EXCERPT
The book you hold in your hands is an odyssey for your imagination. Like the other side of the mirror, the world on the other side of The Door in the Garden Wall is in the recesses of your imaginationa world that in the end might be true. Whether it is real depends on you...
Mother, come look at this old door! Why would Grandmother have a door like this in her bedroom, asked Olivia curiously.
Mother stood up and walked over to the door. She looked at it in silence while a faint smile appeared on her lips. She traced the outline of the carved designs with her fingertips. I remember this door from when I was a little girl. It was in the garden wall covered with vines and climbing roses. I was told never ever to open it for any reason. Reaching down, she took Olivias hand and said, Come, sit with me in the rocking chair, and Ill tell you the story Grandmother told me about this door when I was your age.
After hearing from her own mother about Grandmothers experience of going through the door in the garden wall, Olivia begs her to keep the door in the family.
The following generation, Olivias children, Noah and Hannah, discover a startling time warp through the door into another dimension where they meet a spirit being named Light. She teaches them the mysteries of the human spirit and the wisdom of the heart.
When the children grow into young adults, they dig into an old trunk in the attic and find a journal written over a hundred years ago by their great-grandfather, Captain John Ashcroft. This journal and an ancient papyrus begin to unravel the origin of the door in the garden wall and its mystery.
Noah and Hannah embark upon the quest to decipher the mysterious symbols on the papyrus. Their journey leads them to an old Hindu gentleman learned in the ancient inscriptions and legends of the prehistoric world of Atlantis. To their amazement, this papyrus could be the archeological find of the century. Their eyes are opened to a new revelation, an experience from a world beyond time and space.
Making this discovery, should they share their knowledge with the world or keep it a secret, sharing it only with their parents and fulfilling the family legend?
We have a lifetime ... a long lifetime extending for generation upon generation to become One through the door in the garden wall.
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