Involution- An Odyssey Reconciling Science to God. This book has
been called '...a brilliant and profoundly erudite epic...a heroic
intellectual tour de force...' (by David Lorimer, the Director of
the Scientific and Medical Network) and both 'brave...and totally
insightful (by Ervin Laszlo) but the book defies description; it
breaks all the rules and is unlike any other. It is so
comprehensive in its sweep, original in its writing, and its
synthesis, that to isolate any aspect is to misrepresent all the
others. Two companions, Reason and Soul, invite the reader to
accompany them on a light-hearted poetic journey through the
chronology of Western thought to uncover a bold hypothesis: that
the evolution of science has been shaped by its gradual and
accelerating recovery of memory (involution). That recovery has
been led by the inspired maverick genius, moving backwards through
time (usually called the past), but which has provided science's
future at every moment of new creative thought. Scientific
inspiration and its chronology mirrors evolution. This incremental
excavation and transfer of memory to intellect implies the
pre-human encoding (involution) of consciousness in the structure
of matter, and the interconnected consciousness of all life. DNA is
the likely encoding and mediating molecule, or resonant coherence
of this information, through both time and space. The sweep of
history is needed to expose this proposal and its evidence: It
requires all the disciplines of science, all the epochs of thought:
which only a poetic economy 'woven together with extraordinary
subtlety' (Lorimer) could convey. Yet, paradoxically, through
involution the collective journey has been lit by individuals,
unique in their subjective contributions to the discipline that
claims only 'objective' validated truth. The same pattern is
mirrored in the congruent history of painting and musical
composition. Genius differs only in the languages of expression.
This book loosely weaves them all, using familiar material to
arrive at an art, a science and divinity behind science. In nine
swift Cantos the work travels through pre-human involution, the
enfolding of consciousness in matter, and then early man's
emergence on the Serengeti. Through the recorded civilizations of
Greece, Rome, the Dark Ages, the Renaissance, into the
Enlightenment and finally Modernism the success of science
progressively obscures the internal story, the story of direct
intuition, nous, experience, and the complement to Darwin that this
collective involution provides. But there is more to it than merely
science; for science is a language through which to follow a deeper
journey, Mankind's collective journey inwards, to the nature of
himself: which is why the scientific signposts are confined to
end-notes to leave the poetic journey unencumbered. They take no
scientific knowledge for granted: they are not essential to the
poetic narrative but instead caulk the ship from which we view an
alternative journey. By adding involution to evolution, mind and
matter become two sides of a single coin, only perceived as
distinct through the intellect's division from its deeper self,
from consciousness, experience, and understanding. The co-creation
of God and the universe is what this book restores and is about. It
has been called a 'heroic tour de force, a brilliant and erudite
epic...' but also 'clearly written and easy to read' It slaughters
a few sacred cows, 'brave and a lot of fun.
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