I have a confession to make.

[zenmaster]

How one uses this realization is much more important in terms of participating here than the actual realization itself. 

I agree with this on one hand, but on the other I think this is somewhat inconsiderate of the actual vividness and impact this kind of realization can have upon a person.

Impact such as that which fuels fanaticism and zealotry? Oh wait "transcendent knowingness". People are always held responsible for their "revelations", regardless of how tightly they may or may not identify with them.

What are you implying, that all revelatory experience leads to inflated ego?

No - some are of course. The obvious typical examples of fanaticism and zealotry, which are actually protective coping mechanisms of identification (with an idea). The quality and degree of any distraction really depends on interpretation and integration of experience, which is provided by circumstances of relative balance and maturity. Constant appeal to infinities due to strong identification with a transcendent principle are used as an unconscious mechanism to deflect balancing responsibility from undeveloped, fragile ego. But the idea of "contact" in the first place was to simply force acknowledgement that one has a spiritual nature (yay) rather than to distract.