Wittgenstein's Ladder

[TheCloud]

I'm at a point in my development where I'm considering whether and how much the methods I've used to get to this point are still serving me, or if I'm just circling back on myself by continuing to use them.  I'm thinking about Wittgenstein's Ladder, which is the proposition that the forms used to reach a higher state of consciousness will, upon reaching it, reveal themselves to be nonsense.  So upon reaching a higher consciousness, one kicks away the ladder that they used to climb to that point.

My query for the forum is;  do you have any experience supporting or contradicting this?  If you "kicked away the ladder", what was the ladder?  Was it a difficult and/or gradual process of realizing and accepting the necessity, or was it a simple and sudden decision?  I'm especially interested in real, lived experience.