If you picture the effort to realize what is really going on as a mental investigation,
then an extremely useful tool is the: always-one-more-step approach, viz:
whatever you discover --  take it another step further;
no matter how explanatory seems a find  --  never stop there:
always go one more step in your inquiry.
 

The ordinary human brain is not programmed for this;
when thought seeks a solution to a problem in the physical world,
and finds what solves same  --  it looks no further --
why should it?!.........life's conservation of energy;
and when thought wrestles with a question/problem in man's
thought-only, inner world and a response appears that thought accepts  --
that is the end of that (for the same reasons as the first instance);
when a man figures out how to start a fire, he thinks about it no more;
when a man is told that his house burning down is a test by God,
and accepts the explanation  --  he thinks about it no more,
                    in the sense of looking for other possibilities.
 

The way it is set up now, routine humans could not mentally survive intact
without this situation being thus;
in material challenges, they expect that if a solution is possible,
it will be THE solution; one that settles the matter finitely,
and like wise (with no analysis being natural) do they feel the same regarding the immaterial challenges their thoughts bring up,
which their thoughts invented and which exist only IN their thoughts
(if there is an answer to the thought-generated question: "Why is there evil in the world?"
it will be one which the particular individual's thoughts will find explanatorily conclusive  --
there must be such for each person whose thoughts entertain such questions seriously
[everyone except the certain man]).

Once he has a functional grasp of the direction in which the investigation is going,
he has deserted all of the questions that  beguile everyone else;
he is not engaged in the question of why is there evil,
but rather why do men perceive there to be so?
His inquiring eyes/I's dwell not on the surface of things  --
not on what appears to be the subject of the question,
but always something just  --   one-step-beyond;
his properly active investigation daily commences not only already beyond where
the rest of humanity thinks, but then relentlessly on past where
                     even his own extraordinary thinking first takes him.
 
 

A man who says he knows what is going on  --   conclusively
regarding any matter on which he cannot physically lay his hands  --
knows no more than everyone around him;
employing whatever terms he cares to,
a person who says they are, Enlightened --  period, to the reality-of-man's-spirituality,
or fully, Awake to their-true-nature,
or any such claim concerning that reality unique to man:
one filled with a limitless number of things, questions and problems,
none of which exist outside of his thoughts,
is fooling their self and anyone who listens to them.
A man who really knows what is going on with man's mental reality
knows that only those who do not know can & will say that they do --
not if the authority for what they know exists only IN man's mental reality.
The history of man continues to be replete with metaphysical explanations for time --
a man who knows what is going on has gone the necessary additional step,
opened up the clock, and figured out how all the gears and pulleys work.
 

"It diminishes your capacity to do things if you say that you cannot do a certain thing."
     "Even if you cannot?"
"Yes."
     "So --  what is the solution?"
"Is it not obvious."