The God Allusion
The God Allusion is a short book I wrote in 2008 in response to Richard Dawkins’ bestseller The God Delusion. Many of the ideas are still very important to me although I don’t really express them in quite the way they are expressed here. An interesting sometimes frustrating feature of mythological thinking is that all its components run into and overlap with each other so that a discussion of it really depends on where in the inter-relating web of ideas you choose to enter and how you navigate. Suffice it to say this was my first attempt at summing up a lot of its meanings but the subject is really infinitely expanding so that a final word is really not possible.
Below you will find the full text of the latest version of the book, plus a summarised aphoristic version of the main ideas.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. METAPHOR
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3. ‘ACTUALLY’ HAVING AN EXPERIENCE
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4. THE PERSONAL DREAM
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5. GOD WITHIN YOU
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6. POSSESSED BY SPIRITS
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7. HOW TO CRUCIFY YOURSELF
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8. THE LAND OF BLISS
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9. THE WORLD OF IMPERFECTIONS
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10. THE USES OF DECEPTION
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11. THE GAME OF LIFE
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12. INTOLERANCE
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13. MORAL CRISIS
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14. LESSONS TO BE LEARNED
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15. IDOLATRY OF THE IMPOSSIBLE: HEAVEN IS HELL
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16. THE MAGIC OF FREEWILL
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17. THE USES OF THE IMPOSSIBLE
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18. BASED ON A TRUE STORY: IDOLATRY OF THE REAL
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19. THE USES OF AUTHORITY
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20. THE CREATION OF DEMONS
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21. THE FAMILY TRAGEDY
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23. THE NECESSITY OF RITES
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24. ESCAPIST DREAMINGS
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25. THE OBSCURITY OF THE SYMBOL: MUSIC
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AFTERWORD: SOME HISTORICAL OBSERVATIONS
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