Born and Unborn

It is a story of the life of a nuclear physicist and a cosmologist, who encountered a mental phenomenon which he interpreted as an encounter with God. While he was doing his Masters degree in Physics, he accidentally came across a spiritual phenomenon that seemed bizarre. More he grappled to understand if the source of the phenomenon was his own brain or not, more he sank in a mental quagmire. Thus he entered a realm where he “heard” the voice of God, who gradually took control of his mind. Since then he started communicating with an incomprehensible being, who seemed to exist outside the realm of reason and rationality. The inner being became his guide, who helped him to write an epic relating the story of the wandering of the universal man, of whom all human beings are parts. Then he opened in his mind a vista to unknown territories of the mind through the works of arts. While engaged in a project called “Art without Beginning and End”, he discovered a new vision to explore the physical world. In the end he discovered a new universe, where time existed in a timeless arena. When the tasks that the inner guide had endowed on him were fulfilled, he found himself entrapped in an alien world, where he felt himself encapsulated in a reality totally different from what others called the reality of life. In this multi-layered reality he became a lonely traveler in a colorful visionary world that spanned from the microscopic realm of the molecules to the largest structures in the cosmos.
The ecstasies of entering the deeper realms of the mind and discovering the mystery of existence were again and again mired by tragedies on the way. He lost his only son on the mountain top in the Alps orchestrated by absurd coincidences of events followed by a premonition of death -as if everything was predestined from beforehand. Again and again suffering and despair followed. Believing that the source of suffering was the psychological mess created by the belief in the spiritual world, every time he tried to tear down the spiritual world with scientific rationality, calamities followed, which led him to submit his will to the will of God that seemed to be steering the course of his life.
The manuscript is a story of a real encounter and a drama experienced by the author. He uses his scientific mind in dissecting and analyzing the spiritual world, while keeping alive the power of doubt and the possibility that brain could be a computer of immense power that can delude the mind. While he reveals the possible ways to understand and interpret the spiritual experiences, the readers who wonder about the question “Does God exist or not?” will get new perspectives to understand God by using one`s own mind and brain as the portal to the spiritual world.