PR;
Nice post!
My psychology prof in college told us that, statistically, scientists were the professionals who most believed in G*D.
And that historians were the professionals LEAST likely to!
Plato also questioned the idea that the senses can be trusted. Take a straight stick, he instructed his students, (including Aristotle), and stick it into the water. What does that straight stick look like as you are holding the end? Yep, looks like a bent stick due to the refraction of the water! So, our senses can indeed deceive us. To Plato, introspection is the only thing that can lead to truth.
I do find it interesting though, that so many different religious beliefs, Eastern and Western; cult and mainstream, have all stated the idea expressed in the Golden Rule.
Anyway, whatever works for you to stay straight, clean and sober is what is needed to be done. I hope we can all agree with that proposition!
Shalom!