Amen total Bullseye!
"...as much as I wanted the “silence,” everywhere I turned I found God pleading with me. I could not shut him up."
A very similar thing happened to me SP,after reading the Book of Revelation.Those words would not go away,my sleep departed from me and (I felt)my sanity was departing from me! The whole episode had me wondering why oh why didn't I take the blue pill? I was an airheaded new-ager that would read anything 'mysterious'and so the book of Rev eventually crossed me eyes.I'm so thankfull God scared the hell out of me.His Word does indeed cut to the heart and is indeed a lamp to our feet.
I posted the following on another forum during a similar discussion.I don't care if people think I'm being 'over the top' or not but the more I read the Bible and the more I think on it and the more I 'watch' the more I believe the following.
"I think what so much of it boils down to is that people simply do not realize that what we possess in the Bible is the message of the Creator,the cosmic observer,to those who He created in His own image and that it is,in every sense of the word a bonifide extra-terrestrial artifact.Try wrapping your head around that! Never mind little green men.The living God has placed it right under our nose! If that fact actually sunk in people would bust a gut laughing at any and all so-called 'secret knowledge' because in reality,compared to what God has revealed to us,it amounts to little more than flatulence in a hurricane."
With as much "childlike faith" as I can muster...I believe the following is the source of what ails us and those Masters thinks he is helping... Hebrews 2:15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage
"That is the song of my life, along with this..."
Beatifull thankyou and we rejoice with you!