Deepak Chopra would say I am a seeker.  My whole life I have felt as if I have had one foot grounded in the real, material world and the other foot in a place of seeking answers to ancient existential questions like why are we really here and what is life really about?

When I retired after 36 years in the corporate world, I became a student and embarked on a self-imposed spiritual learning quest.   I learned about the major wisdom traditions, different belief systems about the soul and the laws of the universe.  I studied