As I deepend my explorations, as layers of conventional beliefs fell away, I found I was finally approaching the deeper questions that had eluded me during the course of my life – questions I had not even believed I had the right to ask. Even if it required isolation from the mainstream, I preferred to sacrifice my beliefs and preconceptions, along with the comforts and status they afforded, rather than cling to a set of inherited values that I increasingly suspected to be false.