Never seen the word egregor before. Not shocking it exists, it seems like a painfully self evident concept to me someone else must have thought of it also.
Grace is certainly something modern Christians lack.
Less wrong talks about the pain of changing your mind a lot. One point they spell out that we often overlook, you know you can live to bear the truth because you already are living with the truth. All that changes is your acceptance of it. Fancy way of saying I completely agree with your last paragraph.