1.   A rededicated Christian rooting all sense of self in a higher being.

2.   Recognizing that there are situations beyond our control and understanding we can -- through prayer -- seek the help of a higher being for solutions.

3.   We answer to higher beings.

4.   We look to a higher being, intuitively knowing that we must be connected to something higher than ourselves.

5.   But over the years, he has overcome his Western skepticism and now agrees with his subjects that his appointment was predetermined by a higher being.

6.   Though lambasted as inciting atheism, Descartes was not anti-religious and in fact believed a higher being existed to direct the lives of humans.