I need to correct you on this: I wasn’t against eastern spirituality, I was against all spirituality. However, I was clearly looking for answers, I had a tendency towards the spiritual, did also study philosophy, and I am now much further along on a journey since writing this piece in 2018.

My article was merely the representation of a start in a journey, and now I study Buddhism and meditation, and I have a lot of different ideas about how one can live their life. Things have moved on fairly significantly. However, it’s not by trying to insist that those are not on the path are stupid or narrow-minded that we convince anyone the path is good. For that reason, I hope the article does help people who might have once been resistant, like I was.