11: An Ontological Delusion (2012):

As will become evident to readers, the scholarly, experiential, and practical refuge of my own work has long been an odd mixture and admittedly skewed reading of convivial links between hermeneutics, ecology and Buddhism. These three inheritances provide two interrelated sources of refuge for me and, indirectly, have given me a way to articulate and keep clear the sometimes downright miraculous classroom work I have witnessed and that has arisen right in the midst of and in spite of our real, common, and perennial suffering.

First of all, these three inheritances allow for a multifaceted identification of what can be described as an ontological delusion, a real, terrible and pervasive trap into which thinking, practice, and experience devolve. Much of what follows in this book will begin unwinding detailed, often ancient, threads of this powerful and false-promising trap.