How someone's spiritual journey begins and progresses up to enlightenment and even meeting with God? For the benefit of all, please narrate about it for spiritual persons (even past greats) and even about self.

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The spiritual journey begins with an awareness of spiritual reality. It’s vague, indistinct in the beginning, and slowly becomes stronger over time. People have inborn spiritual potentials, that are mostly based on their ‘soul age’.

Enlightenment is a goal that some people can reach, based on their potential. It’s characterized by a certain way of perceiving, called ‘nonduality’. People can be more or less spiritual, and at some point, recognizable traits of nonduality override dual traits.

Look, none of these details are really all that fun or interesting. Fully explained, it’s the most normal sounding thing in the world, literally because their full expression is exactly the world we live in. Nothing at all about knowing spirituality and stuff actually makes you that way or lets you evade the realities. It’s real for a reason, and that reason is because it would royally suck any other way.

Spiritual reality isn’t even interesting to anyone that isn’t already so far above normal mundane reality that everything about it is already boring. Most people think they’re interested in spiritual reality but in reality they just have been led to believe that being spiritual makes their mundane life better. They want the results, not the work.

But when you really get spiritual reality, you get that it’s the work that’s the point. Because spirituality is about shedding temporality, the holding on of immediate pleasures and concerns and focusing on the eternal. Scoring that goal, winning that round, being right that one time, is less important on the eternal time scale than understanding your motivations, discovering how and why you love what you love. And work, the little things that make up the day, are what you mostly do on the eternal time scale. You have to love these little things, that you can find meaning and purpose in, if you want to be happy and fulfilled forever.

God, the meeting of, is governed by your readiness for the experience. God is the ultimate “workaholic”. He works unimaginably harder than everyone else, understands at the highest, most unfathomable level. You have to have an awareness and appreciation of that before it’s even worth trying to meet Him. And the first dozen times will be in total silence. You’ll feel God’s presence, and can talk to Him, but you won’t be able to hear back. It takes many sessions before you can realize that there’s volumes of meaning hidden inside just one second of silence. And that every moment is filled with God talking to you back.

Great people in life, really aren’t. They’re normal people, with normal foibles and wishes and concerns and weaknesses. What we think makes them great isn’t anything really that special on the spiritual scale. It’s just great on the scale that we consider right. Human temporality isn’t really real, it’s just an illusion.

Spiritual progression has you caring about what you care about until you have a spiritual awakening. It will be sad and disappointing the first time and then you die. Next time around it’ll be more interesting, slightly. You’re still basically a materialist but spirituality won’t immediately make you hurl. More lifetimes in and you’ll form a conception about various kinds of religions / dogmas. Every interaction with God creates theology. You’ll run into many theologies over your lifetimes. They’re all wrong in important ways.

A person’s conscious development happens over many lifetimes. Learning is important, but it’s work. You have to learn to love work before it gets less boring and inane.