Steve no I'm not going to pick your post to pieces although I could, but the desire isn't there.
       I read the thread and got drawn in like a fool, but consciousness is a subject I've been interested in since childhood,nothing I type is bullshit but your posts on this particular topic are from a place of ignorance.
       I'm about 15 years younger than you at a guess and your spiel reminds me of the thinking my generation did at school. The debate you want to have is decades out of date. Words like God and terms like Spiritual awakening are meaningless,they have too much baggage.
       You could not be trusted in your current mindset for me to explain what "delivers" means ( it's physical). Anyway far better you do your own thinking. Here is a starting point though..it removes your personal baggage and delivers a wider more informed perspective on what it is to be human in this big fat beautiful thing that is existence. It also hammers home, consciousness is not what we currently believe it to be.
       I do agree that religion is more hindrance than help.
Now off to bed with my man flu.