Many people on the journey to find the truth find themselves renouncing or condemning the world as they see all the suffering and challenges in the world. This is the start of renouncing path. This is started by questioning the world around us and why there is so much darkness and suffering. This is our journey to find the light in ourselves and in the world.  Joseph Campbell would say this is the first 4 steps of the 8 steps of the spiritual journey. People on this journey often times found themselves in the Monastic tradition or on the renunciate ascetic path in their bid to find the truth our God. Many people spend their entire lives on this journey, however we are in the midst of two fold path that is causing the withering of that path. The first is that the western lifestyle is influencing cultures around the world and enticing many young people into the contents of material world and thus many of these ancient renunciate paths are no longer finding the young generations to carry the teachings forward. This has sparked many of these traditions to release their hidden teachings to those who are seeking. Those who are seeking deeper truths are often times those who have experienced the emptiness of materialism which often times comes about after our basic needs are met from the advancements of materialism. Unfortunately many people suppress those empty feelings with various addictions, be it material, alcohol, food, or the many other ways we cover up our depression from this emptiness. This is when many of the Westerners start their deeper search. However many people are finding that finding the truth for ourselves is not enough for the current state of the world as it hurdles in unsustainable directions due to that Materialistic addiction. People finding solutions to the world’s problems and integrating them with our lives and our divine understandings are critical at this time as renunciation won’t solve humanities major problems and thus why renunciation is no longer an ends but only a means to find the truth to transform the world. These are the last 3 steps of Joseph Campbell’s  Hero’s Journey as he identifies in culture around the world and this is the next synthesis, that of divinity into our daily lives.