TL;DR: Our experiences aren't as unified as we might think. Introspection might create a false sense of unity between concurrent experiences. Basically, we might not be as "conscious" as we believe in our day-to-day lives.
It's hard to understand this statement if you are not awake. I would have down voted this before the shift happened for me :)
I ponder the topics you mention and at no point did I feel compelled to radically retool my life around 2000 year old religious documents which themselves have clear lineage to even older, less-informed belief systems.
I was raised Catholic, by a deacon, and have a deep understanding of Judeo-Christian religions, and have studied to a lesser extent several world religions. What am I missing?
That is natural, but the problem is that our intellect is quite limited. You would like to have a description of "the unifying deep truth". But even very simple experience, like how strawberry tastes like, cannot be transmitted by words and comprehended by the intellect. How could we transmit something vastly more complex even if we knew it -- and I am not claiming I do.
So I would say what you are missing is the direct experience of something higher. Seek and you will find.
Spirituality does not contradict with what others experience in material world.
You just start identifying more with consciousness and less with the body. That's the shift.
And if you also think about it scientifically it makes sense.
You are consciousness experiencing the world.
Not the body experiencing consciousness.
You are consciousness
Not the body.
The body ages. The cells changes. You remains. The consciousness sees the body.
What you describe is akin to Camus's Absurd, but you chose to fill in the weirdness of existence with some kind of spirituality. That's your choice. Please don't go around claiming to be morally superior to "99.99%" of all humans on earth.
Also as I said in other comments till you experience a shift none of this makes sense to you. That's okay.
"But nobody wants it! Everybody hates it!" OH. WELL, THEN STOP.
That's what SHE said!
RA Wilson says the only options after visiting Chapel Perilous are to become a paranoid, or an agnostic, and that there is no third way. I'd argue one could also become an atheist. The paranoid thinks there's always a force out there trying to get them. The atheist is convinced there's never a force out there trying to get them. I try to remain agnostic as I am not sure all the evidence is in yet to be able to make an accurate assessment of the situation which we all find ourselves dropped into.
I take modified Sturgeon's Law view of various religious teachings. Sturgeon says 90% of everything is crap. I think it's closer to 99%. But the 1% that's left over is pretty interesting.
Anyway I gave you a deserved upvote, but I'm sure your karma that matters is not as negative as your HN karma. :)