Discernment

I think a telling aspect of one's spiritual clarity is in the abilty to discern (or not).

"Thorn went through a very traumatic experience in her personal life long ago, that which continues to plague her today, whether she will admit it to herself or not."

What is quite revealing in this above quote is that Thorn is actually a GUY (lol) and the rest of "the story" is totally inaccurate as well, which says something very important about the original poster's level of awareness and ability to discern facts ;-)

What else could they be wrong about? I do, however, give them high marks for their level of passion that fuels their filtered version of reality which goes to make up their "story." In this case...a doosy!

Belief systems are so interesting, aren't they? They can take you to deep understanding or to complete and utter confusion.