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Praise for The Ocean in a Drop

The earth is ailing. What is the diagnosis, and where is the cure? Roz Savage is dauntless in her quest for answers. Strap in and join her for a riveting ride on The Ocean in a Drop. A world-class athlete, she rows the Pacific alone, with an unblinking eye on the symptoms of the patient. An Enlightenment intellectual, she pursues a diagnosis based on reason, and on sciences varying from politics and economics to cognitive neuroscience and evolutionary biology, all the while knowing that if reason is consistent then it must be incomplete. A compassionate human, she inspires us to embrace our innate intelligence that transcends the limits of reason, and follow its guidance to unexpected remedies. If we heed her prescription, our prognosis is bright.

Donald Hoffman, author of The Case Against Reality

This is a book by, of and for this moment. A paean to human resilience and courage, it shows what happens when we cast off the shackles of our normative behaviours and discover who we really are, attend to our inner voices of integrity and authenticity and stretch ourselves to the edges of our being Roz Savage paves the way towards a different future with the blistering light of deep personal exploration, and the authentic voices of some of our planets deepest thinkers. This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to see the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible come into being.

Manda Scott, author of the Boudica: Dreaming series

This well-researched and readable book may well give encouragement to readers for a change in our conscious lifestyle. The author points out that our civilisation is sick. To effect a cure, it is helpful to examine the symptoms and underlying causes. The good news is that we are nonetheless fundamentally healthy. Roz Savage sets out not only to lucidly present the ills that beset our world environmental, economic, political, social and so on, but she uncovers the psychological, neurological and spiritual causes of our problems. Based on this analysis with characteristic intrepidity she presents her vision for a future redemption when humanity will finally turn the corner and regain its healthy values of basic sanity. Despite humanitys pathetic track record to date, Ms Savage dares to nurture sanguine expectations of our ultimate reform.

Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, Buddhist nun

Anyone who rows solo across three oceans deserves our undiluted attention. Beyond that, this magical book distils Roz Savages hard-won wisdom at a time when we all must learn to see ourselves and our worlds from outside. The Ocean in a Drop alternates between the alarming, the challenging and the uplifting. Formidable forces are now at work, for better or worse, and, as the book concludes, miracles might just happen.

John Elkington, founder and chief pollinator at Volans, and author of Green Swans

The Ocean in a Drop vividly shares a wonderfully authentic and transformational journey, of both inner and outer discovery that is radically relevant for all of us for how we see ourselves and the world at this critical moment of choice. While its clear-eyed and yet compassionate appraisal of how our current systems and behaviours, based on separation and dominance, have brought us to an existential crisis, its greatest gift is to reveal and empower the potency and potential, through our conscious evolution and a new and unitive narrative, of how our existential emergency can be transformed to the emergence of a world that works for the good of the whole.

Dr Jude Currivan, cosmologist, author of The Cosmic Hologram and The Story of Gaia and co-founder of Whole World-View

Great wisdom can be found in the convergence of science and spirituality. Roz takes this wisdom and applies it to our seemingly intractable global challenges. She paints a picture of how we can use our attention, intention, and innate gifts to achieve an important paradigm shift that would propel us towards a beautiful vision of a thriving future.

Chade-Meng Tan, author of Search Inside Yourself and Joy on Demand

A thoroughly researched document that gives the reader a clearer understanding of why the world is as it is the economics, social, psychological and cultural forces at play. Roz presents a vision of how the future can be better while inspiring and encouraging us that we have a purpose, a role to play and the power to make a positive difference. This book is well timed and needed, a life preserver in our chaotic times.

Will Steger, educator and explorer

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Excerpts reprinted with permission of the publisher, from Confessions of an Economic Hit Man 2004 by John Perkins, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., San Francisco, CA. All rights reserved.

Excerpts reprinted with permission of the publisher, from Rethinking Money: How New Currencies Turn Scarcity into Prosperity 2013 by Bernard Lietaer and Jacqui Dunne, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., San Francisco, CA. All rights reserved.

Excerpt from If Women Rose Rooted by Sharon Blackie, published by September Publishing, 2016. Reprinted with permission.

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Excerpt reprinted with permission of the publisher, from Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership 2011 by Joseph Jaworski, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., San Francisco, CA. All rights reserved.

Excerpt from Why Materialism Is Baloney by Bernardo Kastrup, published in 2014 by Iff Books, an imprint of John Hunt Publishing, www.johnhuntpublishing.com.

First published 2022

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I was awoken by my bed suddenly lurching several feet to the side and tilting sixty degrees. I groaned as I returned from a pleasant dream about a buffet table creaking under the weight of all my favourite foods and remembered where I was: alone on a 23-foot rowboat in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Deeply resenting the wave that had smashed into the side of my boat and wrenched me away from the smorgasbord of delights, I rolled over on my narrow bunk and closed my eyes, trying to return to blissful unconsciousness. But reality had smashed in as brutally as the wave, and sleep was gone.