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Writing a children’s book—The Secret of the Sacred Scarab—was an unexpected step, inspired by a recent trip to Egypt. The tale of the sacred scarab began life as a little anecdotal tale for my 2 nephews (then 10 and 12), who had accompanied me on the Egyptian trip. This short story grew into a children’s book, the first in the adventure series, Chronicles of the Stone. I'm already immersed in the next book in the series—The Search for the Stone of Excalibur—a huge treat for young King Arthur fans. Although I do not have children of my own, I have an adopted teenage foster child, from an underprivileged background who is just discovering the joys of reading for pleasure. My interests include literature, art, theatre, collecting antiques, animals, music, and films.

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“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.”(Teilhard de Chardin)Involution-An Odyssey Reconciling Science to God 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.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.“ 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” (From a reviewer)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.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.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.From the same review “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.(Marianne Rankin: Director of Communications, Alister Hardy Trust)

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Writing a children’s book—The Secret of the Sacred Scarab—was an unexpected step, inspired by a recent trip to Egypt. In fact, I should say I owe it all to my mother, who read about a tour to Egypt in a family magazine. I wasn’t sure about Egypt because Europe is more to my liking, but Mother was insistent, and so I went along with her whim. We took my two nephews along for the ride, and they became the ‘models’ for the two young heroes of the book, Justin and Adam Sinclair. We had quite an amazing trip and since I am a journalist, I wrote notes, collected brochures, and took many pictures ... although I wasn't sure why I was doing all that. Luckily for me, it came in handy later on. The tale of the sacred scarab began life as a little anecdotal tale for my nephews (then 10 and 12). When we got back to South Africa and had admired the photos and sorted out the souvenirs, I wanted to give them something special so they could remember the trip. I refreshed my memory with all the material I had brought back, then I picked up a writing pad and a red ballpoint pen. Then, without even thinking about it, I wrote the title, The Secret of the Sacred Scarab, and the first word, Egypt! The rest just seemed to flow. I used the actual trip as the guideline and tried to incorporate the many unusual things that had happened to us, just infusing them with more exciting meaning. This short story grew into a children’s book, the first in the adventure series, Chronicles of the Stone. It had to become a series because, by the end of the first book, I realized that the children couldn’t possibly save the world in one book ... they’d have to carry on. The story just grew from there. I have finished the second adventure novel in the series (The Search for the Stone of Ecalibur), and this book takes the boys off to Scotland, where they encounter medieval castles, ancient swords, crumbling manuscripts and secret ciphers, and more danger than ever before. They are also joined by an unexpected companion....

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Reviewed by: Barbara Milbourn for Writers in the Sky Author Fiona Ingram understands that young readers have no patience for long, drawn-out prologues. At the first sentence—a one-word exclamation—of The Secret of the Sacred Scarab, she jettisons readers off on an adventure to a far-away land with two young cousins. Justin and Adam are leaving the comforts of home and the family dog for a one-week adventure in Egypt with ace writer/researcher Aunt Isabel and their loveable and zany Gran. In exchange for missing school, their assignment is to keep a daily record of things they’ve seen and learned along the way. It so happens that their aunt’s current project and the boys’ recent history lessons coincide and set the reader on firm footing before they even lift off. Aunt Isabel has guaranteed their maximum travel experience and personal safety by booking them on a tour with a host of entertaining fellow sojourners and a tour-guide who is suspected of knowing far more than she shares with the group. Safety vanishes early in the hot, still air of a marketplace when the boys are encountered by a ragged peddler who bestows upon them four scarabs; one of which is particularly ancient and coveted. The story flies forward from there as the boys put together fortuitous pieces of a puzzle in quest of a legendary tomb of an ancient Egyptian ruler and a missing archeologist. Ingram writes the landscape and the legend vividly and keeps the boys barely one step ahead of death and dismemberment at the hands of men in black, the fangs of a giant cobra, and all manner of danger that lurks in caves, shifting sands, and things hidden in deep, dark places. The Secret of the Sacred Scarab is entertainment for readers up to around age fourteen and for those who wish they were fourteen again. It is at once adventure and history, art and architecture, humor and redemption, travel writing and social studies, and great fun. Fiona Ingram presents this as her first of seven in a series titled Chronicles of the Stone. Recent Amazon Reviews: Five Stars <table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="border-bottom-color:#f0f0f0;padding-bottom:0cm;background-color:transparent;border-top-color:#f0f0f0;padding-left:0cm;width:.3pt;padding-right:0cm;border-right-color:#f0f0f0;border-left-color:#f0f0f0;padding-top:0cm;" valign="top" width="0"> </td> <td style="border-bottom-color:#f0f0f0;padding-bottom:0cm;background-color:transparent;border-top-color:#f0f0f0;padding-left:0cm;width:100%;padding-right:0cm;border-right-color:#f0f0f0;border-left-color:#f0f0f0;padding-top:0cm;" valign="top" width="100%"> An Excellent Mystery, February 28, 2009 <table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="border-bottom-color:#f0f0f0;padding-bottom:0cm;background-color:transparent;border-top-color:#f0f0f0;padding-left:0cm;padding-right:0cm;border-right-color:#f0f0f0;border-left-color:#f0f0f0;padding-top:0cm;" valign="top"> By </td> <td style="border-bottom-color:#f0f0f0;padding-bottom:0cm;background-color:transparent;border-top-color:#f0f0f0;padding-left:0cm;padding-right:0cm;border-right-color:#f0f0f0;border-left-color:#f0f0f0;padding-top:0cm;"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A10RINEA3WPJ6H/ref=cm_cr_pr_pdp">William P. Robertson "Bucktail novelist" </a>(Duke Center, PA USA) </td></tr></tbody></table>Fiona Ingram creates very believable boy characters caught up in a scintillating adventure. Her descriptions of the Egyptian landscape are breathtaking. She also imparts a wonderful knowledge of Egyptian culture in a way that young people will understand. Her map and diagrams will help her readers follow the story more easily.</td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr style="height:39.6pt;"><td style="border-bottom-color:#f0f0f0;padding-bottom:0cm;background-color:transparent;border-top-color:#f0f0f0;padding-left:0cm;width:.3pt;padding-right:0cm;height:39.6pt;border-right-color:#f0f0f0;border-left-color:#f0f0f0;padding-top:0cm;" valign="top" width="0"> </td> <td style="border-bottom-color:#f0f0f0;padding-bottom:0cm;background-color:transparent;border-top-color:#f0f0f0;padding-left:0cm;width:100%;padding-right:0cm;height:39.6pt;border-right-color:#f0f0f0;border-left-color:#f0f0f0;padding-top:0cm;" valign="top" width="100%"> Superb, January 22, 2009 <table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="border-bottom-color:#f0f0f0;padding-bottom:0cm;background-color:transparent;border-top-color:#f0f0f0;padding-left:0cm;padding-right:0cm;border-right-color:#f0f0f0;border-left-color:#f0f0f0;padding-top:0cm;" valign="top"> By </td> <td style="border-bottom-color:#f0f0f0;padding-bottom:0cm;background-color:transparent;border-top-color:#f0f0f0;padding-left:0cm;padding-right:0cm;border-right-color:#f0f0f0;border-left-color:#f0f0f0;padding-top:0cm;"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/AQCXM97GQU5EG/ref=cm_cr_pr_pdp">R. E. Tregaskis </a>(South Africa) </td></tr></tbody></table>Fiona has done a remarkable story and everyone who has children will delight in either reading this story to them or letting them read it again and again. It will become a classic soon. </td></tr></tbody></table>

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