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MEMOIRS OF A SUPERHERO IN WAITING is thememoirs of Savannah Deville, a young woman whose coming of age story conveysthe balance between choice and impulse, and the impossibility of findingclarity in either. Her perpetual,erratic motion makes her seem as if she could shoot off in any directionwithout warning. Sheissquarely placed in the midst of human suffering and comes of agethrough therights of passage of heartache, indulgence and sometimesself-deprivation, all the while seeking her superhero strength toovercome all. Her very excitingjourney takes her from love to lover to loathing to peace as shetravels to the other side of the world (Taiwan at first) attempting to save herself. Her adventures and misadventures, strungtogether like a necklace displayed, are all connected with the thread of her heartstringworn like a badge of honor. She fleas tofind inner peace. She questions themeaning of life and she travels, encountering strange hippies and urbansurvivalists along the way. She neverdespairs and so she clings to the hope that some day all may be saved andrestored. Hence her steadfast beliefthat she is a superhero in waiting and that she will tap into her powers at anymoment. Savannah is strong andintelligent, creative and lusty. Thestory of her life is adept at exploding expectations of a young woman who is ateacher and a reforming “good girl”. She is a woman who is somewhat on the fringe of society in herexperimental manner. She has left her daughter but not before as her journal is handed down to her to explore. |
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| Savannah,Savannah... Spiritual, spunky, spellbound...occasionally serene orsexual, often sensual, she is a writer, a traveler, a tourist, ateacher and can not easily be defined. She embodies curiosity andcultivates collections of thoughts and characters as she goes. She haswritten several poems, some children's stories, some short stories,some long stories, some real stories and several surreal stories andhopes to continue to do so. She is constantly learning and living andhopes to grow wise and not just old someday. |
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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>