I left the church in college then experienced a spiritual awakening 15 years later. Unfortunately, due to having been raised with only one religion, I lacked the context necessary to understand what I had experienced.

I was orange pilling some libertarians online a few years ago. One was Native American. She wound up connecting me with a 90+ year old Medicine Man who gave me my name. For the last 32 months, I've been studying basically every single religious tradition, esoteric tradition, philosophers, etc. I cannot encourage people who love God strongly enough to do the same.

Studying multiple religions is a great way to find common ground with our neighbors. Many are unfortunately wired for "heresy hunter" mode instead of "look for consistency" mode.

There are good spiritual teachers out there. They are few and far between though. Sometimes I feel like the spiritual teachers who are no longer alive whose words I can read are more valuable to me than many living clergy whose voices I can hear. Also, I think if my choice was between walking into a music festival versus walking into a legacy religion's building, I would have better odds of finding a good spiritual teacher at the music festival. I think a lot of clergy are blind leading the blind.