Lonely boring selves is actually a symptom of anti-individualism, it is people who are empty shells needing to be filled from without. This is caused by an overdose of collectivism.
Individualism is actually the antidote and yields wonderful, meaningful lives.
As for the transcendental, in the words ordinary meaning, this is beyond the empirical domain, and better treated as psychological comfort blankets, but must not, at all cost, be misunderstood as