What metaphors are used in Shikasta: Re, Colonised Planet 5: Personal, Psychological, Historical' by Doris Lessing?

Much of the narrative is a metaphor for anti-individualism. A pervasive condemnation of individualism animates the book. Individualism is sometimes understood as the social philosophy that holds that the needs and interests of the individual are morally primary or deserve moral consideration before the needs and interests of the community. Lessing and the Canopeans she animates are clearly hostile to this philosophy of life. The animating force of the universe - the substance-of-we-feeling is explicitly anti-individualistic even in name. A society is in harmony when the interest of the individual is in submission to the common good. And the SOWF removes individuals' desires to promote their own interests over the interests of other.