The personal and the cultural …

… Review | After her son and husband died, Elaine Pagels wondered why religion survives. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Feeling confused and overwhelmed, she turned to the New Testament, the Gnostic gospels of the Nag Hammadi library and Buddhism. In theory and practice, her life demonstrates the freedom that comes from breaching the boundaries of orthodoxy and accepting insight wherever it might be hiding.

I don't think it is necessary to "breach the boundaries of orthodoxy" to accept insight wherever it may be found.