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Synopsis
Harry MacCormack met Ida Mock in 1971. Despite a 50-year age difference, they immediately sensed a deep connection that embraced both a knowledge of Native American culture and a turn toward metaphysics. Harry had just written a book about Native American traditions, and Ida had been a long-time spiritual medium. Over a period of 13 years, Ida related her life story to Harry through question-and-answer interviews and astral projection back to the time of her childhood. What results is a fascinating memoir of a remarkable healer and medium born in Idaho in 1892, that also reveals the spiritual unfolding of a 29-year-old man just beginning his life as an organic farmer in western Oregon. Ida's story not only traces the life of a pioneer woman awakening to her powers as a medium and a healer, but also recounts the steady press of progress upon the western frontier-the expansion of the railroads, the arrival of the automobile, and finally the advent of modern technology. Ida, who had seen it all from a tiny cabin in the upper reaches of the Clearwater River in the 1890s to the first home computer in the 1980s, was the perfect guide for Harry, a new age back-to-the-land farmer whose heart ached for what he saw as the incursion of modern society on the beauty of undisturbed nature.