Trust your gut instinct over spreadsheets. There are too many variables in the real world that you simply can't put into a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets spit out results from your inexact assumptions and give you a false sense of security. In most cases your heart and gut are still your best guide.
Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes and are upon a footing with them.
Our dreams are firsthand creations rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity at least while dreaming we partake of the power of the Spirit the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.