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It's a fleeting thing. Sometimes life sucks.
I think this is one of the main things you have to realize before you can make any 'progress'-- Sometimes life sucks, sometimes its an ecstatic experience. Those times when you feel enlightened, you already know that you'll probably feel just as bad sometime in the near-future. Taking the good and the bad of everything with a grain of salt is when you know you're getting somewhere-- not that there is anywhere to get
So, applying these principals to a psychedelic experience: you're at baseline (lets use drug terms for effect), then you ingest... mescaline. An hour later, your perception of reality is now at a 3 where it was once at a 1. Still an hour and a half later, at the peak of your trip, your perception is at an 8, and it slowly comes back down to say, 5. You might feel feelings of empathy, euphoria, a one-ness during your trip, but slowly these feelings dissipate (it could be months or years later, but still, they fade). Now this is where you have a choice: re-dose, in hopes of regaining that "level 8 perception," or learn from your experience and find a way to apply that knowledge to life. Those that continue to use psychedelics are basically banging their heads against a door, over and over. This may not be a popular opinion here in PD, but is one trip not enough to stimulate a life-time of questions...?
Anyway, Enlightenment is a process of constant effort (or lack-of-effort perhaps).