About The Author   Billy W. (Flying Red Horse) Starnes preached his first sermon at age 16 in a small Baptist church in south Alabama. Not long after, his questioning mind and an unwillingness to accept answers that defied logic and demanded blind faith (that, along with a healthy dose of common adolescent angst) led to an estrangement from organized religion that lasted the better part of 13 years. During this time Billy communed with Spirit as a songwriter and musician and later through the practice of the martial art Aikido. Aikido was the precursor to an interest in meditation and Eastern Mysticism. After two years of Zen practice and a formal conversion to Buddhism, Billy was ordained as a student teacher (known in Zen as a disciple) and became a staff member of the Atlanta Soto Zen Center in 1995 where he remained for 2-1/2 years. During this time a rekindled interest in Christianity led to the Federation of St. Thomas Christians and entry into seminary studies and ordination to the priesthood in 1997. Differences as to philosophical position on one hand and a desire to be rid of the mire of church hierarchy on the other contributed to a second estrangement from all religious form and regiment in 1999. During this time an encounter with a student of the spirituality native to the tribes of Turtle Island (North America) shed an entirely new and different light on Billy's spiritual journey. Exposure to the books SEVEN ARROWS, SONG OF HEYOEHKAH, and LIGHTNINGBOLT caused Billy to seek out and become a student of their author, Hyemeyohsts (Wolf) Storm. Red Horse teaches his understanding and experience of Earth Medicine and is currently writing a book on a spiritual approach to small business success. Goddess only know where he'll end up next...