Is it possible to be "born again" without faith?

[naturestubbs1]

I am a 42-year old father of two and husband. I have a B.S. in Biology and have taught science in one form or another for the last twenty years. I am so rooted in the scientific method that it has become my "default state" for absolutely anything unfamiliar. I consider myself an Atheist who feels that religion is standing in the way of the human race becoming a more intelligent, reasonable and accepting species. With that being said I have experienced what I could only classify as a "rebirth." I stopped drinking and quit the pshychiatrist-based xanax-prozac-ambien-adderrall cocktail over a year ago. It has been a shitty twelve months but in May I whacked my head when I fell off a ladder and suffered a concussion. I had two days of non-drug induced hallucinations filled with a myriad of things wiggling on the wall and in my ears. The doctors thought it was just another OD case but were proved wrong when the toxicology screen came back negative. I KNEW I had taken nothing! But slowly over the last 6 or 8 weeks I have experienced a happiness and clarity of thought that I have only seen in Hollywood. ALL of the science and math that I have learned in my life (of which I teach) has come together and allowed me to see the world in a way that makes me feel like a genius. I can fix cars now, just finished siding my house and re-doing the plumbing and electric. Biochemistry, Calculus, Organic and Inorganic Chemistry, even parts of Quantum Physics make sense to me now. I am actually inventing ways to make my life easier and am having fun doing it. I don't give a shit about money or what anyone else thinks of me. I have the most incredible relationship with my kids and my wife and hell even my dogs. Its like I am seeing the world in slow motion with intense clarity. This is from a guy who has had tremendous difficulty putting on an outlet cover or coming up with lesson plans for the last twenty years. I know that somehow, some way my brain has just gone through a "rewire" from years of filling it with crap. It almost seems insulting to place a tag like "born-again" or "jesus" on something like this. You can have your AA and NA that stuff is just a load of crap that you smear on your face to show your family that you are trying to do something to figure it out. All it took was "baby steps" and a slow process of trusting in myself and my knowledge and my character. I have to give credit to drugs themselves because they opened up my mind and allowed me to tap into something that I no longer need them for. Who needs a Deity or a Jesus doll? Thanks drugs. Anyone have a similar story?