In 1977, Mary Summer Rain and her family were residents in a suburb in Detroit. A voice called them out of the blue to move to Colorado.
Since the words resonated with their hearts, they sold their house and left the old life for the mountains of Colorado, where they met No-Eyes, the prophetic visionary of Chippewa descent who spawned the birth of Mary Summer Rain, spiritual writer and preserver of earth wisdom.
In her book, Earthways: A Native American Visionary’s Path to Total Mind, Body and Spirit Health (New York: Pocket Books, 1990), Rain defined the homing instincts and lifestyle choices made by those who understand the importance of living close to the land. These include discovering one’s vibratory rate, living without metals and eating nature’s food.
Discovering One’s Mean Vibratory Rate
According to Rain, each person possesses a vibratory rate unique to the individual. To find out what this is, one should consider which aspects of one’s life and environment are indeed in tune with one’s contentment and desires. The happiness of mind and body is the sign that one is in tune with one’s natural vibrations. Honestly addressing certain questions related to one’s favourite geographical region, climate conditions, ideal environment, favourite color, clothing fabric, and choice of building materials for one’s home will yield a fairly accurate reading of one’s mean vibratory rate.
Should one be out of tune with one’s environment, steps must be taken to rectify the situation. Living outside one’s mean vibratory rate can bring on ill health. The key is knowing deep inside oneself what it is that resonates with body, mind and spirit.
Living Without Metals
Metals are harmful to the human system as they “draw” upon human energies, causing highly “erratic energies to be released in a haphazard manner.”
Since man is intended to live in harmony with the earth, he should avoid hard surfaces like metals in his home as “the hardness of metals prevents our gentle and soft union with the living entity of earth.”
Rain recommends replacing all metallic structures in the house with soft, warm woods. Building materials should also be natural – wood beams, logs, wood panelling, wood frame windows, stone or brick – anything other than metals.
Circular floor plans also work better than rectangular boxed structures. The key is aligning oneself with the fibres and energies of earth.
Eating Nature’s Food
No-Eyes recommends increased consumption of fish and fowl, maintaining that four-legged hooved animals have a higher form of spirits and are more communicative with humans than the “lesser beings of fin and feather.”
Having confirmed in her own dealings with four-legged animals that they are sentient and sensitive beings, Rain has excluded them as food source. Fish and fowl, she maintains provide excellent sources of protein and nutrients for human biological composition.
Nature’s food includes fruits, vegetables and grains grown locally and organically as well as all food cooked and eaten in their natural state. She insists that it is necessary to avoid anything that contains preservatives and artificial additives because these residual elements remain for a long time within the human system.
Living in harmony with earth is vital to human survival. In this time of “chaos point,” it is well-worth man’s effort to reclaim a form of stability he has lost.
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