You could have made this your entire post and most people here would have understood you and agreed with you. There's more than one way to reach enlightenment.
That's not the only point I'm trying to reach here, though it is a good point to have reached. Living the recent years I have, I can't really say I disagree on the variety of ways to reach enlightenment but limiting yourself within a box where NONE of the bible is explainable, when in fact Gnostic text backs up the Old and New Testaments scientifically speaking, particularly in the following books:
On the Origin of the World
The Three Forms of First Thought
While symbolic in writing, I've found (Well, I can't say much for the second because truth be told I read it and haven't gone back to it) that science as I know it only re-inforces the first book, and vice versa if that's how you want it. What is accepted as scientific standard is only as much as people are willing to accept, and any "Anti-religion" doctrine ruins your chances of full enlightenment.
I don't claim to be fully enlightened but I'm sure the method of never refusing evidence of something existing works out just fine in scientific research, especially when that first book can explain literally everything you want to know by understanding the flow of chaos itself. How it propagates, why we are the way we are today. We can't possibly find out what's missing in the chests of mankind unless you have a specimen of a human that has what is said we lack. Up to that point, it's just a matter of faith. Everything else as far as I can see is logical truth. Keep in mind these books were discovered at a time when science refuses to accept faith based texts as ANY form of truth.
Yeah, its great you found self-understanding through your experiences, but please don't think that there is no definite truths and that anything is possible.
I only lack the ability to make physical things bend physical rules. Everything else I've pretty much got down pat, so while perhaps the former is not real the rest damn well is.
Think of our world as a formula that flows with chaos. Interactions manipulate the formula to make it different each time, and the cycle continues. So perhaps we only lack the know-how to make those instances of things we thought were impossible to become real, and maybe it's possible because of our innate ability to have faith. The formula's that float throughout chaos are magnetically charged, and it seems in my quest to make things better for people I find myself magnetized to certain situations. Maybe it's a subconscious radar I've learned to activate, who knows. I'm not a biologist not a chaos theorist but I do know what I see and experience as real.
In the case of self enlightenment, if you haven't found what you're looking for it's because your true focus is not there. Enlightenment is not your mission like it is mine, my passion. People wanted Hitler to lose, he stopped attacking Britain one day to hit Russia and killed any chance he had of winning.
What a crazy random happenstance!
So the bottom line is: If there's a need, the opposite (The fulfillment of that need) will come with the flow of time. Who is to say the stage isn't about to be set for that to happen? Science? You? Me? I see things as an inevitability because of the dynamic nature of chaos, and that because motion proves time, time will prove motion (In time).
