"The collective thunderbolt or satori experience is very rare -- and deservedly treasured -- but the individual thunderbolt or satori experience is very common."

This is probably the most important point of the whole piece. Keeping this one bit of wisdom in mind when reading reviews seems like a proper modus operandi going forward, for me anyways. That is always my hang-up, trying to reconcile my own subjectivity with that of others. In the end, 'nothing I see can be taken from me,' which is perhaps all that matters, but I think it's healthy and actually pretty challenging (yet rewarding) to be open-minded when hearing someone else's take on an experience s/he shared in common with one's own experience, whether that be by way of a recording or in-person. The lengthy discussion the OP spawned speaks to that challenge.