About
Keith Rommel lives with his family in Port Saint Lucie, Florida.Keith is a retailer, freelance writer and now a novelist. This proves dreamscome true.
Captivated as a young man by the story of a real-life tragicevent of a family friend, Keith Rommel was inspired to write The Cursed Man: anovel of dark suspense with an ending so ominous, it has to be fiction. KeithRommel has had several writer how-to articles published and is currentlyworking on his next novel. You can visit Keith on the web at http://keithrommel.weebly.com
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
Keith Rommel delves much deeper than simple superstition in the “The Cursed Man”, a fast-paced novel of suspense injected with enough horror to keep you on the edge of your seat. Rommel takes you deep within the human psyche, and once you get inside, it’s impossible to get out.
“There’s a part in the book that is disturbing to me,” said Rommel. “It is the moment in the book where you come to understand what Alister (hero) is really going through and why. The why is based off of a true event that is close to my family, and that is what inspired me to write The Cursed Man."
Reviews
<font size="4">"The Cursed Man is an extremely well written suspense
horror story... an enthralling narrative told in the past and the
present... Great story telling in the tradition of
Stephen King…" 9 of 10 </font> - <font size="4">Booklore</font><br /><span></span><br /><span></span><font size="4">"Rommel
has written a suspenseful novel that leaves you guessing about motives
and the workings of the mind. Pick this one up, you won't be
disappointed."</font> - Reviewed by <strong style="font-weight:normal;">Barry Hunter</strong> - <a href="http://www.baryon-online.com/">http://www.baryon-online.com</a><br /><br /><span></span><font size="3"><font size="4">"The
Cursed Man is a fascinating look into the mind of madness. It is a
relatively quick and easy read but a thought-provoking one. The Cursed
Man kept me guessing until the bitter end. It is a well-written,
engrossing, insightful book to read." </font> -</font><span> <a href="http://www.tcm-ca.com/?p=7964">TCM Reviews</a></span>
