Publisher's Synopsis
In Millennial Mysticism, Benjamin Ross takes an alternate view of the well-worn refrain about his generation's fall to the tyranny of digital technology. Millennials, growing up in a world that is connected across vast distances through the medium of cyberspace, are not simply doomed to conformist addiction to their devices. Instead, he asserts, "We are actually the prime generation to recognize and replicate the realizations of the mystics and sages, only the language that we use is the language of technology." Born into a world of invisible and immeasurable interconnectivity, each moment is a testament to that which the mystics have testified throughout the ages: that "everywhere is the (web)site of enlightenment." Ross suggests that the world of the digital native is a perfect entry point into the Mystery of mysticism, if only it can be pointed out and experienced this way. Running the gamut from Indra's net to the Internet and back again, Ross illuminates the Millennials' potential to enact the mystics' world with his own life, drawing on his experiences and adventures as a graduate student studying Zen under a Master in the postmodern world.
