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March 31, 2019
Rio Chama, New Mexico
The concern over the truckload of Hispanic toughs following Pete and the diamond hunters drifted away as Ramsey became mesmerized by the sun glinting in and out of the pines on his way to Rio Chama. It took him into a state of contemplation. He held the belief that sacred places arose out of some singular magical event, real or imagined, occurring at a particular place within a given culture. From that moment on people in that culture made the place sacred. They built shrines, pilgrimaged there, and connected with the presence of a higher power there. It became a gateway to fulfilling the hardwired drive in all humans for self-transcendence.
His thoughts drifted back to the University of Oregon and his talk with Myriam St. Eves when he first arri
