The act of transcendence is the way to overpass a simple idea, further understand it, and bypass the limit that it puts on itself. This can be seen in the epic of Gilgamesh where experiential transcendence occurs. Gilgamesh is told about the unpleasant future that awaits all in the afterlife but then parallels this horrid fate with the happiness that can be made of his current life. The ability to live is now not just time spent alive but instead time to love and enjoy all that the world has to offer. Gilgamesh’s story heeds the notion that to be alive is a gift but only if you make it one. In other cultures death is used to tell the story of life. Egyptian mummification was used as many types of transcendence for death. Mythic transcendence
