About
Robert M. Smith is a Certified Financial Planner professional (CFP), and founder of Fortress Financial Group, LLC, a financial planning practice that focuses focuses on strategies to legally preserve and protect 401k, 403b retirement plans and other pension plans from federal and state income and estate taxes. Fortress Financial Group, LLC, serves local and regional areas of Colorado, including Denver, Boulder, Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, Loveland, Greeley, and other locations within the U.S. He developed a website, Rich-Christian-Living.com which is devoted to christian living topics and christian money management, and authored an e-book entitled, The Financial Facelift-Life's Amazing Road Map to Abundance and Prosperity.
Involution-An Odyssey Reconciling Science to God
Description
<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
I believe that Divine providence played a major role in the creation of The Financial Facelift-Life's Amazing Road Map To Abundance and Prosperity. Also, it could be the very reason you found this book.
Proverbs 16:9 reads, "We can make our plans, but the Lord determines our steps." This powerful bible verse has special meaning to me, and maybe, to you as well.
In 2006, after a successful working career in the banking, insurance and investment industries, my wife and I decided to return to Colorado after spending 12 years in Wisconsin. It was time to be closer to our children and grandchildren. God's spirit was inviting me down another path. He wanted me to have faith, take a risk, start my own business and put my trust in Him. He would take care of the rest. But, how could I best serve God first, then others, with the time and talents He gave me?”
Over the past few years, The Lord gave me the direction I needed. As a Certified Financial Planner professional (CFP), I organized a financial planning practice, Money Mentors, LLC, <a href="http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=R._M._Smith"><span style="color:#0000FF;">published several articles</span></a> related to <a href="http://www.rich-christian-living.com/christian-money-management.html"><span style="color:#0000FF;">christian money management</span></a> and living from a biblical perspective, developed the Rich-Christian-Living.com website, and authored a personal money management e-book entitled, The Financial Facelift-Life's Amazing Road Map to Abundance and Prosperity.
Reviews
<a><strong>Well written book-Amazon.com Review</strong><br /></a>"The premise of The Financial Facelift is that one's financial situation<br />is directly tied to one's ability to establish good relationships - with money, family, society. It was nicely presented with interesting case stories. Concise, clear. Exceptional writing style, especially for a first-time author. Lacked a few attributions for some of the research that was presented, but overall a pleasant effort." Fan, Chicago, IL <br /><br /><strong>Paving a Way to Financial Abundance-Amazon.com Review<br /></strong>"A quirky title for a book on financial principles, and yet the author lays out a surprisingly thorough and well researched manuscript. There are 23 chapters that include detailed statistics and analysis, along with its primary assumption that the path to both financial ruin and prosperity is forged by mastery of one aspect of life - HABIT. With chapter tiles include such headers as "You Might as Well Be a Riverboat Gambler," and "What? I'm the Team Quarterback?," this book is another good reason why Kindle is leading the way for independent authors to share their unique insights with the rest of the world." J. Seidel <br />
