I grew up evangelical Christian became a bicycle racer actually competed against Lance Armstrong back when we were teens. I never used performance enhancing drugs. The members of the junior national team were all being given them as it was the Cold War and they justified it by the Russians are doing it. I won many races without it and enjoyed racing won a few national championships but hit a glass ceiling where I was not willing to cheat and I couldn’t compete internationally without drugs. I went to Marian University in Indianapolis got a BS in Biology learned all about evolution which I had always distrusted as an evangelical. I don’t feel it disproves Christianity though just a six day creation 10,000 years ago. Which. If you believe we can agree to disagree. I was technically pre-med as a crash in a bike race which led to an NDE in which I spoke with the white light. About my choices to become a bicycle racer and how the light felt that was selfish so I changed my major to pre-med but at School I realized most of my classmates just want money not to help people. I saw the corruption of Eli Lilly which funded most of Indianapolis where my University was and I decided against med school. I would write a chap book of poetry in between undergrad and grad school then I went to Boulder Colorado to work on a masters degree in Religious studies. I met Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi who had founded the Jewish Renewal movement which had female Rabbis and was very progressive. He put me in touch with my families Jewish roots and these days I lean Buddhist but I don’t feel that religion should divide us but unite us in the light of truth. I was studying at Naropa University in Boulder working on my Masters degree and working 60 hours a week at a bicycle shop as a mechanic for ten bucks an hour to try to afford to buy a home. I would eventually take a corporate job and drop out of school to raise my daughter with my new wife. Hannah is now 25 years old. That move to the corporate world would fundamentally change the path of my life. I worked for a communications company in Boulder Colorado that did video conferences for Fortune 500 companies And during the summer of 2001 I personally witnessed what I would come to realize were meetings planning for the impact of 9/11. Many people in our country knew and I tried to blow the whistle. This decision would cost me everything. My wife whose father had been in the State Department, my children, my job my reputation all because I spoke the truth about what I saw that year. I have been speaking truth to power ever since and I am poor very poor as a result. But I have my soul for what does it profit a man if he gain the whole world but lose his very soul. I see the soul in our host Tre and I hope that we all can come together to help mankind during this present darkness. Which is a fantastic book by Frank Peretti a fictional book imagining spiritual warfare which I highly recommend if you haven’t read it. Thank you Tre for inviting us here I am humbled and honored to be among you.