Lao Tze was a very wise man who never felt the need to write his perennial knowledge, he was stopped at the border on his way to the Himalayas where he was headed to die. The border guard told him he couldn't pass unless he wrote down his knowledge for generations that could not afford to be left out of this simple knowledge. He then wrote the tao te ching and continued his walk. This is a generous translation of this encrypted knowledge into "American" so that people like you can find inspiration in all perennial knowledge. This "tao" is very similar to the native American worldview. But it is way simpler. Stephen Mitchell also wrote the Gospel According to Jesu, he has been trying to pass the "American thick heads" with perennial knowledge from all "timelines" as we might know them better (my term). That "defense" idea is a lot like the martial arts master who won before fighting the battle as the "boss" says. A huge part of the Abrahamic traps behind its religious conquest is to erase perennial knowledge and true alchemical paths found in yoga, the 33 jacobs letter etc. I hope you can open up to this author and see past the self-limiting trap of Abrahamic doctrines.