But in today's America . . . . this vast majority of horizontal spiritual adherents often claim to be representing the leading edge of spiritual transformation, the "new-paradigm" that will change the world, the "great transformation" of which they are the vanguard. But more often than not, they are not deeply transformative at all; they are merely but aggressively translative — they do not offer effective means to utterly dismantle the self, but merely ways for the self to think differently.
— Ken Wilber, One Taste