Assertions are made, experiments are detailed, names of civilizations and ideologues are dropped, and points hammered in again and again and again at the same time, this is a Universe where gorillas can communicate telepathically, 'bau' in German means 'burrow' instead of 'building', the Laurentian order hosts seminars of the rabidly Right deconstructionist movement (say what?), and a cleric preaching Green ideals in Germany is shunned as the Antichrist (Yeah, like that's gonna happen.). Therefore, they do not contain, as a documentary book would, references, a bibliography, or supplimentary evidence. They are fictions, set in worlds much like our own, but not ours.

The most important thing to realize is that neither Ishmael book, nor the Story of B, is intended to be factual. More than a masterful novel of adventure and suspense, The Story of B is a rich source of compelling ideas from an author who challenges us to rethink our most cherished beliefs.Catholic cleric turned Deep Ecology environmentalist novelist/ philosopher, author of Ishmael, The Story of B, and My Ishmael, and several other works, perennial favorites of hip high school teachers and college professors, and sometimes, their students. Pressed by his superiors for a judgement, Osborne is driven to penetrate B's inner circle, where he soon finds himself an anguished collaborator in the dismantling of his own religious foundations. For B claims to be enunciating a gospel written not on any stone or parchment but in our very genes, opening up a spiritual direction for humanity that would have been unimaginable to any of the prophets or saviors of traditional religion. However, the man Osborne tracks across a landscape of bars, cabarets, and seedy meeting halls is no blasphemous monster-though an earlier era would undoubtedly have rushed him to the burning stake. His followers call him B, but his enemies say he's something else: the Antichrist.

'A compelling 'humantale' that will unglue, stun, shock, and rearrange everything you've learned and assume about Western civilization and our future.'-Paul Hawken, author of The Ecology of Commerceįather Jared Osborne has received an extraordinary assignment from his superiors: Investigate an itinerant preacher stirring up deep trouble in central Europe. From the author of the critically acclaimed, award-winning bestseller Ishmael and its sequel, My Ishmael, comes a powerful novel with one of the most profound spiritual testaments of our time

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