To even feel that you have gotten minimally started on the great search for the great secret, everyone initially, (at least in their mind), aligns themselves with some named school which is identified historically with the search. Due to the serial nature of ordinary consciousness, it is not possible to not go through this process, but processes are processes and results, something else entirely.
Anyone, even amongst the few, who feels a continuity, a connection to the past through their allegiance to some school and its practices, will never reach the end.
A man who finally gets-to-the-bottom-of-it-all turns out to have no connection to anything discernable that has gone before. No allegiance to any past person. No devotion to any previous ideas, and no faith nor interest in what his old time consciousness will forever reminisce about and speak of as though it were, and remains to this day, him.
To be enlightened is to have no past, and no illusionary memory of one.
(So from that you can easily figure out what being in the dark is, huh?)
J.