" I smiled but turned back to Steve and Perry. “Pathway Unburdened sounds like some sort of religion, or cult, or something.” Steve raised an appendage. “We have a winner! Yes, it’s a religious movement that started about a hundred years ago. It purports to show sentient beings a higher, more pure existence, unburdened of the troubles and cares of mundane life. "

― J.N. Chaney , Legacy of Stars (Backyard Starship #4)