I, Spyder (aka: Kathleen Deveaney-Brown), decided towrite my first Book after reading Savage Autumn by Constance O’Banyon, anauthor who was truly inspiring to me. For the past twenty-five years I havewritten over twenty novels. I live with my husband in Illinois, along with mythree grandchildren: Joseph, Taliah, and Marshall, three dogs, and a cat thatlives up to her name, Ninja! I was born and raised on a farm in Hickory,Pennsylvania, the youngest of seven—five brothers and one sister. Growing up was hell!
<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>
Personal Justice is an intriguing novel of survival, of involuntarily becoming a victim and overcoming what horrors life throws at you. We all take life for granted until the day we are faced with unfathomable tragedy and loss. Zachary, a prominent defense attorney, had it all—a beautiful sister, caring and loving mother, and his father, a successful doctor. The day tragedy darkened his door, he was consumed with unbridled anger and rage. It was not long before he devised a plan that put him and his followers above the law and what he swore an oath to uphold, justice. However, there are many kinds of justice. Often we need someone to lookout for those of us who can’t do for ourselves. Personal Justice—sometimes must be served to those who destroy and terrorize the innocent, even if it is by strangers’ hands!
<span style="line-height:115%;font-family:Arial, 'sans-serif';font-size:11pt;"> </span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;">“A fast-paced novel with action at every turn.<span> </span>Robert Parker fans should read this book.” <span style="line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">Ray Bonanrdi….Illinois</span></span></span>