Thinking, understanding, is thinking you understand.
Nothing to do with what we are calling reality.

The 'facts' in which we have invested over the ages have changed -
over and over.
And not only still changing, but faster than our minds can keep up with.

If you slow down, go soft, still, sensitive, you can feel when someone is
talking/sharing from their in-the-moment reality.
Tune in to Anthony de Mello.

You can also tell when someone has had the experience, but is no longer in
it. Interesting, but you do not get the vibration of their in-the-moment
experience.

Then there are those who talk as if they know - and they don't.
(Of course we all know. I am talking about alive consciousness)

You are not doing yourself, or anyone else a favour, by thinking you know.
If you think you know, but don't, then you stop being open - because you
think you know already.

So the 'safest' way is to presume you do not know.
When you do know there is no doubt - none.
You may not actually know what you know,
but you know something has happened - for sure.

Happy unknowing...