Thanks you for your kind words, DP, but you give me way too much credit on that intelligence bit.
We then have to agree to disagree. Being rather pragmatic and realist at heart, I don't seek the mystical nor to I feel I have to go through stages of enlightenment to achieve a golden dawn, as much as I don't believe we're predestined to seek people based on our personalities because it's a very very big world out there. We, as humans, may have the inclination for one thing or another, but what you say sounds too much like something Marylin Manson would say to his followers back in the day, or that twit Crowley.

It is not the negative experiences that serve as the basis for my replies but rather life as a whole, which has been extremely kind. We are masters of our own destiny only after having achieved some level of independence, but even that will never be realized completely.
In the end, I think I said all I had to say. I just thought of posting my 2 cents.