Instead transcending capitalism requires a critical mass of people who have experienced- not the change of mind that our business schools labor so hard to produce- but the change of heart that we usually associate with aspiritualexperience.
After a near-death experience in 1977 helped trigger aspiritual awakening, the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens (and the man long ago known as Steven Demetre Georgiou) converted to Islam and retired from secular music-making in 1979.
The intense color of the wax and its close proximity to your own skin in an austere space have also been cited as evoking a curiously visceral experience that is also meditative and spiritual.