You are either ready to discover yourself or you are not. Ready means you have been knowingly or unknowingly practicing self-observation. - Barry Long

You can only get next to God through the effort of preparation. To experience the uncreated, the state of awareness will have to be held for several minutes. You are then between time and the timeless - waiting for the unknown, which will come but cannot be willed.

At the top of the ladder is awareness, or pure experience - the edge of yourself, and possibly the beginning of God.

Man conscious is man immortal. Man conscious gives to the creation as no other thing can give and is beyond death. But it is no use my just saying this. You must discover it, realize it for yourself.