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    A Course in Marigolds
    A Course in Marigolds
    A Course in Marigolds
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    A Course in Marigolds

    By Michael Stillwater

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    The world's wackiest gardening manual returns!

    “Gloria’s gardening will never be the same!” — Endorsement of the original 1988 edition by KENNETH WAPNICK, Ph.D., editor of A Course in Miracles

    “I love your book, and have been spreading it around. Keep up the gardening!” — MARIANNE WILLIAMSON, author of A Return to Love

    “I’m sure wherever it goes, this book will continue to plant seeds. He who has two good ears to hear, let him hear!” — GARY RENARD, author of the Disappearance
    of the Universe trilogy

    Mysteriously misplaced in a leaky garden shed since the turn of the century, A COURSE IN MARIGOLDS is back to muddle the minds and lighten the hearts of students of A Course in Miracles everywhere. This brilliant parody by Michael Stillwater echoes the unmistakable prose of the original to present an “ACIM for Gardeners” that is hard to describe and even more difficult to learn. A hilarious hybrid of horticulture and holiness, this ACIM begins where many other spiritual systems have wandered off, and ends where no other system would even dare to begin...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherD. Patrick Miller
    Release dateApr 14, 2016
    ISBN9781310998119
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      Book preview

      A Course in Marigolds - Michael Stillwater

      A COURSE IN MARIGOLDS

      COMBINED VOLUME

      I

      TEXT

      II

      WORKBOOK FOR GARDENERS

      III

      MANUAL FOR GROWERS

      _________________________

      Second Edition

      by Michael Stillwater

      Published by Fearless Books

      PO Box 4199 • Napa CA 94558

      www.fearlessbooks.com/

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

      © Copyright 2016 by Michael Stillwater

      All Rights Reserved. No part of this e-book may be reposted, reprinted, or otherwise disseminated in any medium, physical or electronic, except for brief excerpts for the purpose of reviews, without the express permission of the publisher.

      _________________________

      C O N T E N T S

      How It Came to Be

      What It Is

      What It Says

      TEXT

      Introduction

      50 Principles of Marigolds

      Elevation, Lime, and Marigolds

      Distortions of Marigolds

      The Function of the Marigold Gardener

      Special Principles of Marigold Gardeners

      Hose Once Again

      WORKBOOK FOR GARDENERS

      Introduction

      Nothing I plant in this room seems to grow anyway.

      I have given all the plants I see... all the fertilizer I could possibly buy.

      I do not understand anything about gardening.

      My thoughts about gardening don’t mean anything.

      I am never upset by the snails — I think.

      I am upset because I see snails everywhere.

      I see only the snails.

      My mind is preoccupied with snails.

      I see nothing but snails now.

      The snails don’t mean anything.

      My thoughts are meaning less and less all the time.

      I am upset because my thoughts are meaning less.

      I’m afraid that I’m going crazy.

      What I see in my garden is a form of vengeance.

      I can escape from my garden hell...

      The snails are attacking my defenses — am I invulnerable?

      Above all else I want to see this thing work out OK.

      I am not the victim of the snails I see.

      My function is to forgive the snails.

      My grievances are getting the better of me.

      I am entitled to marigolds.

      Let me recognize I’ve still got a lot of problems to solve.

      In better fences my safety lies.

      I give the marigolds I have received.

      Epilogue

      MANUAL FOR GROWERS

      Introduction

      Who Are The Gardeners?

      How Is Gardening Accomplished?

      Should Watering Be Repeated?

      Are Changes Required in the Life of Sod Gardeners?

      Are Peas In Earth Possible?

      How Many Gardeners are Needed to Save the Garden?

      How Will The Garden End?

      As For The Rest

      Afterword

      About the Author

      About Fearless Books

      You are entitled to marigolds.

      How It Came To Be

      A COURSE IN MARIGOLDS began with the sudden decision of two people to join in an afternoon gardening project. Their names are unimportant. They were anything but gardeners. They had a history of trying to plant a garden, but continuously failing. The one who wrote down the material was the son of a Kansas farmer, and described himself:

      I always tried to grow plants — any kind at all — but never with any luck. They seemed to turn a cold shoulder to me. I had just about given up the idea of ever growing anything. And then something happened that triggered a chain of events I could never have predicted... my next-door neighbor unexpectedly announced that she wanted me to join her for an afternoon in her garden. As if on cue I agreed to help her out. Apparently this Course was to help me out.

      Although their intention was serious, they found themselves kidding around a lot. But they had ventured close enough to the Plant Kingdom for It to use them for Its Purpose.

      To continue the first-person account:

      "Three uneventful hours preceded the actual writing, during which time we sprayed each other with the hose. Imagine how surprised I was when I heard a voice say, ‘This is a course in marigolds...’ That was my introduction to the voice. It made no sound, but seemed to emanate from the nearby shrubbery. It seemed to be a special assignment I had somehow, somewhere agreed to complete.

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