At 6.30am on Sunday morning, I sleepily made my way into the BBC studios, at the Mailbox in Birmingham. It was for a series of interviews discussing the book, “Surgery on the Shoulders of Giants”, and the spiritual enlightenment I had found by working abroad, discovering a concept of God within the heart of all people.

In the book, I wrote from South Africa:

I have been enlightened. I feel God in all His people and in their goodness and kindness. And that we are all equal. And that we all hav...