Marriedfor almost 20 years, Shellie and her husband have four wonderful children andtwo goofy greyhounds. After receivingher undergraduate degree in Secondary Education from the University ofWisconsin—Madison, she went on to acquire an early childhood educationcertificate. Shellie also served inyouth, children’s, special needs and family ministries for over twenty-twoyears.
Today she enjoys teaching her teens how to driveand chauffeuring her preteens across the Wisconsin countryside. And once in awhile, she enjoys reading a classic tale or new suspense. In addition towriting fiction, Shellie is an avid blogger on her siteand several others including the Samie Sisters, young adult noveling, and The Barn Door<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>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, 'sans-serif';">Driven is a new take on the age old battle of good versus evil. Gripping from the first page, this is one book you won't want to put down.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, 'sans-serif';">--Leanna Kay, co-creator of </span><a href="http://www.samiesisters.com/"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, 'sans-serif';color:#0000FF;">www.samiesisters.com</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, 'sans-serif';"> - a place for Christian girls to grow in faith.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, 'sans-serif';">With hints of C.S.Lewis’ Screwtape Letters and Frank Peretti’s This Present Darkness, Ms. Neumeier captures the intensity of spiritual battle that even the most mature of Christians often overlook.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, 'sans-serif';">--Susan Baganz, Women’s Ministry Director at Community Church of Fond du Lac, WI</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, 'sans-serif';"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><em>Driven</em> is a breathtaking book of tension, intrigue, and heartwarming emotion. From the moment I began to read until the very last word, I couldn't put it aside. It held me enthralled!--Lindsay Below, author of <em>Head Over Hand-Bought Heels</em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;">The contrast between the demons' obedience due to fear and their pain and diminishing presence when disobedient was striking against the teen's growth from their struggles and obedience drawn from desire for and need of the Father's love. Due to some of the issues in the book, I would definitely recommend the book to older teens.--Bobbie Anderson</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;">Driven by Shellie Neumeier will leave every teen wanting to know what happens next in the lives of these prayer warriors. Shellie creates realistic characters, angels, and demons. A must have for every teen struggling through real life adventures. Shellie spins an amazing story that helps show the reader the path in finding Jesus and asking him into your life under any circumstance.—Cheryl Ecklund, creator of Our Wisdom Shared; Parents of Chronically Ill Children, Sharing.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:11.25pt;">Oily creatures of the night are seeking to destroy a group of teens at Brookfield Central High School. Their primary target? A resilient teenage girl who refuses to question her calling. But how much guilt, how much pain, and how much accusation can one human take? Laced with other-worldly plot threads akin to Frank Peretti’s This Present Darkness, Shellie Neumeier’s debut novel inspires followers of Christ to stand strong in God’s calling regardless of tragic circumstances. Along the way she explores tragedy in friendships and the beauty of redemption. —Caleb Jennings Breakey, Refining Teen Writers into Rockstars <a href="http://www.calebbreakey.com/"><span>www.CalebBreakey.com</span></a></p>