Too bad, enlightenment is SO painful, traumatic and unremittingly denigrated, dismissed & despised, in our culture (as detrimental to our production quota) that those fleeting instances, we're actually HERE, aware, awake, conscious & capable of self-actualization; it's like our skin's been flayed off, so we're in such horror and pain, we immediately retreat, back into obtuse oblivion. If you think this is exaggerated, or snark... you've never BEEN aware!