Chipping in my dos centimos.
On one hand, I do like the idea of this thread, to have a sort of "communal journal" where insights would be shared, discussed, analyzed and compared (although the forum as a whole could already be seen fulfilling this function). On the other hand, I see some difficulty in this one-size-fits-all approach to insights.
Let's say there are a number of 'universal truths' which we all can arrive at, such as "time doesn't exist" or "as above, so below". Even though these truths are universal and practically the same for everyone, we all "get to them" through different ways and methods, osit.
Just because a certain quote or life experience has recently made me realize something on a more profound level, doesn't mean that my
compression and decompression operation
would yield the same results for someone else.
Insight, in my experience, is not really something you can give as such, since we all have a unique FRV and personal make-up that dictates the way in which we experience growth and learning. For some, reading a mythological/archetypal story meant to convey a certain lesson, might be enough to make something click in their mind and arrive at an insight, a new understanding. For another, he/she could read a hundred iterations of this story but still keep missing the main point, but going through a life experience where these archetypal energies are playing out, might be enough (even without awareness of the myth/story) to drive home a big lesson.
In many - if not most - cases, a combination of the theoretical knowledge and the real-world experience is what actually allows us to really, truly
understand something. If one has but one part, the insight one has might not be "complete" or actually "integrated".
A thread like this then, might be able to provide some pieces of the jigsaw puzzle to others, but is that always beneficial? What if the puzzle piece you are offering me aren't supposed to go in my puzzle? Are we not all building our own puzzles? Even though we share some of the pieces, such as the universal truths of "time doesn't exist" and "as above, so below", not everyone's more subjective pieces might be relevant for me in this particular incarnation. And perhaps that's why:
Make it current. Make it significant in terms of the community of man. Make it general, not into family histories, or anything that would require much knowledge about the poster to understand the insight.
To continue trying to fit the puzzle piece analogy further into this topic:
Every bigger piece of the puzzle (universal truth), if examined in detail, might be made up of several smaller pieces, which are different for each individual. The shape and size of my "as above, so below" piece could be identical in shape and size to your "as above, so below" piece, but the constitution (our unique ways of arriving at that insight) of our pieces might differ quite much.
If my point didn't become clear, I'm saying that
sharing insights might not be so straightforward, because the process of learning is different for everyone. This of course doesn't mean that we
shouldn't share our insights, just to keep in mind, that we can not expect our personal insights to have the same impact and
"thought flavor" or emotional content.
for someone else, as the process of arriving at insight is so subjective and unique.