In a bizarre sense armed struggle brings enlightenment (9)
I believe the answer is:
awareness
'enlightenment' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both related to thinking as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'in a bizarre sense armed struggle' is the wordplay.
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'bizarre' is an anagram indicator.
'armed struggle' becomes 'war' (warring is a kind of struggling. I am not sure about the 'armed' bit.).
'sense' with letters rearranged gives '[sense]'.
'a'+'[sense]'='a[sense]'
'aeness' enclosing 'war' is 'AWARENESS'.
'brings' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for awareness that I've seen before include "Consciousness,knowingness" , "Consciousness, sentience" , "Recognition" , "Mindfulness, consciousness" , "Insight" .)