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The point here is that there is a division in the lives of the Mystics, the time BEFORE the experience and the resulting life of the Mystic AFTER enlightenment. A conversion. A complete alteration of life. It is an experience in its most intense form. It is an act of supreme, ineffable perception. Really, Parsons devotees, how is this "ordinary?"
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I think you're taking this the wrong way Dakini. I know nothing about Parsons but the statement sounds to me as if he's trying to get the idea of Buddhahood across.
As such, it's not about becoming Buddha, but about realising that you already are Buddha. As there is no 'becoming' involved then, and you are already what others tell you to become, it is in fact, most ordinary, just that no one is aware of it.