Introduction

I have written this book for the individual who does NOT believe in any of that spiritual, hocus-pocus nonsense we hear all the time — for the ones who hate all religions; the one who cringes when he or she hears “God bless you” or “Jesus is my savior”; the one who would burn the newspaper just because it has a horoscope section; those who make sure their TV and radio never stop on a religious channel; and all of those who have spent many years in universities, the ones who really know that there is nothing magical about life beyond the truth of scientific research and the hard work that goes with it.

In this book you will find valuable information from an ex-atheist (me) — a scientist and a lawyer who spent many years studying to be the best in his field. Then one day something happened, and I had to start researching everything I had believed was not real (or so I thought at the time), because of one too many odd, unexplainable experiences throughout my life that begged for an explanation — one that made sense in a clear, concise, scientific way. You will also find an autobiography: since many have encouraged me to write one, I will take this opportunity to tell you a little about myself. By doing so, you will get a good understanding of what made me change my belief system. I do this not out of ego, but rather because I want you to know what you are capable of accomplishing, if only you set your mind to it.

From a very early age I have done what most consider impossible — I was simply too busy doing things to learn that they were impossible, or a miracle, as some would put it. By the time society taught me that something could not be done, I had already done it: like reading at age four, or finding a high-paying job as an engineer for a mid-size company at age fifteen.

I will tell you first about a few of these so-called impossible things I have accomplished — things many would think are not true. I want you to know about my experiences first. I want you to understand that what follows in this book does NOT come from someone who is mentally disturbed, crazy, or fanatical in any way. I was an average atheist, with very good reasons (I thought) to be one. Only logic made me change my belief system — logic, and a few experiences that had only one reasonable explanation: that there must be more to life than what I was allowing myself to perceive. My message to you is this: do yourself a favor, open your mind a little, and read this whole book, along with the books and web-page links I recommend.

My promise to you is that you will not regret it. This book is a compilation of roughly twenty years of research and study into subjects we commonly do not talk about, presented in a simple way that an atheist can easily understand, benefit from, and relate to. Here is a brief description of my work and my engineering education.

The purpose is for you to understand how I think, and how I use logic. Prior to writing this book, I spent twenty-four years as a hardware and software engineer. If you know anything about software and hardware, you know that it is ALL logic — it all operates on ON or OFF signals. No matter what a computer does, it all boils down to a signal being on or off, usually represented as a 1 or a 0. To build software, one must constantly think about the logical flow of information (1 or 0). What I am trying to tell you is that I, the author of this book, analyze things with logic — not just with feelings and emotions.

I will start my autobiography at age four. At age four I desperately wanted to learn how to read. I wanted information and was not getting it from my parents. I wanted to go to school; I wanted a teacher. So one day at church I intuitively sought out (more on intuition later in this book) the most intelligent person I could find, walked up to him, and informed him that I wanted him to teach me how to read.

Needless to say, he was quite surprised and not too keen on helping me, so I had to insist quite a bit. My insistence was enough to make him talk to my mother, and in her presence he agreed to a once-a-week class, one hour, at his home. When I arrived after his workday ended at 5 p.m., he was quite harsh — perhaps even rude — as he explained the rules. He began by telling me that he worked hard all day, that this was his free time to spend with his wife, that the class would last one hour only, that he expected me to leave immediately afterward, and that if I so much as dreamed of playing, it would be my last class. I was to learn everything he taught me by the following week, or not come back. The first class was on the alphabet — and I had better know it all well by the next week, or else. The second week was on how to combine the letters with vowels (note: this was in Spanish, my first language). The third week was reading a basic book, with the same rule: be sure you can read it by next week, or do not come back. The fourth week covered some of the non-logical quirks of Spanish. The fifth and last week was on using the dictionary. I still remember a good piece of advice he gave me: “Well, now you know how to read. I have done my part, as I agreed. All you need to remember now is this: anything you want to know, you can find in a book.” That was it — I was on my way to reading. Now the problem was finding literature to read.

So I started reading everything I could find in Spanish, and I quickly learned English at school as well. My next big goal was convincing my parents to let me enroll in first grade. This was not easy, since the local school only accepted children age five and older. Needless to say, I drove my parents crazy until they enrolled me. Little did I know then how much I would grow to hate the school system.

At age nine, when I started fourth grade at a private school — after endless complaints about public school and one previous private school — I walked into class and the teacher put me down for being a Jehovah’s Witness. It turned out she hated them. This was war! By now I had a double personality: one was the fake religious boy, and the other was the boy who would do what he wanted, when he wanted (I still do). So I proceeded to insult her.

It was quite obvious she was not very intelligent — in fact, she was quite stupid, which I had no qualms about telling her. I called her stupid day in and day out, and challenged her to do something about it. Well, all she could really do was send me to the principal’s office and complain about my behavior. One day, after two weeks of my verbal abuse of the poor, ignorant teacher, the principal asked me why I called her stupid. I promptly answered, “Because she is stupid. Can you not see how stupid she is? Just look at her, standing there, not saying a word. Only a very stupid person would fail to defend herself.” I challenged her even further: “Can you prove to the principal that you are not stupid?” This went on for a while. I asked the principal to fire her, but he replied that he could not afford anything better. He was also a politician and did not want to make waves, so he asked me what I thought he should do.

I said, “Well, since you are not willing to replace her — and you surely do not want this to get out — how about you put me in your wife’s class? I like her, and she likes me.” He picked up the phone and called his wife, who taught the eleventh and twelfth grades, explained the very serious situation, and after a few minutes she agreed to take me into her class. So I went directly from fourth grade to the eleventh and twelfth. Even that was quite boring, since it took me only a few months to read all the class books for both years. After all, what they taught was quite simple back then — I sure hope school systems have improved since. I even invented many excuses to avoid attending school or writing, since I hated writing.

Between the ages of seven and ten, I managed to pull off a few more so-called impossible tasks. I grew up in a very poor family. My parents had immigrated from Cuba in 1960, fleeing Fidel Castro’s regime, and settled in South Florida, in the United States. I felt the pain of my parents’ financial struggle every single day. I knew we were poor and that my parents did all they could, so I made my own plan to earn money. Since no one had yet trained me to believe it couldn’t be done, I simply set out to do it.

I noticed a lady one day who came to our door selling Avon. I asked her if I could sell for her, and she agreed to give me a few catalogs. So I went to work: I passed them around to every woman I could find. They would say, “I want this and that,” taking it as a joke — but it was NO joke. I showed up with the product and demanded payment. Soon enough I was known as the kid who sold Avon products, and the sales were good; I got to the point where I earned more in a week than my father did. Later, the same lady came around with another product line from a company that sold cleaning products for homes and businesses. Recession or not, bad times or not, I sold thousands of dollars’ worth, which I used to support my family and to buy books and magazines.

Avon: a company that sells a large variety of cosmetics, jewelry, and perfumes. www.avon.com

At age eleven I was done with school. I decided never to go back — and in fact I never did, except for a few very advanced computer-science courses, and later to teach very advanced computer-science courses. On my last day of school, after dinner with my parents, I firmly informed them — especially my father — that I was not going back the following year; that if he did not like my decision, I would leave home that very minute; and that the subject was not open for discussion. My decision was final. All he said was, “So what are you going to do?” I replied, “I’ll get a job. Something will come up.” And it did!

A few weeks later, something quite magical happened (I now know it by the name “Conscious Creation”; in fact, I have devoted an entire chapter of this book to the subject). I was at a friend’s house in our neighborhood. He had just started a two-year program at a technical college — a course titled “Engineering Technologist.” It covered the first two years of electrical engineering but with an emphasis on an associate’s degree as a technician, providing all the knowledge needed to be an electronics technician, which at the time was enough to repair radio and television transmitters and receivers. It encouraged students to earn their amateur-radio license and commercial operator’s license, which I did by age thirteen. After my friend finished describing how much money he was going to earn once he completed these two years of college, he said, “I’m going to make myself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with milk — would you like some?” To which I replied yes. Before he left for the kitchen, I asked what he was going to do with the booklets. He said, “I guess I’ll throw them away. Why — you want them?” and headed off to the kitchen. The course came in magazine-sized booklets of fifteen to thirty pages; stacked up, they stood about three feet high for the full two years. To this day, I do not know how I read the first one so fast: by the time he got back, I had read it cover to cover. In it I found a very nice description of what one could do with the knowledge from the two-year course. From that point on, I went to his home twice a week to pick up the booklets and homework. When I had a question, I would ask him, and he would ask the teacher. I even took the exams for him.

Conscious creation is the magical art of getting what you want, when you want it, the way you want it — even when society considers it an impossible task. You can do it by unlearning what society, school, religion, parents, and peers have taught you.

At age twelve I got an eight-to-five job at a women’s clothing manufacturing plant. The Jewish owner knew me well and wanted to pass on his business savvy. He made me a deal: my job would be to do the work of whoever did not show up that day. Since I did not know this wasn’t supposed to be possible, I did exactly as he suggested. I was the secretary, the receptionist, the accountant, the plant manager, the shipping clerk, the clothes ironer, the label printer, the clothing designer, and much more. He called me into many of his meetings just to listen in, and even offered to let me manage the whole plant in a few more years. After all, none of them had any clue about my real age. One day the insurance man came in and asked whether I had signed up for the company’s family insurance plan; he asked if I had any children and whether I was married. He said, “What are you, nineteen or twenty?” — to which I quickly replied, “Uhh… yeah, nineteen.” From that day on, I added seven years to my real age; in fact, I went so far as to forget my real age. During breaks and lunch I would study my booklets, and later I would spend most of the night studying them. I studied all weekend long. I learned many aspects of running a company — marketing, sales, and managing more than two hundred women at once — at the same time that I studied my first two years of electrical engineering. I worked at this company for two years.

Shortly after I started working there, I noticed a lady who came in each day for Cuban coffee from the company’s automated espresso machine. So did the co-worker who laid out the fabric to be cut alongside me; he said, “You sure like her, don’t you?” All I could say was, “I sure do.” He suggested I go over, introduce myself, and ask her to lunch — so I did. Since I did not know that older ladies (she was thirty-eight) were not supposed to date young boys, I just asked. She replied, “Sure, let’s do lunch.” After a few lunches, she had some plans of her own. One day she said, “I have some food left over from last night — why don’t you come to my apartment?” So I did. I do not remember exactly how, but she ended up with some red wine on her dress and asked for help unzipping it. The rest you can imagine: we had a relationship that went on for years. At age fourteen I told the owner I was going to quit and that he had thirty days to find a replacement, to which he immediately replied, “I’ll triple your pay, as of this minute.” I was not interested in the money — I already had a television and radio repair shop set up at home, and somehow I knew I was going to do well. In fact, I had already handed out my new business cards to all the workers.

At first my mother would drive me around to pick up the TVs, but after a while I started driving without a license. I knew I could get away with it, since I had been doing it since age twelve. This also taught me that there were things I could get away with. I got so good at repairing TVs that, before long, TV repairmen who couldn’t fix the new modern transistor sets were bringing them to me.

Word got around, and soon I had thirty to forty TVs a week brought to me. This quickly became boring — though those stories you hear about the repairman and the customer’s wife are true. In those two years I made quite a few house calls to fix “the TV in the bedroom.” You could say I was on my way to becoming a gigolo, more so than most TV repairmen. To this day I regret that I didn’t; it surely would have been more fun and profitable. But my mind was elsewhere, creating another future for myself.

At age fifteen, one month before my sixteenth birthday, I managed to get a job as an engineer for a manufacturer of newspaper-automation equipment. I simply did not know that it couldn’t be done — that at fifteen one could not get an engineer’s job. I worked at this company until I became far too stressed to continue, and my greedy mind wanted more money.

I was traveling all over the world, installing and repairing complex automated equipment for the largest newspaper companies on earth. I even got to attend board meetings to pitch the equipment; the company sent me along with their top salesperson to help close the sale. A few years later, after several other interesting and challenging jobs and businesses, I landed another amazing, almost miraculous job. One day I was job hunting and got a position that paid me for nearly five years while I worked a grand total of about four weeks. I received a paycheck week after week and did not work at all; in fact, they told me not to call them unless they called me first. I used that time to create my next miraculous job, at IBM. NASA had been my first choice, but by then I was learning just how much I was “not supposed” to be able to do, so IBM still seemed within range. Back then I didn’t even know it was the largest computer company in the world. I used those five years to work and study more. I spent a great deal of time continuing to study hardware and software engineering, to the point that I landed a consulting job at IBM. My office there was less than a hundred meters from Bill Gates’s office. We worked on what is now the XP operating system. Later I pulled off a few more “impossible” feats, like getting other companies to triple, quadruple, quintuple, and more, my consulting fees — all with the art of conscious creation, which back then I did not yet know by name.

By age twenty-five I was a very good and loyal U.S. taxpayer. Yet the U.S. government, ever since I was twelve years old, had nothing better to do than sue me time after time and take my hard-earned money. In fact, when my mother retired at age sixty-seven, they finally coerced her into paying for the lawsuit they had lost against me at age fourteen — for earning a living and receiving welfare at the same time. All of this forced me to study no fewer than 12,000 hours of law, to learn how to defend myself against an extremely corrupt government system that was, and continues to be, interested only in oppressing and controlling the people at any cost — including people who are not even on U.S. soil. No attorney in the USA will defend you properly against the U.S. government, because he or she knows full well it would be the last time they ever worked as an attorney. So there was only one choice for me: to go pro se.

Pro se: Latin for “to represent yourself.”

My legal education led me down many other unexpected avenues, such as a thorough understanding of how the government and political system really work — and how secret societies, through the ages, have quietly and meticulously controlled all governments, possessing knowledge not commonly known to the masses. This sparked in me the desire to possess that secret knowledge too, and it led me to many years of research to truly understand who these people were, what they knew, and what their goals were. In time I discovered that the biggest and best secret of them all is that there is NO secret information whatsoever — not for those who genuinely seek knowledge and wisdom. What had happened is that the information was once closely guarded, because the ignorant masses would have destroyed it out of fear. It seemed to be kept secret, when in fact these societies have always made a tremendous effort to recruit new members and teach them their so-called secrets — yes, indeed, on the condition of swearing, under penalty of death, never to divulge the information. All of this has changed with the advent of the Internet, where one can now find a great deal of detailed information.

Throughout my life I have done many other so-called impossible things, most of them outside the scope of this book — such as having a successful, loving relationship with more than one partner at a time, something most people believe to be impossible. I have also managed to change careers more than once and make a good living each time; again, something most people believe cannot be done. And I have managed to live semi-retired, by choice, since my late thirties, in a rural mountain retreat in Ecuador, South America.

See www.LovingMore.org for details on how you can do it too.

Just as I have done, you can too. In this book you will find detailed information to set you on the path to the life of your dreams — starting NOW. It will give you the tools to clearly understand the hard-to-find rules and laws of the universe: the things they do NOT teach in schools, churches, or universities; the things your parents should have known and taught you, but did not. It is all presented in a simple, informative way, with plenty of references and Internet links so you can find further detail. You WILL find in this book the secrets of life and death — information on what happens when you die, and how you can prepare for it now; even how to not die, if that is your choice. Yes: if your choice is to keep on living, there are ways to do it.

See the Los Visionarios intentional community at www.LosVisionarios.org for more details on where I live now.

Here is a brief overview of what you will find in this book.

Chapter 1 — The story of my religious and spiritual life. Here I tell you how I ended up labeling myself an atheist, and how and why I hated everything to do with religion, or anything that even remotely resembled it.

Chapter 2 — Synchronicities: what triggered me to change from atheist to agnostic. Here I describe what pushed me into researching spiritual matters — a list of the experiences that slowly led me to look deeper.

Chapter 3 — Benefits of changing from atheist to agnostic. Here I describe some of my personal experiences and how I have benefited from them.

Chapter 4 — What present-day scientists are saying. An important thing to notice is that, throughout history, conventional scientists have been shifting from an atheist position to a spiritual one — but we atheists have not been listening.

Chapter 5 — Death: what happens when you die. Many have always understood this quite well; unfortunately, many do not. It is really not hard to grasp what happens — and what happens is quite good.

Chapter 6 — Reincarnation and past lives. Once you understand what life is, and how your soul integrates with your bodies, you will also understand how and why we reincarnate in this world, what our previous lives were, and how they interact with our present one.

Chapter 7 — Mental relaxation and meditation. Learning to control one’s emotions — to stop anger, hatred, envy, jealousy, and every other negative emotion — is a must for a healthy, peaceful, joyful existence. One of the many tools for reaching this state is meditation. It has been taught for thousands of years, yet many still have no idea how to do it. It really is quite simple, and the results are quite astonishing.

Chapter 8 — Astrology. Astrology is simply a scientific tool, like any other. It works; how or why, no one really knows. But what matters is that it is a very useful tool. Used properly, it will help you live a much more joyful, harmonious life. It points you in the right direction; the rest is up to you.

Chapter 9 — The art and practice of conscious creation and our belief system. Haven’t you always wanted things to go your way? Haven’t you wondered why some people get everything they want? It even feels unfair. Well, now you can too — and it really is not that difficult. All it takes is a little additional knowledge of the laws of physics, which you could also call spiritual laws.

Chapter 10 — Drugs. Ever wonder why millions of people have taken them? Why the war on drugs? Could there be some secret hidden inside the claim that they are all bad for you? Did you ever really believe the “this is your brain on drugs” frying-pan commercial, or any of the other anti-drug ads? Perhaps there is more here than meets the eye. You should find out, and decide for yourself whether they are for you or not.

Chapter 11 — Astral travel, out-of-body experiences, and near-death experiences. Many have done it; many do it every day. Why should you not find out for yourself what else is out there, beyond this reality? With a little practice and patience, you can be on your way to exploring other worlds and realities.

Chapter 12 — The Akashic Records. The Akashic Records are one of the billions of places you can visit on your astral travels. There you can find answers to anything you want to know about our past existence on this planet, and about the future possibilities that await us. Sounds too fantastic, doesn’t it? Well, others do it — so can you.

Chapter 13 — Who? What? Where? Is God. This one is easy to answer. Simply put: you are God. Yes, you are a god — no more, no less. You, too, are God. The rest is folklore and stories, maliciously planted in your mind by religions and governments to keep you from discovering this truth.

Chapter 14 — How to become immortal and/or improve your health. First of all, you are already immortal. Your body may die, but you will not; you are a god, and a god cannot die. And since you are a god, with the right information you can make your body as healthy as you want it to be. It may take some time, since you have been playing this game of life and death for quite a while.

Chapter 15 — The Law of Karma and Dharma. These are two very basic laws that everyone should be taught from an early age. You could sum them up in the saying, “What goes around comes around.”

Chapter 16 — What is really going on with our planet? 2012. Many are starting to wonder whether the planetary changes we are all noticing are man-made or not. Are those prophecies going to come true? Is this a punishment from God? The real answer lies in the fact that our solar system has its cycles within the universe, too. At the peak of these cycles, Earth may experience violent changes — massive earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, and so on. The ancient prophecies simply record what happened in previous cycles and give an idea of what may happen in the next. What they do not say is that we can change the course of events. Being aware and prepared will save many lives.

Chapter 17 — The mechanism of a prayer. The big question is: does prayer ever work? The simple answer is yes — sometimes it does, but more often it does not. Prayer is a tool, and like any tool, you must understand the intricacies of how it works in order to get the most from it.

From Chapter 18 on, you will begin to get an introduction to the vast array of spiritual information available. Unfortunately, not all of it is plain and simple. Many very ancient languages have produced very poorly translated reference books — such as the Bible, which has been maliciously altered by the Catholic Church. Beginners should skip all these ancient books and go for fresh, clearly explained information; old ancient books are the worst possible place to start. Religions have exploited books like the Bible for centuries, for their own malicious benefit, so one should skip anything tied to religion. Starting there is like walking into an advanced trade journal on the first day of class: you could not expect to understand much, let alone do anything useful with the information — and it could even be quite dangerous. From Chapters 18 through 33 you will find an extensive list of possibilities for where to begin. The final chapter, “Where to Start?”, will help you choose.

Chapters 34 through 37 introduce a few subjects of interest that merit mention. Ghosts, aliens, UFOs, crop circles, and many other paranormal phenomena are quite real, but they should not be the focus of your spiritual and personal development. Nice to know — but try not to get too caught up in them.

Chapters 38 through 42 present several tools worth knowing about. Investigate them, and put them to use if you find them a good fit. Ask, and listen to your heart — that inner part of you known as the subconscious, which some call our internal mother or father. Let it guide you; it always knows best.

Chapter 43 — Additional books, newsgroups, web pages, and more. This chapter offers still more choices for where to begin. Have fun; start with a good movie or a light novel. Spiritual education should always be fun to learn — otherwise it may be your heart telling you that you are on the wrong path.

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Beyond the material world, beyond the common rules, limitations, and assumptions we take upon ourselves, resides a greater spiritual reality operating under a set of higher principles that can help us transcend foolishness, strife, and drudgery. Knowledge limited to the physical world and bounded by the shortcomings of our five senses is not enough to attain freedom. Metaphysics is the study of higher knowledge, the deeper truths of life. We only have to recognize these higher truths and live by them to rise beyond old behavioral patterns and access a new vista of inconceivably wonderful possibilities.Montalk, https://www.montalk.net

For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order to save the life of his keeper; or from that old baboon, who, descending from the mountains, carried away in triumph his young comrade from a crowd of astonished dogs – as from a savage who delights to torture his enemies, offers up bloody sacrifices, practices infanticide without remorse, treats his wives like slaves, knows no decency, and is haunted by the grossest superstitions.Charles Darwin, 1809–1882, The Descent of Man, 1871

I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty – I call it the one mortal blemish of mankind.Friedrich Nietzsche