Tematika etoy knigi vpisyvaetsya v kontekst bolee shirokikh i fundamental'nykh issledovaniy, provodimykh avtorom na protyazhenii ryada let v rusle sinteticheskogo napravleniya - smyslogeneticheskoy teorii kul'tury. Kniga posvyashchena probleme dualizma mirov: implikativnogo i empiricheskogo. Sootnoshenie mirov osmyslyaetsya s tochki zreniya ego znacheniya dlya formirovaniya i funktsionirovaniya chelovecheskoy mental'nosti, soznaniya i samoy kul'tury kak samorazvivayushcheysya sistemy. Klyuchevye idei knigi, ravno kak i eye metodologiya svyazany s postulirovaniem nesposobnosti traditsionnoy ratsionalisticheskoy nauki stavit' i reshat' sinteticheskie mezhdistsiplinarnye problemy, osobenno svyazannye s osmysleniem kolossal'nogo plasta tak nazyvaemykh paranormal'nykh yavleniy, bez obrashcheniya k kotoromu. Stavitsya tsel' proyti mezh dvukh ogney: gnoseologicheski nesostoyatel'nogo akademicheskogo ratsionalizma s odnoy storony, i vsevozmozhnoy paranauchnoy popsy, s drugoy. Poluchennye v khode issledovaniya vyvody mogut byt' ispol'zovany v takikh oblastyakh nauki kak istoricheskaya, kul'turnaya i psikhologicheskaya antropologiya, psikhoistoriya, istoricheskaya kul'turologiya i ryad prikladnykh distsiplin.