I was brought up in the Roman Catholic faith. I was mesmerized by the art and music, but very dismayed by the teachings. There was far too much emphasis on the devil and hell, and far too little on applying the teachings of Jesus to our daily lives. They told me that I would understand when I got to heaven. The only problem is that they taught that I would only get to heaven after I was dead.

         After following the advice of Mother Superior at the age of nine, I was caught up in a spiritual experience that would reveal that everything in nature was reducible to a common denominator, and that the common denominator was the source of all creative processes. It would be eleven years before I would learn of atomic physics, which would turn out to be the common denominator that I experienced at age nine. Six months later I questioned the idea of God based on my scientific studies. I had an additional spiritual experience that would reveal that science is only half the story. Two more spiritual experiences would follow that showed the connection of past, present, and future along with how the three basic energies (mechanical, electrical, and heat) operate throughout the processes of nature.

         Shortly after discharge from the navy I met my first wife. Her future untimely death had been foreseen by a former navy crewmember that was into occult studies. At the time I was skeptical about such things. My wife and I used to play a card game called rummy. It seemed she always knew what I had in my hand, which caused me to suspect the cards were marked. I went out to buy a new deck of cards, at which time she correctly identified 14 out of 16 cards, both number and suit. That was the first time I entertained the thought that our thoughts are not limited to the space between our ears.

         Considering this idea, I began to look at ancient religious teachings, only to find that they too entertained this notion regarding spiritual matters. After voicing this insight, I was introduced to the teachings of Edgar Cayce and his involvement with what he referred to as the akashic records, the hidden memory of the cosmos.

         Due to an abusive childhood, my wife began exhibiting signs of multiple personalities and possibly demonic possession. As an answer to prayer I was introduced to a charismatic Catholic deacon who became my mentor. She walked me through many religious teachings and helped me understand my wife’s condition. Alcohol and drug abuse would eventually take her life, which confirmed my former navy friend’s premonition.

         Following her death, I took a psychology course to try to find more information on multiple personalities. Instead, I was introduced to the mystery of the split brain, in which each hemisphere thinks entirely different. I began examining the details of religious and scientific theories to see if they would correspond with the differences in how the two hemispheres of brain function. It changed the whole way in which I would view how religion came to exist.

         Much of what I had been taught in Sunday school seemed so watered down. It caused me search for what was missing in my understanding. That is when I was introduced to Eastern philosophy. Eastern philosophy began to shed light on everything that seemed so obscure to me. It began to put it all into a new perspective that was completely aligned with my scientific understanding on how the world works.

         After much study, I wrote my first book "The Merging of Two Worlds". After it was published, I had additional thoughts that would cause me to write a second book. This book is the result of all the research I conducted to put all the pieces together. I chose the title “We believe…” to convey the idea that few people know what we believe or why we believe it. The book was meant to show what our beliefs are based on so that we could learn to weed out fact from fiction. This cannot be done if you don’t know how those beliefs came to exist in the first place. Sacred scriptures are only an introduction to what the ancient world believed. We must learn to read between the lines if we are to make any headway in our understanding. This comes through spiritual experience, a pathway that few have discovered.

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