David Deida

That also became biology and immunology.

I worked in labs.

I worked in a sleep lab to study sleep and dreams.

These were all unfoldings to me of the same thing.

And during all of that,

My main interest is just like, what is this?

Like, what is the nature of being, of reality, of me, of the world?

Like, why are we here?

What is the meaning?

And not in an intellectual sense, but to be able to do it, to write a computer that could think.

Back then I was working on early artificial intelligence.

Or, you know, in the immune system I was working on, how does the immune system recognize self from other?

So I was always motivated by that.

And through that, I was also meditating and doing yoga.

Like you said, I had a yoga school.

But all of those to me were the same thing.

They were different ways just that my personality or

manifested this discovery manifested this exploration and still is so for the last couple of decades i've been it just naturally came i've been living in mostly silence and a kind of retreat like life but not because i'm avoiding anything it's just i succeeded at every you know i accomplished what i needed to accomplish and it came to a point of being of rest and that's where this book came from because the men i was seeing were struggling with that transition

I never had an option.

I don't know how to say it.