Finding my spiritual teacher was the turn around point in a life that felt it was not worth living. I have to say that all the Bible knowledge I gleaned before finding him has been a great help in my ongoing spiritual education. And that thirst for spiritual knowledge and understanding, that I fostered as a child, is valuable in digesting new concepts in the material I'm working through now.
Being Tantric (especially the left handed variety) is a far cry from the Jehovah's Witness I once was. But life is a learning/growing experience so everything we go through teaches us something valuable doesn't it?
Shady