Forest Grace

Officially Stephen E. Ling, MD, an internist at Santa Clara, California, Forest Grace (pen name) loves to write about issues related to philosophy, religion, world conflicts, as well as the crossroad between social and natural sciences.

He wrote his first book, God Is An Illusion: To Live Is To Experience, for two purposes. One is for spiritual edification for individuals who are seriously interested in the art of living. The other is to reveal that the essence of religious philosophy (spirituality) is actually the same across all the major religions (wisdom traditions) of the world. It is his hope that cognizant of this commonality, the world can become culturally more receptive.

His second book, Games of Mass Delusions: The origin of religions, ideologies, and their resulting conflicts, was written mainly for the purpose of reducing world conflicts. It distinguishes spirituality from religiosity. The former is universal across religions and real. The latter is highly varied across religions (according to features that resemble game play) and is fake (a delusion). The world’s major religiosities, ideologies, and their resulting conflicts are all games that are becoming increasingly dangerous to our planet. It is his hope that people will disengage themselves from these games soon.

Living in Duality: why no one should journey through life feeling alone is his third title, which is a revision of his first. The two titles have some overlap in content and purpose. The main emphasis of the newer title is about life being a duality experience between the individual and the Divine.