Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

The narrator of this extraordinary tale is a man??in search for truth. He answers an ad in a local??newspaper from a teacher looking for serious??pupils, only to find himself alone in an abandoned??office with a full-grown gorilla who is nibbling??delicately on a slender branch. "You are the??teacher?" he asks incredulously. "I am??the teacher," the gorilla replies. Ishmael is??a creature of immense wisdom and he has a story??to tell, one that no other human being has ever??heard. It is a story that extends backward and??forward over the lifespan of the earth from the birth??of time to a future there is still time save.??Like all great teachers, Ishmael refuses to make the??lesson easy; he demands the final illumination to??come from within ourselves. Is it man's destiny??to rule the world? Or is it a higher destiny??possible for him-- one more wonderful than he has ever??imagined?