Years ago I read
The Path To No-Self, and
The Experience of No-Self, both by Bernadette Roberts, a former nun who later raised four children. Although she left the cloister after ten years, the cloister never left her, as evinced by her books. Through a "circuitous" route, she came to realization also offered by a more "direct" route--Buddhism, advaita--but she did it within Christianity, and this was perhaps a great consolation to her.
Our modern world needs something, and consolation is a good word to help describe what is missing, although Roberts is on to something far more profound than that. Some people, though, go the opposite direction.