Will Taegel walks in two worlds. One reflects his Indigenous shamanic training and the other his psychological and scientific research. In his seventh decade he returned to graduate school to earn a second doctorate, a Ph.D. concentrating on an integration of ecology and quantum fields. Author of The Many Colored Buffalo and Wild Heart, The Mother Tongue is his eighth book. He has held various clinical positions and academic appointments, including Dean of the Faculty at Wisdom University. He and his spouse, Dr. Judith Yost, engage in the spiritual practices of rainwater and solar collection and are functionally off the grid. They benefit from the gardens of their spiritual community, the Earthtribe.