About the Editor

Cass Adams, M. A., Transpersonal Counseling Psychology, was privileged to grow up in a small and spectacular ski-resort town, where he developed his deep love of the outdoors. He has been a wilderness guide for both children and adults, and was the cofounder of Mens Wilderness Retreats, through which he led ritual-based wilderness excursions. Cass has published essays in The Men’s Council Journal and The Green Man, and nature poems in the collections Life Prayers (Harper- SanFrancisco, 1996) and Chokecherries: A S.O.M.O.S. Anthology (1999). He edited both editions of The Soul Unearthed; Celebrating Wildness and Spiritual Renewal through Nature, from which he had been quoted on two Celestial Seasonings tea boxes (Bengal Spice and Ginkgo Sharp). Three volumes of his poetry have been self-published — The Naked Heart (1998), The First Six Months (2000), and Silence (2000). His photographs appear in the mythopoetic anthology, Wingspan: Inside the Mens Movement (St. Martins Press, 1992). In addition to time spent in the Rocky Mountains and Colorado Plateau, Cass has traveled in New Zealand, Alaska, and the Himalayas. He resides in northern New Mexico where he raised his now adult daughter. He routinely hikes, camps and cross country skis in the wild areas near where he lives.