It helps me to remember that there are fundamentally different brain circuits in operation when one is deeply ‘in belief,’ ‘self-operating’ vs. being on a spectrum of clarity (feeling good - EE’s), and every individual has the capacity to experience anywhere on that spectrum
So then the same individual could be very brilliant, very clear, in one aspect of their life, but in some other aspect of their life be cruel, stupid, blind. It just depends on where ‘self’ is more or less operant for them.
It might be easy to find examples of this in your own experiencing