Quotes:
“When I was 13 I had an experience that set me on the journey. I was called into the trip of Mic-O-Say at the Osceola Boy Scout Camp in the Ozarks of Missouri. The initiation was as to spend a night in the forest, alone, make medicine, choose a name, and make vows of love for my mother, God and country. To me country meant the earth. This event opened me to the journey, gave me a deep love for the earth, and gave me this hunger for the living water of ultimate reality.”
“About that time I had a dream (vision) of standing in a council ring. On the far side of the fire mound were several figures, bearded and seemingly with great wisdom. I was cut off from them by the fire mound. There was this tremendous desire to be with them, part of them….I wanted to be part of their wisdom and life. It was something, I believe, like entering into the collective unconscious, and returning with a symbol of interpersonal love or communion. This vision is as real now as it was then.”
” It is a wonderful time to be alive, to be born at this time, and in a sense to be chosen to be born at this time. We have a tremendous responsibility. The earth calls us to this, and the universe. We have to make the return, to make the sacrifice, just as the first stars made the sacrifice to bring forth the universe some 15 billion years ago, so too we are called.”