Likewise, of course, depth is developed by the successful integration of high state experiences, so that these are no longer just “festive occasions”, but become part of how one sees reality and the universe. One begins to recognize things such as the unfathomable potential of life, the “glory of God”, the emptiness of all sensuous experience and—as we saw Ralph Waldo Emerson observe in the last chapter—that everything, in some cosmic last instance, is going to be alright.
