation of real estate  [Totally happening right now...huge real estate issue going on....]
-Increase in corporate crime [WorldCom, Tyco, Enron, etc....]
-Drop in level of manufactured goods
-Increase of corporate monopolies/takeovers
-Increase in personal bankruptcies [Read a story a couple of months ago talking about how Massachusetts for example hit a historical high for personal bankruptcies....]
-Widespread layoffs
-Runaway credit purchases
-Cash as only accepted tender

Emerging/Natural Disasters

-Major devastation in California [Since '85 there have been a few big quakes in Cali - '89 Loma Prieta, '92 Landers/Big Bear, '94 Northridge, and '99 Hector Mine; (I experienced the last three.)   Despite their damage it doesn't necessarily qualify as "devastation" however.  But still worth mentioning.]
-Earthquakes in new areas
-Inactive craters become unsettled
-Mountains become unstable
-Return of the dust bowl - The way things are going drought-wise in many areas of this country we're well on the way there.
-Record-breaking flooding  [MAJOR thing that's been going on since around 2000 around the world.  The deluge in Europe in 2002, and each year, 2002, 03, 04, 05, 06 and 07 there has been record flooding somewhere in the States, the most recent being Texas last month.]
-Tornadoes increase intensity and occasion [YUP, another big one...an NR poster named Alushe reported back in 2004 I think that New Zealand received its first ever tornado in history....] 
Liquefication of soil beneath faults
-Intensified hurricane devastation [That's an understatement.]
-Freak wind gusts/accidents [Lot of weird wind activity, it's been talked about on NR too....]
-Soil erosion
-Increased radon levels
-Rock/mud slides
-Insect Infestation [Over 200,000 acres of trees were wiped out by Gypsy moth caterpillars this summer in PA and surrounding areas, the worst in history....]
-Sink holes - this is on the increase as the drought problems increase....
-Rapid temperature inversions [YES, another big one....unstable climate around the country...]
-Frigid winers/deadly blizzards [YES, another big one.....crazy winter storms on the increase]
-Summer storms with intensified hail/lightning [YES...Just where I live alone I think there's been more strong T-storms this year than in the past three years combined, reaching the sort of intensity that we used to see down in Florida, with the black clouds, torrential rain, lots of lightning and strong wind, but it's happening elsewhere too.]
-Seeping natural gas (fires/explosions)  [Remember that weird story earlier this year about mysterious natural gas smells in various parts of the country? And several NR posters I think mentioned experiencing weird smells in general where they live, but not being able to pinpoint the source.]
-Underground fires
-Widespread surface blazes [Yearly wildfires that take out thousands of acres are the norm nowadays in the West]
-Major quake of the New Madrid fault (southern Illinois or northeastern Arkansas) which may jeopardize the entire Mississippi River Valley area
-Greenish hue to atmosphere - Phoenix Days [NOTE:  Does this have anything to do with chemtrails?]
-Higher pollution levels

Eyes Searching/Transportation Accidents

-Plane crashes increase [Might be....not sure what the normal average is or whether crashes are actually on the rise....]
-Shipping disasters increase
-Higher incidents of train derailments/accidents [I had a thread back in 2005 about the unusual amount of train derailments going on....]

Listening/Freak Deaths & Accidents

-Amusement park disasters [Lono had a thread going about this]
-Increase in homicide/suicide [Seems to be, but again I don't have figures handy.]
-Freak household accidents
-Disease outbreaks [SARS, Avian flu, West Nile, Morgellons, flesh eating bacteria, Mad Cow, Ebola, and other headline diseases-of-the-week]
-Several catastrophic propane explosions
-Germ Warfare release accident [Could be any of the above mentioned weirdo diseases that have emerged in the past 5 years or so, who knows..]

Breath Heaving/Discord Between Nations

-Grave economical differences
-Arms escalation
-Warring altercations
-Terrorism increases [An understatement - both independent terrorist group activity as well as government sponsored, ala 9/11, etc.]
-Undeclared wars  [AFGHANISTAN - never declared, Bush just went in and bombed the crap out of them after 9/11 under the guise of "bin Laden," but it was really to lock down the oil and for other more fringe, sinister conspiracies;  IRAQ, which Bush declared, but Congress didn't.]
-Clandestine dealing between countries [well yeah, duh.... ]
-High level secrecy [See above.  ]

Wings Flexing/Spiritual Unrest and Awakening

-Questioning masses
-Political church actions
-Government interventions
-Repression from certain religious sects
-Increase UFO sightings [UFO sightings have gotten out of control over the past ten years.....]
-Interaction with other intelligences [See above.  Every bookstore has shelves and shelves of books on supposed alien encounters, whether real or otherwise....]
-Acceptance of paranormal
-Acceptance of ongoing spirit/afterlife [Lots of TV shows about it all nowadays]
-More religious sects going to court to force their personal restrictions on general public

The Wailing/Nuclear incidents

-Several close meltdowns/leaks
-Seeping radioactive dump sites
-Two catastrophic meltdowns [NOTE:] At least one of them was Chernobyl, which happened in '85, a year after No-Eyes gave this prophesy]
-Radioactive pollution of land/rivers
-Several major accidents of nuclear missile truck carriers and transportation of radioactive waste
-Radioactive releases caused from geological instability

Talons Tensing/Civil Unrest

-People's revolt and resistance movements
-Draft evasion 
-Public's discovery of coverups

Crouching/Massive revolts and Governmental Turnaround

-Taxation refusal
-War resistance
-Policy disagreements within government body
-Major upheaval within government

Flying Free/Rise of the age of Peace

-Total equality among people
-Discontinuance of all meat ingestion
-Construction reforms
-Cessation of most several natural disasters
-Pollution-free energy innovations by way of the earth's magnetic field
-Rise of the Indian Nation through widespread adaptation of its Ways of natural living and deep human philosophy

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I don't know how many of the items at the end of the list are wishful thinking or what. 

What's not mentioned on this list is the pole shift....something No-Eyes took Mary on an out of body journey to witness from the vantage point of space.  They watched as the oceans sloshed one way, then all the way back over the other....obviously taking everything out with it in the process.  Whether that really comes to pass or not doesn't matter I suppose...but it's a useful reminder to pay closer attention to the things we place importance on.  Kind of gives that needed Big Picture perspective for us to keep in mind as we go about our days.