“In terms of my own sense of happiness, and how I am and how I would compare that with how I was before, I would say that it’s night and day. I feel that I have a lot more emotional flexibility. It’s almost like living in a different world… you have a whole different set of fundamental presuppositions at a visceral level… That’s why a research-based approach is so important to this because it filters out all of the paradigmatic garbage that is associated with various enlightenment paths.”
