… I have had several ‘reality’-altering, identity-shattering transfigurations with the help of various approaches (solitude/isolation, meditation, redirection of emotional pain into higher circuitry, yoga, psychedelics) and have entertained interpretations ranging from traditional religious perspectives involving a higher power (‘god’) to a purely neural semantic perspective (that I have yet to come into bio-feedback loop contact with metaprograms whose actions at various abstraction levels are pr …