Chris Maser
Chris Maser has spent more than 25 years as a research scientist in natural history and ecology. He lectures internationally on sustainable community development and facilitates environmental conflict resolution. A consultant in forest ecology and sustainable forestry practices, Maser has published more than 270 articles, including 20 books.
Zane Maser has been involved with the spiritual healing work of the Church of the White Eagle Lodge. The Masers live in Corvallis, Oregon.
To learn more about the Masers, visit
www.chrismaser.com.
In a world exploding in the fire of ethnic and religious hatreds, I see fear and its grisly gang of distrust, divisiveness, separation, slander, reprisal, greed, fraud, distortion, and duplicity slithering through the dark halls of governments in each of the four hemispheres. It matters not which hemisphere you choose; each has its despots with fingers on the trigger as they suck the life energy from the people in a bid for the power of control. In their anxiety about life's uncertainties and the irrational fear of the future it spawns, their sense of security depends on this control to suppress the imagined portents of personal annihilation.
"This is the perfect time of year [December] to sit at the kitchen window on a rainy day, gazing at what winter is doing to the garden and contemplating the meaning of life.
"The garden, after all—or in my case, the week patch—is the ultimate extension of our personal self, far beyond how we decorate our homes. The house looks nice to our guests, but we commit ourselves to the world with statements we make in the garden.
