As a child I only ever wrestled with one question: "How could I die and cease to exist?". I could not understand that I could not always be somewhere. In my teenage years I bought the idea from my father that you are a body and that there is no spiritual side to a person. When I met Scientology in 1967 I regained my certainty in myself as a spiritual being. Every course I have done in Scientology since has confirmed my belief.