I received email notifications of replies to my posts, but I don't see them here. Regardless, thanks to those who replied, and thanks to Gnostic Teachings for this forum.
I will have to try to sit down and type more about what happened when I find the time (I still have a day job).
Based on the research I've done so far, the teachings found on this website make sense to me regarding my experience.
The writings of James Allen and Emerson, among many others, make sense.
I have not read Eckhart Tolle's work yet, but the description of what happened to him is very similar to what happened to me...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle
Below are some of the earliest notes I made after my epiphany or revelation or whatever one might call it. Some are my thoughts, and some are simply movie or book quotes that seemed to make perfect sense for the first time...
It will all come out in the wash.
There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
Know thyself.
Trinity
It's not who you are underneath but what you do that defines you.
I don't know if it touched me or I touched it, but a connection was made.
There was an information dump.
Mind defragmentation
As a Man Thinketh
Thanks again, all.
Ben