Redfield, in his The Celestine Prophecy , allows his central character the experience. As I sat on the peak of the moutain looking out at the landscape falling away from me in all directions, it felt exactly as if what I had always known as my physical body was only the head of a much larger body consisting of everything else I could see. I experienced the entire universe looking out on itself through my eyes. There is a feeling of the ground holding you up, and of hills lifting you when you climb them. Air breathes itself in and out of your lungs, and instead of looking and listening, light and sound comes to you on their own.
Eyes see and ears hear as wind blows and water flows.
There seems an evolutionary movement afoot, moving from the religious construct to the cosmic construct. Eventually, through this translation, so much of the experience of the initial gnosis became lost. But, alas, dissolution starts to set-in. Our present era is witness of the eroding dissolution of our old religious traditions and institutions. Presently it looks like every which-way.