2.1. The Back Story
I’ve always had
a keen interest in the hidden powers of man. From the time I was young, I
always felt I had the power to move things with my mind, the ability to fly,
super human strength, etc. This was further fueled by reading about super
heroes in comics. Yet whenever I tried to do things like move objects with my
mind, I was not able to. This made me very upset because within myself I was
100% sure that I had this power, yet I could not understand why it was not
manifesting. I really felt like there was something stopping it from
manifesting. As I will explain later, I was being stopped by something very
powerful called “consensus reality”
Let's fast forward in time to 1981 and my first year in college. I was taking computer technology and electronic engineering at Queensboro College in New York City. I remember loving lab and I saw many curious analogies between electronic components, electronic circuits, Man, God and the universe. In fact, during lab I used to use the circuits to explain about Man, God and the universe back then. My fellow students and lab group partners loved it, but the professor used to get mad at me f
or “distracting”
the students into philosophical and quasi-religious discussions. Little did I
know that this penchant I had for looking for analogies and deeper meaning of
everyday things, would eventually lead me to writing this book.
Fast forward again to 1983 and I took my first classes in computer programming using “Turbo Pascal.” I loved it, and I was fascinated with the whole notion of writing a program which could make the computer interact with me and hold a conversation. Around this time I was also exposed to the beginnings of the Internet. At that there was no "world wide web" with audio, graphics, multi-media, etc. It was just a monochrome screen and research papers. However, at that point, I was already in love.