How Long Before The First Enlightenment Experience?

[How to be wise]

I started self-inquiry two months ago, and since then I have done it everyday for 1 hour. So I was wondering, how long did people here do self-inquiry or other enlightenment work before getting the first experience? 

Talk from your own experience. 

[Toby]

"Enlightenment Experience" might be the wrong word. I read a lot of books here and there, then spirituality really took off after reading Eckhart Tolle and Byron Katie. A year later - because I realized I couldn't really do it just on my own - I visited a teacher for the first time and immediately had some kind of heart explosion and transcended "experience". Today I would say that "I" tapped into the emptiness/peace aspect of the "I am".

Edited October 3, 2017 by Toby

[Nahm]

@How to be wise We start out enlightened, then we add thought trees, conditions, concepts, paradigms, etc. Without realizing, we weave a "me" from the experience.  Enlightenment experiences are the shedding of those things, ultimately the shedding of all of it, the thought story of 'me'. And what remains is unconditional, identity-less Love. How long it takes is really super unique to the "individual".  Learn as much as you can, meditate daily, then take psychedelic trips to Realize. You'll naturally let go of the aspects that no longer are misunderstood. Repeat that process. Took me way to long. In hindsight, I think it could reasonably be done in 3 years. But it completely depends on each person's starting point, how much time they put into it, etc. The more important point though, is enjoying every minute, regardless of where you're "at". That remains the point in any place. 

[Highest]

It's almost 2 years ago now, did meditation everyday 24/7 while smoking weed. Now I'm instituted with psychosis, going out tomorrow finally. My ego would say that I experienced the ultimate and that I'm simply superior, but my experience made me humble. All I want now is a normal life, spirituality is over. The end was reached, I know my path now and it's without my mind, which all I asked for in the first place.