It is truly letting go of what you held in your thoughts, and consciousness, to permit a new way of thinking, and a new way of manifesting your reality, into your awareness.
More often, than not, these new perceptions that arrive in your life, will actually create incredible upheaval and disruption. Your physical reality is based on what you think and what you perceive. The environment around you; your friends; your place of work; your interests and even your family ties. This is all created in the format that your way of thinking shapes the sound wave into this holographic reality.
The new perceptions will change your way of thinking, which will have a major knock on effect in your life. Thus your job could change; you could lose friends and fall out with family. Your environment could drastically change, as it adjusts to these new thought waves. So it is not an easy scenario. Any 'spiritual traveller' who claims to have had a spiritual transition, and their life hasn't changed in any significant way, has not gone through the long dark night of the soul and made that transition.
They are exceptional times, and very strange experiences ... your reality is turned upside down; and with the change in vibration, you comprehend the world around you more; and if you are lucky, you get to see behind the workings of this virtual reality. You reach a point of safety, as you can realise the dis-attachment that comes with arriving at the point of realisation you are a conscious being in a dream world; a dream world in which the majority of humans are still dreaming. Once conscious, you are not easily pulled into the enchantments and glamours that litter this dream world.
