This clears up a lot of misconceptions we have about enlightenment and what it really Means to be enlightened. Adyashanti does a very good job of stripping away a lot of erroneous beliefs we have about the subject and he did it so Simplifies IT sounds so so ordinary and accessible to anyone who wants it - Although he does say time and time again thatthere is nothing Really to get from Enlightenment Because it is our true state anyway. He says indeed the egoic state is the Altered State and Enlightenment is the unaltered state. I found the book The One: Finding Reality & The Awakening of Spiritual Awareness was a good companion with this since it thus brings to life what Adyashanti says - that at the end of all the seeking, we only find what we really already are and always havebeen!