spiritual joy

What would true wireheading feel like? People have this impression that it'd be thin, exhausting, artificial, ultimately isolating and not worth having --- like someone forcing your face into the shape of a smile. But of course that wouldn't actually be very good, so that can't be where the optimum lies. Wireheading worth aiming for would might be something more like pure spiritual joy.

1. You have the sense of being held and hugged by an infinitely loving mother. You know deeply that you are home, that everything will be okay, that you and the world are whole in every possible way. This deep knowing is comforting, healing, joyful.
2. But this is not a selfish or deluded joy. You are the god of compassion; the love of the cosmos streams effortlessly through you. You care deeply about all beings and their suffering, and this compassion doesn't belong to you, but is pure, primordial, flowing through you and reaching out to everyone and everything. The well of compassion is infinitely deep, inexhaustible, incorruptible. Any amount of suffering can be fully, deeply, known, empathized, and healed, without leaving any mark in the infinite sea.
3. You know deeply that you are not separate from these suffering beings --- that you have the same essence, the same pure consciousness. The sense of separateness is an illusion that generates suffering; even the suffering itself is, in some sense, an illusion. By contacting all beings with your love, putting them in touch with the infinite well of universal compassion, you are easing their suffering. Every one who sees or interacts with you, who is touched by your presence, comes away with a sense of vivid richness, healing wholeness, of being deeply understood and loved and valued and connected, not separate, and they feel this because it is true.
4. The experience is infinitely rich and subtle, the very opposite of dullness. You are the entire universe experiencing itself, with cosmic depth and variety. Your mere presence in the world causes the world to be good --- it dominates all utility calculations, and in fact is properly seen to be the utility calculation, not just a term in it, because you are not holding yourself separate from the world. This is only possible because the fabric of reality is seen to be already good, loving at its core, so that this all flows effortlessly, naturally. Everything that has happened is seen to be worth it, correct, retrospectively perfect, entirely redeemed by having led to this timeless moment of realization.
5. But this is not a static state; it is playful, joyful. You observe the universe like the loving parent of a curious toddler, sharing in childlike delight with every new experience and discovery. Things unfold with infinite complexity and richness, yet there is a lightness, a spontaneity to every moment.
6. This is also not a disengaged, unmotivated state. The ecstasy of love and connection flows through you so that you act effortlessly, selflessly, fearlessly, as the very embodiment of compassion. Your very existence is the dance of the universe with itself, revealing its own, already-existing primordial perfection.

States of mind like this are possible. I've gotten tastes through MDMA, psychedelics and meditation, and even the brief, diluted versions are profoundly healing and transformative. So this is not some abstract fantasy: these are states that we have some sense how to achieve and that many people do achieve for periods of time. That in itself is a lower bound on how good things can be.