a Book of LIFE |
Welcome to a Greater Reality |
By Howard Lawrence Scheiner, MD/AAHIVS |
copyright 2009 PROLOGUE |
I had, for more than fifty years of life, believed my mind. My five senses brought me all the information my mind needed to integrate the facts. My intellect would then take the facts and provide me with the blueprint of the reality of life and my role in that reality. I would be a doctor. My parents agreed that was indeed a fine profession to choose. I would do “good” and have a very comfortable existence. I would be a “success," a great catch for anyone looking to reel in a young successful doctor. I would be loved and admired. I would find happiness. And what would make me happy? To lead a long life. To have a nice roof over my head, good food on the table. Money of course—a goodly amount. A comfortable life. Good friends and family. A loving, adoring partner for life. Travel, leisure time. Respect. Some power maybe?—To do good things of course. To be a nice-sized fish in whatever pond I found myself in.
I have always had a great intellectual curiosity about Man and his universe. The big questions of the meaning and purpose of life have always been with me in some subliminal manner. But, the easier questions of life and death seemed more within my grasp. Perhaps, that is part of the reason I became a physician. So, over many years, I have become very well acquainted with both the mode of entry to and exit from this life. When it came to religious dogma and faith in a higher power, I completely recoiled in disbelief. To choose belief was not a choice I could make. Religions all seemed so disconnected to any truth I could imagine. Unless science could prove the existence of God, it was all silly nonsense: fairy tales for young and old of feeble minds. Prejudice was cloaked in religious garb, dividing, persecuting, and killing people, all in the name of God. What kind of God would allow it? That was all I needed to know about religion. I removed myself from such idiocy.
But life had other things in store for me.
