"Perennialism is almost too easy for the contemporary Western person and potentially dangerous because we don't live in that ancient cultural context when you could actually be a renunciate - when you could actually step outside of society to go inward and achieve some state of release from cycles of Samsara. I feel like we're called to do something different at this time which is to be more involved in the world and whatever the spiritual path means today it's not to retreat to the mountain top, it's to be down in the trenches''. 

Segall (paraphrased)