The World Is In My Garden

DESCRIPTION
The World is in my Garden: A Journey of Consciousness is based on a simple premise: the private garden is a metaphor for everything that goes on in the macrocosm, including ecological, social, personal and spiritual issues. The authors work the metaphor of the garden in a rich way. This book show us how to connect what seems like a simple personal act, tending a home garden to larger social issues. They guide us through four garden gates: Ecological Consciousness, Social Consciousness, Personal Consciousness, and Spiritual Consciousness.
Written with passion, warmth and a deep understanding of the worlds of matter and consciousness, the book teaches us how to live in a balanced way with all of life.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Chris Maser

ENDORSEMENTS
"The garden has often been likened to a microcosm of the world outside. Chris Maser aims to show how each choice and decision made by the gardener influences the world outside, socially and environmentally."
~ Yoga and Health

"This is a beautifully written book, which explores our ecological, social, personal and spiritual consciousness, but does this through our relationship with nature and what we have come to know as our garden. The premise here is that the choices we make as gardeners are mirrored in the choices we make in other aspects of our lives. By extension, if we find balance and peace in our own backyard, we may discover these in the world around us. Empowering and thought provoking."
~ Permaculture Magazine

REVIEWS
"Chris Maser is a rare voice of sanity in the global eco-crisis."
~ David Suzuki, Host of The Nature of Things

"In this original book, Chris Maser shows how every issue that comes up as a choice for the gardener comes up in a greater way in the world around. By the choices the gardener makes, he or she is influencing how the world "socially as well as environmentally" unfolds. The choices are important. Chris's wife Zane takes this further, and introduces the garden as a place to go within and find peace. The result is a book that is magnificently re-empowering, as well as packed with information. We also become very attached to the central character: the author's own domestic garden, humble but well-kept."
~ Cygnus Books

"In a world awash in holistic self-help books this one stands out because of Chris Maser's pedigree as a world-renowned ecologist. ... The general message of this book "we must change our relationship with the rest of the world in order to survive" is the most crucial problem facing our species."
~ Gary McFarland, BookPeople's Book of the Day