"Because I work, eat, sleep, and that's the way it goes. There must be something more!" These are the words of a song that I wrote shortly after graduating from college.

It seems as though I blinked my eyes, and I was married. I blinked my eyes again, and I had a

daughter. I blinked my eyes again, and I had a job as a stockbroker with the largest brokerage firm in the world, Merrill Lynch. But there was something missing. Deep inside I felt a yearning-there had to be something more!

I couldn't find it in religion. My parents were Jewish. We attended an Orthodox synagogue

where I was bar mitzvah. I was proud of being a Jew. But I found the services at the synagogue boring. I believed in God, but I felt He was a million miles away and too busy to care about me personally. He gradually became irrelevant in my life.

So I looked to money for happiness. My goal was to become a millionaire by age 30. But I blinked my eyes again, and I was 29 with no hope of being a millionaire by 30. I left my wife, my daughter, my job, and went searching for something more. I had been married young. Perhaps the single life would give me satisfaction. After one year, I knew this was not my answer.

Then I took a New Age meditation course. The instructor taught me how to lower my brain waves. When I was in this passive, hypnotic state, I was told to invite a "counselor" into my head. He said this counselor would answer my questions. On the last day of the course, the instructor tested my new power by giving me the name of a woman I didn't know.

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