Well, in my view, and I might be wrong, it's not about mystical experiences or metaphysical insights. It's about: What shall I do today? Step Eleven restricts the scope of its brief to knowledge of God's will for us and the power to carry that out. So, as I said: What shall I do today? And how. That's it.
It's about sound reasoning, the slow, painful, and laborious development of analytical skills, knowledge, expertise, and instinct to be able to navigate situations; it's about moral values; it's about the sensitivity to what is really going on inside others.
It's not about hustling God to reveal Important Secrets of the Universe through rituals, performances, spook sessions, ceremonies, intensity, complexity, muscle, dropping hot wax into water, sacrificial fire, dots made at random on paper, smoke from the altar, or pebbles drawn from a heap (credit to Suzanne Vega for some of those).
It's not about witchcraft.
It's not about divination.
It's not about getting high.
It's about quietness, simplicity, honesty, trial and error, patience, and making a lot of mistakes.