Philosophical Roots
The book subscribes to the Lakoffian point of view, in that the mind is viewed as a "delusion-generator" rather than a window to true understanding. As George Lakoff said: "Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature." The philosophy espoused can also be construed as a form of pandeism, the concept that God created the universe by becoming the universe.
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