message of "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn?

Question: What is the theme/message of "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn!?
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In 1992 the novel Ishmael was awarded the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship -- an award for authors whose fiction helps produce solutions to global problems!. Ishmael tells the story of a man who sees an advertisement in the Personals section of his local newspaper:
TEACHER seeks pupil!. Must have an earnest desire
to save the world!. Apply in person!.

The man is furious, assuming some fraud placed the ad to prey on idealistic young dreamers!. He goes to the interview, driven to prove the "teacher" is really a charlatan!. At the interview, the man finds himself alone in an abandoned office with a full grown gorilla who nibbles delicately on a slender branch!. "You are the teacher!?" he asks incredulously!.
"I am the teacher," the gorilla replies telepathically!. The gorilla, Ishmael, proves to be a genuine teacher of immense wisdom!.

What follows is a journey from the birth of life, through human pre-history, history, and on to a possible future path in which humankind begins living in harmony with a rarely recognized law of nature!. The novel transcends mechanical ecology, offering a vision of life-affirming meaning and deep spirituality!. Ishmael tells the history of the world in a way that never appeared in any school textbook!.

"Is it man's destiny to rule the world!? Or is a higher destiny possible for him -- one more wonderful than man has ever imagined for himself!?"

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