One day my everyday life became too humdrum, so I prepared my old bicycle and started a trip into the vast unknown. My intention was to learn to live in the present. Initially I focussed on South Africa but unforeseen circumstances took me into Ayatollah Khomeiny's wartorn Iran.What happened here changed my life. My entire world, my viewpoints and values were turned upside down and the emo-tional turbulence I experienced tore down my inner walls leaving...