After reading, and rereading, the last few posts, including mine, I feel compelled to add this.
I am a Big Booker and currently learning how to thump with, properly I hope. I feel it probably saved my life although I got damn near death before I was able to follow it's simple, but difficult for me, instructions... thoroughly, as prescribed by it. During the time it took me to do this, I found SR, and became educated a bit in other paths.
In spite of the rather high cost of this path, in terms of time and therefore everything else, I have no regrets now of winding along it because I believe that I'm probably stronger and better than I would have been, certainly than I have been, ever, for winding up on it.