I am a student at a Protestant seminary and was given Ishmael as a Christmas gift. I read it in a few days and purchased The Story of B soon after. I consider myself open minded and enjoy reading things that challenge my faith. Unlike Jared, I have not yet reached the 50th degree of losing my faith. I understand that to fully accept what is written in these works, Christianity is not an option because it is a symptom, or maybe helps us deal with the symptoms, of being a taker culture. Are there ways to understand and apply Quinn’s message that would be acceptable within faith and not apart from it? Is it possible to accept that there is a God (big G) and still entertain some of the elements of the Ishmael story?

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I am curious about your speaking engagements and other projects that have telltale relevance with Ishmael, not for the actual dates and places (for I could find this info on this site), but for the practical themes that tend to happen after the talk and the spontaneous results from these endeavors. Since I am under the impression that with the right vision, right actions will happen naturally and without effort, is there any way that you tend to focus or refrain listeners’ desires to run out of the hall and “do” something?

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In your Illusions interview you stated that there would be many who would say, “I’m on my inner journey,” and you would reply, “To hell with your inner journey, that can wait. This needs to be done now.” It seems to me that most people aren’t going to pay any attention to what you say until they are at a certain point in their inner journey. Furthermore, you, I believe, had to do a lot of inner work yourself before you came up with the conclusions that you did. The problem that the world has had in changing up to this point is that there were few who had make the inner changes necessary to change the world. I think that the progress that is being made today in turning the takers tide is only because we are waking up spiritually. You are looking for a fundamental behavioral change, from one culture changing to another, which can only result from widespread individual spiritual changes. Expecting a cultural change without a fundamental inner change is foolish. They both have to happen together. Or do you disagree?

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