There is also an assumption that people who have spiritual highs are more evolved spiritually. Having been around many spiritual seekers for over 25 years, I have noticed that the people who have extreme experiences of spiritual highs are also usually more sensitive and vulnerable to mood swings and sickness. Although a spiritual high may give the experience of power, ecstasy, or even psychic perceptions, it is an unhealthy and unbalanced state. I know several people who have had mental and physical problems made worse by their spiritual practices and who consequently gave up their practices despite their occasional spiritual highs. Some spiritual seekers go to great lengths to re-experience a previous spiritual high and have the hope that a spiritually high experience will become permanent.
Some people go all out for spiritual highs.
Basically one's family and social values can become very distorted. Unfortunately, some spiritual teachers and traditions guide seekers to be intensely devotional or one-pointed and to not mind going through misery. Another enticement is that the misery of a seeker known as the dark night of the soul is said to occur just before enlightenment. In my opinion, spiritual highs are caused by particular types of imbalance in the meridian system. Just as worry or guilt imbalances certain meridians, the mental states associated with certain paradigms of spiritual development imbalance the meridian system.