This book is about a man who feels that he's being lied to somehow, that there's something no one's telling him, but he doesn't know what it is. He goes to Ishmael to find out, though he doesn't know what he's going to learn.

Someone looking for a new philosophy, or someone simply wanting to become more aware of their surroundings. There are things you hear every day, but you can't know they're there, until you've heard what Ishmael has to say, because you wouldn't know what to listen for.

The philosophy behind it. It doesn't have a name, it probably isn't mainstream, but it's there, and it needs adknowledgement. I'll refer to it as "Leaverism".

Change my life, change those around me, and change the world.

Happy, sad, enlightened, and betrayed all in one.

Is a very intelligent person with an idea that needs publicity.

It's the way out. We're digging ourselves into a huge hole in the Earth, and the author is giving us his hand one last time before we've gone too deep to climb back out.

Leaverism is what the world should be about. Leaverism teaches that we are as every other creature on Earth, and we need to realize that. Leaverism teaches not to feel the need to one-up the Gods, to take our lives out of their hands. Finally, Leaverism teaches that there is no one true way of life. There is only life, however it is to be lived.

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