WHY THE BOOK

                                                          
The journey of the Mangrove Seed is also a metaphor for the twenty two year personal journey of the author.  He has incorporated his lessons about balancing fear with trust into a psycho-social educational theory of personal development.

He has founded a not-for-profit educational corporation, Mangrove Seed, Inc., to continue its development and pass its lessons on to the world.

The educational program of Mangrove Seed,Inc. is founded on this theory of balancing fear versus trust. The Mangrove Seed believes that fear is the major underpinning to emotional blocks that stunt personal and social growth.  Moreover, it believes that fear fundamentally separates humans from each other, as well as social groups from each other.  And, that fear has separated humans from their outer natural environment!

The balancing of fear and trust is fundamental, universal, and permeates the fabric of all human existence. Without trust, all other "moral/character values" may sprout, but will not flourish.  Furthermore, without trust as the core of all universal educational philosophies, humans will flow with the winds of subjective political, economic, religious and cultural attempts to control their personal development.

The educational program of the Mangrove Seed focuses on nine principles as a pathway to dissect our belief systems and to identify our basic fears. Once our fears have been consciously challenged, we can move into a flow of balance with trust.

The benefits of practical application of these principles are a release of personal stress, increased self confidence, and genuine caring for others.  Ultimately, a personal peaceful coping consciousness can be the starting point for planetary peaceful living!