Outline: story of Asimov and robots in his famous book I Robot. Basic concept being people cannot stand their depravity whereas closeness to God points out the contrast between his Perfection and there depravity. They get stuck at a certain point in exploring God because going deeper is uncomfortable.
Asimov's Laws of Robotics stated in the first law: robots can't do anything to harm humans or through inaction cause humans to come to harm. Two: robots will protect themselves except where it violates rule number 1. Story is of a robot that can get close to a crash site because of radioactivity that would harm him but as he moved away from the crash site the rule to protect and cause a human from being harmed overrides and so he runs in circles.
Same is true with God. As we get to know God and His Purity and his Perfection it highlights our depravity and we've become increasingly more uncomfortable with our own depravity. So, depending upon our tolerance for that, we may stop getting to know God because it becomes unbearable to see the depravity our own depravity compared to his perfection.
Generally, I expect we all go through cycles of deeper awareness and have to pause at various points in the journey. Sometimes, people get stuck and won't go further - they cycle in that spot like the robots in Asimov's story.
This is an update/cleanup of a blog post I did via voice to text on 10/21/2016
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