Ditto, although we must acknowledge the cyclical learning curve within all of these states of heightened awareness. Honestly, for me it is like a rotating house of mirrors. When I overcome fear and find my center and internal equilibrium within a state of total AWE, I become enraptured by the sheer perfection of it all. This is such an exquisite degree of bliss... how can we effectively put it into words? Awesome is pretty close, though! 8)
That being said, just amp the intensity levels a few notches and FEAR becomes, once more, felt as quite overwhelming... as one's paradigmatic dreamscape becomes superseded by yet, another. It's fair to say that human AWE wears many hats. But I hear you and who wouldn't prefer spiritual bliss to self-oblivion (regardless of their direct symbiosis)?
I am of the belief that there does exist a point within the central fulcrum of the moment, the NOW... whereby one's sense of self becomes so translucent, boundary-less and so dissolved within the insubstantial Spirit, that fear and bliss becomes unrecognizable references, by which to gauge existential awareness. I am eluding to a whiteout experience and a self-shattering taste of the Clear Light of the Void.
Arguably, this is no longer one's self at all, rather, the awakening of the Omniself (as a self manifesting process). Which, paradoxically, is the true self all along. Doesn't this seem ironic? That the Omniself would appear to need the mind of the individuated self, through immersion into Oneness, to complete this cosmic circle dance? Who is dreaming whom into existence? Self dreaming of being ego-self, then awakening into being Self? Scriptures often point towards this reality, "I am that I am."
Or is there really ever any completion or incompletion (except within our own minds)? How can there be a beginning or an ending to that which has always been? Does not eternity transcend all of our angst and rationale? Such a line of thought implies a stage of incompleteness, aimed towards completion. So damned lineal is it's dualistic ideology. These are just human concepts, after all... when the Tao may just as easily be complete, in it's perpetual incompletion and Vice Versa???
Or is it wee who need the Omniself to birth within our cognition, to complete this shimmering circle dance? It always impresses itself to my ego as a REMEMBRANCE, not something new, unknown or any different from what I have always been. But then again, who am I? 
Perhaps it's more of an an awakening? A return to the self which, as the famous Zen mystic Bankei Yataku reveals through his epiphanies, remains forever "unborn", despite the gross appearances of birth and death (within the time-space-continuum). Our original face, as it were?
Or are these simply the same phenomenon witnessed from either side of the mirror of the infinity of all possibilities of being and non-being, manifest or unmanifest... THAT which we are inspired to label as Sacred, Divine or the totality of GOD? Thoughts on this grand riddle? :idea:
