Volkmer, Kent

The author, haunted since his small-town, Midwest childhood by mysteries of time and human consciousness, has tried to both explore and escape his torment through lifelong personal and professional tinkering with questions of human and planetary evolution, and-in more reckless moments-cosmology.

After pathways traversing farms, coal mines, mountaintops, the ocean floor, university and government research centers, and archeological sites on three continents, he finally accepted that time-his-would come to a close more quickly than his questions.

In writing "The First Mile", he decided to