[J. Stew]

Yeah, to realize that religion is bullsht is to realize the thing that religion was pointing to in the first place. So you use religion, and then you crap on religion, but you crap lovingly because you see that not everyone knows to crap on religion. But if you crap on religion and don't know what you're crapping on or don't know the thing that religion points to, then it's ego-confusion crapping, not True crapping. This is contingent on someone going away from their original Self tho, cause if you never get away from that which you already are, there's no confusion. But how could one really do that, live on an island? We all want to see what indulgence is about, and then we realize that's not ultimately meaningful, so we try to find meaning in religion, then we see religion is bull, and we accept things exactly how they are and ultimately find Truth in that.

But I agree, the thing that causes someone to become aware of themselves is not important, theoretically, just like religion is not important once you know what religion points to. But if you ask someone who had a near-death experience, they'll prolly say they realized something that would be very difficult to realize without the shock of almost dying. Shock is good cause we're robots sometimes.