by Ryan Meyers

Created on: March 19, 2009   Last Updated: March 17, 2011

Do you want the "secret" to happiness, the "secret" to eliminating all the doubt in your life, the "secret" to opening the doors to all possibilities?

Inside this book you will find just that and more. A compilation of the greatest minds in history have all been linked by one factor; the ability to bring dreams to life through the strongest of belief, belief that was harnessed through deep awareness of self and universe.

I picked up the book just for run but found everything I was searching for subconsciously.

You see I am Catholic but Catholicism or any religion for that matter has never felt truly complete for me. The problem is that I refuse to warship a religion that I don't know completely. I stopped worshiping when my eighty five year old great grandmother who went to church everyday of her life for seventy years almost fainted one day in church when the priest said Jesus was Jewish.

The funniest thing is that she couldn't hear a thing for at least five years but somehow she heard AND comprehended this most disturbing information. She commenced to slap my grandfather (her son) in the chest and asked why the priest was talking about the Jews. My grandfather shushed her because she can be heard loud and clear because she talked so loud being deaf herself. He then explained that Jesus was Jewish in which her reaction was to slap him even harder in the chest and say; "Knock it off he was Italian!" Every one in the church could not hold their laughs in including the priest. This IS a true story and I wrote a two act play about it. It's pretty funny.

This obviously was not the only thing that weighed in my criticism of religion and although Grandma Margaret was oblivious, it was understandable since she was warned as a young child to adhere to the churches rules and be one of the chosen few or take your chances in hell/purgatory which ever you believe in.

The funny thing is that most of the people I know that are Catholic or Christian have no idea about the teachings except for what they are told in church and the church will never talk about the confusion of early Christianity and how many broken teachings there were any of which can be true for they all derived from one.

I am more pragmatic and I do believe that something great had and has commenced to accommodate existence. I may not believe any of the religions I have studied but I am VERY spiritual.

I needed something that would give me control of my actions to help me create more positive ones and hopefully

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