Some claimed enlightened people say that enlightenment is unconditional happiness. Although "the ultimate truth" is very empty and should not be romanticized at all, according to other people. Maybe it's just a scheme to get you're ego on board with enlightenment as a life goal?
I think that if you fulfill the Maslow's hierarchy of needs then you will live a pretty damn happy life. Why should someone ruin that with enlightenment if it's just emptiness? If you are suffering a lot in this world, enlightenment is a liberation, just as death becomes a liberation? It seems like the goal of the self actualized life is not enlightenment, but more the human adulthood as described by Jed McKenna.
Right now i am stuck at a crossroad, i have not read Jed McKenna's books and seeing my friend go a little crazy when reading them made me rethink this whole path, i want to read them, but i don't know if i'm capable. My biggest fear is loosing my mind, like going crazy, develop a serious psychiatric illness, this fear came during my last LSD trip. I've been researching so much, about everything, and now i'm scared to go further.
I'm feeling ready to endeavor the path that will serve my highest purpose, but I do not know if actulized.org is the right path.
Hope that you could understand my question(s), if not i could try to make it more clear, if you ask