PREFACE<br > he two },ears it took to research and write this book were the<br > ulmination of a spiritual and intellectual quest that began dur+<br >ing my boyhood in Arizona. In one of my earliest memories I<br >accom/~anied my father, a true lover of nature, to the top ~f a<br >rugged mesa where we discovered in the rums of an Indian village<br >a ,za~o and ,~etale. These ancient stone appliances, used to grind<br >corn, fired my curiosity about the Native people that still inhabit<br >the land we call America. Over the years, I absorbed everythin~ 1<br >could about tbem. Then, while in high school, a friend of the family<br >went to live among the Navajos and became a member of the<br >Native American Church. Now a professor at Arizcma State Uni-<br >ve;si.t ~, Katlal.een Ferraro s stories and insights were grist fi~r my<br >mill and fueled my sense of wonder,<br > The Indians I met and the material I read about them told me<br >that they were far different from the stereotypical images of t tolly-<br >wood. Some, though certainly not all, passed al(mg bits ~f wisdom<br >that were like adobe bricks used in the building of my own men-<br >tal house. As a second-generation American, baptized Russian ()r-<br >thodox as Maxim Gregori Persianoff, confirmed as a I.uthe ran,<br >and for a period of years agnostic, I have long been preoccupied<br >with the ques6ons so many others have pondere{t throt/ghouf<br >time. Why are we on earth? What is our relationship to the ([r~_+-<br >ator and the cosmos?<br > As a baby boomer, I have also been keenly aware that many<br >
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