Maybe a better word for this thread would be awakened or awakening. Which might be the first step on the road to enlightenment... Enlightenment is such a loaded term and can be interpreted by people in such different ways. So maybe what the OP meant was a process towards awakening and the majority of people are still asleep or less awakened?

Instead of creating boundaries between people that are enlightened or unenlightened, if you find yourself becoming more awakened to a newer and more authentic reality, find a way to bridge a gap toward the people that are still asleep to the possibilities? Life might just be a constant unravelling of awakening until the final act of dying which could be viewed as the final big awakening (or depending on your views, the final big sleep into nothingness, I guess we'll only know once we cross the event horizon).

I guess the biggest hurdle of new knowledge is instead of using it to bring people along with you and creating more unity is that it can also easily create more boundaries between yourself and the rest of the herd. I've seen this as a musician amongst my musician friends, the more sophisticated they become as musicians, the more snobby they tend to be to people of lesser skill (I've been guilt of this in the past myself). Becoming a guitar teacher helped me see how much more pure a beginner can be in intent and passion, which brings me to an influential book I came across as a musician and spiritually as a person too, a book called "The Art of Zen Guitar".

The book uses the art of zen and also martial arts, and focuses on always striving to hold onto the beginners mind no matter how advanced you become on your path. Basically through becoming a black belt and then through years of experience the black belt wears back to, and fades to, the original white belt of the beginner... Sometimes sophistication and advancement brings with it the perils of losing the way and losing connection to the bigger picture. Kind of like how a baby or young child can be enraptured by the simplest things in life but as we get older it is easy to become jaded and lose touch with the simple beauty of life (which I guess is one reason why we might come to psychedelics in the first place).

Anyway, sorry for the rambling and bad analogies (which I can be rather fond of ), just some food for thought that I thought I could add to the discussion.

In my experience the term I developed for it/use for the phenomenon is lack of self awarenes. Once you reached this self awarenes yourself you got rid of your ego which all the time tells you to not look deeply. So you have seen yourself and the role you play on this planet in your society, your community, your family..

You may see things in your life that are not like you intended them to be and you may apply changes. This is what I found the most valuable lesson for the everyday life as human and to a lesser extend as a soul these experiences can provide you.

I even had dramatic insights on smoking weed after abstaining for years which produced immediate conciousnes and will to change. For me it is the loss of the ego that made the change, not the seeing of this parallel fantastic space in which everything seems possible. I first saw and felt this 15 Years ago so it's there and has been like gravity is you know.

But here comes the bad news, the more I want to adapt these concepts in interaction with others even if I just suggest and the more I go bejond the inner circle of family and closest friends, the more I LOOSE FOCUS of my own path.

It's so easy these days to get lost. Society is a System and we are in this System. To really be free, I recently realized, I would have to get as far away from any manifested system as possible.

Yes, Meditation works and it's awesome. I tried Zen and loved it but here's the catch, it's bound to the rules of the System if you go to a Dojo in your City and you are lucky, it's totally free.. But people need money to pay rent, NEO Zen Masters publish Books for money, Meditation Retreats cost hefty amounts of money and so on it goes..

Kind of everything you can do is bound to this how ever you may call it..