"I had sought to avoid the eristic disputes of religious rights and wrongs that are too often the driving subject of modern metaphysicians and spiritual pundits. My search was for a knowledge that stood above human opinion or the manufactured morals of differing societies. And while I understood that an uncorrupted knowledge might serve as a great purifier and a means to infer the truth of our existence, I intuitively knew that knowledge alone couldn’t give a truth seeker what he or she is ultimately seeking."