The Importance of First Awakening

Psychedelics are probably the number one way to do it voluntarily. They cause altered states of consciousness, and often what is truly the unconditioned is revealed through those experiences. No matter how profound that experience is, if the experiencer themselves is still intact, it's not an awakening. You can have a complete mind-blowing ego death experience, no content whatsoever, no sense of self boundaries or body, and then wake up and that's gone other than a memory.