Michael Goodson

I am an applied scientist by trade and discovered my passion for science, in particular Physics and Applied Mathematics, more than 30 years ago.

But as passionate as I am for science and engineering, I have also discovered by reading and traveling a lot that certain ancient traditional wisdoms are somewhat close to what was discovered in applied physics but they are explaining it in a very folkloric way, so people are often not really paying attention to what they are saying. More than 20 years ago, I decided to spend much of my spare time understanding these often strange traditions (Shamanism, Taoism, Zen, Buddhism, North America Indians’ traditions, Shintoism, etc.) and make the link with what I have learned in science since my beginning at the high school and later as a curious university student in applied mathematics and physics.

But as many scientists, doubt has always been in my mind and I was saying to myself: “Mike, are you searching something real or just taking the same path as so many charlatans have taken in the course of history.” Actually, believe it or not, I have had that question in mind for close to 10 years.

But a book helped me close that question once and for all: The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra, a book that I read in the eighties as an undergraduate university student in Canada. Capra is an American physicist that basically defended in his book that there are pretty interesting parallels to make between, in particular, modern physics and eastern spirituality / mysticism. By reading this book, I was in my scientific zone of comfort and was in a good way to convince myself that maybe my initial thoughts were not that much in the left field. I then started to search in that direction and still doing it with a lot of interest (and fun!!).

The biggest problem with science (at least in the western hemisphere) is that not many people are really interested to it. This is sad to say, but a reality. On the other side, it is maybe the reason why ancient wisdom traditions have always been explained through stories where we can project ourselves in them using our imagination? “Imagination is more important than intelligence” said Einstein, my scientific and spiritual role model. Yes, spiritual model. Einstein had strong spiritual “animism” believes, way above his Judaic education. But this is another story ...

I then decided, in 2013, to write a short story to, in a certain way, explain the way I see the world. As a scientist, I have tried and experimented what I describe in my book the best I could ... and yes pretty interesting results.

The book is “The [New] 10 Commandments: A Road To Your Own Spiritual Journey”. So, welcome in the World of Martin and Victor ... I hope you will enjoy.