By the time I first encountered it I had made most of the journey to where it seems to go. I hadn't really formulated it into anything cohesive. It was all instinct. That book helped to think about it in a more orderly and reasoned fashion.
EDIT: If I had read it two or three years earlier though the journey would have been pretty profound. My mind had gone through a lot of transformation during that time.
By the time I first encountered it I had made most of the journey to where it seems to go. I hadn't really formulated it into anything cohesive. It was all instinct. That book helped to think about it in a more orderly and reasoned fashion.
EDIT: If I had read it two or three years earlier though the journey would have been pretty profound. My mind had gone through a lot of transformation during that time.