An atheist eh? Then I am truly honoured to meet you. You mean you manage to stay sane without a belief system? Brave man. I am in love with such a man, by the way. Personally I'm a bit of a wimp, like to beleive in rewards after death and angels and fairies (demons don't frighten me any more) and the like. I need to be able to check I'm doing the right thing and have a very rigourous 'saftey' check system. Still I can meditate using about 10 different religious systems along with other stuff so I get along okay -if a little time consuming