I came from a school run by monks and studied Philosophy and Psychology. Prior to my readings in the different Philosophical discourses. my mind was satisfied with the religious dogma that I was raised since I had a religious mother.

Reading on the great works from Socrates, Kant, Kierkegaard, Nietzche and Psychological readings from Freud, Festinger, William James and others that opened my mind to a different kind of thinking.

A paradigm shift is to describe it mildly as I was branded as a maverick who struggled to get away from the status quo.

There is another path that can be taken. Life as I know it took a different turn.

I agree that there is a danger of false knowledge leading as astray. We must learn to be able to discern and see the truth and not the shadows of the truth from the mouth of the cave.