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Cool man - I hope you find what you're looking for.
About 20 years ago, I came across a former monk and was turned onto his book called Dance of a Fallen Monk. He spent 21 years in a monastery and this book talks all about his journey into the monastery and how his life unfolded along the way. It's still in the top 5 of my all time favorite books.
> This learning and growing after a point cannot occur over the internet or from books, but only from being in the direct presence of a master.
That is one way to look at it. However there are many masters that did not have masters before them.
I don't claim to be any sort of scholar on the subject but The Buddha apparently didn't have a master and simply sat under the Bodhi Tree and gained enlightenment....Ok I'm sure he did more than sit there but the point is, no master taught him. Same with others.
If we truly have the spark of the divine within, there are no doors that are inaccessible to us.
I've recently been learning about Dimensional Jumping and it's really helping to expand my ideas of what is possible. If you're interested, I recently found this guy to be quite compelling - here's a vid of his that I think really helps explain the concepts.
There's also a subreddit that discusses this stuff called /r/DiminsionalJumping.
Fun stuff