Clear, fearless, well informed, elucidating approximation of sincerely sought truth. You two men probably will neither of you appreciate my suggestion that you are well matched.
I am disappointed in the challengers willingness to disengage unless certain criteria are met. I had come to expect better from him.
This dialectic has been generally respectful, far more informative than most. I encourage you both to carry forward. I suspicion the two of you are not that far from one another.
I see no harm, and potentially great benefit, in meditation, which I have followed for for 60 years while pursuing answers as a geophysicist, physicist, lawyer and mediator.