I firmly believe that we only have free access to spirit if love of God is at the core of our being. Not the God of religion necessarily, which for most atheists of delicate constitution is too well-defined – too rigorous, but simply God as one of many names for the Real or the Unknowable. We, as human beings, are amazing creatures, capable of so much, yet also unbelievably limited and crude, and the only thing we can be sure of is that what made the world and made us is outside those limits. Despite our desires and our curiosity we have no access to ultimate truth. We are destined to lives of fleeting glimpses. But one thing I have learnt in my time: the more humble life makes you, the more you let it grind the ego down, the more frequent those glimpses.