By way of stories, commentaries, reviews and song lyrics, Sacred Circle advances the propositions that humankind is the evolutionary system of  Mother Earth, aka Gaia, and that the system works dialectically, with  the aboriginal part of the species being responsible for keeping the ancient wisdom and the “civilized” part being responsible for venturing forth and finding out whatever else can be known.

Human and planetary evolution will reach its optimal end point when there is a general recognition that, in the words of the aboriginals, “we are all related.”  I say “optimal” because there are indeed other possible scenarios, some of them quite dreadful. 

I am a long-time “Seton Indian,” a white guy who shares with Ernest Thompson Seton a deep respect for Native American culture, and so I’ve opted in this book to say most of what I have to say in the plain style of Native American storytellers.

Perhaps the most important subject in this book is peacemaking—how to do it right.  A veteran of the Vietnam protests, I’ve had much experience in going about it in the wrong way.  In later years, I came to know Thomas Banyancya, the great messenger of the Hopi elders, and it is to him I dedicate this book, for he showed me, like no other, the true way to peace.
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