Fascinating review. But, honestly, I really wish these ideas were treated as derivative of the religious-cultural matrix they came from. Why is transcendence gi

Fascinating review. But, honestly, I really wish these ideas were treated as derivative of the religious-cultural matrix they came from. Why is transcendence given such a high priority? Speculatively - I am not an expert - it is due to the regional influence of the "East" Orthodox church and the underlying notions of theosis and transcendent mysticism that threads it in ways that were less common for the West. Ideas, particularly recurring and popular ones, do not arise _de novo_, but have an interlinking with a population susceptible to them. Personally, while I believe (religiously) in an afterlife, I don't desire immortality. Long & healthy life would be nice; but my time in this universe has an end, and _that's ok_. Let my child be an adult free of my control.