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>
Story Behind The Book
Drama, suspense, comedy, romance and truth all rolled up into these fiction novels of relationships, marriages on the rocks, couples unable to commit, undefined love, issues faced in the lives of these professional African Americans.
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<div class="post-body entry-content">Lydia Phillips has written an incredible fiction novel, "No Glass House." I really enjoyed all of the twists and turns that she wrote into her plot. The story is mainly about the intertwined lives of ten key people. These characters are either friends or relatives. Over the years their relationships have evolved or disintegrated. Events that are currently taking place force change into their lives. Some of the changes are positive; the other ones are forced due to betrayals.As the characters adapt to their new situations, they experience some tremendous emotional growth. Ms. Phillips left no stone unturned; in this story she includes tons of infidelity including statutory rape and homosexuality, temptations, and racial issues. What is really scary is how, on the surface, the characters seem so normal. But underneath it all, they have their bad habits. The perfect husband with the wife and two children is gay. The sister of the couple with the not-so-good relationship has a husband who is having sex with her fifteen-year-old daughter. The husband of this sister married his wife because she was pregnant and now has affairs to get his needs met. The drama goes on.What makes it scary? This seems to be how it is in real life. We fool ourselves with the illusions that things are how we would like them to be, yet underneath it all, things are pretty messed up, especially when it comes to betrayal in relationships. In reality we see so many relationships that appear normal falling apart due to infidelity. "The Perfect Couple" turns out not to be so perfect. It is scary because this happens so often. In "No Glass House," Ms. Phillips has these issues appearing in her story and they are frighteningly real. Life has taught me about the realities of these situations. What I loved about this book is that each woman in it survived the situation and got stronger. That is very empowering.I highly recommend "No Glass House." You will definitely appreciate the strength of the woman and their friends that comes from the pages. If you think that you have the perfect life and are in denial about the realities of the issues in this novel, then you will just enjoy it for its fictional qualities. It is an awesome story. I think it would also be perfect for women's reader groups. <a href="http://seussabdc.blogspot.com/2010/03/dr-seuss-book-collection-sets-cat-hat.html"><font color="#5588aa">seuss book collection sets cat hat</font></a></div>
