It is an experience of self-transcendence. There are three types or levels of conversion. With intellectual conversion one moves from seeing the world as immediate to understanding the world as mediated. The immediate world is that which appears to the five senses. Thus, knowing is looking.
Intellectual conversion has to do with letting go of belief in the immediate world.
It is clarification of what one is doing when one is knowing. It is awareness of one's own conscious processes - experiencing, understanding, and judging. It thus opens one to further development. Moral conversion involves a shift from what merely satisfies to what is truly good and truly valuable. Moral conversion is the prerequisite for knowing what is truly good and valuable.