My enlightenment experience – infinite doubt

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A lot of how I became involved
in this whole area of neuro theology,

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came from those very pursuits,
trying to understand

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the nature of the world around us,
how do we make sense out of it.

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And as I went through in my own
thought processes,

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I realized more and more
that it was very difficult

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to know exactly what was right
and what was wrong.

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It was a very profound moment
where I realized that there was

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no way I was ever going to get
an answer to these questions

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and instead of being completely
depressing and feeling

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like there was no hope at all it was
a tremendous release

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that I didn't have to keep
looking for that answer.

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And so it was a feeling of surrender,
it was an intense feeling

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and an experience that I referred to
in my in my book called Infinite doubt

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that it was basically
just that we would never know anything.

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That experience in and of
itself was something that was

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very positive for me and allowed me
to kind of release those

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anxieties and fears of never
really getting to an answer.