![]() Ernest L. (Lee) King graduated from Lawrence University with a B.A. in cultural anthropology and associated studies in the earth sciences, psychology and world religions. The great philosophical questions of life and existence have fascinated him since childhood. At various times in his life, Lee has been a baseball player, champion wrestler, Army infantryman, physical fitness instructor, sales manager for a multinational corporation, real estate investor, co-owner This book explores the vital connections between these two worlds. In his sixty-five years, Lee has lived in ten states and one Canadian province. After experiencing a vision in his mid-thirties (described in Chapter Eight of this book), Lee decided it was time to leave the corporate world and change directions. He and his wife, Sarah, a psychologist and educator, decided that Henry David Thoreau’s nineteenth-century life in nature appealed to them. They spent the next seventeen years homesteading 160 acres of wilderness in the Canadian Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, where a number of the images in this book were made. They built a house, chopped wood, carried water, grew an organic garden, home-schooled the kids, converted their vehicles to run on non-polluting propane and obtained their electricity from photovoltaic solar panels.
“This inner growth takes some of us longer than others. I am also a very active person, with many diverging interests in life. Like the balance of polarities in nature, I believe it is essential to maintain a balance between our inner and outer lives if life itself is to have any real significance. Sometimes we get so distracted by the “Both internally and externally, we are participants in an amazing Universe. Get outside — and get inside yourself! Observe how everything in nature is interconnected and works together as one integrated process. Get acquainted with who you really are behind the mask of your isolated, individual ego-personality. Your true identity runs deeper than you know, much deeper than anything you have been told. Your personal history is nothing less than the history of the entire cosmos—Earth, moon and stars—including the vital living energy that continually brings everything in the Universe into being. You are a creative expression of this entire cosmic process! When you realize the true nature of your existence, it will change your life and inspire your highest hopes and dreams.” This book is a unique and inspiring guidebook for that inner journey. |