About
I am a writer, based in London, UK.
Published novels: 'Second Chances' , 'A Time to Tell', 'Coincidences', 'The Dream', 'Haunted'.
Short story collections: 'Pieces of a Rainbow', 'Love and Loyalty (and Other Tales)' , 'Fusion', 'Delusion and Dreams'.
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
The Dream is a fantasy/paranormal, time slip story; it's also a mystery, romance, thriller, and drama.
Here's the blurb: Lynne cannot shake her feelings of dread; her dreams tell her she is making a terrible mistake, she must not marry Adam. But, how can she believe the dream? Lynne and Adam have shared their lives for three years now. She is certain she loves him. It is not that love, which her dream warns against. It doesn't matter that she loves this man she will soon marry. If she marries him, the voice in her dream says her soul mate will die. Her true love will perish. Soon, Lynne's world is transformed and becomes almost unrecognisable, except for the déjà vu. Time doesn't seem to mean much anymore, and things are not quite as they seem. As her world spins out of control, Lynne must sort out what's real and what isn't to fulfill her destiny.
Reviews
<strong>Review by BookAddict (Vine Voice) Amazon.com</strong><br /><br />If you could go back in time and change one thing, how many other
aspects of your life and other people's lives would be altered because
of that one change? This is just one of the issues that Maria Savva
takes on in The Dream. This book really made me stop and think about
fate and destiny and all those little signs along life's path that, if
we choose to take notice, lead us in one direction or another.
<br /><br />This book is romance and mystery with a little paranormal twist.
Lynne's character is one that many of us can relate to. The people she
crosses paths with made me laugh and made me furious. This is a fun read
with that feel good touch that I've come to expect when I read anything
by this author.<br /><br /><strong>Review by mystery writer Stacy Juba, Author Twenty-Five Years <br />Ago Today</strong><br /><br />This was a page-turner! Lynne was a compelling, well-drawn character in a
situation that many people have faced - do you keep looking for that
one special true love, or settle for good enough? Mixed in with this
story of relationships and finding your life path is an unusual twist.
Lynne is haunted by a dream and strong intuition that she may be with
the wrong man. Is it normal wedding jitters, has she turned psychic, or
is she being guided from beyond? I read this book in two days, every
time I could get my hands on it, as I wanted to know where it was going.
If you enjoy contemporary fiction with a splash of romance and the
mysterious, then you'll be riveted to this book.
