Conscious vs. unconscious experience
The phone problem
It's not like there's "special spiritual things over here" and "normal everyday stuff over there." It's all spiritual and it's all everyday. The everyday is special, and the spiritual is normal.
It's all experience.
And every experience can serve to create proximity or distance to the truth.
Experiencing consciously awakens you.
Experiencing unconsciously maintains the illusory thought-bubble of separate selfhood.
Conscious experience takes in a rich bandwidth of experience, including but not limited to thinking.
Unconscious experience is disproportionately rooted in a virtual reality sandbox of thought, creating a disconnect from what's actually happening.
It's like lying on the couch watching Netflix on your phone. As a matter of perception and awareness, you're essentially absent from your physical surroundings.
Except to make the analogy complete, not only would the show you're watching have to be excruciatingly boring and relentlessly repetitive, you'd also have to be so completely enthralled by it so as to effectively forget where and what you are.
The actual nature of experience is sitting always in plain view - you're just not looking up from your phone to notice it.