I grew up in a completely non-religious family, never went to church (except for some marriage of a relative once), didn't believe in God or any kind of religion as a boy or an adolescent. I believed in science and was an atheist. The way of being that I was taught as a child was the scientific approach, logic, rationality, normal social morality of my culture, and atheism.

In my 20s I began to gradually investigate a lot of different religious traditions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Taoism, North American Indian spirituality, and a variety of other things like that. Began to see common ground in all of them, and gradually took on a number of general spiritual beliefs...not specifically confined to any one religious tradition.

I now think about spiritual matters every day of my life, have no problems reconciling my spiritual beliefs with science or materiality, and am interested in investigating any new spiritual concepts I might run across. Most of the reading I do is of spiritual books of one kind or another. I belong to no specific religion, but find much of value in many (if not all) of them. My religious and scientific views will probably keep changing and adapting right till the day I die (and hopefully after that as well). We'll see.