From the Introduction You live in a city. The city is on the edge of a desert. The desert surrounds omphalos, axis mundi, the navel of the world, the center and the and the beginning. The world isn't just the world, it is your god. Your god created and embodies the world. And now the world is sick. Somehow you know this and you know that you have to do something to heal the world. You have to enter the world, dive into the blood of the world and heal it.