Here is how Abraham Mazlow describes what he coined as the peak experience.

From Wikipedia.org;

Peak experiences are described by Maslow as especially joyous and exciting moments in life, involving sudden feelings of intense happiness and well-being, wonder and awe, and possibly also involving an awareness of transcendental unity or knowledge of higher truth (as though perceiving the world from an altered, and often vastly profound and awe-inspiring perspective)

...They usually come on suddenly and are often inspired by deep meditation, intense feelings of love, exposure to great art or music, or the overwhelming beauty of nature.

Can you remember experiencing an awesome peak moment when you lost your sense of self and time? And you enjoyed it so much you would like to have more like it?

Maslow says that although everyone has a number of peak experiences during their lifetime, some folks resist and suppress their experiences.

Could it be that those who suppress their intense emotional reaction to finding bliss in those awesome peak experiences are fearful of their own powerful connection to God?

Marianne Williamson, a long-time advocate for A Course in Miracles, speaks of our deep fear of our own powerful light.

Here is an excerpt from Marianne Williamson's book, A Return To Love that may explain the fear of the unknown. You may also recognize this as a famous speech by Nelson Mandela.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

In this moment you are as a child; completely innocent and alert to what is here now. That is when you know for certain that you are connected to the Source of All That Is.

Those of us who do acknowledge our experience of that awesome peace that passeth understanding during peak experiences, have a strong desire to recapture it; we spend our lifetime searching for it.