About
Ashly Lorenzana was born on October 2nd, 1987 in Portland, OR where she continues to live today, with her Chihuahua mutt named Bub.
With over five years of experience working as an independent escort, Ms. Lorenzana now devotes a great deal of her time to writing business, whether doing freelance work, blogging for fun, or ranting about her life in general and then calling it a book.
In addition to enjoying crystal meth, she also considers herself an intense and competitive Scrabble player.
Involution-An Odyssey Reconciling Science to God
Description
<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
My name is Ashly and for the past several years I have worked as a female escort. I started out by advertising in the now extinct Craig's List "erotic services" section. Having lived with my grandparents for most of my childhood, moving to Portland from the Oregon Coast gave me a chance to spend some time with my mother.
Like her, I'm a drug addict with a decided preference for crystal meth or "uppers" in general. In an odd and unexpected way, it was our addictions that brought us "together." It always seemed to be a man that ended up forcing us apart again.
Many new experiences were waiting for me in Portland, some of which I would never have imagined. Moving to Portland is where it all started.
This book is a scattered personal journal chronicling the last several years of my very unconventional life.
Reviews
<span style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:normal;font-size:small;"><span><strong><em><span>"The mental and physical anguish that is portrayed will certainly reach anyone and pull at them as a human being."</span></em></strong></span> --Claudia Rhyes (</span><span style="line-height:normal;font-size:small;"><a href="http://www.manicreaders.com/index.cfm?disp=reviews&bookid=10149">ManicReaders.com</a></span><span style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:normal;font-size:small;">)<br /><br /><span><strong><em>"If you choose to read this book, be prepared for the painful truth. Ashly holds nothing back -when it comes to drug use and Mom."</em></strong></span> --Shannon Yarbrough (</span><span style="line-height:normal;font-size:small;"><a href="http://llbookreview.com/2011/01/review-185-sex-drugs-being-an-escort-by-ashly-lorenzana/">LLBookReview.com</a></span><span style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:normal;font-size:small;">)<br /><br /><span><strong><em>"My intentions were to finish reading this book earlier this month, but it was such a "heavy" read that I had to read it in small doses."</em></strong></span> --Mandy (</span><span style="line-height:normal;font-size:small;"><a href="http://literaryrr.blogspot.com/2011/02/review-sex-drugs-being-escort-by-ashly.html">Literary R&R</a></span><span style="line-height:normal;font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">)</span></span><div><br /><div style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><em>"Ashley is a unique young woman who took the lemons of her childhood and made them into lemonade...</em></strong></span><strong style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>You may find her choice of lifestyle distasteful, even immoral from your standards; but the better you know her, the more you will understand why she selected to continue in her profession." </em></strong><span style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">--</span><a href="http://readersfavorite.com/cat-71.htm?review=4029">ReadersFavorite.com</a></div></div>
