Lisa Voisin

Lisa Voisin

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A Canadian-born author, Lisa Voisin spent her childhood daydreaming and making up stories, but it was her love of reading and writing in her teens that drew her to Young Adult fiction. When she's not writing, you'll find her meditating or hiking in the mountains to counter the side effects of drinking too much coffee. She lives in Vancouver, B.C. with her fiance and their two cats.

Involution-An Odyssey Reconciling Science to God

Involution-An Odyssey Reconciling Science to God

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<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>

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<p style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(30,30,30);line-height:normal;"><i>&quot;Inventive, romantic, and filled with tension, this is a great start to an intriguing series.&quot;</i></p> <p style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(30,30,30);line-height:normal;"><i><b>--A.M. Dellamonica, author of INDIGO SPRINGS, winner of the 2010 Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, and BLUE MAGIC.</b></i></p> <p style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(30,30,30);line-height:normal;"><i>&quot;Voisin's THE WATCHER blends paranormal mystery and romance into a book that is sure to keep readers turning the pages late into the night.&quot;</i></p> <p style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(30,30,30);line-height:normal;"><i><b>-- Eileen Cook, author of THE ALMOST TRUTH</b></i></p> <p style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(30,30,30);line-height:normal;"><i>&quot;Perfect for fans of angels and demons, Lisa Voisin has created an uplifting tale of redemption, love, and spirituality that gives hope. Never preachy, THE WATCHER is the perfect answer to critics who claim Young Adult literature is too dark.&quot;</i></p> <p style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(30,30,30);line-height:normal;"><i><b>-- Stephanie Lawton, author of WANT and SHRAPNEL</b></i></p> <p style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(30,30,30);line-height:normal;"><i>&quot;The Watcher is stunning! A paranormal romance that you won't want to put down. Voisin will enthrall you until the very last page.&quot;</i></p> <p style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(30,30,30);line-height:normal;"><i><b>-- Stephanie Keyes, author, THE STAR CHILD series</b></i></p> <p><em>&quot;<span style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;">This was a very intense and beautiful novel unlike any other I've read before. </span>&quot; </em></p> <p><em><strong>-- Stephanie, A Dream Within a Dream</strong></em></p> <p><em>&quot;<span style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;">Lisa Voisin has written a fantastically engaging story. The Watcher was a book that I fell completely in love with and I was incredibly sad to see it end. If you love the idea of good verses bad and right verses wrong combined with a love that defies the constraints of time, then The Watcher will capture your heart the same way that it did mine.</span><br style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;" /><br style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;" /><span style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;">5/5 madly in love with Michael stars!!&quot; </span></em></p> <p><em><strong><span style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;">-- Tracey, YA Book Addict</span></strong></em></p>