Richard,
You're excitment is contagious and reciprocated. I take particular note of your emphasis on THEREFORE.
I want to offer you back a very exciting quote for me which I found in the introduction to the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
Recognising the voidness of thine own intellect to be Buddha-hood.
And knowing it at the same time to be thine own consciousness.
Thou shalt abide in the state of the divine mind of the Buddha.
W.Y. Evans-Wentz, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Oxford University Press, London, 1960, page xxxvii