He returned to the United States and subsequently enrolled at George Washington University where he studied engineering. As a natural result of the interest that was kindled in Asia, he soon embarked on a search for what he then termed “the Life essence.” To that end, he enrolled in one of the nation’s first nuclear physics classes where he examined the possibility that life might be explained in terms of small energy particles. “Is it possible,” he asked, “that with this new branch of physics we might be able to locate the energy of life?” It opened a small crack in the door, but it was methodology such as this that led him to take a wholly scientific approach to inherently spiritual questions.

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