JUST BE A BABY
Gokhan N. Mamur, M.D.
Dr. Gokhan N. Mamur is a physician of 30 years with a specialty in pediatrics, specifically experienced in the neonatal intensive care unit, and serving in JCI Accredited hospital committees, such as breastfeeding, blood transfusion, and intensive care. He has 11 years of experience as a health advocate in the Near East, using mass and social media to educate civil society on matters of health, ranging from infectious disease to immunizations and wellness to parenting.
Dr. Mamur started his medical career as an intensivist, and later took on the role of director of the newborn and nicu department, where he successfully attended over 15,000 births, and treated sick preterm and term babies. He later served in the United States, Department of State, serving the President of the United States, George W. Bush, and Department of State, Secretary Colin Powell as medical coordinator and translator.
After writing his book, Dr. Mamur organically grew into becoming a health advocate, where he informed parents and the public through published, social and mass media with a large following.
Dr. Gokhan Mamur is now working in the United States as an advisor in the consultancy firm PASS and is also in leadership positions of foundations dealing with health and education with a specific intent on lowering newborn and maternal mortality rates in developing nations.
ABOUT THE "JUST BE A BABY"
The pain I felt was unbearable. The suffering was through and through. My feet were standing in a pool of doubt. To my questions I wanted answers, for the unease, I wanted peace and to surrender to, I sought the truth.
I was born in New York, 1968, and raised as a prototypical good child in a loving immigrant family. I did what my parents and society told me to. I got a good education and became a medical doctor. I was an honored member of society. I was a good family man. I am sure I have erred like any human, but surely my heart had no intentional ill will towards anyone, and I take this opportunity to apologize to anyone whom I may have hurt. I plugged in everything to the formula given to me by my elders, peers and society for me to be happy. However, in the end, I was still suffering. The formula was not delivering happiness. I went through a divorce, my visiting rights with my child whom I loved dearly was used against us, and the financial rat race I was a part of had its ups, many times to set up the downs and even crashes. It took me 10 years to stand back up and brush myself off. I thought to myself, “I made mistakes, it was my fault. I didn’t do this or that which would have surely made me happy.” So I remarried, took on a bigger and better job, became widely recognized, only to conclude that the source of happiness was not another spouse, job or recognition. In that time frame, I had three more beautiful children, and when I look back I see that the only things that did bring me joy were my children, as well as the babies and children whom I provided healthcare for in the delivery room, operating room, neonatal intensive care unit, or outpatient clinic for over 30 years. However joyous they were, I always felt the linger of constant unease in the background. The dogmatic world societal thought behaviour just didn’t deliver. I wanted out, because it was terribly obvious that it did not present a content life, and a majority of the time, just the opposite. I recognized that almost everyone I knew was in a similar situation. I no longer wanted to suffer, and came to the realization that it is not even happiness that I truly yearned for, because it always brought along with it unhappiness. It was actually peace and bliss that gave me glimpses of fulfillment. Thus, I began a journey to seek a way of life was peaceful and blissful. In my exploration, I experienced an awakening so profound that I needed to share it. Thus, came about this book.
We as individuals and a race are suffering, and our actions taken from this state are projecting, thus contaminating our world and all in it. Fortunately, our innate nature emits behavior that reflects a deep desire not to suffer. In fact, if asked, I’m almost sure that every human being would say that they long for peace and bliss. Don’t you? Yet, judging from the state our world is in, it’s obvious that as a majority we do not know how to obtain these, thus we need to still be seeking. Obviously, you are a seeker too. How do we obtain peace and bliss? As for everything there must be a source. Then what is the source for peace and bliss? It would have to be an immutable and interminable source, something that we could always rely on and call the truth. As a human being where could we find this? For this eternal truth to be a source of reference for us, we would have to be a part of it. This is the only way we could relate to it. However as a race, it is obvious that we don’t see it, otherwise we’d now be living joyous lives. Yet, the truth is interminable, therefore leaving only one explanation; it is there, but our vision is unclear. How do we obtain a clear vision to see the truth, putting an end to our longing and be peacefully and blissfully fulfilled? We must find a human who clearly sees the truth, lives only by way of the truth and ask how it does so, because its answer would point to a place where we could go, bringing peace and bliss to the individual, hence the world; it would be the greatest information any human has shared in the history of mankind. Then, who is that human and where would we find it? It must be a human who lives a way of life only by its Creator’s, whatever your concept of your maker may be respectfully, original programming, so much so that it is a pure extension of its Creator, and because this human bears no resistance to this programming, the example it presents is pristine.
With this rationale, I searched for such a human for years with no result. All of my research brought me to the conclusion that any person’s views on the truth were just that, reflections, a resource at best, rather than the source; the two being similar and different at the same time. Then one Tuesday morning, as I was standing in the bus, looking out the window on my way to the clinic, evidence based on my profession hit me like a brick on the head. Being a human, father, and medical doctor, specifically a pediatrician, enabled me with an extremely unique point of view to find the answer to my quest. There is such a human being, and surprisingly always was, from the first human on. In fact, readily available to all in the world to take example of. A being that still holds the unblemished breath of its Creator within it. A human living a way of life so one with its Creator’s programming that it is actually an extension of its Creator. It is the human baby, and there is an ardent fetus within all including you, yearning to be born again into blissful being, in order to just be a baby.
What makes a hard question easy is knowing the answer, and now that you know the answer as to who clearly sees the truth, and lives only by way of it, you’ve received a source that will allow you to find many treasures, the greatest being the knowing of yourself, which in turn will provide answers to the questions what you are, how you are and why you are. To facilitate this achievement, I point to quests which you must experience alone deep within your heart. These answers will not require belief, and will present a doubtless knowing. The truth will set you free.