It doesn't matter what it looks like; it matters what it feels like.
Higher states of awareness is a by product of mental development and conscious evolution.
Yoga doesn't ask you to be more than you are. But it does ask you to be all that you are.
Learn to take pleasure in the search.
Just because we can think does not mean we are separate from everything.
It seems to me if I would want to access the special, mysterious, mystical, powerful and most important, I simply need to live my life more fully.