I was born and raised in Budapest, Hungary. My upbringing was fairly normal, classical European education and Protestants upbringing but my maternal grandmother was a Catholic closet mystic. Much of her wisdom I could not understand when I was with her but she lived to be 99-year old and I understand her gentle guidance on me now at a ripe age. All in all the Christian doctrine never made much sense to me despite my thirst for knowledge and God. more...