A very important idea in The Truth Within was the idea of ​​hierarchy within the self and the universe. While I understand the thought that one must ascend the hierarchy of the inner self and the universe to know one's inner self and God respectively, I have not found this ascension at all important in my journey. The other point I disagreed with was the Christian idea of ​​the Middle Ages that by outwardly conforming to the church one would develop one's inner self. Although mass and conformity are an aspect of the search for interiority, they were not a determining and crucial part of it. I went to mass on Sundays, but most of my self-discovery happened in the privacy and silence of my home