Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit Study Guide

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Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit shows an enormous educated, telepathic gorilla, Ishmael, mentoring an idealistic but somewhat dense middle-aged writer. Ishmael helps him understand how the majority of humankind is enacting a story that will destroy the world, while a tiny minority lives in communion with the community of life and can point to a brighter future.

Ishmael, an enormous, educated, telepathic gorilla, agrees to mentor the unnamed narrator in saving the world. He begins with the familiar and clearly perverse story of the Nazis, sweeping all Germans, regardless of politics or economic situation, along in their propaganda and education program. He then states boldly, "Mother Culture," the voice of "Taker" culture, uses the same techniques to inculcate her own themes into every member of "civilized" peoples from birth. Ishmael maintains, however, there is another story of humankind, but "Leaver" can be appreciated only once the narrator...
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