Acceptance of ignorance (of reality) is the true knowledge path.

When you choose a Guru you become a follower. When your Guru chooses you, you become a disciple

And becoming aware of one's true inner nature, instinctive gut feelings, is not generally thought by those who experience it to be in conflict with the essence of one's spiritual knowledge, but more of a Gnostic direct experience of the Sacred experienced in the gut or all of nature that is greater than us and is connected to us through the gut instincts.