Academy of Mystical Illumination

Is that all there is?

A life devoted solely to the pursuit of happiness has a certain shelf life, beyond which it begins to rot, producing the stench of boredom and meaninglessness. The pursuit of transcendence, by contrast, can transform your everyday life into what it truly is — an astonishing, mysterious, and wondrous affair, a detective adventure full of clues to who you are and what life is all about. This lesson, then, is about how to journey into the depths so as to find those amazing clues.
 
This journey is an intensely passionate mode of inquiry, involving what might be called “existential thinking,” the type of thinking when one’s life is on the line and the fate of one’s soul hangs in the balance, is akin to what the Zen Buddhists call, “the Great Doubt,” and has the potential to lead to “the Great Awakening.”