No shortcuts, Grasshopper.

Agreed. Yet, I don't think the whole "sailing West to reach East" works for Enlightenment. (What an apt metaphor!)

Unlearning kind of supposes that whole learning part. Without the journey in between, -you're just plain stupid.

I think we witnessed one who has not walked very far.

But don't belittle false notions. -They are all we've got.