Some are confusing, some exhilarating. The attraction of spiritual experiences as indicators of our quality of being is undeniable but counter-productive. The spiritual path is not a chase after new experiences, rather it is a quest for permanent changes in our level of being, a quest to be able to serve. We need not play the spiritual tourist in a sacred land, snapping photos to remember and brag about our journeys. Instead we want to become residents of that land.
States are temporary experiences, which come and go.
Regardless of how high the state is, we are left in the same station when the state leaves us. Our station is our level of being, which characterizes our usual modes of living and experiencing, defining the limitations of our daily life. We may experience states corresponding to a high station, but unless our being changes, we fall back to our former station. One way to describe states and stations is in terms of their characteristic energies. For example, we usually operate on the automatic energy.