Genuine contact is experienced when the egoic display is shut down, even for a moment. What remains is self-existing sacredness, genuineness, the intimacy of our True Being, which is always, effortlessly there! The problem is that when egoic mind comes back on line, it has a memory impression of the sacred but it can only relate to the memory egoically.It regards the experience as

1.) A separate object.
2.) Something it did, therefore as something to create again or recapture.
3.) Something to seize and solidify around a symbol (anchor)