W. David MacKenzie

W. David MacKenzie

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W. David MacKenzie, age 49, resides in Edmonds, WA where he finds writing is only one outlet for his many creative talents. His latest business endeavor is Clever Mojo Games, a board game design and publishing company. CMG is already finding success through its popular Alien Frontiers board game and David hopes that the upcoming Princes of the Dragon Throne card game will also be a hit.

David began writing in high school and this book of short stories has been written through the years since. In 1992, artist and author, James Gurney, published Dinotopia:
A Land Apart From Time. The beautiful artwork and the lost culture described in its pages captured David's heart and mind and inspired him to seek Mr. Gurney's permission to launch a Dinotopia Fan Club where members would create characters and tell stories set in his marvelous world. Mr. Gurney gave the club his blessing and David, via the DFC, put out almost two year's worth of quarterly fanzine issues with great stories and sketches from others who fell in love with the land of Dinotopia.

Involution-An Odyssey Reconciling Science to God

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

W. David MacKenzie, age 49, resides in Edmonds, WA where he finds writing is only one outlet for his many creative talents. His latest business endeavor is Clever Mojo Games, a board game design and publishing company. CMG is already finding success through its popular Alien Frontiers board game and David hopes that the upcoming Princes of the Dragon Throne card game will also be a hit. David began writing in high school and this book of short stories has been written through the years since. In 1992, artist and author, James Gurney, published Dinotopia: A Land Apart From Time. The beautiful artwork and the lost culture described in its pages captured David's heart and mind and inspired him to seek Mr. Gurney's permission to launch a Dinotopia Fan Club where members would create characters and tell stories set in his marvelous world. Mr. Gurney gave the club his blessing and David, via the DFC, put out almost two year's worth of quarterly fanzine issues with great stories and sketches from others who fell in love with the land of Dinotopia.

Reviews

<span class="ff1 fc0 fs12">&quot;Mystery, fantasy, adventure, and whimsical humor can all be found within the pages of Swamp Mist. Sit down, relax, and enjoy your encounters with characters such as these: a mythical Skunk Ape, an innovative detective doling out justice in his own unique way, a dream stealer, an Aztec would-be priest who learns to seize the moment, a baker who doesn't know when to quit, and others. David's story lines will keep you guessing and turning the pages for more!&quot;<br /><br />Ruth Y. Nott<br />Author of<br /><br /><a class="ImLink">&quot;After the Rain&quot; &quot;Garden of Faith&quot; &quot;Where Memory Lingers&quot; &quot;Crazy Patch&quot; &quot;Haiku for Lovers&quot; &quot;Family Matters&quot; &quot;Family Matters, Vol II&quot;<br /><br /></a></span><span class="ff2 fc2 fs18">~ ~ ~ ~</span><span class="ff1 fc0 fs12"> <a class="ImLink"><br /></a><br /></span><span class="ff3 fc0 fs12">Exemplary stories crafted with both an edgy darkness and a sly sense of humor. I found myself thinking “oh how wicked” and eagerly turning the page. This is a don’t miss collection from a very talented writer.<br /><br />M. E. Landress<br />Author of<br /><br /></span><span class="ff2 fc2 fs12"><a class="ImLink">&quot;The Wisdom of Bumblefoot&quot;</a> <a class="ImLink" href="http://www.amazon.com/Sour-Grapes-M-Landress/dp/0741444046/ref=sr_1_21?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1298334573&amp;sr=1-21">&quot;Sour Grapes&quot; </a><a class="ImLink">&quot;One Bad Apple&quot;</a> <a class="ImLink">&quot;Mango Madness&quot;</a><br /><br /></span><span class="ff2 fc2 fs18">~ ~ ~ ~</span><span class="ff2 fc2 fs12"> <br /><br />W. David MacKenzie will spin your head around and send shivers down your spine with his unique and sometimes chilling tales. Each one, whether prose or poetry begins by drawing you into the adventure and leading you down a path of mystery such that there is no way you will be distracted from reaching the end of the story. Once he has you in his labyrinth, MacKenzie will torment you into making wrong turns in your mind, but you are trapped until the footpath reaches the unexpected clearing.<br /><br />Susan Winters Smith, M.A.<br />Author of<br /><br /><a class="ImLink">The Mystery at Seymour Lake Lodge</a></span>