Acknowledgments Preface Note to the European Edition 1: MY GARDEN AS METAPHOR 2: THE GATE OF ECOLOGICAL CONSCIOUSNESS Gardening Changed the World The First Garden Gardening Is A Reciprocal Relationship Gardening Makes Ecosystems Increasingly Fragile Exercise in Conscious Awareness The Foundation of Gardening--Soil, Air, and Water The Wonder Of Soil An Ocean Of Air Water Seeks The Lowest Level Exercise in Conscious Awareness I Participate with the Whole World while Working in My Garden Exercise in Conscious Awareness We must Reinvest in Nature even as We do in Business Exercise in Conscious Awareness 3: THE GATE OF SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS Community begins in a Garden The Concept of Community Community Must be Human in Scale Exercise in Conscious Awareness Boundaries are the Language of Sacred Spaces Exercise in Conscious Awareness Rights, Although of Noble Intent, have become the Fodder of Injustice Exercise in Conscious Awareness The Misunderstood Privilege of Trusteeship Exercise in Conscious Awareness The Way We Participate with Nature When "Helping" Is Interfering Conscious Participation Exercise in Conscious Awareness On the Meaning of "Natural" and "Native" Exercise in Conscious Awareness Prejudice is Ignorant Judgment Exercise in Conscious Awareness The Environment is Our Social Mirror Exercise in Conscious Awareness 4: THE GATE OF PERSONAL CONSCIOUSNESS Self-Knowledge is a Lifetime of Discovery Exercise in Conscious Awareness I Relate to Life through Experiences and thus Know I Exist Exercise in Conscious Awareness Crisis is the Face of a Focused Opportunity Exercise in Conscious Awareness Change is a Universal Constant Exercise in Conscious Awareness I Always have a Choice, and I Must Choose Exercise in Conscious Awareness To be in Control, I must give up trying to Control Exercise in Conscious Awareness Killing is an Act of Living that I cannot Avoid Exercise in Conscious Awareness Death is a Horizon beyond which I cannot See Exercise in Conscious Awareness Grief is the other Side of Joy Exercise in Conscious Awareness Patience seems an Eternal Lesson Exercise in Conscious Awareness 5: THE GATE OF SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS Faith is Belief without Evidence Exercise in Conscious Awareness Stabilitas in Gardening facilitates Inner Transformation Exercise in Conscious Awareness Making Sacred that which is Material Exercise in Conscious Awareness Balancing Activity with Inactivity Exercise in Conscious Awareness Making Enough, Enough Exercise in Conscious Awareness Acceptance is the Key to Freedom Exercise in Conscious Awareness In Emptiness is Spiritual Fulfilment Exercise in Conscious Awareness Finding Peace in My Garden Exercise in Conscious Awareness
Chris Maser spent over twenty-five years as a research scientist in natural history and ecology in forest, shrub steppe, sub-arctic, desert and coastal settings. Trained primarily as a vertebrate zoologist, he was a research mammalogist in Nubia, Egypt (1963-1964), with the Yale University Peabody Museum Prehistoric Expedition and was a research mammalogist in Nepal (1966-1967) for the U. S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 3 based in Cairo, Egypt, where he participated in a study of tick-borne diseases. He conducted a three-year (1970-1973) ecological survey of the Oregon Coast for the University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington. He was a research ecologist with the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management for twelve years (1975-1987)--the last eight studying old-growth forests in western Oregon, and a landscape ecologist with the Environmental Protection Agency for one year (1990-1991). Today he is an independent author of some twenty books, as well as an international lecturer, facilitator in resolving environmental disputes, vision statements, and sustainable community development. He is also an international consultant in forest ecology and sustainable forestry practices. Although he has worked in Canada, Egypt, France, Germany, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, Slovakia, and Switzerland, he calls Corvallis, Oregon, home. For more information, visit his web site: www.chrismaser.com Zane Maser, with a M.S. in Counselling, has been involved for many years with the spiritual healing work of the White Eagle Lodge, which originated in England in the 1930s. She currently assists with the animal healing correspondence for the White Eagle Lodge in Montgomery, Texas, and contributes to the worldwide White Eagle magazine Stella Polaris and its journal of astrology, Altair. She is also an avid student of astrology, healing, and the Ancient Wisdom as taught by her spiritual teacher, White Eagle. Her interests include gardening, especially her large number of old garden and antique roses; hiking; writing; reading about the lives of the Masters and Saints; and enjoying a contented life with the three cats she and Chris have.
"Unlike many other scientists, who spend their energy on their science and keep their own counsel, in this book Maser clearly and articulately applies his technical knowledge to his place in the world. "And, happily, he shares his philosophy with coherence and forthrightness. He's been thinking about humanity's place in the natural order of things for as long as he's been gardening." Bill Monroe, The Oregonian
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