I do not feel any more or less intelligent than before but I know the experience has left me with a broader understanding of just how much everything is interconnected. This forum is a fountain of knowledge and I think there are more "truths" glimpsed amongst the articles written here than in any specific holy scripture or philosophical viewpoint. I say this only because the writings are from many first hand experiences that seem to have the same "visions", even as the messages and meanings are contorted into words or images to describe the ineffable, they are not altered by others.