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Robin John Morgan
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Heirs to the Kingdom is a series of ongoing books, that I really never intended to publish. I have always written short stories, that have been read mainly by friends. I enjoy writing, but never considered myself a serious writer, for me it was just a way of allowing the creative feelings trapped within me to come out.
When I first allowed people to read the first instalment of the Bowman of Loxley, I viewed it much as I have my shorter stories, the only difference being it was much longer, at 209 thousand words I hadn't given much thought to the fact that I had written a novel.
The revelation I had notes for other stories to follow excited my friends, and soon I found I was swamped with requests to read the story, it became apparant when my father read it that I should consider publishing.
In 2007 I set about a complete rewrite, to ensure that if I did consider publishing the story, it would at least be credible. After two years of atempts and several rejections (Fantasy or Fiction not wanted) I finally got my chance to get the book out via a new company UkUnpublished.
It has been an interesting journey for a man who has spent his working life outdoors working with plants, I must confess that it has been nice to sit indoors in the warmth and write. In early 2008 I took time off to write more on this story, and as book one went out to the world, book two entered into the final stages of editing, to be released in late 2009. I have no idea of how the books will sell, I just know that to date everyone who has read them, has found it compulsive reading. Its been a wonderful time seeing how others have enjoyed my work.
In 2013 I became a little dissillusioned with the publishing aspect of the books, I felt that considering I was doing most if not all of the promotion then it was time to take charge and start publishing myself. After a lot of planning, in early January of 2014 I took control of my books and pulled them from my current publisher and set up my own small home based company, and after four months of revising my books I republished the first three of my books and a new fourth book under the banner of Violet Circle Publishing, and I am currently working with a few friends who are also writers to help thempublish their own work.
Considering I never intended publishing, Its been very enjoyable and I hope that anyone who reads this series of my work, gets a share of the pleasure I have experienced in creating it.
If you would like to know more about how I wrote HTTK, or share my experiences as a new writer, you can read my blog at www.heirstothekingdom.com/rjmblog If you do visit, I would be delighted if you left a comment.
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>