About
Jahmal Cole is an author and community activist. "Hip-hop music artist like Nas, and authors like Claude Brown, inpsired me to dream bigger than my surroundings." I'm an echo of inner-city altruism that's been camouflaged by depriciation and bandannas.
EDUCATION
Actively involved in education, Cole holds a Bachelors degree in Corporate Communications/Public Relations from Wayne State College. He received a Masters degree in Internet Branding/Marketing from Full Sail University.
COMMUNITY SERVICE
A native of Waukegan, IL, Jahmal Cole has shown a commitment to youth and community. Cole has raised over $5,000 for the Red-Cross Victim-Relief Fund. CIn 2003, Cole founded Role Model Movement, an organization of three authors and two civic leaders who are committed to developing leadership in underserved youth.
Children's Research Triangle: Associates Board
Children's Home + Aid: Associates Board
Illinois Education Foundation: Mentor
UCAN: Volunteer
Greater Chatham Alliance: Member
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
Often without options, inner-city youth escape the realities of a bleak future on the basketball court or by listening to hip-hop music. They accept where they’re at because that’s the only place they’ve ever been. But Jahmal Cole dared to dream for more. Hustling and grinding his way, Cole defied the odds and left the inner-city streets of Chicago to pursue college, a basketball career, and his love for writing rhymes that spoke of real life emotions and challenges. Athletes and Emcees is a compilation of the lessons he learned and how he used his two favorite pastimes to further his education and break the cycle of poverty and hopelessness which plague many of today’s urban teens.
Reviews
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">Jahmal
Cole is a spirited, hilarious, and charming writer. He has a knack for creating
memorable turns of phrase, and there is something improvisational and informal
about his prose style that really appealed to me. I liked the fact that he
solicited quotes from ordinary people to print on the back cover and when I
took a minute to visit his website, I found that it looked quite professional.
I saw immediately that where marketing is concerned, the author is both
ambitious and enterprising, two qualities that will stand him in good stead as
he pursues a wider readership. </span></p><p></p>
<p align="right" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:right;"><strong><em><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">Writer’s Digest</span></em></strong><em><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"></span></em></p><p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"></span></p><br /><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"></span></p><br /><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">From
my initial meeting of Jahmal until today I have been nothing less than
impressed with this extraordinary young man. His vision, determination, and
positive attitude are rare these days among young people, and it’s especially
refreshing to see such traits come from someone with a challenging upbringing
such as Jahmal. I have forwarded his book <em>Athletes
& Emcees</em> on to my younger siblings and some of my peers, as well, as a
testament to determination, and as he puts it, “to hustle or grind” no matter
the circumstance. Without arrogance, flash, or attitude, this young man has
achieved amazing accomplishments and will only continue to do so. He will truly
be an asset wherever he may end up. </span></p><p></p>
<p align="right" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:right;"><strong><em><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">Chicago Sun-Times</span></em></strong><em><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"></span></em></p><p></p>
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