Organizations can be neurotic too. So success turns into failure when its context alters to some significant degree. This was an empirical study. The paper consisted of interviews of the victims of tornadoes, and survey result tabulations. Composed by a person given to metaphysical rambling.
Otherwise life makes no sense, which is ultimately unbearable.
Mazeways don't necessarily involve the supernatural. But see Wallace for details. He did pretty much exactly what you propose. I think I encountered Wallace for the first time while reading your Millennialism Bibliography about 6 years ago. I honestly cannot explain it.