I love, love, love your piece. And I feel synchronistically in-tune with what you are writing here as evidenced by two stories I've written recently.

I just finished a second follow-up piece for Illumination - as yet to be accepted on The Purpose of Suffering. And in Part 2 there is a lot of information on sacrifice and surrender.

Part 1:

https://medium.com/illumination/the-purpose-of-human-suffering-1-270ae3aba1b2