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Lelani Black

Lelani Black

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Author of sizzling erotic island romance. Boss With Benefits in e-book, Kindle and a #1 Bestseller on Amazon's Erotica Audible book list! New summer releases--Going Greek and Private Dancer--out now! Get your sexy on...

Involution-An Odyssey Reconciling Science to God

Involution-An Odyssey Reconciling Science to God

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<p>“<em>We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.”(</em>Teilhard de Chardin<em>)</em></p><p><span style="line-height:1.6em;"><em>Involution-An Odyssey Reconciling Science to God </em> is as layered as a French cassoulet, as diverting, satisfying and as rich. Each reader will spoon this book differently. On the surface it seems to be a simple and light-hearted poetic journey through the history of Western thought, dominantly scientific, but enriched with painting and music. Beneath that surface is the sauce of a new evolutionary idea, involution; the informing of all matter by consciousness, encoded and communicating throughout the natural world. A book about the cathedral of consciousness could have used any language to paint it, but science is perhaps most in need of new vision, and its chronology is already familiar.</span></p><p><span style="line-height:1.6em;">The author offers a bold alternative vision of both science and creation: she suggests that science has been incrementally the recovery of memory, the memory of evolution/involution</span><em style="line-height:1.6em;">.</em></p><p>“<em> Involution proposes that humans carry within them the history of the universe, which is (re)discovered by the individual genius when the time is ripe. All is stored within our DNA and awaits revelation. Such piecemeal revelations set our finite lives in an eternal chain of co-creation and these new leaps of discovery are compared to mystical experience</em>” (From a reviewer)</p><p>Each unique contributor served the collective and universal return to holism and unity. Thus the geniuses of the scientific journey, like the spiritual visionaries alongside, have threaded the rosary of science with the beads of inspiration, and through them returned Man to his spiritual nature and origin.</p><p><span style="line-height:1.6em;">The separation between experience and the rational intellect of science has, by modelling memory as theory, separated its understanding from the consciousness of all, and perceives mind and matter as separate, God and Man as distinct. This work is a dance towards their re-unification: Saints and scientists break the same bread.</span></p><p><span style="line-height:1.6em;">All of time and all the disciplines of science are needed for the evidence. Through swift (and sometimes sparring) Cantos of dialogue between Reason and Soul, Philippa Rees takes the reader on a monumental journey through the history of everything – with the evolution of man as one side of the coin and involution the other.  The poetic narrative is augmented by learned and extensive footnotes offering background knowledge which in themselves are fascinating. In effect there are two books, offering a right and left brain approach. The twin spirals of a DNA shaped book intertwine external and internal and find, between them, one journey, Man’s recovery of Himself., and (hopefully) the Creation’s recovery of a nobler Man.</span></p><p><span style="line-height:1.6em;">From the same review “</span><em style="line-height:1.6em;">The reader who finishes the book will not be the same as the one who began it. New ideas will expand the mind but more profoundly, the deep, moving power of the verse will affect the heart.</em></p><p><em>(Marianne Rankin: Director of Communications, Alister Hardy Trust)</em></p><p> </p>

Story Behind The Book

A trip to the sultry Greek island of Corfu with my best friend inspired this sizzler of a story. Hot beaches, blue velvet seas, an island steeped in legend easily set the tone for me to create a fictional couple; a lingerie model and a Greek businessman, both charming, both irresistible--except he has no wish to be tied to any long-term affair. I threw in some sparkly Corfiot wine, sun, sea, handcuffs...and let the laughter and passion ignite.

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<span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;line-height:normal;font-size:medium;"></span><table class="Bs nH iY" cellpadding="0" style="background-color:#ffffff;width:832px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-collapse:collapse;"><tbody><tr><td class="Bu" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font-family:arial, sans-serif;vertical-align:top;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;"><div class="nH if" style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:1px;padding-left:0px;"><div class="nH"><div class="nH hx" style="color:#000000;padding-top:4px;padding-right:8px;padding-bottom:4px;padding-left:8px;"><div class="nH"><div class="h7 ie nH oy8Mbf" style="padding-bottom:0px;clear:both;"><div class="Bk" style="margin-bottom:10px;border-right-width:1px;border-bottom-width:1px;border-left-width:1px;border-top-style:solid;border-right-style:solid;border-bottom-style:solid;border-left-style:solid;border-top-color:#efefef;border-right-color:#efefef;border-left-color:#efefef;border-bottom-color:#e2e2e2;border-top-width:0px;width:583px;"><div class="G3 G2" style="padding-top:3px;background-color:#ffffff;border-right-width:1px;border-bottom-width:1px;border-left-width:1px;border-right-style:solid;border-bottom-style:solid;border-left-style:solid;border-right-color:#bcbcbc;border-bottom-color:#bcbcbc;border-left-color:#bcbcbc;border-top-width:1px;border-top-style:solid;border-top-color:#bcbcbc;"><div><div><div class="HprMsc mNrSre"><div class="gs"><div class="ii gt" style="margin-top:5px;margin-right:15px;margin-bottom:5px;margin-left:15px;padding-bottom:20px;"><div><div><font size="4"><span style="line-height:21px;">5 Heart review from Teresa T at The Romance Studio</span></font></div><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Arial;font-size:small;border-collapse:separate;line-height:normal;"></span><center><img src="http://www.theromancestudio.com/images/logo.gif" border="0" alt="logo.gif" /><p></p><h4>Going Greek</h4>Lelani Black<br />Contemporary romance<br />Available from <a href="http://www.thewildrosepress.com/" class="normal">The Wild Rose Press</a><br />July 2011<br /><p></p></center><table bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><tbody><tr><td><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Arial;">Marigold Laurent arrives in Greece with her sister Jasmine and they are waiting in the airport for Jasmine's husband Stavros. As they wait for him, Marigold runs to the conveyor belt to grab their bags but runs into a very sexy Greek man. The sexy man turns out to be Stavros' twin brother Dmitri. This story starts with a crash, bang and barely pauses to take a breath.</span><p>Marigold is not just there on vacation with her 'expecting' sister, she's also trying to heal her broken heart. Dmitri, besides being what anyone would want in a hero, also is a very over careful with his emotions. I must say that Ms. Black painted the two of them very well. They both had trust issues and secrets but they both were almost obsessed with one another.</p><p>I really loved their relationship, the ups and downs of first meeting and the process of falling in love. It is very dramatic and sensual, but it also had a happy ending which I wasn't sure it would have (hence the drama). Ms. Black wrote such a good story, I actually couldn't put this down. Then I went out and bought another of her stories. I loved this one and only had two wishes when I completed reading: I wished it was longer and I wished I had been to Greece.</p><p><strong>Overall rating</strong>: <img src="http://www.theromancestudio.com/images/5hearts.gif" border="0" alt="5hearts.gif" /><br /><strong>Sensuality rating</strong>: Mildly sensual</p><p><strong>Reviewer:</strong> <strong>Teresa T.</strong><br />August 25, 2011</p><p><span style="font-family:Tahoma, Arial;"></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><center></center><div style="font-size:13px;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;border-collapse:separate;"></span><table class="Bs nH iY" cellpadding="0" style="background-color:#ffffff;width:832px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-collapse:collapse;"><tbody><tr><td class="Bu" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font-family:arial, sans-serif;vertical-align:top;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;"><div class="nH if" style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:1px;padding-left:0px;"><div class="nH"><div class="nH hx" style="color:#000000;padding-top:4px;padding-right:8px;padding-bottom:4px;padding-left:8px;"><div class="nH"><div class="h7 ie nH oy8Mbf" style="padding-bottom:0px;clear:both;"><div class="Bk" style="margin-bottom:10px;border-right-width:1px;border-bottom-width:1px;border-left-width:1px;border-top-style:solid;border-right-style:solid;border-bottom-style:solid;border-left-style:solid;border-top-color:#efefef;border-right-color:#efefef;border-left-color:#efefef;border-bottom-color:#e2e2e2;border-top-width:0px;width:583px;"><div class="G3 G2" style="padding-top:3px;background-color:#ffffff;border-right-width:1px;border-bottom-width:1px;border-left-width:1px;border-right-style:solid;border-bottom-style:solid;border-left-style:solid;border-right-color:#bcbcbc;border-bottom-color:#bcbcbc;border-left-color:#bcbcbc;border-top-width:1px;border-top-style:solid;border-top-color:#bcbcbc;"><div><div><div class="HprMsc mNrSre"><div class="gs"><div class="ii gt" style="margin-top:5px;margin-right:15px;margin-bottom:5px;margin-left:15px;padding-bottom:20px;"><div><div style="font-size:13px;"><font size="4">Here's a review from erotic romance author, April Vine, whose books are so staggeringly sexy, they make me quiver: </font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div style="font-size:13px;"><span style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:14px;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size:13px;"><span style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;line-height:14px;">I loved it Lelani Black! I gobbled up every scrumptious word of your hot Greek Goodness, sometimes I gobbled the same words twice they were so tasty and I beamed! The setting is bliss, the characters exuberant, the handcuffs sparkled and the hotness went right off the charts! </span></div><br /><div style="font-size:13px;">Find April at:  <a href="http://www.aprilvine.co.za/" style="color:#0000cc;">http://www.aprilvine.co.za/</a></div><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table>