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My name is Patrick Cunningham andthis is my first book After Midnight volume one. I have been writingfiction/horror since i was only 11 years old. I always remember how itall began. I was only eight years old and one day while on my way homefrom school I was approached by a very tall heavy set man in his late40's. He stopped to ask me if I knew the location of a castle in myhome town. A castle that had a reputation for being HAUNTED!!!
I toldhim the way but i noticed he was carrying something in his left hand.It looked like a Geiger counter for the want of a better description.Of course my curiosity kicked in and I asked him what it was for. Hetold me he was a Professor from the university of Boston and he was inIreland researching the old castles. He was a "Ghost Hunter" and thetales he told me of the things he had witnessed triggered myimagination there and then. I was always told by my parents that Ghostswere not real, but here I was after talking to this man, a professor aneducated man and he believed in ghosts. So it was after that I becamefascinated with the supernatural, paranormal and the occult. I watchedhorror movies and read horror novels and of course they had to be byAlfred Hitchcock and the grand master himself Stephen king.
A few yearslater I was sitting down doing my home work one night when all of asudden I started to write a story, and the characters of Ben, Rodger,Jackie, and Sarah were born. The stories just poured out of me and nomatter how hard i tried to keep them from coming out it was no good.For nearly three years I wrote of their adventures, until one night inmy early teens I just threw them in a corner and forgot about them.
Until earlier this year I discovered them and by discovering them I also rediscovered my self . Iread them for my fiance and her kids and they loved them and encouragedme to get them published and so I did. I sat at my computer for fourmonths and re-wrote the stories. They were written by a ten year oldboy and when you read the book you will notice the teenage mind framethat runs throughout the book. Those stories are now called AfterMidnight volume one. I still have ideas for other stories and thoseideas are going to become After Midnight volume two....
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><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41rcJzuqtjL._SL160_AA115_.jpg" alt="41rcJzuqtjL._SL160_AA115_.jpg" width="220" align="right" height="220" />A Dark, Twisted Journey Through Terror and Death, Volume One </p>
<p>Recently I had the opportunity to review a draft copy of “After
Midnight,” and it was a scary experience, to say the least. Not
because of the author’s writing, which is more a stream of
consciousness narrative than anything else; but because of the
nightmarish visions of blood, gore and death that the reader must
endure while following him on a guided tour of hell. </p>
<p>Welcome to the bowels of evil. Welcome to the world of Irish writer,
Patrick Cunningham. ”When the forces of darkness awaken-when the fate
of the world is at stake-who will be brave enough to stand and fight
for the powers of good and the whole of humanity?” This is Cunningham’s
challenge to the reader and the premise of the story. </p>
<p>Fight for the powers of good and protect humanity from the forces of
evil? That’s a pretty tall order, and the answer to that question will
surprise you. As it turns out, action figures like Superman and Wonder
Woman need not apply. The fate of our world rests in the hands of four,
twenty-somethings named Ben, Rodger, Jackie and Sarah. Two hip couples
named Ben, Rodger, Jackie and Sarah step in to save our world from
destruction? Whoa! Who are these people and what do they have going
for them? As it turns out, quite a lot.</p>
<p>For one thing, they are clever, quick witted, strong and incredibly
courageous. And for another, as Cunningham puts it, “The girls kick
ass just as good as the guys.” Well, no big surprise there. This is
the twenty first century isn’t it? So much for the cast of good guys. </p>
<p>Who are the bad guys? It depends on where in the book you are
reading of course, but in no particular order you will run into hostile
extra terrestrials, ghosts in a haunted house, a chain saw wielding
madman, a legion of murderous scare crows on a deserted island, a super
secret Army test gone amok, and a gaggle of female vampires. </p>
<p>One of the latter, a toothsome young woman named Stephanie falls in
love with Ben and takes the extraordinary step of invading his girl
friend’s body from time to time to have her way with him. </p>
<p>So what is “After Midnight” <em>really </em>all about? Is it just
about blood and gore, or does it serve some higher purpose? In a recent
interview, Cunningham said, “The book is a series of short stories
centered on the four main characters. I don’t give any real
descriptions of the characters so the reader can use their own
imagination and make believe that they are that character. I just set
up the stories to trigger your imagination and take you on a roller
coaster ride into madness and mayhem.” </p>
<p>So there you have it. “Imagination” is the key to this book. Those
who have it and like to use it will find it a good read. Those who
don’t probably won’t. </p>
<p>Meanwhile, Patrick Cunningham who lives in Ireland, a country
surrounded by myth and legend, is hard at work on Volume Two of “After
Midnight.” I wish him luck on that project, as well as success with
Volume One. </p>
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