"I was sharp, just not educated. You have to remember it was an age when few employers looked at university degrees or there was any need of a resume. You didn't need a certificate or degree to be most things."
Yes, but what's interesting is you didn't need any particular "education", a degree, resume or any kind of human concocted requirement for this experience. What did it require, apart from your presence, ... if anything ? It left an indelible impression of a different state of consciousness not required and in most cases not even suspected, for "ordinary life".
This is one of the great mysteries of being alive and could be a constant companion which gives perspective to all the events and experiences of our "fleshly existence" ... which includes all things of the earthly body including our famous brain and so called thinking and emotions.
Unfortunately because such inner questioning and perspective is not required for ordinary life, it usually remains the tiny voice of a buried orphan impossible to hear over the din and demands of ordinary life.
Popular Religion is specifically designed and intended to ensure this inner search and questioning is replaced by do's, don'ts, should's, should not's with a specific narrative that sooths the member into a nice stupor of sleep.
No better example than the "Jesus died for your sins" and all that is necessary is "faith".