Norman J. Schoonebeek started his own spiritual journey in his freshman year of college in 1975 when he learned the basics of Transcendental Meditation. As a freshman he had a near-death experience surfing that revealed to him his immortality and some basic truths about Life he would cherish forever. His studies in a college course on Buddhism sealed his fate and he abandoned his Physics major for Philosophy in search of the ultimate truths of Life. He has been a Buddhist for most of his adult life. He has experience in manufacturing missile fuses and high voltage power supplies, computer and