Thank you for this. I've been recently 'activated' on my spiritual awakening (after, in retrospect having been called since my teens) and hearing other accounts from folks who have been on it longer is very inspiring and informative.

I will still use my discernment with all of it and intuit if it fits my truth, but so far a LOT of the common threads regarding our genetic biokind (WE ARE)+higher self (I AM) consciousness' appearing across many of our world's major religious texts to degrees. So far in my research, Buddha Siddhartha Gautama seems to have the most undefiled version after centuries of who-knows-what modifications made. The Coptic Gospel of Thomas has also been super resonant with me, and convinced me that Jesus (I prefer Yeshua) was an avatar sent to actually save our species from

I am working on achieving repose ("working" on not working; dispossessing myself of desire/noise of the senses/physical vessel) during meditation and am making tangible strides in my day to day living my life in a love-centered way and cannot wait to be met with more opportunities to share this with others because these 'tools' are truly available to anyone in our human family.

I don't mean to rant, though I don't have many opportunities to share my spiritual work and ideas with folks that even somewhat know that the answers are inward moreso than out (at least at first--most folks, I believe, never look inward their entire lives and live in ignorance of what they could be!)