Finding God

Introduction All books have a goal in mind and I have mine. Actually I have a few goals. After thirty-four years of practicing as a clinical psychologist I have learned much about human behavior and helped maybe two thousand patients. I semi-retired in September of 2013, and now that I had the time began to review my life and decided to share my insights with a wider audience. I know that I sometimes learn best by being shown how to accomplish something. Therefore I decided to use myself as an example of how to overcome life crises. The book you are about to read will allow you to follow me on a journey, through trials and tribulations, to personal growth and deep happiness. Along the way you will learn the how best to overcome drug and alcohol addictions, lose the fear of panic attacks, and cope with life altering changes. The final crisis I personally overcame led me to a world that had never been a part of my life before. I am talking about the new scientific paradigm and spirituality. My hope is that I will make the point to never give up, but keep learning and keep growing as a person. A famous man, one we all know, once said “He who lives in the past will stay in the past.” Living life in the present opens up new vistas and offers the possibility for personal growth. Holding on to anger, past injustices, or feeling sorry for one’s self, is a ball and chain that will stunt attempts at personal growth. If Finding God can help even a few people avoid this mistake I will count it a gain. The book will be divided into sections. In the first section I will begin with the early years; then move on to the troubled teens and the first crisis in my life. I will next show how in my mid twenties personal insight literally saved my life and started me on a path towards personal growth. This will be followed by the years of clinical practice and child rearing. I will describe my years working as a crisis psychologist for the Brooklyn High Schools and the incident that left me disabled and brought on the second crisis in my life. I observed so many people’s lives destroyed due to disability, including my mother’s, that I will spend time describing how best to overcome it. I will end with the third crisis, which led me to the path that took me deeply into science and spirituality. Yes, science led me to believe deeply in God. This final crisis allowed me to learn absolutely amazing things. I guarantee that the final section will literally blow your mind as it has mine. The world changed drastically when we broke the atom and found out that the energy particles that make it up obey none of the laws of physics we had believed in for three hundred years. It is my personal wish that this book will help those who are struggling with past injustices to move beyond them and those who have suffered disabling injuries to realize that there is hope and it comes mostly from inside one’s self. Finally, to help all to come to see that the new paradigm of physics which began when the atom was broken and Pandora’s box was opened has changed the world that we thought we knew. Regarding this last, if fundamental particles of matter, particles that have little or no mass, can be in multiple places at the same time, can somehow communicate with each other across the galaxy and in a timeless fashion, can change their very reality from a wave to a point particle when they are being observed, and can alter behavior that has already occurred, we must rethink what we thought was reality. A new world has been opened up to us. No longer can the paranormal be so easily dismissed and neither can the power of prayer. Never, in my lifetime, did I expect to see scientifically designed research studies supporting the survival of consciousness after death. The final chapters will explore these. My many colleagues who are atheists because they believe science has debunked God and religions will be shown how wrong they are. Come with me on this journey and I assure you that your mind will be open to new and exciting possibilities that will lead to your own personal enrichment and happiness.