This lead to the realization that although the body changes and the masks we are required to present to our elders change, there is an aspect within and behind the mask that is unchanging and eternal. These masks ultimately crystallize into a set of behavioral responses and programmed thought patterns that we call personality.

I moved to India at the age of 19 years in search of a land where non-religious, spiritual pursuits are recognized as valid and even honored.

When I returned to the US, I found myself at the university where I completed graduate work in psychology. After three years of “playing” psychologist, it became evident that in order to more precisely understand human behavior, a thorough knowledge of physiology, pathology and pharmacology were necessary since everyone was ill and taking medications.

So my journey was from spirit to mind to body which I found to be opposite to most other peoples’ journeys but which reminded me that we are neither the “writers” of this drama, nor the “directors”, merely the “actors”.

Dr. Thomas Lodi