Super interesting post, I really liked your perspective and just wanted to add a few things. IMO one can't bring enlightenment to anyone else. The "enlightenment" is already there for the taking in the other person, as it is in all of us, but they have to find it themselves. There's this good book called If You Meet Budha On The Road Kill Him, and it kind of touches on this same subject. To sum it up very crudely, there is no one path to enlightenment, many different people reach it many different ways, so to tell someone or to try and teach someone how to reach enlightenment never works because the path that you took to enlightenment is not the same path that someone else is going to take. I think you're on the right track though and I like your perspective on this "human-ness" and how you recognize it as separate from the ego. This is the watcher or observer (although it has many different names) feeling that we all seem to experience at those quiet alone moments when you actually have time to hear yourself think, so to speak. Even the phrase "hear yourself think" is weird if you think about it. What/Who is hearing you think? Sounds strange....Sorry, I digressed there a bit, but my main point is that one needs to explore this feeling of SOMETHING else other than our egos, because it is universal in all of us, and when you explore that feeling you come to find that it is what connects us all as living beings (not just humans but ALL living things in the biosphere and even the universe).
