From Mary Keller, September, 1999

Reading this book is like holding up a cracked mirror to your own psyche. Carrie Hart’s story of awakening is both frustrating and touching. Frustrating because I wanted to scream at her "Get a grip! You know what to do!" Touching because I was painfully aware what to do with my own life, but could not.

Carrie’s struggle to overcome adversity, some of it of her own making, and to pick up herself up off her scabby knees is a warm and poetically written account. Carrie fights herself to grow creatively, professionally and emotionally.

She received an incredible gift. While she was meditating in her rose garden, a spiritual force enveloped her. Her human frailties did not disappear, just as ours do not, but something awesome began to happen. A presence she named Quado shared profound wisdom with her. So profound that I found myself responding to it in my own life, and my life took a turn for the better.

Carrie began to overcome her fears and phobias as she applied the wise Quado’s lessons to her everyday life. I followed Carrie’s lead. I accepted my fear of risk and stepped out into a highly charged work environment and nothing, absolutely nothing bad happened. That’s what Carrie’s message teaches. Our fanaticizing all the evils that can befall us traps us into immobility. Getting in touch with our wisdom guide, whoever or wherever that may be, emboldens us to live fully and richly every day of our lives.

Carrie’s book is a must read for those who want to flourish today, not just in some imaginary tomorrow.

From BookReader, Fall/Winter 1999/2000

An exhilarating personal contribution that guides those who may have fallen, and affirms the need to always look up. Hart claims that this book contains answers to "questions ranging from the deeply probing to the embarrassingly trivial." And that human quality is what illuminates her narrative, her diary, her lyrics and poetry.

She is now a singer and songwriter, but she once fell from favor in business and wallowed in self doubt. The creative urge helped pull her up. And she had help from her "special angels." And one that's special, a spiritual guide called Quado. His voice was deeper, had more authority. "The gate is there for all, as is the garden on the other side. But these words are our special way of expressing it, yours and mine."

Hart shares diary entries that document reading a book by Deepak Chopra, and Celestine Prophecy, of her atheist tendencies. What a year! She got fired, forgave her mother, wrote "the best lyrics of my life," welcomed back a son and a dog. The partnership: "This is the crisis we've been avoiding for over 20 years. His crisis of abandonment and mine of loss of love."

She frets over her appearance, ponders the words Patience and Believe, digs into the book You Are Psychic. And gets advice to let her passion fly, to find an intensity in her performance. "You turn feelings into poems. You turn poems into songs." So right.

From Metaphysical Review

THERE IS A GARDEN

A Song in Spiritual Time

by Carrie Hart

Carrie Hart is a poet, songwriter, vocalist and, starting about six years ago, someone who experienced a huge transformation. Many things happened to Carrie Hart in 1994, including finding Spirit with Quado, a wise entity from beyond.

There is a Garden is a chronicle of an epiphany and a voyage from darkness to light. Ms. Hart discovered her ability to channel the wisdom of Quado, and has done so most every day since. Indeed, Carrie has a website you should visit. On www.quado.com you will find Quado’s vital messages, updated daily.

There is a Garden journals Carrie’s life from the blackness of adversity to the brilliance of her special gift, her ability to receive and learn from the messages of her spiritual guide, Quado. Sharing this wonder with all of us is Ms. Hart’s mission and There is a Garden does so, beautifully.

Reading There is a Garden taught this reviewer that we can all find our own wisdom guide who can enrich and strengthen us. Quado says, “Open. Open. Open to the flow. Open to a world which is entirely different than that which you have been taught in schools, yet is exactly like the one which you sense deep inside when you simply stop on a beautiful day to appreciate the sky.”

There is a Garden is Carrie Hart’s story of finding her sky.

Richard Fuller

Senior Editor , Metaphysical Review