The whole purpose of getting a higher education is not simply to acquire more “information” about a certain subject. The thrill of it was the basic requirement of all graduate work: to contribute something new to the sum of human knowledge. My study of the Esoteric Dimensions of the Popol-Wuh, the Ancient Maya Epic, was a way to bring together the Western philosophical tradition with the shamanic vision embodied by the Popol-Wuh as Wisdom of the Peoples.