Must positive polarity awareness be sustained or can it be temporary to graduate?

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Don is asking about a profound experience he had while in meditation nearly twenty years prior and was asking if doing ceremonial practices would allow him to reproduce the experience. However, what I believe this is pointing to is how many times during spiritual seeking and exploration one will reach a height or peak experience and it will be very tempting to compare the rest of one's experiences to those 'peak' experiences. I think that what Ra is saying though is that Don had already reached and felt that peak and so there is no need to go back and 'repeat' it. I feel this is the same for the blissful states that many people have experienced through meditation, prayer, contemplation, etc. The state is a form of 'initiation' of the consciousness whereby the awareness is launched to a new level. When things 'even out' it's not because you've lost ground and gone back to where you've started, it's that you have adapted to the current level you are at and are now ready for the next expansion of growth.

So, you will likely still have other profound experiences that may last for a time but then seem to 'fade', but it's not that you are losing progress, it's that it is 'sinking in'.