I think that everyone ends up on his/her own path and sometimes - maybe by luck or pre-planning before birth - that path leads to enlightenment.

In my case I was an atheist and a geek with a love of SciFi novels. In my teens I read a book every day until my local library was exhausted, then walked to the next town's library and read every SciFi book they had. Finally, I ended up getting the bus to the city library each week.

Star Trek and the like kept me going during my non-work leisure hours.

In my middle age, when the Internet came along, I followed my instincts and came across a bunch of sites covering UFOs and alien encounters. When YouTube opened, the UFO search led me to Out of Body experiences, Near Death Experiences and Infowars. I watched the Alex Jones exposé of Bohemian Grove and that was my introduction to corruption in politics. (I didn't follow A.J. for very long.)

All of this taught me that anything is impossible; that I should consider every possibility and look at the evidence, rather than dismissing it out of hand. Reading SciFi taught me to suspend my disbelief.

And I think that's the main difference between me and sheeples: they dismiss anything that is outside of their world view. A world view, I should add, that's conditioned by the tell-u-vision.