Dr_Paul_DeBell on Squidoo

I am a practically minded psychiatrist who is always interested in finding better ways to solve everyday problems. I was so attracted to spirituality as a child that I became a religion major at college. By my senior year at Oberlin College, however, I saw no evidence of a spiritual reality. And since psychology seemed far more relevant to my concerns, I set aside religion and went to Cornell Medical...

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I am a practically minded psychiatrist who is always interested in finding better ways to solve everyday problems. I was so attracted to spirituality as a child that I became a religion major at college. By my senior year at Oberlin College, however, I saw no evidence of a spiritual reality. And since psychology seemed far more relevant to my concerns, I set aside religion and went to Cornell Medical College. I became a psychatrist.

For twenty years, I had no belief in a higher power or spiritual forces. Then, one day, I received my first spiritual message--a clear sign to me that another dimension to life did exist and was reaching out to me. Since as a psychiatrist I had learned to take a rational approach to all kinds of human experience, I naturally approached my spiritual experiences in this same rational way. Over the past twenty-five years, I have followed a trail of messages that have taught me how spiritual forces work and what makes a thought, feeling or action spiritual. As I began to write what I had learned, I saw how limited and fragile they were and how--just as my more purely psychological experiences-- they only made sense when properly placed in the context of others' experiences.

We each have something to offer. One of my strong points is organization and discipline. To make it easier for you to more systematically examine your own experiences and draw upon what others' have learned to decode your messages, I have set up set up this lens.