HIGH

A self transforming perception of ones total union with the infinite. It's beyond time & space. It is an experience of the timelessness which is eternity, of unlimited unity with all creation. The usual ego boundaries break down, and the ego passes beyond the limits of the body. Emerson called it "the oversoul". Self becomes selfless, ego is seen to be an illusion, and the ego game ends. The Maitrayana Upanished puts it this way "having realized his own self as the self a man becomes selfless... this is the highest mystery".
It is only through a change of consciousness that the world will be "saved". Everyone must begin with him/her Self. A true revolution is revelation.
Language has been a barrier for me. Language constricts consciousness and places limits on understanding. Truth cannot be known except through direct experience, through enlightenment. Language seems to be a barrier to that truth.
The Mystikal state is a highly emotional state. A fusion of insight & instinct which has resulted in a new condition of being.
We have through nature, a sensory repression which was necessary for evolution. A biological - cultural process developed our everyday state of consciousness and separated us from animals by giving us a self concept, by making us aware that we are aware. But by that process were also separated from that organic unity which animals have with the natural world.
In the Mystik mode Man/Woman return to the Primal state of affairs.
Enlightenment causes our brain or our multiple "brains" to become one brain. The neocortex (the "thinking - intellect" part) and the limbic system & thalamus (the "feeling - emotion" part) and the medulla oblongata (the "intuitive - unconscious" part) attain a previous non-existant - but always possible - mode of intercelluar communication. A threshold is passed - probably explainable in terms of both cellular electrochemical change and growth of new nerve endings.

So many doors to the same room. In 1969 Jimi Hendrix concludes WoodStock through one of these doors. He looked to be enlightened to me as well as Carlos Santana talking to God/ess, to me, to the crowd using his guitar.
The cloud of UNKNOWING, in fact, which lies between God/Goddess & Man/Woman, is pierced not by the intellect but only by a sharp dart of Love.