As with Anaxilea, this book changed my way of seeing my culture, and others of this earth, forever.  It's full of fantastic insights and helps highlight how relevant the need for change is.  The challenge before us is great indeed.

OK, I'll admit it–I had a really hard time getting past the telepathic gorilla. Whew! That's off my chest. Most powerful for me were the ways that humans (at least takers) are different from other animals–that's the piece that struck me most.

Someone said something along the lines of “there was my life before I read Ishmael and my life after it”, you can understand this once you've read the book. It really is life changing and hits a note on the way anyone sees and contemplates the world, it should be part of the school curiculum.

“Once you learn to discern the voice of Mother Culture humming in the background, telling her story over and over again to the people of your culture, you'll never stop being conscious of it. Wherever you go for the rest of your life, you'll be tempted to say to the people around you, 'How can you listen to this stuff and not recognize it for what it is?'”

“You know how to split atoms, how to send explorers to the moon, how to splice genes, but you don't know how people ought to live.”