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I was born in 1920. The first world war was over and our planet was beautiful and apparently at peace… In my mind the war had just been a tragic event which would certainly never be repeated. I grew up, went to school and by the time I was in college adults were talking about a certain Adolf Hitler with his growing ambitions and greed and the certainty that if he was to be elected there would doubtlessly be a war. I went on dreaming until reality cruel and senseless put an end to my dream, fear and anguish took its place.

Radio and Television were not yet popular and it was easy to ignore that nations and individuals were constantly fighting each other all over the world. .

Life became unliveable. But how was it possible that an omnipotent loving heavenly father could allow such monstrous - apparently unjustified cruelty? I had to understand. or suicide seemed the only alternative. It was then that I received Paramhansa Yogananda’s Autobiography of a Yogi. I was agreeably impressed by many of his statements which were more scientific than religious so I will go on quoting them for the benefit of those which have overlooked them. « Without doubt and investigation you will never find the answer to your questions »

Well I certainly doubted the church so all I had to do was to investigate, but where and how to start?

« Science and religion should go hand in hand « says Yogananda but I knew nothing about science and it was then that someone gave me Fritjorf Capra’s TAO OF PHISICS a book which compares science to spirituality in a way that even I could follow.

The first thing I was to learn was that there had been a Big Bang: an explosion of positive and negative energy and their complimentary opposites which fight each other ever since for domination. .The so called law of the jungle reigned supreme. Our first reaction is to want to chose which of the two forces we will sustain until we realise that - strange as it may seem – competition and destruction are necessary to Evolution of the species.. Grasp that and you will start understanding human nature!