About THE AUTHOR

Ron Frost is a professor emeritus at the University of Wyoming. For more that forty years he has studied rocks in the mountains of Wyoming and locations elsewhere throughout the world, ranging from Australia to Greenland, trying to decipher the history those rocks record. For nearly his whole career, he has also practiced Tibetan Buddhism. For most of that time he wrestled with the problem of how to reconcile the material world of science with the spiritual world that permeates the world about us. Scientists think that the physical world is as solid as rocks, but mystics consider it as maya, an illusion. To understand why mystics consider the world an illusion, Ron participated in the Three-Year Retreat in Tibetan Buddhism. During the retreat years, 2012 - 2013, 2014 - 2015, and 2016 – 2017, he took temporary ordination as a monk at Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia and spent up to 11 hours a day in prayer and meditation. Since coming out of retreat Ron has been active in the Wyoming Interfaith Network, where he is now on the Board of Directors.